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	<description>I write to satisfy the ink in my blood &#38; the pen in my hand...</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BELOW GROUND LEVEL</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/below-ground-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yup that&#8217;s the status quo right now in my past one week. Unexplainable moments of extreme depressive nature lasting 5-10mins, then am back upbeat and bouncy! Someone care to explain?
If I were a psychologist, which I am far from being, I would self diagnose myself with D.E.C.S which is Drastic Environmental Change Syndrome - a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREEBIE SYNDROME MUST END</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/freebie-syndrome-must-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now to some people this discussion might border on sacrilegious - but I do know the power of a freebie, I am after all a Kenyan and did work in the advertising industry. Trust me those two factors combined could make me go anywhere and do anything on the pretext of saving money and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KENYAN CON MEN IN DESIGNER SUITS</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/kenyan-con-men-in-designer-suits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bare with me on the length of the post but the whole experience was so intricate there is no way I can miss out anything. This past week my boyfriend and I had an evening worth not forgetting. A group of people purporting to be marketers/sales people tried to not only put the wool over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLOSING A CYCLE</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/481/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.&#8221; Closing a cycle by Paulo Coelho
There was a book I read once a long time ago that discussed having Solitude vs being lonely and it taught me a great deal on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INSPIRING STORY OF IDPs</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/inspiring-story-of-idps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violasiris.wordpress.com/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very very rare for me to get any sort of inspiration from the news let along a Daily newspaper; esp. since I haven&#8217;t read or watched news in a long while ever since the elections started at the end of last year. But reading paid off today when I came across this story of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NO STOPPING FOR BUSES &#38; MATATUS&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/no-stopping-for-buses-matatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is to be noted that Nairobians&#8217; have continued being the same despite the post election skirmishes that happened at the beginning of the year and the positive economic growth that has started to pick up only recently.  Granted that there might be new CCTV s monitoring our CBD streets and traffic lights that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW HOME&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/new-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tell you honestly the morning after the farewell at Ogilvy, I woke up in tears &#38; manage to cry a good part of the morning.  After a hearty breakfast at Hongs, I went &#38; used the gift voucher that I got to buy a TV afterwhich my heart was alright, vividly sunny and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THAT WAS TOUGH&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/that-was-tough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;saying goodbye to the place that has been a home away from home for the passed couple of years. It&#8217;s amazing how I grew attached to those red walls&#8230; 
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		<title>FAREWELL OGILVY&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/farewell-ogilvy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been real…
…I say that with every element in my being about my time here in Ogilvy. I have learned from everyone &#38; every moment. Whether it was the fun/crazy O-bar /Christmas party moments or the tough, nerve wrecking, “you can go faint!” and pull-my-hair-out deadline/pitch moments – I have always taken something positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FORGIVENESS &#38; FAMILY&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://violasiris.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/forgiveness-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being a bit tired today morning I realize that the fatigue is all worth it as yesterday we had a homecoming in our family that was indeed a blessing from God. My mother&#8217;s oldest brother&#8217;s daughter (lol very very African statement) returned home after many years to reunite with her father &#38; his family. [...]]]></description>
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