A fellow asked me:
- "After reading The Chronicles of Qasim, I gather you are campaigning against Qasim's potential chances for presidency of Maldives, right?"
I did not answer quite as thoroughly as would have liked to. Here is what my answer would have been had I had time to think about the question:
- "The Chronicles of Qasim is about the dealings between Qasim and myself, and does not by any means implicate policitics of any nature and/or magnitude. However, in retrospect, Qasim did not retaliate against me when I published the chronicles. Perhaps that means he finally understands the true meaning of accountability (in the very least it shows a certain amount of tolerance). In that respect he should be regarded as an inspiration to all those in the running. Perhaps in the future everyone with political power will be as willing to accept their faults without rebuttal as Qasim is turning out to be."
15 comments:
So people should wear shorts in protest of Qasim's presidency as per the Chronicles?
Did it ever occur to you that he probably didn't retaliate regarding the Chronicles articles because they haven't actually come to his attention yet?
Make assumptions you must not. Find all possible causes you will. For the shroud of darkness, clouds our minds it does.
m: i have to admit, you're most likeable customer i've had in some time now. btw, the fellow knows.
He knows! Ohmigod! He knows. Run for the hills.
Wait a minute. How do you know that he knows? And does he know that you know that he knows?
Maybe this is a new type of psychological punishment? You do something bad. And you don't get punished. One day your conscience comes and wacks you on the head. Very similar to the balance of karma.
During my two years of work at Villa, I have closely observed...
1. Q dosen't open his PC. Ever.
2. Relies on close cronies to bring in info, services and 'g's.
3. Dosen't read. Well... English, very well!
4. Is regular, at throwing filth at high ranking employees.
5. Become totally upset in relation to hearing anything negative about him.
Do you think, by some chance... his aides must have translated
your articles to him... in a wierdly skewed way?
I don't know. Just thinking.
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"It's a free country, so he's free to say whatever he wants, but I don't appreciate it. I don't like it. To have to answer anything about what that slimeball says is just too much."
Note. This is what G. Bush said to M. Moore so it must be good, I suppose. Atleast the situation sounds the same.
Anyone out there wants to produce a documentary?
An 'alternaive' question: Gasim for prime minister?
If I may, I'd like to write a review of The Chronicles of Qasim. I don't know Qasim any more than I see him on TV once in while. I know the author and am friends with him and wishes him all the best.
REVIEW:
The chronicles is a 4 part mini-series blog postings that tell the story of a "tumulous relationship" between the author and business tycoon Mr. Qasim.
The Chronicles made me cringe as I read every other paragraph. At some point it occurred to me that it fell short of quenching my curiosity regarding Mr. Qasim's shortcomings or his lack of true entrepreneurship that the author touched upon in chapter 2.
But the chronicles gave me new insight into a particularly seemingly simple equation the author conjures unbeknownst to himself - whether there is a relationship between becoming tremendously wealthy and having bloated egos or vice versa. In other words, whether it is the wealth that creates the ego or the ego that creates the wealth.
If I was to arrive at an early, unbiased and honest conclusion about what the Chronicles try to chronicle it would be that unfortunately for the author his ego has not bestowed vast riches such as that Mr. Qasim had amassed over the decades. But let’s not cut to the chase just yet.
Mr. Qasim’s venture into politics (whether it is dirty or not) as I know it, came long after the timeframe the Chronicles speak of. His questions and interrogations regarding the “sandhaanu” publication, I think, were justified given that Viuga was running under his wings. Maybe he was just being the boss (if not ‘a’ boss) all along?
Much of the early parts of the Chronicle is about how Mr. Qasim doesn't live up to the author's expectations. The glaring truth of the matter is that that Mr. Qasim has built a vast business empire while the author built a freely available blog. I'm not making a mountain out of a molehill. This IS a mountain and a molehill I am talking about.
As I approached the end of the Chronicles I expected some kind of a truth and meaning or morale, if you will, cryptically buried in the text. To my surprise there was one and it probably was not what the author intended to convey.
It appears that The Chronicles is nothing more than the debacle that is the author stepping on his own genitalia - revealing self-importance in the face of lack of substance to show for it. The author claims to be in the “club of the Impoverished” but perhaps forgets that beggars can’t be choosers and proves it!
I very much hope that the Chronicles was a ploy of some sort to pull a publicity stunt. It falls short of being the Chronicles of Qasim so much as it has proven to be the Chronicles of the author himself – one that is cringe-inducing to mere mortals.
END REVIEW
Other than that, it was highly entertaining.
Thanks man.
simon: it's good to see that the 'chronicles' were controversial enough to warrant such a lengthy review. and yes, you're right. who i am is all about the perceptions others derive of me (that's how it should be, isn't it?).
But Simon, you have to appreciate the moral of the story in the chronicles. Don't wear shorts in front of future Presidents. Especially when religious scriptures are lying around near by.
But you made a point. Get money first and then an ego, coz if you get the ego first, it may block incoming money. And the buck stops there.
So getting back to this article, do we want a buruma for a president? Or can we pick other power tools. I prefer Black and Decker.
I no no good english. I talk filth and i am ho i am. so why your broplems. you all jealous of my money? I do everything i like doing. it non your business. persona non grata call me very often for some kind of business. why you angry when i no give my money to you? you right what you like.I no care.
whoever qasim ibrahim is: i am the fellow who gave villa technologies its biggest boost. i have the papers to prove that i involved villa technologies, datacraft india and wataniya in a tri-party business contract while i was the IT manager for the latter firm. the deal involved way more than a million dollars. and villa is still going on about this being a quest for money?
The correlation between qasim's adequacy as a president and the tri-party deal you were involved in being...?
m: qasim for president? (gasp) :)
Was just asking the relation between the two aspects.
Besides that, I believe he is as qualified for presidency as George W. Bush, the beloved leader of the free world! They have so much in common. heavy backing. Their guardians do all the thinking. Can't put sentences together. Absolutely no idea about what they are talking about at any given time. However I have yet to confirm the profanity percentage in Bush's conversations.
Makes me wonder if Qasim actually reads or is told about all these recent sweet talk about him.
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