Exile

Exile

Step after step
With all our strength
With all our soul
With all our faith
Might we progress against all odds,
Leave… throwing hundreds and one glance behind

Leaving the ground of our loves, joys, peoples, dreams …
Closing eyes to shame, sadness, pain which enfold us
And on the road where dwell the death, hatred, fraught and oblivion
Feeling no pleasure, no suffering, no love, no hate and shedding no tear
Lost for ours, lost for ourselves, lost within the darkness,
Follow the invisible steps of the one who knows all the paths

Step over the waters
Calming storms
Step through
Breaking through bulwarks
Step upon death
Living again

Always

Everywhere, give, receive, love, enjoy and dream again
Yesterday in the soul, carpe diem under the skin, and tomorrow in the eyes
Run toward the cliff shape
Step upon void
And soar en route to hope
The world to come where our illusions have flesh and our fleshes have bodies

Laban

Mobilising an Obama nation using Web 2.0: “Yes We Can”

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Title: Mobilising an Obama nation using Web 2.0: “Yes We Can”

Abstract:
The 44th US president was massively elected on the 4th of November 2008 after an extraordinary campaign that successfully embraced the social capabilities of the World Wide Web. The Barack Obama “Yes We Can” campaign was impossible to ignore; it was simply everywhere. Additional to the effective use of traditional media such as radio, television and direct mail, their campaign utilised Web 2.0 technologies to reach the masses who could access the web via PCs, mobile devices, gaming stations and other devices. Maximising the use of social web applications such as Facebook, Skype, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn they succeeded to touch and muster people beyond customs and racial hindering, around a message, a program and a leader.

All around the world, as well as in South Africa, every time democracies have to consult populations on important decisions, to gain their adhesion to a painful program of reforms or to campaign for any essential reason, the web is also utilised to disseminate the message; but it doesn’t always succeed as expected.

Living lab feedback

in Cape Town suburb,

We went to the living lab at the Impact center in Bridgetown/athlone following, brought over there by Marlon Parker.
We met with former gangsters, substances dealers and addicts. They shared their former lives with us and spoke about the new life they are getting into. It was very inspiring.
We visited ¾ of Athlone in order to see and feel the people and the community heartbeat throughout Bridgetown, Kewtown, and Sylvertown. We noticed the infrastructure cover:
- Impact centre
- Community centre
- Churches
- Mosque
- Library
- Civic centre
- Community theatre
- Police station
- Community health centre
- Clinics
- hospital
- Crèche
- Eros school (Children with disabilities)
- Primary, high school, and College of cape town campus
- Tuck shop (almost 50)
- Shoprite store
- Van gate mall
- Stadium
- Train station
Those infrastructures are the sign that the City of Cape Town is trying to improve people life condition. The city authorities tried to create employment, open the locality to the rest of the city, early educate inhabitant, to care about their health, and to bring them other possibilities of interest like sport, art performance and etc.

It came to us that people are very young in that community with 2/3 under 40 years old. But 2/3 are unemployed (Source: City of Cape Town, ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT 2005/06, Socio-Economic Profile of Ward 49, general information from Census 2001, Statistics South Africa extracted by Innovation, Information and Knowledge management Directorate).

Community issues: Unemployment, criminality, substance abuses, sexual abuses, insecurity, hopelessness.

Possible problems: Educational and Cultural trouble (Knowledge of the good)

Possible solution: inoculate Ubuntu philosophy to people

Technology point of view: Why shouldn't we bring technics like data mining, or business intelligence to help see better the community issues and know the accurate answers to provide?

What I learnt: Reiteration of a belief that people can change to the good. They certainly need someone to take them by the hand and show them how to go.

NB: No intention to offense. This is only a feedback of an enriching experience.

LET UNLEASH THE BEAM OF OUR FIRE

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void;
And Darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light:
And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” Gen 1:1-4

The myriad of luminaries that appeared was burning an intimate fire
A holy fire
That we all share
With the creator

So let unleash the beam of our fire
To sprinkle the night with new lights
From creative creations
Wondering the wonderful
Greeting the greatness
In praying praising prayers
Like praising praying shouts
From far to farther boundaries
Through heaven and depth confines
So let unleash the beam of our fire!
Holy fire,
Everlasting flames.

CALLING THE GREATNESS

Oh thee handling
Beyond understanding
Under my feet
Fitted all above my head
Heading around me
Meeting my whole

O thee who launched from the void
“For with thee is the fountain of life,
In thy light shall we see light.”
I call,
I call,
My all is calling thee
My whole is calling to live by thee

Misery

Misery

I felt myself so miserable
Grabbed to someone boots
To feel myself crowded
I was selling my soul
To feel the sweet of gathering
It was so miserable

I wanted to feel good
Being with a person
I was comfortable with
And I feel so bad
I was giving to a foolish
The most precious of me
My talent, my kindness, my goodness and my faithfulness
Expecting friendship
Awaiting love
And I felt so pitiful
Begging unworthy
Treated like waist
While I am precious to God himself

I love people
But they don’t love me
I want their good
But they don’t care about
They just want to use me

I am deeply deceive
I am living an utmost disappointment
I feel just like
There is nobody.

Oh God my lord I did sin toward you
Have mercy on me
Take away my burden of shame
And fill me with joy
You gave me people who love me
And you love me so much

Thank you.
14/01/2009

Welcome into an experience through giving and receiving

I am just what i am. I just want to share ideas, point of views, goodthings with people around. It will be funny, educative and good, just like me. It won't be sexy, despite that it could interest me, but here i would like to show out something different and smooth and agreable.