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Truth is that the excitement and expectations that came to symbolise this time of the year several years back has dwindled. I have sent far fewer text messages to friends, I have woken up much later than I would, and am not on my way to church. That for me is really unfortunate, knowing esspecialy that I was raised a far much better christian man. All said though what seems not to have changed for me through the years is what this time of the year means to me and those around me. Christmass is a time when we get to be around family, friends and relatives. Around the the people we love and hold dear to our hearts. Christmass remains a time when we get to express acts of kindness to people in our communities, even to those we may not know. Christmass is a happy time, a time of sharing even the little we have. So I do wish you all a jolly merry christmass this year and may your hearts be touched with the magic of it! Cheers!

NRM will rule Elections are just round the corner and naturally that means we get to speak and talk about it more than we usually do!( does that make sense?) Posters have been raised and the media is awash with daily updates on who said what or did what for that matter! Now the current government could be the most criticized in the East African region for reasons I'd rather not get into and mainly because everybody does have a right to opinion and I am certain what influences those opinions cannot be exhausted! That said, here is why I think Ugandans(or rather the majority of them) are not willing or shall we say 'ready' to give up their yellow panties! Yoweri Museveni First off the patterns of voting are influenced by three main principles; allegiance, performance and promise! Honestly speaking very few parties in Uganda can be chosen basing on those three aspects, which is why some of the contenders are often regarded as 'jokers' unworthy of even the slightest pol

Granted man Utd are still the only unbeaten team in the premier league this season, however they have conceded far more goals than their bitter rivals Chelsea and scored fewer goals as well, at this stage of the season they lie 5 points adrift of them and 3 adrift of the city rivals. What kills me is the apparent indifference of the manager at the results, choosing instead to highlight the positives. take for example his comments after the latest result at old trafford, he said, "I suppose there are two ways of looking at it. If we were in the middle of the league we could say we were still undefeated." , "It is not a defining result in terms of where the league is going to end up but we cannot keep doing that." the only time he got low and hard is when he used the term "inexplicable"! Where is the 'Hair dryer' Sir Alex? Where is the characteristic gusto with which you have swept us away with all these years? Hell some fans are beginning to think y

" A FOOL TAKES NO PLEASURE IN UNDERSTANDING BUT ONLY IN EXPRESSING HIS OPINION " As you take time chewing on that rather colourful expression up there, let me caution you that if you were expecting a rather warm, fuzzy poem in the exact definition of the term 'ode'then I am sorry to disappoint you because this will be nothing like a an artistic creation, if anything I intend to make it far worse than the wildest of rants of this man's transgressions. God help me! In case you are not yet familiar with who the man is, allow me, this is the guy who heads a small church in the US, who threatened to burn a couple of Quorans as a commemoration of the September 11th bombings in New York city. Normally I would just walk away from this, maybe give a very small opinion and just move on because it is afterall his every right to express his opinion, I mean why not he is after all A grizzled 58-year-old who packs a .40-caliber pistol on his hip, Jones heads a small congregatio

Lets make that detest, No wait loathe feels better, I find them repugnant! Arrrgh!!! I almost puke at the thought of them! Now am sure there are multiple definitions of the word so here is my personal take on it: a snob is a person who takes himself to be above everyone else, considering all not him, too ordinary! Alright the truth is we all got a piece of that in us, I know I do and I hate it so vehemently with a passion so intense! I hate myself even more because Every now and when I allow myself to drift back into that person. I may not do it so boldly but there are those things that when I close my eyes just before drifting off to a lucid dream, I think about and am pretty certain were works of that other side! Listen guys it does not pay o treat others like nothings, it does not! As a matter of fact it only soils your soul! In the past few months I have been to quite a few offices looking for this and that and at times you meet people who make you feel as close to shit as possible

Wikipedia refers to fundamentalism as a belief in a strict adherence to an established set of basic principles (often religious in nature), sometimes as a reaction to perceived doctrinal compromises with modern social and political life. I on the other hand perceive it as a reluctance or better still the complete refusal to engage or in a mind set that is contradictory to your own. It is the extreme form of radicalism to me! Now in the last couple of days, President Barrack Hussein Obama ( as his tormentors so affectionately like to refer to him) has got the hard end of christian fundamentalists all over the world (but more so in the U.S) for his purported indifference at the proposed construction of a mosque right next to the site of the fateful September the 11th bombings in New york city. Because of that, a recent survey shows that 18% of Americans surveyed think President Obama is a Muslim, many argue that he is not in that case worthy to hold office simply because they believe to

If you look at images of just about any inch of their land right this moment or read even just the headlines coming out of their country you would struggle to find any cause to feel sorry for them especially after the evil act committed in their cause right here on the motherland that fateful July the 11th. However not so long ago I decided there is just cause to know these guys, if anything to see what they are really made of aye! So I discovered these guys have been suffering for a very long time and it is not entirely their fault! First it was the Portuguese trying to secure a strategic ground in the trade route, and later on Mussolini and the Italians tried to take the place in the 1940's before fleeing right at start of the second world war! The British then had their go and almost succeeded at calming things down. They however got tired of the place and made a great mistake giving the Ogaden to the Ethiopians and handing the mentoring role back to the Italians who had done so

They are everywhwere these little humans, look at that one next to you! Jesus christ! What are we going to do? Sure kids are warm, nice, amazing and all of that sunny stuff but that is when they are an aspect of thought, or atmost when they are just born, the little months before they can open their mouths to speak! (or cry for that matter) These kids ( these days) scream at you, shout at you, hurl insults( God knows who taught them!)curse, get pregnant every once in a while! (then abort ofcorse), occasionally die on drugs! ( gasps). Oh bly me what has gotten into these children of our time? what are they smoking? Oba it is climate change? Is it the tv? the internet? the schools? the parents? who is responsible? I tell you if you decided to go and blow some bit of stress at your favouraite pub tonight, you wil find that shaven head (copyrighted "in school" symbol ). God forbid some of them even plait their hair these days! Now even the pedofile has another reason to claim ign

Listen I say this without the hardest of feelings, as a matter of fact you should be lauding me with praises for having the gift of honesty, a thing that is so rare in our time! I am talking about the 'friends' on facebook yes you! To tell you the truth, I do not even know half of the people on my list, and some of you, I WILL GRACIOUSLY BEG THE FLOOR OF THE EARTH TO PART, so I am swallwed for the briefest of moments while you pass me by! We do not talk, we have nothing in common, hell I think we should sue facebook for plageriim or sth, maybe, false pretence, I don't know the exact legal term,( I am a scintist for christ's sake) but just because you saw me in the school you went to, or because I have very nice conversations with a friend we share, you think we are in every right to be called such? Jesus Christ what has gotten into us? Yes the world is round and all that blah blah blah.... Here is my advice, you either suit up and play the part or quietly take a walk, n

Hannington: He is by all means the most intellectually inept of the lot, he hardly is able to contribute to any well structured convesation. the best he can manage are the bits that concern women ( asubject he knows very little about) and maybe booze! No wonnder he has been kept at arms length by most of his buddies! Sadly though, he represents a huge percentag of the current crop of Ugandans, to be more specific, what you should hate about a Uganda. It is with great indignity that I call him my country man. Flirty Tatiana: this little angolan damsel, has got her hands over alsmost every male in the house, it goes along way in explaining why after so many years she is yet to settle, I mean really settle! The smoking pipe, Shila: if this babe is not sleeping, then she is smoking, if she is not smoking well she is cursing ****** and thats just about it for this Kenyan 'star'. Mzeee Sammi: I love your music Sam , I think you have got real talent. Aside from that though, the star

june the 11th, 2010, the world in africa, the finale of the 2010 FIFA world cup, a great moment for Africa, we are ending the biggest event on the continent this far! But even before the spanish captain kissed the golden trophy.... (gasps) Mayhem in k ampala! One blast hit an Ethiopian restaurant in the south of the city on Sunday, while the other occurred at a rugby sports club as people watched the World Cup final "Al-Shabab was behind the two blasts in Uganda," Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, the group's spokesperson, announced in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Monday. "We thank the mujahideens that carried out the attack. We are sending a message to Uganda and Burundi, if they do not take out their Amisom [African Union Mission in Somalia] troops from Somalia, blasts will continue and it will happen." So am seated on me bed a few moments later, stoned o the core, wondering wht the hell just happened to the pearl of Africa, how did we get here? Did our people kno

For years we have played second, third or even worse a number fiddle to other races, other continents to others! this coulmn will try and illistrate what 2010 meant to us! coming soon!

First off I have been accused of so many things in regards to me country, but let us not get our knickers twisted, I love me country, its the devil inside some of it's inhabitants that push me to the left! In the last couple of months so much rot has come to the surface it is difficult to know where it is we are heading (thank God we had a prayer day )!Take for example the recent child murders, sacrifices,and kidnappings, Jesus! How do you even think of of killing your own son, your own flesh and blood simply to get, to secre a husband, how? The one horror act that really moves me beyond understanding is the recent kidap, murder and eventual mutilaton of the late Kham Kakama! I mean these guys moved in freezing blood to kidap, kill and then even have the guts to demand ransom for a child whom they had already dumped behinde toilets in a slum ?? How rotten is that? So when I get on my knees and ask the Lord almighty to save this decaying nation please walk with me because, you neve

we had waited, waited with baited breaths, with loud hearts, and thirsty throats for the day, the day the world would be at our doors, the day the coupe du monde would be in Africa halaaaalaaah! then after the customery poening ceromony that further filled us with greater anticipation, the real reason for the massive expenditures on what not, took stage... South africa tshablala routed in a sreamer to sting African dreams to an all time high, we had set foot on the moon! People, take off was done! then came the loss, of a giant and then others fell, now we only have mathmatics and one lone survivor who carries our hopes, our dreams our every thing! But this did not just happen! we have seen real life depending decisions taken 'their' way, thee guys are cheating us, questions are being raised and we are giving ear to claims of racism, well lets call it favoritism but yes A frica is not happy with every thing we are seeing!

Dear sir, you will pardon my rusty skills, for it's been quite a while since I wrote one of these "friendly" letters. You see ever since facebook and yahoo, and internet...well am sure you will understand for I am anything but an ordinary 20 sth year old with...( ah this is useless, this letter is anything but casual) Anyway I write to you today because the BBC recently said that you were greatly disgruntled by my country's failiure to invite you for the upcoming African Union assembly in Kampala. So I write in respose to your threats to deny us the rights to host the gig! Listen Sir, I think I know how you feel, not being able to travel and all because of this ICC thing hovering over your head, it must even be more painfull owing to the fact that you have just won "free and fair" by the way, your country's first democratic elections eh! Ah tsk tsk tsk these guys are just being unfair eh! They cannot even allow you to enjoy a bit of the spotlig

If ever there was a time to hate, then this is it you have got find something to hate, you should join the noble yet seemingly painful cause.I do hope that regardless of your feelings on the matter you will find some reason to, and that this episode provides you with some directions on what to hate, you can then decide yourself how much to! 1. First off if you are ugandan you should not cut yourself some slack, hate yourself, even just a little! Yes I know how stupid that sounds but some of our country's biggest problems are self inflicted! Who for example dumps all the litter on the streets that inturn blocks the water ways to flood the village?, who will move to ask that relative to hand over a job to that family member in place of the hundreds that are sitting for the interview? Who moves to build on perfectly clear wetlands? If thats not clear enough then we may pronouce a saint next after Nyerere! 2. The roads of our fathers! Seriously I think it safe to say that we have run o

The memory of that afternoon is stuck so tightly to my mind, in fact, I move around with it each time I go out to the market. My dad sat me down in the living room and with a calm but blunt voice he said to me, "Son ( well I may be paraphrasing a little), the world is tough, most people are not genuine, they are only looking out for themselves, you are not to trust any one!" So I have carried that caution with me every time I scrub in to buy an item, as long as it is not a supermarket or some high end street store the price is not what it should be, in fact it is 50 times the due price, and that does not sell! not for an African like me at least! Unfortunately for the common wanainchi in Ug, the retailers have fast learned of the Ugandan unrelenting appetite and eye for the ' beyi raisi'(cheap) items, so they came up with their own ingenious master plan that would deal with that appetite without disturbing their gains on the market, yani(as in) they would sell cheap

If you are Kenyan or of Kenyan sympathy, you probably find this stale and maybe compost, but for the lay Ugandan, the matter is still of vehement freshness, ad interest, tho not as much to beat of that tribe that uproots rails at any trace of dissatisfaction, seemingly as an ardent pass time of sorts! (yes I think you know who!) Before you move quick to lay claim of your knowledge in the matter, let me just point out a few pieces of my argument okay? ( thank you) I knew of the matter which am yet to indulge you in already (as in long before today), but for the perfect excuse of procrastination that failed. Any way, so I got to learn in absolute dismay and a touch of disgust, over some Kenyan T.v broadcast(News actually) that our serekali (gov't) bent over and let the Kenyan coalition have it's day with the bone, we literally bent over, shut our eyes, took out the tape and gagged our mouths for their toast and amusement. I watched as the Kenyan foreign affaires kitchwa(head)puff

Now psychology defines ego-centrism as the incomplete differentiation of the self and the world, the tendency to perceive, understand and interpret the world in terms of the self and nothing, completely nothing more.( this is where the odd NIGERIAN says with an emphatic gusto, "PERIOD"!!!) The stance or whatever you wish to call it is supposed to be mostly present in children who fail to separate their beliefs, thoughts and hallucinations from those of others.The only other term that come close to this malady is Narcissism, or just plain and simple selfishness, indifference to the plight others! Now imagine that sort of mentality, that sort of distortion in a wife, a person you are supposed to be with in sickness, and in health, blah blah....TILL DEATH DO YOU APART!! WHAT??? GO give that hogwash crap to a gold fish or something, anything really, whose memory breaks the 7 second barrier! shish! Any way before we get carried away let us consider the other thing, sorry part

First off, if there is anyone there who in the least bit feels offended, allow me to indulge you for a bit. In my circles the word 'bum' is first establishing itself as a synonym for Human thingi or anything or anyone with a very very thick head! No offense, because it could be worse, right? So back to the bum that brought us here!Yes you bum!Rain had been and still is forecast for the next month or so and even our incompetent metrological department in Entebbe which never gets anything right by the way got it right this time ( or maybe they should thank climate change for their fortunes!) Naturally that means celebrations all round not only for the farmer in kisoro, disgust for the priest in Bududa (God rest his soul) it meant toast in Kampala for we could now sigh heavily in relief of the dust that causes us to spend on crappy Chinese handkerchiefs as we blow out the nuisance. No the bum did not get it, he could not let me have this moment, not even the knowledge that my exa

The night is soaked in darkness yet sprawling in with dreams, literally littered with dreams. I want to live my dream, to feel, to breath, to kiss, to touch my dream. you are my dream , you mon chou are my dream. The thing that makes me, the thing that plunges me towards tomorrow, through dusk and into dawn. You are my dream.

What would you prefer?, a lie that would illuminate your pale living,whip up the air and fill your nostrils with freshness? Flood you with happiness and give you a smile, raise your heart to the dwelling of the most soothing of composition. Or would you take but a pinch of the truth that would darken your day, intoxicate your spirit and leave your heart drowning in a shitload of misery? I will tell you a lie! For you my dear warmth and sweetness, cherries and strawberries! I will be your illusionist to stroke my wand at each and every one of your whims! The question is my fairy one? how long, how much of these imaginations,of these fantasies, of these plastics. of these absurd fetishes and smoke screens can you endure? I fear your tolerance will last but no more, no more..... And then what?

Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society have differing amounts of material and non-material resources (the wealthy vs. the poor) and that the more powerful groups use their power in order to exploit groups with less power. Conflict theory states that the society or organization functions so that each individual participant and its groups struggle to maximize their benefits, which inevitably contributes to social changesuch as changes in politicsand revolutions. The two methods by which this exploitation is done are through brute force and economics Social conflict theorists argue that money is the mechanism which creates social disorder. The theory further states that society is created from ongoing social conflict between various groups. Marxism argues that human history is all about this conflict, a result of the strong-rich exploiting the poor-weak. From such a perspective, money is made throug

1. The Unrelenting Mechanic!: this guy never gives up on anything and I do mean anything, a conversation with him is not one without an argument! there us a positive spin to him tho, he fixes even the instrument way past it's sell by date! 2. The 90's lover boy: Unfortunately for this lad, he somehow believes he has got the ability to have any woman presently. As it turns out he presses beyond position with what I can only describe as his puffed up 90's game! I cannot go into detail because of the obvious scent of gayness it may begin to assume, besides we do not need him to puff up any more than the peacock he already is! 3. The annoying Businessman: This multi-pound of a fellow, you do not want to have on the other side of your fence!, hulling stones at you. You had rather have him in your corner, but I have got to give it to him, for the shroud businessman hat he is, always with a rat under his hat. 4. Legs: Let his quiet, languid appearance deceive you. He has re

Today I am going full bloodied on this because it is not only inhuman but absolute carnage by the Egyptians but also the people in bed with them over the Nile water sharing agreement!, but first the facts! 1. The Nile Water Agreement of 1929, granting Egypt the lion's share of the Nile waters, was drawn up at a time when Egypt was a British satellite, regarded as strategically crucial by London because of the Suez canal, which controlled access to India. The agreement is now in effect enforced by international donors, who are reluctant to advance funds for major river projects that will upset Egypt, a key Arab ally of the US in the Middle East. Sub-Saharan countries cannot match Egypt's diplomatic clout, but they face a dilemma as a major untapped resource rolls through their territories. "We have reached a stage where all the Nile basin countries are confronted by domestic development challenges," said Halifa Drammeh, a deputy director of the United Nations environme

lets pile some stats first right! Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) are a group of 40 developing countries with high levels of poverty and debt overhang which are eligible for special assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank As of September 2009, the HIPC program had identified 40 countries (29 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa) as being potentially eligible to receive debt relief. The 35 countries that have so far received full or partial debt relief are:[1] * Afghanistan * Benin * Bolivia * Burkina Faso * Cameroon * Central African Republic * Chad* * Republic of the Congo * Democratic Republic of the Congo* * Côte d'Ivoire* * Ethiopia * Gambia * Ghana * Guinea* * Guinea-Bissau* * Guyana * Haiti * Honduras * Liberia* * Madagascar * Malawi * Mali * Mauritania * Mozambique * Nicaragua * Niger * Rwanda * Sã

she speaks like she leaves in a five star hotel or something! from the way she is talking you would be forgiven to think she has got it all. She moves so quickly to criticize and and all over any others opinions and tastes. Quite frankly she is a classic case of a fool who only cares for nothing in expressing her views without the slightest concern of how her unfolding tongue affects others. Well guess what sweet face, you are nothing and you have got nothing on you. I 'd be pleased to go into the murky details but it's much easier asking you to just have a look at yourself!

Me: Hi stacey(not real name), how are you doing? It's definately been quite a while my dear, what have you been up to? Pardon me for preesing beyond position, am sure you can tell from my voice that am terribly excited (chuckles) Stacey: Excited eh!(she flashes a perfect set of white teeth, giggling as she strokes her hair with the neately manicured nails, huh) well why would you be excited esspecially after... never mind! Me: Never mind what? Did I do something to offend you?(now am confused) Stacey: like I said Henry, never mind. Can we talk about something else, you know I have hardly seen you in ages, you should be filling in the blanks mon cherie! Me: Ha haa I see you have not forgotten every thing about your french class eh! Stacey: Munange mmh! Me: Well now that you have mentioned it, do you mind giving me your number, so we can organise something more formal or informal. I mean we are all grown up and have some time, pour quoi non eh? Stacey: Henry, Henry mmh mmh.. I

Some time last year I decided after what was fast becoming a pretty obvious pattern of life, that I needed to try something new, something different, I needed an experiment of some sort, only this time i was the guinea pig. So after a few moments of thought, well a little bit less than that I came to my decision, never mind the stark nudity in the social consequences involved. What I had decided on was alcohol, yes I know that sounds very wrong especially if you are me from even the most acute of angles but then again yes, besides this was an experiment and I could add purely for research reasons, as the Japanese say each time they are hunting our precious whales. Now obviously I was a very new entrant in the market but my knowledge for the drug was not of a new born, I knew a thing or two and that came in handy. On the few occasions when the 'laboratory 'was in good order I asked only for what the not so ordinary twenty something year old would define as the "sexy"

You know them, that bunch who show up at every gathering blurting endlessly about where they were the other night, who they saw, what they did and how u missed what was the grandest moment in their lives this far! they go something like this, ``we at Effendy´s, then moved to......`` God knows where! I mean we can excuse the odd freshman for thinking that they have to be seen at every event the wind blows in, but not you! Come on aside from the odd night, you spend practically four hours moving up and down in a cold miserable night when you´d rather be in your bed. And what do you get at the end of it all aside from the bags of sleep under your eyes, nothing! and that goes without saying. Here is my advice muchacho, stay put and only go out when you have to instead of spending half of the nights in your life trying to .....

You know quite so often last year, I sat back and wondered Mr Obama was getting so much stick from the very people that quite so vehemently put him in power just under a year back!, i even argued termagantly with a close friend that all this was simply hate and I sided with those who reasoned that he was under fire just for the co lour of his skin and that it hat nothing to do with his policies. well that is still a point of contention and until next time ill leave it baking in the oven. Then came that rhetorical remark his excellency made a few days back, he seemed to ridicule at our values and our thoughts concerning homosexuality, according to him we cannot even justify debating it in parliament,we are too crude on the fellas and any more cuts in their pies will cost us serious aid. like they even cared! the aid from the united states does not even make 1% of the united states budget and they are cutting. So here is what we shall do Mr president, if you want respect from us you must

E very body is blaming every body, every body sees the cracks on the walls of this our nation. i mean look at the press, there is always a graduate of some sort pointing an index at someone somewhere. the truth is we have issues in this place, real grand isssues, from medcine, roads, jobs, and even food! Then we go ahead and appoint these people or should i use the word elect, to fix our problems and all they do is stash our hard earned cash under their beds. We cannot question because the very weak and definate response to that will be, Where were you? Where was I? I was not even born for christ sakes by the time you wrung yourselves into you today, and that is not even the slightest excuse to rob us as we look and tremble in mighty fear! B ut we shall not close our lips and fold our bodies while the rot spreds around us, no more, so today we are giving you a chance to answer, who of you is the Big one, the answer to that is not as easy as you may think!

The bill we are loosing: a few days ago monsieuer le president de la republic warned "Go slow!" Apparently the much anticipated Anti-homosexulity bill is allittle too "sensitive" politicaly or rather finacially speaking for a poor developing country like ours. His excellency advised that after a 45minute tete a tete with madame Clinton. so here is the greens prediction, a few days before the debate in parliament the "private member" who started the whole fuss will withdraw the thing and say its to seek further consultations. The A dvent of cleavage!: surely speaking from an onlookers perspective i don't think there is a fashion fad that the ugandans have taken up with such a pasion aye? Just look around you or take walk!

an old friend friend of mine came to me the other day with a couple of stats after his most recent research. apparently he had broken the reason why 8/10, campus relationships cme to a start and end within the holidays. well here is what the lad says: first the holidays for many of you can be very long and given that you hardly have a thing to do, the mind struggles to be creative, so when this being is constantly coming up with very interesting ideas with all the ways we have communicate these days, a sort of chemistry builds up because you bot need it and before you know it, you're feeding this unexpected yet completely captivating romance over the airwaves and suddenly life is everything you would want it to be after all right? well then the sun rises and its back to the real struggle of achieving a bit in life, and with the demanding schedule, little johnny cannot be you're in shinny arm our, your breath and all the bluff he told you he was blah blah blah. so he tells you i