stone to sit

after much debates and bickering the new speaker for the majilis have been elected or selected rather. i must say i was disappointed that the speaker turned out to be a member of the cabinet [wrong info here.. he does not hold a cabinet portfolio]. anyways in the end the vote was cast by show of hand. i was thinking.. if there were people who voted in favour because of fear, i suggest these mps to give-up their seat right away.. for me an mp representing me should have courage and bravery to fight for my right... they should be able to give up what they own for the betterment of the public. they should be servants of the public.. i am happy that we are moving forward. it is no surprise that some mps walked out...well what can i say, in a way they are my hero but than again what do we achieve by walking out. yes we see this happening in many parliaments but we are different, our society is different so our solutions should be different... i have yet to find the solution but i really do respect the mps who walked out for standing up for their beliefs. the whole game got complicated when one addu mp withdrew his name at the last moment. clearly this was part of the game plan by the government... i don't care what he says but he played the game very well.. one thing i don't understand about this mdp is the way they start to cry when anything goes against them... don't you realise that both you and the government are playing a stupid game.. thinking that we the common person on the street don't understand.. well for both of you guys info we do understand the dirty politics of you guys.. anyways its like this game and every time the government scores a goal mdp goes flipping crazy shouting, screaming....tsk tsp tsp..... grow up guys. the eu commission is in male accessing the reform process... do i even need to go there.. why in the world will eu be interested in maldives.. hmmm lets see, there are several countries around the world that are in far worse political conditions, there is much more in return they would get in terms of financially and there is a lot they would gain politically in terms of strategic location... what is their interest in maldives? is it purely on issues of humanity? i often wonder... often many would say that these are conspiracies created by christian missionaries. well i am sure that chritian missionaries are part of the reformers.. why wouldn't they be. here is the chance for them to spread their teachings so for sure a fool will not jump on the wagon. mdp and missionaries as far as i know have a symbiotic relation this does not mean that mdp want to spread christianity or that the members are chritians. mdp has avoided coming right out and say that they will bring freedom of religion to this country. ofcourse their scripted answer will be “in a democracy the majority rules, so even if mdp does want freedom of religion they cant bring it if the majority is against it” well... this is true but democracy is a cunning thing. one can bring freedom of religion in the name of basic human rights.. look at the gay marriage and abortion. majority of the western population is against both these issues yet the governments are ruling or trying to rule in favour of these minority rights.... the very essence of democracy is that they will not answer to the minority even if they are right... i often wonder if this is a truly progressive system for our species... anyways i guess this is the best we have for now...
reform is in many ways a beautiful dangerous thing....it should never be forced on to a population like the way that mdp is trying to do nor should it be withheld like the government has done for many years... i often think of reform as a tree growing, flowers blooming, old leafs falling off and new ones emerging... we should let the natural course of evolution and progress to take place.....
speaking of progress the resort bid evaluation has ended. there has been very few complains this time (yet) but what i am more concerned is what will happen next.. where and how will our money from resorts be spent.... i guess one should commend on the selection process this time.. at least it was by far, compared to any other year, the most transparent process i have seen. i don't think me nor mdp can judge how fair the process was this i guess will only be understood by the bidder and the tourism ministry. my concern is the transparency.. as long as i see that i am happy. lets wait and see... i was going through some old sites and came across a an old article on maldivesculture (i do not promote this site) http://www.maldivesculture.com/news/money_problems_maldives.htm after reading this article in light of so much changes that has taken place and after taking a look at the list of people who got the eleven resort i am thinking that the days of current tourism minister is numbered. a lot of powerful people did not get what they wanted..
at the moment i guess everyone is in a state of waiting which ofcourse is driving mdp crazy to avoid loosing the momentum they have gained. mdp should not let the reform process get stalled but at the same time they should stop calling these mass protests so blatantly that we are getting more and more confused about what we are protesting about. oh yeah i remember we are protesting to ask the president to step down... hmmmmmmm ok.. and??? i am not saying that there is no one to lead us.. i truely belive there are many capable people who can form a government but before we throw out something should we not plan out what should replace it.. what will fill this vacuum.. so before we go and bring down something lets talk about what we replace it with. what if what we replace turn out to be worse than what we have.. there is the maldivian saying that sort of translate to “don't take flight without finding a spot to land”...
i am sooooooooo bored....the only thing on tv some indian soap or a series.. well lets not even go there. we all know the state of our media. so many times i have read people wanting to privatize the tv station or at least divest it to allow private parties to operate their own station.. well me.. i don't think this is a good idea. this is a small country with so few people having two tv station will not be feasible nor economically viable. i think what tvm should do is.. stop producing programs and turn itself in to a broadcaster. out source the productions to private parties. let them propose and pitch ideas for programs... let people submit pilot programs and yeah fire all the producers (except the news producers) and let them be absorbed in to private studios. wont this save so much money? which can be used to buy the programs from the private studios? i don't know... anyways what do i know about economics and feasibility of such an institute.
hmmmm i guess i better go... “i just found a stone to sit”

ps: i am late excuse my grammer and spelling errors..