How the leap year made me work my hardest in 2016

The leap year has never been significant to me until this year. Okay, you hear the airport is shutting down on March 1st and on February 28th you are happy that your holiday starts tomorrow -March 1st, until someone tells you, "No, this year is a leap year, tomorrow is February 29th, you have to work tomorrow!" You scratch your head and fret at the Astronomers for allocating the leap year thing to this year, to make you work on Feb 29th. "Ah! it should have been last year or maybe next year!" You go to work and the second flight you are scheduled to work on has got a five and a half hour delay. You don't fret at those astronomers anymore, you just hate them, all those Nicolaus Copernicus kind of people, for making you spend fourteen and a half hours of the leap day at work!

Food

Me: Excuse me madame. There is a situation. Your bag has been withheld by the customs.

Woman: Why?

Me: Maybe there is a forbidden item in your bag, maybe not. I have to take you down there so you can open the bag and let them check to be sure. It’s quite a long walk from here.

Woman: So who is going to replace the energy that I’m going to lose doing your long walk to the customs?

Me: Food

Woman: What?

Me: The food that you’re going to eat on board Kenya Airways!

Temporary shutdown of the Douala International Airport

Some important news for all my diaspora peeps who may be planning to visit Cameroon in March. Sorry! Only through Nsimalen! From March 1st to March 21st 2016, the Douala International airport will be temporarily shut down, so that repair/reconstruction work can be done on the ramp and the main buildings. The airport’s entrance road is already having its tarmac replaced. (The construction of a new/second runway rumor is a lie). This project will be carried out by SOGEA SATOM and Razel. A good number of flights especially the European ones will transfer operations to the Yaoundé airport in Nsimalen during the shutdown period. Most of the smaller flights will not transfer there. Some of my colleagues will move there to work during that period. Others will be on holiday. Me? I’ll be on holiday oh! And I’m wondering why the government cannot just build a new modern airport altogether.