Hello guys. Hopin' u had a really great day down there. I haven't been feeling well since yesterday..i got a cold n its making me blurrrrrrrrrr...

I do not have much to write today. Ive been browsing through a collection of videos this evening after work and i got another great one for you. By the way i guess u loved that Whitney-Cece-Shirley medley i posted on Wednesday. Looks like me now into the habit of videos!! Well, this time its another gospel performance by artistes like Aretha Franklin, Bebe Winans, Trinitee-5-7, The Clark sisters, Israel and New Breed...(Hmmm..sounds like 'who-is-who' in the business!!!) during the 50th Grammys that took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2008.



See you tomorrow.

Hey. Check out this great video by Whitney Houston, Shirley Ceasar and Cece Winans.A live performance at the 1996 Grammy Awards. Its just incredible!



So are u amazed??

Its been long but i will always have a way of getting to you, somehow. Was supposed to drop a post yesterday but i guess i was just being lazy because i cut it out..for no good reason, though..maybe its because i was tired after the usual typical long working day. Weekends are ceasing to be much of a fascination to me maybe coz i have to work on Saturday. And to be frank, i really wasn't me. Things weren't shifting. Anyhow, i had to sign in that blue attendance book...(roll call book!!!!) that u will most definitely not miss out in any typical working place here in Uganda. The only thing that saved the day was i didn't have to wake up as early as 6 Am that morning meaning i had more time to..ahh....well i guess you know what i'm talking about here!

Sunday...now as of Sunday..it was almost becoming its usual boring self..save for church..Chelsea Vs. Spurs..fellowship. But somehow, it ended and Monday was quite fine. Its just yesterday actually. I got some few surprises..and what else???...yes..."unexpectedly" bumped into a number of people (not my ex..at least![if i've ever had any]). Oh yea..i also discovered Brian Litrell the dude who sang Welcome Home (You) was formerly a lead singer with the top-notch American boy band - BackStreet. Did you know that?????

And as for today, God gave me the golden opportunity of sharing his word with people who were going through a rough patch in their lives. I feel so happy and that is enough to make my day beautiful. Actually i was doing it online and the distance never seemed to matter. I felt God was speaking to these friends of mine in the simplest yet profound way only he could. Another great news is i have a ministry engagement in conjunction with The Egrets during the Easter period in Bweranyangi Girls School, South Western Uganda. The Egrets is an OG grouping of former 'Bweras' students.

Ooops its past 7pm. I have this feeling i'm in the right place at the wrong time. How weird!

Yesterday marked the end of the Xceptional campus conference at KPC. It was worth it sitting in there and listening to what God had to say in times like these. Having skipped on Thursday, i surely didn't want to miss out on the Friday do..but hey..i almost did. I somehow delayed in office (as always) but somehow managed to get to the conference venue at around 7 Pm. That meant i was 1 hour+ beyond schedule but i took it all in my stride. It was Virtual memory when i got there (has any of you watched the show of the same name on TBN hosted by Jamie Alexander??). This was a clone, kinda, of the TBN thing. Females V. males? What a contest it was! Then it was time for Soul 5, Martin Sseku, Genuine Dancers to rock us with some funky vibes. And there's this particular group that did an acapella and i must say i was impressed. Wheew!! Enter the fashion show! Fabulous stuff and fabulous personalities on display. I really liked it. I think a guy's gotta revamp his wardrobe! To crown it all, Pr. Mark led us in moving worship and prayer session. A really great ending to an exceptional week!

Not all was rosy on Friday. Some events of the day surely must have left quite a number of people cursing. And in this case, i mean all those who have their calls routed on the UTL network. We had no coverage all day. My phone really looked like a toy. Today is no different.What a way to spoil my weekend. Er.....Warid where you at????!

The "big" news in town is UB 40. These guys landed in here n boy..i hear their 2 shows have been valued at 2 bn! This morning, i suggested to my work mate that we go for the platinum tickets (worth $170). Crazy idea, huh? The implications are u are guaranteed to be broke 24/7 for the whole month running. I don't wanna walk that walk!

This week has been filled with lots of musical moments and here is my Top 10 Countdown:

1. Natalie Grant - Held (Watch Video)
   
2. Toby Mac - Burn For You
3. Bethany Dillon - All I Need (Watch Video)
   
4. Kirk Franklin - How We Used To Be
5. HillSong United - Tell The World (Watch Video)
   
6. Brian Littrel - Welcome Home (Watch Video)
   
7. Ayeisha woods - Happy
8. Relient K - Be My Escape (Watch Video)
   
9. David Crowder Band - Everything Glorious (Watch Video)
   
10. Delirious ? - Inside Outside

I'm outta here. Adieu!

Mid week is here. For those who missed out on the Xceptional Campus Conference at KPC that kicked off on Monday..u can still catch up with the rest of us tomorrow and on Friday. There is still lots of great stuff specially for you. A quick run down here; Tomorrow (Thursday) it will be pr. Mark sharing on Exceptional relationships. On Friday, its going to be hot with the Campus Praise party!

There is this one thing here. Its "obvious" I'm no longer at Campus but i feel there is lots of stuff i can still learn from such meetings. During yesterdays session, Pr. Garry shared about exceptional love. Reading from 1Corinthians 12:31, 13:1-13, he echoed those great words of the apostle Paul about the 'most excellent way' - LOVE. Check out that scripture.

oh yes, today i discovered i did not have to worry in case i miss out my morning devotions, especially during the working days. Bible Gateway is a website dedicated to giving us online bible access 24/7. Its easy to use interface makes that bible study memorable and impacting. Here, you can check out all your favorite passages in a whole lot of translations and versions.

What a quiet day today has been! Yes, something next to boring. Work here is becoming monotonous and i really hate repetitive stuff. It makes me less creative and that makes me sick. I hope things are taken to 'another level' real soon. I had a lousy lunch this afternoon considering that the food was cold and i had no company (have you ever had a "lonely" lunch???Ask me.). Its high time i stopped complaining. Spent most of the day indoors working my self away against a back drop of beautiful Hill Song music...my only solace in a day full of "troubles". Thank God the storm is over now and i can look forward to tomorrow hoping for the very best.

As it has always been, I'm the last to get out of office yet again. Every one is gone. I suppose my work mates think i'm a workaholic of sorts. God forbido!!!!

The weekend ended quietly and has now been replaced with a brand new week. Saturday was not fun..for me particularly because ma football crew lost to Man-Yoo. It was a thrashing by the way- 4-0. Before the game, I really thought we would pull it off but a mere glance at our starting 11 meant we were in for a beating..and what a beating it was! Thank God i got over i so quickly. In ALL things i have learned to give thanks. At one point i thought, "well, it seems God does not watch football!" But he does, i was reminded, and he `works out everything according to his plan and purpose.

MUK is now back to working ways now that the striking dons decided to cut it out. Thank God. Some time it used to be pretty nasty whenever such things would happen. Looks like we now living in an altogether changed Makerere. How i pray things keep like this.

On sunday, i got to church and what an explosive service! The word of the day was that we ought to rise to the occasion and be the salt and light of the world. Are you a believer? Hey baby, its time you and i quit our comfort zones and began to rock the world with God's love. Its not how much you do, but with what heart you do it! Let us go forth and change our world with the authority and power Christ has given us.

Mean while there is a meeting at KPC running through this week. It's called The Xceptional youth conference. You don't want to miss out on this if you stay in and around Kampala. Schedules: Mon-Frid 6-9 Pm. Speakers are Dr. Orombi (Archbishop of the Church of Uganda) and our very own Prs. Garry and Chris. Tell a hommie about this and catcha there.

The idea of working on saturday wasn't in any way welcomed by either i or my workmates but we just had to swallow and show up anyway. The good thing is we had to leave by 1Pm so that one can catch on some "happenings" down here! Yestarday was movie nite at church (KPC) and this time around it was Love's Long Journey (Logan Bartholomew, Erin Cottrell). What a treat! I walked out feelin' like i need to spread The love a little bit more than im doing. Here is a short preview of the movie.

Based on popular novelist Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series of books, Love's Long Journey starrs Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew. Missie (Cottrell) is pregnant, and it's time that her and husband Willie (Bartholomew) strike out on their own and begin life anew. With their wagon packed full and a plan to make a home for themselves in the west, Missie and Willie say goodbye to Missie's parents and set out on the adventure of a lifetime. And truly one you don't want to mis out.

Meanwhile, i'm sick and tired of having to "manually" identify myself everytime i'm to get into my workplace. They haven't got us IDs so im always at pains tryna explain my self out. Hope things get better next week.

And now for all the football fans, tonite is the big one..My Crew up against Man-Yoo (in the FA). I just hope we dont lose. The last time we did, i really really had a bad weekend.You dont wanna know.

Its interesting this week has moved a little faster than usual. Thursday is over and before we realise it, the weekend will be here. Good for me! It can be unpleasant sometimes to wake up very early in the morning..go for work..come back in the evening...Its more of this "vicious cycle" my economics teacher taught me in High school. Last year it was all "rosy" for me while home on holiday. I think i even wrote on this blog then that it was ok for a guy to enjoy the moment while it lasted. Now those days are well past behind me..those days of waking up whenever...and being pimped by my lovely ever-green momma....(how i miss her!) are over. Nowadays, i have to live with the fact of showin' up at work at 8 am, smartly dressed...i mean "appropriately" dressed, lest they think i'm too unserious or simply just "young". And this comes at a price. It means having clean and ironed cloths in my wardrobe every day. Oh how i hate ironing!! But so far..so good. Somehow i have managed to keep my smart self intact and im getting used, i should say.

Today's been St. Valentine's day. Maybe its because i was indoors almost all day..i didnt see a "sea" of red here but i guess love is in the air, anyway. I knew i would'nt be among the celebrants today so that is why i wasn't surprised when i found no bouquet of red roses by my door side this morning. Neither have i dared give a pretty girl some. But who knows...the day aint over yet!

The weekend is as good as over and its back to work business here. Campus is slowly getting populated as the new semester is well under way..in its second week. The fact that lecturers were on strike almost from Day 1 didnt make a alot of difference at first but i feel like if things dont get resolved quickly, some stubborn heads could begin to turn..and u knw what that means i guess! You can trust i wont be among the number when the ("saints"??) go matching!!! I think since im no lecturer here, its best i keep in the shadows. It dont kill,baby!

Me and work mates here decided we were'nt goin to work during the weekend and we didnt show up. Apparently our supervisor was around on saturday asking for us. Well, since it was not communicated to us that there is work on weekends...hmmm i guess we off the hook. But i have this niggling feeling we have to be here this saturday...daaaahhhh!!

Leaving all that drama aside, my wekend was ahh..part uneventful and part eventful. I spent most of saturday and sunday indoors....listening to music, having Bible study..catchin up with movies...Hmm..sounds like i was on holiday, er? And ofcourse watched football (ACN) though ma team was the loser at the end of the day..too bad for me and the Cameroonians. No doubt Egypt was the better side n big ups to dem Pharoahs! Oooh i shd also mention got a surprise call from a friend of mine far away. It gives life more meaning when people can still remember you..n think about you.

Recently i realised i was runnin into trouble with ma account..it 's fast getting "depleted". It makes me yearn the more for February to end.Same old story.Can't wait!

I guess im now used to the fact that i had to change addresseses. I'm quickly "adopting" to life in the city..talk of things like the guts to stand a nasty traffic jam....heavy work schedules..expensive food...etc. Thats what i should have expected so im not being taken aback in any way. Added to all this is the bad news this morning that MUK lecturers are on a sit down strike. I hope the rest of us wont be affected. The last time such a thing happened, mayhem reigned. I'm praying history does not repeat itself(if it ever does , that is).

But it aint all gloomy here. Its a pretty interesting place i should say. Yestarday after the day's work, i decided to go to church and "catch up" with God in the mid week service here at St. Francis Chapel. Its just a few blocks away from where i work so i didnt have to walk alot. Its easy go all day without that badly needed fellowship with God in today's dynamic and demanding world of work.So this mid week service came in handy..just when i needed it. For sure i was beginning to feel like i was "goin' down the drain". Seated in there, memories of the days gone by began to flash through my mind. This is the very place i used to retreat to..the very place where many spiritual chapters were written in my life during my university days. After the sermon, Holy Communion and a really beautiful worship session, i strolled away feeling like it was simply the best part of the day i had had.

On Saturday i was back here in stuffy dusty Kampala. I always thought things would be quite different this year but alas!..i was proved wrong. I literally had to squeeze my way through a multitude of people along the streets with ma bag in hand. Thank God the infamous pick pockets seem to be no more here. Every one here is busy.."looks" busy. I guess thats good for the economy! When i finally got into a taxi...i gave a big sigh of relief..for just a moment coz half way along the journey the old taxi broke down. I shoulda seen it coming!

I had told you a day before on friday that i hated long journeys. Long bumby rides aint the thing for me and i didnt think this one was going to be any different.. How wrong! Somehow i had company all the way in a friend of mine. Atleast this made the ride shorter and...much better.

Yestaday i reported at my new place of work. No serious surprises. Only that my supervisor didnt show up. So you could as well say i had a "day off". It was pretty boring though because Muk is currently "densely populated" given that the new semester has just begun.

Today, it was real business. My boss showed up, gave us a briefing, took us around...just about the usual orientation routine every on goes through. Its now time for the afternoon session so i got to be gone lest im deemed "unserious".

Looks like this week, i had to go back to school to learn a couple of lessons. The other day i told you about the narrow path. Its not a bad idea to learn one or two new things. This time i wasnt left out. Most recently i had to go an extra mile to help out some one do their work. It was so hectic at one point i really wanted out but i felt i had to hung in there. Call it sacrifice. I had let go of many things including ma precious sleep (slept past 4Am at one time!) just to make sure all was ok for him because his life depended on it ..kinda! So what was there for me to learn?? When all this was over i looked back and thought..."thats exactly what Jesus would have done". From a world's perspective, it makes "sense" when we help out where we stand to gain, huh? But what about the other way round? And in the eyes of God, that is what makes sense. Remember HE says in his word that whatever we do, we should it it like we doin it for the Lord. It dawned on me i needed to rejoice and be glad for the golden opportunity to serve God by helping others...going an extra mile for them...showin' em a little bit of love. Thats how we can make God smile. Have you done that today???

Its friday and the weekend will soon be here. Today was the last day at my present work place. Very soon my address is going to have to change. Its been memorable working here. Now a guy's got to move on..wherever life takes me. Tommorow i travel to Kampala so im bracing myself for that long long journey. it aint fun...last year i blacked out on one of those many journeys. For once i thought i would go to be with Lord..it was such a scary experience.

The run up to the U.S presidential election seems to be gettin' more exciting by the day. Yestarday i watched a live Republican debate on CNN...Huckabee Vs John MCcain Vs Mitt Romney. This afternoon i caught up with Wolf Blitzer of CNN during the Democratic party debate in California. It was a one on one between Obama and Hillary. They went pound for pound and oh my God..these fellas got the brains, the style and a great sense humor. My bets? On "hilarious" Hillary!