People ate, drunk and danced on a Beautiful Saturday, August 23rd BBQ
for Geneva Tanzanian Mission and family. We also had a surprise birthday
for two lovely twins of Mr. Toba and family reaching 1 years old.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
SABABU YA KUISHI
Baada ya kuzaliwa .....
Ulizaliwa na mwanamke
Ulizaliwa katika dunia hii
Je, kuna ubora wowote
Kabla sijaandika barua hii
Subiria, chukua mapumziko .......
Fikiria ..... Ka na ufikiri kwa bidii!
SWAHILI VERSION OF "REASON TO LIVE" POEM
Je, Wewe ni nani?
Kwa nini uko hapa?
Ni nini lengo lako?
Kwani nini we utofauti?
Wapi ulipo na unapo enda?
Je umemaliza?
Kama huwezi kujibu hayo
Basi wewe umepotea .....
UMEPOTEA KABISA!!
Hauko peke yako
Wapo wengi waliopotea
Waliopotea katika ukungu huu
na kama una lengo
Utakuwa makini .....
Makini kufungua ukweli
Makini kuwasha taa katika hili giza
Makini kuvunja vifungo vya kupotea
Hizi ni sababu za Kuishi
Tafakari na jaribu kupata majibu
Haupo peke yako, dada kaka!
Wote tunajaribu kuishi
kuishi katika dunia hii.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Career Goals
I
haven’t thought of my career goal until when this question hit me in the face.
I do have plans to be successful in life, but I still don’t know how. I have
been a good student, hardworking, motivated and humble. In life we are always
learning something new. I believe education is the key to be successful. The
only problem is that most of the successful people we know so far haven’t
really completed their education. Good examples are Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg
and Steve Jobs who are school dropped outs. Career goal is always a journey
which people need to go through step by step to reach the level of their satisfaction.
My
career goal is to be an Actuary. I have been working towards that goal, and by
majoring my bachelor degree in Actuarial Science here at Baruch college. The
career requires intensive math and finance courses that will lead to careers
into insurance field / Stock and bond markets or to financial institutions. I
do love math and I enjoy struggling with such a career.
Everybody
has expectations of what their life will consist of in the future. My career is
very important to me. I hope to set my occupational and educational goals and
not have to ever look back or think of starting over. A dream job is something
that I want to strive for and put all my time and energy into. I would hate to
begin an occupation and then five years down the road decide that it’s not
right for me. I approach life now, after a year has gone by, with a new outlook.
There is a time and place in life for everything.
Academically,
I will continue to strive to put forth all of my effort into my classes. I will
challenge myself, and work hard at what does not come easy. My goal is to do
the best I can and to have fun as I do it. I will focus more on my career
decisions than my drives and passions. Gaining support from my wonderful family
has helped a lot. Their encouragement has kept me strong through the hard times
and good times. I do remember times when I almost reached a point of giving up,
or thinking why am I in school; while there are people who are working without
a degree. It was stressful and depressing sometimes. Then over time I learned
that even those who are in Management/ CEO ladder had to go through that. It is
all about dedication and determinations to fight through until reach that goal.
Goals
are meant to be worth fighting for. Just like basketball players, wrestlers,
football players, or soccer players fight to win for their team and themselves.
A career goal is meant to be worth fighting for one self, a team, or a cause.
Each of us has priorities of how our careers should be defined to us. Some want
a career for financial security, others want a career for titles, and we have
others who go for a career out of choose not having any other options to run
to. Therefore, career goals can be ones destiny and is not easily to be
discussed in certainty.
My
career Goal will be well defined when I am done with my highest level of
education. I will focus on what I love
and invest all my efforts in it by planning, organizing myself and putting in
place execution roadmap. In doing so I
will definitely succeed because I believe all successful people do what they
love and invest all efforts in it. Those
who have great education they become world leaders or global business
leaders. It is about having adequate
knowledge and doing what you love while keeping your focus until it is
done. I came to realize that even Bill
Gates and late Steve had private tuition to improve their understanding on what
they love to do. The history shows that
both of them believed in themselves that they will succeed, win and kept on
trying harder even when they failed in the process they never gave up. They found out the cause of their failure and
corrected it. Such characters are rare
and that is why they are global leaders no one can dispute them. The same apply to Braxton of Virgin Atlantic
Airways, and Warren Buffet etc. They
employ the best brains in the world, compensate them properly, and focus on
what they want to achieve to be of a high standard in the market.
Would
you be a person of this character? It is based on how consistent and resilient you
can be. Money is an outcome of ones
efforts and not the key driver.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
FAIRY TALES~
Fairy Tales
I think we all heard one
At least one fairy tale
As we were growing up
Some of us heard many
And never got fed up
Sometimes I wonder...
Why!! why Disney???
Disney and all other fairy
Fairy Tales stories took
Took a lot of girls assander
These girls have grown...
Grown believing on Cinderella
Waiting and waiting for umbrella
Umbrella without a holder no hela
They don't own even one slipper
A slipper to loose and get reclaim
Waiting for Prince Chammy..
Do they even exist?
Or is it a lot of snippers
Fooling girls with fake love
The love which end up lust
The love to like get under their pants
And girls love it, love to be fooled
Love to popular, revealing and exposing
Exposing lovely bodies
While by the end they day
They end up crying
Crying that there is no one
No Prince Chammy!
If I recall very well
Cinderella wasn't famous
She didn't even wear designer cloths
She was a normal house girls
Dressed in very moderate clothing
So why in the world..
Why are you still waiting
For history to repeat itself
While you are not doing half
Not doing even half of it right
It is time to make the magic
And the magic will come right
Only if there is true love
Yes, Is only, Only by true love
Only by true love magic happens
Life is fairy tale my dears
And you can make one
Just as one day they can read you
You grandchildren read you as a story
A story of love that magic was made
Magic within true love
Stay Fairies my dears!!
Cheerz~
By Dr.Prof LM!!
"
I think i was in a wonderland, with Apple of the Eve :)
Sandy got Real!!!
HARRICANE SANDY EXPERIENCE
Is either one was opening the eyes to blind men. Sandy news
was ignored by majority after Irene not bringing any large effect. I
heard the news about the coming hurricane Sandy since Friday October 19th,
but I paid no attention like everybody else. The last time I remembered we were
told about Hurricane Irene which did very little damage.
In my experience,
living in Roosevelt Island, on Tuesday, the day of the Hurricane, I started
getting scared. Over a suddenly everything got real. We are living on a top
floor apartment building, 15th floor so at least that was not so scary. But by Wednesday
4:30 pm evening of October 24th the water of the East River were
flooded and passed the fence on the river walk side. Nearly 1/3 of the Island
tip was already under water seen in a video taken by some stubborn people who
were still outside try to make sure that Hurricane Sandy was real. In
Roosevelt Island we have only 3 ways to exit the Island: if one is driving
there is only one Way Bridge leading to Queens Borough which got closed, or by
taking the F train, and by using the Tram (an airbus). Now keep in mind I told
you we are living in an Island, so my biggest fear was to be stuck in it and
not finding any route of escape. Trains got closed by 7pm and the tram too, the
bridge was already closed earlier that day.
Thanks lord our electricity didn't get shut down, but all our
elevators were shut down. It prevented curious people like me to go out and try
to swim in the flooded water as if I am swimming in a river in Africa.
My family didn't worry much. We were already told we are on the safe zone, so it was more of hearing the wind noise and trees branches falling outside and listening to any popping emergency news from the TV.
That night we couldn't sleep at all. We prayed that God protect his people, because we knew power of nature sometimes is stronger than any human intelligence.
News was getting scarier; people living in Far Rocker way, and New Jersey were highly affected by Sandy. My dad started making calling to friends and coworkers to make sure they are safe. My mom did the same, and as you know I wouldn't get to call my entire bunch of friends, so I was constantly on my Facebook and texting people.
The next morning transportation system was still closed due to the damage of Sandy, so people got to stay home from work and school. Yes it was a happy day for us. My family and I got to create our own vacation at home. Well I don't remember the last weekday like Wednesday having my dad, mom and everybody home for lunch if it wasn't a big holiday like Christmas. We used those days of to watch movies on Netflix, catch up with some school work, and basically chill indoor.
After such experience I believe we have learned a lesson. My suggestion is to improve the underground transportation system so that we don't face such damage again that costed NYC MTA a lot of money to remove the flooded water. Also the city should build a better drainage system that allows water to go underground that being flooded on the streets or to people's house.
I would say Mayor Bloomberg and his team did a lot of work during and after the Sandy, so I will not question much about their effort as the city government.
To conclude, as I said before, "nature is stronger than human intelligence." therefore is the responsibility of us all to cooperate and work together to save and help others during such natural disasters.
My family didn't worry much. We were already told we are on the safe zone, so it was more of hearing the wind noise and trees branches falling outside and listening to any popping emergency news from the TV.
That night we couldn't sleep at all. We prayed that God protect his people, because we knew power of nature sometimes is stronger than any human intelligence.
News was getting scarier; people living in Far Rocker way, and New Jersey were highly affected by Sandy. My dad started making calling to friends and coworkers to make sure they are safe. My mom did the same, and as you know I wouldn't get to call my entire bunch of friends, so I was constantly on my Facebook and texting people.
The next morning transportation system was still closed due to the damage of Sandy, so people got to stay home from work and school. Yes it was a happy day for us. My family and I got to create our own vacation at home. Well I don't remember the last weekday like Wednesday having my dad, mom and everybody home for lunch if it wasn't a big holiday like Christmas. We used those days of to watch movies on Netflix, catch up with some school work, and basically chill indoor.
After such experience I believe we have learned a lesson. My suggestion is to improve the underground transportation system so that we don't face such damage again that costed NYC MTA a lot of money to remove the flooded water. Also the city should build a better drainage system that allows water to go underground that being flooded on the streets or to people's house.
I would say Mayor Bloomberg and his team did a lot of work during and after the Sandy, so I will not question much about their effort as the city government.
To conclude, as I said before, "nature is stronger than human intelligence." therefore is the responsibility of us all to cooperate and work together to save and help others during such natural disasters.
The Tip of Roosevelt Island all underwater. For those who have been at the Light house you will understand how deep this water could be.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
TANZANIA ECONOMIC REPORT
United
Republic of Tanzania has main capital in Dodoma, which is the middle state in
Tanzania. The currency used in Tanzania is called Tanzanian shillings, and the
main language is Kiswahili, and English. The population of Tanzania is
37,849,133 within 945,087 km2 which can be approximated as the size
of Texas State in US. The GDP per capita is 723 in terms of PPP of US$, and a
labor force of 24.06 million ranking it 27th highest labor force in the world.
The
economy in Tanzania depends highly on agriculture which in other words they
call it “kilimo uti wa mgongo” the Swahili phrase for “Agriculture is the backbone
of the economy”. In Tanzania agriculture counts more than 25% of the GPD,
provides 85% of exports, and employs 80% of the work force. The government has
also increased its spending to 7% of its budget to agriculture. Despite the
fact that Tanzania is located just south below the equatorial 00
latitude below Kenya where the heat of the sun is to the extreme, but the best
arable land around the Kilimanjaro mountain is best for coffee and sisal. The
topography and climate condition however, limit cultivated crops to only 4% of
the plantation areas.
It
is obvious that Tanzanian major exports will be based on agriculture which is
tobacco, coffee, cotton, cashewnuts, tea, and cloves. Other exports include
gold, diamond, Tanzanite, (the only mineral mined in Tanzania and not found
anywhere else in the world), and manufacture goods. In 2011 there was a total
of $7 billion external income on export. Tanzanian main export partners are
China 14.2%, India 9.1%, Japan 7.7%,
United Arab Emirates 5.7%, Netherlands 5.5%, Germany 5.1%, and Pakistan 3.1%
data from 2011. In this partnership one would see an influence on payment due
to technological degrade in Tanzania, most of these partner countries have a
huge influence in Tanzanian industries, which deprive the amount of money
earned within the exporting sector.
Tanzania
is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa such that GDP growth in 2009
to 2011 was a suitable 6% per year due to high gold prices and increased
production. It is a promising economy among other African countries, and being
ranked number 43 in the world fact book. The industry sector is counting 22.6%
of the country GDP. The industry has
mainly establish itself on agricultural processing such as sugar, beer,
cigarettes, sisal twine; mining diamonds, gold, and iron, salt, soda ash;
cement, oil refining, shoes, apparel, wood products, fertilizer. The industrial
growth rate in 2012 is 7%
The
exchange rate in Tanzania is 1571.1 T-shilling to a dollar from 2011. During
2011 also Tanzania experienced a shock on the supply side from higher global
price of fuel and regional draught. GDP growth of the first half 2011/2012 was
unchanged from 2010/2011 of 6.5%.
Thus,
Tanzania as any other blessed country with tremendous natural resources could
have been doing better in its GDP, if there were no double standards. “We both
knew that the U.S. Treasury and state departments, in collaboration with the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund purport to help Third World
countries pull out of recession however, they actually accomplish the reverse.”
One might wonder how is that even possible, if countries in Africa, East Asia,
and South America receiving all those aid, and funds from these big UN
organizations which meant to revive them from poverty; instead those massive loans invested into heavily
capitalized infrastructure projects, combined with privatization, do alleviate
poverty. But, while those loans and projects appeared good on paper, showing
that these countries receiving them enjoyed economic growth, the part that was
not disclosed was that paying off the interest meant diverting funds from
education, health care, and other social services. Sad news is the heavy debts
drove more and more people of these third world countries into poverty and
widening the gap between rich and poor.
Great
news is the government has woke up to educate its citizens especially women and
orphans who most of the time live in high dependency due to illiteracy. The
literacy percentage has been curving up since 2002 and even government has been
accepting donations, sponsors or scholarship for the best performing students to
go study abroad. As of 2012, Tanzania has a great percentage of students
studying in India medicine, Malaysia and in UK.
Countries
with high population growth rate tend to be poor. It is a great relieve to find
out that Tanzania has been working hard to the declining of its population growth
rate since 2000 and it is only working out to help reduce the economic burden
through decline in birth rate from 40.17% in 2000 to 31.81% in 2012. Tanzania
average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or
deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving
a country has been mainly affected by
the neighbor countries such as Congo, Rwanda and Burundi immigrants who seek
refuge.
Therefore,
I would like to conclude by saying that Tanzania has higher chances and I am
very positive it will be among the highly developed countries 50 years to come.
This country is on the escalator of developing, and is doing this through
decreasing it’s population growth rate such that since year 2000 which was 2.56% to 2% in 2011
and now being 1.96% in 2012. It is also
improving in terms of the Real GDP growth rate from 5.2% year 2000 to 6.7% in
2012. The government has emphasized education and we can see improvement in the
literacy level. The biggest obstacle in Tanzania is luck of energy and the
government has decided to invest on coal and gas which have been found with in
the country to ensure availability of electricity and help improve the country
in the sector of the industrialization. Tanzania also has much to be proud of
due to its great geographical location which attracts a lot of tourists to the
Kilimanjaro mountain, the safaris like to Serengeti creator, we have the lake
Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa, but most importantly we are the country of that
has the Zanzibar Island which is just opposite to Madagascar. The Minister of
Tourism has stepped higher standard to all these natural resources and making
sure all the revenue to the tourism goes straight to the government and not
being used illegally by local leaders through corruptions or other means.
TANZANIA REPORT
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37,849,133
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within 945,087 km2
|
|
|
$ 723
|
measured in terms of
purchasing power parity during 2011
|
|
|
$1500
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“
“
|
|
|
Year 2012=1.96%
|
Year
2011=2%
|
Year
2000=2.56%
|
|
2011= 6.7%
|
2010= 6.5%
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2000= 5.2%
|
|
2011 = 26.1%
|
2008=22.6%
|
2004=16.2%
|
|
2012= 16.55%
|
2007 = 12.79%
|
2004 =16.16%
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|
2011/2012
= 34%
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||
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2011= 36.1%
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2008=23.6%
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|
|
2011=5.43%
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2008=2.48%
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1999=0.83%
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|
2011= 8.65%
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2008=6.26%
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1999= 1.44%
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|
2010 = 7%
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2008= 9.1%
|
1999= 8.4%
|
|
2011= 12.7%
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2008=10.3%
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1999= 8.8%
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|
2003= 78.2%
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2002=69.4
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2003= 78.2%
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2010=6.8%
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||
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By 2005 =8.8%
And never change
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||
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2010 = 6.01%
maximum
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1960 = 4.58%
minimum
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
THE J.O.G.G.E.R
The jogger
Weather so good
Perfect day for jogging
Sweatpants T-shirt and a hood
His Nike snickers and an iPod
Today he is not alone
Apart from Nature and road
The road that carries them all
The road for joggers like him
Started jogging in the park
One step two steps attack
Start slowly not very harped
Accelerate as you move along the track
Very windy and cold
But heart pacing it all
Feet pounding hard on road
Trees breeze the heat away
Weather so good
Perfect day for jogging
Sweatpants T-shirt and a hood
His Nike snickers and an iPod
Today he is not alone
Apart from Nature and road
The road that carries them all
The road for joggers like him
Started jogging in the park
One step two steps attack
Start slowly not very harped
Accelerate as you move along the track
Very windy and cold
But heart pacing it all
Feet pounding hard on road
Trees breeze the heat away
"Today he is not alone Apart from Nature and road The road that carries them all The road for joggers like him"
By Dr. Prof. Lulu Mero~
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