First Post: Let's Break the Ice-ing!

So here I am staring at my laptop thinking of what to speak about in my first blog. I was thinking to discuss politics and religion since that’s the main issue nowadays especially with what’s going on in the Arab world today. I thought I should speak about why so and so are two faced evil individuals filled with duplicity giving deviations but then I realised I should first break the ice before I go on a rant, so screw that because I’m going to talk about cup cakes.

Cup cakes are the real secret evil-doers of this world. You may be confused as to why I say this but let me explain. A normal cup cake looks like this: colourful, attractive, stylish, covered with a coolish designed icing that makes you eager to push away all that’s in your way – be it life’s problems or grandma -  and lick the milky soul out of the thing. But then the crisis arrives! Once you’ve finished sweeping away the icing, you are stunned by what you’re then faced with. From beneath the sweet-taste appears a brown thick spongy block that has had absolutely no relation with that first sighted colourful milky icing. I’ll be straight with you; I think cake and icing don’t go together. They don’t go well and I believe they will soon cause political confusion and great loss amongst in the world.

Most politicians today tend to work their way up with beautiful words filled with sweet promises which are what their people want to hear. Words which bring warmth and comfort making the public foresee the desirable future and in effect they get support. However, only until people become victims of their terrible false promises do the public realise that they’ve been thrown into a deep never-ending well of empty pledges.

Typical reactions to oppressive regimes in this Arab spring is mass rallying and protests which do cause great amounts of political pressure – which is what I shall discuss in my next post - on oppressive regimes that oppresses its people. And typically to the nations luck the regime throws up even more sweet soothing phrases like ‘national dialogue’ and ‘a new beginning’. The tragedy is that some elements of the opposition do drown into the quicksand of this political icing and get convinced that perhaps this 240 year old oppressive regime that has killed hundreds and wounded thousands in just four months may actually make use of a second chance or shall I say, dance.

Other opposition figures’ sole aim is to topple a regime the same way President Ben Ali of Tunisia fell and so did President Mubarak of Egypt. But I guess the real questions are: Can the words ‘revolution’, ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ also be considered political icing? What if we do take down an oppressive regime but those who claim the rule afterwards become even worse? Oppressors and potential oppressors is what we should look out for, but is it possible to see beneath the icing?

(And voilà! With this first post I’ve broken our ice of hypocritical well-spoken yet empty speech off the cake of reality.)