Asean Always on My Mind

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Come flying to AseaN,
melting-pot of East and West;
see, feel, taste euphoria like James Bond in Istanbul,
Like Huxley, open your doors or Perception.

Suspend and disbelief you might have,
see Shamans at their alchemy.
Today's magic, tomorrow's science.
No hocus pocus, no tomfoolery, really really really.

Who wants to be a millionaire?
Lost ambition or hope?
Regain it in AseaN
in your moment of eureka.

Come flying to AseaN by sea, train or plane,
transmogrify a week into a year of delights.
What a magical location, what a wonderful world.
everything going your way.

Alfred Russell Wallace's Sarawak Law gave
Caesarian birth to Darwinism.
Come fly your kite or flag,
drive Dyson's driverless Daimlers in Singapore.

Whether you be a Picasso, a Marco Polo, a Dato' Sri Ram,
an Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta,
a Madame Curie, a Marylin Monroe, Sir Richard Branson -
come flying to AseaN, today's corner of paradise.

But come flying in your tuxedo, trilby,
turban, tarboosh, sombrero,
in your silken Marylin Monroe gown,
come as you are.

But come. Flying effortlessly to the
Association of South-east-Asia Nations,
cara mia. Come without trepidation for 
fair AseaNa (sic) will always stand by you.



Dato’ Yunus Raiss
JP FRSA FCIL MEd BA BSc (Econ) 
M.Ed, Barrister, Dip TEFL, Dip Edu Research



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