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Joel Khamadi

5 months

I'm the last born among five siblings—three boys and two girls. It's the early 2000s, and we lived in Langata, a place that still holds the essence of home. Mum, a dedicated director at the Ministry of Education, was a frequent traveler..

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

Ppl were hurt, because we love you and we love what you do. I think I speak for people when I say I don't want that to define you. I hope you don't stay hidden forever. I hope you know that you not being perfect is what'll make you perfect. You're Will Smith, man! ~ Trevor Noah.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

The Morocco 🇲🇦 national team bumping to Burna Boy’s Last Last after sending Portugal home is a whole vibe 😁. 🎥: courtesy

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because the handle was made of wood and they said " Look, he is one of us" ~ Turkish proverb.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

We even have a movie trailer for the potholes 😂😂

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

Kept my word. Honored the bet. @Arsenal lost. High heels it is for the show! 😠😠

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

And that gold and bronze medal finish ensures Cheptegei and Kiplimo win $70,000 and $22,000 prize money respectively. #WorldAthleticsChamps

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 months

Eh! People have come from far. Tag them!😄

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

They didn't see that coming! The commentary though 🤣🤣🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ #BlackLivesMatter

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Hey @ManCity you have a fan here in Uganda who makes your jerseys for sale. Care to buy one? 🔵🔵

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

I googled 'Ministry of Defence Uganda' and was directed to this! 👇🇺🇬🇺🇬😂 #safehands #UGAZIM #AFCON2019

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Will never forget the day I jumped on a boda from the bar to go to CPS to try and 'rescue' a friend who'd been caught at a kawunyemu stop (story for another day.) Anyway, Boda man decides to take me through strange routes (was from Bukoto) and we some how end up in Kololo.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

6 years

This doesn’t move you, don’t know what will. @HEBobiwine ’s letters to his children shared by wife Barbie.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

Just because she never wants to miss a Cranes game, I'll give @Snduhukire 2 Cranes tickets for tomorrow's #AFCON2021Q game. @UgandaCranes 🇺🇬 take on Malawi 🇲🇼. Kikazi, collect please! 😎 #NSFootball

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

What’s baffling is Kiplangat went the wrong way on one part of the circuit and still managed to win! 🇺🇬 Take a bow! 👏🏾👏🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Mustafa Kizza x Thierry Henry 👌🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

So @andrewkabuura and I made a bet on air last night. If Arsenal win the Europa league, he will present the whole show ( @NTVPressBox ) in an Arsenal jersey 😂😂. Should Chelsea win, I'll do it in heels😟. @ntvuganda

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Laugh. The world is already serious enough as it is….you never know what’s NEXT!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Let me tell you a story. One that almost got a good friend of mine in trouble had it not been for his quick thinking. It’s one of those days he’d gone out with the boys for a solid night out and the plan was to come back home early because he was supposed to leave for Paraa Lodge

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

and found afande. He's still there! Constant like Kampala traffic. Reminded him of that day, we laughed, ordered CJ's food for him and gave him a ka 50. #Fridaynighttales

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

After my boy discovered that when leaving Guvnor, a lady can tell you she stays “on the outskirts of town” could also mean finding yourself in Lyantonde, life has never been the same.😅

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

#NewProfilePic

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

The sun that melts the wax is the same sun that hardens the clay. Sometimes it's not about the resources you have, but how and where you use them. Good morning. Attack the world. Hydrate while at it.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

These should be the billboards erected when you're leaving/arriving at Entebbe Airport. Legends!! @joshuacheptege1 @masindeonyango

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

My people came through! @JSelectorJay @missdeedan 💪🏾💪🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

I’m I the only one who keeps pressing imaginary pedals (brake) when someone else is driving?

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

"The disappointment in Kololo was really sad. I thank my team for believing in me. The Ugandans and media houses who mocked me and made fun of me, I wanted to prove to you I'm strong and I'm the best in the world. You don't deserve me in actual sense." Joshua Cheptegei 2020.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Ugandans are dealing with too much. A little play never hurt nobody

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

FOOLS RUSH IN. Saturday December 24th, 2016. This day was supposed to be a good day. Routine really, (just like how we used to have strategic meetings for Blankets and Wine.) Sun was shining, birds were chirping, town people were in the village for Christmas and..

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

Bambi, it’s happening! @andrewkabuura has done the unthinkable. 😎 Also @CanaryMugume and @IsabellaTugume , fun fact, when you move further away, the IPhone 14 Pro Max loses focus 😂😂🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Danny has received candles for valentines. Not even scented ones, those candles for when power goes off! That relationship is in the dark.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

My gate guy has started a pop corn (with chilli and Aromat) business outside the gate. Tough times never last! 💪🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

6 years

This 👇🏾 The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because the handle was made of wood and they said " Look, he is one of us"

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

CASE OF THE EX Nairobi, 2003. A year when I possessed a youthful exuberance. It saw me through a lot of good days and some not very memorable ones. Like this one. I learnt many lessons on this day, but the most important? Don't concern yourself with things that don't concern you

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Hadn't been to Naalya in a while. How do you guys do it? Missed a turn and almost found myself in Juba eh! 🙆🏾‍♂️

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Ugandans have suffered eh! Even movies know the value of our currency 😭

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

The moment @joshuacheptege1 breaks off from the pack and destroys the field with 4 laps remaining to sensationally win the Zurich Diamond league in a PB time of 12:57:41! 💪🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

But if you wait just that little bit longer to verify facts will you die??

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

Look what I found!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Twitter is merely a mobile application. Concentrate on your daily activities. Don't come here to pick up depression because you're trying to live up to society expectations. Like Dave Chappelle said, Twitter is not a real place.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

6 years

Did you know?: During Cristiano’s hat-trick celebration, all of the Portuguese players were celebrating with him except for one who had to stay inside the pitch as FIFA states if all are off the pitch during celebrations, the opposing team can kickoff the game.😱

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

JUST LIKE MUSIC... You know when people say, 'Music saved my life,' they mean exactly that. I tell you this because in 2008/2009 when everything seemed to be going south, music came to my rescue. My one true solace.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

8 months

A very good morning fellow Gooners! How are you sliding into the week? 🔴

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

#NewProfilePic

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

7 months

😂

Zeus The Agency

@zeus_agency

7 months

Who has that one Advertising Video?

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 months

“When I became president in 2013, I used to visit president Moi. He would see me and get up from his chair to welcome me. I would ask him not to get up out of all the respect I had for the man. You know what he’d tell me?…

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Bumped into Hollywood star @PoulterWill in Nairobi. One of the best human beings EVER!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin telling me he expects Arsenal to be very competitive in the Champs League next season. 😎 He is here to visit the Aliguma foundation, a charity organization using sports as a tool to create a positive impact on the society especially in slums.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Lest we forget, today marks the 12th anniversary of the July 11, 2010 bombings at Kyadondo and Ethiopian village that left football fans dead and dozens injured. May they continue to R.I.P.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Quiet people are actually talkative around the right people.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

A student at Nangabo Secondary school made this @ntvuganda logos out of beads to raise money for school fees, and a kettle out of clay for her tea/water.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 months

Yesterday, I was talking to her over a cup of tea and I reminded her of that story. Her response? “You boys were impossible, I was never going to allow you people to give me pressure. Look at yourselves now, what didn’t kill you made you…” 😂😂 ~ END

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

6 years

Guys on this app, how do you want your lightning served again? Boiled, steamed, fried or roasted? 🤣🤣🤣

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Just me who is paranoid when driving at night and the Boda behind you takes your every turn? No? We shall end up in Windhoek because there’s no way I’m driving home.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

6 years

Just gotten home to an empty house. TV, PS4 and other electronics, clothes, shoes, money, toiletries all gone!! Robbed and left with only what I have on me. Something is wrong with this nation.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

20 days

And that my friends, is how it’s done! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Brilliant @KCCAFC 👏🏾😂

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

🙆🏾‍♂️ 😍😍

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

If you show up at my place unannounced, without calling prior to coming, I'll look you dead in the eye and tell you I'm not there.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

When there's a football game on TV but instead, they make you watch 90 Day Fiancé and you end up asking why Pedro's family doesn't like Chantel. Can't wait for the next episode! 😂

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

6 years

“ A player who’s never needed a second invitation. One second, one moment, one hit, one nil.” Peter Drury can make ancestors come back, wah? 🙌🏾🙌🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Happy birthday @PatriqKanyomozi . To many more. 😎

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

Here’s a short story. @andrewkabuura swore he would never be near an @arsenal jersey. Ever. “Can’t touch it. Never!” He once told me. Well, we made a bet over the weekend. Guess who is presenting @NBSPressbox in an Arsenal jersey! 🤣🤣

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

The real snakes and ladders.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

I'm so stoked to see @LarryMadowo where he is now doing what he does best. I remember the days he'd come to the NTV Uganda newsroom carrying equipment on his way to Owino market for a business story. Well done my friend, true Inspiration!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

Hon. Kyagulanyi makes his way to Kyambogo. This is outside my house in Kyanja.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Feb 14th, 2009. Bought a pair of Jimmy Choo heels from my ghetto plug, hurriedly wrapped and sent them to this ka lady I fancied. Imagine my surprise when they were sent back with a note saying “They’d look better on you” because they were Jimmy CHUU 😭. It was all in the price!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS Echo /ˈɛkəʊ/ : Verb: (of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped. This 👆🏾 will be very important at some point in this story. You will refer back to it at that appropriate time.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

A broken boat A broken dream A broken heart A broken team No word said A silent vow We loved you then We love you now.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

😂

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

The week handing me over to the weekend 😁

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

When Amahoro stadium is done, it’ll be a thing of beauty. The company doing renovations is the same that revamped the BK Arena.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

Day well spent. 🏌🏾

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

THREAD. A friend shared this with me, and i asked him if i could post it here because it may help someone who is going through the same. So here goes.... “From their experience came pain; and from their pain came purpose; and from their purpose came beauty” (J. Arcangel).

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

From that day I vowed never again, no drink driving. Never. That was the plan. But like they say, a fool never learns but a smart man learns from his mistakes 😭. Me, Joel, I was the fool, because just months later.... TBC #YouCannotMakeThisStuffUp #StoriesWithJoel

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

7 years

👉🏾FYI, if you hoot at me 0.0001 seconds after the light goes green, I will switch of my car, lay on the bonnet and feed birds for an hour!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

This is what a CEO tee shot onto the fairway looks like 👌🏾🏌🏾‍♂️ @KKariisa #NBSportGolf #NBSTeeOff

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

They told us to dress like our bank accounts 😂😂 #singletonfinale

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

So I bumped into Baba @RailaOdinga and @mukulaa while leaving the set last night and we had a brief convo about a certain club we support despite the heartache that comes with it. 😊😊

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

Guys, a one Mr. @CanaryMugume was waxing lyrical about how good a striker he is. This is what I got to witness. Two touches in 15 mins and an own goal! #5on5Games

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

But here's the real kicker. Something most of you don't know. I was in that Boda Boda video.😂Check it out. If you look closely, you'll see a malnourished male figure standing behind a mic (next to Sitenda moving (dancing) like I'm dodging bullets. Just like Neo in the Matrix 😂

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

🎶 Shamra shamra kelele na nderemo... 🎶

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

I remember the day I ate cake laced with cannabis and I went to the shower wearing sunglasses. Then there was the endless laughter. Ah!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

Doing my laundry (since laundry lady isn't available) and I've just washed four bedsheets since 10am. Witchcraft. Now I know she's also an essential service 😭

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

1 year

Arsenal 3-1 Man City Saka, Nketiah, Odegaard.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

7 months

I’m told there’s a certain club in the SUPL up for sale…. #NextMediaTalks

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Thank you @ondufc for my jersey! It's 🔥🔥

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

I can comfortably say that in my long and illustrious career in the knowledge of everything cars 😅, I can now add Installation of baby car seat to my resume. Probably the most fun experience! 😂😂

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

If you are a business and customers can't pay using visa or mobile money service, please close shop!! 😤😤😤

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

The world is hard enough as it is (especially if you are in Uganda) so I pray that you find your purpose and peace. Remember, whenever you feel like the world is caving in, there's always someone who has it worse than you. And they are still going strong. Happy new month tweeps.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Best place (if you're heading home) to sit and wait out the traffic. Nail boutique for the missus to go to while you have a trim at the barber shop, have a drink after (at my local), buy fish (Yalelo) for dinner, plus there's also a pharmacy.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

After their return, She Cranes were each given UGX 1 million after finishing 7th at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool. Spar Proteas (South Africa) will receive R400, 000 per player for finishing 4th! That's UGX 106,000,00. Inhale, exhale. 🙆‍♂️😢😢

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

4 years

Happy born day @PatriqKanyomozi To more of these!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

5 years

They told me that this day would come. The day that you jump on a bike and your pants split till the back. Ghai!! 🙆 This is on me. I tested the patience of this trousers way too much!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

Don't concern yourself with things that don't concern you. If it's not your business, don't make it your burden. #StoriesAboutJoel #YouCannotMakeThisStuffUp

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

🚨Here we go!! Delighted to be on this project and couldn’t be happier to be working with @munirajbux on @NBSportUg Catch us on @DStvUganda channel 377 #NBSportLive #ChampioningUgandanSport

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

2 years

Happy birthday Skunkie @missdeedan . Toast to life!

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

3 years

that point, he must've thought he'd won the jackpot. Kumbe zero. Just receipts for Caribbean Jerk chicken and cheese fries. I actually thought I'd lost him only to hear the chap kick start his bike to come after me. Weh! You've never run while looking for any building with light.

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Joel Khamadi

@Joel_Khamadi

7 years

👉🏾 Learn the art of saying No. Don't lie, don't make excuses. Don't over explain yourself. Just say NO.

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