Spenthrift Chicks!!!

Those broilers are growing unbelievably fast and consume one sack of mashes every two days now. The market price for the mashes has been increasing rapidly as well. We are wondering how we are going to continue raising them since they are becoming more expensive than most of us!

I think we should give the chicks some entertainment facilities so that they won't keep eating for the whole day, but have some time during the day to lay back and enjoy themselves in some low-cost ways!

CAUTION!!!

Power has been cut in Kazo for two days and the power was finally back this afternoon. I did not go to the conference today since I woke up too late to even catch the first tea break-my cellphone, of course, was dead completely. I still need to fix my laptop somehow since the battery cannot be charged and may collapse at any moment from now on.

I recently found a lot of anonymous visitors on my blog! Be aware, I can see you all even you don't leave any trace!

A Longer Break than the ones in the Conference Hall

Power was cut for the whole night yesterday, so by the time I arrived at the centre from the conference, there was literally no way for me to check the internet and upload anything. I still should be in the conference of the Annual Paediatric HIV&AIDS Conference now, but I escaped since the start of the tea break, left Mac there alone with five hundred participants. The conference is held in Hotel Africana, which is quite close to Garden City and is within my walking distance. So I took a longer break than others, coming to a internet Cafe here to check my mails and respond to birthday wishes. Asa you may have suspected, the conference has not been fun at all-lots of different people talking about various similar issues again and again, and again. However, some of them were quite fine, not too dry. I just wonder for the money they spent to host hundreds of people in a luxury hotel for a conference, it could save a lot of children whom we have been talking about for the whole morning!  

My Birthday Tomorrow!

Forgot to mention,  we celebrated Timothy's birthday on 23th. I'll post photos in the next day or two depending on my financial status. And tomorrow is my birthday, on 27th! But don't worry, I rarely celebrate it! I'm now too old to want to remember my birthday!

SAVE

Everything has been moving smoothly forward here. I cannot write long here since the cable to my laptop is partly broken, so the laptop may collapse it anytime! The reason why I haven't been to an internet Cafe is that I have been surviving on my last two dollars in my wallet for two days, and probably have another two or three days to go, so it is time for some emergent savings now!

It is not that hard to live on 1 dollar for the past two and a half days. One just need to shrink his meals to one time per day and have some beans only for the meal. But one needs to be careful of when exactly to have the meal-it cannot be too early, nor too late-so I choose to take it at around two in the afternoon. So I would not feel terribly hungry either in the morning, before the meal, or in the late evening, after taking the meal for several hours.

It had rained heavily for an hour this afternoon. I opened the front door to the centre and sat on a chair near the door, reading my new novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and meanwhile enjoying the chill wind. I felt a little cold while in the middle of my reading, but my whole body and soul was involved in Marquez's graceful telling. I was completely lost, confidently, stealthily, in his fantasy. OK, I know this is not a place talking about literature, so I stop here.

The chicks have been growing well, too well in fact! They are getting extremely big in size considering the days we have been raising them! I'll try to put some new photos on here, but HOW is the question now!

Tomorrow I am scheduled to attend in Hotel Africana the 4th National Paediatric HIV Conference which is going to last for three to four days, each day from morning to dawn. It is still too early to  determine how much of what will be told tomorrow in the conference is true in reality, but as a golden rule for me and for some others working here in the community-the problems which are yet to be solved are always true, but with less exaggerations; the numerical achievements are always proved to be false, but with even more exaggerations.

MOSQUITOES!!!!!!

How many times have you been bitten by mosquitoes per day in average?

For me, 20 times when sitting down at midnight to write the blog...

Visa expired, but it is easy to be prolonged!

My visa for Uganda has expired for ten days without me knowing it, until Mac had a look accidentally into my passport two days ago. I went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to inquire for the possibility of applying for a working permit here, but received nothing but a list of excessive requirements. I went there today with Madame Josephine in hope of having my visa extended at least for another three months, but was told in the beginning that the request was impossible. Madame Josephine plead for me hardly so the officer changed her attitude after writing down stealthily a long number on a draft paper which was immediately pushed away with her hands covering it at all time. She explained that the reason we had to pay for the extra 'fee' was that she had to, because my trivial issue, leave where she was sitting and go to another room to explain to another officer about my problem which might have serious consequences. In the end, without any other resorts, I accepted the payment for speeding up the process. And it worked! I had not even find a comfortable position to sit on a bench before she came back with my passport with a stamp and a sentence into saying my visa was prolonged.

I was delighted for quite a well afterward, but just wondered for a transit moment that how come the long and hard process which was explained with great effort and length was executed within such a short period?

I had my another lesson today-a fairly good one!

Why God Forgot about Me Totally...John told us after getting better

1. Caught Malaria
2. with at the same time, 3 sick teeth
3. having flu now
4. ugly looking
5. being an not-so-famous DJ
6. working long distance four o' clock in the morning coming back from work
7. Lack of money
8. Lack of decent clothes to wear
9. stopped studying, due to the lack of funds, in a crap senior school
10. being mistaken as terrorist with Landon and was arrested once in Kabalagala
11. does not smoke and drink
12. Hair style is in need of fixing