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On Time and Why We Celebrate New Year’s Day
Time. Time heals. Time flies. What a concept! When the whites came, what concept of time did they find with us? I wondered. Did they find that we told days as they did: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday…? Did we know that a month has 30 days? Did we know that a year has 366/365 days? We…
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Monday Class: Climate Change 1O1 with Atwine Mugisha
Global warming has seriously affected our environment and climate as we used to know it. For instance, while we may think the rains have started, they may shock us and not fall for three weeks straight only to come back with cats and dogs destroying bridges and moving the land, what we call landslides.
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HOW I MET MR ATWINE
He sent me the message via WhatsApp in the morning at 10. I was offline at that time and in a meeting in the office of the Dean of Students. I’ve had a long day today. I’ve been in the Guild Office for most of the day, leaving at half past six in the evening.…
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Re-opening of schools offers some relief
Some smart schools whose proprietors are autodidact MBAs made sure all the COVID-19 sanitary health equipment was bought only at school. A student was supposed to buy a school-provided hand sanitizer and a triple of customized school uniform masks with identification numbers at such expensive prices that quick math shows was actually a rise in…
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Ugandans: End SARS! Really?
I have observed that Ugandans feel uppish or rather high-hat when they add their voices to global issues. They want to be taken as people who are responsible and therefore concerned folk of the global village. They are the first ones to stir up a social media storm whenever something that must be talked about…
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On birthdays and mine…
About birthdays, I have a long story. I am one of those guys who don’t really celebrate birthdays with parties because, for one reason or another, I just don’t care about the party. I didn’t really actually care much about the day and on many occasions, I have been reminded that it was my birthday.
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The Malcom X Factor: You Are What You Make Yourself To Be
The world may pity you just like we do pity babies, but never pity yourself. Aspire to fulfil your greatest potential and you will be shocked to discover you just may be as bright as Albert Einstein or William Shakespeare or even more…
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Just Saying Hello
Hey! Didn’t I say I am just saying hello? So, jambo pals. It’s really been long since you last heard from me or rather my loose pen and trust me, I have missed you guys so dearly. For the past couple of months or so, I have been reposting blog posts by my fellow bloggers…
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Holding on; A tale of emotional radioactivity
Verse 1: A warm wafting desert breeze swayed through the chambers of your heart when you requested for torrential rains of love. Little did you know that as transparent as the drops may have appeared, your enfeebled yet most trusted sight couldn’t determine their viscosity. You embraced the presence of the other person in your…
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THE MEN’S CONFERENCE .. EP 1
I hate mediocrity. It kills me and saps all my energy. I hate being at the bottom of anything. If I am going to do something, I have to be the best. If I dont think I can be the best, I dont bother. The English Premier League club, Everton has a motto that states…
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ESCAPE THE COMPETITION
One of the habits that I have picked up on is listening to podcasts. I have used an iPhone for the past 6 or more months but had never paid attention to the podcast app. Quarantine season hit, and so I decided to listen to a few podcasts here and there. I started with Bleacher…
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Trails of fear.
Hey Fear, I do not mean to scream at you but I thought I should open up a little and have this conversation with you so that we can be on the same page moving forward. It took me so long to acknowledge your presence in my troubled life. when I came to the grips…
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COVID-19 IS BUT A JOKE!
Most people (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing special treatment. Around 1 out of every 6 people who gets COVID-19 becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing.
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After graduation, what’s next?
As much as I much as I know that jobs are hard to find, I did not expect that job seekers would go on a demonstration this quick. I expected them to start such maybe after five or six months of job hunting. That is only if they were striking over the availability of jobs…
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THE REVELATION
These people are extortioners and tricksters who in their craft, use the Bible so cunningly that they exploit the innocent Christians. They fleece our moneys in their different forms: liquid, assets and even e-money through mobile money pledges. Have they not ever read about Gehazi’s fate when he insisted and took valuables from the healed…
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The Temple of God
Her dress actually ended just slightly above her basics, and even though it was a stretcher, it had proved too stubborn to heed to her pulling it down to a few inches above her knees. I kept looking at her, and I watched her through the minute-long scuffle and hustle to climb up the van…
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Write your story today
What are we Ugandans and Africans up to? We must appreciate that our old ways of passing on knowledge and information to the next generations have been biased and alienated and as so, we the young generation of today barely know of our history. We know not our old proverbs and myths and legends and…
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The Journey Begins
I wish to welcome all of you to my writings (blog) where I will be illuminating certain events and occasions as well as topics of particular interest to my “loose pen”. It is this that forms the basis of the title, The Loose Pen. I would like to apologize in advance for any misinformed opinion…