Baby sitting for the bride on her wedding day

January 22 1994  (Saturday) Renewed the P.O.Box for 45,000 guarani in the post office.

  

Jose Farias and Marie’s wedding day.

In the afternoon at around 5:00 Paul and we followed Jose’s car to km. 16 to attend his wedding.

Shirley and I help took care (baby sit) of the baby of Marie (the bride) so that the bride and bridegroom and concentrate on their wedding.  

Quintana came.

We left the wedding 12:30 midnight following the car of Mr. Quintana.

January 27, 1994  (Wednesday) The 4 new machines from Taiwan arrived.  

January 28, 1994  (Thursday) The new GM of Macosur Marcos Antonio came to Macosur.

Adam gave us a pan as gift.

I went out for dinner with Marcos, Quintana and Paul.

The sign from vomitting

January 14, 1994 (Friday)

Paul arrives today from Asuncion tomorrow he will come to Macosur.

January 17, 1994  (Monday)

Paul, from Taiwan, has come on Saturday.

Shirley vomited for 3 times early this morning on the way to office. I could not attend to her because I must attend to Paul first.

I decided to bring her for a check up.

Air conditioner

January 07, 191994  (Friday) Jose installs the air condition in our office.

Workers are happy. Today is salary advance day for them.  

Jan.08, 191994  (Saturday) I went to the ciudad del este alone just to collect our weekly mails.

No much money left for Shirley to buy things.

Whole body is itchy. Can't walk well with 3 pimples.  I wonder the cause is from contaminated well water by the dead toad found few days earlier.

At around 2:00 P.M. Suddenly rain.  

January 09, 191994  (Sunday) At around 10:30 Jose came to bring us to his house at Km.16.

He cooked asado vaca with mandiorka. After eating he took us for a walk in his land. He has the intension of selling. It a beautiful piece of land.

We took the 2:00 bus to ciudad del este to attend Buddhist talk in a house temple in a shop house. Not interesting and I was sleepy.

JANUARY 11, 191994  (Tuesday) At night at around 11:00 p.m. Night shift double sizerer machine operator, Adam hurt his arm and send to hospital.  

January 13, 191994  (Thursday) The operator Hammes resigned because of the parquets wrong measurements. The night shift produced 45 cm. instead of 45.5. 

Drinking water of rotten toad with worms

January 03, 191994  (Monday) A first day of work.

Mr. Quintana noticed that the water supplied from the well was not good so he asked Vanderley to see the well.

Inside the well is rotten toad (frog) with worms. We have been drinking and bathing with water from the well.

Lucy and Vanderley busy the whole day to drain out all water from the well.

Paraguay has big rivers and many lakes. But our whole local area has no water treatment. No water supply system. Every house here has their own well. The poor scoop water out from well with buckets while those can afford will install an electric water pump.

After the well emptied, Mr. Quintana put medicine into the well. In a couple of days the well will be fully filled back with water again.

Lunch time we just eat fruit salad and toasted bread. At night I cooked thin noodle with chicken and sardines. We drink 3 cups of tea (each).

Afternoon we played badminton.  This is our regular games which play every couple of days.

Baby birds gone on the first day of new year 1994

January 01, 1994  (Saturday) It's New Year time! Both of us woke up at late morning between 10:00 to 11:00. This morning at 12:00 We eat pancit and bread for our breakfast at the same time lunch.

The baby birds were gone.

We had curry vegetables for dinner but Vanderley and Carlos did not eat much because for them curry is too hot.

January 02, 191994  (Sunday) I made a wooden stand for putting plates.

New Year Eve 1994

December 31, 93 (Friday) Last day of 1993. We bought 2 tins of Peach to visit Juan.  Juan was the young farmer we visited month ago. There is no special event to see Juan but that my interest to see his farm again. He and his mother live in a typical farm house in Paraguay and those of in South America.

Unfortunate I never took a photo of the farm for memory.

Juan, in return gave us also a chicken and pumpkin.

He expresses interest to borrow some money from me to start some sort of small sundry shop in his house. How I am beginning to learn a habit of the local ‘borrowing money’.

While back in Malaysia, borrowing money is not a good thing for one reputation, over here borrowing money is a way of life, a habit.  But Malaysian are not must batter, only that we have a more Intellecture word to beautify the habit. Instead of blandly say “Borrow money”, in the big city we use the words “Credit” and “Installment”. 

Here it goes again, at night Jose came and borrowed 20,000 Guaranies and promised to pay on Tuesday.

For New Year Eve dinner

Jose bought carne va ca for barbeque.

Shirley cooked pancit and sticky rice.

The brother of Vanderley came together with the boyfriend of Vanderley to eat dinner with us. It's 12:00midnight  WELCOME TO THE YEAR 1994.