greatest of all time

BLB

2010-10-22T01:08:00.000-07:00

ITS BEEN A STORM IN MY HEAD LATELY A STORM SO BAD THAT I CAN NOW FULLY UNDERSTAND WAT THE VICTIMS OF KATRINA AND THESE MANY OTHERS THAT HAVE HIT ASIA AND THE PACIFIC...WELL I HAVE STRUGGLED TO TELL WHETHER MY HEART WAS RIGHT OR I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH ANOTHER USUAL SPATE OF GAMES WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX.

ANY WAY I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF MY SELF AS ONE OFa THOSE GUYS WHO WOULD NEVER GO THROUGH THE MYSTERY WE LOVE TO CALL LOVE. AT LEAST MY PEERS CONVINCED ME SO AFTER WITNESSING MY NOT SO MANY CONQUESTS.

ALONG THE WAY I MET A VERY SPECIAL HOMO SAPIEN I WILL REFER TO AS BLB. WHAT STARTED AS A CONTEST OF WHO HAD WORST ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE OTHER TURNED INTO A SORT OF FRIENDSHIP I GREW TO ENJOY SO MUCH. LIKE THE COMMON AFTERNOON RAINS WHICH OUT OF NO WHERE RINSE THE SKIES OF ITS GRAY LEAVING IT CLEAR , MY FONDNESS FOR HER CLEARED MY HEAD OF ALL MY FEARS....MY HEART BEGGED ME TO LET IT ENJOY THE MOMENT..IT WAS WILLING TO BE SUBJECTED TO FEELINGS OF CHEAP JEALOUSY, LONELINESS,POSSESSIVENESS ET AL FEELINGS I HAVE NOT FELT IN A WHILE AND THOUGHT OF WITH A LOT OF CONTEMPT.

BLB ON HER PART IS A MYSTERY...YOU CAN TERM HER HOT AND COLD LIKE KATE PERRY SANG IN HER MONSTER HIT KNOWN BY DA SAME TITLE. SHE THINKS AM AMAZING, LOVING, ATTRIBUTES I HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLIMENTED WITH BY MOST PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN IN MY RECENT HISTORY AND DON'T CALL ME NAMES THAT BITCH QUIN C REALLY DID A LOT OF DAMAGE, AFFECTED MY CONFIDENCE AND NEARLY RUINED MY EGO. BUT BACK TO MY LOVELY BLB AM LEARNING HOW TO PUT UP WITH HER TEMPER, HER LAST MINUTE CHANGE OF MIND EVEN WHEN WE HAD AGREED ON SOMETHING GENERALLY AM LEARNING TO PUT UP WITH WAT TWO MONTHS AGO I WOULD TERM AS BS ALL IN THE NAME OF SOLVING THIS MYSTERY . AM LIKE A CHILD TRYING TO RIDE A BIKE OR TAKING MY FIRST FOOT STEPS.

ALL MY BUDDIES THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO MEET HER WHEN SHE HONORED MY INVITATIONS TO TAKE HER OUT, THINK SHES GREAT AND WONDER HOW I AM NOT INTIMIDATED BY HER STORY BOOK LIKE LOOKS AND NOT GIRL LIKE HEIGHT. SHE WOULD GIVE LAWINO A RUN FOR HER MONEY.

THAT ASIDE THEY THINK SHE HAS MADE ME A DIFFERENT PERSON AND I CANNOT DENY THAT B'SE I TOO CANT EXPLAIN MY SUDDEN REDUCTION IN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION OR WORSE THE FACT THAT I CAN NOW LEAVE A BAR BEFORE ITS EVEN TEN O'CLOCK ON A GOOD SATURDAY NITE WITH CLUB BEERS STILL FLOWING AT THE BAR.

BLB UNLIKE THE OTHER DAUGHTERS OF EVE IS STUBBORN YES AND WHEN SHE SAYS OR DOES CERTAIN THINGS I ALWAYS UNDERSTAND.. I HAVE HAD MY SHARE OF MISDEEDS SO MAY BE SHE IS MY PENANCE BUT THAT ASIDE SHE WILL TRY SO MUCH TO WIN AT EVERYTHING...YOU COULD HAVE KNOWN ME AS AN ARGUMENTATIVE BLUBBER MOUTH BUT IN HER PRESENCE WORDS FAIL ME.

BLB IS MY LOVE AND AM HOLDING ON TO HER FOREVER AND LIKE POLITICIANS SAY SO HELP ME GOD

money or love?? and why am so into work these days

2010-07-21T04:50:00.000-07:00

its really been a while since i last posted, its really been a while i almost failed to sign in and u cant blame me; if i have to use some sort of code to access my mail, blog, face book.. even my ATM i need to remember some code to allow me access to what is mine....

so while i was doing my other duties save for blogging i got involved in so many arguments with my lady workmates about love, marriage, relationships, courtship and every thing that involves two person "fear of sounding homophobic made me write this"
while most of my colleagues agree that love supersedes any sort of material thing they in da same wave length concur that money smooth ens da whole ride. as i listened to them speak and they really went to so many extremes there some bits of our conversations that really got me out of my seat

scenario one; a male graduate with no job and this super independent career woman....do u think there can really be love between these two even if they met at church?
verdict; no way, never, if he has hope and from appearance he looks like he has a future but again is there a guarantee for success.. remember she has all sorts of insurance health comprehensive for her NADIA.. i will leave it to you to conclude/

scenario two; two handsome guys at the work place all other factors remaining oh i used dat i miss my economics lectures. so i was saying two guys one with all accessories. nice car, nice clothes generally well kempt and he is juxtaposed with another guy who is ok walks to work and yes does everything the normal ugandan way. they both are interested in this new intern . the question is who stands a chance of getting the first date..
verdict; da pimped guy, i will go with both, play them , da normal guy to which all da females burst out and laugh...your answer is as good as mine

scenario three; he's loaded and gives everything you ask for you being the female or lady but the problem is he is never there, has no interest in making love, the other one well he can look after himself but can not afford two cater to the lady in his life but will be there for her in all ways...

verdict; this one got me out of my seat .. i would rather cry all nite all day while cruising my Ferrari, how will he be there with no dime, i would go with the loving one as long as i am working, one funny one said " love is grand, divorce is a hundred grand ..

at that its time for me to go eat, vowing to my self to work so hard make a lot of money and mostly be God fearing as they we all agreed that God provides us with Checks and balances

12th FEBRUARY 2010

2010-03-30T01:17:00.000-07:00

ever stopped to wonder what it would be like if things were not what they were? as i walked into the graduation grounds flanked by my parents on either side i wondered what life would have been like if for example i had gone to the urban Kampala parents school and not the rural Namilyango Juniors boys school. i would probably be more comfortable around girls, know most of them more personally and appear to be more confident about things but less prayerful and lacking in survival skills which are a requirement in this country we call pearl of africa.

anyway as i joined my coursements catching up on the past days and life out of campus , i wondered what life would have been like for me if i had gone to St. Mary's College Kisubi or Kings College Buddo and not the great Namilyango College the fear that came over me alone at that thought reminded me that we were supposed to be taking our seats. but then again if things had been different i would probably be an Engineer and not an accountant but sadly not as hard and good a rugby player and if one probably playing for the national team not because am good but because i would be plying my trade with G4S pirates a club i hate for influencing and meddlig in rugby affairs in the country mostly denying chance to those that deserve. despite me being off rugby at the moment, the fear of not knowing my peers because of having gone on the other end of the lake for High school is heightened as the chancellors entourage enters the graduation grounds and speeches, anthems and endless remarks take center stage of grad.

as the deans award various degrees which are met with screams , ululations and joyous celebrations from the graduands and parents a like, i ask my self the same question what life would have been like if i had insisted on going to MUK or UCU mukono for that
Law degree. its then that i start to remniscence the good old days in the guild cabinet my short stint as a member of the democratic party's UYD. the allowances that came with being the Guild finance minister, the politicking the never successful censures and the government allowances for non resident government aided students and the priviledges of not queing up during registration time and attending all university functions courtesy of knowing the guild president and most of all being among the few stars that shone in the rather not so bright Kyambogo's skies, reader i hope u get wat i mean.

as the dean faculty of Arts and social sciences read out my name for the award of Bachelor of Arts in Economics, i wondered if life would be the same if i had different parents and i was not Muguluma, thinking of all the good things they have done for me; it was than i said glory to God and was so grateful for his kindness and giving me thae most loving and giving parents, i even feared to dare think of another father what if he was a drunkard abusive father who cared less for our welfare, what if i had the kind of mother who couldnt even tell the father of her children. as i thought about what my parents had gne through to get me this far, the sacrifices they had made a great feeling of debt and love was too much to bear and as i left the tents to go i realised how good life has been for me thus far and like my old man said on the 20th of Feb exactly a year after that fatal accident that almost took my life i pledged to my self to work so hard and give back to my parents cause without them i would have turned out as a boda boda rider, taxi conductor , or even as a porter at some construction site looking forward to go drink waragi which would probably have killed me or i would have gotten involved in some kind of trouble and would be serving some sentence just nearby in Luzira prison.

I LOVE YOU MUMMY AND DADDY

next time u catch me staring this is why

2010-03-25T06:02:00.001-07:00

Why i liked the Lost symboll

2010-03-24T06:48:00.000-07:00

Of late i hear people speaking all sorts of thing of whether there is God or not and how religion is not logical they argue that science is a more reasonable approach to life and generally to them being atheistic is cool actually modern and free thinking is the way to go. i know several people who have been raised from pious families rich in Christianity but the way they shun it despite those many evening we spent attending catechism classes is rather sad.

now recent troubles in my life have brought me closer to God and made me read the holy book this time not for academic purposes but for spiritual nourishment.i have survived in Four freaky car accidents once when i was really drunk and seriously the only reason i could have survived can only be divine intervention, a superior being, or the existence a supernatural power. i believe i am alive because the powers that be want it that way or am not yet good enough to join them in the spiritual world.

these proponents of atheism make very logical arguments but while reading the Bible recently the way Dan Brown says in his book lost symbol. i have come to appreciate that the bible is not actually for the normal brain and that you have to be enlightened to get the points. take fore instance the wide road and narrow road in Matthew 7:13 whereas Sunday school taught that the narrow road actually led to heaven despite it being thorny and bad and that the wide road led to hell despite its comfort, the moral of this story is that about every day experiences like group influence, peer pressure, group think at work and its evils, and it teaches us that it actually pays to think through things despite the discomfort we may experience like being alienated, segregated as long as the sense of one self is not lost all is well and the fruits are heaven. personal decision especially those that will have effect on our lives due to collective decisions, group think , peer pressure, and the band wagon effect ; generally any thing that you don't believe in but partake in because of what the crowd will say or think of you is the wide road that will lead to hell. As such am off alcohol because i do not want to drink it any more and i don't care if bees sting due to the cola i will be taking its my narrow path.

to those that read the bible most atheists actually own and read the bible religiously or any other book deemed to be holy and translate (read) understand them for their written word, you get it wrong and miss out the point in the stories, parables and psalms in these books. you are actually no better than the preachers on the streets and therefore need to be enlightened lest you die in your ignorance like Dan brown puts it in his book.

invictus

2010-02-05T00:40:00.000-08:00

when i first heard about this movie i couldn't wait to get my hands on it so when my movie guy ( i have all sorts of guys) called me announcing that he had it i dashed to his shop threw him his ka 1500 and headed home to watch this must watch at least those that have for those who put on those micro mini shorts, thick cotton shirts and ridiculously heavy boots and lost some sweat tackling and being tackled on the field it doesn't matter where. so when i read on one friend's blog about this movie and how da preview was done so badly and he was baying for the reviewers blood. i thought i should do a piece about this INVICTUS. i will not go into da genesis of the word, the poem i wanted to share some of the scenes that i really liked.

while every one else will shower Morgan Freeman with praise for doing a great job as Madiba and Matt Damon for his role as Francios Pieenar, as a Ugandan and a follower of Ugandan, i was awed by the role Chester William played or had in this whole rugby thing in South Africa. seeing all those kids calling out his name as was watched in the movie and Francios pieenar asking Him to say that prayer after that famous win over Jonah Lomu's Newzealand's All Blacks in 95 was amazing. i mean he was here in Uganda in 2007 as coach and successfully led us to the African cup some will say it was dat other guy i forget his name but oh yeah its Dobela but don't we always say Moses led the Israelite to the promised land even when he actually died on their way there and didn't actually make it? we hard Chester here in Uganda but i think we didn't appreciate him enough i mean this guy was much more than being the only black on the Spring Boks team he was and is still a HERO who deserved more than he got here( speaks a lot about the nature of Ugandans ignoring the important things and settle for the nonsense)its no wonder he left abruptly and there's nothing good to write about his return recently as we fell miserably to Tunisia. i have heard from those who were lucky to be trained by Him that he was more than just a Man but trust Ugandans we could water down Jesus' miracle. The union failed to grant him the simplest of requests and as such he couldn't take us to the world cup despite him being a winner of the web Ellis.

Aside from that as an All blacks fan those bloody Boks really tackled Lomu and put him out of the game. at the end despite having watched da real game many times i couldn't help but be happy for the new rainbow nation's win.
Chester Uganda owes u

and da "holidays" came

2009-12-30T01:26:00.000-08:00

as i sit in the taxi looking out in window wondering why on all days 24/12 there was this heavy traffic jam, i couldn't help but look back and the days gone by reminiscing on the good old past and how things had changed in the last one year.
here i was heading home for the Christmas holidays empty handed now am told back in the day sons came home for Christmas and the parents were on the receiving end but in the writers case he was going home so as to have a decent meal to mark the day the lord was born i don't even want to imagine what the old ones thought on seeing me with a bag containing a few of my belongings.

i wondered whether our generation is just selfish or we just don't have the capabilities of our fathers. did they get a better education than we did, were they more responsible?

the marathon

2009-11-25T01:10:00.000-08:00

running has been part of my life so much that i think if i had lived in the ancient times i would have made a good messenger delivering messages from Europe to Asia on foot and horses would have nothing on me. so my participation in the marathon this year came as no surprise to me this year i mean am the best there is where i work being the reigning 100m champion in our little world called Quality Chemical Industries some where in Luzira.

a month ago together with other officers from our little world we started preparations for this years MTN marathon, i started to prepare for what was going to be one of the most draining thing i was going to do this year. i have attempted to do this before back in my university days on the athletics team but i failed to finish the challenge of running 21km call it biting more than you can chew. i ran daily after 5 to be able to do 1o km on the day when most socialites were going to stay away from church on a Sunday morning not because of hang overs from well spent Saturday nites but b'se they had to run da marathon. i ran the hill s in luzira and mutungo to be ready together with other wannabe runners we visited corners i n Luzira i personally never dreamed of reaching at least not in this life time out own Maximum prison.

i was ready for the task ahead or at least that s wat my muscles and lungs told me, the mood in office was that you find in sports bars on those days when two English clubs are going to be playing one managed by a Scot and the other by a French what an irony, any way every one promised to out run the other some even claiming that they in it for ambition[ how wrong they were]

d day and every thing seemed fine save for the gray skies until when i arrived at Kololo Air strip the venue for the marathon , the egoistic rabble was still going on on trust me dressed in my Masaai garment i made way to the company tent, every one seemed happy to be about to tire their bodies out. i had arrived trust me am one optimistic being especially in sports activities but i got the pre game jitters, mentally i was ready but my body was in doubt, the longest i have competitively run was 800m way back and the best i got was 2 runner up not bad for a sprinter but here i was going to take on 10km, this was not my thing its a thing reserved for fellows like Anguyo and Kayongo former head prefects in my high school fellows who ran and made it seem like they got two pairs of lungs. this was not helped by the arrival of a friend of mine Collins Assimwe who laughed his lungs out as though telling me that i was on a suicide mission but his taunts would not deter me, i had prepared for this hence my hard work would see me through although i must admit that seeing Collins a guy who i know for doing things because they are done by the elite stay away from running in the marathon kind of gave me second thoughts ultimately worsening my pre game jitters though stil it motivated me to run and have the last laugh.

in the call area one got the feeling they get when down town in Owino market where no one trust no one and u think every one is out there to pick pocket u yes i had money in pockets to jump on a boda boda home in case i failed to make it,we were so many running in my category although the sight of people i clearly knew not as sportsmen kind of eased the tension and i gladly hugged them women and men convincing my self that they would be some one trailing behind me. the drama was yet to start cause when the starting gun was fired some bro of mine dashed for neatly maintained garden to take a leak{ i call them bros c'se of the bond and equality the marathon developed in the participants and along the way we encouraged each other like we knew each other}

i managed to run the entire marathon in one hour 19 minutes and overall arrive 4688 out of the very many wannabe runner clearly when u arrive after 5000 u register as a wannabe. it was a great experience especially the home run to the finish line as the joy of stopping this torture is beyond definition. i beat many and next year it wont be for fun i think i will go for ambition for they say experience is the best teacher. to you dia reader the marathon will leave all your body aching and hating you for putting it through a lot but your heart will silently be glad u did it.

my matatu

2009-10-21T03:48:00.000-07:00

we all have something to share about taxis in Uganda unless your dad resides at the state house and you happened to be conceived after 86. well i have used matatus all my life and it was only until recently that i had graduated from matatus and used to cruise to my destinations behind the wheels in the comfort of my own given car. while at the university i was privileged to be among the not very many campusers who drove to class then hostel, it was goo, fast forward work or call it employment all the benefits of being a child disappeared, now i have to pay my bills, work for my food you can think god was doing it all over again to Adam and eve, trust me now i know how they felt upon leaving Eden. any way with this new adult life the car being owned by the big guy had to go as i exited his gates. i was back to zero and definitely had to go back to my old buddies those guys you all love to call conductors, i had to use once again the taxi park and endure the jam because now i moved with other fourteen passengers. the adjustment to my new life has been hard can you imagine sitting in a car for thirty minutes waiting for it to get filled, the pain of having the car stop every after 4 minutes to ask pedestrians clearly not looking like they are going some anywhere.then having the guy drive like crazy as though he has finally realized that he has not only helped you waste an hour but he has gotten you late for work. these matatus are really inconveniencing and uncomfortable but what is worse are those stage guides who call out for pedestrians and ask for 200 hundred shs and wont budge until they are paid even if when u stopped the conductor did the job by himself (forgive the masculinity personally i have not encountered any females in this business), these suckers like i always inaudibly call them can even stop you from using a give taxi just because it has defaulted on paying for using that stage, the goon even slammed the door in my face as i tried to board one forcefully you could think he was going to pay for or that he actually owned me. my lamenting could go on and on... now as for my matatu, its a special one OK they are many but all the same, they are so unique you can only access them from the nakawa taxi park. they are so old that their registration plate s range between UPK and the newest i think is the new formatted UAG. they are so unique that their coat of paint is peeling, they have no stereos, and their speed doesn't go beyond 50km/hr and as you go to Luzira this speed tremendously goes down to i think 10km/hr as you go up the slope around Akamwesi hostel you even fear that it could fail to go further and instead stop and start declining. they are so professional where by every passenger is asked not to board if their payment will involve exchanging notes of more than 5k, such passengers are asked to first get change or cash in with the conductor immediately to enable him break it down. the passengers are another interesting lot as this group of sapiens includes old women who give/ create demand for makers of bleaching substance, i guess you can now picture how they look like if you know what i mean, these be travelling to kintitale market so the stop over for them to disembark will cost u another 15 mins and by now those of us going to offices are dying with fury. these ladies are not only annoying they are bold too with one seated next to you she will ask you to help carry some of her merchadise not respecting your lous vitton neck tie and well polished clarks as she will spill some of the nakati on you and trample all ofver you feet as she gets her hugely exaggerated behind out of the matatu. the other lot is usually travelling to port bell and these will eat anything they can buy (one wonders if they actually save!) they will eat boiled eggs, bananas, roasted and boiled maize so if one actually farted you the corporate passanger will think that actually this earth has fury worse than hell. allow me to tell you about their conversation which is usually loud and interjected with loud clamours call it laughing, obscenities and definately men oh they also discuss these popular telenovelas so when i hear the chics at work discussing these soaps which even these mothers of mine can comprehend then i think the plot is way below me. so 3 mins to 8am i disembark off the matatu and rush to work to beat arrival time and wait for yet another painful ride on my matatu the following morning. where the stage guide will be calling out to those going to kitintale,bell, luzira, miami beach yes you read right MIAMI beach in Luzira if you ever dared to go it the repercussion of your visit please dont blame the writer.

prayer and sex

2009-09-10T02:09:00.000-07:00

i recently read some where in one of the dailies that the catholic church asks its followers to recite a prayer before the act of coitus. now i come from a deeply rooted catholic family where we commune with seminarians,deacons,priests, monsignors, bishops and once in a while archbishops,the cardinal, and oh we once hosted the pope nuncio. with that back ground we follow the dogmas of the pope and the church teachings to the book because its the only sure way to go to heaven. but never have i heard that a prayer before sex was a must so i was left wondering if any human at least my age would take off time to recite a prayer before diving into bed to get it on. in this era where coitus is performed in all sorts of places and involves all sorts of rituals before actual coitus i wondered whether one would find time to recite a grace before sex.

situation one; very rare. one is at the rugby club after a slim win over heathens and in celebration of the win you're full from numerous lagers call it club if you want and there is this girl (for reasons of remaining raw) who has been downing your vodkas like her life depended on it and you manage to convince her to walk to your waiting saloon car and bang she is leaning on you and asking for it would you say the grace?

situation two;WTF you have been chasing this bird for a while inviting you to her place all in vain and one time she's visiting a friend at your hostel and the friend is not in and you bump into her in the hostel corridors and ask her to wait in your room, you put in a good movie and start watching and she forgets she had come to pick a hand out, its evening already you go out pick a bite and when you return she's comfortable on your bed checking out the music on your laptop , you join her and one thing leads to another. the question again would you stop to say the grace?

situation three; extremely tempting. its Saturday morning and you are in office finishing up some report or postings in my case and some intern is around surfing clearly bored and eager to make office interesting she has made it clear to you that she has a thing for accountants, u check and you notice its just three of you in office and you know that surveillance is broken and the third party(receptionist) is busy charting on face book or watching big brother on the reception TV, you meet her at the water cooler give her the look and she grins naively.... again do you stop and say the divinely prayer?

situation four;this is a tricky one BTW you are single recently dumped by galfie so after a month of trying to pick your self up you decide to join the boys in the bar and there you find this old friend from campus who didn't look so good back in the day but thanks to her new job she now has class and a fair sense of style. she's happy to see you , she smiles at you and embraces you in a deep hug clearly wanting you to notice how you are now on level grounds, she even offers to buy you your next drink. the catching up like we call it is set rolling.. fast forward its mid night not the Cinderella mid night where everything good varnishes and she returns to her rugs. she asks if you still have that car you used to drive at campus you agree by a nod of your and signal to the exit she supports her head on your on shoulder and when you get to the car she wont let you ignite the car and because of the loud rock beats still pounding in your head thanks to steak out's rock nite and the last one month of not getting some you boldly start kissing her and before you know it you have acrobatically left the front seats and are ripping each others clothes off.... again would you stop to say the grace?

situation five;thank you BIG GUY. you chased her, went all the way trying to impress, got ridiculed by the boys, you were laughed at and all you got from her was the dreaded NO and it was followed by "we can be friends." she's breath taking so you agreed so that at least you can be seen hanging out with her although in your head you are waiting for the opportune moment. after agreeing to her conditions she became overly friendly and six months down the road she introduces you to her friends as her best friend, she counts on you for the support even if the rest is off limit for you, she has sought your opinion on all her suitors and you have done a good job getting most of them rejected. finally its your birthday and yes you have thrown a drink up for your friends at your dad's house in those urban outskirt palatial residential areas. the alcohol is flowing an since you are not seeing any one thanks to her ever present self, she wants you to have a good day she is doing all to make sure the binge is a success and you are no where to be seen yes the cake has been cut and clearly every one is in zone. she finally finds you in your old room looking at your high school photos and you are smiling at your then innocent self and wondering where in the world your buddies in the snap. she quietly sneaks in, wraps her hand around you, she's tipsy and wants succulent avocados to rub on your arm. the adrenalin is running and she says some words in your ear which you cant register because of the anticipations of the what ifs. you pull her closer and she comes falling in your embrace and it s happening ladies and gentle men.... again would you ruin the moment with prayer? i will leave it there knowing that being the catholic i am sex before marriage is one way to hell and sex with protection is also considered un Godly. however to those of you who partake in coitus below is a grace you should recite and may be then those pills won't be necessary and the prophylactics won't break. amen

SPARTAKUSS

2009-08-27T22:30:00.000-07:00

its seven years or more but i can still vividly recall the first time i met this one very interesting fella we all loved calling 'mungi' or 'tudde'. he was this new lad in school who had once been to SMACK and there was word going around that a new rugger was around campus, being the 'mbuzi' i was and a rugby player on college (one of the best in my time) i went up to him at the hostel to see who this new boy was whose presence was threatening my popularity on college...ahhh da college

any way back to poetry in my o'level i happened to be da best student in ordinary level literature with another RAY as we had both scored distinction two in the subject and apparently had failed to equal the legendary Norbert Mao whose name even the best James Amatre said with lots of admiration so as the rest of the school was showering us with praise, he arrived the student who had equaled MAO so here i was seated next to him and when i asked him (like was the custom while at college) what number he played as a rugby player, he went on to remind me that he didn't play numbers but position. he was not only proud he was also arrogant. any way i went on to learn that he was just like the rest of us and he even learned to call the rugby score trial and not try.

in class we were met by our poetry teacher to be one rowdy Ochieng Ralph he asked us to mention our grades in literature and u should have seen the manner in which Assimwe Collins dressed in a blazer, full uniform with spectacles already reading some literary works of the best. i could sense even rowdy Ochieng was intimidatedby this new guy in his classy.

as u might have already read from some where that i was a blubber mouth back in the day, but i might say Collins as we now call him in his prescence made me dumb just like Bassaniodid to his peers in the merchant of Venice. the brother could talk and later on he perfectly replaced Twase who had opted for sciences as the guy who took on rowdy Ochieng in the Lit lesson. his talkativeness even earned him a suspension from the lessons of Lit three together with his side kick 'wasulukare' now known as Gilbert.

aside from that i had the honor of serving with him on the prefectorate of 2003/2004 where he held the portfolio of assistant head prefect thanks to his talkativeness he beat his opponents hands down. we played side to side in rugby on the school team where he played his favourite position at the flank, we shared moments of joy and occasionally clashed over ladies one incident i will leave to tell on another day.

now when i see Collins living in the reality of lantern meet of poets. reciting poetry at Kiryas shows, is see the collin i met on that sunny after noon fresh from holiday eager to leave a big foot print on the college, that you did Collins and i know with the lantern meet of poets the sky is the limit for this man who now likens himself to SPARTAKUSS.

FRESH MAN YEAR

2009-08-15T00:19:00.000-07:00

as i was going about my usual Friday evening program i could not help but realize that there was  an unusual increase in the number of young ones in our good bars and from the way they carried them selves around only one conclusion could be arrived at, fresh men had ended their long vacations and joined higher institutions of learning and were experimenting on their promised prize the teachers always preached to them as they asked them to concentrate with the hope that if they did their best they could partake in the main dance. yes, they had taken over our good bars with their still raw sense of style, high school like dance strokes and singing out loudly when their favorite tune was played on the sound system cheering on the DJ to give them more, but fresh men why do u sip our good club beer with straws? bar tenders should stop serving beer to clients who go on to also ask for straws because its not only amateur but also embarrassing, OK the Barney in me is really strong on this one. 
 
any way as i lay in the corner and watched these young lads and lasses i couldnot help but think back of my own fresh man year ,the highs and the lows and tdefinately the anti climax of not joining makerere and sadly joining kyambogo university.

around this same time of the year in 2005 i was destined to join the higher institutions of learning. i was so ready for it for the eight month wait was really tiring as i had had to sit at my old ladies shop daily and in away i felt ihad lost da little intellct i had pick up while in hsc. fast forward results are out and yes it was time to join makerere to study was it urban planning am sure i would now be in jail fro having all kiosks around town demolished and those living in slums sent back to mpigi or wakiso. so any the excitement is on finally we are going to drink, make merry with no limits its campu time and oh my the girls that had eluded me for thirteen years(did i mention i was in single school since primary one?) were finally going to to be mine and that feat was going to be legendary. 

as plans were being made for what hall or hostel to reside in i got a phone call from a good friend of mine definitely off the rugby pitch telling me the list of sports scholarship was up at the sports department. this was it finally my for efforts inflicting pain and running hard on the pitch that had caught the eye of ug's best yayiro kasasa was paying off. this was i was going to university to study for free  remember it was in my  year that scholarships for arts students was scrapped so this was indeed a blessing. 

the shock that i got when on reaching the sports department and learning that yes i had the scholarship but in another university kyambogo to be precise cannot be described, the disappointment was un bearable and the worst was yet tocome kyambogo's academic year was not opening until a month later so the painful long wait was to continue. but i waited went to kyambogo and yes resigned to tha fact that indeed the real campus excitement had come and gone past my door. we joined with another two friends of mine from school all as sportmen. first we hated the place and stuck to want took us there and that was sports and academics ignoring the social life including da not so appealing girls and opting for the more interesting social life of our brothers in MUK although this lasted up to look december and of course we could not over power assimilation, it overwhelmed us and we realised life wasnot as bad as we wanted to imagine. with that out of the way i must admit i really had a good time in kyambogo and even became the envy of my bros in mubs and muk. one of my friends even went on to become the gulid presiden t and made your truly the guild finance minister and with the guild coffers to ourselves what couldnt we get? no wonder red pepper went on to say HE bedded thes hotties in all posh hotels which was not true but politics wa at play.
 thank u kyabogo and those that voted us into power u made kyambogo bearable and to u fresh men DO IT ALL  being a fresh man is a once in a life time thing.................................... 

man eaters are they real???

2009-08-12T22:33:00.000-07:00

can it be real that man eaters really exist? forget about the Zimba from our history class who terrorized the Portuguese on the coast. recently i received mail"man eaters family picnic" from some one with gross pictures that kept me away from meat for quite some time showing modern day Asians looking like they were the dot com type devouring what looked like was a human being.
without seeming to be bothered they dissect and dismantle the human body like a bunch of biology high school students in the lab.
this reminded me of child hood stories about night dancers can it be real that these night movers really consume human flesh and its some sort of delicacy could it be possible that people exist around here who feel nothing while they feed on their own kind. i took the pleasure to share with you pictures of what some people i think in Asia do when all hope for a decent meal is lost.
the government had better do something about the famine lest you or me become victims of hunger and anger from those without a meal. enjoy

WOULD YOU BE OFFENDED???

2009-08-12T02:21:00.000-07:00

she's popular,famous,rich,striking,envied by many,chased by but failed many. she defines beauty and she's over flowing with it and out of the blue she likes you and she makes a very aggressive move to get you. she will do anything to get to you ,get your attention and then without pick up lines no funny you float my ark, songs of songs me and you the remix....
she wants you and that's all she cares for , she doesn't care what you think of her all she cares for is to get a "piece" of you. Now gentle men and yeah ladies too what would u do?? would you be offended.
last month i had a very eventful days. there were interns around work and yes, hell broke loose the faint heart ed took leave to avoid Clinton like situations and risk their bread winning jobs.

yours truly did not seem to be bothered by these new beings from team o estrogen and thought like the rest of these daughters of eve they would just pass and wait to be hit on and i planned to let them wait till they got bored and finally leave without disturbing my peace. the rest of the pack of guys lay their strategies, rehearsed their lines and even too loans to be able to get hold of these aliens in a pharmaceutical company.
i was wrong ladies and gentle men there was this brave mortal who risked it all and asked the around about this unapproachable guy in accounts. she managed to get hold of my extension number called me whenever she could and believe me in the beginning it was annoying. despite all her a fore mentioned attributes she was intelligent and cunning too and thanks to face book and one daring move she got my cell number now the stalking as i liked to call it started. she sent me texts which i ignored in the mean time being this busy guy in office, finally i succumbed and even sent up a date to reveal her identity. of course i tried to cheat my way into knowing who she was before hand to avoid any kinds of not so appealing vixens since we were to go for a sporting event where my boys would be and hell no i didn't want to show up with a not so appealing bird. this bird was clever she always rejected my calls when i was around for fear of revealing her identity, and thanks to these numerous telecommunication companies she had two cell lines and registered one to the human resource department. man she was bright but i was not about to let her win so ....
i am digressing yes finally Friday too bad basket ball was at the YMCA and i couldn't attend. i pick her up at around nine destination centenary park gardens like fate would have it i bump into my boss who i made sure swore to live by the saying that what happens in Vegas remains in Vegas much thanks to the bro code. with that out of the way i we settled down ordered for drinks and u dot want to know what happened next.... Tonie,Arnold,etc can tel the rest of the story for me.
all i can say is freely let her have it and i have no regrets after all it was one bold belle who knew what she wanted and was not scared to go for it. i least offended but simply amazed by her boldness and how emancipated she was. thirty one days down the road i would do it all over and i really miss her and its hard to take in that it will be another whole year before we get some new trainees

2009-07-13T06:46:00.000-07:00

they have been the greatest.

Muhammad Ali greatest boxer to have ever entered the ring he attacked like no other and his foot work cannot not be compared. to put it in his own word,"I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I'm so great I don't have a mark on my face. I shook up the world."

Michael Jackson the legendary king of pop from Gary Indiana, he danced , he sang and we watched all over the globe we tried to be like him especially on the dance floor unlucky for us it was never blood on the dance floor just a few bones out of place cause his precision could not be matched. like a snaked he was good to look at but not too good to get close to like he said,"Snakes are very misunderstood. Snakes, I suggest, may be the oldest victims of bad press.can u imagine he had a boa for a pet. To him one had to,"Keep on with the force, don't stop
 Don't stop 'til you get enough."

Michael Jordan the bestest basket baller to have bounced the basket ball on these worldly basket ball courts, the legendary air Jordan did it all to win it all he sent the bar too  high that even he failed to be like him when doing a stint with the wizards.

Michael Schumacer he once said,""I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability".Michael has been the author of a unique chapter in the history of Formula 1 and of Ferrari in particular. It has yet to reach its conclusion and what he has achieved extends over and above the results obtained. He is an exceptional man and a legend as a driver."

Zinedine Zidane forget about Pele or Maradona our generation did not get a chance to watch these football geniuses., let me introduce to u Zidane popularly nicknamed Zizou, he's  a French former professional He played for thhe elite club teams  and was a member of the French national team. His career accomplishments winning the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000, in addition to winning the 2002 UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid.One of only two three-time FIFA World Player of the Year winners (Ronaldo being the other), Zidane was also named the European Footballer of the Year in 1998. His abilities were further recognized in 2004 when he was included in Pelé's choice list of the world's greatest footballers. He retired from professional football after the 2006 FIFA World Cup. he's only one of the very rare players to have scored in two world cup finals.

Brian Lara one of the finest batsmen of all time, this former West Indian cricketer topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records. He holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for WarwickshireDurham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history. He also holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004.[4] Remarkably, he is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.[5] [6] Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003. the pele of cricket .finally he asked the question,"Did I entertain?", to which he recieved a resounding YES from his fans and that was the end of his active cricket days.

Jonah Tali Lomu  back in my high school day we tried in all ways to be like this chap, we ran out like him, held the ball like him and when we could tried to make heats like his. Lomu a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He had sixty-three caps as an All Black after debuting in 1994. He is generally regarded as the first true global superstar of rugby union. One of the sport's most intimidating players on the field,[1] he has had a huge impact on the game.[2] He was inducted to the International Rugby Hall of Fame on 9 October 2007.
Lomu burst onto the international rugby scene during the 1994 Hong Kong Sevens tournament and was widely acknowledged to be the top player at the 1995 World Cup in South Africa even though New Zea land lost the championship game to the host Springboks. At one time Lomu was considered 'rugby union's biggest draw card',[4] swelling attendances at any match where he appeared.He is officially the Rugby World Cup all-time top try scorer with 15 tries.

finally i thought all the above were great and legendary until last night as i watched USAIN BOLT break his own record with so much ease and his nemesis failing to even come close enough to it(dude should fire his coach for filling him up with too much confidence and ideas that he stood a chance against the sprinting monster). who breaks his own record of 9.69? this guy is indeed a beast his strides alone makes him to seem like he's gliding as his competitors struggle to compete for second place. he is the greatest indeed 9.58 that in human no wonder some one on face book said the guy should be investigated as he could be feeding on cheetahs. one of the many theories of what could be behind his ernomous skill or call it talent if u want. another funny one was that he feeds on yams according to his folks if true i think my bros in bwaise could be winning races like a problem let alone the nigerians with their "fufu". he's the worlds greatest comes second to none and there seems to be no competition for him in the near future....the manly beast celebrating his ever expected wins. reminds me of some time back in high school where in my senior year i expected to win the biggest sporting accolade of the sporting week -the 100 m dash only to be upset by a little known wakabi lawrence who won it bolt syle despite being dragged in forcefully by his house to just participate i ended the race a miserable 3. i hate these striding athletes. but of of course we all love BOLT bolting away....go on player go on. since he is so good i also wanted to share this with u so u can appreciate the world records this dude has under his belt

Personal DetailsDate of Birth - 21 August 1986
Place of Birth - Trelawny, Jamacia
Residence - Kingston, Jamacia
Athletics Disciplines - 100m, 200m, 4 x100m Relay
Club - Racers Track Club     
Height - 6ft 5ins
Weight - 86 kgs - 13.5 stone
   
Education  Waldensia Primary and All-age School
William Knibb Memorial High School
  
Personal Records100m - 9.58 WR
200m - 19.30 WR
400m - 45.28
4 x 100m - 37.10 WR