Genius Jamie

[Adesewa @t_Duches]

Men are so private online. A guy could be moving to another country or having his first child, and he’d still only post a random football score on his story.

[Trevor Mumba @selfstyledking]

Check out our latest purchase at @Rovertlogistics. We will be on standby for yours too. Holla!

[Sampa Kabwela @ukusefya]

@jamessiskambund @Mwenya2019 If you can understand, master and articulate what you are reading, which comes by reading and re-reading, trust me, you an expert. Nothing more to these titles.

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@chenga_geoffrey Sorry I saw this late
Your inbox is locked. I could share it here but then it will go viral. It is my certificate. Once upon a time I was in the service nowonder I am able to speak on this.

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@ukusefya @Mwenya2019 "Soon, I would learn that there was nothing much to being an intellectual or an expert than repeatedly studying and understanding what you are studying...." the truth we never hear often, thank you @ukusefya

[Sampa Kabwela @ukusefya]

Lilanda-Matero to Magical Tokyo

Sampa Kangwa-Wilkie

I would probably be still in Tokyo if it were not for my children. On my second day in Tokyo, I wrote an email to my then husband telling him that I had no intention of returning home.

I have not found adequate words to describe the grandeur, splendor and magic that Tokyo is, with its graceful people and its vast breathtaking architecture. I saw and walked into buildings whose shapes, form, texture and scope defy understanding, like a confirmation that God is there. Japan is a celebration of the infinite capacity of the human mind and a condemnation to mediocrity.

I found myself in Japan as one of 40 young experts and intellectuals drawn from around the world to study at the United Nations University’s International Course taught over six-weeks. I couldn’t get used to the idea that I was in Japan as an intellectual. I am a girl from Lilanda-Matero. The last time I checked there were anything but intellectuals in Lilanda.

An old lover insists that I lived in George compound. I am not one to deny my history, but I never lived in George compound. Those who live in that part of town will tell you that although a mere road divides the two, the difference is huge, perceptive mostly, but even by city planning standards, the one is a township the other is a compound. My typical day in Lilanda for seven years constituted drawing water, cleaning, cooking and Church. I don’t know about now, but there were no role models in Lilanda then and dreams didn’t come true.

My first day at UNU was both exciting and daunting, I was threatened by the expertise of my classmates; physicists, economists and lawyers. One young expert from Pakistan was winding up his doctorate in nano-particle physics—I had never heard of that before. Afraid that I would be bottom of the 40 intellectuals, I put in so many hours of study. I read more books in six weeks than I ever did in any given year during my four-year undergraduate studies.

Soon, I would learn that there was nothing much to being an intellectual or an expert than repeatedly studying and understanding what you are studying. My lowest grade was A+. I graduated Cum-Laude and gave the valedictory speech.

My first fascinating encounter with Japan was the toilet in my one star hotel (which all along I assumed was a five star). The toilet flashed itself when you got up the seat, and at a press of a button, jets of water from varying angles and intensity gently hit, sprayed and cleaned your bum, and at a press of another button an oozing of warm air dried it. The toilet experience was literally tissue-free, it involved sitting, pressing buttons and out you go.

Tokyo is one of the most expensive places under the sun rivaled only by Angola. I starved a lot while in Tokyo. In order to experience and explore Tokyo with its rich culture, architecture and history, I needed money and a plan. The plan involved one meal a day and walking six miles to and from school as opposed to taking a train.

My most memorable experience was the visit to Kamakura, a temple city. The serene, lash gardens and ancient Japanese architecture resembled my vision of heaven. I cannot fully explain how I felt in the presence of the humongous sculpture of Buddha, it’s what I would feel a year later standing in front of the  Louvre Museum in Paris—an overwhelming presence of a higher power, a sense that I had an appointment with greatness.

I am Christian, yet I felt and sensed God standing before the giant watchful, imposing and merciful presence of the Buddha. I joined hundreds of pilgrims doing rituals and sacrifices to Buddha. I prayed both to Jesus Christ and Buddha to bless me. I am as much at peace in a Temple, Synagogue, Mosque as I am in a Church. I can worship among any gods and religions because I already know my God and he knows me too. The following day, I was at Tokyo Baptist Church singing praises and thanking God for an encounter with him in a Buddhist temple.

My adventures took me to Tokyo Stock Exchange. I walked past sharply dressed men and women who had an aura of people who money loved. I watched the stock exchange in its full glory, giant screens enabled a closer view of the running figures as stocks gained and dropped in nano-seconds closely matched by the changing emotions and countenances of the investors. I couldn’t read the figures, but i read the faces of the men on the ground floor, it was a tough day at TSE.

Time and money wouldn’t allow me to go to Nagoya source of many cars on the Zambian roads. My visit to the Zambian High Commission led me to a car agent, a Zimbabwean, Andrew. He took me to USS, the biggest car auctioneers of second hand cars in Japan. The auction warehouse was a massive lecture hall-like-auditorium with hundreds of computer screens with pictures of cars in bid, rolling past the screens. The bidding process was a high tech affair—silent, personal and in front of a computer.

Andrew bid for a 2000 model Pajero at 300,000 Yen (USD3000), after five seconds unchallenged, the car was his. He told me fascinating tales—that some cars, he bids for as little as USD100. He told me it was cheaper to get a corolla than to take a taxi from Yokohama to Tokyo. Cars which are not sold within two weeks are crushed. I asked him why the cars were so cheap, good and with low mileage. Cars are subjected to a mandatory road-worthy test every 3years, so people opt to dispose their cars than undergo the notorious test, but much more, Japanese love new gadgets. In a country where a new car is on the market every other month, driving a 2year old-car is pretty ancient.

I left Tokyo still struck by its splendor and grandeur. My most endearing moments were walking through the beautiful Yoyogi Park, and breathtaking streets of Shinjuku, Ginza, and Shibuya.

Tokyo was most beautiful at any time, but most dramatic at night with illuminated skies and darkness standing no chance.

(Originally published in The Post and Nkwazi Magazine in 2013)

[Clean Kwati Bella 🔱💰 @TeamMakeSure]

Here are the 8 - principles about money I wish I knew in my early 20s.

Young ones, you don’t have to play catchup like some of us, these principles will literally save your life and guarantee you a more secure financial future.

Bookmark!

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@chenga_geoffrey @Joe_Kafuba_MD Actually, there's a certificate given at the end of Police Training, but, whether such a certificate needs verification is a question ZAQA should answer. I can show you the certificate if further engagement is needed.

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@Malik_ZMB @Mwenya2019 Such a venture requires a budget line and it must be announced in parliament. I don't think it can be pulled off secretly. You cannot hide recruits at the training schools. I would take this with a pinch of salt.

[Trevor Mumba @selfstyledking]

Dear youngster, somethings have to be endured to be fully overcome. Nobody wants to go through pain but if fate puts it in your way, hope you have the strength to make it through it and come out a better person on the other side. Pain is a terrible thing to waste. Use it well.

[Collins Mugume @cmugume]

Dubai Car Imports = Problems (Most times)
If you're buying a Dubai import, don't get carried away by the shine. I did.
Look at this 2021 Hilux in the pictures

It looked perfect... until it became a nightmare.
I learnt the hard way.

@benmwine see my lessons

[Chikakula Banda @kuler145]

If you want the free supplier list I shared in the thread,

type IMPORT below and I’ll send it.

It has 10 verified contacts I’ve personally used.

[Chikakula Banda @kuler145]

Most people in Zambia have never seen actual supplier prices for phones from China.

Here are some real wholesale prices for iPhones and Samsung devices 👇

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@kuler145 Import.

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@zambianow @briansimasiku So in whose hands should "pf" be to "level the playing field" and what does that have to do with Mundubile gaining ground?

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@KellyLako You can get it on Showmax. Full season mode.

[Trevor Mumba @selfstyledking]

Whenever I fly out of, or into OR Tambo, depending on which side of the plane my seat is on, I am always looking forward to seeing the gigantic DSV warehouse close to the the airport. It always inspires me to keep building @Rovertlogistics into something like that one day.

Then yesterday, DSV had a delivery for one of our clients at our offices. Imagine my excitement. It felt like a nod of approval from the universe, that we are dreaming and building in the right direction.

[Dr Mofire @Dr_Mofire]

There are about 200 million reasons to wash your hands after going to the toilet, because that's the number of bacteria present on your hands.

Washing your hands without soap after using the toilet is almost the same as not washing at all. Water alone cannot properly remove germs, viruses, parasite eggs, or fecal bacteria. Soap is what breaks down the oils and dirt that trap microbes, allowing them to be washed away. Without it, many of those organisms remain on your hands and are easily transferred to food, phones, door handles, and other people.

Diseases like diarrhea, typhoid, cholera, hepatitis A, and intestinal worm infections spread this way.

Handwashing with soap after toilet use is one of the simplest and most powerful public health interventions ever discovered. It prevents infections, protects children, and saves lives. If there is one hygiene habit you should never compromise on, it is this one.

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@musa_mansa @BBCAfrica In your country (SA), is it business as usual for someone whose annual income is below R500,000 to have property worth R20, 000, 000? Mind you this is without any trace of other sources of income. This is a civil servant we are referring to.

[Genius Jamie @jamessiskambund]

@SeverinoTheWolf Its mind blowing to see people wishing them back. The only likelihood of those holding that view must be that they shared in the loot. How else would one want that level of looting back in government?