Web 2.0

I am attending a web2.0 training at ISTT, NRDC. The course is on for one week. Funded by CTA facilitated by Simunza. The course is originally meant for people in Agricultural Research, Information Dissemination.

However, the people in that particular field have not signed up for the course and that is quiet sad. The course was opened up to the private sector and well wishers.. The response has been overwhelming..

I am the only one from the ZAR4DIN network and Agric sector. At least NSTC sent someone so that make two from ZAR4DIN.

Mr Darlington Kahilu," the blogger" is doing a tremendous job on web.2 annd even went ahead to advertise thhis course widely but the response has not been good from ZAR4DIN .http://zar4din.blogspot.com/2012/04/web20-learning-opportunity.html  I wonder how ZAR4DIN will foster information dissemination if members of this network can't attend or send people in their work places..

Life is Precious

I started my day on a very high note on the 7 th of July 2012. I woke up early, jumped into my truck bottoms and T shirt, put on trainers, grabbed my skipping rope and rushed out to my balcony.. There was a nice cool breeze that made my morning work out a lot more enjoyable.

I quickly took my bath, and jumped into a fresh pair of jeans and T- shirt.. made my hot cup of tea and dashed out of the house for my early morning prayer meeting at Church. I enjoyed the early morning drive while sipping my tea. On my way to Church, I  made a few stops at filing stations to get some gas, but did not succeed.

Got Church a bit late.. found some people had already arrived.. We chatted a bit and begun to pray...  As we were praying I started experiencing pain in my stomach, from my belly button region going downwards and on my right side. The pain slowly intensified. I could not stand for long I sat down for while and continued praying.  

By the time we finished praying the pain was quiet intense, I was having difficulties standing, my back was beginning to burn. I told my brethren what I was experiencing. I left Church and dropped my church mate at long acres, I also managed to get some fuel there.

The pain in my stomach at this point had worsened, passed through on more place before getting home..Got some medicine(buscopan) which I felt could take away the pain and drank it immediately. The medicine I know works so well within a short space of time could not do the trick. At this point I could not walk or sit. I lay on the bed hoping to  get better. But the pain only grew worse.. I found myself vomiting and feeling so drained.

I had to be rushed to the hospital.. I was in a lot of pain, and the process was very slow.. sitting down was problem, I felt a strong pull from my stomach muscle when I sat up, when I tried to lean on my stomach, my back was burning severely.. I did tests nothing serious could be found in my stomach, I could not do a scan because of the pain..They gave me  jabs to arrest the muscle spasms, antibiotics and some gas medicine..

As I got home, I  felt the pain go down slowly, I felt drowsy and slept.. I was so weak and tired. I has been in pain from about 8 hrs to 17 hrs. The Pain left completely two days later and I am now fine..

I learnt from this incident never to take life for granted, I prayed a prayer that day which I never ever imagined  I would ever pray " Lord I don't want to die help me" at one point I even said "please Lord, don't kill me am not ready to die, I don't want to die". I thank God for the gift of life...To wake up well, strong and in good health is a blessing from God. Thank you Lord..And I don't take lightly the blood that Jesus Christ shed from me at the cross of Calvary.

The Year 2011

Happy New year to you all. I pray that this year will be a year of new beginnings, those dreams that have taken long to come to pass, may this be the year when they become a reality. Those things that have brought tiredness, stress and frustration, may they bring you joy in this year. As long as we have life, I feel that there is no problem with dreaming, even when the dreams are taking long to manifest, the problem only comes in when we stop dreaming... The negative responses that we got in 2010, the problems we encountered, lets look at them as feed back from all the things we did and as stepping stone for us to do better..Dare to dream, speak your vision and make all the necessary steps while you wait for the dream to come true...Have a very Blessed 2011.

When overwhelmed with a Situation

There are those times in life when nothing seems to be making sense, things that are supposed to run smoothly don't seem to, and nothings seems to be making much sense, what do you do to remain focused and on course?