My IDPs friends and I used to wonder how the people power help solving the problems in their villages. It was hard to work things out in slient and could not get recognitions from authorities. Year by year along our journey some friends dropped out of our working as they did feel it was hopless and too tired to go on.
Many of the friends from Migrant Laotians also quitted along the way during our working on documentation for Thai citizenships process. It was much easier for them to go under the corruption system to get the citizenship. It was regret, but it was their own choice.
People power may take sometimes, long time or forever to get to our goals. Just keep the beief of its power and trying to move on along this endless journey.
Now we have come to another significant step on the issue of Indigenous People. Our networking completed and sent a shadow report of ICERD to the committee in Geneva. It was good to see the fruitful result of people power where many people come together to work on it.
People Power is nothing when we do not belief it's value in creation of changes for the better!
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Missing home...
I love the countryside where I grown up. It is always lovely to watch the hilly areas around home, the green areas with many trees and colorful with flowers.The sounds of birds singings waking me up in the mornings.
It makes me smile whenever I think of my childhood, sitting at the back of a motobike while my father riding home after school. looking at the sky, and the clouds, imagine myself wandering from one cloud to another. Jumping and dancing across the gaps between the clouds, and laying down somewehere look like a bed.
Spending some days in a big city of high technology is not a new experience but feel something missing. Taking MRT to be away from the complexicty of shopping centers. Enjoy myself in a vegetable farm and the charm of the countryside.
My Singaporean friends introduced it as a traditional veggie farm. But I think it is more technology than the farm at home. Similar kinds of veggies but different practices. Farmers here are as kind as farmers at home.
Do not mind the methods of farming but enjoy being in the places similar to home. A simple place but with a recognition that being with nature is the way of sustainable living. Technology may be something we enjoy but it will be changing and effecting environment and our livings in many ways.
Got back to the city late in the evening, walking along the street, imagine the sun set behind the buildings somewhere. Feeling lonely in the crowd. Missing the beautiful sun set at the end of the rice filed and the shy moon rise up in the sky somewhere near the wood at home. .... Yes, missing home !
It makes me smile whenever I think of my childhood, sitting at the back of a motobike while my father riding home after school. looking at the sky, and the clouds, imagine myself wandering from one cloud to another. Jumping and dancing across the gaps between the clouds, and laying down somewehere look like a bed.
Spending some days in a big city of high technology is not a new experience but feel something missing. Taking MRT to be away from the complexicty of shopping centers. Enjoy myself in a vegetable farm and the charm of the countryside.
My Singaporean friends introduced it as a traditional veggie farm. But I think it is more technology than the farm at home. Similar kinds of veggies but different practices. Farmers here are as kind as farmers at home.
Do not mind the methods of farming but enjoy being in the places similar to home. A simple place but with a recognition that being with nature is the way of sustainable living. Technology may be something we enjoy but it will be changing and effecting environment and our livings in many ways.
Got back to the city late in the evening, walking along the street, imagine the sun set behind the buildings somewhere. Feeling lonely in the crowd. Missing the beautiful sun set at the end of the rice filed and the shy moon rise up in the sky somewhere near the wood at home. .... Yes, missing home !
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