Proposal Presentation

As I am writing this post Henry Ishungisa is trying to make sence from his proposed work.. I will be presenting my proposal in a feww minutes time. Prof Okure, Dr Sebbit, Wilson and The Head of Department of Electrical Engineering in The Facaulty of Technology at Makerere University. Henry has met some resistance but looks set to have his proposal accepted.

The Ndenish son of a Guru looks like he will drop out as he is not available here... Let me call him.. he may have died at NANA or he drunk too much yesterday..ah he is on a BODABODA...

The comments are coming in and it looks very enlightening and very educative even more than I anticipated...

Byron is giving us a lecture on a mathematical model of some Top Lit Updraft Gasfiers (TLUD).. The lecturers are grilling (is his the right word? wateva) him on the mis uderstandings that have arisen due to his title and methodology...

Next to present is Flavia Gutto but the owner of the laptop wants to go with it.... But the presenter is chewing gum or wat oh no but she has also grown so fat!!!!!! She is talking about charcoal and pyrolysis... These bioenergy people cant just run away from using charcoal...Why cant they develop something that can make me run away fro this charcoal thing....

Next to present is ohhhh dear me!!! its me!!!!!!!! Comments are included here nonono as a separate post please...

Johns presented his biogas...Teacher efficiency was evident

Ssebo Petros Gebray is now presenting his solar concentrator and heat transfer fluid thing... So he wants to collect the energy from outside and bring it in the kitchen for cooking...wow mzeee never stops to amaze me.. Hey questions have started being bombed on ssebo before he has finished... But will he have all the time to finish???

Oscar wraps up the day with his on Top Lit Updraft Gasfiers (TLUD).. for fruit drying... Hey its like he has combined Petros and Byron. Oscar and Byron like doing similar similar things....

Voila Finished..... now it is time to arrest Mr Musinguzi for the hela so that we go home and get started

The End of Coursework

Today I have finished my course work and start an intensive five months of a short research that will end up in a ka small dissertation. I am hoping that by the end of this year I will be through with these things. By the way

TZ AGAIN

I have been in Dar for about two weeks and the progress looks good. We are almost through with Solar Cell Technology classes where Dr Samiji and Prof Kivaisi has given us a good insight into this area..It looks good as well as an area for research in future. Through their lectures I had a chance to remember those times in ICTP for the Solid State Physics. Memories of the class wit photo attached at an outing in Venice, except for Norbert and Michael.... I will leave within week to Uganda whee I am supposed to defend my thesis proposal... I just hope that the progress is the same as it has been here... Kwa sasa nasema kwaheli

Transparent Solar Cells Made For Windows

Transparent Solar Cells Made For Windows

Offering a view of the garden and an adjacent field, it looks like any other window. But this window offers an additional feature: it also produces electricity. The facades of the house, too, harness solar energy to supply the occupants with electrical power. This is what the domestic power supply of the future could look like. The surface area used to produce energy would increase greatly with transparent solar cells.


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conversation with my friend

Chifundo Tenthani M.: yea
ucizibi: My friend
Chifundo Tenthani M.: wasup my friend?
ucizibi: Writing the final paper my friend. And U? Ukumwa?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: i have beer here but am not drinking now
ucizibi: OK. My friend ukufuna udziwe mmene ndikukhozera?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: tandiuze my friend
ucizibi: B+, A,B,A,B+,B+,A,A,B+,A,A kwatsala maResults awiri
Chifundo Tenthani M.: shashasha

Chifundo Tenthani M.: akupatsani nazo phd zimenezotu

ucizibi: Koma dinc ndamuphonya chifukwa cha B ayise
ucizibi: Aaaaah ndakayika
Chifundo Tenthani M.: ahhh modziyo eti?
ucizibi: Watsitsa grade ndithu ameneyo. Unless andipatse ma A+ in the remaining assignments
Chifundo Tenthani M.: ah ok amangotenga average regardless of some marks less than a certain mark?
ucizibi: B is above the threshold for awarding dinc anyway koma I doubt ngati average ingafike above A amane ali dincyo
ucizibi: Uyamba nthawi zanji kumwa?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: ah mwina sindimwa lero ndili mmudi yoipa kwabasi
ucizibi: Bwanji? Akukukaniza zijazi?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: hahaha
Chifundo Tenthani M.: nonono
Chifundo Tenthani M.: komano nthawi zina ndimatero
Chifundo Tenthani M.: i didnt even go out of this ka house
ucizibi: Aliyense amakhala ndinthawi yoteroyo. Even me
Chifundo Tenthani M.: eeetu nde ine lafika lero koma ndikaumwa mawa kuyambila mmamawa
ucizibi: Hahahaha. Ndiye kuti ukudziwa chimene chakubowa my friend.
Chifundo Tenthani M.: kenako ndikaonela game ya ma darts

The death of a friend: Dominic Mtumbuka

Late Dominic Mtumbuka (not in shirt) 2 weeks before his demise

This week has been one of the most trying of my life. My colleague Dominic Ohms Peter Mtumbuka passed away on Sunday 07-06-09. He started complaining about headache on Wednesday 27 May after coming from a visit at Water Dept in Ubungo Dar. The next day he came back and told us he had taken malaria drug Malafin... Since we were preparing for exams the following week, he kept studying and there was no sign he was so sick that he would pass away the in the coming week. Things changed on Sunday when he complained on having breathing problems whenever he attempted to walk...We had to bring him foo t his room.... In the morning of Monday he said he was feeling OK and we even went together for lunch even though he did not eat... On Tuesday his condition worsened and we had to take him to the University Hospital where he was admitted, put on drip and antibiotics. He went for x-ray on Thursday where he was diagonised with swellings in the respiratory tract... On Friday and Saturday his condition improved tremendously and everybody was shocked on Sunday morning when we were informed that he had passed away at 07:30 hrs of Sunday 07 June.

His body was taken to Muhimbili National Hospital mortuary at around 09:00 hrs. No arrangements were made on this day as there was no official at campus. All the arrangements were started on Monday with The Assistant Coordinator Mr Isack Legonda who worked tirelessly together with Henry, Petros, Sam playing a very big role. We went to the Immigration Office to clear our friend, the Malawi High Commission where Mr Biziweki gave us a letter to help us during our travel back to Malawi, the Foreign Affairs Dept. We also checked for tansport and got quotes for the coffin.

Tueday was left for Mr Legonda to finalise on the financial arrangements.

We gathered together again on Wednesday. Bought the coffin, clothes and went to the Morgue to pay our last respects to the late Domi at 14:00 hrs. Mr Biziweki also came to bid us goodbye. Mr Wilson Musinguzi, Ass Coordinator in Makerere University.

We left Dar at around 17:00hrs and only got out of town at around 19:00 hrs because of traffic jam. We travelled in a Land Cruiser in the company of Isack, Wilson and a Mr Uledi who was our driver. Slept at Morogoro and left again at 04:00hrs. Had a fat tyre in Mikumi National PArk and had a stopover at the next trading centre to have the flat tyre mended. We were on course to cross the border in time but a punctured radiator ment that we had to spend about three hours at the Mbeya junction. We reached the border an hour after it was closed. Name withheld of PIL was of alot of help as he had to arrange for special treatment. We crossed the border but the driver got tired and we had to wait for Poly people at Chitimba Roadblock.

We reached late Dominic's home at 05:00hrs where he was buried the same day at around 14:00hrs

At the time of his death the late Dominic was a second year MSc in Renewable Energy student at Makerere University and was at University of Dar es Salaam for specialisations

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE