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African Nations cup in pix

These are my favorite pix from African Nations Cup. Let it be known that I'm rooting for Egypt. Go Egypt!! Shall I mention that i challenged a 12 year old to an X-Box soccer match. needless to say, my love for the sport does not automatically qualify me to win. I was wooped 9-3.

Africa Nations Cup

I am plenty proud of the goings on at the Africa Nations Cup aka MTN CAN. I daresay it's the biggest tournament on any one continent, 50 + countries tuned in to the games. I am still undergoing my humble beginnnings in Lilongwe and don't own a Tv, yet too proud to go around to the neighbours to watch it and no ride to fancy game-watching spots in town so I listen to the games on the radio and wait till morning for the papers to see the action pics of Eto'o, Drogba, Zuma and all them players. Ah, that's the life. Me love soccer. Hope Malawi can get in to the action some day.

Restful time

I feel like I'm in a "rest only" zone. I haven't been able to follow the news much lately, and haven't done all the fun stuff I could do. I'm loving the zone though, too bad I can't blog much exciting stuff right now zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................................

And we chose Peoples Republic of China, My rambling over the matter.....

Versus So Malawi has decided to kick Taiwan out and bring China in. I hope this won't come back to haunt us. I mean, I'm not being superstitious but when you have an ally for more than 40 years and then "humiliate" (to quote the words of the Taiwanese embassy here) them for the sake of their rival. Two words for us, "oh, no!" Does money have anything to do with this, search me? Seriously though, inasmuch as I look forward to Nsanje being a city and I personally look forward to floating on the Shire one day (Mainland China is offering aid to build the Shire-Zambezi waterway that will open us up to the world)...I am a bit skeptical of strangers bearing gifts. I'm not being sucker for aid-driven alliances, but just my 2 cents: Taiwan has over the years built among many things; the largest hospital in the North (and don't get me started on hospitals- Libya is building one in Blantyre and they were s

Perpetual Sugar High

I must be the most ignorant person. I love my sugar, in my tea, in my coffee, in my cereal, in my everything. Ofcourse I know I have to look out for my teeth but what does the LIME do to you. You know I actually never knew until about a year ago that since sugar is meant to be brown naturally, lime is added to it to make it white. Now what does the lime do to you? D-oh! Google is on the next page.

OOOOooooohhhh Nooooo!

Ok, this first part of the post is overdue, by at least two weeks but I still want to mention it for those of you who missed it. The 2007 edition of Malawi Pop Music Star, (formerly known as E-Wallet) ended on January 31. I only made it to one show but followed the proceedings in the papers and on TVM. The winner was a very deserving 24 year old Kenneth Kabwila. I was more than impressed with him and wish him all the best as he tries for Idols Africa. I was very impressed with most of the contestants, I used to believe that the only Malawians who can sing very well are those in Praise Teams and Church-related groups, bands and choirs but I realize there are a lot who can actually do well withing the country and outside. Now to the OH, NO! part of the story. Mr. Lilongwe Nice Guy left for home , to the land of George Dubya. The blog entries on him will have to cease (sadly) otherwise it will be gossip to blog about him in his absence. Oooh noo!!

Kenyan Juju and FaceBook Blues

This entry will be short and sweet as it's a Friday and I can't be chained to the computer. Non, non, et non!! Time to relax. On Kenyan Juju - intriguing read in the Paper, " Looters in Kenya return goods en-masse after reports of deaths and disease among those keeping looted goods ." Ayo, never steal from personally-owned businesses wewe, what were you thinking? tsk.... tsk.... Now I was quite disturbed to see a very undesirable pic on my facebook, now Malawians, please when you live out there don't go to extremes, pilizi chonde ndagwira mwendo zinazi ndi azungu omwe sangatumize! Cheers! Woza Friday! Happy weekend.

Christmas and nice rainy skied Zomba + this year in Lilongwe

Here are some pix from the holidays and some of this new year too!

Life got interesting on the week-end

Now that my friend Melanie has returned to the US, and my other friend Grenna has returned to Blantyre, reality has began to kick in. I had never noticed the long hours my real housemate puts in at work. Last night she came in at 10.30 and that was early. Now I have to find ways occupy myself when I am all by my lonesome. God wants me to be creative, i.e. a friend installed Vista Ultimate on my previously Vista Home Basic laptop but it went awol now so I couldn't watch movies or listen to music last night. My radio doesn't have a cable and I hadn't charged my batteries so I had to occupy myself by cooking. A lot of drama in that. To cut a long story short, I cooked really slowly and had dinner at 10. Fries, and stewed chicken. Now about the week-end, life got very interesting on the weekend... while Mr. Zomba Nice Guy is chilling in Zomba, there happens to be someone just as nice over here, I'll call him Mr. Lilongwe Nice guy. He's got many things in common

OK, I think I was too harsh in my last post

Between the time i made my last entry and now...I spoke on the phone with a wiser friend from Zomba. I shared about the Mr. Zomba Nice Guy (she knows who he is) and I understand what she said. I will interpret it as: "When you don't know his side of the story, refrain from making up own conclusion." I now admit I don't know his side of the story. May I peacefully go on with my rest of the day and not wave a fist at the memory of my recent Zomba sojourn. Remember Romans 8:28! I know I have plenty of pix I need to post. I'm working on uploading them in the near future. Exiting things happening in Lilongwe, there is a 10-nation swimming gala at ABC Christian Academy, I hope to make an appearance before it's over tomorrow. That's some big event innit? There are auditions for a play "How to find a man" at Brother's Keeper on Saturday morning. Their last play had a good reception and I'm sure this one will be bigger. I have self-confidence