LINGUISTICS A LA MODE.

Words/ Phrases I’ve managed to pick up from This Musoga. He says them, now I say them!

1) Be’s
As in, I be’s doing this, we be’s going here!

2) Ask me another.
When doesn’t want to answer a particular question.

3) Ask me and I tell you.
Response to a question Himself doesn’t, I repeat, doesn’t, want to answer!
Usually when I’ve pushed it too far!!

4) I wanna know.
Like, “Shorty, I wanna know”!!
Usually said when trying to get chummy with me!

5) To the left.
Most recent entry in our dictionary. Still trying to figure out what Himself means by
“To the Left”, hope This Musoga doesn’t share the same point of view as Beyonce!!

6) Sweets, Dimples, Atoti, Peaches………...
Said when trying to get me to do something. But a lot of them work for him too!!
Reverse Psychology!

7) But Judith! Or even but A**** (my surname)
When really exasperated or desperate!!

8) Me: Blah blah blah
Himself: What!

Me: (Puzzled expression)
Repeat Blah Blah Blah
Himself: Oh- Khay!

Me: (Really puzzled expression)
Himself: Ye- Yeah!
(With a huge grin on his face)

Result: Usually gets us doubled over laughing!

P. S Ludacris also has this What- OK- Yeah Yeah sort of dialogue in some of his
songs!

9) Goat.
Reference to an amusing, mixed- up, scatter brain sort of person.

10) Kale.
This is one Luganda word that has stuck with me, and I’m quite proud. I guess it
Means OK.

Just one more…..

Speaking in opposites.
Like when I ask a question that is D-U (Delayed Understanding), aka common sense, I usually get the opposite of the intended reply. For example,

Himself: I’m going to the pub with the boys.
Me: For what? (OK, seriously, that’s D-U!)
Himself: To attend a funeral.

The scary thing is that this opposites talk’s really is affecting my speech. I’m constantly getting these puzzled looks from people especially Puli, who well, ask D-U questions!


Kale, I’ll leave our dictionary here for the meantime.
Will keep updating it.

P.S I'd like to welcome This Musoga's mum to our blog!
Hope you enjoy the ride!

girlfriend my mother reads this blog !!!!!!!


man new year it doesn't get any easier
where should i start

work
its a mess but am top
there is one thing i admire about my father he seems to have endless faith > you know the butter wont melt in 100 degrees kind <
lots of things going on my application was turned down but i feel like i have been short changed.
but a brother has bounced back .

they want me to do extra hours on the shop floor ( hahaha i said i would think about it )


school
less hours this term more practicals the musoga likes wiring stuff in the lab so i am all excited
i don't like the simulations though but i understand that even roses have thorns bring it on i want my beamer and 26 g' s a year.


wifey
just read the las blog .
well i want her to sell those stanbic things . everything that goes up must come down especially that that is over subscribed

boys
man i managed to get out of work on sunday < thank you daddy for the dvd on negotiation skills < so i can see thoses boys in coventry and put the stress of over working through chrimas behind me


goals
i still want to see my boo in summer hopefully my over time would pay for that but fingers crossed we see when the check comes through .


mummy thanks for the texts an bija for the support .
and to my two expecting sister thanks for expanding the family both in numbers and in progress

good night from a midnight oil burning musoga ........... :)

I’ve Been Punked- For the umpteenth time.

I think I’m quite a gullible person. You can easily pull one on me, that is, if you know the right strings to pull. This Musoga knows that one string quite well- People. If you tell me a story about something happening to someone, be it true or false, I’ll so fall for it.

Yesterday evening, after my lecturer cutting my class, I decided to do abit of sms-ing. Target: Himself. I’ve tried to reproduce the conversation, both sms and chat.

Sms to Himself: This Musoga’s thrown me out for sometime now. What’s the dealio?
(According to me, I was on katebe, I hadn’t received a text in like, 12hrs?!)

Himself to me: Speak of the devil. I’ve just sent you an email. I got thrown out of my house.

Me to Himself: WHAT!!! What happened?

Himself to me: There was a fight. Someone said something about you, I threw them out of the window. I’ve been given 10 days and I haven’t told daddy.

(I didn’t want to believe any of this. Explain a calm person taking such measures. So I decide to go check my email and there’s nothing. Am waiting for the email to come and I’m thinking so fast. At that point, I was thinking, what happens if I ever say something and Himself gets so mad and throws me through the roof!!! The daddy part in Himself’s last sms to me, got me believing the story!)

Me to Himself: Get on chat immediately!
By the way, I didn’t say it like that, but that’s what I implied!)

So I get on chat, and Himself is signing in and out of chat. The green button was turning to grey every few seconds. On this other side of the equator I’m freaked out.
Anyhow, Himself manages to get onto chat and we chat.
Below are excerpts from our conversation.

5:53 PM me: Baby?
________________________________________ 15 minutes
6:08 PM Himself: baby
6:10 PM hello

Me: Sweets?
So I guess you can answer my text on chat......

Himself: yeah, well
6:11 PM how is the pole climbling (sic) going
(In reference to the mast things I’d to do last week)

6:12 PM Me: This Musoga, how about us sorting this house mess you are in, then we'll talk about extra curricular activities

6:14 PM Himself: cool
Well I got notice at 9 am today
6:15 PM but I just want you to know that am doing this for you
6:16 PM I you mean a lot to me and I am no going to let any one mess with that

Me: So what exactly happened that caused you to get into this fight

Himself: As I said I woke up and got out of bed
6:17 PM so the heat engineers can install central heating
So when you come over we won’t freeze
There was no fight
6:18 PM I just wanted to get you excited
Coz I miss you
And I want to talk to you
And you’re so cute when you’re bewildered
:)
6:19 PM :D

Me: P****** K***** Y*****, you are in some deep trouble. :):):) You know an angry fish wife, that's who'll meet you at the sirport (sic) when you come. P***!!!!

Himself: sirport? :D:D:D

Me: P******
Airport!!

6:20 PM Himself: Must be an extension

Me: Yeah, the one for CHOGM

Himself: Any way boo I have to run


6:21 PM Me: Bye sweets. Call me if you can afford five minutes. I miss you

Patrick: I miss u too
Catch them

6:22 PM Me: mwaaaaaah. Get out. Go!

6:23 PM Patrick: bye sweety

Me: bye bye

So we kissed and made up.
But am still the most gullible person this side of the equator!
One day, I’ll treat you to the chronicles of the pranks This Musoga has pulled on me and out of these innumerable times, I managed to catch him at his game only once.
I’m going to have to up my game.

Bye for now.
Have a fab day!

I did it!

I finally sorted out the problem with Firefox and now it's up and running very well.

In about an hour's time, I get to climb the mast over here to fix a bridge for extending the wireless. I do this together with two guys from the Tech Team. Am giddy with excitement, pity, I may not be able to take pictures of the view from yonder. I'm all dressed up for the task, jeans, sweater, sneakers, no watch.....
I'l catch you later, part of the team's arrived.
Will blog about the experience.
See you up there!

Today's just one of those those days that does not seem to be going right.
I had a skirmish with a caller earlier on and I'm trying to upload my christmas pictures and blogger keeps on telling me "Bad Request 404"!!
Aside from that, I upgraded to Firefox 2.0.1 (I think?) and it's giving me attitude. It keeps on popping up several windows and then hangs and then I can't do anything. I've uninstalled and re- installed Firefox three times already!! And I love it so much, it hurts :) :) :( :(
I do those things that deal with computers, but sometimes, I just can't figure it out!
Then, the wireless up here is not working so am down in one of the labs trying to console myself reading National Geographic and looking at shoes.
So, this day.........................
When's it ending???

So I'm back in the world of assignments, deadlines and lecturers who can't pronounce my name right!! Plus, also them that cut lectures!! Today was a prime example. There's this highly intelligent, laid- back guy who's supposed to be taking me in a programming unit. Well, today, he didn't turn up. So as the Faculty Representative in my class, I decided to text him to find out if he was coming. He calls me back and says, we'll start next week. Typical laid- back fashion!!
Come lunch time, I receive a phone call from a lady who wanted to know who I am and why I was sending text messages to that number!!! I started stammering, This Musoga probably knows that look so well and I explained to the lady caller why I'd sent that message. So she tells me to listen carefully, then she goes "I don't want you sending text meaasges to this phone and to my husband". Scared is an understatement of the reaction that this lady gave me!!
Atleast I will not be sending messages to that number again. That, am sure of.

On a lighter note, I was watching re- runs of Sex and the City last night, Season 6 which is really full of Charlotte's attempts at becoming a Jew in order to get married to a nice guy. Well, she succeeded. The amusing thing was the episode where she'd made the Sabbath meal and Harry comes home and is more interested in the football game going on. So she throws it on him- the language lessons, the conversion classes, the time spent to make the meal... Name it, she did it all.
It reminded me, how This Musoga would tease me about my not knowing Luganda, wondering how I'd cope when I went to his house. As he put it, "Luganda's like the national language at home". So far, my efforts at learning this language, I think, are commendable. Except, I forget the words just as fast as I learn them!! Plus, I think I've survived so far.....
On Tuesday morning, in my hall, I met one of the ladies that comes around to help with the washing. She greeted me nicely, called me by my name, but for the love of God, I simply couldnot remember how to answer her back, in LUGANDA!! I just smiled at her.
It seems one month at home erased the little I picked up!!
This Musoga should recommend the text books they used to use in Budo for the language. On my part, I'll recommend a site where he can learn mine!!

Welcome back.
The issue with having two blogs running concurrently is that sometimes you are at a loss of words, so to speak. For instance, the glaring similarity is that I’ve got the same heading for posts on different blogs!

So the heading says what this post’s about. Welcome back.
I survived the holidays, though they were still going on over here till Monday!! Yippee!!
About my holiday, I went to my village home, spent about four days there. The account’s already been posted on my other blog. Pictures, am still debating whether to put them. Time and laziness being the prevailing factors!

I got back on the night of 29th and my body’s still operating in village- mode. I still feel sluggish and oba my brain’s also gone to sleep. As I had no network signal, I couldn’t keep in touch with This Musoga and maybe it was fate that prevailed so I could get back on 29th before midnight.
29th was This Musoga’s birthday. Had I not got back in time to make that call, the story would have been “The girl that forgot her boyfriend’s birthday”. Luckily, I made the call in time but he was too busy buying groceries, to put in a lot of words.
The solution to this was to call later. The Musoga decides to call just as I’m drifting off to dreamland. I admit, I can be quite grumpy when you call and I’m sleepy and this always gets on his nerves!! I’ll be too lazy to say anything; I’ll just keep on saying “mmh, mmh”!! Then the one that sets him off, he tells me something, and then I go “yeah, yeah, so what’s up”!! That’s my I-Really-Want-To-Sleep cue to whoever is on the other end.
This Musoga sometimes decides to clock the talk credit. Meaning I’ve got to stay on the line and listen and then yap back!! These sacrifices!!!

This Musoga and my mum have something in common- a birthday. The night of 29th gave me a whole kind of respect for my father. We got back to Kampala at about 10pm; he had a bath and decided to take my mum out. Even if they just got out for about 2hrs, his man who’d been up since 4am that day, then driven to Kampala for 4hrs, still took her to celebrate her milestone.
On the other side of the coin, I paid for this night out starting from 10am today! When we get back from the village, we usually carry beef and fish from home and the following morning, my dad distributes to various people. Because he was out late, it meant I had to wake up and sort, pack and deliver. This took the whole day. As I sit here, I still have got three deliveries to make which I’ve postponed indefinitely!!

I’m really having issues with MTN!! All my text messages have not been delivered and the credit’s still deducted. These Ugandan things!!

Happy New Year!
12.00am 01-01-07, found me driving past the church at the junction to Bidandi Ssali’s mosque in Ntinda and Hips Don’t Lie by Shakira was playing on the radio. My reason for being in Ntinda was to buy more booze for the people who’d gathered home to see the fireworks and celebrate the New Year with us.
I couldn’t help but notice the huge contradiction!
The year’s started out well, so far so good.
Still chilling at home, eating anything that comes my way and watching a lot of TV.
On the down side, it has been blighted by the execution of Saddam Hussein. I’m such a believer in the basic human right to life. I abhor death sentences. They should have left the fellow in the gallows and thrown away the key and let him ponder on his life for his last few remaining years. Surely, he wouldn’t have lived another 50 years, would he?
Now they are also going to execute the brother.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Meditating on the previous year……….
- What happened to Sebagala’s buses?
- Global Fund, Mukula, Muhwezi?
- Nsaba Buturo, still insisting he was right to steal?
- NMS and Rutagi?

This Musoga and I will post an analysis on our previous year.
Bye for now.