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April 28, 2010
17:11
Update on Rehema
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Y’all, w’ssup? I’ve just been chatting with Rehema’s caretaker; y’all might recall that last week they were in Mpererwe, at the Katalemwa Cheshire Home for children with difficulties. The Docters that examined her recommended that she travel to the CURE Children’s hospital in Mbale for admission/further tests/examinations and surgery. They’re experts that way. Here’s the [...] Read Full Post
April 23, 2010
12:35
Update on Rehema Kutesa
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Please give as generously as you’re able to. Bank: Barclays Bank Jinja Branch A/C Name: Phoebe Kwagala Monica (in favour of Rehema Kutesa) A/C No: 6002326548 Thank y’all, people! Read Full Post
April 15, 2010
14:54
Every So Often …
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Every so often we come across something or someone that reminds us how our perceived issues and desires and problems are nothing more than … mere drops in the ocean of life. I had one of those moments this morning when I opened The New Vision and found this; Yes, my electricity bill is way [...] Read Full Post
October 10, 2009
10:38
Kenyan Girl
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Saturday October 10, 2009 9:40 am Listening to the sounds of 5 women getting dressed upstairs Today, I will be wearing a kanzu and my Ugandan flag lapel pin. Today, I will be driving a manual car, without a license, all over Karen – I pray that the traffic gods are observing the Sabbath today. [...] Read Full Post
October 06, 2009
7:16
The Quiet Ugandan
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Monday October 5, 2009 20:53 pm Listening to Hugh Masekela’s Greatest Hits Tomorrow evening I will be in Nairobi, being treated to dinner by my friend Kumiko. But knowing Kumi, that dinner might just turn out to be a nyama choma feast at The Carnivore. Kumi, in the most unlikely event that you’re reading this, [...] Read Full Post
October 05, 2009
8:24
The AJ Chronicles
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Monday October 5, 2009 8:19 am Every weekend i go home to visit my nephew AJ. he’s 4 years, 2 months and 1 day old now. last weekend was no exception and this time i took him the PS2 LOTR as i continue my quest to turn him into a red meat eating, belching, nail [...] Read Full Post
October 03, 2009
14:30
Redemption Song
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Damn! I’ve missed Friends with Benefits! Gals, holla at a brother, I’ve got some new tricks! Peace & Love, Julius. Read Full Post
September 30, 2009
18:13
Here Comes a Golden Oldie!
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March 26, 2007 I am an insomniac. Some days are better than others. The last few weeks have been horrid. This is an account of a typical night for me. 12:30am – Sis wakes me after I fall asleep on the couch awaiting The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, to stay awake I grab the [...] Read Full Post
September 14, 2009
7:10
Making Memories
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If it was the last time you were holding her hand, how would you do it? Hold her hand I mean? If it was the last time you would feel the bones in her delicate fingers, would you stroke them ever so gently, to feel every ridge, abrasion and fold of skin or would you [...] Read Full Post
July 21, 2009
17:37
Me I want Michael Jackson!
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Monday July 20, 2009 21:20 Tonight I arrived home to the enthusiastic hugs of my little, well not quite so little, 4 year old nephew. There I was thinking he was really happy to see me kumbe where! He had his own agenda! The minute I put down my rucksack he announced rather conspicuously – [...] Read Full Post
July 13, 2009
17:53
Richard Branson II
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Sunday March 22, 209 8:00pm Today I was upcountry visiting a rice farm in Isikiro village, Buwaaya subcounty in Mayuge district. That sounds like it’s far away though in reality it’s only a two hour drive from Kampala. So, there we were traipsing all over hot rural dusty Busoga learning all about the planting of [...] Read Full Post
July 03, 2009
15:36
Taking the mickey
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July 01, 2009
13:40
Where have all the men gone?
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1. when was the last time you went to a bar, looked at a couple and the dude was the one sipping on the hard stuff? 2. when was the last time you went to a Home Cell meeting and the cell leader wasn’t a woman? 3. when was the last time you were at a seminar/workshop/retreat [...] Read Full Post
June 26, 2009
18:18
Agenze!!!
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Michael Joseph Jackson August 29, 1958 – June 26, 2009 R.I.P May you in death find the childhood joy that eluded you in life. For childhood as i know it is officially over. Read Full Post
March 15, 2008
20:09
Ox.
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some nigga shot Ox’s ass! i cant believe this shit! someone went n bust a cap up in the brotha’s ass, well actually in his thigh bone. n i just found out 2day! people, this is the craziest shit ever! first Paul died then Henry almost died now Ox got his ass shot! why do people [...] Read Full Post
March 06, 2008
15:33
i’m moving back home!
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n.b. plz click on the picture to get the fullsize image. the pc i am using doesnt have software that wld enable me edit the pix before i post them. thank you. cheers reason no. 5; mama delick?!! reason no. 4; we have so much tarmac we can even afford to extend it into no-man’s land at [...] Read Full Post
February 22, 2008
17:15
I’m back!!!!
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i have been in foreign parts lately, i brought y’all back a lotta pix n a bad case of constipation. Read Full Post
January 30, 2008
19:05
Gen. Ali
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standing at the urinal, holding my dick, next to the Right Honourable Lieutenant General Moses Ali MP, while he wheezed, grunted and generally splashed his piddle everywhere but into the bowl of the pisser, i felt, almost equal, if not in bulk, in stature, to the hunk of ugandan history next to me. we both [...] Read Full Post
18:38
i spied with my litto eye
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walking along to class bright and early this morning and what do i see but a soldier in full uniform going the oposite way and pray do tell what was it about this soldier that made him stick out from the crowd well not much apart from he having a case a really bad case [...] Read Full Post
January 07, 2008
21:03
Gye’mbadde
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Law School well actually, pre-law law development centre 2nd term 2nd week busy time a gwan Read Full Post
September 28, 2007
13:40
Eeh Banange
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UBHH!? what went down yesterevening? Did Sage show up? Was some liqour poured out for DM? What colour, n how uplifting, were the corsets worn by …er…gundi and …u know urself…? What did i, and Cherie, miss? Read Full Post
September 19, 2007
22:42
Dear D,
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You ran!! First I was alarmed when I read your latest post then I got irritated when I couldn’t post my comment because unlike the rest of the world, you, and Gug, are still on blogspot which regards taking comments as being akin to Kampala without potholes n dust n floods. Never to be. Then I took [...] Read Full Post
September 18, 2007
12:44
Who Dares Wins!
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Who Dares Wins. The phrase above is the slogan/mantra/creed of the Special Air Services, better known as the SAS; the Black Mambas if you will, of Her Majesty’s realm, comprising the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Qn; do they still refer to it like that?). Of course comparing the SAS and the Black [...] Read Full Post
12:24
Gye’mbadde!
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