Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

When I got out of my room this morning, the kitten Snow was there ready to run into the room!

I thought of using speech sounds for the sound workshop. Last night we started having problems with one of the two computers. Today, a Christian NGO group came over to look at what the problem was - and they just took the computer and hopefully would be able to make repairs. One of the members of this group told me he had been to the Philippines before, in Cagayan de Oro - in particular Xavier University. He was interested also in coming as observer to the sound workshop.

Just finished discussing YN’s flowchart and we’re doing really very well!

It must nearly be ten in the evening when we came back from dinner with our hosts and a woman friend of theirs at her place - a bar and restaurant with a souvenir shop, a rich Singaporean woman married to a French and both living and doing business in Myanmar for ten years now. She was very nice. She was also not very optimistic about our hosts pushing on with the center and she keeps telling them to go somewhere else, and she has lots of problem stories about dealing business with Myanmar people and working with them, etc. She stays anyway because she has already invested so much in Myanmar. She’s worried now that the peak season which is supposed to have started doesn’t seem to be starting out well - things must be on the way down for Myanmar because of increased sanctions. Internally, it seems that most people in the country simply do not have the skills to compete globally. Well, Myanmar is a closed country and the most progressive and intelligent people from the 50s are gone now.

I thought she was nice but if she was in the Philippines I won’t get anywhere near her. She’s so much like this rich socialite woman that my ex-colleague adores so much (in a mother-son kind of way) because she’s a kind of patron for his artworks. She is also much like an art patron kind of person, and her positioning sort of depresses me. I tried to get some rest tonight but felt too tired and disturbed by some things…

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