Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Unexpexted Fairwell Party




Having had such a tiresome week, Mr Jonathan Beckens , our teacher and members of staff of Macha vision community center organized a graduation party for their students and UNZA farewell party. It was so lovely and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We were called somewhere around 19hours of which we all met at the restaurant at the community center. There was beautiful food, dancing and speeches. It was awesome. It finished somewhere around 22:30 hrs.I thank them all for such a beautiful evening.

Final Project



Hallo!
Am fine just winding up everything.Last week was so busy that i had no time to blog but to work and work. We went to Macha Mission Hospital to survey the routers and their locations which made two routers from the ten, not to communicate with each other. Was tiresome but we managed. We noticed that in our places of interest, there were so many trees blocking the signals and the walls were too many and thick. We recommended that by putting an extra router midway between our places of interest would help solve the problem. This was somewhere near the TB Room. The trees couldn't be cut down as this would affect shelter meant for visitors and patients. Field work involved measuring distances, knowing where the routers were placed and determine the distances in between them and finally by using the Link Budget.
Upon surveying the place and doing the link budgets, we analyzed the situation and come with with a report, both on hard copy (Microsoft word) and power point.
On friday, Dr wakuwambwa our DEAN, Mr Njoyi our HOD, and our senior lecturer came to Macha for the Graduation Day for the LITA students (LINKNET STUDENTS). We also presented our final project report we undertook last week at the Mission Hospital. Was a beautiful day.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

UNZA


This is a place I can say I will miss. Different people grouped together following different cultures and behaviours. Many people wonder why we misbehave, as they would call it. Sometimes we do it for fun, to be noticed, when we are broke and we need the government to do something. Silly hey, we call it life!
First year and second were Bad, but now am a big girl and able to handle pressure. At one time during VIVAS, as we would call them, a can of tear gas dropped in my room and thank God nobody was in there. For the next two weeks my room was the most smelly room around the block. The pressure i would get from school, missing good movies at arcades during exam times, being innocently chased by the police and cursing them, the monks passing funny comments, all that will be missed.
I would go on and on and complain about our biggest university in the country but one thing for sure is that it has made me acquire knowledge and above all meet good people i may call friends. I love my school precisely school of engineering. So love your school. it is the reason why you are what you have become.
During this week we were learning about Behaviors of radio waves, huygens' principle, fresnel zones, link budget (which simply means how much the equipment costs and specifications, wheather or not your transmission will work depending on several factors like transmission power, sensitivity(ability to speak and hear) , cable loss, free space loss, Antenna gain. All these help to calculate the signal.
When Radio waves travel through air they produce fresnel zones.The higher the frequency, the higher it is absorbed. As a practical example we made a link budget. This afternoon we have a project somewhere in the hospital. There are about 10 routers in the hospital and two of them are not communicating with each other. Our main job for today is to find causes for this and to make a link budget and see if the solutions we will discover will work. We are going to use mesh networking and the software being used is called Freifunk software.
Over the weekend, We have been invited to the Lwindi ceremony practiced by the Tongas. Its an overview of their culture and traditional dances. I can't wait.

Happiness and Stress


Wow, today has been stressful. Been trying to log on to the web i opened for myself that is biddykams.multiply.com unfortunetly i forgot my password. Tried to use forgot your password service and guess what, the email is not being received in my in box. Spent like almost an hour. I felt so tired.
But then again i thought, Is it that am not happy today and thats why am forgetting things or what? Then i thought, the happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they simply make the most of everything that comes along their way.
When you have friends, it adds value to your lives. Have friends to build you up, to show you things, to help you, to share life's greatest gifts.
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who have searched, and for those who tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When I was born, I was crying and everyone around me was smiling. Lets live our lives so that when we die, you and I will be the ones smiling and everyone around us will be crying.
So lets be happy and put on a smile everyday. Life is too short.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Tears of a woman!


Have you ever wondered why your wives ,girlfriends ladies in general cry?Well, here is the answer.
A boy asked his mother
why do you cry?
Because i am a woman, she answers.
I don't understand ,he says
His mother hugs him and says:
and u never will.
Later the little boy asked his father
why does mommy cry?
all women cry for a reason is all that his father could answer him.
When he become an adult like you, he asked God:
Why do women cry so easily? and God answered;
When I created women,she needed to be special.
I created her shoulders strong enough to bear the weight of the world
and soft enough to be comforted.
I gave her the strength to give life,
the kind that accepts the rejection that often comes from children.
I gave her the strength to allow her to go when everyone gives up.
The kind that takes care of her family,despite illness and fatigue.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children unconditionally, even when they have hurt her deeply.
I gave her the strength to endure her husband in his faults
and to stay at his side without weakening and finally, i gave her tears to shed whenever she needs them to be shed.
So you see, the beauty of a woman is not in the cloths she wears, nor is it in her face or in the way she does her hair.
The beauty of a woman resides in her eyes.
It is the door to her heart, the door where love resides.
And often through her tears that you see her heart go by.
All beings are beautiful.
Get to appreciate your lady and be proud of her. There is just one chance in life.Live to your best.
Remember, Love begins with a smile
grows with a kiss
and ends with a tear!

HAVE A BLESSED DAY.