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	<title>In The Cyber Cafe</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[To get the meaning of my name, check the 11th verse of the 55th chapter in the book of Isaiah which by the way is in the old testament of the bible. To get a glimpse at my character check John 1: 43 - 51. For the past 10 days our internet service providers have been disappointing and its not being helped by the 7 or 8 days we were forced to stay home due to the census. We are still calculating our losses even as our salaries are yet to be paid. The university of port Harcourt where i work, school and leave is still trying to take on some form of activity but we all know that it will not be the case until after the easter holidays which comes up mid month; the school calender started officially last Monday but no time table for lectures has been released. <br /><br />Welcome to my world, where things happen rather dramatically. I look forward to going home from work; its really been a long day with high voltage blowing up as many as 4 computer monitors and the rains disrupting our services for as much as 20 minutes; not to talk of the power outage that lasted for as much as 3 hours. Indeed I give God praise for strength (i did consume 3 meat pies and 2 bottles of sprite) but we must thank him all the same for provision.&nbsp; I hope to read a bit at night for my taxation exam which comes up next tomorrow; by the way am doing my MBA with accounting as the option. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>03 Apr 2006 20:19:50 +0100</pubDate>
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	<title>In The Cyber Cafe</title>
	<link>http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-9725.0.html#msg271211</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Got home to utter darkness. It was a terrible experience; i could not even eat or read just straight to bed and the night was cold. About 4am I could take it no more and had to drag myself to the reading table. By 5am light had come. I took a hot bath then left for the office by 7am. Today and Yesterday; I don&#039;t know which one was more challenging. We had to switch on the generators and leave the public electricity which is giving an output of 110 volts instead of 240 volts. By mid afternoon even that 110 fluctuating voltage was gone. The sun is high up in the sky and everywhere is humid. I have consumed 2 meatpies, 1 bottle of coke and 1 bottle of water today. My mom sent a mail from the US to say that we are very lucky to be living in Nigeria. Reason: A Tornado hit their region forcing them to take cover from the broken doors and windows. The TV station that was giving them instructions on how to take cover went off with the accompanying power cut. I have to read all night and all day tomorrow right into the examination which is slated for mid day.]]></description>
	<pubDate>04 Apr 2006 19:50:10 +0100</pubDate>
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	<title>In The Cyber Cafe</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[I did not go to the cyber cafe early yesterday because I needed to mentally tune my mind for the academic task ahead. The examination titled advanced taxation was very tedious but I gave it my best shot. Needless to say by the time we finished it in 2 hours 30 minutes the tension was high. The ten of us were just shaking our heads in disbelief cause it was very loaded. I had to make a dash for the cyber cafe hoping that there could be a little distraction. I had just been hit by a nightmare in the middle of the afternoon in the name of an examination. I suddenly felt like throwing up; so i ordered for peppered chicken from Mr. Biggs which is at uniport junction. I thought the bird flu scare would have caused a decrease in price but it did not. I bought it for N330. In any case I was much more stabilized after that and I did my job quietly before going home. For the records, we did not make use of public electricity yesterday cause we can no longer afford the negative impact on our clients and networth.]]></description>
	<pubDate>06 Apr 2006 11:36:24 +0100</pubDate>
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	<title>In The Cyber Cafe</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Today was quite an eventful one with plenty of time for everybody. We had to close shop for 2 hours in observing a general lock out to protest against the low voltage emanating from the public power service popularly called NEPA but officially known as Power Holding Company of Nigeria. The university authorities have promised to rectify the problem within a short time but till then we will continue to run our generators.&nbsp; By the way i bought 150 litres of it @ N80. Got to run now cause I need all the sleep I can get.]]></description>
	<pubDate>06 Apr 2006 20:14:59 +0100</pubDate>
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	<title>In The Cyber Cafe</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Thank God for strength; although i was having a headache. I don&#039;t envy those of you who are married with cars. Things have stabilized a bit in the office; my boss had to climb the mast and re-earth the radio antenna separately, he also tightened the connectors which where loose. We did not use generator for the entire 10 hours that we were in the office today which is quite a relief to us in the management team. I had to drop the car at the mechanic, after which I proceeded to the classroom for my final lecture in Oil and Gas Accounting which was rescheduled from 10am to Midday. It altered my plans because I was supposed to pick the car by that time and also go to pick my cousins son from the boarding school which has closed for the easter break. It was really a terrible situation. I left the mechanic by about 12.50pm and entered the classroom very tired and unsettled. I left the classroom and did the school runs in record time but was now tired, hungry, dehydrated and with a headache. If I thought the cybercafe will ease my stress then I was in for a shocker.<br />It was a picture that increased my pain. This our country is really becoming something else. Oh my God, indeed it appears a miracle will have to save my weekend. How can pastors preach against corruption when they wine and dine with the politicians who are the main players of the game? Is my eyes deceiving me? There must be a common denominator between all this people.<br />My mind had just received a flashing and it needed to be cooled down. A bottle of coke with two tablets of paracetamol did it. Just look at the picture which was culled from one of our local newspapers.[img][/img]]]></description>
	<pubDate>07 Apr 2006 19:53:09 +0100</pubDate>
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