Those who know the Dune know that in the title I am playing with the line from the book/movie… “the sleeper must awaken!” and that the Sleeeper is in a way Mua’d Dib, the main character….
Those who know my Laptop know it was named Mua’d Dib…
Those who know the status it was in for the last months (fixed with sticky tape and being slower and slower) will most probably not be surprised to find out that….
….he is dead 
Like no beep, no light nothing, peace of plastic and metal now. Mua’d Dib rests now on the bottom of my schelf waiting for a decision on what do I do with him…
…I am so glad that like week before (after the keyboard went crazy) I copied all my data on a portable USB drive!
You were my true mate…. Pakistan, India, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Poland, Romania… through hills, forests and deserts …. to school and work and for pleasure. Boy, if you drunk beer I would call You a best friend, but You didnt (well once You drunk some water but that doesnt count)….
I will miss You…
Yep so the traffic in Accra sucks…
- In morning all roads are clugged because everybody goes to work
- On midday all roads are clugged because everybody goes for lunch
- At afternoon all roads are clugged because everybody goes home
So whereever You go, it takes at least two hours…
So why not use it and create a mobile hypermarket?
Whenever You stop or slow donw there is somebody selling something from a basket on the top of their head or from their hands, here is a selection of goods I noticed while waiting on a crossroad:
- walking sticks
- covers for suit
- DVD cleaning set
- shirts
- glasses
- binoculars
- clocks
- ballon ball
- window shades
- souvenirs
- cell phone credit cards
- newspapers
- chocolate
- hankerchiefs
- yam (like big potatoes)
- books
- rat poison (with a sample dead rat to attract attention)
- water
- CDs and DVDs
This is something that every visitor to Ghana will point out - the interesting “hobby” of Ghanians to put quotes from the Bible on the most random places… Including the names of their small enteprises… So here are some of my most favorite messages and shop names in Ghana:
- God Is Able Enterprise (a funeral service!)
- Fear Not Barbering Salon
- Friends of Jesus Salon (a beauty salon)
- Believe in Jesus Enterprises (selling dog food)
- In God We Trust Limited (get it?
)
- His Grace Video and Photo Production
- God Only, To Let Rooms with 2, 3 and 4 beds
- God First Auto Parts
- Christ Cares Communications (cell phone seller)
- God Is Great, In stock (and following pictures of bags and shirts)
- Thank You Jesus Frozen Foods
- No Weapon Foods
And the hobby to put the randomest messages on Taxis, Cars and vanbuses:
- on a taxi: “Keep On Praying” (where someone scratched out the R or was it L?)
- front of a truck: “Jesus is coming”
- front of a truck: “Judgement Day”
- van-bus: “We Act As Lovers”
- van-bus: “Good Morning Jesus”
- van-bus: “Last Killer”
- taxi: “No Food For Lazy Man”
And give churches the most interesting names and promotions:
- [some] Presbiterian Church - professionalism and expertise
- Fellowship with US at Winners Chapel Ghana - come experience God with US
- Saints Convenion with topic “I fear no evil”
- Winners Chapel International - homeof signs and wonders
- Word Miracle Church International - where Jesus makes everybody somebody
Generally choosing the most interesting names for shops:
- Patience Fast Food
- Hot Date Fast Food
- Honestly Fast Food
- Qwickpik (superstore)
- Cake tekniks (bakery)
And putting the nicest smily pictures next to the most horrific texts:
- A smily boy and mother on the billboard “Dewormex 300 - Your one stop dewormer!”
- Billboard: A wide smiling couple and the text “HIV/AIDS is curable”
- Front page of a newspaper with a picture of a smiling posh couple with the bigfont title (of an another article) next to it: “Dead bodies rot in hospital”
So my laptop named Mua’d Dib is giving signs of old age for quite a while, recently I didnt really help him by uninstalling the antivirus and trying to install a different one… of course the new one didnt work and my boy got infested with lots of crazy worms…
But I got already used to the fact that:
- sticky tape has to keep the plastic casing together and dust from falling free inside,
- the DVD ROM doesnt work,
- the battery lasts like 3 minutes,
- the power plug is loose so that if I dont notice the laptop dies due to lack low battery,
- keys of the number 1 and 3 and the Tab are not working…
But this new craziness beats all…
My keyboard types random crap! Lets have a look on a few extraordinary functions of my laptop keyboard:
- press “n” and get ” n “,
- press “p” and get “yop\”,
- press “0″ and get “o;0″
- AND press “o” and get my favorite “zoôň [enter]“
I googled it and found out its not actually that rare, a lot of people have faced such problems caused by faulty drivers, static electricity or unknown paranormal activity… (or just idiocy when someone didnt notice that he has the laptop NumLock on :P).
Lets see which case is mine… Will need to find an USB keyboard to see how deep the damage goes.
PS: i tried to see if reinstalling Windows fixes the problem
But by accident I have installed the new Windows on disk D: instead of C:… which is good because I realized I dont have the laptop drivers with me in Ghana so if I succeeded I would have a nice cute 486-like computer (if You still remember what those numbers mean)
So I did what I was threatenign people around me for a while here
I bought a bike!
I cant find a way to upload the pictures now, but just imagine that baby:
- the front fork, the gear/breaks cable tubes and the stearing are girly pink,
- the rest of the bike is purple with streaks of pink,
- its a little bit too small for my size so I always lean on the stearing,
- when breaking it makes sounds like when You are stragling a cat AND
- its all mine (like, who else would like it?)
I should say that I had a bike chosen, pretty acceptable piece of something, but was out of cash for a week due to the dentist saga that I might post a while later about. So imagine that when I finally scratch out the cash, call the guy and he brings… pinkie! Because of the color nobody wants it so it was even cheaper - 60 USD.
Wait for the adventures of KLepo and Pinky! I was even thinking about going across Ghana on bike (Ghana is pretty small, I could easily do the distance) but the heat that is on during 5 hours of day persuaded me that its a bad idea… at least for now
So I have finally made some pictures of Ghana and uploaded them online…
Get used that they will be placed always here:
www.picasaweb.google.com/klepo.ghana
enjoy
PS: try also picasaweb.google.com/klepo.pakistan and picasaweb.google.com/klepo.slovakia
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