Happy motherphucking New Year dear reader. I hope the New Year and new decade has gotten off to a roaring start for you and yours. Mine officially kicked off two days ago when the gym reopened on Monday 6th. Lol. I decided that 2020 begins for real for real when the gym opens and continued … Continue reading Karibu 2020
Category: Et Cetera
Kwaheri 2019
On December 19, 2018 I declared Write. Read. Have Fun. Live Life as my 2019 mantra and fucking hell have I done exactly that. 2019 has been, unequivocally, the best year of my life and if I were to describe it in a GIF I would use: I was so unexpectedly happy at the start … Continue reading Kwaheri 2019
Z Is For Zimenishika
Zimenishika zimenishika zimenishika yo Mahali nimefika zimenishika zimenishika yo Zimenishika zimenishika zimenishika yo Niki (puff puff) kimenishika yo Yassssssssssssss!! We are finally at the last letter of The Alphabet Series. Woohoo!! For the last letter of The Alphabet Series we are talking weed. Aka Mary Jane. Aka kush. Aka bhangi. Aka ganja. Aka shadda. Aka … Continue reading Z Is For Zimenishika
The F-Word
Hey, I’m Adelle Onyango and I’m back to hijack Lwile’s blog because there’s something threatening the very existence of women globally that I think you should know about. So here we are beginning the 16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence, (well for those of you reading this on the 25th of November) which … Continue reading The F-Word
Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.
The title of this post is stolen borrowed from the title of an episode of How I Met Your Mother (S01 E18 for anyone who is curious). I believe it is Oprah (please correct me if I am wrong) who said that if a man hits you once he will hit you again. The first … Continue reading Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.
It Ends With Us
The title of this post is stolen borrowed from the title of one of my favourite novels (by Colleen Hoover for anyone who is curious). I wish I could explain exactly why the title of the book inspired the title of the post, but I cannot do so without giving away a massive spoiler. There … Continue reading It Ends With Us
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. As per Wikipedia: the premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the … Continue reading International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
World Kindness Day
World Kindness Day is an international holiday that was formed in 1998, to promote kindness throughout the world and is observed annually on November 13 as part of the World Kindness Movement. Those are the first four paragraphs I wrote for the World Kindness Day post I put up last year; you can read the … Continue reading World Kindness Day
V Is For (the MTV) VMAs
I have been watching the MTV Video Music Awards, aka the VMAs, for almost 20 years now as I grew up on MTV, back when the M stood for music 😐 My earliest memory of watching the VMAs was in 1999. I do not remember much about the ceremony, but I do remember this outfit … Continue reading V Is For (the MTV) VMAs
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
October 23rd is Slap Your Annoying Co-worker Day. Lol. For real though. I came upon this “fact” last year when working on my content calendar and absolutely geeked out when I realised it will be on a Wednesday because niko na story. Before I get into the post I would like to categorically state that … Continue reading This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
