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“I’m not a ‘Business-Man’! I’m a Business… man! Let me handle my business, damn!”
Shawn Carter
aka Jay-Z
aka Mister Beyonce Knowles
aka Hove
aka Hova

live like we’re dying…

Sometimes we fall down and can’t get back up/ We’re hiding behind skin that’s too tough
How come we don’t say I love you enough/ Till it’s to late, it’s not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won’t come/ We could make a feast from these crumbs
And we’re all staring down the barrel of a gun/ So if your life flashed before you
What would you wish you would’ve done

Yeah… gotta start
Lookin at the hand of the time we’ve been given here/ This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’/ Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got
86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or throw it all away/ We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say/ Gotta

Live like we’re dying

And if your plane fell out of the skies/ Who would you call with your last goodbyes
Should be so careful who we live out our lives/ So when we long for absolution
There’ll no one on the line

Yeah… gotta start
Lookin at the hand of the time we’ve been given here/ This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’/ Gotta

Live like we’re dying

We never know a good thing till it’s gone/ You never see a crash until it’s head on
All those people right when we’re dead wrong/ You never know a good thing till it’s gone

Yeah… gotta start
Lookin at the hand of the time we’ve been given here/ This is all we got and we gotta start livin it

Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’/ Gotta

Live like we’re dying

We only got
86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or throw it all away/ We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say/ Gotta

Live like we’re dying

Kris Allen

101| it finds a smooth direction

If you are just joining, start where 101| it starts and then 101| it moves on from…

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So we met at that cute little digs near her home. She had pulled it off coz she was quite close to her old school mate who runs the place. We had been there twice since she found my detailed resume on her Dad’s printer..

What had occurred between then and now…

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The night she called me, she asked me if I remember Ms. Hips from St. Mary’s… I asked her how she knew I hustled my O’Level at the best boy’s school ever, and she continued asking about my conquests as the captain of the school’s rugby team and also how I managed to juggle that while being on the comiittees of sports, untertainment and yes the debate teams…

Before I could even put two and two together, she quickly told me she would call me later in the wee hours and I should leave my cell phone on, so that we could continue her 21 questions (link in)…

I holla’d at Hommie and told him what I thought about getting a possible gig at the bank. Hommie seemed a little tense as we chatted on the phone, and I asked him what was on his mind… He shared with me his fear of being caught, and also being tossed in the slammer….

I shared with him my confidence and assured him that we are way too smart for the slammer. The chaps at the slammer would surely end up being more on the receiving end of an improved management systems analysis if we were ever locked up! I calmly told him that we still have a plan that we are going to see through till the end just like Barcelona did to thrash a certain Man-Utd at the UEFA Champion’s League 2009 final…

He seemed less tense and then just chilled…

Anyways, we agreed to meet up the next morning at his digs, and plan a way forward on how to sneak the gig at the bank.

Fyne called me later that night after I had crashed out and insisted I wake up to “talk”… I asked her for 5 to take a leak, and wash up me face so that I can “maintain” at least 10 to stay awake…

She told me that she really wanted to see me, as she had a few queries that she wanted to ask me one-on-one! I asked if is tomorrow afternoon was working, and she told me she even knows a place that she has a feeling I would settle in so well…

Next morning while having cereal at Hommie’s digs, I asked him if he remembered our plan. He nodded his head just like Dr. Sheldon does when he can not get what sarcastic notions his friends Howard and Leonard are attempting to insinuate on NBC’s Big Bang Theory… I re-iterated the importance of follow-through on whatever plan one has, and carefully checking for any signs…. He relaxed even more when o told him I was meeting the HNIC’s daughter called Fyne…. He almost choked on his weetabix… He had that “5W-question” in his eyes….

I chilled out and told him to break out Grand Theft Auto on the PS-3 and we talk about it tomorrow…

She sent a text message with directions and asked me to come with at least 2 large notes… I replied that I had the directions on point and I would make sure that I find another large note as I already had one in my wallet….

I asked Hommie to maintain his composure just like the dude in GTA, and forget whatever and just read some literature on interview techniques, and dealing with difficult people… He asked me why, and I promised I would let him know only when he catches a few pages on the topics highlighted…

The directions to Fyne’s recommended digs were clear as day, and I was just about to call her that I was almost there when the ride I was in stopped at the junction and I saw her foine-tush walking away from a cute orange coloured Beemer-Mini-Cooper….

I then remembered how much of a stunner she was (read is) I completely forgot about Hommie Whatshisname!!!

Anyways, the place was kewl, and had a mean cheese-burger just like Ozzie’s (hola P’sMomz) and hott fries…. We settled after filling our tummies and then she came out with it directly!

“Basiks, how come your resume is in my dad’s hands?”

“How come you did not share this with me?”

“When were you planning on telling me this?”

In all her huffing and puffing, Fyne was just getting hotter and hotter… I fully understood what Ne-Yo meant when he sang… “when you’re mad!”

I calmed her down and told her that me and my friend Hommie were freelance Business/IT/Development Consultants and were looking for new contracts…

“when were you gwan tell me?”

Geez, I sighed and wondered how we moved from me hitting on her subtly to late night conversations to full-blown boyfriend+girlfriend arguments!!!

I waited quietly for her frustrations to blow over as I realized that all she wanted to know was how come she was not in the loop earlier… I asked the waiter to bring two bottles of water and calmly shared with her how I am still learning who she is and I feel her ish of wanting to know about my ish. I also told her that I think she is a good listener and I will let her in at my pace, and that she shouldn’t worry…

I then suggested we take a drive to a nice spot I knew… She smiled and handed me the keys to the Coop! on the way there, she told me she has a place she likes going to as well, when she wants to shut people out. It was more than a coincidence when we ended up directing each other to the same digs. Up right, turn left at the end and drive straight past the huge water tank, and then walk a short distance past the high wall fence and voila….

The view had never changed and we ended up sitting in silence just wondering what was on each other’s mind…. As it were, we both spoke at the same time and both hesitated waiting for the other to go first.

She told me she was surprised that someone other than herself knew this “special” digs… I was so smitten at this point by Fyne that I almost grabbed her and smooched her right there…. I was taken aback when I found myself doing just that. She responded by kissing me back and when we broke off, she looked deep in my eyes and asked me…

“basiks dawg, are you a playa”

TBC

song-tag

If you get any ideas, drop them at yours..

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1. Song that makes you dance, no matter what:
”Freak Out” by C’est Chic

2. Song you’d use to tell someone you love them:
”he loves me” by Jill Scott

3. Song that has made you sit down and analyze the lyrics:
“Can’t stop” by Red Hot Chilli Peppers

4. Song you like that a two-year old would like:
”sankalewa” by don’t remember

5. Song that gives you an energy boost:
“rosa-parks” by Outkast

6. A song you and your grandparents would like:
“suddenly” by Billy Ocean

7. Song you really liked when you were in high school that you still like now:
“What Ya’ll Want” Eve featuring Nokio, and Ruff Ryders, “next episode” Dr. Dre ft Snoop

8. A sad song that would be in the soundtrack of the movie about your life:
“sometimes you can’t make it on your own” by U2

9. Peppy song that would start the opening credits in the movie of your life:
“Get Money” Notorious BIG ft Junior M.A.F.I.A

10. A good song from a genre of music that no one would guess you liked:
“we ride” by Kirk Whalum ft Jaheim

11. Song you think should have been playing when you were born:
“rock with you” Michael Jackson

12. Favorite duet song:
”love is” Brian McNight + Vanessa Williams

13. A favorite song you completely disagree with:
”Sometimes” by Britney Spears

14. Song that you like despite the fact that your IQ level drops several points every time you listen to it:
“my name is” eminem

15. Smooth song for relaxing:
“teardrop” by Massive Attack (opening song to series House-MD)

16. A song you would send to someone you can’t stand:
“buggaboo” Destiny’s Child

17. Favorite political track:
“where is the love” Black Eyed Peas (um, this isn’t a political track, but it definitely sends home a potent message…)

18. Favorite track from a band considered a “super group”:
“she will be loved” Maroon 5

19. A song that makes you reminisce about good times with a family member:
“Time to party” Craig David

20. Favorite song from a soundtrack:
“Touch me Tease me” Case ft Foxxy Brown (from The Nutty Professor I) and “I’ll give you love” Rachael Yamagata (from PRIME)

21. Your favourite song RIGHT now:
” Everything,  Everyday, Everywhere” Fabolous ft Ryan Leslie and Keri Hilson

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Tagging Tumwi, Giko, and Sy and anyone who has reached here to see his/her name on the Basiks Joint

101| It moves on…

continued from 101| it starts

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So, I opened her email and it read “ so you think you have game huh”

In response to my “Are you as interesting as you are” one liner, she did seem like th type that likes to be woo-ed!

Wait, who am I kidding here, which hottie does not like to be woo-ed!!

So I set about planning how to make this Ms. Fyne Ness the future Mrs. Fyne Ness Basiks!

I replied her email and told her that I would be out of town with no access to the internet, and left my digits in the mail, and asked her to text me when I cross her mind!

I went home and sat down and paid attention to all the steps that we needed to follow through in order to have Hommie’s Bank Account grow ten-fold!! Step 5 was wait at least 10 seconds before you do anything as the new system had a 5 second time-lag before any command could be initialized and then executed! The entire system was semi-patient because if it flopped, it would shut down for an hour and the entire IT department would hone in onto that one error, and would surely find out our ish within those 10 seconds…

Anyways, she called me later that night saying that I crossed her mind twice, earlier on but did not have any airtime on her phone… She had just stolen her Dad’s post-paid line and explained to me that after hustling with all his other children, her dad doesn’t fight with them anymore, but just regulates their calls by putting a 10 minute timer for non-regular calls, so she was going to find a way of having my digits being input as a regular called number!

So, we set aside the day and the time to grow Hommie’s bank Account to Friday afternoon at 15.34hours and be clear by 15.38 hours…. Leaving us exactly 240 seconds to pull off our biggest bank heist ever…..

Me and Ms. Ness chatted a lot more than we thought we could once our tense natures subsided.. She told me that she would not tell me where I lived, but show me only and only when I cross her mind again… I flinched a bit on the phone and she noticed ( oba how?) and I explained to her how I think she is a pretty thing and I think she must be fed up of a tonne of losers saying that… she sighed on the phone…

Me and Hommie then plotted for a few things;

nice new synchronized watches-CHECK;  

Money for taxi-CHECK;

Cool new shades-CHECK;

Clean clothes freshly ironed aka pressed-CHECK;

pack of cigarettes for the lousy security guards-CHECK;

Money for taxi to leave-CHECK;

You see, me and Hommie had planned to only set the plan in such a way that the dimez are multiplied onto our account, but not withdrawn… In such a way that we do print-outs of Hommie’s bank statements before and after and then go straight to the Managing Director MD/ Chief Executive Officer CEO / Head Ni99a In Charge HNIC/ BossOfDaBosses BODB/ SayMyNameTypeDudes SMNTD/ Don’tMessWithMePlayas you get the drift!

Anyways, Hommie and I walked to the entrance, went straight to that cute lady at enquiries and flashed her my biggest smile and asked her how much it would cost to have a print out of my Hommie’s latest bank statement! She gave us the charge and we didn’t flinch, but asked her to do so up to that specific time ( 15.20 hours Friday afternoon) We then went to the AT-Machines and input his card and did the gimmick as he had been taught. Meanwhile our insideman was catching on our drift and said he would beep Hommi’s phone on confirmation!

60 seconds later, InsideMan flashed the line and we finished our bizness… Left the ATMachine, and waited another 5 minutes before we went and input Hommie’s card again… This time he printed the statement!

It read 4,500,000/=UGX….

We walked straight to the MD/CEO/HNIC’s office and told his foine-ass secretary/ admin assistant/ his keeper/ coffee and biscuits maker/ you get the drift that we had an appointment!

In our best English accent ever, we sweet-talked her into letting us see him!

She gave in and we politely thanked him for seeing us and we told him that Hommie’s account had grown ten-fold in less than 20 minutes…

He asked for proof, and we showed it to him!

He did not believe us…

We attempted to walk out and he called us back and asked us to have a seat!

He then called our InsideMan who happened to be the most trusted insideman ever… He confirmed the mishap and he asked us to wait a while as he called his Head-Legal to come in to his office and write down the statements which we signed…

My heart was in my mouth as Hommie calmed me the heck down…

We signed the statement and MD promised that we would have that money removed off of Hommie’s account! And we would get a finder’s fee for pointing out the mishap and not sneaking the dimez as many others would have done!

Whence everybody left HNIC’s office, he asked us for the truth and we did not flinch at all… He sensed something was amiss, and he asked that we email him our resumes…

Later that evening, Ms. Ness called me saying her Dad asked her to pick up some stuff off of the printer and she saw what looked like a resume with my name on it…

TBC