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		<title>Limbo???</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing like sitting staring at a PC monitor tryiing to figure out what to write &#8211; writer&#8217;s block? Maybe in an attempt to be ingenuous I have now started to grow a beard not long but scarecely covering my face. One thought that comes to mind now is whether I Should caffine to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=75&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good god time does fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe how time flies and how everything seems to change suddenly. A lot has happened in the past months Tilahun Guesses passed away so did Fitawrari Amede Lema and W/o Sinidu. You know it moments like these that make us wish that we could have known or tied to know these people- no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=56&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Ethiopian New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes the New Year has come what was I up to since my last blog. Literally running around I started volunteering for this local NGO helping out with content development and writing proposals but the guys there have somehow got it in their minds that I am available 24/7 so I literally get calls at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=54&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get this eerie feeling whenever I post after a long absence. the problem is that you loose steam or over a case of writer’s block or have too many projects the phrase ‘biting off more than you can chew comes to mind here’. I believe my last blog was in March following the draft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=49&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Draft law meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting weekend which started off with a long but intriguing meeting at the Hilton. The meeting was supposed to be a stakeholders&#8217; forum on the draft of Ethiopia&#8217;s media and freedom of information law. To be frank I have not really looked into the draft much but from my minimal reading there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=46&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cracks are showing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are at the half way mark of the Easter fasting season Menyelenal has so far broken fast in four unfortunate  occasions. I think temptation has gotten the better of me in those rare occasions of weakness but I persist and try to purge those minor indiscretions through a strenuous cleansing ceremony but I am happy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=45&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>let the fasting begin</title>
		<link>http://menyelenal.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/let-the-fasting-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethiopian Lent fasting season started today. I don&#8217;t know why but something about two months fighting the urge to stuff oneself with meat, poultry and diary products brings a smile. I used to be a devout  faster or abstainer if you like I would growing up me and my siblings would compete against each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=44&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back</title>
		<link>http://menyelenal.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/im-back-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi long time no blog I know first off the new office has no telephone lines as yet so our cell phones have now become the office’s official telephone it is fun if you look at it I get telephone calls routinely some are funny other are inquiries about matters I do not have any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=43&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering from the millennium fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for vanishing, well celebrating a new year and a new millennium does take a toll on one&#8217;s energy things are gradually settling down. One should never underestimate the power of a new year, people are talking about resolutions, some turning over a new leaf,  some brooding over marriage. And what is funny is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=41&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well this happens when there are too many receptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past three weeks were crazy I do not know hoe but there are too many social engagements be it business or just social. This weekend was no exception &#8216;graduations&#8217; I had to go to two of my friends graduation [I later canceleld the trip called them and postponed for a party later in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menyelenal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=248050&amp;post=40&amp;subd=menyelenal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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