I’m a writer, storyteller, and the Author/Editor of Tales By Em. You're about to be impacted with great thoughts and vibes through my writing on culture, travel, mysteries; as well as my personal opinions that are occasionally infused in satire. The perspectives that you'll come across here are my insights into what life is like in Uganda and beyond!
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Humanity has descended to unprecedented levels of uncertainty about what’s to come following an incredibly destructive three quarters of 2020. No plague is known to have ravaged the modern world to such degree, in a short span, as the coronavirus has.
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Problem is, nearly everyone that passes you looks like the girl in gold and blue. Seems like a wonderful problem to have, but being new to the culture, you’re quite cautious whom and how you ask for directions—what if she screams and people think you’re harassing the girl! The last thing you want (at least not yet!) is to behold the Heavens opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God!
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With his ribs and side already thoroughly tenderized from that massive blow, just a little spice for treatment and Goatie will be cremated on the grill. He will thereafter receive a befitting send off accompanied with a glass of buttery wine.
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Uri Geller, a man of Israeli descent, was one such individual. Magic and psychokinesis, which were the hallmark of his trade, had made him quite a sensation world over, but mostly as an entertainer. His proficiency in working the psychic craft caught the CIA’s attention but, of course, not for entertainment!
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This valley—present day Mexico City— is the place that Cortés and his soldiers faced the most resistance against an oppressive Aztec regime. And it’s especially for his capturing of it, in 1521, that he’s mostly known. Weird and unreal as it will probably sound, the battle that led to the overthrow of the Aztec Empire lasted 3 months!
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I strongly recommend you also buy yourself an original set of fake nails to use during the nail-biting penalty shootouts. Otherwise, after those extremely tense 10 minutes of penalty kicks, you might be shocked to find that not only are there no nails left on your fingers, but there are no fingers either! You nibbled on them! All you have left is your palms. So, now you even look like a leper.
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Overall, I sense that there’s more faith in our great leaders teaming up to pull this off and bring that trophy home, than there is in our African soccer boys outclassing the rest of the world to deliver the $20m trophy.
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Argue all you want to, but it’s general knowledge that every woman has got a minimum of two birthdays. Yet it’s only on one of those birthdays that you’re permitted to compute a plus-one to their age; and—wait for it!—you’ll still not know how old she is! Tell you what: it’s probably easier to discover the whereabouts of Cleopatra’s tomb than it is to establish a woman’s actual age!
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