bbc

i saw an interview between sappe (owner of opposition website do) and shaid (chief government spoke person).. well-done both of you. you two have just killed what little little dignity we had as a nation. Sappe you have had numerous opportunities to come on to bbc, given that maldives is such a small nation. yet in every occasion you come and talk about the same thing. government this and government that. sappe use the opportunities to let the viewer know your future plan. give credit where it deserve. as for shaid saying that maumoon is the father of democracy was a blunder when the whole international community is watching the government like hawks. shaid say what was done to make the election process fair instead of saying there are international observers. the fact that two opposition getting elected in male' is no testimony of a fair election.
the interviewer was clearly on the mdp side. for bbc to take sides on something like this was such a disgrace. she asked- it took 27 years for reform to take place and it was a one party system etc... british monarchy system lasted for a century and their transition took years.. united states is a creation of more than 200 years.
these are just my personal thought on the interview..

post election

and so the much contested election is over and each side is claiming to have won more seats than the other. i think to claim this is stupid. lets wait and see how a bills get voted in the parliament. this will tell you which side the members are really on. i think the race to buy candidates are on now, between the government and mdp.
my personal view is that this election process has been the most fair election ever in this country. but sadly the worst and most degrading campaign processes. our country, our community, our coming generation and our future was bought and sold with money. it all became a commodity. this is not to say it was just government candidates. both mdp and government was set out to buy people and the sad thing is people actually sold this nation. people made their choice on two basic grounds 1) for the money 2) because of a hate for a certain candidates association. so if you are a government candidate doesn’t matter who you are "we will select any one else" or "we want anyone but mdp".
hardly anyone looked at a candidate's mandate, history and their ability as a leader. during the campaign instead of letting the public know what a candidate can do, most of the candidates set out to smear the other candidates, spraying posters, ripping them, writing articles and cartoons about each other. where has our society as true maldivians disappeared to. is it not sad to see how little we actually think or even care for our children’s feature..
i think with the elected candidates there is an equal number of people on the opposition and government which is a wonderful thing (although personally speaking...their performance and ability is questionable). we will have to wait and see how the government will make the next move. and this next move will be the most important of them all. i wish success for the candidates who were elected and hope they will make wiser decision within the parliament.

Post tsunami's

things are getting back to "normal". it will take years for the reconstruction and i wonder how the rural islands will be able to pick up from where they left. let me tell you how the response was..the tsunamis hit the capital around 9:30, due to dhiraagu's (our telcom) lack of of providing real telecommunication system to the whole country, no one was able to report the comming wave or their condition even on the islands where the telecomm system was running. dhiraagu promised by 2000 that they will introduce telecommunication to the whole country and guess what they did. they just installed one telephone in the atoll house (where the admin work of atoll takes place) and if you are lucky one telephone booth in the islands. this is disgusting for a company like cable and wireless .. anyways it hit male' the capital around 9:00. the fist thing that happened was, all the cell phone to cell phone calls got jammed. the network went too busy (this usually happen even on normal days so just imagine). and people started running towards the beach to watch.the wave did not come with great force but it looks like the sea level rose and the water poured in over the sea wall (lucky we had that)..
communication with most of the islands were lost and people panicked not knowing if their friends and relatives were OK. The government turned the only tv channel, casting images of the tsunami and started live interviews and stuff. I wish they had created a seperate channel for this.
it took at least three days for communication to be established with the rural islands. i must say that it was a shame that the government did not use its plans, boats, launhes to travel to these islands to asses the damage immediately. a fund was opened and there was very very generous help given by the people of male' (the capital island) which i must say i was surprised at how much compassion that they showed.
as usual the opposition blamed evertyhing on the government including the tsunami itself.
the general election was postponed which is great because this country wont be ready to vote for a long time. but under the present constitution the last day to announce the vote can be 25 january unless the president declears a state of emergency. but this would get the oppositions go crazy...