Sitting at Cayenne

So I am sitting here in a company branded t-shirt wondering how I was l let in. Don’t these people have a dress code or something??? 🙂

Anyhu, Cayenne actually turned out better than I thought it would. And I figured I should write a post to let anyone paying attention that I am still alive and well

So yesterday twitter was abuzz with a tweet about Joyce Meyer’s work in Uganda. Sounds innocent enough, right?

The point of contention was in the reference to Uganda being “war ravaged”. The responses were a sight to behold (or read) and I was impressed that people actually responded to begin with. XFM went a step further and came up with a video of what must have happened (www.facebook.com/xfmug).

After about 20 hours of silence from the Watoto n Joyce Meyer team, responses from JM Ministries indicated that they did not mean to cause confusion but to draw attention to their work with Watoto babies home.

Right here is a true study in the fact that;-

1. When we communicate, people’s interpretation of that message will either boost or kill us.
2. Things can ( and will be) blown out of proportion on occasion.
3. The 140 characters (twitter) can be the death of you.

Later…..

Ha!

Reader was discontinued in July 2013 by the nice Google people!

Shows how up to date I am- ha!

Now onto the next One,..

And now I say to myself (close to yet another year later) maybe it’s time to start blogging again???

Just the thought of going through my reader list is making my head hurt though….

Lets see how this attempt goes

OMG! its been how long?

So i was patting my back on having last posted on March 15th. That was until I realized that it was March 15th 2010. Where did the time go?

And to think, I came to runt because these idiots I work with intend for me to start off Easter in a really bad mood!

Its not until you get beaten down many times that you realize that life suxs.

Noo… dont say “Life is what you make it”.. it really sux.

It sucks because of the people you are forced to work with…
It sucks because your parents and pastor folks taught you the value of “working as if you were working for Jesus”.
It sucks because inspite of everything you believe things will work out…

Let me tell you.. life SUX.

On that note.. I am off to change my template… and how are you 🙂

testing

this ought to be fun

Thoughts

I have been at home for about 2 weeks now. All I can think is “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

I have noticed that there are now buildings in spaces I did not think had the capacity to hold them but the merchandise remains the same. I find myself asking myself when “business people” will diversify their products.

The potholes have become worse and better (or worse yet) they have also crept up in places I am unfamiliar with. As a result of trying to figure out these spots, I am now reliably informed that i am less aggressive on the road. Guess all those road rage sessions paid off,huh? I’m kidding… 🙂

Kampala for the most part is just as I left it… my friends are (for the most part) doing exactly the same things and almost exactly the same time. I keep asking myself if I have changed, if they have? If I have, by how much?

New years usually cause people to think of new resolutions. Not me. I dont believe in them mainly coz i know I wont do anything about them anyway.

This year, in approximately 4 months and a few days, a chapter in my life will close. The question is, what am I going to do then.

Randomzies

A friend of mine (actually amend that to two friends) asked me when I was going to do a Randomzie post and at the time I thought, “Gosh! Havent i outgrown those?” but then in the next second I was like “naaaaaa!”. So without further fun fare (and the hope that you dont realize I dont actually have a lot to say) I present randomzies!

1. I went to lunch at my former house on Sunday. My exroommate who I usually have issue with can cook, no doubt! So i took my self willingly. All round it was a wonderful meal. She had me and another friend over.

The set up was rather interesting considering the other party was a married guy aged 35 (maybe) sitting with 3 young hotties. conversation was awesome and he didnt get burried under the whole “female agaisnt male” thing.

One thing I will say… my roomie seems to be attracted to guys who like to preach. We are talking as if deacons/priests. I have nothing against them.. but preachy people tend to bore the interest out of me… and not because they arent interesting. They just dont let any one else say anything. God gave me a mouth to speak, ya no!

2. I have a complaint to make. Either I am unsaveable or I look overly saved and sanctified. Thats the only explanation I can come up with for why I never get preached to by Jehovah’s witnesses and Mormons. Discrimination I tell u.. dissssscrimination!

Although in a some what related note, a mormon did want to date me once upon a time, so i guess that was my way into being preached to 🙂

3. I have lived without my ipod for close to 3 weeks. I am very sad indeed. We will be reuinted in 2 days, hopefully. I cannot wait. I will lavish it with all the goodness I have been storing all these days. I can honestly say I missed something.. maybe.

4. I had a near scare of a re-take. Ate these loonies dont have that thing were u pay to just re-sit the exam. Apparently U have to go to class as if u didnt go through the first round. sigh. At the moment, that was worked out so (fingers crossed) I wont have to retake. I should point out that I didnt fail the class.. I just cldnt transfer the credits (if that makes sense)

5. My room mate, who is supposed to ensure that I am well taken care of (yeah, like she’s my mum), dropped the ball. We havent had oil for the last 5 days. Let me break this down for you. No hot water… no heat.

Now how was a poor African supposed to survive????????? Fortunately for every one, its because i am an African that I survive hehehehehehe.. (there’s some warped theory in there that I am not going to explain).

6. What do you say when someone asks why you dont like going to their church? (keep in mind fragile ego’s and feelings and such).

Songs Im loving
1. Evacuate the dance floor- Cascada
2. Eh eh (nothing else to say)- Lady gaga
3. Try sleeping (with a broken heart)- Alicia Keys
4. Doesnt mean anything -Alicia Keys
5. Sexy Chick-David Guetta
6. Queen- the Longombas

Today

The president of my college announced that she would retire in June 2011. That really isnt the news. The lead up to the news is.

I walked into school at 9am and the internets were not available. This being a communication and arts school, you would think things like that never happen.

The only thing that worked was Intra sites (not sure what the technical name is) which really did not help as my email is routed through gmail.

At about 12 o’clock, every one (who actually uses school email) was excited because the president sent out a cryptic email that implied that “the future of the school was going to be greatly impacted”.

Rumour had it that perhaps she was going to announce that she was Tiger Woods mistress or maybe that she was going on vacation. Rumour is always more interesting than the truth.

What this reminded me of was high school. When my head mistress felt she had an important announcement to make, she would rally whichever poor smuck would be available, ring the bell, have the drum beaten and generally assemble us to be counted. I think one such time was to tell us about a coke promotion and how she might end up in “Ata-lanta”. I forget. All those assemblies kinda messed into each other.

The more interesting part was getting out of whatever class or discussion was going on.

After creating the buzz about the great announcement, twitter was abuzz with the showdown. At 2, those who really had to be there went to the meeting. I could care less, what she said would eventually get back to me.

There was actually live streaming of this event, by the way.

I shake my head and think, what a tiny school and more importantly, when will UG catch up?

Hello world!

Peaking out of my fog covered world to venture out and say hello!

I have thought long and hard about what I wanted to say when I posted after such a long sabbatical. I havent figured out what.

So…. Hi!

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