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With love,your Hangover posted on June 16, 2011 - 10:19am

I’m not one to speak. My usual approach is to just sit there and be talked about or, depending on how I feel at a particular time, have death threats sent my way. Don’t feel bad on my account, these threats never amount to anything and I stick around for quite a bit. Your friends will likely tell you that they have had  a short stint with me, a fling if you will, but the truth that hides behind those red eyes and brewery breath is that I go as I please, no one tells me what to do or when to do it.
 

The android diaries; The meeting posted on March 9, 2011 - 5:23pm

You hear a lot of talk about different phone operating systems and think, "who cares, a phone is a phone. all i want to do is text and call" 
For a while that's true, then you develop a nasty case of touch envy and you keep going home to your little corner, sit on the floor hugging your knees close to your chest and mutter, "a phone is a phone".
As you rock yourself back and forth, you think, you're cured, then you go back to the office and as luck would have it, you are one of those gadget fiends, so quite naturally, you will run to the nearest gadget weblog you can find and, wouldn't you know it, the battle of the phone OSes is still raging.

Elections were held…now what? posted on February 25, 2011 - 7:30pm

 
Now that we have voted, we can pat ourselves on the back. See, it doesn’t even matter whether your candidate took the biscuit. What’s important is that you are now, for lack of a better word, relevant.
You know those stories you hear from elderly folk about how they participated in some sort of monumental event, like say, walking to school ten kilometers away? Well, you can proudly say you walked to your polling station, and what’s even cooler here is the fact that when YOU walked, something that affected the millions of people happened. Not just your village.

REVISIT: Because Big Brother is coming back posted on February 5, 2011 - 12:43pm

Sorry people, couldn't come up with something for BBA, but hey, we can walk down memory lane, right? Okay, let's shoot this puppy.

Who do I have to sleep with: To get a road named for me posted on February 3, 2011 - 7:14pm

Here’s the thing. It used to be the important people that would get titles bestowed upon them. Stuff like Sir Apollo Kaggwa, Saint Balikuddembe, Earnest Bazanye… you get the idea, and we were okay with that. They deserved these titles. Then an interesting thing happened (well, ‘interesting’ is relative, just go with it) people started to name roads.
I don’t even know how this madness started;
One fine afternoon… in a bar

Blogger’s say the darndest things posted on January 28, 2011 - 5:19pm

First off, between you and I, I'm not sure that's the spelling of that word up there. I ran a google search for it and it seemed okay. Thing is, google is frequently trawling the interwebs and stocks it's results with stuff like, 'kandahar' 'babylon' vuvuzela' and Zuena.
That said, rather than go into the usual BHH update mode, telling you who was there and who wasn't, I figured we'd switch this up a little.
People have often asked me what goes on at the Blogger Happy Hour, what we discuss and stuff like that. I usually invite them to come over to say hi (and suffer the agony of name calling, ie Well-wishers, posers, twitterers(SIC), gatecrashers and so on), but now, to save you the distance and fuel, here are 10 things that have been flung around during BHH.

The New Place. The Clinic posted on December 30, 2010 - 6:56pm

 
You’d think moving to a new place would mean a fresh start, right? You’d think wrong. See, my lifestyle may have been upgraded somewhat, but my immunity’s still a bitch.
How was your Christmas Day? 
I got off to a decent enough start. You know, the sporadic load-shedding that suggests someone at the power company is sending you signals by Morse Code.  Apparently you can’t sue ‘em because of something on every bill that indemnifies them. I think it’s the bit at the bottom where they tell you they will disconnect your power supply if you have not paid up by the time the silly uniform has walked through your gate
Then there was the rain.

Piggin’ Out posted on December 26, 2010 - 9:36am

i have successfully gone through no less than 3 pork variations in 2 days and confidently say, pigs are a versatile species. There’s much to be learnt from them.
Happy boxing day
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The new place. Month 01 posted on December 20, 2010 - 2:24pm

Finally experienced loadshedding Ntinda style. That’s right, I’m still calling my area Ntinda. I have been told it’s actually called Kigowa, but my mind won’t process the word. Understandable really, you don’t want to be jumping into a cab after hanging out and slurring that you are going to Kigoowa. It sounds like a haven for thieves and ladies of the night… or thieving ladies of the night.
So anyway, the black out…
When I was moving in, I carried the notion that this side of town had ministers and such, so I wouldn’t have to worry about the forces of darkness striking. I was wrong.
The reach of Minister’s Village is limited…and ministers have generators and inverters.

The new place. Week 01 posted on November 23, 2010 - 1:54pm

Done with the first week at the new place. How was it? Well. . .

My housemate has not been in since I got there. I think he was picked up and taken to the home for crazy people. I thought it might have been a business trip, but let’s be honest, which business trips go on for more than 3 days? A pleasure trip, maybe? Nuh, not likely. In these harsh economic times you can’t even enjoy pleasure trips that go on for the whole night… I mean nights out on the town…
There’s {'there are'… stupid autocorrect} other things that suggest that he might have been crazy. Like the sim card. There’s an abandoned sim card lying somewhere in the kitchen. That’s not the part that worries me. Sim cards are abandoned all the time. Thing is, this particular one is shaded blue…violently.