Trust. Faith. Seeing the other side of the war and giving your perceived enemy a chance to prove themselves right and you wrong. How many people out there, yourself included, can claim or would even put yourself in harm's way, at someone's word that they would protect you when the entire world paints them as evil? That is exactly what our 45 Fijian peacekeepers did in the Golan Heights. Their actions have brought about ridicule, racist taunts, reopened Pandora's box to Fiji's political history and inadvertently lent some bigger nations a bat to swing at Fiji. But, they missed, and spectacularly at that, because they view the world with one eye and it is sadly, the Western eye.
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Finding yourself in need of not just a good book to read, but a damn brilliant one? Hoo hoo ha ha. I'm giving away 12 copies of the Ice Phoenix to some lucky people. 10 copies are going to residents in the US, Canada and the UK, and 2 more copies to those who live elsewhere. Read on for more details. It's been another long break I know, and I have to admit, I do feel really guilty about neglecting my blog. On the upside though, I have been pretty occupied and we all know the saying, a busy gal is a happy gal! :) Where to begin? Let's start off with, 'Happy New Year and May You All Stay Strong and Healthy in the Year of the Horse!' I kicked it off by inviting a few friends for crispy roast pork, stir fried broccoli and pineapple tarts last night.
"Hey, Lin! Look, another shortcut!" called out Aigerim, baring her teeth at me in a cheeky grin. Standing no more than twenty metres from her and breathing heavily in the quiet, almost serial killer like forest, I glared at her. The words, when they left my mouth, were completely justified.
"F*%k you and your shortcuts!" Ten minutes earlier we had just scaled an impossibly vertical hill whereby we both resembled horrible mutations of goats crossed with spiders. Meaning we had been pressed to the hill on all fours, shuffling, leaping, sliding and crawling our way up. True, I was the reason we had ended up there in the first place but it was Aigerim who had chosen the non existent path through the forest, because it would be the 'fastest' way. |