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    A giant ship's engine broke down and no one could repair it, so they hired a mechanical engineer with over 40 years  experience. He inspected the engine very carefully, from top to bottom. After seeing everything, the engineer unloaded the bag and pulled out a small hammer. He knocked something gently. Soon, the engine came to life again. The engine had been fixed! 7 days later the engineer mentioned that the total cost of repairing the giant ship was $20,000 to the ship owner. "What?!" said the owner. "You did almost nothing. Give us a detailed bill." The answer is simple: Tapping with a hammer: $2 Knowing where to knock and how much to knock: $19,998 The importance of appreciating one's expertise and experience...because those are the results of struggles, experiments and even tears. If you do a job in 30 minutes it's because you spent 20 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. They owe you for the years, not the minutes.

  The Gates of SINIYA Open wide like a road to the garden of dreams.  Cool air and silence as you watch a  never seen revelent design of Great Kennedy Hall and welcomed by the manifesto *SCIENTIFIC ORIENTED BOY CHILD* Welcomed by smiles of junior prefects little knowing that you will soon become their servants. As long as you are still with your parent,  you are a prince, as they lead you to your domintory smiling and carrying your mattress.  Every one waves for you in the compound, and strong men escort you as your bodyguards.  They lay your bed well. And help you to escort your parent back.  On return, the story changes. Your case broke open,  an army is waiting for you like lions craving for Daniel to be thrown in the pit. The rest is history.  By evening, you have a million stories to tell.  Anger first fills you, but very soon you start to learn that what happened to you almost happened to everybody, that that's the road to the crow...

 I have always seen people dissing the most polite and humble Nation in Uganda.. the Batooro. Comedians have made a fortune over throwing jibes about them. At times I don't find it as funny because I believe all of us are Ugandans. However, at the peril of my OBs and great friends whom we met in High School, Kyomuhendo,  Businge his young brother and Andrew M. Mwenda that I met at Makerere University when he had a part time stint as a Lecturer of Development Economics and  assured  me in 2001 that he would marry a mufumbira, and up to now, we are still waiting.  But allow me to share my experience with this aimble group of Ugandans.  The first mutooro I interacted with was Patrick.  You see when you are from an upcountry school, he was from Nyakasura School and I was from Kigezi High School, as a few real westerners (I use the words "real westerners" because there were other westerners who had grown up and schooled in Kampala, therefore their realness ...

  Knowing that not knowing a language is a barrier happens once you are in a situation that requires you to know that language you don't know. I happen to have interacted with people who speaking different languages and I must add that I can comfortably speak over 7 Ugandan languages whereas internationally apart from English and Kiswahili, I can only pick a few words in French and some little Spanish.  A friend of mine of Rwandan origin who grew up in Masaka - Uganda once told me how she went to Kigali and needed to use a moto as they call boda bodas there. Yes she could speak Kinyarwanda fluently but because, like in Uganda, Kinyarwanda has been infiltrated by some french words especially among town dwellers, it was not going to be your daily casual walk in the park. So the lady who is at Remera asks the boda guy, that how much it was to Town (Kigali City Centre) in Kinyarwanda. Nangahe kujya mumuji? The Boda guy tells her ni cinq cent (500 Rw Francs) but poor lady didn't kn...

 ```An African man was given the opportunity to ask for anything he wants   The condition was that, whatever he gets, his brother would receive double. He thought about asking for a house; but he did not like thought of his brother having two houses. so he thought about asking for a million dollars to go to his bank account; but again, he was unhappy with the thought of his brother having two million dollars in his account. The man sat down and thought hard, “What can I have and still be better than my brother when he has double?” so, he thought of having one of his eyes removed so that his brother might have his two eyes gouged. This sounds like a very unlikely story; however, this is the typical mentality that has set Africans backward for ages and caused witchcraft to thrive in Africa. an African wants to be better than his brother at all costs The African man is only careful: -to share his beer, not his books; -to spread his diseases, and not the cure; -to transfer his pro...