You’ve probably had the “happy new year” greeting more times than you care to remember so I’ll spare you.
As it stands there’s very little to be happy about. Our cousins across the border are going through the after effects of an election gone wrong. Its what we keep hoping won’t happen to us. We’ve been fortunate to survive that sort of thing. Whether this means we give up too soon, we are too sane or we just don’t have the balls to stand our ground is an entirely different issue. Heck, it shouldn’t matter.
There’s talk of how this makes Uganda look good. How exactly someone came up with this is beyond me. Maybe it does, but is it worth it? People are dying and somehow we should appreciate this? Its messed up, that’s what it is.
There’s a fuel crisis because of the situation next door. The annoying thing is the fact that even if I haven’t got a car, I am still affected. Its a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. For the first time in my life I heard the words “Only rich people can afford us” coming from a Boda Boda. A humbling experience? Nuh. I was pissed off.
Apparently we as a nation have issued a statement congratulating the “president” of Kenya. What does this say? As it stands (to the best of my knowledge) we are the only people that are okay with this. We as a nation backed this? Fine. Realistically there’s not much we can do about this. We have to go with the flow and hope that our cousin’s across the border are aware that it was not a view that we all held.
I gather we have deployed across the border to prevent the violence from sipping over. Is there a chance that we may be paying attention to the wrong border?
Let’s pray that this thing is sorted out soon.
 In other news, my take on the Showbiz in 2007 can be found here
And finally, because friends know you better than you know yourself (yeah, sure), my pals figured they’d make my resolutions for me… One kind of implied that the CRAVE cologne I was wearing on that day was not as cool as I thought it was (go on, HATE), so, to end this, here are my pals’ NYRs for me…
So there you have ’em. Their Handwritings in plain view. Practice them and when they finally make it in life, rob ’em.
Laters
Are these firsties? I think so. Eat my dust!!!!
Ivan, your friends know you very well. Heed their advice and be nice though you might want to hold out on the whole dying thing.
Ever heard of the “January Law”- It states that the more new year’s resolutions you make, the higher the chances of not following through with any. Since ya friends only made 5 for you, that’s not much and you will follow through-If you try. We would appreciate number 2 and 4. For number for, get AXE brand, it will get you laid more than Ben Affleck like in the Axe commercial on youtube (you 2372 times, Ben 103 times).
what have you been stealing?
I really enjoyed reading the show biz news of the year..kept me riveted to my seat…shoot my bed…excellent!
On a more serious note..you need to teach those boda boda guys a lesson, i cant believe they are feeling war like that!
yo friends must know you well, so…BE NICE DUDE!
and yah,wat have you been stealing?
Them dudes juts took all the words right outta me mouth!!
I heard your voice on a certain radio station and so I think you have already started being nice in 2008.
Stealing???? Ivan, I thought we’d worked on this!!1