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Category: Rant

How Do You Sleep At Night?

Jun 9, 2025Paula Norah3 CommentsRantinjustice, kenya, revolution

Do you know how bad a person you have to be for people to express their revenge fantasies on you? Do you know how much humanity gets stripped from someone for them to reach that point?

When It Was Time, I Left

May 12, 2025Paula Norah14 CommentsRant, Rants and Ramblesi quit my job, kenya, mental health, nairobi, work life

Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness Deepak Chopra I am a millennial, so you know we are not exactly as aggressive as the Gen Zs when it comes to speaking our minds. We tend to be more reserved, more calculating, more cautious. I actually admire the nature of the Gen Zs, so…

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The bell rang at 11:10

Apr 14, 2025Paula Norah4 CommentsRant, Rants and Ramblesboarding schools, education system, kenya, school system sucks, trauma

The past can tick away inside us for decades like a silent time bomb, until it sets off a cellular message that lets us know the body does not forget the past. Donna Jackson Nakazawa Every day, for four years in high school, the bell would ring at exactly 11:10am. This was when we would…

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The Day Kenya died…

Jun 26, 2024Paula NorahRantfinance bill 2024, Gen Z, kenya

Kenya died at Criminals,
Kenya died at Dangerous,
Kenya died at Treason,
Kenya died at AMEN.

Fly on the Wall…

Mar 5, 2024Paula NorahRant, Rants and Rambles2022 General Elections, Bomas, IEBC, kenya

I was just a fly on the wall… Leave me alone. This (leave me alone) has been my go-to phrase for everything for such a long time, it is a wonder no one has bought me a T-shirt with these words yet. You see I have seasonal phrases, and interestingly, they die out as soon…

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Red Flags: Online Shopping Edition

May 16, 2023Paula Norah6 CommentsRantconmen, nairobi, online shopping, red flags, retail therapy

I am smart, but I got conned

House Hunting in Nairobi

Oct 20, 2022Paula NorahRanthouse hunting, kenya, nairobi, rant

I love the house we're in, but at the same time I am hooked on the romance of house-hunting Sarah Hannah There are some well established conmen in this city who have thrived solely from vulnerable people online looking to buy or rent a house. The game is always the same featuring a retired Major,…

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The ‘Man’ in every ‘Woman’

Aug 17, 2017Paula NorahRant, Rants and Ramblesfear of medicine, lifestyle, nairobi, sick

I am the worst patient ever. I know this for a fact. I have an ardent fear of anything medicine related which means I can take even 10minutes to swallow a tablet, even one that is sugar coated. I hear there are such. I don’t have the guts to taste any. I will just take…

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Hell of a Journey

Jun 19, 2017Paula NorahPaula on Road, Rantjourney, kenya, on the road, travel

I love travelling. Its something I would do all year if I get paid for it. (From the Archives…) I love travelling in comfort too. So I can be very choosy on which matatu I will use (when its public means). As I write this, I am actually travelling. I am headed back to school…

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Blueticking Justified

May 13, 2017Paula NorahRant, Rants and Ramblesblueticks, humour, messenger, snobbing, whatsapp

(From the Archives, previously posted in another blog) Blue ticks. No one wants to be a victim of those. For those wondering what blue ticks are and what blue-ticking is, let me be a lamb and educate you. When you get blue-ticked, you have been ignored. Your texts are going unanswered. And yes, they have…

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