11/3/13 FACES THAT I LOVE PAINTING and rest deep in my heart.....
(3) The Indochinese war in 1970s brought me to be in contact with Ho Chii Minh. He was in fact another artistic feature that I love. At the very young age, the American combatant movie called Combat acted by Vic Morrow raised deep question into my heart: Why did the American fought so cruel with the Vietnamese? Why then exist Vietnam and Vietcong?. In fact those questions later took me to study the History of the Cham, the Annam, now the drifting Malays of Tonsle and Mekong, MasyaAllah, would I have the chance to help? From such historical knowledge, then I began to understand Ho Chii Minh whom all through sacrificed as a tin bachelor life which in 2009, I brought my kids to have a face with him in Hanoi. Nguyễn Sinh Cung was born in 1890 in the village of Hoàng Trù (the name of the local temple near Làng Sen), his mother’s village. From 1895, he grew up in his father Nguyễn Sinh Sắc’s village of Làng Sen, Kim Liên, Nam Đàn, Nghệ An Province. He had three siblings: his sister Bạch Liên (or Nguyễn Thị Thanh), a clerk in the French Army; his brother Nguyễn Sinh Khiêm (or Nguyễn Tất Đạt), a geomancer and traditional herbalist; and another brother (Nguyễn Sinh Nhuận) who died in his infancy. As a young child, Nguyễn studied with his father before more formal classes with a scholar named Vuong Thuc Do. Nguyễn quickly mastered Chinese writing, a requisite for any serious study of Confucianism, while honing his colloquial Vietnamese writing.[1] In addition to his studious endeavors, he was fond of adventure, and loved to fly kites and go 
listen), Southern Vietnamese pronunciation : [hôw t͡ɕǐj mɪ̈n] ( listen)); 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Việt Cộng (NLF or VC) during the Vietnam War. He led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at the battle of Điện Biên Phủ. He officially stepped down from power in 1955 due to health problems, but remained a highly visible figurehead and inspiration for those Vietnamese fighting for his cause—a united, communist Vietnam—until his death. After the war, Saigon, capital of the Republic of Vietnam, was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City. 
(4) Chairman Mao Tze Dung is another easy face to paint. With less hair, rounded face, with few stroke, his fat face looks awesome. But then Muhammad SAW saying: Learn, even if one have to go to China made me trying to look for some reasoning. Definitely in those days, the History texts were not at all friendly to the subject described. Mao Tze Dung was portrayed as the most cruel with his One Million Rural March and the destruction along the way of the Chinese's Tradition through his Cultural Revolution but indeed, the whole of China today is thankful for the birth of this shrewd shorty. It was my dreamt to pay him a visit, and I did at his Kampung somewhere in Changsa, China. Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; pinyin: Máo Zédōng, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung 
listen (help·info)), commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, and political theorist. The founding father of the People's Republic of China from its establishment in 1949, he governed the country as Chairman of the Communist Party of China until his death. In this position he converted China into a single-party socialist state, with industry and business being nationalized under state ownership and socialist reforms implemented in all areas of society. Politically a Marxist-Leninist, his theoretical contribution to the ideology along with his military strategies and brand of policies are collectively known as Maoism. Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook in early life, particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. Coming to adopt Marxism-Leninism, he became an early member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), soon rising to a senior position. In 1922, the Communists agreed to an alliance with the larger Kuomintang (KMT), a nationalist revolutionary party, whom Mao aided in creating a revolutionary peasant army and organizing rural land reform. In 1927 the KMT's military leader Chiang Kai-shek broke the alliance and set about on an anti-communist purge; in turn, the CPC formed an army of peasant militia, and the two sides clashed in the Chinese Civil War. Mao was responsible for commanding a part of the CPC's Red Army, and after several setbacks, rose to power in the party by leading the Long March. When the Empire of Japan invaded China in 1937, sparking the Second Sino-Japanese War, Mao agreed to a united front with the KMT, resulting in a CPC-KMT victory in 1945. The Chinese Civil War then resumed, in which Mao led the Red Army to victory as Chiang and his supporters fled to Taiwan.
(5) When I was in the US from 1996-1998, I saw so much of these beautiful latinos ladies, whose feature is sort of a mixed between the Malays and the Arabs, the Sharifah. Of course, since Colorado, the State where I studied, was once part of the Mexican Empire, I began to have keen interest to study these Spanish breeds. That lead me to Fidel Castro which by coincidence his face used to hang around in so many T-shirt of these young latino especially during the Cinco De Mayo celebration. But most important, then I saw Mahathir Mohammed want to have a strong connectivity with the Cuban Medical-based Tourism Industry. Castro indeed is a far greater man. I believe he had inspired the Latin American to stand to their feet. Definitely I would believe, the Falkland Crisis between Argentina and Great Britain was part of the Latin sovereignty that they are now struggling hard to hold. But unfortunate, the American had corrupted them most, thus it is not an easy struggle. Born the illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imperialist politics while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in armed rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of the United States-backed military junta of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, and served a year's imprisonment in 1953 after a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks. On release he traveled to Mexico, where he formed a revolutionary group with his brother Raul and friend Che Guevara, the 26th of July Movement. Returning to Cuba, Castro led the Cuban Revolution which ousted Batista in 1959, and brought his own assumption of military and political power. Alarmed by his revolutionary credentials and friendly relations with the Soviet Union, the U.S. governments of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully attempted to remove him, by economic blockade, assassination and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro formed an economic and military alliance with the Soviets, and allowed them to place nuclear weapons on the island, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Kuching, Sarawak
19 March, 2013
Assalammualaikum ..
ReplyDeleteYears back .. when I get bored in class, I love to sketch a figure .. Che Guevara. At that particular time and until now I don't know why Guevara was my favourite face .. but here's something on Che Guevara which may be the reason :
Nelson Mandela referred to him as "an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom", while Jean-Paul Sartre described him as "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age". Others who have expressed their admiration include authors Graham Greene, who remarked that Che "represented the idea of gallantry, chivalry, and adventure", and Susan Sontag, who expounded that "goal was nothing less than the cause of humanity itself."
In the black community, philosopher Frantz Fanon professed Guevara to be "the world symbol of the possibilities of one man", while Black Panther Party head Stokely Carmichael eulogized that "Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us."
Praise has been reflected throughout the political spectrum, with the libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard extolling Guevara as a "heroic figure", lamenting after his death that "more than any man of our epoch or even of our century, [Che] was the living embodiment of the principle of revolution", while journalist Christopher Hitchens commented that "[Che's] death meant a lot to me and countless like me at the time, he was a role model, albeit an impossible one for us bourgeois romantics insofar as he went and did what revolutionaries were meant to do—fought and died for his beliefs."