The End of Shalom!
It is the first day of the Year. The year before was talked about like the much sought virgin behind iron curtains.
Israel has been pounding the Gaza Strip, and the world seemed like a painting gone wrong. Had Picasso been alive, he would have gone about his atelier, contemplating the next painting, whilst his heart would have been crushed. An artist usually feels the pain of the world like a deep cut within refusing to heal. The T42 had been cranking like an old maid with both of its feet in the grave. I prayed hard – so hard it could have been a blasphemy. Reminding the Lord, that I was not privileged then to get it fixed. After eight years and three months on Christmas day, it stopped.
I was devastated – though not as devastated as a Gazan in Palestine at the moment!
The ThinkPad had been faithful – had it been a man, he would have been the perfect husband, a faithful lover. The hard disk had an illogical error and the system had already been behaving erratically since I was in house arrest, in Abu Dhabi four years ago.
It really is a long story, and I don’t feel like recounting the past.
Mum felt that I deserved a system. I felt I didn’t deserve the treatment. But I have been dismissed unjustly by the previous non-profit organization. That too, is a long story, and best to file away in a box-folder, under the bed. Earlier, during the day yesterday, Sock Wai dropped by. He had brought his T61, and it didn’t entice me as I normally would upon seeing a new toy. I had experienced too much over the past ten years – I didn’t feel I deserved it – nobody deserved to be treated bad in any way, nor by any one, anywhere. It took me a good three hours to decide on the next system – I used to work on an Apple before the Macintosh was born or was that the Macintosh before Einstein dropped the apple. I stopped playing with expensive toys when I discovered the IBM compatible computer. The best thing that happened for common people like me.
Today, everything changed.
I’ve decided to stop smoking – yes I’ve decided to go cold turkey for at least a week. If I can do that, I would really stop smoking. My lungs would at least feel a relief. I would be relieved. It’s good to know that I’ve decided to stop smoking. It just doesn’t make sense to smoke – it used to be such a pleasure to have something in between my lips. I really want to do many other things like swimming without having to stop in the middle of the pool, gulping in water because it’s such a tedious affair to breathe and wade in the pool, like an overgrown tortoise.
I could easily float but one doesn’t tone the form floating.
I also decided to go MAC, not Donalds though.., after twenty odd years working with Windows. I dislike Windows. If I cared enough, I would write to Gates and tell him to come up with a better operating system, but he is a shrewd businessman, and best left that way. The Mac is a mean machine. It’s fast – but it runs on an Intel. I was surprised really – when did they decide to become the Ivy League player? I had always thought they were different – like Chanel, Oprah, and Julia Roberts.
“Israel does not intend to reconquer the Gaza Strip,” Mr Shavit {a former head of the Mossad foreign intelligence service and now an adviser to the Israeli National Security Council.} said. Any ground campaign “would mean going in and inflicting additional damage and cost to Hamas.” Asked whether this means killing more Hamas leaders or just destroying infrastructure, he said: “Everything.”
Relevance…
It is a humanitarian CRISIS! Israel wants GAZA, but does it have to kill humans for a piece of EARTH that belongs to The Lord? ~ AainaA-Ridtz A.R
