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October 30, 2008
16:36
Introducing the love of my life
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Hi pips, I must shyly accept that I have since been relegated to the status of Read Full Post
October 14, 2008
11:56
Hope you are coming
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Hi people,this you have to see coz, thats supposed to be my leg. yap. Anyhow, I am in this play and I have been paid to make love on air with my hubby.I get to say all the seductive things and moan too... ok not really but on radio... showing starting thursday at open house restaurant on Buganda Roadthurs-15k plus a snaclFri-Sato-35k plus indian dinner

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A smile that was engraved with a million words

The laughter that filled the soul

The passion that boiled the blood

The warmth that kept the spirit alive

And time that passed so fast

The hope that evaporated like the morning dew

The pain that pierced the heart

The sorrow that killed the spirit

The anger that drained the passion

The chapter that ended prematurely

The book that was never written

The life that was shaken but refused to shrivel

The new chapter that holds promise

The promise that life must go on

The life that looks beyond a sorrowful heart

The life that has more meaning and fulfilment

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August 04, 2008

1:04
I dare say
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I dare say that all men are the same. It just takes different time for their similarities to surface.
Take it or leave it, but its true.We all love to believe that they are different and think that statement a cliché but alas, nothing can be truer than that statement. Read Full Post

July 24, 2008

4:11
Guess what, I am not that cool! So?
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After reading a couple of blogs talking about the hottest music and all-
i-tunes, you name it, it suddenly occurred to me that these things are obviously considered pretty cool. So I ended up asking myself if I am not cool then, because I am not one to die to fill my Ipod with the latest “hot” music (Oops I don’t even own one!). I will gladly settle for Lionel Richie, Freddie Jackson and all those donkey ears tunes.

When a friend gave me an Ipod shuttle, I thought it was pretty cool, but it took me forever to get some music on it and then someone stole it. But I didn’t fright, I felt life could go on, since finding time to plug it into my ears was quite an issue anyway(Yeah! I am for real). I listen to what is on radio/TV ETC, but would survive with out music despite my love for dancing.

So like I said, does this make me pretty uncool and the rest of them guys cool? After asking myself this, I came up with the realisation that the temptation to fit i Read Full Post

July 17, 2008

4:15
So! Where is the welcome back party at?
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The drought spell has finally come to an end. Phew, you guys can now exhale and cross your fingers so that this girl stays on top of her game in blogsphere. I haven’t blogged for almost months (Is it that already).If you want the real story- I don’t know why. I just couldn’t get myself to blog. The other part of the story is that there was so much going on in my life and I felt that the moment I get my hands on the key board, I may go over board with the gut spilling. Well, does that sound believable?

So what was I up to? The sun sets and long evening strolls talking about nothing were countless. Though as the days progressed, they were accompanied by home cooked meals and doing dishes. Can you imagine? Fancy leaving work like at 4p.m dashing to a supermarket to pick some
Fresh food, cutting tomatoes and onions as dude feeds you ridiculous stories and jokes. ( He can only cook eggs- like 10 of them at a go, with 3 tomatoes and an onion- can you imagine?). Then sit Read Full Post

May 14, 2008

3:26
Come back soon
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Dude hasn't been in the country since Sunday and won't be back till Saturday. Much as I hate to admit it,I miss him.Pity I won't tell him this, poor thing and gladly he doesn't know that I blog so phewx.And I'm not playing hard to get. Do you know those moments when you simply don’t do something and have no explanation for your actions. Well this is one of those moments. Oh I miss him…but shusss... don't tell anyone... Read Full Post

May 07, 2008

4:42
So!
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I bet you are all wondering how it’s been going. Well, things are tight that’s all I can say right now. For the last week, I have been having such dozes of TLC that you can’t imagine. I even went to the beach to watch the sunset on Saturday… like the one at Tumwi’s and Iwaya’s.

Anyhow I am still scared but I think what I’m really scared of is falling for someone only to be let down later. For some reason, the thought that at one point reality has to set in and all emotion fade away is at the back of my mind. It’s pretty weird that I was with someone for almost 6years and even then he wasn’t sure that he wanted to get married and then this comes along.

Eh! life is weird for real. Anyhow this baby is not rushing into anything so you can all take deep breaths and relax until an update on this particular topic in 3months or should I first give it one month, which is when I will decide to date or not to date. Oh and also, it’s so weird to think of Read Full Post

May 01, 2008

5:08
He wants to marry me!
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Yes, he was charming and I was tongue tied. He held my hand and said he is going to marry me some day. He said he felt that we were destined to be together. Do you believe in fate? He asked me as I stared at him in disbelief.

But the way he said all this was different from the guys you would just slap, tell off and be on your way. Can he be serious? I have been watching you every week you come to this bar and that day I had to talk to you, he said. And that day I had to get your number, to seal our fate. And that fateful day, was one day before this vision.

Ok, so let me break it down. On Tuesday I met this guy, exchanged no more than thirty words but he seemed nice and had just the right words to let me give him ma biz card. “Hi, I have seen you acting on stage and TV advert for the kiwani movie. You are awesome” Yes that made me break into such a mouth tearing smile that when he asked for my biz card, I just reached out and handed it over to him and left.Read Full Post

April 23, 2008

1:23
This car business...
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I will start by admitting that I have been really blonde about this car business. But promise me you won’t laugh when I tell you that only the other week I discovered that I had a car jack somewhere on the side of my boot.

See it was inside the car wall if I can call it that. So this is the situation. I go to the car wash and accidentally drive over a huge stone and the only way to get through is raise the car. So one of the wash guys says, madam give me your jack. And I’m thinking ooops! I forgot to ask daddy about that.

See, I always call the old man when I have car trouble at least for now. Like when I bashed some guy’s bumper in front of Ange at 3am and guy went bonkers until my smile and confidence calmed him down. Don’t worry, I called the old man the next morning and of course I hadn’t bashed the bumper at 3am near Ange if you get the drift. Anyhow, the loving man he is took care of things at the garage; I was so excited. He is the best that’s Read Full Post

April 16, 2008

0:50
And I was tagged
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So here you go...

FOUR JOBS I HAVE WORKED

1-Social worker at Dwelling places Children’s home
2-Social worker at Labour office in Mbale
3-Features writer at Daily monitor
4-Product editor at Daily monitor (to date)

FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER
1-Pirates of the Caribbean
2-Hercules (cartoon)
3-Notting hill
4-The Count of Monte Cristo

FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED (COUNTRIES)
1-Uganda
2-Uganda
3-Uganda
4-Uganda

FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE
1-Desperate house wives
2-One on one
3-Friends
4-Sex and the City

FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION
1-London-UK
2-Jinja-Uganda
3-Kabale-Uganda
4-Nairobi-Kenya

FOUR OF MY FAVOURITE FOODS
1-Pizza
2-Chicken
3-Pork
4-Rice

FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE NOW
1-Hollywood starring in a movie
2-Venice doing malo
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April 09, 2008

4:13
Where did the creative juices go?
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I have always heard this thing about creative juices flowing but it seems my taps have just failed as far as blogger is concerned. I wake up wanting to go through all the blogs in hope of getting inspired in vain. And everytime I read the blogs, the feeling gets worse. I feel like the child left behind.

Every one had these great posts and comments have filled the pages only for mine to come last. It’s kind of like when you postponed visiting someone and then postponed even more because you are thinking My! I’m already late so how will I even go there. And that is how the whole talk of better late than never doesn’t make sense.

The excuse of work is pretty handy and funny it is true. I think I have allowed myself be a slave to work and even if I am complaining now, I think secretly, I just love it. May be it’s the hours that pass so fast that I find myself rushing to complete stuff on my desk. Funny thing is that my boss is an ardent reader of blogs altho Read Full Post

March 26, 2008

8:11
And down came the rain
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The sunny day gradually grew darker as a shadow fell over the atmosphere.
Birds chirped and flew in circles as if anticipating the coming of a great one.
Dark clouds drew together as trees danced to the rhythm of the wind and leaves scattered in all directions.

Progressively, the wind rose, sweeping papers, polythene bags and dust in its path. Irritated pedestrians increased their pace as they pulled their jackets closer and clutched their light belongings in fear that the wind that was becoming stronger by the minute would blow them away. Motorists hurriedly closed their windows and increased their speed, no doubt fearing the traffic jam that is synonymous with such days.

The air was filed with activity as everyone hastily tried to heed to the announcement of its coming. Searching for shelter and the quickest way to reach their abode, most were obviously in panic for fear of being caught unawares in the wrong place.

Ironically in the yards o Read Full Post

March 21, 2008

6:00
On the main street of a ghost town
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Sunrays on rusty rooftops, sweaty boda boda cyclists calling out as indifferent pedestrians walk by and lone drivers make their way on the near empty street.
A town so famous, structures so infamous. As I sit on the veranda of a café popularly known as source and sip my soda, I cannot help wonder how slow the life around me looks.

My neighbour,one of the kind that flocks the town punches away on his mobile phone just after reading a map guide in a booklet travel guide for Uganda, obviously anxious to find the source of the Nile. A few steps away, a group of dirty children camp at the entrance of a video store cum bar to catch some action on the screen. A few meters front of me, two men chat. Judging from their disregard for the scotching sun, it must be a serious issue.

A handful of people keep strolling by on this main street, as if it were a weekend. How I admire the look of peacefulness and satisfaction on their faces or is it simply resignation to their Read Full Post

March 20, 2008

3:07
12 Angry men
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Now this is the show not to miss.Pity i don't have freebie tickets for you people but hey,you can come and support.No?

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a young man accused of murder. But not everything is as simple as it first seems. The apparently clear-cut case unravels as the arguments between jurors reveal their prejudices and motivations and the meaning of justice.
Quite applicable to our daily life in which our decisions are often influenced by prejudices, backgrounds and opinions.

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March 14, 2008

10:12
So true huh!
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I thought i had it in me to be regular this time but waa.Anyhow a friend emailed me this(yeah it's one of those chain mail things but what the hell) and i believe you guys will enjoy it.Call it an insight on women and their mysterious ways.When i read it i had a good laugh especially because alot of it is true.

9 words women use

(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5) Loud Sigh: This is Read Full Post

March 05, 2008

3:05
This friendship thingy
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Women and their friends are one enigmatic thing. They will love them to death and yet may willingly betray them over the pettiest things in life to the great things. Right from gossiping about them, spilling all their secrets or worse, sleeping with their man. It’s no wonder people look at female friendship with such skeptism.

But anyhow, what I really want to say is that friendship is not such an easy thing to maintain. I often joke with my gals that it is quite expensive because you must pay for it everyday of your life with undefined currency. Talking to her when you are not in the mood, hanging out with her even when you would rather be making out with the cute bloke who fills up your inbox with raunchy text messages, lending her those shoes or outfit that cost you a fortune.

She gets to use your perfume, lotion and all those small but valuable things you cherish. For some reason, you just can’t keep a secret from her even if you promise yourself that thi Read Full Post

February 07, 2008

8:41
Back to life,back to reality
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Ok I am finally back. To be honest I was back like on Monday and fell straight in the hot pot at work. Gladly this year looks good for me so am going to work smart and be on my feet.
Leave huh?It was the winner. I had my late nights just as I wanted in front of the tele,under the stars, in the middle of smoke(I did a lot of passive smoking, I need my lungs checked)I had never realized that Ugs smoke this much. Every hang out is polluted, trust me. Then I also whisked myself away, out of town to Jinja and Mbarara.I know the Bahamas sounds more thrilling but guys, a gal has got to go where she has got to go.

I hear I look brighter(whatever that means) so I finally decided to put a pic of me right here heh!

All the same, I was up to something really exciting. This baby got herself wheels, yeah! Don’t ask what type coz I will be tempted to Read Full Post

January 10, 2008

10:16
I feel good na na na nahhh
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So 2008 finally begun and as if I didn’t have aspirations, I didn’t post anything. As if I didn’t miss 2007, I refused to let my fingers work the keyboard. But I was simply lying to myself, because last year was something and this year seems to have even more potential.
What can I say about 2007 except that it was such a challenging year? There’s no year I been on the edge like that.

But like they say, I was beaten from all sides but I still stood firm. I used to think that I was a weak person or is it vulnerable, but the way I handled many situations last year, just made me rediscover myself. At this moment, allow me pat ma back and say Gal! You are something. Work was hectic but I got thru it more confident than ever. Love life like was like sailing your ship in the North pole just when the icebergs are melting. Social life was great though.

Unfortunately the year ended sadly, my best friend r Read Full Post

December 24, 2007

1:35
Merry Christmas pips
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Enjoy your holiday.And I hope the true meaning of christmas sinks in your system.You can come for a piece of cake.
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December 18, 2007

8:16
That was easy...
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I am finally here, still confused at my inability to blog lately. May be I ought to take a real break like 27th and Magoo did. Doesn’t some study say something about people needing a holiday? Oh! even some song says lovers need that too.

Anyhow, I think I will do it when I finally take leave. Can you imagine my leave for 2007 is being taken in 2008 and it was meant to be on 1st Jan but damn! Have to wait for someone else to get back from their leave on 7th.Am up to my **** with fatigue. To be honest, work is not even working out great coz of it.

I got over that annoying fact. What is really making me grind ma teeth today is Antonio’s Grill. I haven’t eaten there in Donkey years but today I thought, why not walk down memory lane there. Got a takeaway, masaala chips, a favourite(am one for spicy food) and sausages. I rushed to work anxious to savor each chip as it c Read Full Post

November 21, 2007

4:41
Dare do an Oliver Twist!
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As per the post below, you get the drift of this one. I traveled upcountry to bury the old man. Even in the sadness, it's not hard to get a light side to funerals. Mine came as I was manning the refreshments at the VIP tent then later the food. The experience kind of reminded me of josh’s askari diaries.

Serving refreshment to sky riding VIPs(Ministers and MPs) was nothing to write home about. I just kept staring at their bellies and thinking about tax payers money, my own hard earned kala. To imagine they flew in three coopers, you should have seen the awe on the faces of my poor villagers.

Anyhow so I was saying the real story came later as I was manning the food table for the uptowners (read district execs, public servants,K’la residents, district middleclass).
The ministers and mps took off after burial probably fearing we could poison them, as if it was Kampala.

I took on serving the meat, liver, soup while a friend had the rice and all Read Full Post

2:30
Farewell to thee
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Living life away gives the illusion that it is everlasting. Only when someone close to you slips away, does the reality that life is temporary sink in albeit painfully. At moments such as those, we ponder on the meaning of life, about how just when you have it all; it slips through your hands.

The pain inside you at the loss of your friend or relative is indescribable but not as much as the questions whose answers you don’t have. Why did was he chosen, you ask? Why did it have to be now? You wonder? In your grief you moan helplessly as the only thing that matters now is the memory of your loved one.
The remorse about all the moments you could have had but didn’t because you made plans that never came to pass or both you and the decease were busy at that time and hoped to meet later.

Only that later was not to be, but how were both of you supposed to know? This fact echo’s the heartbreaking uncertain nature of death.
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October 26, 2007

5:29
Can't we have it both ways?
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It’s been ages I know, take a couple of hugs my pips, there you are.So while I was awayish I missed a party. what! a party! I wasn’t so happy with myself, I have definitely learnt my lesson, won’t be allowing the rest of you have fun ‘on me’. Anyhow since then am feeling myself again, having the life an independent woman like me ought to have. Bet some of you have seen this before but hey what’s the biggie.

here we go
Recently, a male colleague challenged me about the female love for things associated with beauty, fashion or shopping over what he called ‘more serious’ things like politics, global warming, finances and generally all those ‘hard’ topics. To this thirty something year-old-man, women today seem to be more fascinated by trivial things.

Apparently, he knows many women who wouldn’t bat an eyelid before they pick a magazine like Vogue, Cosmopolitan or People or watch Fashion TV and E, because these have less serious ‘things� Read Full Post

October 10, 2007

6:53
Soul searching
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Stolen glances, eager hugs, the yearning feeling to wrap him up your hands and keep him there for hours. Then again the longing for the night to end so that you can have all these feelings all over again.

Sounds romantic, dreamy huh!(yeah I like writing about this stuff) But what happens when every time your heart skips a beat, you simply think about how the way he looks at you will fade some time.

How the memory of him holding your hand will be so distant that you will never imagine the warmth. How one day the buzz on your phone will never signal a text from him until after a week or two. How your evenings will yet again become crammed with the gals whom you had dumped countless times to be with him.
How you will no longer smile at your pc as you remember the beautiful things he told you or the way he looked at you.

You want to savour each moment you spend with him and swim in his affections. But that nagging feeling that one-day, sooner or later Read Full Post

October 01, 2007

3:39
Pinch me, punch me, kick me but don’t stop loving me.
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1-Ok! So I didn’t turn up at the BHH.I would like to start by pouring out all the excuses but for real I was held up by various engagements. Hope you guys had fun enough for all of us. Now hugs please!!!!

2-Last nights BBA eviction was interesting. However this had nothing to do with the housemates but rather the fact that I bumped into our financial controller at a kafunda in my neighborhood in Muyenga.As me and one of my gals were busy trying to be sophisticated as Tandra put it,yeah we were having black ice at the bar, guy walks in to meet a friend who was sitting right next to me.

Surprisingly he greets me by name, didn’t even think he knew me by name,(This office has like two buildings, the accounts, advertising is like in another world, we never meet except at lunch so you get the drift) Anyhow, so dude sits and the blackice begins to flow like river Nile. And believe me the KB was actually interesting and Read Full Post

September 07, 2007

1:43
Sexy Cutie
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Ok! Now that the dust has settled I will let this out. Can you imagine I made a debut appearance in the kamulari, yes that sleazy pepper on Wednesday. At exactly 8am one of my bros called me to congra Read Full Post

September 04, 2007

0:19
missing in action
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Pips,I have been terribly busy.You cannot imagine the hell I am going through.So much work to do and such little time.Can you imagine I left work at 2a.m. on some day last week.Yah! Now you know.Early Read Full Post

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