i need POWER !!!!!!

sorry, i havent posted for a while. i am pretty stuck up in work, travelling north for 2 weeks and next week again to do strategic workshops with possible partners for the renewable energy programm, which i have to coordinate. financial accounting for GTZ, meetings for possible new position in water, management issues, and etc etc . having to work at the weekends- i definately NEED HOLIDAYS!! which i will get soon, but still struggeling to get the chinese visa. so this adds to more stress. what i need is Power, to manage the next 3,5 weeks untill i sit in the airplane (with my visa) travelling to BJ.

and hihihi, see this powerful small guy is supporting me. no, its not Photoshop!

olympic games

the old chinese tradition of YIN and YANG also refers to my feelings concerning the Olypmic games.
YIN: beeing too sad leaving china, missing this big event, YANG: glad to have left to espcape the national crazyism
YIN: yes, it has been fantastic games, architecture, ceremony, events as such YANG: the cheating during the ceremony and the unbelievable sportive results, just leqaves an unease mood.

and teh big question: what is happening next to beijing, now as the climax the country and city waited for the last years is over?

anyway, ugandans here, did not care so much about the Olympics. football yes. all the time in TV and print. but the Olympic event passed quiete queit here in the media. except the running event. But no medal for Uganda. The biggest athlete ever, coming from Uganda, was Akii-Bua who won the gold medal in Munich for 800 m track. He later became a police officer, got a road named after him and 11 children. One of which is Alice: our nice receptionist.

Hip Hop in Uganda

thanks to a link from Alex, i surfed into the depths of Uganda HipHop. sure, hiphop is the most popular music together with some sort of local reggae/ragga. the biggest artist is Bobby Wine, Baby cool, and CHAMELEON, which are singing in local languages.
Music is big business, with CHAMELEON beeing so rich, that the funds for his weddings accelerated the national budget in the Health sector! there are some local small local music stalls, where you can go and sample your own cd. but besides, the level of ugandan hiphop & reggae is still low. I've been on 'big' concerts, which were only playback! but biiiiig hiphop posing as well.

this post is from an upcoming/running documentary film (diamonds in the rough), featuring the SqUAD, which i never heard of here, but are apparently really good.