Bienvenu!

Wow, i dunno if it's all the excitement for tomorrow or that 7:00pm tea, but as you can see, i am not in bed! Hey, given a choice, i would be in DC right now! :) I watched people gathering up by the throngs huddled en mass and excited, unfazed by the cold weather, cheering and waving their signs. Newscasters interviewing historians, contemplating if the speech will fall in line with Lincoln's second inaugural address or be a mélange of MLK and Lincoln etc etc...

Hmm...i wonder if he can sleep tonight...

It's been a year since i came to know him. I mean i have heard his name and saw him on TV, but with my usual apathy for ambitious politicians, brushed him aside as a rookie wannabe. Until that day when i was driving back home and switched the station to NPR. On came this voice, halfway through an interview, joking about how he did not prep for THE question (What's your biggest weakness?) and offered his cluttered desk as his answer. As i kept on listening, without any clue as to the owner of the voice, i knew i was going to like this man. When the interview ended and the interviewer thanked senator Obama, i was hooked for the very first time in my life, by a politician. I knew then and there that this was the man who will draw me out to that voting booth for my maiden vote, and thousand others who thus far refused to participate in the farce that signifies power changing hands, one corrupt owner to the next.

And oh yes, how he proved me right!

Merci! May you now go on to bring that change in the world. Steady the gait with wisdom, ride fierce with your energy, rapture through barriers with your passion. Look after the weak, seek help from the strong. Free the tortured, bring the oppressors to justice, humans and nature alike.

Safeguard my faith.

Welcome home, Mister President.