1. Phlegmatic
2. Melancholy
i did a personality profile test and i got this as
my result. seems like what i’m doing know is totally
different from my personality. hmmm…
August 20, 2009
communication is the reaction that we received…
January 20, 2009
its going to be historical. its going to be memorable. yet the future remained unknown for the most of us who are being dictated by our consciousness, drive by our emotional and lead by our ignorance. while the understanding of conscience always lead to conflicts, conflicts can always be avoided if and if only if, in depth we know what constitute conscience and not just a mere definition of it.
i’m eager to see what tomorrow brings yet i’m afraid if what i experienced yesterday was the best. today is about to end and at the soonest, we are going to see a new man standing on a big plateau on top of a hill, taking his vow promising for a better tomorrow yet will it be his. my best wishes goes to him and his family. hope the new dawn that we are about to see would not blinded us from accepting what is reality and what a utopia can be.
so be it mr. obama. again, my best wishes goes to you and your family. may the new dawn leads us to a harmonious land called earth.
regards,
fat max
December 21, 2008
“Thus the entry of each of the belligerents was determined by considerations of national security and national power. If, as the optimistic Cobdenites of the nineteenth century believed, trade was a bond of interest and friendship between nations, Germany and Britain should not have found themselves on opposing sides, and Germany should have been on excellent terms with most of her European neighbors.”
David Thomson, World History 1914-1968, The First World War, 1914-1918, Oxford University Press, 1969, pp 40
November 28, 2008
The country that connects Indo-China countries and the South East Asia countries declared state of emergency this morning. While the captain of the country is currently placed in a very strategic point of exit of the country, I believe he will not abandon the ship before the owner of the ship requires him to do so. The question of whether he will be ask to abandon the ship now or later still open for speculation, I wonder how the owner of the ship will respond towards the demand put forward by the passengers against the captain of the ship. So far, the ship has seen three different captains yet the passengers remain unhappy. It is impossible to ask the passengers to leave the ship if they are not pleased with the captain however; it would be unrealistic too to keep on changing the captain just because the passengers are not happy with him. As the passengers are more loyal to the owner instead of the captain, which is acceptable, I wonder how far this situation can remain “under control”. Considering the current global financial turmoil, to have another coup would put the company into an acute situation hence this will also put another regional player under the limelight. Having the hold over the most strategic location in S.E.A, this ship is presumed to face tough situation in the next few months if the current ‘in-house’ crisis reaches its boiling point before time.
While this part of the region remains critically uncertain, the other side of the region is also facing tough times. Last weeks, this ship was given a big applause by the media for their victory to undertake the sea pirates. Seen as a major breakthrough by many that concerned, this week the same ship is facing another critical moment, domestically. As they are busy battling with the sea pirates offshore to safeguard their energy interest, onshore, the situation with the land pirates has escalated to a new juncture. As the battle with the land pirates remains vague, the number of casualties continues to amplify and the identity of the ‘real’ culprit is still remain unknown in spite of the responsible claim made by an extremist yesterday. As the current crisis involves foreign hostages as well as foreign terrorists, the captain of the ship is bound to make prompt decision considering the domestic interest without inviting foreign assistant.
Are we seeing a reshuffle in international politics as well as the international security? With my limited knowledge and here I am, admitting my weaknesses, I believe I’m observing something that I would not want to observe. While the region managed to shield itself from the recent global financial attack, I’m not sure about this one thus I would avoid from commenting further. Let’s hope and see if the regional body is capable to handle such delicate issue shrewdly as well as tackling the real culprit. Talking about international politics, recently we are seeing a lot of new and promising world leaders such as Barrack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Nicholas Sarchozy and many others who emerged to replace the old and soon to be expired regime leader and I continue asking myself “Are we going to see the re-emergence of the old term of ‘the new world order’?”…
November 19, 2008
while we in malaysia struggle to understand the meaning of independence as well as practicing it, others from the other side of the world are now happily surfing on the new wave of change, thanks to the recent event in America. although the wave of change looks promising as if the wave is still far from the shore, we must never forget that sooner or later, it will hit the shore. unless if the wave change its appearance into a tsunami, then we might witnessing something different. anyway, i found a ’surfer’ today who believe that the wave he is riding now, can and should be utilize by his nation in order to find the right shore to land on, name ‘The First World’ shore.
have a read here or you can click to this link to go directly to the source. happy reading.
If we will it, who can dare stop us from joining the First World?
By KOIGI WAMWEREPosted Tuesday, November 18 2008 at 18:06
Now that Barack Obama has successfully dreamt of being the president of USA, Kenya and Africa must also dream of joining the First World immediately.
Without a dream, no individual or country can develop. To develop, we must dare dream. Countries leap forward when they dream. They stagnate and die when they don’t.
Our freedom fighters dreamt of independence. For it, many were killed, detained and tortured. In 1963, however, they hoisted our national flag.
Then came one-party dictatorship. A second generation of freedom fighters dreamt of multiparty democracy. They too were persecuted, but eventually won.
Despite these successes, we are not yet free. We are too poor to be. To be truly free, we must dream of moving our nation from Third to First World. We must dream of eliminating
poverty for all.
The dream Kenya needs is not the dream of individuals becoming rich and famous or of MPs, ministers, the president or communities capturing the presidency. It is the collective dream of moving the nation from poverty to prosperity, stagnation to development and hell to heaven.
But can we succeed if we dream? Yes, we can — like Malaysia, Singapore, China and South Korea.
To succeed however, Kenyans must jump over certain hurdles. Although we have weakened it considerably, dictatorship is not dead, and no people can develop if they are oppressed by tyranny. To develop, we must be completely free.
To develop, our dream must come from within, not without. A dream dreamt for us like Vision 2030 will not take us to the First World because it comes to us dead and cold and sparks no fire and passion in us for action. To take us there, we must embrace the dream with the same passion we desired uhuru (freedom).
After uhuru, the mission and dream of our generation is to take Kenya to the First World where no one but ourselves can take us. Only we must remember to expect opposition and not approval, support or welcome from our friends who are already there.
But on the tumultuous way to the First World, we must hold hands. A country at war with itself cannot develop. To get to the First World, all our communities must reconcile, renounce and combat negative ethnicity everywhere.
By the way, thieves have never taken any country to the First World. Our visa to the First World is to punish corruption without mercy, not put thieves at the head of the match.
To reach the First World, Kenyans must free themselves from cynicism and believe they can develop. Without faith in themselves, Kenyans will perish just where they are.
Already our athletes have shown the way. Through their kind of effort, hard work and determination, Kenya can be a First World country. Before we set out, however, let us consider a few more things.
First, the path to the First World will not be easy. We shall need to make ultimate effort and sacrifice and enjoy no picnics along the way.
Two, we must have precise knowledge of who and where we are. We shall, otherwise, not comprehend just how far we lag behind others, and how badly poverty has compromised our survival.
Three, visionary leaders must lead us to the First World. We’re poor today because our leaders have limped. But who will remove bad leaders — our dream’s Achilles Heel — when voters are captives of their money and negative ethnicity?
To reach the First World, the right leaders must execute land reforms to feed everybody. If a few Kenyans continue to own unused land, Kenyans can forget the First World forever.
It pains me to think that our acceptance of poverty emanates from a sterile religious faith that God in His own good time will take us to the First World. This we must abandon because God has given us the power and freedom to match to the First World or die in our self-made poverty. God suffers no lazy people gladly, however religious.
To open the doors to the First World, we must master technology, industrialise and do everything else to meet this end. We cannot develop by keeping our bad ways of doing things. For our safari to the First World, we must have new leadership, new work ethics, new education and new discipline.
For sure, we have compelling reasons why we must join the First World. We have a right to its comforts. We must prove we are no lesser human beings. Depending on others for our survival is unacceptable.
Mr Wamwere is the author of ‘Towards Genocide In Kenya: The Curse Of Negative Ethnicity’ and chair of CCM party.
