Behind the words
Fleeting past and flirting
Clearly more luminous than blooming flowers
Thus memories of yesteryears
Sculptured that name
Manipulating the softness of this heart
Sending red drops oozing
Drip drop yet never drying
For drips and drops converge in deluges
Faithfully powering these words
The connectivity between creativity and memories is something that only writers and poets can manipulate. Others can try to dissect its role in the development of literature. However hard the layman may try, he or she can only imitate, at best, when images fly by and recall other words that can be paired together with the said images.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Obama Just Put Himself in a difficult position.
When he gave the order to move in and attack Ghadaffi's forces, little did Obama knew that not everybody applauded his move. Of course, many people hate Ghadaffi. He is not the right material for social networking. What he did to the Libyans are awesome and horrible.
When Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of OIC, was asked about his opinion concerning the attacks on Ghadaffi by American led warplanes, his reply was that individual countries may voice their own opinion concerning the raid. The Organisation Of Islamic countries are clearly not happy with what Obama had just done. As a matter of protocol, they should be contacted first. Once again, Barrack Obama had shown his naivity concerning international diplomacy.
The attack was uncalled for. However, what made it seems that he is getting away with it. By looking at the array of nationalities taking part in the raid we are able to deduce that Obama indeed have that power of persuasion.
However, in a shrewd move the American conceded the leadership of the Allied Forces to NATO. By that concession the Americans successfully deflected all criticisms that has been thrown at their President. At the end of the day Obam can still say, Look! My hands are clean."
When Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of OIC, was asked about his opinion concerning the attacks on Ghadaffi by American led warplanes, his reply was that individual countries may voice their own opinion concerning the raid. The Organisation Of Islamic countries are clearly not happy with what Obama had just done. As a matter of protocol, they should be contacted first. Once again, Barrack Obama had shown his naivity concerning international diplomacy.
The attack was uncalled for. However, what made it seems that he is getting away with it. By looking at the array of nationalities taking part in the raid we are able to deduce that Obama indeed have that power of persuasion.
However, in a shrewd move the American conceded the leadership of the Allied Forces to NATO. By that concession the Americans successfully deflected all criticisms that has been thrown at their President. At the end of the day Obam can still say, Look! My hands are clean."
Thursday, March 17, 2011
OBAMA; FROM PROMISE TO POWER.
AN ABSTRACT
Title of book : OBAMA – From Promise to Power.
Author : David Mendell
ISBN : 978-0-06-173666-7
Publisher : Harper and Collins
Year : 2007
Photo : Tedc Soqui/Corbi
Pages : 400 pages.
The first line of this book was written well before Obama declared his intention to go for the top post at the White House. It traced his journey from being am ambitious albeit without any clear target teenager at the Punaoahu High School in Hawaii right up to his initial assembling of staff to run his campaign for the White House.
His early years in Kansas and Indonesia were barely touched. It was in his later musings that Obama derived certain earl life lessons from his years in the east.
Obama was a black kid, brought up by a white mother in the form of Ann Dunham. Later, his grandmother too played an interesting part of his life. His early situation was indeed unlike any of his black friends. His family was not poor and he was not looked down upon by those he came in contact with. In fact, he grew up believing that he was special.
It was at Punaoahu High School in Hawaii that Obama showed his many abilities in life. It was here too that Obama experienced his first failure. This initial failure deepened the inner conflict in him. He alleged that he was benched during his team’s playing time because of his colour. He was black.
From Hawai he was sent to study at the Occidental College of arts in New York. In his second year he asked for a transfer to Columbia University, also in New York. He was keen to experience that rugged life in New York. Yet he was disappointed. However, Columbia University was not Harlem. The hustle and bustle that Obama expected was not there. Instead he was lonely.
Soon after that loneliness came to his advantage as he read and read books by well known thinkers. Names like Toni Morisson, Herman Melville and Friederiche Nietschze was devoured and digested by the ambitious Obama.
Obama wanted to change the place around him namely the Black Community. Thus, he went to Chicago to volunteer as a community organizer. Chicago was real. The Black Community there was poor and the young hooked on drugs. His work produced mixed result. However, he came to real close a number of Black leaders like Richard Kellman, Saul Alinsky and Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Later, Obama distanced himself from Rev. wright inorder to save his Presidential campaign.
From the mixed result of Chicago Obama continued his quest for solutions to the world’s problem in Harvard University. When he was elected as the President of Harvard Law Review, he played his role as the unifier with consummate ease. Obama was hard against the typical Black rallying call of pointing to the White people for their underdevelopment. Instead he took the best values of every society and adopted it as his own values.
Title of book : OBAMA – From Promise to Power.
Author : David Mendell
ISBN : 978-0-06-173666-7
Publisher : Harper and Collins
Year : 2007
Photo : Tedc Soqui/Corbi
Pages : 400 pages.
The first line of this book was written well before Obama declared his intention to go for the top post at the White House. It traced his journey from being am ambitious albeit without any clear target teenager at the Punaoahu High School in Hawaii right up to his initial assembling of staff to run his campaign for the White House.
His early years in Kansas and Indonesia were barely touched. It was in his later musings that Obama derived certain earl life lessons from his years in the east.
Obama was a black kid, brought up by a white mother in the form of Ann Dunham. Later, his grandmother too played an interesting part of his life. His early situation was indeed unlike any of his black friends. His family was not poor and he was not looked down upon by those he came in contact with. In fact, he grew up believing that he was special.
It was at Punaoahu High School in Hawaii that Obama showed his many abilities in life. It was here too that Obama experienced his first failure. This initial failure deepened the inner conflict in him. He alleged that he was benched during his team’s playing time because of his colour. He was black.
From Hawai he was sent to study at the Occidental College of arts in New York. In his second year he asked for a transfer to Columbia University, also in New York. He was keen to experience that rugged life in New York. Yet he was disappointed. However, Columbia University was not Harlem. The hustle and bustle that Obama expected was not there. Instead he was lonely.
Soon after that loneliness came to his advantage as he read and read books by well known thinkers. Names like Toni Morisson, Herman Melville and Friederiche Nietschze was devoured and digested by the ambitious Obama.
Obama wanted to change the place around him namely the Black Community. Thus, he went to Chicago to volunteer as a community organizer. Chicago was real. The Black Community there was poor and the young hooked on drugs. His work produced mixed result. However, he came to real close a number of Black leaders like Richard Kellman, Saul Alinsky and Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Later, Obama distanced himself from Rev. wright inorder to save his Presidential campaign.
From the mixed result of Chicago Obama continued his quest for solutions to the world’s problem in Harvard University. When he was elected as the President of Harvard Law Review, he played his role as the unifier with consummate ease. Obama was hard against the typical Black rallying call of pointing to the White people for their underdevelopment. Instead he took the best values of every society and adopted it as his own values.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Only a two-piece Domino.
Short notes on a March morning.
It is true and as predicted. Libya is at war and with itself. The third piece of the Middle East domino refused to fall down as expected. Instead it still stands there albeit a bit wobbly.
Muammar Ghadaffi, for his part, is still playing around with the international media. The latest image showed him smiling as western journalists tried to pry open his plans for the future. He denied western allegations that his people are deserting him. Ghadaffi's army is still out there, strafing the rebels from their helicopters. His artillery and tanks are moving around and chasing the protesters. Ghadaffi called the protesters rebels and traitors. Thus, as rebels and traitors they will be treated as such.
The Gulf Region.
Forces from the Saudi army are now in Bahrain. Then, came the Armed soldiers from the United Arab Emirates. The Al Khalifa rulers are following the steps of Ghadaffi and saw no reason why they should restrain their soldiers like Mubarak. According to them, Zein Al Abidine and Hosni Mubarak paid the price for being too lenient to the protesters.
Another "hot potato" in the Middle East garden is Yemen. Yemen is the headquarter for Al Qaeda and its associates. These groups are not shy of taking in the fight should the need arise.
In Yemen and in Libya, the question is; Should the international community come in? The United Nation and the United States have voiced their support for the protesters.
The support from United Nation and the Americans have emboldened the protesters further. The debate among them, be it in Manama,Bahrain and in Libya, is what other support should the foreign powers bestow upon them. The Foreign powers should always remember that these young protesters does not always embrace western ideas and culture. They are educated and took only what they really need. Surely, they do not need the presence of foreign forces on their soil.
Oh! did we say that the Saudi Armed Forces, complete with their tanks and armoured vehicles are in Bahrain. The Saudi Army is the most well-equipped in the region. Even if they succeeded in quelling the unrest in Bahrain and silenced the mainly-Shia protesters, will Iran just watch?
These are among the questions that only the people of the Middle East themselves can and should answer.
Ban Ki Moon, Obama and his Generals should only stand and watch. They must never think of going in.
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