Last days!

I feel like this might be my last year working for this company.

These remaining days are my last days.

I feel it in my bones, in the bone marrow and in my whole body.

I feel like am siting on this much dreaded room for these last few days and will be gone.

O how I cannot wait to leave. O how happy I will be.

Yes, indeed, Very very happy.

Have you ever felt as if there's someone choking you? Yet indeed it is not physical but imaginary?

Have you ever felt suffocated as long as you are working somewhere?

There's someone blocking your advancement or development in every possible way?

Even if you try your best and perform well, you never emerge the best employee of the month?

You know the rules well and perform to your level best but your boss still criticises your output and informs you how your salary can be divided into four to pay the interns?

O how great our Lord is! O how Happy will I be when the day finally comes.

Have your ever felt belittled in front of fellow staff for a small thing like coming late?

Or ridiculed for even suggesting something for the good of all staff?

However hard one works nor however SMART one works, our boss is always "right".

You, the employee, have no right to stand up against him.

Well, people! I am ready to face this nitwit-of-a-boss-of-mine or anyone trying to form his backup. Funny I do not know where am getting all this strength and confidence.

I am going to give him a piece of my mind and leave a mark or name before I leave. He will realize that you don't just come to Uganda and abuse people. Ugandans may be timid and cowards, but there are few who are the exception, like me.

By the way where can I get a handbag made of Iron but looks like leather?

Today's Thought

Be thankful for what you have,

not sad about what you don't have.

Competition is really HEALTHY

Once upon a time I bought a Celtel line at $200 and had to pay Service fee $100 which was a total $300. It hurts me so to think that I once misplaced my celtel number and had to cough another $200 for the same line.

Today, it’s a totally different story. What, with HITS and Warid about to launch? Telecommunication has never been better for the consumer.

Passing through the park I was surprised to hear a vendor call out:

MTN line ya nkumi mbiri ne airtime wako wa lukimi.
MTN Line at 2000 shillings and includes 1000/= worth airtime.


Well, look at DSTV. Thank God for small favours. Wham!!! In comes GTV. Imagine I can now watch my favorite movies at almost half of what DSTV is charging us. Even if the DSTV advert says 70 channels to watch - please ask yourself, surely after a stressful day at the office, the last thing you want to do is watch 70 channels before bedtime - the fact is that you do not need all the 70 channels! Period.

Well, the most you need per night may be one movie or two maximum. Competition has forced DSTV management to introduce new packages like Family/Compact bouquets but always ask yourself are the channels in the bouquet what you like or is this another advertising enticing gimmick.

As if things got even better, I hear there’s Pearl TV coming up. WHAT A Third Pay TV coming up?? Yes, this time owned by our own brothers. You know what that means.

Have you noticed the housing estates that are coming up? Forget the French cut roof tops it is now organized housing estates. It is only God who knows how many of us can afford the likes of the Kensington Houses. Someone out there please come up with something less expensive. The Akright ones are good but a friend of mine called them modern Mizigos. She just put me off.

Well as a consumer it means better quality services and better options. What say ‘all?