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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA


Zimbabwe invest in causing a mind shift in the character of your people

A nation's success depends on the character of its people. If Zimbabwe is to be
successful in reviving its economy and all its decaying institutions, the character
of its get-rich-quick business fratenity has got to change, the character of its
black marketers has got to change, the character of most of its people who had become corrupt, unprofessional and unethical in their business conduct in order to
counter hyper-inflation has got to change. A nation's success is not even dependent
on the security of the nation or its leaders alone because if the character of its people is such that they are resistant to the good sustainable policies that the leaders try to implement for the development of the nation, it will not succeed.
Zimbabwe's leaders should learn from the people of ancient China, who sought protection from the barbaric hordes from the north by erecting the Great Wall of China. It was too high to scale, too thick to tear down and too long to go around, yet during the first 100 years of the wall's existance, China was invaded three times. How was the security breached? The enemies simply bribed the gatekeepers and then marched easily through the gate. The fatal flow in China's security lay in spending its wealth to build a wall but paying much less to build the character of its gatekeepers.

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My wish is to be:

Love - So that I ensure that noone's heart gets hurt.
Peace - In order to silence that constant chatter in people's minds
that causes them turmoil.
Happiness - So that I engulf the lives of everyone and eliminate the
word sadness from the face of the earth.
Life - In order that all those who are dying maybe reborn.
Success - So that I reward the hard workers.
The Christian Faith - In order that I encourage Christlike behaviour.
Wisdom - So that I can be the mind opener to the unwise.
Truth - In order that I expose the wolves in sheep clothing and
the skeletons in the cupboards.
A tear - So that insensitive hearts can cry.
A smile - In order that I spread a cheer on people's faces and remove all those frowns.


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I will still love

Over the weekend I got into a gloomy mood thinking about why I was hurt three months ago in a love relationship and in my quest for answers I started reading the email exchanges between him and myself from the very first day we met each other online. Words of loving and longing from start to finish. I was in Zim, and he was in Oz. As I read over the emails I could sense the intense emotion that was there in the emails on the screen, and I remembered how those very words would make me tingle all over with feelings of love. I asked myself how then that man could have turned around and betrayed me and hurt me. I wondered if that's just the way long distance relationships are, that in time the loving hearts and loving thoughts just fade away because of lack of physical contact. To me that seemed strange indeed, how can those intense love feelings that permeated through geographic boundaries suddenly turn from priority to invisible without warning. Or was I so engrossed in the idea of being in love that I failed to see the tell-tale signs.

I guess that's life and what makes it so great is that we are alive and know that if a heart can be broken then it can be fixed and if it can be lost then it can be won.
Sometimes love sure hurts but what would life be without it? To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements, lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness....
That would be a hellish heartless kind of life and I personally wouldn't enjoy such a life which is devoid of love. Love, though it hurts sometimes, makes my life worth living, it brings peace, happiness and excitement into life.
I repeat, to love is to take risks, to expose our hearts. Yes sometimes it hurts. It hurt Christ, but he kept on loving, even at the cost of his life. Loving is Christ-like and its better than locking your heart in a coffin of self-centredness.
Even though love has hurt me over and over again I will continue to love because loving is what I do, its what I as a Christian am known for. Take note that the only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers...of love is hell. So if you are living a loveless life you are actually living in hell.

Let technology re-introduce me to you.

Recently I attended a seminar where we were asked to stand
up and give a detailed introduction of ourselves, I mean
real detailed, personality, likes and dislikes, opinion
about life and politics, your phobias, your dreams and
aspirations, who inspires you and your achivements and goals
in life as well as your love and sex life.
It was fun to hear what others had to say but rather difficult
for me to talk about myself, so I stood up and said, "My name
is Eusebia and this exercise of talking about myself kind of gets
me into a knot; self-descriptions tend to be subjective,
an exercise in self-aggrandizement, perhaps. I so much prefer
that others describe me because that tends to be closer to the
truth. Modest me has no idea how I can list all my virtues without
seeming like I am blowing my own horn and I value my privacy so
much so I won't talk about my love and sex life as well as my
goals. So that leaves me with very few things to tell you about
myself which you are going to find out anyway in the next two
weeks we will be staying on this island together. So ladies and
gentlemen I am done with my speech." Some really liked my speech,
but some didn't like it, thought I was shutting myself up and
refusing to open up. Well, you can never please everybody.
Anyway recently I came across some online personality tests,
IQ tests and all sorts of tests that can do the job for me,
describe me for all you blog readers who want to know me better.
I took the tests and here are some of the results. If you click
on the question below the results of each of my tests you can
also take the test and get to know yourself better. I personally
was impressed by their accuracy.

You Are 1: The Reformer

You're a responsible person - with a clear sense of right and wrong. High standards are important to you, and you do everything to meet them. You are your own worst critic, feeling ashamed if you're not perfect. You have uncompromising integrity, and people expect you to be fair. At Your Best: You are hopeful, honest, and inspiring. You bring out the best in humanity. At Your Worst: You are intolerant, judgmental, and picky. Your Fixation: Resentment Your Primary Fear: Being corrupt. Your Primary Desire: To be good. Other Number 1's: Al Gore, Martha Stewart, Gandhi, Celene Dion, and Spock from Star Trek.

What Number Are You?

Your Inner Color is Purple

Your Personality: You're a dreamer and visionary. You believe you were put on this earth to do something great. You in Love: You're very passionate but often too busy for love. You need a partner who sees your vision and adopts it as their own. Your Career: You need a job that helps you make a difference. You have a bright future as a guru, politician, teacher, or musician.

What's Your Inner Color?

Your Heart Is Green

Love completes you, but that doesn't mean you seek it out. When love comes your way, you integrate it peacefully into the rest of you life. Your flirting style: Laid back Your lucky first date: Walking around aimlessly and talking Your dream lover: Is both enthusiastic and calm What you bring to relationships: Balance

What Color Heart Do You Have?

You Are An Introvert!

You're not necessarily anti-social, but you do tend to need a lot of alone time. You tend to think before you talk, which doesn't make you the loudest person in the room. While you aren't outgoing, you are a good listener - and you tend to be a loyal friend. And you enjoy your friends as much as any extrovert does, in smaller doses. You're more of a conversation over dinner type than a party animal... and so are all your friends.

Are You An Extroverted or Introverted Girl?

Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

You are great at finding patterns and relationships between things. Always curious about how things work, you love to set up experiments. You need for the world to make sense - and are good at making sense of it. You have a head for numbers and math ... and you can solve almost any logic puzzle. You would make a great scientist, engineer, computer programmer, researcher, accountant, or mathematician.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

You Are 87% Tortured Genius

You totally fit the profile of a tortured genius. You're uniquely brilliant - and completely misunderstood. Not like you really want anyone to understand you anyway. You're pretty happy being an island.

Are You a Tortured Genius?

Your Fashion Style is Classic

You like what's stood the test of time... Simple, well styled clothes that don't scream trendy You stay updated and modern, but your clothes stay in style for a while You wouldn't be caught in animal prints, fake fur, or super bright colors

What Kind of Fashionable Woman Are You?

Your Mind is Yellow

Of all the mind types, yours is the most intellectual. You crave mental stimulation, and your thoughts tend to very complex. Your thoughts tend to be innovative and cutting edge, though many people don't understand them. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about science, architecture, and communication.

What Color Is Your Mind?

Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading

You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive. You understand people better than they would like to be understood. Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details. You figure out what's going on before anyone knows that anything is going on! Why you would be a good superhero: You don't care what people think, and you'd do whatever needed to be done Your biggest problem as a superhero: Feeling even more isolated than you do now

What Should Your Superpower Be?

You Are Ready, Willing, and Able to Commit

You are not scared of commitment in the least. In fact, there's a good chance that you're already committed to someone you love. You are willing to give up a little freedom for relationship stability. And once you're in a relationship, you'll do almost anything to make things work.

Are You Afraid of Commitment?

The Keys to Your Life

Anything good in your life comes from your ability to play and be free. The best way for you to solve a problem is to let go of it. Anything bad in your life comes from other people trying to bring you down. Others often see you as a threat, and there are some people who are jealous of all your strengths.

The Keys To Your Life

A penny for my thoughts

Oh yes I am back on my blog, how I missed it and all
you who read my blog. I guess I owe you an explanation
as to why I was so quiet yet a lot of interesting events
where happenning around Zimbabwe. If it will give you
any consolation, even though I was very quiet I was
very much aware of what was going on around me. I
could have wrote what I thought about what was happenning
but I just couldn't bring myself to do it, because my
heart had been shaken and caused me to suffer from
writer's block. There you have my explanation, happy now?
Anyway seeing as to how I have started writing on the blog
again, I think I have bounced back from the heart problem.
Thank God, Monika and the group at Mackinac Island I am
back to my normal self again. Chipo, my friend did give me
US$1O so that I start writing on my blog again, putting
into practice the saying, "A penny for your thoughts,"
and factoring in 11 million percent Zimbabwean inflation
rate. I can't deny that she motivated me to write this
article but Chipo my friend before you do it again let
me make one point very clear here, money can't buy my
views just like it can't buy the finer things in life,
but hey it can buy food, beauty products and make my life
more comfortable so thank you very much for hiding your
genorosity under your need for me to write something on my
blog to entertain you or poke your brain.

Let me talk about the topic that is making headlines in
Zimbabwe. While I was quiet I noticed there were the
Government of National Unity (GNU) talks which went
through one deadlock after another and stretched on
for months yet when they started they were supposed
to take only two weeks, and the longer it took to
reach an agreement the more the country's economy
collapsed and the more the ordinary Zimbabweans
sank deeper and deeper into poverty and hunger. I had
started to call the GNU talks the, "Going Nowhere Union"
talks until eventually after so many deliberations a
power sharing agreement was reached only last week.
While many Zimbabweans rejoiced over the deal I found
myself describing rejoicing so soon after the deal with
just one phrase, "Much ado about nothing." To me the
deal was just a piece of paper that I could only start
rejoicing over once what is on that piece of paper is
implemented in such a way that it changes the lives of
ordinary Zimbabweans to the better. As we speak the
power sharing agreement is already experiencing some
glitches so early in its inception. Which party gets
the Finance Ministry and the Home Affairs Ministry
as well as many other key Ministries is where the
problem lies but I don't see why that should be a
problem at all.

In Zanu PF's hands the Ministry of Finance caused
the economy to suffer one near-death experience after
another and reduced most Zimbabweans to extreme
poverty so I find it very absurd that Zanu PF would
want to head that Ministry again. It doesn't need
a rocket scientist to know that money will start
trickling into RBZ from international donors only
if the MDC is heading the Finance Ministry. Is
Zanu PF so far gone that it can't read that writing
on the wall. Also in Zanu PF's hands, the Ministry
of Home Affairs became so laden with corruption,
incompetence and unethical and unprofessional behaviour
so much that the rule of law flew out of the country at
the speed of light. Why Zanu PF would still want to head
that ministry is only so as to protect themselves from
the atrocities they perpertrated on innocent people
and MDC will loose its popularity if it allows them
to do that. Let me end this topic by appealing to the
leaders of both parties to put the interests of the people
at heart first instead of their own interests, in every
decision they make. That way I am sure there won't be
any glitches in trying to implement the deal and they
should also always remember that the international
community is watching the goings-on in the country
very closely and lets be very honest on that, they
wouldn't want to invest their money on a win-lose
deal where the MDC is on the loosing side. Zanu PF,
whether you like it or not you have got to give MDC
a lot of lee-way if you want the country to recover
from the economic quagmire that it is in right now
and save the Zimbabwean masses from hunger and poverty
which has reached unprecedented levels.

Chipo my friend this is where your US$10 gets used up.
If you feel that you have been short-changed, you can
come to my house and get the remaining kilograms of
mealie-meal from the 10kg bag of mealie-meal which is
the only item I managed to afford to buy after
changing the US$10 for Zimbabwean cash. What an abnormally
and ridicoulsly expensive country this nation has become.
Could have got times ten more cash in my bank account
by having someone make an RTGS bank transfer of cash
into my bank account in exchange for the US$10 but getting
the money from the bank at $500 and recently $1000 a day
wouldn't have enabled me to get the mealie meal at that
particular moment I needed it. Can somebody tell me the
reason why Gono is intend on setting the maximum money
withdrawal of money from the bank per person per day to
very low amounts that can't buy anything and reducing
everyone to poverty in so doing. What reason could
possibly be so important as to justify making the people
suffer standing in very long bank queues everyday and waste
a lot of time they could use to be more productive at their
workplaces. All that trouble so as to get a small amount
of money that can't put food on the table in one day. From
an ordinary Zimbabwean point of view that is incompetence
by Gono at its best, try as he might to find an economic
theory to explain it. What good is an economic theory that
sucks in practice? Please MDC rectify that problem as soon
as you get the Finance Ministry that you obviously deserve.

Oh, I feel so great saying exactly what I want about Zanu PF
without fear of my beautiful backside being vandalised. I believe
that the minute the two parties signed that power sharing deal my
freedom to express my views in this country where given back
to me and to every Zimbabwean. Now that is cause for rejoicing,
but wait a while and see if I will be alive and intact as to post
another no beating around the bush article a few weeks from now.
Just kidding, of course this new found freedom of expression is
for real and even if it was not nothing will happen to a small fish
like me. Good luck Zimbabwe and be blessed.