Thrice X-rayed,twice marvelled and once today.

“The week that was” from the visiting Chinese and African young leaders to acquitted charges on a suspect  accused of raping and killing a school girl and doomsday alarm, too much to fit on this site.

Politics and Economics: China and Africa in general and Namibia in particular share common goals and interests no doubt about that and I would wish the mutual partnership we share is a win-win thingy, and I wish Africa would take this opportunity and rise from Tokoloshi and build our own Mitsubishi., which brings to mind a joke I shared with some mates that only if we could discover a Chinese shipwreck then you would see a Chinese built city in Namibia.

As one Indian business mogul put it: “Africa is more like what India used to be in terms of development, give the people education and the technical know-how and you will see things happen “,but unfortunately Africans in the western world are known to be a long way off from stone age, a demeaning perception indeed.  On my recent trip to France I was impressed by the creativity of some unemployed African immigrants in Paris  and wished they would use that creativity in their respective countries.., a blooming young generation of African graduates can  show the world that if Albert Einstein can do it i also can do it and nothing is impossible.

Sunday
So this was how my Sunday was, as I woke up the first thing that came to my mind was;is my housemate raptured? He for the last three years has devoted his precious free time spreading the May 21 Judgement day Saga, something as a Christian myself failed to convince him from, thanks to his daily listening devotions to family radio. I only feel a little pity for families out there who quit their jobs and spent their only pensions spreading the apocalyptic doomsday, on a humorous note apparently Mr Camping himself was nowhere to be seen on doomsday, while his follower were lamenting on their failure to understand why their heavenly flight scheduled on Saturday was cancelled without notice, too bad i only wish they pullback their lives together.

 People can go to unimaginable length with belief, as long as “God say so” it is so, but the question here should be on the evidence, religion is sacred in its own right and everyone has the right to practice whatever they choose to, but it is high time people start making sense of what they believe in, perhaps archaeologist can help with this?

Monday.

So I woke up this morning feeling like “woo hoo” another day.. .alive on planet earth, and so was the beginning of a Monday with its blues which is why one would wish to be in the heavenly gates.

Work today was fantastic thanks to a tastic rice meal i had the night before otherwise i would have been a toast. For those of you who don’t really know the environment I work in, it is a humble desert with precious stones on every side, sound like paradise?   the security in this   400 kilometre fenced coastline is as tight as area 51 in the US as some have described it , except the secret treasure under guide is a Diamond, a precious stone everyone know about and without this would we have seen Prince William give Ms Middleton a hand in marriage?

So as “Chaile” time arrived I couldn’t wait to get back home i was a little bit tired and i needed a rest, but exiting the mining area is where the music start, as you would imagine the security in a diamond mining area, for me going through this every day for the past five month has made it a usual thing to do every day, however today was a bit different. Firstly for the first time i was reintroduced in the X-ray scanning machines (that make sure you don’t go through with a diamond) and I was rescanned three times and searched twice, apparently it was my boxer short knotted waist strings that appeared like a knotted diamond  in the monitor,after close to an hour i was free, so tired that it was with an effort to start a car.

From the scandalous archaeologist, have a blessed Day,wonderful people.