Meanderings of Tizan de L'ile Maurice

selective reasoning or reasons of the select

2011-03-16T13:17:00.000-07:00

We worry about air travel and yet we have a higher chance of dying in a car and yet we have no qualms in getting in a car

We worry about nuclear radiation and yet we know what exactly this pollution is doing and where it is located and it affect us directly...we have no worries in pumping and digging for carbon and put it in the atmosphere and water....hey we won't be here when the full impact of it occurs !!

It is like Tizan's "con patriotes" reasoning...why bother about trash: put it in rivers and forests...it will end up in the ocean anyways and it is somebody else's business.

Along the way it seems we forgot that somebody else is us; the future generation is us

7% of the world ...no really !

2010-12-01T21:00:00.000-08:00

Echo Parakeet

2010-05-05T20:51:00.000-07:00

Gems from mon Frere Petit Tizan

2010-04-06T18:29:00.000-07:00

The more one thinks one matters the less it matters

We can't grasp infinity yet we are afraid of our finiteness

La Solitude est un etat que seul on peut comprendre

Ki fer la guerre kan nu pas meme koner kot nou ete dans liniver

Why does a kid ask "Why" ?

We donot belong nor do we possess yet we are

Bok Choy au pistache in 15 mins

2009-12-14T17:24:00.000-08:00

1) Sautee an onion in (olive) oil along with some garlic and some 21 spices
2) add half a can of roasted peanuts with little bit of salt (if you are like me i
do not use salt)
3) add a few chopped tomatoes with some green chile
4) Let the above cook till tomato is almost a sauce
5) add a chopped Bok Coy...and let the whole sautee for a few minutes
6) if you want add a few drops of vinegar
7) Enjoy with brown bread and red wine !

Gems from my brother Petit Tizan

2009-06-10T07:31:00.000-07:00

Life is fragile
but it is not tenuous

humans are stupid
with moments of great intelligence

Its good to know history
but painful to remember sometimes

One has to be careful treading through history
As one can easily be bogged down in it

Curry Poulet Creole Style Tizan

2009-04-10T19:38:00.000-07:00

1.5 pounds of Chicken breast cut into 1 inch x 1 inch size
2 medium red onions chopped
4 medium size red potatoes (1 pound approx)
5 medium tomatoes chopped
1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar (replace with 3 tablespoon of tamarind paste if you have)
2 tablespoon of garlic paste
2 tablespoon of ginger paste
1 bunch (handful) of fresh cilantro
2 tablespoon of garam masala
2 tablespoon of curry powder (Masala grandmere or something equivalent)
1 tablespoon of paprika
1 tablespoon of turmeric
1/2 teaspoon of chinese five-spice
2 tablespoon of red chile powder (the good stuff from Chimayo if you can have it)
5 tablespoon of vegetable oil
2 to 5 tablespoon of tomato paste (according to taste)
1 can of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of water
21 spice blend (not necessary)
1 tablespoon of brown sugar (from Mauritius of course...otherwise whatever)

Fry the onions and add the tomatoes to fry a bit in half of the oil , onion and tomato should be just cooked to remove the raw taste(add a little salt if you like..I tend to be use salt sparingly) . Put tomato and onion in a blender add the vinegar, garlic, ginger , cilantro, garam masala, curry powder, paprika, turmeric, fivespice, red chile powder (if you use tamarind paste add some water to help blending)...blend the whole thing so that it is smooth

cut the potatoes in 1 inch by 1 inch cubes then microwave them for 6 to 8 minutes so that they are semi hard (do not soften the in the microwave).

Fry the chicken in the remainder of the oil for 3 to 4 minutes ..add some 21 spice powder (that you get in super markets) for flavoring the chicken ...you may add some salt for the chicken to your own taste.. Fry till the chicken the outer surface is whitened. Remove chicken pour the blender paste in the same pan and let it stir fry for 4 minutes or so then add potato and chicken, mix thoroughly. Add chicken broth and water just to cover the solid food, add brown sugar...cover and let simmer for 30 minutes...stir regularly.

Eat with some sauteed veggies and a little bit of rice or farata and accompanied by some "Green Island" white rum on ice and a dash of lime juice !

Tizan and his neighbor

2009-03-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

Tizan has a neighbor who was hard of brain (li inpe zinzin),
Or else how would one explain his behaviour,
He behaved as if people before or around him does not matter,
and after him nobody with sense will exist.

Tizan has 1200000 neighbors who are totally zinzin,
Or else how would one explain what they are doing to l'ile des Dodos

Do they think that the next person after them would love to walk in
their pee or poo.
Because how can one explain how his neighbors use public toilets or the beach or
the forests on l'Ile des dodos.

Kifer do ?

pro-life ?

2009-01-25T21:34:00.000-08:00

Pro-life ? really...not every human has "life" apparently...or is it to paraphrase "Animal Farm"...every human has life but some has more (catholic ?) life than others...

Wise words from my brother

2008-12-05T22:52:00.000-08:00

Cultivate stupidity in the hope that it will bear the fruit of intelligence, but do not waste fertilizers on intelligence as the only surprising thing that can happen is failure.

Weird wild sweet cruel world

2008-12-05T22:34:00.000-08:00

Its an interesting world ...if its the word to use... right now, at this moment there are some of the most beautiful thing happening and yet at some other place some of the most cruel or terrible things are happening.

we call this place home.

Lucky

2008-05-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

Looking at the natural calamities happening these days....we have to say that we are lucky

Who are "we"?

We who are sitting in comfort and have a decent roof on our heads.

So what have we done with our luck today ?

Lesbians and Lesbians

2008-05-01T19:43:00.000-07:00

Some islanders of Lesbos are
saying that they are disgraced being called lesbians. What illogical thing !!

I would be proud to be called a lesbian if i were a Lesbos islander....you know why ?

1) Lesbians are women and being a woman is much less easy than men in most of the world.
2) Lesbians are homosexuals and it is way less easy to be one in most of human society (other animals have no problem with such issues it seems and we are "intelligent" you say !)

Lesbians thus have to show incredible amount of courage and character to be what they are....hence people being called a lesbian means that you have incredible courage and character.

Hope

2008-04-17T22:09:00.000-07:00

We humans are so stupid...that no doubt we are going to destrou us and a lot of things on the way...but there is hope that life may recover after us.
Hopefully we will allow it to happen ...

Enjoy (click on the picture below to see the album)

parc marin - Blue-Bay

Why religion cannot be logical ?

2008-04-14T23:27:00.000-07:00

1) Why would God/god give power to some to lead others ? (and only some)
2) Why do we need to believe the "entrusted" people ?
3) Why make humans so cruel....any time you wish to give a proper answer i'll be listening
4) Ahem....why should religion be so similar to politics ?
5) Why so many religions ?
6) Why so many sub-religions or sects ? Who passed the message to divert from the main message ?
7) Why not 9 billions religions
8) Why pray ?
9) What is wrong with not praying ?
10) What happens to dead religions' God(s)...The Roman gods and the Egyptian ones to the Babylonic ones ?
11) Last but not least ...... WHY ?

Atix on thy mind

2008-04-14T13:50:00.000-07:00

Oh my... Tizan ....
what pain I have caused and felt
What hell have I done and gone to,
well no solution for that is there ?

In a world of things that are not of our choices
or the clockworks not our design...
In a world where stupidity seems to rule
over what is logical and simple

Can there ever be friendship
without demands and expectations ?
Yes/No or may be 10 more years ?!
Liberte...Fraternite and .....

The price of "free"

2008-03-21T10:31:00.000-07:00

When you are told take this new cell phone to replace your still working one...and you say why not its cheap or free... Remember the price of this choice.

Beyond green issues...remember that the coltan(columbite-tantalite) that is used in the cell phone most probably comes from the East part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and it is the labor of kids taken in by warlords that is used to mine this. You are financing a warlords that are killing kids in mines and battlefields there.

Remember you have a choice to keep using a still working phone or you can get a fancy new phone...you have a choice whenever you get "free' options and gifts....

Yes you have a choice that may be condemning somebody somewhere else.

Opensource : - what is hard to get ?

2008-01-14T21:46:00.000-08:00

The opensource movement started in software and has been reasonably successful as a working model.
We tend to have many reactions against it with arguments like it keeps its proponent in poverty, it is anti business etc etc....

What the misunderstanding or fear of understanding lie in the fact that ideas and knowledge is defined as property.

Lets take a totally similar but different case : "the air we breathe"

Now should the air we breathe be free ?

Yes...
Now you may build a business on telling people that they should travel to the Andes to get better air (what ever better air means)...but you cannot blackmail people not to grow plants because its killing your business of providing good air to your customers.

Sure there is no money in the knowledge that growing trees provide oxygen....you may write a book about which plants to grow where and in what period...but you cannot block somebody from growing litchee trees because you claim you own the right on how to grow litchee trees

The open source licenses make sure that you can give litchee seeds to your friends or you can sell the seeds for a fee but you cannot stop the buyers from giving the seeds for free to their friends.

If it was not so someday breathing air will be limited to those who are able to pay.

Think about it.

People can make money on ideas or software or teaching but you cannot stop those who want to share air, knowledge, trees, ideas for free ....otherwise we are blocking something fundamental....the right to live

Lies we trust and wish for

2007-12-20T20:11:00.000-08:00

Recently saw "Festival of lies" by the Studio Kabako group. Very well designed and intelligent "mise en scene".

Its interesting
how we individual people trust and believe what we are told by politician, priests or even teachers etc etc....

"Trust me" ...when you are told that at the begining of a sentence...
ouille...

What make people think they are right.....a trust in some absolute faith ?

There is scientific right...which state that if you can predict something that can be proven ..then its right till it does not explain something....

Then there is "right because it is so" well one cannot argue against that because trying to argue implies that the opposite is open to discussion and reasoning....

The problem of memory

2007-11-07T21:44:00.000-08:00

History repeats itself it seems if we do not learn from it. On the other hand what's the point of history...it is memory to create more hate.

May be it might be better to be "short memoried" and risk of repeating history than remember history and hate somebody totally unrelated to events past.

That is what we do...we take deeds of past as genetic inheritance.

Descendants of tribe X hate those of tribe Y because somebody in tribe Y stole something from somebody in tribe X 4000 years ago.

Does that sound stupid ?

How much in one's day to day dealings does one find oneself making judgement not on an individual's doing but on where one's genetic material come from ?

One's genetic material does not define one...otherwise twins would not be different individuals...

So forget the past ... deal with somebody you don't know with no hang up or predjudice or prior history of his or her "kind"...and the world will be more peaceful.

Another day

2007-09-24T22:33:00.000-07:00

Life is good, for us who can read this...we get another day to be and enough (more than necessary sometimes) resources to be comfortable

After seeing how little it takes to go into non-existence....its really a thin thread this thing called "alive".

Well what does it rhyme to ? Who knows but....
it was a different experience listening to some really good music and talents though....

This guy, Balla Kouyate, is fantastic...master of the ballafond....Well there is definitely some point in rythm

Free money

2007-07-13T19:38:00.000-07:00

There is something that is totally baffling. The concept of free stuff. People tend to do (or in fact not do) things and expect that it can be sustained.

Why did we expect to pollute the planet at no cost ?
Or why do government workers do no work and expect its a "working" system.

We inherently believe there is magic happening and will save us from our misdeeds...is that what it is ?

Nothing is sustainable in the big picture ...change is ongoing.

But on a smaller scale there is worse...why should we expect to enjoy a free lunch ?

Marriages should be banned

2007-06-22T23:25:00.000-07:00

I know that many people are fighting for equality when it comes to sexual preference and one of the fight is to allow same gender marriages.

I believe that the way to fight for equality in this domain and be more logical is to fight to disallow cross gender marriages...Nobody should be allowed to marry...you get both equality and get rid of an abomination. Yes marriage is an abomination...its like trying to protect oneself against the one you "love"....A contract with somebody who you supposed to trust most. if you need a contract then that person is not your partner...look somewhere else or stop looking altogether.

Sure people change...but if you can't seperate like grown ups then you should not be allowed to marry in the first place ...

Would you trust your priest or politician or government civil servant with your savings ?
So why should they be important in your decision of living with someody or anybody ...why do you need their stamp of approval ?

Of responsibility and resposibility

2007-06-12T20:50:00.000-07:00

It is interesting that when we have have things we have things that belong to us and others have no right on them but when we don't have then its fair game to try to have ...

Well then comes responsibility....when you are born in a comfy place you are not responsible to what is happening in a non-comfy place and its the responsibility of those born there to make that a comfy place. But then according to this argument one is responsible for the crime of one's grand parents or parents it seems. Hence the descendants of slave masters should not be enjoying the riches that come from such crimes.... but then where do we stop and where do we start paying back dues.
Is it possible....is there a standard ?

Who pays the debt of one's fore-bearers and who pays back the crime or restitute the booty of thefts of others' fore-bearers ?

Is it possible .... or shall we wipe all the slates and say we are all citizen of the world and start afresh now...with equal opportunity to all.... sure its hard to say what an individual will do (or not) with an opportunity but we have to be better in letting the door open for every one ...where ever you are from and not doom any one because of one's accident of birth...

Patriotism is a crime against humanity just like racism or religious superioritism (you know what i mean) or political absolutism/supremacism.

And using too many "ism"s in one sentence is a sure sign of lack of brain mechanism.

Education

2007-04-25T19:16:00.000-07:00

What is the point of Education I was aksed ?

The point I believe is to be able to ask questions ? To be curious and to make one's own mind.

If you ask question and is not willing just to listen passively
...Then to me you are educated

Sure being able to read ..to use the net etc now is important to be able to gather information to look for answers to your questions.

But some very educated people are so without able to read ....

Opinions

2007-04-04T22:43:00.000-07:00

Ah those opinions that we all have ...

Its like assholes the saying goes

but the problem is we hide our assholes because we don't know how bad they look ...
but we tend to show off our opinions without looking at them ourselves...

Cover them please...we can live with less opinions and more naked asses !

Of more and no more

2007-02-22T07:24:00.000-08:00

This should not be happening in 2007 anywhere. Please no more...

The problems of education can only be fixed by more education.
The problems of democracy can be solved with more democracy.
And the issues that freedom bring is countered by more freedom...

Porque ?

2007-02-18T21:37:00.000-08:00

For what we fear...we never understood
For what we hate...we never looked into
For what we are afraid to lose ...we never possessed
For what we misunderstand ...we fear the knowledge
For the good times ...we fear the end of it
For the bad times...we are without memory
For the loss...we forget
For the gain...we ignore
For the joy...yes it is good
For the pain...yes it is bad

Yes we have enemies...because we don't understand fully...
And yes we have loved ones ...because we don't even understand partially...

Yet we end up what we are...
not knowing what we could have been...
And ignoring what we can be

Respect for life and justice

2007-01-15T08:08:00.000-08:00

It is pretty sad, dehumanizing and distressful to see that we as human beings, have societies that demand the killing of people as a form of carrying justice.

1) There is no such thing as justice...if there were then every baby born in a society should have the same set of starting parameters. So lets take that premise away. What we have at best is respect for each other on certain things....Allow others to lead their lives , respect property of others as defined by law (which is not very just in many cases). We have to move towards a more humanizing society with time. May be it will bring more justice but at least it something achievable....almost immediately. Many (if not most) people try tobe good and try to respect the human in others even if the other does not think or believe in what one believes.

2) Society has to be a humanizing entity otherwise we move towards barbarism...we are coming from there should avoid going there. A living human being that can think and wish not to die
should not be killed by society. If that is not the case then there is always justificatin for killing somebody else. And reasons change as we evolve. Some of us thinks our gods are most important, others their pride etc Tomorrow who knows what it will be ...offensive colour of dress ? So are we going to allow killing for that....Life should be a fundamental human right that can be removed only if the individual explicitly wants it so.

3) What about hard core criminals who kill for pleasure or politics. Yes we need to protect people against such individual....but killing them does not help. We hear it gives closure. There is no such thing in violence. Once something horrible has been committed we have to live with it and deal with it. Killing the perpatrator is just act of revenge. Its not justice. If there were justice then would you justify killing of the rich by those born and raised in dirt poverty....because ultimately we who have prevent resources to go to others in one form the other.

In conclusion its not idealism but pragmatism that forces us to have a society that does not kill without the consent of the individual. As justice is a vague word...execution by society the justify killing for a cause....and we don't want to go there...as there is no cause worth a human life.

Good hearted hypocrites

2006-12-27T06:48:00.000-08:00

This season gets the best and the worst out of us....

But all said we are in general good hearted people....but hypocrites too isn't it ?

Intelligence anyone ?

2006-11-22T06:49:00.000-08:00

Banning of things is in general not good. People should be allowed to do things that they deel is right for them. Banning means somebody has decided it is bad for everybody.

When i see religious bigotry i am almost tempted in siding with those who ask for a ban on religion. But then if there is religion...its basically saying people are not intelligent yet !

How can a religious leader claim he/she has the answer from god...And worse how can people watch such people, in funny garbs usually, and decide they have to have to listen and believe them ?

Human intelligence is overrated don't you think...we find it funny that sheep follow their leader down the precipice...yet we don't find it funny that the majority of the human population need religious guidance.

I long for the day when there are 6 billion religions...

Why do we have the leaders we have

2006-09-21T22:25:00.000-07:00

What a bunch of mad people we have around leading the world..

Drat there are people who believe that healthy people don't get AIDS or take a shower after sex...will protect you and they are going to become leaders of their country soon.

Where do we get these people educated. Where did we get people that believe in what was said a few thousand years ago to be the "Truth" ?

I believe ~80% of the world have no say or choice what happens to them .... People people where is democracy...if iwe have nuts leading whatever you do...

Let me not talk of journalists...many of them (please note not all of them !) are just narcissists that are pleased reading themselves or listening themselves talking or posing on TV.

Where are the good politicians and journalists ?

PS ===

Seen "Water" by Deepa Mehta....i would not comment...but see it.

===

Of ying yang and search for bliss

2006-08-16T20:50:00.000-07:00

One would think the world is going into an abyss of hate and war and stupidit...yet there is always hope.
Why is that ? Are we beasts of comparison only...everything has to be relative or we don't notice it.
If there were no horror of war and hate would we know the value of peace and love ?
Can we have a generation without war and who appreciate peace ?
Is eternal bliss the enemy of moments of happiness ?

Did we ever have a generation without war in this world you'd ask...well never !
Is that the answer ?

La Cabesa y La teta

2006-07-18T22:06:00.000-07:00

Its incredible how religious people are ready to kill and do harm and then say they were not shown respect.
People when do we get rid of this boobiness called religion (sorry for giving boobies a bad name !) or the concept of god.
wow...we are fighting wars for what ...we are killing our fellow humans for what ?
Who told us to do that......we believe bad politicians and religious people...why are we doing that !

What about people who does not want religion or god in their life....can they be given a chance to live outside this madness.

Calling for all people of the world who are fed up with this...let's make a country where we don't need God, god, politico religion etc.

Can't we just respect the individuals and try to be the most logical with the best knowledge of the day ? Should be simple Senoritas y Senors....ain't it now ?

Words and Actions

2006-06-29T20:50:00.000-07:00

What are words for ..

We tend to have long discussions about what is wrong and what is right and who is wrong or who is right....yet do we do what is right.

Are we ready ...we who enjoy the resources at ease and with comfort...are we ready to give up that and live on a "mean" resource distribution.

The answer is no though we don't say it....we do not do it. ...so then what's the point. Well the point is to discuss it and try to know what is good. But then we don't really do it.

Well the question is ...does that lead to something ?

Migration migration migration

2006-05-21T20:28:00.000-07:00

interesting debate .....yet so uninteresting...

What does belong to whom and where and when. So who decided for whom ?

You are allowed to look for better life if you are here and not there...look for it over there itself...if you are overthere.

travel this way but not that way...

I am not responsible because i am born overhere ...but you are responsible because you were born overthere ? So what are you doing about it ?

Its the cast system all over again but we are using yet another name for it...nationalistic tags!

Aaaah the ...isms we use to hide our other ....isms.

Down down with casteism and long live nationalism and patriotism......till we realize how demeaning they are...

What if the majority is crazy

2006-04-03T23:31:00.000-07:00

Drat le rat !

Are a majority of human kind wonky ?

What do you call somebody who believe in something that they are told is true? They have no way to cross check its true or are even called heretic if they want to test what they are told is true. And worse they are told all that by a bunch of guys who they don't know personally (usually). And to top it all they are willing to harm and kill at times because somebody else believe in some other fibble than theirs...

What do you call that ? Craziness or is it religion ?

Would you send me money to keep me in comfort if i tell you your purpose in life is that ? Crazy you'll say...is it that crazy ....!!! Are you sure ? Really sure ?

Well all the best in life if you can face that uncertainty...

The point is ....

2006-02-02T21:46:00.000-08:00

What's the point of freedom if you are dying of hunger ?
What's the point of democracy with no education ?
What's the point of education if you have a closed mind ?
What's the point of thinking if everything was defined and you just need to follow the rules ?
What's the point if no joke can be made ?
What's the point of believing in something you have to believe in ?

Suenos: Fair trade medicine

2006-01-25T22:24:00.000-08:00

Saving life or improving the quality of life of sick people cannot be balanced with profits...it does not make sense... So how to you fund research in such an environment.

Governments are corrupt. And you can't trust when they will get sold to this corporation or that one.

The dream is to be able to provide affordable medicine to people who needs it. The argument is that drugs for AIDS, say, are expensive because one has to pay for research.

The dream is that we should be able to build a company whose investors are not onvesting for immediate profits but invest to get a voice in the company...to direct where research should happen.

The company is not to be a charity but a strictly not for profit. Extra money is to be invested in research. Medicine developed by this company is to be open sourced. No patenting. Profits or investment can be used to buy patents of critical drugs.

Critical medicine will be sold as cheap as necessary...saving life is important. Non critical drugs can be sold for profits to finance the other parts.

Well that's the dream ....

Who has to live this life ?

2006-01-24T18:40:00.000-08:00

THIS article brings back the discussion about why should government legislate against one taking one's life when one cannot look after oneself.

It assumes that one's life should be kept on as long as one can because one can....because mainly there is a reason why one is alive. But what if there is not (look around the mess around us)... Then as an individual i want to live the best life i can but when i can't continue to look after myself i should be able to abrogate it ...

What is quality of life and what is humane ? When in doubt i agree ...fine keep one alive but what if one does not want to live without being able to look after oneself.

Most of us that form part of the 20% of humanity that can read this have had reasonably lucky lives and have good lives comapred to the other 80%. If an individual want to continue to live with a poor quality of then i think its that individual decision but similarly should it not be the individual decision to teminate a good life when its starting to get out of control and need to depend on others extensively. This is not a life that many of us who like some of our independence would want.

Ah Journalists !!!

2006-01-23T19:57:00.000-08:00

Its incredible how Journalists have become self-serving, self justifying and self glorifying !

Its incredible how news media have form a cabal and there is no competition except for the odd bloggs.

If there were journalists there would not have been the war in Iraq.
There would not have been the mess in Ivory-Coast and there would be democracy in Guinea Equatorial and Saudi Arabia!
If there were Journalists then the massavre in the great lakes area would not have happened not the one in Darfur.
The nexus between journalists and political power is reminescent of the church and rulers power-grip over people in mediaeval Europe.
In the name of patriotism (and some favor for a partner or family member)...news is filtered and vetted by the government.

And people who can shout or write without pausing are called journalist...Analysis are given at length as long as the cabal of power and news does not lose out. Yes you have to lose a few members just to keep the news going but truly...

Who is this journalist that has resigned because he reported that miners have been found alive and passed the news across the world and got families hopes up just to have their hearts broken....yes he resigned, right ?!!!

Who are those journalists that quit in disgust because they whipped every bit of patriotic sentiment because the world is in danger ...without checking a word of what was being fed to them and now are responsible for 100000 or more tragedies or many more families in sadness...yeah they quit and open their conscience in public, right ?!!!

Or are they just shouting and writing...oh look at me or see how beautifully i write !!! oh i am star ! I am a star....

Sadly enough the era of journalism to spread the news is going to be over because we can't trust. Just as medieval people could not trust their priests to tell them about how the king is ruling (yes there were/are exceptions...but they are just that...exceptions) and we will have to find another way to open up the news and freedom of speech....unless we get better people out there as journalists.

Of form and depth

2005-12-19T07:59:00.000-08:00

Oh my people we live by form
yet we don't care of shallowness
What we see is not important
as what's matters is where does it go

No we say...lets us look at feathers
Although it may hide a thing most demeaning
We are happy to achieve something
that looks as good as it should look

What is it that makes life important ?
Achieving something because it has to be achieved
Or having fun doing something
and if it achieve something...so be it ?

The answer is not necessarily clear
yet the choice seems to be clear

odd !

New Religion Dammit

2005-11-30T20:42:00.000-08:00

As people seem to take religion and relious people (especially politician) too seriously...
a new religion is on its way and i found the following by accident in a bar...

Rules:

1) This religion has only one person in it and its you...
2) You have to name this religion and keep the name secret to yourself
2) Humans are created stupid enough not to realize they are stupid
1) This religion says that you cannot pray in public ...you have to do it when you are alone
3) .... created this religion and you are not allowed to give .... a name.
4) You cannot try to think of ....
5) To respect rule 4) you have to forget that you are in this religion
6) If above rules make sense to you then you are saved...if not try again.

Rosa Parks

2005-10-25T19:19:00.000-07:00

It took a simple courageous act of refusing to stand up.
It was just a simple statement...enough is enough...this is not fair.
It did not take any violence at all...no swearimg, no stone throwing and no political plan.

Rosa Parks passing away...again brought to the fore that there is an alternative way.
Courage and determination and non-violence achieve.

I know people say that, for example, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans are not getting Tibet back
by being non-violent....may be they are not getting back but they are not losing themselves in
the process.

I know there are many corageous people out there ...who are doing incredible things and standing up to the odds and facing it without trying to be harmful...this picture is for y'all.

In a country Far Far away

2005-10-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

Long ago in a country
way in the far distance
A group from the gentry
Wanted to show others as dunce

They decided to prove
that intelligence is overated
Search they did in every groove
Till they got the fated

Stupid he had to be
and so much so that all
incredulous that they be
character it will be called

Every word out of the twits'
mouth was twisted in such extent
in meaning that a cube fits
into a ball without a dent.

Impressed were the petite bourgeoisie
that they sizzled in their pant
whenever he proposed a stupidity
off they go and excited they chant.

Wow wow our Bushitine
Lover of the martian god
You are master of our spine
And owner of our bod.

.....

Smell the coffee

2005-09-25T21:53:00.000-07:00

It is crazy how people are without vision with respect to energy...

We are having grund vehicles with engines that were designed in the 1950's. The efficient SUV give you 26 mpg running on gasoline....wow ! Reality check are we in 2005 ?!

Jeez if we plan to provide some decent living to 10 billion people this is not the way...Solar energy is still in its dark age...Wind energy just barely ahead except people with a view hates it.

Where are you ...deciders with a vision ?
Using potato fries oil as bio diesel is good experimentation for the kids...

We need some good investment in energy transport reasearch...fuel cell or not ...research is too slow.
Energy source may be solar farms in the Sahara, Gobi desert, Rajasthan, Australian out back, Nevada? Wind farms Fusion ? Nuclear ? Geothermal ? Combustion engines should have beed passed tense by now...and lets face it, now despite having people with blinds running the whole...days of oil is over.

If you can't smell the coffee then don't blame the aroma ...check your nose !

Holy thou

2005-09-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

Very inspirational site for your spiritual upliftment

So in the same spirit:

In the name of the holy Hula Monster
put on your grass skirt and get on with it !

La Luna

2005-09-21T19:43:00.000-07:00

Full moon over the Rio Grande

Ephemere

2005-09-11T20:29:00.000-07:00

We forget at times how tenuous and small things are...
Nothing is permanent.
We are here just for the short ride.
Life can be beautiful,
Exciting,
but also meaningless
and sad.

What's the meaning for a humming bird trying to
check a fruit on a cactus and get thrown and impaled
by a gust of wind... Its the saddest end for a most agile bird.

But a haunting picture....

The world is full of haunting terrible pictures...human and inhumane
sufferings ...courage and strength...yet ...yes yet..

Elitism

2005-08-28T19:18:00.000-07:00

Why elitism is getting to be like racism...
Nothing wrong of having a group of people good in something...but the doors should not be closed to others...This is what is happening

Elistism... the Dodo-island (Dodo-ism ?) form of it is to be denounced as racism ...its like casteism in India or the old money monkeys in England.

The generation post the 1950....worked hard to open doors of opportunity but they are closing for others...

They make sure that their kids need places in College Royal and Queen Elizabeth college...
Why is it that those without connection does not make it to tertiary education...or lets say only a few can...

I remember the days of the Unesco-minister where scholaships were sneaked distributed ...who got the Australian scholarships...who knew...you would not even know the ranks past the first 10.

Why "protect your montagne"...

Opportunity is as important as freedom as speech or concept of equality whatever be your race or gender or religion or sexual behavior.

Keeping the doors of opportunity closed and letting your sibblings, friends, or your own class through the back door is despicable.

I remember 2 years ago an old man from Riviere des Anguilles came to get his passport renewed...he was told to take a form and get it filled....obviously that will take him through a few days...as he had to go back and get somebody fill that for him.....simultaneously a Dodoist came along with a clerk (cousin, or family or pal) and she got in and got her passport application on a fast track...Isn't that despicable.....Change the actors ..Dodoist by white people and old man black...we would call this as racism isn't it ?

Its no point of going to "College Royal" if your talent is not academia or medicine...let those who can do. Give pride to every job... And college Royal was a tragedy of education...I remember that famous physics teacher who did not even know what he was talking ....except horse races....
That's elistism for you...

Self-righteous, aboslute truth etc...

2005-08-21T12:40:00.000-07:00

Interesting article in many senses.

Here is what i would call a mirror reflection of the religious extremists. Claim to be different but same coat ...different color though !

Its easy to just stand on one side of the wall and find all the bad guys on the other side.
Religious people do it, politicians do it...why not journalists or even ... teachers too (sadly enough)

Question: why is Mao and Che different from Mandela, Dalai Lama or Gandhi ?

Respect for life....Mao, Che, Stalin believed they had absolute truth and a few or more life here and there is okay ...How is that different from Bush and the religious right of the US, say ? Nada ...similar....just different in stench...but stench all the same.

Bad things occured to many...but don't forget opportunity...are the doors of opportunity open on reservations...its more open than in Dodo island...Can you imagine what somebody born in Cite Malherbes or Camp Caval or Quatres-Soeurs, with no cousin in government offices, have to go through to get a passport say ....Or would it be possible in my life time to see a fully qualified commissioner of Police...born in Rodrigues ?

How may workplace (private or public) in Dodo-Island can you see people getting promotions systematically for their capabilities with no glass ceiling ...if there are more than 10% of such work places, you'd pleasantly surprise this Ti-gens (Tizan)

PS: I wonder what this "Journalist" know about what a "concentration camp" is ...Is there no difference between "Dachau, Auschwitz or even Camp-X-ray" and the "Indian reservations of today" ( Wikipedia definition )...High horses can keep the head of the rider in clouds sometimes...bending down may give a better visibility !

Cookoo

2005-08-15T07:23:00.000-07:00

It a sure sign of stupidity if you think that you are the only one thinking !

Tizan.

Ancestry and all that ...

2005-08-07T23:45:00.000-07:00

Well why are we so proud of our ancestry... for goodness sake...am i to go and die because, say, my grandfather was a thief. Do not the blood relatives of Hitler have a right to live for what they are as individuals ?!

Cheese..Colonization brought very bad things but it brought good things too...so lets build on that but not lets forget history...ignoring or rewriting history ..we know where that lead....Please keep the facts straight.

And please be proud of what you do...what your grandfather or ancestors did was there problems or achievements ...sure you can be proud or be ashamed if they are alive...but you have not contributed to that.

We are a society of individuals and not a society which behaves as an individual. so characterizing by large groups have no meaning except just to create my group against your group...

We group of people of 28 teeth are proud of our members ...they never do wrong...all wrong are done by those having different number of teeth as us...Long live 28 teethers !!

Transparence

2005-07-24T20:37:00.000-07:00

Hey thinking of it...

May be the way to go is to wear transparent clothing's so that people can see through and cops need not shoot you just because you got a thicker coat on.
And all luggage should be transparent too...backpacks, suitcase etc...

If you make money money from this idea ...please donate some to oxfam on my behalf.

Why giving away freedoms won't work

2005-07-24T20:01:00.000-07:00

You cannot give away liberties to stop threat of terrorism.
Liberties once lost is very hard to get back.

Stalin i am sure used the same argument when he took away liberties...its just for your safety we are doing it...to protect you against capitalist taking way your rights....errr by sending those who point out problems to the gulag...yes that's it.

Similarly in Saudi Arabia they are protecting women's right by not allowing them to go out by themselves etc... yeah woman you are protected inside the house of your family...you are protected to not do anything that may interest you as an individual.

Similarly now...we have for your own protection we'll keep an eye secretly on what you are reading or what you do or where your grandmother went yesterday....and shoot whoever randomly whenever you behave suspiciously....So why don't you just walk straight from home to work and back every day ...and give us if possible that in writing for your own security....ahem Long live Freedom ! Stalinism has been defeated...nothing for you to fear here....right ?!

What ails the 3rd world ?

2005-07-10T23:13:00.000-07:00

Why is it that in this day and age some countries are not coming out of poverty....Is it the fault of the superpowers or ex-colonial powers...Partly...

What is the other reasons when you see that some of the countries have the resources to come out but yet don't....

Is it genetic or is it social:

I'll take example a lot on the Dodo-island....

I do believe its upbringing....

In Dodo-island many people don't do their job because they are expected to and get paid for it but they will do it for you as a favor. It starts from the politician to the clerk you go to see to get an application form. (though there are exceptions...Postal service seems to be beyond this..They work for their money and more !)

Everything is a favor for you...you go to get a loan...you need to know people to do you a favor...you need to register your car...same problem or you wait for 5 hours.

You see if people start thinking that they have a responsibilty for the money they get then may be things might work..instead of giving favors and begging for some. If you think you are underpaid for the job you are doing...then look for another one or fight for better pay but don't penalize the old lady you don't know and who knows nobody to get a favor.

Respect for others more than you respect yourself...and may be there might be less violence...because if one respect others lives...then one won't consider power more important that human lives....

After all what's the point really ?

Find a good clear night... lay on your back and look into the sky...and may be the answer might creep in a little bit

Courageous women

2005-06-28T21:56:00.000-07:00

Not much to be said...an example of a very
courageous woman

Human Fatherhood : over hyped concept

2005-06-20T23:41:00.000-07:00

What's your typical father:
Someone who complements the mother.
Like your typical soap opera...father is the person who help mother at home and share burden of looking after the kids etc etc..

Well is that what really happens in the majority of families in the world....
I guess not !

The picture of ideal father or typical father we have comes from the media or those who use the power of freedom speech

What would you guess is the typical amount of time a father spends with his kids across the world...
1 hour or less per day ...more than 1 hour per day ...a few hours per day. if you were to believe the typical definition in books or movies etc...then the latter is true ...but i am more than willing to believe that its much less than 1 hour per day....

Many kids don't even know their fathers....
Most kids see their father briefly...when they are being fed in the house.
A lot of kids are traumatized by their father...

So do we need fathers...its becoming less and less important in humans...its been made important by the male dominated society but males are genetically not important...the Y chromosome is degenerating.

Imagine if say women could exchange chromosomes to make kids...no question of gender ...but yet the advantage of genetic variation...growing of kids might be less traumatic.
Genetic technology....or may be naturally we'll evolve in an all woman society...

My contention: Human fathers are disappearing and for the good of humankind !

I know there are many good fathers but its a minority...and nature tend to wipe out what is obsolete over time....just for the survival of life.

Ki nu koze ?

2005-06-09T23:48:00.000-07:00

Kan nu traite nu lanvironman avek indiniter
Kan nu traite pei kuma pubel
Kan nu traite nu voisin kuman saleter
Kan nu traite lezot sans resper..

Ki nu ouler...

Ki nu politisien eter banne saint ?

aret Rever...kamarad...banne politisien sorti dan u fami meme...li pu traite tu seki otur li kuman salter meme...

Things Evolve

2005-05-30T06:52:00.000-07:00

Things evolve (or fall apart, as some would view it)
We should be looking in the future ...We should evolve culturally so that we will better in the future. So trying to find solutions in the words of people who did not know how we live now is
weird if not stupid. Yet that's what some wants. But if we look at history...however painful it might have been to some...culture evolves ...slavery was abolished, though it was the way of life....woman emancipation is happening despite some would want them as slaves as its part of "culture", heck even Kuwait allows women to vote now.

We may believe that evolution of culture is a breaking down of human society ...its always happened...the only constant in nature is change. So lets try to live in the present and prepare a better future. talk about a cry in the widerness !

So where do we go ?

2005-05-24T22:20:00.000-07:00

A good question...

Where do we go on earth so that we are away from religion.
We have the freedom to worship what we want or practise the religion that
we want
But where on earth do we find a society where we are free of religion ...where we are away from the sanguinary fight and discussion over interpretation of some scriptures or the other.
Oh where oh where...mon Dieu !

Religious Stupidity

2005-05-19T20:54:00.000-07:00

How bad can human get...to kill in the name of religion...
I'll kill you because my god is better than yours or because you
showed disrespect to my God !
How stupid !

Truely do you think a God will need any of us to take care of
somebody (not) respecting her ?

A life ?

2005-04-29T22:15:00.000-07:00

Two of the most powerful disturbing experience that this Tizan
has had is facing people in dire poverty when one is in reasonable comfort and
to face someone who is totally incapacitated that he/she can't communicate.
In both cases one is selfish in realizing that one is lucky to not be in such a
state but one is left totally disturbed for not doing anything to change things.

To be locked inside a body and cannot communicate or move. One wishes that the
locked one is not suffering but on the other hand how cannot one be if one can think
and feel but is totally helpless. What a terrible place to be.

That's where the meaning of life really gets to be none.

Next question

2005-04-06T22:53:00.000-07:00

So how come we believe that we are are owed what we have and that the world is unfair to us for what we have not ?

Once upon another time

2005-04-05T23:44:00.000-07:00

Yes things like this are not happening we are in the 21st century ...right.

So this story is of a time long long ago
There were many kingdoms and one them was called Axest and the people in general believed that clouds were their God. In the kingdom of Yewnork people believed that their God was the breeze.
So the kingdoms would go to war and send spies and priest to convert the people of the other kingdoms, you know all these silly things that we no longer do nowadays.

In that time there was a joker who was called
El Tizan

Well El Tizan liked to make fun of others and never thought of harming anybody but just for a
good laugh. He lived in kingdom of Axest. And the king was King Gropiao II

One day he was at the Gropiao I dino station (they used to travel on tamed T-Rex backs in those days).
You've realized that the station was named after the King's father. There were dodos all over the station announcing the schedule for the different dino destinations. Dodos in those days were being kept as slaves for their beautiful voices and kept in chains. By the way that is how dodos lost their ability to fly and their wings ultimately.

One of the announcements that the dodos were making is that it is unpatriotic and against the law to make fun of the kingdom and the king. So El-Tizan could not resist to mke fun of Gropiao II. He saw no harm in cracking a joke. So he told a joke to the person standing next to him how the "wind" blew "clouds" over gropiao I and it rained over him..well this is no joke and you would not laught at this even if pissed drunk . Now Axestans believed that clouds are gods and they blew wind and wind created rains....so El-Tizan's neighbour wasn't laughing.

Poor El-Tizan.....he was put in jail and sent for execution for just cracking a bad joke....can you imagine that ?

No such thing happen nowadays ..right ? We are in the 21st century....we are better ain't it now ?

Di-monologues between Hammer Smith and Screw Driver

2005-03-15T18:45:00.000-08:00

Driver: Howdy Smith ... I need a tool to hammer on things, I have been using a boulder to hit nails and screws and break rocks. And now that I have more work I find it difficult and painful to use a screwdriver to do that

Smith: Give me a few days to think over this problem and I'll try to design you a good tool for your job., especially I know some things about hitting on objects

After the proverbial few days Driver is back...

Driver: So did you make me something interesting.

Smith: Oh yes.. I have designed you the right tool I think...It has a heavy and hard head and a long grip holder ...You get a lot of leverage when you swing it,,,,so you can hit much more efficiently..
I made the grip smooth for comfort. The head is made of steel to last long. Hammer I'll call it.

Driver: Okay it looks interesting...I'll try it out...

After a few more proverbially boring days...Driver is back at the Smith's shop

Driver: You know...I don't like your hammer... I have never used anything like this and its odd.
Its so different from using a boulder to hit on things...

Smith: Let me show you how to use it... See grip it like this and hit on things ....Like that..
isn't that easier than using a boulder....So you see the precision you get at hitting too..And the force you want to hit things is more controllable. And boy it should be less tiring

Driver: I am not so sure...You know what: I really want a boulder to hit things...So can't you make me a tool that resembles a boulder and behaves like a boulder...

Smith: I'm telling you the hammer is so much better and easier...

Driver: You know I am paying you ...So I tell you make me a boulder...

Smith: May be but may be not...Why don't you use your boulder...And let me find something else to do !!!

Shrinking

2005-03-02T06:35:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time
There was a slime
Who wanted to be lime
But never had the time

But who knew lemon
can could be confused with none
yet there many a tonne
That got pressed by this lemon

Going around blowing hot air
He thought he had flair
and started to use nair
but the matter has never been air

Ultimately he crashed to the ground
As air cannot hold mound
And that ultimately he found
when he started to peel the ground

Who matters ?

2005-02-27T20:45:00.000-08:00

We tend to look for approval and respect from the same people that we don't really respect.
Bernard Shaw is a good example.
He claimed that he was the greatest writer ever.
So how did he expect to get judged on that ?

How can one believe one is the greatest in something if the people we believe are not good in it are going to appreciate one's greatness.

So what's the point in believing in greatness of oneself...
totally useless...

so the best thing ...enjoy the blue sky...yes nobody will idolize one but these moments are totally worth the while.

What is right by us

2005-02-26T06:11:00.000-08:00

We tend to be very self justifying though we know we are doing something wrong...
Why is that ?

I don't know....
We are rarely wrong in our own eyes and we tend to see others as wrong more often.
There is a good probability that we are as often wrong or doing wrongfully things as what we find others doing.

Are there absolutes or are everything relative ? Many times the answer is the latter. But twisting the truth a little bit first time tends to make it easier to twist it a bit more later in our own mind.
And although we don't see the damage its doing as its only a small change...yet in total we cannot control the damage that such things does...Truth also causes damage but at least that is the fact we have to deal with it...its harder to explain why we should make others deal with our little lies isn't it (except for politicians where their truths and lies are not very different).

What a life..

2005-02-18T20:03:00.000-08:00

We complain daily about the life we have ...yet if you are reading this we are part of the lucky few...

We are able to read ...we have access to technology and we are not looking for where the next plate of food is going to come from.

I am thinking of those who never will have access to comfort and and who will live very short lives with very little hope.

Being selfish i would not like to trade life...yet if there is a way to have a more intelligent social system...We are not very intelligent in the way we mnage and deal with each other ...yet we have a glimmer of intelligence showing once in a while.

How do we give up stuff while feeling good about it....religion and politics are not the answer...they are being tried for the last 7000 years...and we are still using the same arguments...

What we want to believe

2005-02-16T07:07:00.000-08:00

Every individual wants to believe that he or she is doing right
And we want to believe what we believe in is the most righteous thing.
But then in an open society its that we agree to disagree and
still remain in good terms and not kill each other.

Also its easy to make an open society go down the closed way if we tend to protect our ideas without allowing dissent.

An open society has to have checks, balances and protections of individuals even when they are against the openness of the system.
For example people who are against religious tolerance etc...should be allowed to express their views, though you wish they would go to Saudi Arabia, but shutting their mouth makes it as bad
as being in Saudi Arabia !

As a Japanese philosopher said:

Freedom allows those who are against it
But not vice versa.

My world - my continent - my country

2005-02-08T20:27:00.000-08:00

My world is my country and my continent.
Do I belong to it or does it belong to me ?

But people of my world should respect themselves.
Then they should respect others.
When we have such people...What's happening
in this world will never be allowed to happen.

Every body has a right to opportunity...

Every individual is me
I belong to everybody and nobody.

Its incredible how we are the most stupid of species and yet
with so much intelligence

Meaning of life ?

2005-02-06T21:08:00.000-08:00

42
Forty two
Tea For Two ?

Yeah Two For tea ...
or two forty
or 2... 40
Is it 240 ?
or 80

Does that mean

8 tea is
two for tea

That's where conundrum
reach dichotomy...

Intelligent patenting system

2005-01-30T21:06:00.000-08:00

We have a problem with the medical and agriculture development.

There is an argument that goes---

1) You need money for research
2) Those who invest need return on their investment
3) new products from (1) and (2) have to be protected from piracy so that (1) and (2) can occur.

What's wrong with this picture ...We are dealing with human beings life and not new cars or robots.

Is this the only model we can have to get new medicine to be found ?

We can have governments driven research...But this tend to get mired into red tape sooner or later...And time critical research cannot afford that.

Charity does not seem good enough and it does not seem sustainable.

One can think of something like Opensource ...This works for software and is very healthy....
But software does not need much hardware investment...But brain power.

The way we can do that is to be able to have a hardware share mechanism just like the way we have in the GNU licensing system ...You get my contribution for free but you have to allow others to
use my contribution with the same license I gave you.

We should be able to do something like this for hardware and patents for stuff that are life maintaining and saving....

The big flaw is that people believe they made a discovery out of a vacuum...And charge for a patent thusly....

"ISM"s

2005-01-27T18:42:00.000-08:00

Why is patriotism a honorable thing and not racism....
What is the difference.....
Why is the person born over there less than the person within my fence

When I say I am proud of my country ... Does that mean I am proud of the color
of the dirt on the ground ? Am I proud of the people of that country ...Every single individual
of them ? Like the one who just threw his plastic bag out the car window....Or the guy who killed
a few others just because he felt like it ...Or the one who just beat his kid....

What is a country and why should I be proud of it ?

Why ?

2005-01-27T07:47:00.000-08:00

We start this day with this question many a time.

Yet the answer is never simple.

We try to justify things the best we can ...

and try to be consistent with our conscience

The following question is

Why not ?