SOLITARY THOUGHTS

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

A Happy ending & a Happy New Year begins.

A year with historical events had come to an end. I can say so far it was one of the best years in my life. I’ve gone miles, found happiness, explored new dimensions and made new friends. I am yet to visit Aneh Dhivehiraaje and spend time with my family and hopefully soon enough.

My posts have diminished with the increase in work load, but the blog isn’t dead yet, hey I made it to a 100 posts ! I’ve come up with so much stuff for the New Year and will try hard to bring them to existence and wrap them in history. I will miss the most important companion of my life, God given friend: my sister, who departs to NZ in January. I’ve cherished all the talk, gossip, laughter and time we had in our circle of friends. In spite of how my life took a turning point, I made it just fine and unbelievably a great year welcomed me till the last minute.

The most exciting part of life at this moment is spending New Year with my hubby, being together as the fire works set off in Melbourne.

Happy New Year to all.

Pic from December trip to Mt Gambier, taken from moving car.

Other pics can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/autumnlily

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Schmuck!

As he looked up from the newspaper his flustered face said it all. The way new government was dealing with things didn’t make him feel jolly any more.

This is not what I expected. I didn’t vote for this.

Yes you did.

I voted for change. It’s not change when a criminal is a Minister. It’s not change when some people are to go unemployed. So much for state craft. Yes, c’mon say it! Say I contributed to put the nation in this fellows hands when you didn’t vote coz you always had doubts.

True, change is a double edged sword. There must be action with the intention of making a positive difference in the lives of employees, customers and the society as a whole.

I had my doubts for reasons. I never liked the crooks Anni was hanging out with. Next thing you know, he is distributing posts to all his bosom buddies. He failed to grasp the importance of putting experienced educated and realistic people in charge of departments. While zaki (don’t even get me started about him) becomes the mouthpiece, Waheed is fated to be a decorative flower pot in photo shoots.

To put the icing on the cake, a criminal is now a minister. Yes you heard me right, criminal. I don’t care if people say that it was fabricated by Maumoon, but the blood I saw of our tortured family member was real. The lives lost were real. How would these families feel, when they voted for change and the criminal is given a leadership role?

What about all those natural resources he bragged about? Is there any that I am unaware of? Have they suddenly discovered gold, zinc and oil and is it top secret now? Didn’t he ridicule Maumoon for getting foreign aid? Now it’s a different approach but same solution? I say we collect all the shit, create biogas in addition to the natural resources.

He wanted it now he’s got it. Let us wait and see more from this clown. I say give him a gun and he’ll shoot himself in the foot. Give him enough rope and he’ll hang himself. New clown same dance.

[Ethics were followed to publish this conversation.]

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

The unexpected

Terribly missing the excitement in Raaje', but always keeping track with TVM live via net. Unexpected counts turning up as all of us here are keeping hope. I've gotta bad feeling about this whole thingy!

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

METANOIA

After being married to the Internet for a few years, I have taken a fundamental shift of mind; which in greek is termed; metanoia. Yes, I got my sanity back, my roaming soul came fluttering back to sensibility. Finally, to cut a long story short, I have a glinting rock on my finger.

It has taken a while to settle. Sharing the winter sun with a partner is great, sharing ideas -fantastic, working together- a bliss. Together, a new life has begun. Ramadan Mubarak to all.

Pic: my hubby's photography - The Melbourne sun

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Oh for heaven’s sake!

As I watched, the man on the telly chanted a few biblical verses, grasped the head of the old woman in a wheel chair, arched his body while still reciting and then threw his body into spasms as if he was having an orgasm, shrieking “You have been blessed!”

Sure enough, the old woman in the wheelchair sprang up, started not only to walk but prance about like a monkey suffering high voltage electrocution. Oh yeah, now the woman is miraculously cured from her lifelong disability. The crowd cheered and cried, wiping their tears, stunned by the prophecy of the man.

Why not choose this guy on an endless global travel to cure people from everything, starting from chicken pox to AIDS. Doctors can resign from their hellish shifts and the world can save billions than splashing it on medical research. All wheelchairs can then be recycled.

And people only make fun of Islam? Oh please!.

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Smart silly

Human stupidity has got no limits. Some people try to smart their way out and end up feeling so silly. A few days back the prison guard told me a tale that made me shake my head.

A female prisoner complained of terrible tummy ache so they had to rush her to the hospital. The doctor, after conducting a scan, found that there were six cigarette lighters shoved up her vagina. The doctor shrugged and said, “If you’d have rubbed her the wrong way, she would have gone boom!”

Today, Sarah tried to try out how smart she can get with me.

“Sarah, how was daycare today? What did you do?” I asked.

Playing with her cheese she replied, “It was good. We drew.”

“What did you draw?”

“Nothing.”

“What does nothing look like?”

“Looks like nothing.”

I decided to stop at that. She’s only three and Sesame street smart.