THE QUICKIE

THE QUIKIE

 How we go to work over here. On my way there I just popped into a studio for a quickie. She told me to walk in(the studio),it was dark and we were all alone. Then she put it on(the lights switch ) and boom,it was camera,lights and action .I was looking forward to the action part,so she touched me softly here and theeeere(for the right pose) and told me statue (not to move).I was anxious and i held my breath."Tuck it in"(the tummy),she ordered like a troop commander and i obeyed -You know her wish is my command and right now i was not following the 10 commandments. Then she busted,am coming and she walked out. A second later she was back with eager desperation to get it done. I was standing there like a maasai moran ready to strangle a lion. Suddenly and without trepidation,she put it in(the camera pin that connects to the flash) and suddenly she screamed...one..two..threee..cheese eeeeee The quickie was all over and i stood there just hanging like a coat hanger and off she left.(to the computer room.) to process my photo.

WE ARE ONE.

Looking forward to the conclusion of the elections cycle.

The salesman needs to go back to work.

To grind and oil the wheels of the Nation.

At the end of the day we all need to work to eat.

Expect no manna from heaven.

Keep the peace.

See you soon in the field.

Support my hustle when i knock your door, i will support your hustle when you knock on mine.

We're all united in the fight against poverty, ignorance and disease

Yet i don't know your name.

Call me Raiyammoja, a kenyan joe.

We are all wananchi not yet wenyenchi.

We need to hold hands together to pull together in Harambee.

Lets lift one up; drop your hand and pull one more up.

Together we are united in our struggle to play our role and make a difference.

Make Kenya better than we found it,

That way our children playing together in the streets will have a better future.

What will You bequeath unto the future.

Tujipange : Tuungane : Tupaae pamoja.

A POEM- Dock on the bay.

So he sits and watches as time ebbs away

Like a dove sitting on a tree's edge

Along the dock on the bay

The waves and tides change the game

And the sea slowly slides far away

His day's goal seem so near away

That's the plight of a salesman's day

Locked in the day with no sales

Tomorrow he'll rise again

These path's he knows too well

He can't afford to give his hope away

What will be left with hope no more

Till the last breath he'll march away

March through hell if that's what it'll take

To makes sales and make his hay

The sun shines not every day

Sometimes it's rain all through the day

The way is muddy,rainy and wet

Still the goals set must be met

To him there's no let up till he gets his pay

He'll stand in the rain till the last drop

Then the sun will shine and light his way

Hard times don't last but hard people do

He heard that in class eight

Eight five add thirty five still digging

Keep digging till you find the diamond 

Along the way you get lemons

Make lemonade,fight your demons

Feed your fear with courage

Failure love company,stay away

Sometimes you'll have to walk away

Watch the game at the dock from the bay

Like the dove sitting on the tree's edge

And time ebbs away.

You make it.

Wanjohi wa Maina ®

©Raiyammoja

TO REMOVE IT OR NOT.

"Remove it jimmy" ,she whispered. Her voice was as always ,calm and soft like a pink petal .Her voice was one of the things that made me follow her orders like the 11th commandment.

We were all alone in these dark room with a candle lit at the corner. I was unsure of removing it or letting her remove it. These was my first time to face it and I was unsure of how it would end.

She was loosing her patience and from the other room delicious airborne particles wafted into our room. I knew the meal that awaited me was to die for. I was ready to die now or never. Who wouldn't die for things like these. However ,I confess I was eager but inside I was shaking like a leaf.

She moved closer to me like a lioness cornering a gazelle .My heart started beating,my legs which were ever strong and had recently run a mile and a half turned into jelly. I couldn't speak to resist her moves but only mumble incoherently.

I knew it was now or never,someday a man has to face his fears (I could hear those words from my father thundering in my eardrums).It was a done deal.

She grabbed me by my collar of my shirt and removed it. What followed my friend I can't even explain.

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She took the spirit and G.V and applied it on my shoulder wound as instructed by the doctor. I neither cried nor screamed,all I wanted was to join my family in enjoying our Christmas meal.

My mother looked at me and smiled, "we have to treat that wound you know, go and wash your hands". I dashed off to the dining hall.

It was Christmas in 1978,that year in August we had lost Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and I lost my fear.

My dad and mum are with the ancestors, how I will miss them these Christmas. When I tell a story to my kids these Christmas ,I know they will listen in and remember all those stories they told me when I was Young. 

More so I hope they will see themselves here on earth inside these kids.

If your parent(s) are still with you these Christmas tell them a story.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from myself, Luci Mumbe and our family.

From God to you and to me.

AFRICA-CHINA RELATIONSHIP.

#Africa_China relations

China and Africa have a history of trade relations, sometimes through third parties, dating back as far as 202 BC and AD 220. The first mention of Africa in Chinese sources was in the Yu-yang-tsa-tsu by Tuan Ch'eng-shih (died 863), a compendium of general knowledge where he wrote about the land of Po-pa-li (referring to Somalia).

Archaeological excavations at Mogadisho, Banaadir, Somalia and Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania have recovered many coins from China. The majority of the Chinese coins date to the Song Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty are also represented, according to Richard Pankhurst. In 1226 Chao Jukua, commissioner of foreign trade at Quanzhou in the Fujian province of China, completed his Chu-fan-chih (Description of Barbarous Peoples) which discusses #Zanzibar (Ts'ong-pa) and Somalia (Pi-P'a-Lo).

In the 14th century, Moroccan traveler and scholar Ibn Battuta made a long journey to Africa and Asia. He reached China in April 1345 after a stay in India before serving as an envoy of Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq of the Indian Tughlaq dynasty to China.

The Ming Dynasty voyages of Chinese admiral Zheng He and his fleet, which rounded the coast of Somalia and followed the coast down to the Mozambique Channel. The goal of those expeditions was to spread Chinese culture and signal Chinese strength. Zheng brought gifts and granted titles from the Ming emperor to the local rulers, with the aim of establishing a large number of tributary states. In October 1415, Chinese explorer and admiral Zheng He reached the eastern coast of Africa and sent the first of two giraffes as gifts to the Chinese Yongle Emperor.

There are some other accounts that mention Chinese ships sinking near Lamu Island in Kenya in 1415. Survivors are said to have settled in the island and married local women.

Archaeologists have found Chinese porcelains made during the Tang dynasty (618–907) in Kenyan villages; however, these were believed to have been brought over by Zheng He during his 15th century ocean voyages. On Lamu Island off the Kenyan coast, local oral tradition maintains that 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors, possibly part of Zheng's fleet, washed up on shore there hundreds of years ago. Given permission to settle by local tribes after having killed a dangerous python, they converted to Islam and married local women. Now, they are believed to have just six descendants left there; in 2002, DNA tests conducted on one of the women confirmed that she was of Chinese descent. Her daughter, Mwamaka Sharifu, later received a PRC government scholarship to study traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China.

National Geographic also published an article by Frank Viviano in July 2005, he visited Pate Island during the time he stayed on Lamu, ceramic fragments had been found around Lamu which the administrative officer of the local Swahili history museum claimed were of Chinese origin, specifically from Zheng He's voyage to east Africa. The eyes of the Pate people resembled Chinese and Famao and Wei were some of the names among them which were speculated to be of Chinese origin. Their ancestors were said to be from indigenous women who intermarried with Chinese Ming sailors when they were shipwrecked. Two places on Pate were called "Old Shanga", and "New Shanga", which the Chinese sailors had named. A local guide who claimed descent from the Chinese showed Frank a graveyard made out of coral on the island, indicating that they were the graves of the Chinese sailors, which the author described as "virtually identical", to Chinese Ming dynasty tombs, complete with "half-moon domes" and "terraced entries".

According to Melanie Yap and Daniel Leong Man in their book "Colour, Confusions and Concessions: the History of Chinese in South Africa", Chu Ssu-pen, a Chinese mapmaker, in 1320 had southern Africa drawn on one of his maps. Ceramics found in Zimbabwe and South Africa dated back to Song dynasty China. Some tribes to Cape Town's north claimed descent from Chinese sailors during the 13th century, their physical appearance is similar to Chinese with paler skin and a Mandarin sounding tonal language. Their name for themselves is "abandoned people", Awatwa in their language.

HEALTHY ALKALINE CUP

*HEALTH WAY CUP* 

The human body must keep its pH within a very narrow range in other to survive and function. 

The human body is built to naturally maintain a healthy balance of acidity and alkalinity. 

The lungs and kidney play a vital role in this process. A normal blood pH level is 7.40 on a scale of 0-14, where 0 is the most acidic and 14 is the most basic.

If the lungs or kidney are malfunctioning, your blood's pH level can become unbalanced.

     

Disruption in your acid base balance can lead to medical conditions known as *acidosis* and *akalosis*. Both conditions require treatment. For you to balance the alkaline level, you need to eat foods that consist of 80% alkaline and 20% acid, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, herbal tea, etc....

   Alkaline cup can also help a great deal in alkalinizing our water. This cup help to convert acid water into alkaline water which when taken reduces the high acid level in the body thereby balancing the pH of the body.

 *BENEFITS*

1) it eliminates toxic and heavy metals from the water there by making suitable for the body.

2) it clears waste from body and improves the body's acidic environment

3) it helps to ehance immunity and delay aging process

4) it increase energy

5) Eases respiration i.e no more shortness of breathing

6) less throat irritation less mucocus

7) promotes healthy heart functions

8) few occurence of nausea (i.e less sickness occurence)

9) more stable and regular bowl movements

10) decreased likelihood of developing chronic disease.

 *SUITABLE FOR:* 

 *Everyone especially people with diabetes, stroke, smokers, and heavy drunkers, and those with heart issues too.*

Dosage: as often as you drink water.

MICROMOLECULE PEPTIDES

*Compound Small-Molecule Bioactive Oligo-Peptide*

*Composition:*

Norland high-purity combination peptide are made of high quality raw materials such as soybean, ocean fish and wheat selected from China, USA and Malaysia.

*What is peptide:*

Part of macromolecular protein decompose into amino acid and is further compounded into peptide which enters into cell for absorption. Small molecular peptide is directly absorbed without digestion process to enhance immune system, prevent cell from degeneration, activate the vigor of cell, accelerate blood circulation, repair damaged cell and restore the physical function.

*Benefits of peptide:*

*Help to build muscles, keep body strong and full of power

*Repair damaged muscles and the pain caused by over extension of muscle

*Strengthening immunity, greatly inhibiting disease and pain, good appetite and sleep, thereby creating good body health

*Lower the blood fat, blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol.

*Improve memory, good effects on brain and improve eyesight

*Improves digestive system and chronic intestinal disease

*Remarkable improvements to diseases like rheumatism rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes.

*Help to repair cell, improve its metabolism, prevent cell degeneration and anti-cancer

*Scavenging free radicals, anti-aging and antiviral.

*People who needs peptide:*

√rheumatism, arthritis patients

√the three hyper patient: hypertension(high blood pressure), hyperlipidemia(high blood fat) and hyperglycemia(high blood sugar).

√people with mental disorder and people with weak body condition

√teenagers who has study pressure

√people who rarely exercise

√people with Dysplasia

*Edible Method:*

1-2 times each day. Mix 1 packet each time, with 100-150ml of warm water and drink it. You may add milk or fruit juice to your own taste.

Unsuitable for infants

ANION SANITARY PADS

*The Sanitary Pad*

(a) Eliminate Menstrual Pains
(b) It elimates odour
(c) It is antibacterial, very hygenic
(d) Absorption rate is very high
(e) promotes metabolism and improve endocrine function.
(f) anti inflammatory

*Benefits Of Sanitary Pad*
It is air permeable
It allows passage of oxygen to the womb
It prevents menstrual pains
It prevents odour
It also shrinks fibroid
It prevents infection

Usuage Of Sanitary Pad
It is worn during menstrual flow and also used to smooth skin and prevent ageing of hair.

It is attached to the pants and worn during menstrual flow.