My computer is split into three factions, and all three are up in arms (prolly cos they’re all cut from the same cloth). The entire system is on a go-slow, resource usage is sky-rocketing and now even the smaller programs are refusing to function.
Given that I am always complaining, I decided to give myself a break and think of 10 things I am actually happy about and give thanks for:
Hi, my net’s been down since last Wednesday. But I’m back now.
It’s not that I was backing Ivory Coast to win the 2008 edition of the African Cup of Nations. No, that’s not it.
Today’s wild rumour and allegation has it that Joe, i.e. Joe “My Name is Joe” Thomas (yes, the other Joe) is coming to Zimbabwe.
So, finally we get the details and reasoning behind Harbhajan Singh being absolved of making a racist comment against Australia.
I’m not one to take either cheap or obvious shots.*
But I might as well take this one, with the usual cliches.
Like, they don’t call this the Dark Continent for nothing.
Etc et al ad infinitum.
You gird your loins and take a deep breath as you prepare to answer “I’m from Zimbabwe”. You see your inquisitor’s eyes dart around in consternation or fear. Consternation as they have no idea where that is, but know that it’s somewhere dark and uncivilised. Fear that any moment now the African in you is going to bring out the begging bowl. A view supported by decades of media misrepresentation.
So yesterday three large men picked me up from my house, and off we went drinking. Ended up at the casino (the one at Rainbow Towers or Sheraton or That Dirty Old Building)
I finally did it. Deactivated my Facebook account.
This is the second time Harbhajan Singh has called Andrew Symonds a monkey. This, as we all seem to know (except apparently in India) is a racial slur.
Let’s all write our New Year’s resolutions together this year, shall we?