Relax

Doing nothing or sleeping is the ultimate form of rest for me
People undervalue it
Spending some time daydreaming or going with the flow of the day without having to plan everything is quite liberating
I feel liberate from everything around me
Where the notion of time doesn’t bother me
But it runs so fast like Michael Johnson
I think it’s especially important for creative people
It gives you the time and space to process ideas

Life

Big town life agrees with me
For the whole year at least
You can just wander through the day
Go for a walk
Stop for coffee
Hang out with friends
Browse through the bookstore
Chat to people you bump into
It helps me to recharge for more hectic times
Does it seems to be a life?

The Rhone

Fishermen love it
Spending time trawling for fish
With their fishing rod in a dull morning
Where there’s no electricity
No running water
It’s a scenic place
Calming place with no distractions
No phone
No email
My cabin in Rhone
Next to the river

My inspiration for writing

Fate always brings people to new destination and new revelation according to philosophers. Indeed I do believe in this quote. It happened to me while I was on holiday in Reunion Island with my younger brother Stephane few years ago.

The purpose of my trip was to forget about the ghastly year I went through. We flew for 3 weeks during summer holidays at Antide’s place, a long-life friend of my dad in La Riviere St-Louis. It was one of the most sensational holidays I had ever experienced before. I spent Christmas and New Year there…travelling around the island with their niece, Karen and nephew, Laurent…playing soccer, going to the beach, shopping, visiting ‘La Vierge au Parasol’, La Fournaise volcano-still active. It was absolutely marvelous.

Staying at home and relax is definitely my thing. It allows me to read books, newspapers, sport magazines or painting on canvases. It seems that this kind of situation suits perfectly to what a poet or an artist does during a day. My love of reading must have contributed greatly to my ability to imagine myself as someone else. It was at my knee that I first realized how passionate of reading I was. I was keen and tempted to share my love of writing poems and sport articles with the Dorilas's family. My awareness and understanding of their comfortable and pleasant interaction reflects a subtle change in my societal awareness. My time on the road was already beginning to heighten my sensitivity to the divisions between the haves and the have-nots.

I spent time watching French soccer match with Antide live on TV late at night. Then the next morning we have a chat about it. Through my reading of sports newspapers I found the inspiration of writing sports articles particularly soccer. I can’t tell how amazing it was. The whole concept of french and soccer expressions I wrote in my article was the right words at the right sentence. Antide was surprised about it. He pushed my writing skills to some degree of expectation. It sounds for me as a period of confinement only deepened my love of reading, a love I never outgrew.

Well, one morning he said to me why you don’t think about embracing a career in Sport journalist in Reunion Island or in France? At the time I didn’t realized it. But after a while I made up my mind of looking for a job. Then I got the idea to keep all my written poems so as to show it to my friend poet Stefan Hart de Keating when I’ll be back in Mauritius.

It was clear to see that i wanted people to take a good, hard look at the world around them by writing articles or poems about the truth and ask themselves, is this the way it should be? It was passion that changed my life during a formative trip through Reunion Island. I would say I’m a man driven not by selfishness but selflessness.

Socceroos last chance to qualify for Germany 2006

Another chapter in the history of the Socceroos in World Cup qualifiers is about to be written. The Socceroos is challenging Uruguay for the 2nd leg of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers tomorrow night at Telstra Stadium in Sydney for a ticket to Germany World Cup 2006.

The Socceroos has rendez-vous with the history and it’s time now not to miss the boat to the most prestigious sporting event of the world. It's a remake of four years ago in Montevideo when the Socceroos of Frank Farina failed to qualify for the US World Cup.

After loosing 1-0 in Uruguay last sunday, the Socceroos seems to be in a must-win situation. The Socceroos coach, Guus Hiddink who was appointed to the job few months ago, had gathered the most highly experience squad to overcome the loss of the 1st leg. With Tim Cahill, Marco Bresciano, Lucas Neill, Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka and Jason Cullina, the socceroos will be tough to tackle on homeground. And Guus Hiddink knows it. He comments on SBS after the loss in Montevideo “I’m not happy with the result. We lost the match due to lack of concentration and intimidation. But next Sunday will be a different scenario at home”.

He believes that this generation of Australian players will lift-up the profile of Australian football on top of the world ladder. But in the meantime, the Dutch technician is particularly more concerned about his squad defense weaknesses. In fact, the socceroos defense has always been comprised on International echelon. And yet few socceroos defenders such as Tony Vidmar, Tony Popovic, Craig Moore and Scott Chipperfield will probably be close to their International retirement.

Still ‘mastermind’ Guus is confident about his defense for tomorrow night clash. However the main danger remains the irresistible striker of the ‘Los Celestes’, Alvaro Recoba. The Uruguayan will be man to watch and has to be taken in consideration. Excellent left-footed player, very good technician with a massive sense of vision on the ball and very dangerous with his free-kick and cross, Alvaro Recoba will be an absolute threat for the socceroos defense. Indeed, he was at the origin of the goal in Montevideo last weekend.

At stake the confrontation of tomorrow night is tactically and technically feasible for the socceroos. This is the time where the entire Australian population is waiting for as a wake-up call of their national team, after the gauntlet four years ago in Montevideo, and 32 years after they were allowed to play with the monsters in a World Cup tournament.

It’s now or never.

To Someone

Our deep is fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deep is fear that we are powerful beyond measure
It’s our light not our darkness that won’t frightened us
You are playing small that not serve the world
And there is nothing in light about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you.
We were all meant to shine as children do
It’s not in just some of us
It’s in everyone
And as we all let it shine
We are unconsciously giving permission to people to do the same as we are liberating to our fear
Our presence automatically liberate others
Sir, I wanna say thank you
You save my life