Taima Creative

GOD DOESN'T EXIT.
No matter what people say.

I BUILT A COUCH & A TABLE.
On Friday, we were remembering one of Uganda's prominent person Archbishop Jenani Luwum, so like any other civil servant it was a holiday for me too.

Though i don't enjoy resting from home, i headed to Home Cart early morning yesterday to see if i could make some craft for my office, i thought i would be there for afew hours and then catch up a muchomo later in the afternoon with Joab my old time friend but things didn't go as planned.

While at Home Cart, i remembered that i have always wanted to make a centre table and a couch for my reception, i have actually since November last year kept that photo in Frame 1 because i wanted to build from it.

I showed the photo to Nelson (manager at Home Cart) and we both laughed, not because there was anything funny but beacuse i told him i wanted to finish it in only one day.

I wrote the Bill of Materials and handed it to him, good enough most of the items to start with were available so i dived in and started building, deep down i knew it was a hard paper for me to finish both items in one day but, what are men for?.

By afternoon i had only the frames of the couch assembled, offcourse i wasn't alone, i requested a hand from two of Home Cart staff, i was the senior instructor and project owner at the same time.
Unfortunately, my muchomo program with Joab was already ruined because sincerely there is no way i would leave at frames joinery stage so i called in with an apology.

Truth be told, by now i had already started losing morale because of the little accomplishement but i kept my spirit up by imaging about the final product, i love looking at what my hands can build, i can even spend a day admiring the work of my hands, mostly if i sweat through the process.

Evening came and we had finished cushioning the frames and next was sewing, it's one of the skill i admire to learn, Jess did the fabric cutting and later started sewing, i was completely drained by then because it was coming to 7pm but i had to finish what i had started, we assembled the seat frame, joined the table tops and called it a day.

Today's morning was so beautiful, however much i prefer watching the sun rise on Saturdays, today i to miss, i headed back to the workshop, Jess was already done sewing and straight i started dressing the frames and the seat cushions.
I love soft cushions so i added some fibre cotton to both to the seat and back cushions.

Joining the table was smooth and it was now time to start on finishing, i wanted a super smooth piece of furniture, it's a heck of chained tasks but i had no option, this stage is the most important one, you mess it, you mess up everything so we had to be so careful.

By 4pm, we had finished spraying the last coat but i normally prefer giving it 2-3hrs for everything to cure and harden and finally we delivered the pieces by 8pm and I'm super proud of what i have made.

Does what i made look like the concept?, i wil be happy to hear what you think.

BRACES ARE OUT!
Hello Fam!, my first longest post in 2024 is to appreciate Dr. Bashir at Logos Dental & Medical.

It's been 2 years and 6months wearing braces, for a number of reasons, it's a journey i call the most challenging.

I have seen afew people who voluntarily visit dentists to have braces installed in their mouths for different reasons, some want to collect their bite, others to improve their dental formula while others for prestige reasons, unlike me, i got braces installed in August 2021 after a terrible accident i was involved in while in Malindi, Kenya during my East Africa states bike tour.

This left me with a number of broken teeth, injuries, and a slight disclocation in my jaws and offcourse a bad dental formula.

Solutions were to have a minor dental surgery and wear braces to correct the heavy collision effects as advised by Dr. Edie at Makuen County hospital in Kenya during a brain and chest CT Scan.

I have had a fobia for surgeries since the early days of my childhood and I'm going to the grave with it.

My brain & chest ct scans were sent to me while in Nairobi and all was well, so i was left to only worry about my dental, i got afew leads to some of the best denstists in Nairobi, visited afew to hear what they too would say but like any other doctors i didn't like what they told me.

"I will return tomorrow and we do those procedures", i said to every dentist i met that day, i surely knew i wouldn't go back to them.

Next day I headed to Kampala, Uganda because psychologically all treatments i have had from home have always been different from all those that i have had from away and don't know why.

Inside me i knew i would find a dentist in Uganda who would speak the language i understood, may be someone who would look at me and say, "it's not that bad, we will have to give you afew tablets and you go back home.

On arrival to Kla, my friend Faith aka The Bush Girl had already recommended someone and i went direct to him.

A very calm and soft spoken gentle man approached me while at the reception of Logos dental clinic, "Are you Innocent?", he asked.I noded my head in agreement.
Inside my head, my brain is like, "Yes he is the one, the doctor that will give you tablets and you go back home".

"My name is Dr. Bashil, Faith told me about your case, please come inside for a checkup", he said.
I followed him with abit releaved thought.

"You lack 2 teeth in your mouth, perhaps they are still glowing", he jokingly with a smile said, offcourse he was wearing a mask, that's how far my eyes go for smile.
I tried to smile too but unfortunately that plastic big thing that seperates the upper and lower jaws couldn't allow me.

"Your case needs surgery, good news is that braces can also be used to correct your jaws too but it will be slow", he explained.
I'm not in a hurry doctor, i replied, we both smiled.
"Give me a minute", he said and moved out of the examination room.

Little did i know that i was about get into a torture chamber, he returned in minutes and invited to me to the next room, on entry my heart wasn't beating anymore but flying, every tool inside here looked familiar, may be from those 1980's chucknoris movies' torturing scenes.

"Please lay down here", as he points on a dental robot looking bed with a long arm holding some torturing apparatus.
"Innocent!, this procedure will take approximately 6 hours, i kindly request you bear with me throughout, i will start with root canal for the broken teeth, then build a temporary crown for them and there after start the installation of braces.

As a software developer, at this point i understood why doctors use the phrase " " so often because we also use the phrase " ", whenever we don’t want to explain how we came up with the code functionality.

To be honest, i had never dreamt of myself spending 6 hours with a dentist, first of all i have a high pitch sound disorder, meaning any high pitch sound can cause me dental pain and headache but this time it was the high pitch sound tools being used on my dental, just know, it was a nightmare.

Offcourse he gave me those numbing injections but this didn't help much, my jaws got tired and at some point i couldn't open my mouth any more, fortunately the so called procedure was finished in 4 hours, it was now my first day wearing braces.

Due to my fear for the dental tools, i think i caused the doctor to inject me more than enough dose of the numbing solution, beside the tention and discomfort of having metals in my mouth, i spent the whole day speaking glebish, my tongue, cheeks and lips felt too big and heavy for the neck to hold.

In short installation was successful, following were the monthly visits, reattaching of the broken braces and time came for the power chain and chip monk rubbers.
Having metals in your mouth is a different experience but having power chains and chip monk rubbers attached is way a new level of experience.

Offcourse my braces took longer because i missed too many monthly visits to the dentist but besides we also spent 8 months rotating back one tooth which had exceeded it's point due to the long time i missed the visits, that's when i was involved in the second accident which was a head collision with a fuel trailer that left me with broken limbs and thosr face injuries.

Finally braces are out, permanent crowns have been attached and i now have to wear retainers for the next 2 years, however I'm glad.