The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people”

Well, I have been to public boarding school in Uganda and to break it down nicely, this is where hunger goes to flourish. Especially a month in the semester, then hunger really comes out to play. I have had my own share of near starvation back in the day and I really thought those days were gone.....up until yesterday.
I skipped dinner on sunday night because I was really really dog tired. So I opted for some good quality rest.....which I really got. Woke up early morning not feeling quite hungry so I took my time freshening up and getting ready for work,which meant I ended up skipping breakfast too. We have this little scheme a work where one person buys the whole office breakfast and i knew damn well it wasn't going to be me for obvious reasons.....abject poverty! Its the end of the month,im waiting for pay day.lol. Anyways, it appears everyone seems to be sailing in the same boat as I am so technically everyone seemes to be avoiding the breakfast issue. I did yell out a few times but never did get even a single response. I had to be mature enough to sense that times were tough on everyone, plus I now desperately needed to start saving some energy.
It wasn't really helping that it was an extremely busy day. Even sneaking out for lunch became a mission impossible and then the beast part of the day rolled through. We had a meeting with some big shot CEO at 3:30pm. I drove like a mad man and we did make it there in time but on extremely empty stomachs. Forget boot camp and all, the true test of a man is to see him at his hungriest. You can't really suprise a hungry man, they could snap your neck like a twig.
Well, I am hoping I never become a big shot CEO because i am paying back for yesterday's experience. This guy had us wait for an hour and 28 minutes......yes, I was counting every minute. By this time I was seething.....in both hunger and anger. I cant lie, I nearly lost my cool. First of all, my workmates all kept busy on their blackberries and htcs. I don't think I have ever hated my dear old little Nokia that much. I tried to fiddle with it for a while but I figured the best thing to do was put it away before I flung it against the wall.........and put it away I did.

Eventually, we did get to meet the guy. Needless to say, I knew it wasn't a good idea for me to go for this meeting n the first place. As soon as he started speaking, the little light in my mind just shut off. I literally said five words for the whole hour meeting. Not because I was not interested....which is true but because I could have so easily jumped across that board table and screamed gibberish in his ear. I maintained my cool and waited for the damn meeting to end and THANK GOD it eventually did.
Drove back to office, grabbed my laptop jumped on a boda boda(taxi motorbike) went home and raided the  fridge like a college kid on some serious munchies and all I could think of was the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote that goes......"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so;but we ask the reason of all evil,of pain,and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people" And yes....I did experience alot of all that yesterday but as always, human beings never seem to learn. After pigging out on everything I could lay my hands on, I was too stuffed that I went straight to bed,missed dinner again and also happened to skip breakfast this morning..........here comes another interesting day but also with it comes a very big possibility that I might do jail time for reasons that might stem from anyone who tries to interrupt my lunch break.
Happy Tuesday!

My minions of ferrets that protect me from evil.....well, until.....!

The weekend is clearly my best time of the week. Cant even argue about that. It always has to be compared on a scale of...impaired judgement to Mel Gibson, so I always  tend to let myself go....maybe a little more than I should but heck, then what's the point of the other 4 days of the week.
Friday was extremely eventful....as it always is. A friend has this new pub/restaurant called Serene and I will guarantee you that all serenity seems to fly away with every beer. Along with Serenity went a couple of other virtues like patience,sanity,morals and pretty much everything I stand for,and then the real me came out to play.haha!! This is really my effort to remember everything that happened after Serene and to be honest I am struggling here. But as always, I am sure we ended up at Iguana where it is always magical and the biggest issue of the nite is me having to decide between the hot young blond with no apparent gag reflex, the brunette with a great ass or even the freckled red head with a fantastic trust fund or really really get shit faced.....it's not as easy as it sounds to make the most logical decision when you are as tanked up as I normally am but I can gladly say that getting really really shit faced has come out on top for most times. In the sense that I am always short of heading home all covered in oatmeal and sporting a mad cool tutu. If there is one thing I have mastered, it's the art of maintaining my composure even under the most immense pressure......oh well, until morning comes.....when even a microwave minute seems longer than a regular minute.
I had the strangest dream. There was these minions of ferrets that were apparently protecting me from evil, though they seemed to guard me from quite a distance. However, they kept coming closer and closer and before i knew it.......it was the same darn band of marching monkeys that play the same tune of cymbals at every hungover party in my head. Darn it!!

Then something strange really happened on saturday. My homeboy had a party at his house so that was a good excuse for me to get in as much beer as possible at the party and spend less at the pub. Oh well, i managed to achieve that until we all went out. I had forgotten that schools are out for christmas break. Damn, these kids really came out in hoards. Well, as always, ended up running to the safest haven of all...IGUANA.....which turned out to be immensely exciting for a saturday.
Nothing special really happened. i was bone dry sober....which is very very annoying after all the effort I had put in. I actually wanted to endlessly sing Copa Cabana and give random people bananas. It's a little fantasy I always get when shit faced.
Didn't do shit on Sunday apart from watch a Canadian girl that farted on Canadian Idol auditions and sleeping in all day.
Monday is here.....miserable but glad to be at work waiting for Friday. Oh, and it's pay day today...yaaaaaaay!!! Shots on me on Friday.....thats too far....Thursday!!
Plus my seething desire to mention that I take my work very seriously and my fun very seriously too. So any judgements out there need to be kept to a minimum....zero would be perfect.
Good week y'all.

ONE8 - Hands Across the World (Official Music Video)

Our home boi Navio goin global and representing Uganda with the ONE8 Project. good luck Nav.!!

Of thanksgiving and Iguana weekends...

I can randomly run my mouth and say that YES....there is someone that I would hurl rocks at from a dark alley. Haha, I'm not really that crazy but the thought has crossed my mind. Anyways, that's another story for another time.
Friday night was extremely bananas. I was still riding off the Thursday quiz madness when we officially handed over the championship mantle to a new team. I announced the quiz winners but I can barely remember who they were...but oh well. It was a very well organized quiz and we are coming back for the title.
So Friday was really bananas. Everyone seemed to have ended up coming to Iguana. It was like a can of sardines in there but I was loving every single second of it.
I dont have much memory of everything that happened but as always, there were some annoyances but the happy times are more memorable.
I am deeply conflicted with myself on whether to provide all the information that came out of Friday nite but I guess I have to exercise some restraint. Hence the story about my urge to hurl rocks at someone.
Lots of people always ask....why Iguana all the time? It's just one of those places that I feel comfortable at. Plus I simply do not have the energy to try and fit in with a new crowd at a new place. Its just too much work.I will also quickly mention how I am a sucker for their happy hour prices and the girls are just .....great!!!
Saturday......yea, I did have a lot of things to give thanks for,which I did. Just happened to hang out with "The Menace" and have an egg sandwich.lol. I also choose to stay away from this story.

Ended up in Iguana anyways but rather have to say it was not as "hectic" as Friday or last weekend. But I do hope to live to see another Iguana weekend.
Will I be at Iguana this weekend?? You can bet yo last penny I will.
Peace out!

QUIZ nite tonite at Bubbles O'leary's. Team Arrested Development hands over the championship.

A nice and calm bubbles, just before the quizaholics take it over.

What an obvious way to advertise for an Irish pub......Irish beer!


After weeks and weeks of endlessly trying to win the Bubbles Quiz nite, we finally did it 2 weeks ago. I duly need to mention that we also won by the largest margin in Bubbles Quiz history.yaaaay!!!
Well, tonight we face the downside of being the current Champions. See, what happens is that the current winners can not take part in the next quiz seeing as they get to set the questions. However, we do get our drinks on the house this time and free t-shirts. Doesn't sound bad at all.

So everything is set and in a few hours, I should be trying to get shit faced and seem intelligent at the same time. It's not as hard as it seems.........I have put in a lot of time. Years of experience have been poured into this art. Yet I still complain about my hatred for small talk. Trust me, I have made very legitimate statements on world politics, economics and climate issues under some major influence of tequilla. Atleast they sounded legitimate to me when I said them.haha!! But for real, I have that art cornered.

Anyways, I'm going out tonight just hoping to have a jolly good time. Also this is to stick it to all those sanctimonious fellows out there that dont think I should find Quiz nite interesting. I will do whatever i want to make me happy. I honestly do not have the energy to impress anyone by doing what they like. Y'all go do whatever gets you off and let me do whatever the FUCK I want. This shit is really getting boring and it's quite pathetic that I'm going off on a blog like this but I will not hesitate to say this shit in your faces. I have done it before. It's quite absurd.

I had such a relaxed day and I am not planning to ruin my mood now. This is wishing good luck to all the participating teams tonight. We were told it was extremely hard to organize the quiz but we have....and are going to have an extremely good time tonight. GO TEAM ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. We will be back for this championship. better believe that!!

Try Not To Laugh. Fail-a-thon.

It is just absolutely impossible to not laugh your head off. Oh Dear God. Didnt know such pain could be so hilarious.

"Yaaaay, its almost 5 pm, gotta run book a nice spot to sit in trafffic for 3 hours....who is coming with me??"........then along came Vanja.

Yea...the day is still dragging on ever so slowly. I can swear I looked at the time on my computer and it said 3:43 before and now it just says 3:03 and it has been the same time for the last 10 minutes. At this point, I don't really care anymore. I am done with all my days work and I am....(WAS) bored out of my mind till along came Vanja.
Hence the cheeky smile I'm wearing. Deep down inside,I am covered in a darkness and hatred for how slow this day is going. I could just coldly stare at a rag doll and obliterate it. ( I want to do that to some people too).
So I got into a little chat with Vanja on the social network   and I linked her to my blog. She also hates traffic jams. I dont think there is anyone out there in Kampala who goes..."Yaaaay, its 5 pm, gotta run book a nice spot to sit it trafffic for 3 hours....who is coming with me??"
So Vanja is also doin a nice piece on the hatred for traffic in Kampala on her blog http://www.vanjasteinbru.no/blog.
Good times!! Now that I have the ball rolling on traffic jams, i just depressed myself a little just thinking that I have to sit through it today because I am hell bent on making a beeline straight to my house and not any other place......Its QUIZ NITE tommorrow. Gotta be fresh!!!
Good luck Vanja!!!

Managed to beat the infamous Kampala rush hour traffic but still never made it home.dang!

It takes me under 10 minutes to get from my workplace to my house on a regular Sunday....regular meaning when it is raining like mad on a Sunday, so everyone stays in. So, I have been experimenting with different times to leave the office in order to beat this damn Kampala traffic. 4:30pm doesnt quite work for 2 basic reasons. First of all, I am not supposed to leave work till 5...but some rules i guess are meant to be broken.(My boss has heard about this blog....HE LEAVES AT 3 PM.....thats on a very busy day otherwise its much sooner than that.He hates traffic jams more than I do...."GRANOLA BAR")
Secondly, at 4:30 pm, everyone is being a smart ass and wants to leave work early to beat the rush hour traffic jam, so they all end up starting one massive jam a whole 30 minutes before it is due to start.
5 pm is a no brainer. it takes me 2 hours to get home. SERIOUSLY.....2 hours for a 10 minute ride.
Then yesterday....I took it up a notch...left office at 6:15 pm...(yea, I'm a good employee...I blog..sorry..work hard). There was hardly any traffic jam so i figured...hey, why am I rushing home,I will just go pay my sister a visit.
This is where the drama begins. Found her sippin on some Gin and Tonic. it was along day for me too, so why not. Then dinner(didnt know you could make peas taste that good)......which was just great and before  I knew it, I was making a store run for another bottle of gin....and another store run for beer later. At some point I decided to call it a night and go home........then I took a long blurred look at the clock......it was 3:30 am. I guess I was trying to call it a morning. Ended up crushing on the couch and waking up an hour late for work. Thank GOD I had a change of clothes. Well, I did clean up as well.
Beauty about all this is that I did bring good business in to the agency....so lets wait how all this pans out.
But right now....all I am thinking about is how nice and cool my bed is going to be later today....IF I MAKE IT HOME!!!
..............QUIZ NITE tommorrow. We are the defending champions, so not much excitement there, seeing as we are asking the questions.

Stewie & Brian perform at Emmys '07

I have been getting a bit Stewie stupid of late...but U really cant blame a kid his age and with such subliminally absorbing wit. Its just Stewie....all of us shall have a slow and painful death when his dreams of world dominance eventually come true.

Run away..far far away!!......Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

Yea...I am feeling a little boxed in with everything thats going on in my life. So this is kind of my escape route. Been looking at some of my old travel pics and Oh how I wanna get away so bad. Just me and myself. Kind of have an urge to reconnect with good old me. Times have really gone by and I think it's that time when you really have to think to yourself.....if you are really going through hell....dont stop,keep moving. So here is just a few of my travel memories I have been going through today. GOOD TIMES.

Now i am really nostalgic....

Kickin off this blogging thingy...a decade too late!!

I have really had the urge to kickstart my blogging career for a minute now. Followed so many of my blogging friends and today feels just like the day it happens.
Clearly, it is a slow...very slow day at work. All I have done is send out a few emails and kept a rather busy face. Oh yeah....and there is just nothing left for me to see on facebook.
So here goes my new found passion. LETS DO THIS!!!