11/3/13 FACES THAT I LOVE PAINTING and rest deep in my heart.....

When I was a kid, I love to paint. Surely in those days, I love to paint what were around me. But as I entered my Lower Secondary School, and began to develop reading hobby, I came across numerous personalities. One of them was Charles Bronson the coal miner turned Hollywood Star. His acting in Death Wish inspired me a lots to give a fight back every time I got bullied by my seniors at the hostel. Here a short incept of Bronson: The son of a Lithuanian coal miner, American actor Charles Bronson claimed to have spoken no English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania. Though he managed to complete high school, it was expected that Bronson would go into the mines like his father and many brothers. Experiencing the world outside Pennsylvania during World War II service, however, Bronson came back to America determined to pursue an art career. While working as a set designer for a Philadelphia theater troupe, Bronson played a few small roles and almost immediately switched his allegiance from the production end of theater to acting. After a few scattered acting jobs in New York, Bronson enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse in 1949. By 1951, he was in films, playing uncredited bits in such pictures as The People Against O'Hara (1951); You're in the Navy Now (1952), which also featured a young bit actor named Lee Marvin; Diplomatic Courier (1952); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952), as a waiter(!); and The Clown (1953). When he finally achieved billing, it was under his own name, Charles Buchinsky (sometimes spelled Buchinski). His facial age lines, I would say is very artistic.

(2) Then, as I began to like History and Geography, I began to learn the people hardship. Definitely my personal childhood backdrop added to my deep interest on the people plights. But my artistic fingers also love to sketch lines of unique faces. Apart from Bronson, Karl Marx was one of them. I then began to study the life histry of Karl Marx. For quick reference, provided incept from the Wikipedia of Karl Marx and the progression of Communism ideology: In the 1840s, a German philosopher and sociologist named Karl Marx (1818–1883), who was living in England after fleeing the authorities in the German states, where he was considered a political threat, began publishing books in which he outlined his theories for a variety of communism now known as Marxism. Marx was financially aided and supported by another German émigré, Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), who like Marx had fled from the German authorities in 1849.^[8] Marx and Engels took on many influences from earlier philosophers; politically, they were influenced by Maximilien Robespierre and several other radical figures of the French Revolution, whilst economically they were influenced by David Ricardo and philosophically they were influenced by Hegel.^[9] Engels regularly met Marx at Chetham's Library in Manchester, England from 1845 and the alcove where they met remains identical to this day.^[10][11] It was here Engels relayed his experiences of industrial Manchester, chronicled in the Condition of the Working Class in England, highlighting the struggles of the working class.  Marx stated that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles," something that he believed was happening between the bourgeoisie who then controlled society and the proletariat (the working class masses) who toiled to produce everything but who had no political control. He purported the idea that human society moved through a series of progressive stages, from primitive communism through to slavery, feudalism and then capitalism, and that this in turn would be replaced by communism - for Marx therefore, communism was seen as inevitable, as well as desirable..

(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 fishing.^[1] Following Confucian tradition, at the age of 10, his father gave him a new name: Nguyễn Tất Thành (“Nguyễn the Accomplished”). Hồ Chí Minh (Northern Vietnamese pronunciation : [hô t͡ɕǐ mɪŋ] ( 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.

(6) Fortunate or unfortunate, all the faces that I love to paint almost all are and were Communism related. That was and is their ideology. They were and never being or will be Muslim.Thus their outlook to resolve their poverty and sovereignty issues rest to the anti-Capitalist approach ie Communism which mooted the idea of Sharing Is Caring.  But those are not important. The paramount, as Muslim is for us to see and understand Allah's wisdom for creating such personalities among us. Their wisdom, characters and determination made them able to fight with whatever Goliath that may come.   Thus indeed as Marx believe, an alternative to this chocking Capitalist issues that we are now facing, I could see, as Muslim, within this dynamic regional and global setting, Malaysia could stand as a new Ideological and Economical Messiah if Nik Aziz + Mahathir + Anwar Ibrahim + Najib (Abdul Razak) could work together. Personally I strongly believe Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur, as the best Regional Islamic Nur that Malaysian must build hard and fast to pass on as a gift to the world. Most important, the Malays must gain back its roh as they used to have. Then only I could see the next step of making the towering Malays is much easier and sustainable. InsyaAllah.

Kuching, Sarawak
19 March, 2013