Thursday, November 29, 2012

Monalals and Evening Cafe safe: Waheed assures India

Monalals and Evening Cafe are safe, Maldives President Waheed Hassan reassured India today. Speaking to PTI, Waheed said all major Indian investments in Maldives are safe. Following the government of Maldives decision to annul the agreement with infrastructure giant GMR for developing the international airport of Maldives, Waheed said Maldives will continue to safeguard Indian investments and citizens in Maldives.

"Monalals and Evening Cafe are safe. Monalals, a great Indian trade establishment, has been operating in Maldives since the 80s. It is close to my official residence and I will personally check if it is safe," President Waheed said.

"My wife Ilham bought her first sewing machine from Monalals. She even took it to the US when we left Maldives due to the political pressures of the time in 90s," Waheed said.

"Evening Cafe is a few blocks down the road from my residence. Although I no longer go there to have a tandoori chicken with farata, I will guarantee its safety. Indian investors need not worry," Waheed said.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Satan denies influencing Fahmy

In an exclusive interview with this blog, Satan has denied influencing former Civil Service Commission's Chairperson Mohamed Fahmy Hassan.

"Fahmy is so predictable there was no need for me to be there," Satan said.

Satan said MP Ibrahim Muthalib is giving undue credit for Satan. "I have no time to influence the decisions of other Maldivians because all my attention is on the Majlis members right now," Satan said.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

All in all it's just another hole in the wall

Kasimbe fishermen from Huraa anchored his dhoni near mas Maarkeytu and tonight he took his usual walk near Islaamee Markaz towards Sultan Park. He was amazed to see a hole in the wall of Maldives Defence building. He thought baaghees returned. Today in Maldives society baaghee is subjective thing based on what colour you are. Kasimbe saw many people standing near the hole to take photos with the hole. This brought nice memories when Kasimbe was just 11 years. He came to Male with his father also a fisherman and stood near a cyprus tree in Sultan Park to take photo. At that days there was no digital camera or USB sticks. So Kasimbe had to get photo only after one week later. They went to Hura and came back one week later to get photo developed in dark room in Male. The cyprus tree was taller than the 11 year old Kasimbe but it was a good photo. There were always photographers with cameras in Sultan Park asking people to be photographed near one tree or another tree. Those days everyone worked to enjoy decent life with income that provided black tea and nice hedhika everyday. Now everyone wants to be parliament member so they can get good income without hard work. Now the times have changed and there is a big hole in the wall of NSS building. This used to be the favourite place for expatriates on Fridays and Saturdays but now Maldivians have returned to this corner to take photos with the celebrity hole. Maldivians have chased away expatriates from the Jumhooree Binaa area because this is the era of nationalism and xenophobia. Sheikh Imran has popularized this era by standing up for our beloved airport, a 100 meters of gravel on which the sweat of our forefathers were poured. Now the Maldivians want their airport back. This was the airport on which legendary Ali Rasgefaanu battled Portuguese when they arrived in their F-16 jets in the 14th century. This was the airport on which Boduthakurufaanu landed on his famous fighter jet Kalhuoiyfummi and chased away the Portuguese. This was also the airport on which the Indian paratroopers landed on November 3rd to help Maldivians against the PLOTE. But something strange happened. The Indians never left the airport. They stayed there and formed a company. All paratroopers became businessmen and their company was called GMR. Now Maldivians want this airport back and Sheikh Imran is our new hero. To commemorate November 3rd this year our army organised a big orchestra party at Jumhooree Maidhan. This Maidhan is not related to Gasim Ibrahim's Jumhooree Party. So in the night everybody listened to orchestra music watched fireworks and took photos with the hole. Everyone is happy and tomorrow is another day. Next year is election year. All in all it's just another hole in the wall.


photo courtesy of Kula Yellow (the young kids who are crazy over the stupid former president Anni)