The Diamond Story

The first time I watched "Blood Diamond" was at a restaurant while having supper. It was an intermittent attention as I was with friends who could tell you story better than Steven Speilberg. Since I could sense the movie quite interesting, I bought a DVD and watched the movie at home.

On the other hand, I bought a motivational book at Popular Book Store on the way of getting rich. It came with an audio CD which I appreciated very much. Though I like knowledge, I have to admit that I prefer listening much more than reading. It can goes parallel in deed. Driving and gaining knowledge. The story is about diamond mining in Africa. It was narrated by a deep voice man. Something like Sean Connery's voice. So when you listen to the story, you could actually imagine the guy is so serious on telling you this. Since I already watched the De Caprio movie , Blood Diamond, more or less this story has the similarities in terms of the challenge and pursuit for weath in the midst of the social turmoils.

Its quite interesting to know that my friend Master Mary uses this story as his ice-breaking story whenever he does his marketing, brain-wash or conduct classes. I do not know whether this is a true story or not, but it is worth for mind digestion.

The story goes like this : (Again, the introduction of this story sounds like Blood Diamond or Revenge of the Sith movie, but trust me, it is not)

Long long time ago, far far a way in a galaxy, in Africa, people were crazy about diamond mining business. They migrated from one place to another just to find diamonds. They killed each other because of diamonds (you can see this scenario in De Caprio movie Blood Diamond). In their village, there were nothing much to do other than finding diamonds, breeding livestocks . But being in Africa doing the livestocks breeding business was pretty challenging. Food and water were scarce.

I cant really remember the name of the main character of this story, let say I name him as "Drogba". Sound familiar ? Ok, so this Drogba was a father of 3 kids (you dont have to remember how many kids he has, because this is not related at all to the main theme of this story).

Drogba too heard about the diamond mining business. Everyday he kept on hearing people getting rich and make a big leap in their life. Drogba lived in a small village in Africa One day Drogba decided to sell off everything that he had, the piece of land inherited from his family, the small hut and a Harley Davidson he won in the Nescafe Contest (dont get de-focus of this additional information, keep on reading, you almost get to the climax of the story). So, Drogba moved out from the village and sold the land to his cousin named Usin Bolt (well, this name came to my mind in 9.69 seconds). Usin is a middle class man who dont have big dreams in the diamond business, so he doesn't really mind raising cows and goats for living.

Drogba and his family moved to another place knowned as Unggalagala (pronounce as UNG-GALA-GALA) , 500km from the Kalahari Dessert (where they shot the movie God Must be Crazy Part II) where he heard about the Diamond mine. He set up a small hut just enough for his family to live, but he does have a home theatre set with a build in WIFI (based on the original story that almost corrupted, but please continue reading, the climax is there, be optimistic). Drogba was very hardworking, day and night he went for diamond mining. Came to the extend where he had to use scuba set to explore the underwater treasures. Years went by and Drogba still could not find the big bang he was looking for. One day, Drogba was mining at one of the well and suddenly there was an earthquake, the land slid. Drogba was belived to have died, buried underwater from the rock debris. No one found his body. Leaving only his swiss army knife as the evident. He engraved " Diamonds are Forever" on his swiss army knife. You can find it on E-Bay for your collection if you may.

Remember Usin Bolt , Drogba's cousin ? The man who bought Drogba's land. He was still doing the livestock breeding business. Well, he was doing quite ok.Usin heard about Drogba's demised . He was so relief that he did not follow his cousin's foot step searching for diamonds. One day, while Usin was preparring to go back , one of the goat went missing (just like P Ramlee story, Ahmad Albab...). So Usin went searching for the goat, with only one mini Maglite in his hand. The land that he bought from Drogba's was quite big, about the size of 5 Wembley Stadium . So walking across the land was time consuming, but what to do, he doesnt have any vehicle. The day was almost dawn, Usin still couldnt find his goat. His GPS had turned to night mode. The missing goat was no where in the radar screen. Frustated and exhausted, he stopped by a stream located on his land to get some fresh water. Praying to God for his goat to be found, Usin sat down and sighed. Looking into the flowing water. The place was calm, peace and tranquility. Only the sound of the running water and the rhythm of the wind. Out of sudden Usin saw something fishy in the water. Its not the fish, but some glowing lights you may call. Glowing big rock (hint : almost the climax but not yet..). Usin took his maglite and shot the ray into the water. He stood up, walked slowly towards the water. He tried to pick up the rock but it was pretty heavy. Being an athelete (he was a school soccer player), Usin put his fullest effort and picked up the rock. Its about a size of a tool box. Thinking to substitute the rock with the missing goat, Usin was hoping his wife would be happy to see that. Usin went back to his house with the shiny rock, without his goat of course. Upon reaching home, his wife stood anxiously at the door. Usin handed over the rock and told her about the missing goat. She was so angry and upset that he lost the goat and brought back the useless rock. His wife kept on mumbling all night about the missing goat, and the rock that looks like a bonsai tree.

The next morning, Usin went to town and told his friends about his missing goat. And he also told them about the strange looking rock. A beautiful rock indeed. None of his friends was interested to hear his story. Most of them were busy playing games, updating Facebook and Youtubing at the internet cafe. Usin felt upset upon his friends response. So he decided to post the photo of the stone in his own blogspot. Usin also decided to throw the rock back into the river as he could not stand his wife mumbling about the missing goat day in and day out. Days passed by without any breaking news. Usin has never talked about that story neither to his friends nor his wife eversince.

One day, a guy name Atkinson came to town. He was so eager to find Usin. He asked around the town and finally got to find Usin at the Cyber Cafe. Usin was playing PC games when Atkinson greeted him. Usin was very surprised to see Atkinson, who dressed up like Indiana Jones, came in the middle of nowhere. Atkinson told Usin that he saw the photo of the rock in the internet posted by Usin few weeks ago. Usin was poked by that snippet. Finally someone at least pay attention on his story. Usin immediately took Atkinson to the river where he threw the rock. The rock was still there and they both picked it up. Atkinson was so amazed and surprised upon seeing the rock with his own eyes. "This is unbelieveable", said Atkinson astonishingly. " Holly Cow !!". You are the lucky one....". Usin was kind of bewildered with Atkinson's remark. "Who are you, sir ?, Usin started to put his interest. Atkinson explained that he is actually a diamond specialist from England and the rock found by Usin is believed to be the largest diamond ever found in the world. (hint = this is supposed to be the climax of the story, so hope you hold on for a while). Usin still could not believe what he has just heard. Surprisingly, within 2 hours, the press crews from Al-Jazeera , CNN, Bloomberg and RTM2 of course, came to the scene. Usin became a multi-billionaire in split seconds. One tycoon by the name of Kiyosaki had made an offer live on TV asking Usin to trade the diamond for 10 billion dollars. Usin gasped for awhile. How much is that ? 10 billion . He has never had a calculator that can calculate that amount of money. He asked the TV crew whether this is really live telecast or some sort of bloopers program. The crew nodded seriously. Usin took a deep breath, looking straight towards the camera and told Mr Kiyosaki right on his face (just like those dudes in WWF) " Listen Mr. ......I love my wife..., I love my kids..., I love my life....YOU.....COMPLETE ME....(read like Tom Cruise in Jerry MacGuire).But YOU DONT HAVE TO SHOW ME THE MONEY !!!!...., I am not stupid. My wife will kill me if she knew I bring back 10 billion instead of that darn missing goat !!. Usin grabbed the microphone from the man and said "...if anyone of you can find me that darn goat, this stone is yours....and I really mean it..."

That afternoon Usin went back to his house with his missing goat. Not one goat, but 300 of them. Upon reaching the house Usin yelled at the door " Honey...we are rich !! we are rich !! But his wife is no where to be found. Suddenly his little kid came from the kitchen and said " mommy watched daddy on live TV just now...mommy said that she is leaving this village for good. Before she becomes a murderer..". Oops, forgot to mention, the wife name is Rihanna. She moved to the United States to open up a shop selling umbrella.

The morale of the Story :

Lesson # 1 : Diamond is actually inside you, you just have to find it and it will shine. Dont really have to go far to find the diamond.
Lesson # 2 : You may be poor now but one day who knows , luck might come to you, be patient.
Lesson # 3 : A good husband can make a bad mistake if he listens to a good wife that make a bad decision without knowing why he should be listening at the first place. Capish ?
Lesson # 4 : Dont always post everything on the internet, save some for your wife and kids.
Lesson # 5 : Drogba should have invested in Money Mastery Program or read Rich Dad Poor Dad , so that he could sell his land at a higher price to Usin.
Lesson # 6 : Usin should have bought a Sony Playstation or PSP so that his wife will not be seeing him on TV. And none of this could have happened.
Lesson # 7 : Light travels faster than sound, that is why sometime you think a person is bright until you hear them speak.
Lesson # 8 : Attitude is important, bad attitude may turn up to be your liability in future.