Easter trip

Well, it has been long since I wrote anything in my blog! It’s that I was not around in Portsmouth in the past few weeks and have been roaming around in the north of England. Met some interesting people, different characters and with different ideologies. After meeting them, it feels if they were given to run the government they could just run it with their fluent words of criticism. Most of them are anti government and the funny thing I noticed about it is that all of their talks and criticism yields to nothing as they don’t like all the political leaders.

About my trip to the north it was fantastic. There was this instance when the weather changed so dramatically in Liverpool. At one instance it was snowing, then it was cloudy, and then rained and in the next minute it was sunny and the sky was blue! You could just experience the British weather in just five minutes!

The contrast between the north and south is immense. In my opinion the south of England is much much better than the north, not that I am in the south. The north is less developed compared to the south and it is less clean. Some of my friends believe that the government gives higher priority to the south. It could be seen clearly in the BBC coverage of the recent storm in England. The day the storm hit the south of England, reporters brought the live coverage in fierce conditions. Meanwhile, two days later when the storm hit the North of England, there was no live coverage and was heavily criticised by the locals.

Anyways, now am back to studies after the long trip to Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. A special thanks to Afsal, dho and her hubby, aimi and uwa for their hospitality.

Entertainment! 21st century

Just a thought some of my friends shared some days back. Thought I would share it with you guys! The entertainment these days has changed from mere quality to people’s miseries. We laugh, we joke and we entertain ourselves from the miseries of other people.

For example: The American Idol searches for people and show up the most hilarious or the idiotic people to sing even though they know they don’t have a single chance to progress. On the other hand, Big Brother which shows just everything that people do in a closed house and I know some of my friends who sit in front of the Tally just waiting to see what happens next. In this year, one of the guys was doing IT himself and it was shown in newspapers and almost all the media! I just could not imagine how the entertainment has changed from mere talented young professionals to idiotic talents.

But that’s the entertainment of 21^st century and truthfully I do also laugh and joke about the idiotic behaviour shown in some of the programmes!

Valentine

It has been so long since I have posted anything in my blog. It’s just that after the trip to India, things were hectic. I just had a very tight schedule filled up with exams and assignments. After that during the one-week semester break, me and my class mates went to Isle of Wight, London and even went to fishing down the coast of Portsmouth. Even though the classes have resumed, this time I hope to continue to post one post a week. Let’s see how far I go..

During the weekend I went on a trip to London where we just explored different things in there including lives of Londoners, their expressions and the surroundings. The one thing I noticed is how much the whole place has been lived up to Valentines’ day. Everywhere you look at you would see things in red or either discounted for sale for Valentine’s Day. It’s one of the commercial events of a retailer like many other occasions such as Christmas. TV advertisements are full of hearts, shop windows are decorated with red, and even the Maldivian post has decided to post roses to celebrate the lover’s day!

Things evolving it might be wrong, but like many other such cases if your will is to express your feelings to your lover, what’s wrong with it? But for my liking, I would prefer to express my feelings on every day, not on a single day. But it’s just another day like Mother’s day, Father’s day or children’s day! Just a funny thought circulated in my head during a walk along the sea front!

Trip to India: Hindhu food or Muslim food

I just returned from a trip to India. It was a fantastic trip in many ways. A funny incident happened during the flight from Munich to Delhi in Lufthansa and would like to share it with you guys. I got a seat just near the toilets and the cabin crews’ area which made my whole flight miserable as people were roaming around making noises and you could hear the calls for flight attendants throughout the flight. During the 6 hours 45 minutes trip I could not sleep at all. Ok, let’s continue with the story. Just as I boarded the flight, two gentleman came over and asked an Indian cabin crew, apparently on her first flight

“I just changed my seat and I have asked for Hindhu food. Could you arrange it?”

The flight attendant responded calmly “Yes sir, it won’t be a problem. If you have asked for special food it won’t be a problem”

Then one of the guys asked the flight attendant disappointedly.

“No. I did not ask for special food. Even on the flight from Boston to here I ordered for Hindhu food and they just brought me Muslim food”

Confused flight attendant again said “Yes we can serve you Hindhu food. It won’t be a problem. We have vegetarian food”

Again the guy complained “It’s not vegetarian food I’m asking. Can you ask your superior to arrange Hindhu food for me?”

At that moment, the flight captain on the speakers said that they are ready for take-off and the two gentlemen went to their seats meanwhile the confused flight attendant went over to her superior.

An Indian guy sitting next to me, who was also confused asked me “Is there Hindhu food or Muslim food?”

I said “I don’t know!”

Democracy! Would we enjoy it?

I guess I have started a common interest towards the politics in these few days that I have stayed away from Maldives. I guess I missed my chance to vote this time and would have added one more vote to the Presidential System. Not that I support DRP or any other political party. It is just that the Presidential System suits Maldivians much better than the Parlimentary and the Maldivians have decided the best for my likings.

But the real question I would like an answer would be whether we would be able to experience the true taste of democracy! People say democracy would not be achieved without pain and are we ready to face it?

First of all in my point of view, we are not. The only main fact being that our economy is not strong at all. We do have some frozen, fresh or dried tuna to sell to the international market and which is highly dependent on the nature and the climate change. The current depression which most of the scientists believe is from the El-nino near the equator in the Pacific Ocean! So obviously that sector is not strong as it sounds. Besides, being highly conservation based fishery and the rest of the countries around Maldivian waters don’t consider it, our economy would definitely suffer and would not be stable at all!

Next is obviously some thing we market: Tourism. Highly dependent on the nature, the atmosphere in our neighboring countries! And we can’t dependent on it at all?

What else do we have? Nothing! Nothing at all! No agriculture, nothing to trade, nothing to sell…

You might ask why it is linked to democracy. Hmmm when people fight for democracy as it now happens, people take the advantage of our economy and our treasures to sell out to the public. The public is really bought by politicians like India and Sri Lanka. I am not criticizing the Indians neither the Sri Lankans like Imadh Solih who studied in India like me. But the thing is people mind could be bought so cheaply without a strong economy and this would ultimately lead to internal fights and demonstrations. People are so opposed to the government and they could be bought near the election period with some money or some brilliant idea which has no ground at all!!

For example: Usual employee of the government gets around MRf3000 with over time allowance. If the politicians give him a 1000 buck or promises for a better housing regime, people would move to it. People would buy it. Politicians say books should be free of charge and hospitals should be free of charge? Why? Because our economy is not that strong the people would have a tendency to buy that idea.

But ultimately it cannot be implemented in real time basis. We do not have such a strong

economy to produce such free services. And the politicians who have their own priorities would never think about it. It is just votes they need even though our economy collapse…

Economy of a country is not a toy to be played with!!

Independence day celebrations

Independence day celebration pics for all of you that missed the show

Independence

It’s been 42 years if I am not mistaken that we got our independence from the British. But did we really feel the independence we had is the frequent question that everyone use to ask and the politician complains that they did not have the independence!

Even though I work in the government I do not support all the activities that’s carried by the government it self. But for sure, I feel that the independence we had is quite more self comfortable rather than the independence we are having at the moment.

Some would blame President Maumoon, but some would blame his cabinet. But I would definitely blame everyone in the nation, including me, my self and my friends and everyone in the nation for disrupting the peace we had. We just cannot fulfill or taste the full independence with turmoil and hatred. We have to love each other, and have to have peace and the smile we had before. When people speak of Maldives, the brand name would be sure “I haven’t seen any where else in the world which showed such hospitality and affection” Shall we join our hands and bring those affection back again!!