For your love of stupa's

Hope you like it short-shorts! I'm sorry I'm not coming down to Queensland, but I will soon.

A goat and 63yrs in total

The suffering in Sri Lanka

I know it's a line we've all heard, but every little will help at this moment.

The link below is for the 1st 'independant' report out of Sri Lanka of the camps used to house IDP's.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/grim+scenes+at+sri+lankan+camps+/3126257

One can argue about the politics of this war, whose right and what should be done. But (and I know it's wrong to say this) what's happening is happening, there is no stopping the govt. of Sri Lanka so one might as well help the people directly in all this mess. At the end of the day, it is not land or one's ethnicity that matters right?

The two links below enables you to donate to the IDP's in Sri Lanka. 1 GBP can make a big difference in Sri Lanka. Please do if you can.

http://www.muslimaid.org/index.php/component/content/article/2-current-campaigns/312-sri-lanka-crisis

OR

http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/helpicrc?OpenDocument

Thank you.
Love, mufee

South West London

-Tooting Bec Common, March '09-


Just when you least expect it, there's something delightful around the corner!

Currently in love with

Comfort you - by Eskimo Joe

"Owww owwww
I will come, come to comfort
i will come, to comfort you
ohhhhh ohhhhh
i will come, come to comfort you
i will come, come to comfort you
ohhh ohhh "

Must be the simplest lyrics to any song! The music to put it simply is 'bloody awesome'!

When in a situation- a difficult one!

If you find yourself asked to do something you don't want to do on the wards/theatre/clinic, here is somethings you can do..

1. Stand up to your consultant/ registrar and tell them you don't think it's right and you feel uncomfortable about it ( I personally would not have the guts to do this)
2. Pretend to be ill/ not yourself/ not up to the task
3. Wonder out loud how ethical the situation is
4. Pretend to be confused/ignorant of the laws/ethics applying to the situation ( this is particularly good, because you aren't laying blame on your senior but on yourself but you'd make them think about it too)
5. Kindly decline ( though I doubt this would go down well in the later years)
6. Get on with it and seek counselling after

I actively avoid thinking about it. Because of guilt. And despair. And then I realize I shouldn't be ignoring it and feel even guiltier.

Because they tell us ,'the soldiers are dying for our safety'. They tell us,'we are fighting for our rights'. And what do you say when we are all Sri Lankan? I don't want to take sides. I don't agree with either side's policy of 'killing'. You could say it's a whole load of other things, but at the end of the day, it is a loss of lives. Either of a Sri Lankan soldier, a little child in the war zone, a civillian in a suicide bomb attack or an LTTE cardre. Someone's child. Freedom 'might' be worth lives but isn't this just a very long dragged out money making scheme? Isn't it supposed to be the 'democratic' socialist republic of Sri lanka?

And so I avoid thinking about my fellow Sri Lankans. The 2000 or so civillians who've died since the beginning of this year in the North of the country. The 100's and 1000's of internally displaced persons. I ignore that there is no freedom of speech in the country, that aid to those affected is limited and that an entire generation of little Sri Lankans have been involved in the war. And know only of it.

What does one do? Other than donate to NGO's? Other than write a blog post? Other than swallow that horrible taste of guilt,fear,sorrow and unease... And move on?

Fond

-iPhone , Galle Face Green-

5 weeks was long enough I suppose till I finally felt the pangs of longing for home. All of a sudden I miss it all. The late night coffee sessions, the long phone conversations and the girlies. Annoying brothers, the calls for 'thaatchi' and most of all, mum and dad..

Nangi