*My sun By Heja Sindi

How could this be if I am heading to you?

This black mighty cloud covering your face

Wasn’t you the sunshine? Is it you setting!

I’ll run cross the hills to chase your pace

You were always like this

A diamond covered by greatness

Your light breaks through my lonely trip

Your sneaking smile leaves me restless

No wonder that people admire your setting

See how gently you shame this ugly beast?

Look how you inspire and colorful you are

Your waves are my path; your face is my nest 

So this is what we do, you hide and I seek!

I come and you go, I look and you fade

I wish I could reach that evil mightiness

to bring it down to fade the shade

I’ll stay here in this gloom and never leave you

You’re my east you’re my west

Sooner or later you will rise again

then hide in my arms an set on my chest, my sun

Heja 


* Themes were assembled on the way back home from Erbil. I encountered this great sunset view nearby Dohuk, captured the scene and hit the road again.

Thursday 26. May.11

You aim hi!

I know you are precious, there is so much not to give away!
If you have that someone then what worse it can be? Breaking me in pieces will only make more of me
I show myself to be part of your fear, I know you can’t reply cause we are so near
Lalal lala

Do you think it’s easy for me to look straight forward? Do you think blindness isn’t always a virtue?
I know you wake up and keep the go, I am the wounds that reminds you of those days we let go
I know I am the one you should put behind so please keep tall please aim hi
Lalal lala

Do you think it’s easy for me to look straight forward? Do you think blindness isn’t always a virtue?
It’s both, it’s me that I believe in myself and you who knows what you need
I know you are precious, there is so much not to give away!
Lalala

I know I am the one you should put behind please keep tall please aim hi
Lalal lala

Heja

So what?

So what?
We come from different times but pace same clockwise
We come from different places but take same roads
We take different drives but use same fuel
So what?
We come from different classes but climb same stairs
We face different problems but share the same moon
We have different burdens but cross same fingers
So what?
We come from different worlds but take the same breath
We come from different venue but see the same scenes
We have different dreams but chase the same birds
So what?
We have different contacts but know the same faces
We have different habits but laugh on same jokes
We have different favors but have a common taste
And finally.. I am sure we are taught different views by those who get along when they meet
So what!!

Dedicated to me and I
Heja

Me and my neighbor!

I own a small grocery and I have a neighbor who always buys canned food from me. I never liked my neighbor's life style to be honest though I was making good money out of him. Nevertheless, he hated me even much worse.


One day I bought him a plant and gave it to him saying that it's for courtesy reasons no more. After couple of months he said to me "your" tree is still alive (with a big smile) but I don't know how to take care of it. So he gave me the keys for the gate and the right to use what ever helps in growing "my tree at his"


Today I have my grocery flourishing plus a double space king size back yard garden with plenty of crop that I share with him. But you know what, he still doesn't know how to grow trees and still buys canned food from me!!

Iraq in the era of technocrats, the era of us with our dirty hands!

Finally and before getting retired, I am heavenly witnessing all across Iraq the rise of Public Management (PM) among the dominating Politics and Law!

Yes, the gap is almost 124 years since Woodrow Wilson called for the separation of powers in his famous "The study of Administration" in 1887. What can I say but only if it's never too late? Administrative Reform (AR) is the cure for administrative corruption but who is the one to do it?

It is the Public Managers/Administrators who can guarantee the efficient and effective delivery of public service and value, it's the "How" era no more the "What"! This is the era of technocrats; ones who need to get their hands dirty to do the job, ones who can "walk it instead of to talk it"

Today, I feel proud that I am a member of the Management studies family and that I contribute in producing the Know-How class of people; the Technocrats. By the end of the day, I believe I am aware of the associated challenges and that yes; "though it's not my turn, but it's my time for sure"!

Dedicated to my respectable tutors, fellow colleagues and dear students everywhere.
Dr. Heja Sindi