This is the part one series of blog posts by Guest Blogger Micheal Harkin who is of English citizenship, sharing his thoughts and insights after watching the Queen of Katwe movie. My late wife came from a poor Ugandan family. They live in a not very nice part of Bukoto. All that mattered to me…
Question: Have you ever celebrated for seven days? Like you take off Monday to Sunday to just celebrate, jubilate, rejoice, be thankful, pray, dance, sing, praise and worship the Almighty. Shut, laugh, sing, eat, drink and all the other things done while celebrating, but you do this for 7 full days, have you ever? Would…
I can’t change what happened yesterday but I can do better today. When you fail under whatever circumstances to meet your set goals in life, work, savings; most times you get up and dust off the soil, start all over again. You do this because you know you can do it and you are routing…
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity -Albert Einstein ICTAUg Dissolved its 2016 -2017 Board and Elected an Interim Board On 27th January 2016 the ICT Association of Uganda elected board members to run the association for two years, during the Annual General meeting. The Association which is a multi-stakeholder initiative…
Hardships, setbacks and challenges are lessons that help us overcome some or all of our limitations.
Technology brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other – C.P. Snow.
The anger builds up and the outbursts are rampant. Even a simple ‘how are you?’ sets you off.
Successful people in life, business or otherwise, never reach their goals alone.
“People think depression is sadness, crying or dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again.”
Today we have a guest writer; Acaye Elizabeth Pamela who attend the Queen of Katwe premiere sharing her thoughts on the movie, comments on Tim Kalyegire’s review of the movie, and the creative and movie arts sector in Uganda. Kalyegira calls Queen of Katwe an embarrasment, walks out after 20 minutes of movie screening Mira…
“If you’re beautiful, you’re led to believe that you can’t also be smart,”
“But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you’ll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.” – Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar