My New year in juba

May be i should say am now grown up to be independent and have my own decisions. After chrismas day on 26 i traved back to kampala for my new years day. Little did i know that i would be in juba that day. On 28/12/2007 while in kla town i meet one of my friend who was travelling to juba. he conviced me to trave with him. It did nt take long when i made up my mind and the next day i was in juba.

Life in juba looked to be crazy. The streets were deserted and a few pple were in town. I couldnt imagine i made such decision. to celebrate year 2008 in juba. however life hard to go on. The next day i went to office. it costed my almost four hours to see a person cross the nile commerce road(street). What meant to be busy city in southern city was just so deserted that one could one afford to either meet sudanese happy celebrating their holidays.

This made my life so un believeable when a mad mad entered in our office. it cost me 30 minutes to move him out of office. the language barrier and a combination of other factors made the 30 minutes turn to be hours.

Looking for want to eat was not all that easy. as want we term as ugandan food was only in a few place and abit far from my working place.

Want bathered me most is during my field work, most office would leave behind anote that reporting to work was on 7/1/2008. This never carried alot of mean just bse on 8th afew hard open and were preparing for 9/1/2008. This is the CPA day. Aday when the CPA was signed between the SPLA/SPLM and government of sudan. This day left pple celebrating bse there was no work .

I person concluded by saying "sudanese enjoy, like and observe holidays" un like in uganda where every man is on his own.

Patrick to wed Juliet

Greetings to you in the name of Jesus Christ,
Ladies and gentlemen, parents, relatives, friends, and all well wisher in your respective Capacities. Once again, we pleased to inform you of our intension and plans in the new year 2008.

Patrick Muhire and juliet Arinaitwe with great pleasure wish to inform you that time has come to fulfill our promises and dreams. We are organising our wedding that is scheduled for August 2008. Below is a sketch plan for the functions.

Complete plan

February -- The go between will visit Juliet’s family
March -- Patrick will pay a visit to Juliet’s family
April -- Introduction.
Mid June -- Start of the meetings for the preparation of the wedding party
August -- Give away ceremony
August -- Wedding.

ITALY WITH MOST DANGEROUS MAFIAS

Salvatore Lo Piccolo was arrested near Palermo

Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who had been at large for 20 years, was apprehended along with his son and two other men near the Sicilian capital, Palermo.

All four men were among Italy's top 30 most wanted Mafia suspects, police officials said.
Mr Lo Piccolo, 65, is believed to have succeeded the Cosa Nostra Mafia's "boss of bosses", Bernardo Provenzano, after he was arrested last year.

Officials say those arrested were Mafia chiefs who exercise immense power over the territory they control
"The Lo Piccolos were two bosses involved in restructuring the Mafia after the arrest of Provenzano and are go-betweens with the American Mafia," AFP news agency quoted Mr Forgione as saying.

"Since the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano, the boss of bosses of the so-called Corleonesi Mafia, Salvatore Lo Piccolo was considered the new boss."
Mr Provenzano, who led the Cosa Nostra from the early 1990s, was arrested in April 2006 after being on the run for more than 40 years.

Mr Lo Piccolo’s History

RISE OF THE BARON
Lo Piccolo began his crime career as a bodyguard for a Sicilian Mafia boss
He is believed to have taken over after Provenzano's arrest in 2000
Magistrates believe he fought for the leadership with Matteo Messina Denaro
Lo Piccolo has been on the run since 1983

Mr Lo Piccolo allegedly began as a bodyguard for a Sicilian gangster and worked his way up through the organisation.

With his son Sandro - who was also arrested - 65-year-old Lo Piccolo has been a major power-broker in Sicily despite having been on the run for nearly 25 years.
Nicknamed The Baron, he is believed by magistrates to have taken over from Bernardo Provenzano, who was the undisputed head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra from 1995 until his arrest in 2006.

Provenzano had run the Corleone Mafia, which gained supremacy in the 1980s. It hailed from the town of the same name in central Sicily, immortalised as the birthplace of the Marlon Brando character in the film The Godf

After Mr Provenzano's arrest, Mr Lo Piccolo was believed to be among his most likely successors, along with Antonino Rotolo and Matteo Messina Denaro.
Mr Rotolo was arrested in June 2006. Mr Denaro remains at large.
Mr Piccolo's arrest came on the day that Palermo held a day of memory for all victims of the Mafia.

The Mafia's "Ten Commandments"

The Mafia's "Ten Commandments"
The original Ten Commandments
1. No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
2. Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol
3. Never be seen with cops.
3. Thou shalt not make wrongful use of the name of thy God
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
4. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife's about to give birth.
5. Honor thy Father and Mother
6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.
6. Thou shalt not murder
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
10. Thou shalt not covet

Why death is always good?

The willingness to call everything into question and the determination to accept nothing less than an adequate account of the nature of things makes you the first clear exponent of critical philosophy.

We shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things:
Death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness. As men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain.

For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others.

Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good.

Muhipa's Interest

Patience is a Flower That Grows Not In Every Garden