Going back into Nineteen 6ixty-Four

This is in relation to distance...

- I don't know how it's doing but I hope it's warm and near.

This is in relation to communication...

- I don't know how it's doing, but I hope it speaks.

This is in relation to healthiness...

- I don't know how it's doing, but I hope it'll struggle through.

This is in relation to the past...

- I don't know how it's doing, but I hope it has left.

This is in relation to the present...

- I don't know how it's doing, but I hope it'll manage.

This is in relation to the future...

- I don't know how it'll do, but I hope it'll shimmer and shine.

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains

Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash
of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said: The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence

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As of now, I'm better off remaining silent. Now silence doesn't mean complete abstention from speech. To be silent, I guess you need to do nothing except the wish to do so and the will to practice it. By reason of the way I see this, it's best to have a heart without words, than to have words without a heart. But as of now, this inner voice - is heard in silence....

O...O....Obama!

I'm no American but every individual on every corner of this globe very well knows of the tight race between McCain and Obama. Today, Americans have spoken. They've elected their 44th President to be Barack Hussein Obama, Jr - a confident, articulate and charismatic individual.

However, issues brought into media invoking of his middle name "Hussein" shouldn't be 'issues' in the first place. If not, at all. This name's a blessed name, just like yours and mine. It's a heroic name, as heroic and American in its way as the name of General Omar Nelson Bradley. "Hussein" is from the Semitic word, hasan, and Arabic origin meaning "good" or "handsome".

Barack Obama's middle name is in honor of his grandfather, Hussein, a secular resident of Nairobi. There've been lots of Husseins in history, from the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, a hero who touched the historian Gibbon, to King Hussein of Jordan, one of America's most steadfast allies in the 20th century.

And in Obama's case, "Hussein" is just a reference to his grandfather - making Obama 50% Caucasian from his mother's side, 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.

The media also made such great emphasis that Obama, as a young boy, attended "Madrasah" in Indonesia and falsely highlighting that the term "Madrasah" is a radical Muslim school. Again to me, an uproar on this one's unnecessary. Yes, Obama did attend a "Madrasah" for 4 years. But "Madrasah" literally means "school" in Arabic, and is used exactly in English. So one can refer it to a Jewish, Christian or Islamic Madrasah, as well as a public, private, elementary or secondary Madrasah.

Obama clearly went to a school...and even if he did go to a religious school, that certainly doesn't mean it was a place where they learned only the Qur'an and not Chemistry or Math, English or Art.

All in all, I'd put it that the popularity and support for Obama is not a case about white versus black. In the words of Obama during his victory speech - "Change has come to America".

I sure hope this "change" applies to the rest of the world as well, because to me, Obama has transcended race, religion, age, gender and class.

Presenting to you,

President-elect Obama's Victory Speech