Mango Sorbet

May’s mature sun warms
webs blown by a southern breeze;
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Death in Gaza

Just watched Death in Gaza on Channel 4 and as I expected it would leave me – I’m depressed and seething with rage at the injustice perpertrated against the innocent whoever they are.

Tragic was the situation of two very young lads, Ahmed and Mohammed, who are as enthusiastic about the prospect of becoming martyrs as young lads here might be about becoming England footballers. The obvious difference being that they’re only ever likely to win a single blood soaked cap for Palestine United. It was especially chilling to see that hooded members of Al-Aqsa Brigade quite happily use young Ahmed as a willing look out for them while they play their deadly game of cat and mouse with the IDF. When asked how they feel about putting such a young boy into such obvious danger one of the hooded militiamen says that there are thousands of young lads who can take his place in the event of Ahmed’s martyrdom. (I don’t doubt it)

Particularly tragic was the story of a Palestinian girl, Najla, who had already lost 8 members of her family when she was first interviewed. During this film by Saira Shah and James Miller she loses another cousin, a 16 year old boy. At this boy’s funeral, his sister is admonished for crying; to have a martyr in the family is considered a great honour for a family in today’s Gaza.

Then the final act in this tragedy – James Miller (the cameraman and co-producer of this documentary) is shot dead by an Israeli soldier, (despite his waving a white flag and being accompanied by Saira Shah shouting loudly and clearly that they were British Journalists). Both Ahmed and Mohammed decide to become cameramen when they grow up. (I hope they get the chance… to do both)

The programme ended with a voice speaking over the closing credits informing us that as a result of the recent Israeli Army bulldozing of Rafah – Najla, Ahmed and Mohammed have all been left homeless.

[UPDATE 14/04/05 -- IDF gets away with murder (what a surprise!)]

[UPDATE 21/04/05 -- Huh!?]

The Prodigal Son Returns (but probably wishes he

As mentioned by Rezwan, Britain recently sent a new High Commissioner to Bangladesh and it warmed this son of a son of Sylhet’s heart to know that Anwar Choudhury was the first British Bangla envoy to the old country. The Sylheti boy done good.

So what do the fucked up fish murdering and turtle torturing tali-qaeda-fascists do? … They try to blow him up!

The result – those psychotic sociopaths will burn forever in a hell of their own making and Anwar Choudhury will most likely end up with a knighthood.

So arise!, Sir Anwar of Sylhet.

Here’s one I did earlier…

First off – apologies to any of you who doesn’t have a fast internet connection and even if you do have DSL or Broadband and a fairly recent version of Internet Explorer with a Windows Media Player plug-in – I still apologise!

So, Welcome to BongoVision… (psst! press play button)

If it aint broke…

I tried to upgrade the software for the site (for no real reason) but completely screwed it up so in desperation I sent a message to the ISP to restore it to the working condition it was happily in prior to my meddling with it. This was at about 6pm and office hours ended at 5pm so I wasn’t expecting anything to happen until tommorrow but I got an email almost straight away telling me that they’d done it!

So I unreservedly thank my hosts Titan Internet and highly recommend them to anyone who needs an ISP in the future.