/Magazines/Life/-/689856/689856/-/11ch9moz/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/The+Optimist++Lessons+from+the+English+Premier+league+2012/-/689856/1408974/-/139wrf6/-/index.html It was not about Manchester City’s climactic win over QPR and Manchester United’s early celebrations turning to tears, but the lessons I learned from the crunch day, that made my Sunday night. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Taxi+Tales++Taxis+have+moods/-/689856/1408934/-/8ymrksz/-/index.html Taxis have moods. I firmly believe this. There are many things I can tell you about taxis. I can tell you, just by the way a driver slides his taxi along the stage, if he is the kind in a hurry or “pretend hurry.” The tease who keeps threatening he is about to set off, raising hopes of the trapped passengers, only to dash them by reversing back onto the stage. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Letter+from+Kireka++Survival+advisory+for+Gen++Caesar+Acellam/-/689856/1408928/-/x84p26z/-/index.html Hi Bwana Acellam, I donot know whether to congratulate you or sympathise with you after what happened. Thing is, we are not sure whether you were captured, in which case we would offer empathy, but if you surrendered and were therefore take in minus a hustle, we can say kudos. Only you will tell us the exact truth, in due course, we guess. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Pregnant+before+marriage++Surviving+in+your+Church/-/689856/1408920/-/qqhs4dz/-/index.html There is enough condemnation from society when a lady gets pregnant out of wedlock. But when you are a devoted church-goer or worse still, a leader of sorts in the church, the scathing judgmental attitude of your brethren may be something you have never imagined Christians are capable of. Damalie Nabasirye, a dental surgeon and worship leader at her church then, still lives with some stigma that came from her experience when she got pregnant out of wedlock. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Eunice+Apio++The+war+shaped+her+life/-/689856/1408924/-/gw0kfu/-/index.html She saw how the war started, a terrible memory that she looks back at with sadness. Then a Cease-fire agreement between the Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA) rebels and the Ugandan government in 2006, breathed hope for a better life in Northern Uganda. But then, there was more needed than the promises of resettlement and rebuilding the communities, especially among the women. When Eunice Apio saw this gap, she knew she had to fill it. The human rights’ activist in her could not rest until she had done something. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/His+Take++Nothing+short+of+a+real+man/-/689856/1408916/-/14pkq73z/-/index.html From time immemorial, there has been an unfounded stigma on men who share very close relations with their mothers and their supposed maladaptation in society. Whether it is in the media, films or books you read they will all tell you that mummy’s boys are recipes for disaster and a no-go. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Reflections++Good+riddance/-/689856/1408982/-/12aj4pyz/-/index.html If I say this is the first time, I will be lying, so let me use vague words this time, like for the many times I have been bored. This time, it has finally made sense to me to leave this man. So what are my reasons? 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Rolex++Made+in+Uganda/-/689856/1408906/-/qoqoqhz/-/index.html In Uganda and especially in the outskirts of Kampala other big towns and trading centres, one would be forgiven for thinking that the word “Rolex” has anything to do with the famous Swiss watch brand. Nothing could be further from the truth. A Rolex is a rolled chapatti with eggs and for many years has become the favourite food for university students and bachelors. Renowned areas for the trade in Rolex are Wandegeya, Nakulabye and Kabalagala. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Mummy+s+boy++is+there+time+to+cut+the+apron+strings+/-/689856/1408912/-/iycnxfz/-/index.html If we are to learn anything from the play of Oedipus, the Greek mythology, it is that a mother and son relationship could get a lot scarier than calling her every day and singing her praises every waking moment. Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. While it is just mythology and the average mummy’s boy thinks it can never get to that, it reminds us that there is too much attachment, which necessitates that those strings be cut. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/Mechelen++the+little+Venice+of+the+Belgian+Flanders/-/689856/1408938/-/m5fwa9z/-/index.html Sitting with a friend in a coffee shop in the Grote Mart “Large market square” in the Belgian city Mechelen, we were catching up with news. This was not our first visit to this town, but having a guide like him who was from the Flanders is what shaped this article. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/By+the+Way++Eat+your+meal+first++Here+s+why/-/689856/1408936/-/sla3bez/-/index.html Easter’s here. It is an amazing time to send some of the carbohydrates floating around in world to the lower part of your belly. It is also a great time to spend time on urbanlegendkampala.com. You can also use this time to re-evaluate the unrealistic goals you set at the beginning of the year. At this point in the year, you know for sure that “to be a better person” isn’t working out; we know that you put laxatives in your neighbour’s dog food. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404128/-/cpf9p2/-/index.html The Optimist has not morphed into a political pundit but cannot help adding two cents worth on the episodic battle between Singh Katongole and Moses Kasibante over the Rubaga North parliamentary seat. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404056/-/cpf907/-/index.html The small Bella Wine office at Moil House in Wandegeya gives one a welcome feeling, probably because of the wine bottles along the walls. The Director sitting in the front office and listening to a morning talk show is ready for business as Kampala wakes up. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404106/-/cpf9n8/-/index.html Most times when I sit in a taxi, my neighbours and I do not just furtively glance at each other, calculating, “Will this one try to nick my wallet if I doze off?” We exchange hullos before we slowly hole ourselves into agreeable mutual silence. I cherish quiet. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404076/-/cpf91y/-/index.html Malaika Babies Home in Mengo started in May 2010 with one child who was found abandoned on the streets. We are registered to raise 24 children, but we take in a maximum of 25 children from as young as one day old to two years. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404072/-/cpf91u/-/index.html The caretakers at the babies home find joy in seeing the children adapt to their new environment and respond positively to the love they show them. Love they believe is a crucial ingredient in a child’s life. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404068/-/cpf915/-/index.html White Eagles is one of the seven projects undertaken by the River of Life Church in Nyendo, a suburb of Masaka town. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404066/-/cpf913/-/index.html If there is anything that Fredrick Ametto will remember about their parents, it is the kind of discipline they bestowed on their children. “My mother never tolerated any misbehaviour. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404062/-/cpf90y/-/index.html Teopista Birungi Mayanja may not have become a nun,but her love for the Virgin Mary has guided her through life. She is the general secretary National Teachers Union (UNATU) 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404060/-/cpf90w/-/index.html My name is Andrew Kasirye. I am a lawyer at Kasirye, Byaruhanga & Company Advocates. I wake up at 6am and it takes me only 30 minutes to get ready for work. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404052/-/cpf903/-/index.html A visit to Ibanda Babies Home evokes sympathy for the abandoned babies and irritation towards their parents and guardians who throw them away. Toddlers, 33 in number, ranging from a few days old to four years are taken care of here by 13 helpers led by Sister Cotilda Nakiwala. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404114/-/cpf9o2/-/index.html The current show, the Big Brother Africa StarGame is their 7th season. With every season, the team adds twists in attempt to keep the viewers glued to the screen. The reality show which celebrates its 10th anniversary in May this year has had its share of controversy. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404108/-/cpf9na/-/index.html How does one get through difficult financial times? How should you cope when you are broke? Crying doesn’t help. Wailing will only bring the inquisitive gatekeeper to your bedroom window. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404100/-/cpf9n2/-/index.html In this month last year, our Most Venerable Leader, Mzee Ssabalwanyi Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appointed over 70 people to the Cabinet of Uganda. One year later, some of these ministers have given the phrase “absentee chiefs” a whole new meaning. After a heated discussion in the bar, we zeroed in on the following as some of those who must explain what they are doing. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1404130/-/cpf9pp/-/index.html It is one thing to have your phone taken because you were too drunk to remember carrying it with you from the club table or have it removed as you sit next to a guy in a taxi than have it mugged from you. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z