June 4

Today must be what the heavens consider an important day. So much happened. Or is it that so much has happened in my own sphere, my own realm of existence?

Most personal to me is the passing of Toni Kassim. A fighter from beginning to end, Toni represented a nation's hope in gender equality and women's rights. What set her so starkly apart is the political platform she chose to operate from. Toni represented hope, something we lack so dismally sometimes.

Barack Hussein Obama, son of a Black Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas won the democratic nomination, and will, for the first time, provide the world with some hope that the US may escape the tainted history it has had under the Bush administration. Breaking racial barriers is one thing, but Obama broke mental barriers - dare we hope for a more intelligent, hopeful America?

And of course, my government announced an unbelievable fuel hike that puts petrol prices at RM2.70 a litre. It's not hope that this news represents, but a blatant lack thereof.

life has to go on, and my pages have to close. till we meet again. adios my faithful readers, all two of you.