we are looking at the same perspective through different set of lense

at this juncture, i wonder what we see is what we saw,
before, everything runs smoothly but now, i ’see’ things crawling haphazardly,
once, i ’saw’ images clearly but nowadays, blurry as thick fog…

whether we are not listening enough,
or whether the noise is over-amplified by the unknown,
yet the voices are out of pitch and the dissonance overtook the rhythm…

the horizon changes as the contour arises,
yet the perspective reamains unchanged,
because we are not moving and not even moving…

 

my personality tags…

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…

 

have we ever thought that before?

communication is the reaction that we received…

 

as the tide is about to hit the shore…

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

 

lets recall the past for future reference…

“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

 

how do we see the situation now?

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’?”…