Monthly Archive for April, 2008

The famous tricky but illegal game played by thieves other way to say left a married woman naked. The game locally known as “wachiona ndani” simply means who has seen it persuades as if a person can win lots of money. A woman who was after buying relish for her home stopped watching how the tricky men were playing and making themselves winning money. The woman was persuaded on how others were winning lots of money without knowing that they were owners of that game. She paid some money and they made her win lots. They also persuaded her to pay again and she did, but not win again. She paid and finished all money she had. She continued by taking off her clothes until she left with pant only. Her husband chased the woman from home for what she did.

Ate porridge. In the afternoon, my wife informed me that there was no relish that we could take nsima as our everyday staple food. “What is to be an alternative?” She asked me. “If you can only cook white maize flour porridge it is ok. We can not do otherwise, because I don’t have any money to buy relish,” I told her. She prepared that porridge which we took as our supper.

I woke up early and asked my wife to prepare breakfast. She prepared it and Robert called me to be prepared for there was a hired minibus to take us from home, Chinangwa village. The minibus arrived home at 6:57am. Robert and I boarded to the office. The whole team boarded at the office. We arrived Nchalo early at 7:45am. The training started at 8am. The convener, Doreen for Twin Trading welcomed me in the house. Reviewing what they covered on their past training was the first issue.

We had lunch at Sports club and was so nice. We were discussing much of the training contents especially on how to use premium funds for this second quarter. It was nice training because it covered much on quality management for both Kasinthula management team and Kasinthula Fairtrade premium committee members.

Some management team and Fairtrade committee members attended Quality Management System training conducted by Twin Trading, one of the biggest customers of Kasinthula sugar on Fairtrade deal. It was the second session of the training because it was already conducted on March.

Had lunch with friend. I called Alfred to come home to take lunch with me. I realized that the relish I had was as good as my friend prefers. “It was a good meal, thank you very much for your call to take what I prefer much” Alfred said. “You are welcome” I replied.

It was cloudy and a bit cool. I took breakfast and then took a bath in preparation for the check up at the hospital. Other were busy going to their respective working places. Some family members were fighting on money utilization disagreement. The husband was accused of using a lot of money drinking beer leaving the family members starving of hunger and was away for 5 days. The wife with three children assistance fought the housefather.

Check up. I left at 7am, for hospital to have checked up. I met the doctor and he assisted me. He then advised me to keep on taking care of the wound, as it seemed having some small infection. After check up I went to the deport waiting for the lifts back home. I boarded minibus and arrived home at 1pm.

It was bright sunshine and I was just sweeping within my compound while my wife was preparing breakfast. After breakfast I was planning to go to the market buying relish. A mobile butcher brought with him a goat meat. My wife called him and he negotiated to my home. I was inside my house and she called me to see if it was real fresh meat and of good quality. “It is nice and fresh that you can enjoy if you buy me and you shall not regret. It is affordable” the butcher persuaded me to buy. “Is your meat tested by specialist or a veterinary officer?” I asked that mobile butcher. “No it is mine there is no need of consulting someone else to have my goat meat tested” he answered. I urged him to stop selling locally his meat within Chinangwa village though it was cheaper than at the market. I advised my wife not to buy locally sold meat because it is always disease untested or die of some contagious diseases and then sold it, which is hazardous to peoples’ lives. At around 7:40am, my friend got me home. He asked me to escort him at the market on his bicycle. I also told him that I was lacking a means of transport to buy relish at the market.

Watching football match.
Soon after knocking off from he work being half day I left home for lunch. I found my wife with her friend just chatting. “Is here any food to take? Because I want to leave for Mthumba Primary School to watch football match between Chinangwa FC and Chikalumpha FC” I asked my wife. “I have already prepared it , let me just take it for you” she answered. Soon after taking that lunch I went to my friend’s house to take me on his bicycle to Mthumba because mine was not in good condition. The match kicked off at 3pm. It was a good game, which we enjoyed watching. It ended 4-3 in favor of Chikalumpha. “Why is our team nowadays just loosing whenever we meet teams which we had been defeating?” my friend Alfred asked me while cycling back home. “Don’t you wonder it is because our team has got no football that players can keep on training when preparing matches” I told Alfred. “You are quite right friend” he commented. He asked me as a team manager to find ways how we can source funds to buy one or two footballs.

Supper with vegetables. Nsima is only our staple food especially Southern part of Malawi. Late evening my wife told me that there were only vegetables as relish. I told her to cook nsima for we could not do otherwise. It nice supper because she added some groundnuts to vegetables as a means of increasing flavor.