Suu Kyi meets up with U2’s ‘star-struck’ Bono
Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono joined forces today as the Myanmar democracy activist’s European tour moved from the home of the Nobel Peace Prize to the land of U2.
The pair spent more than an hour answering questions at an Oslo conference of peace mediators at the end of Suu Kyi’s four-day visit to Norway. Then they jetted together to the Irish capital, Dublin, for an evening concert in her honor.
Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and a trio of children, two of them Burmese nationals, offered Suu Kyi flowers as she arrived at Dublin Airport. Several thousands excited well-wishers, ranging from Irish glitterati to virtually Ireland’s entire Burmese community, awaited her arrival at a dockside Dublin theater.
Gilmore called the Dublin celebrations, involving actress Vanessa Redgrave and the Riverdance troupe, “a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the warmth and affection in which this remarkable and courageous woman is rightly held by the Irish people.”
Suu Kyi, in turn, said Bono had hit the right note with “Walk On,” which was written from the point of view of her husband Michael Aris. Myanmar’s military rulers refused to let him see his wife from 1995 to his death from cancer in 1999.
At the Dublin concert, called “Electric Burma,” Bono is scheduled to unveil Amnesty International’s top prize, the Ambassador of Conscience, an award for Suu Kyi that the singer announced at a Dublin U2 concert in 2009. Suu Kyi was finally released from house arrest the following year.
Also at the Dublin concert, Suu Kyi is to receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. Afterward at an outdoor ceremony, she’s to sign the roll of honor proclaiming her a Freewoman of the City of Dublin, an honorific title bestowed in her absence in 1999.
Did Marisa Sung see this? She’s in love with his business partner Roger McNamee lol
The last I read, Melissa Sung was Coming, Coming, Coming, Coming….she’s probably recharging
50 SHADES OF GREY=A LITTLE DISAPPOINTMENT. BTW I DON’T NEED TO RECHARGE=MEI PARTNER DOES BC HE CAN’T KEEP UP WITH MEE! 50 SHADES OF GREY IS 50 SHADES OF BORING WITH MEE! I EXHAUST HIM!! SEE MAI BLOG POST ON THAT PHENOMENON=THE HOUSEWIVES OF AMERICA NEED TO GET A LIFE LIKE SEW YESTERDAY AND IT IS SEW TERRIBLY SAD!! THOSE BROADS NEED DESPERATELY TO GO A BROAD TO ITALY, ENGLAND, FRANCE AND SOUTH AMERICA OR JUST FOLLOW A RICH WHITE DOCTOR TO THAILAND ONCE TO DISCOVER WHY IT IS THAT HE ALWAYS TRAVELS THERE ON BUSINESS ONLEE AND LEAVES THE ENTIRE FAMILY BEHIND BUTT GOES TO GREAT PAINS TO HAVE HIS BEHIND TAKEN CARE OF BUY THAI GIRLS!!! THAT’S RRRIIIGHHT!! AND HE IS YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY MAN FROM SANDS POINT, LLYOD HARBOR, GREENWICH, NEW CANAAN, BOSTON, NEWTON AND BROOKLINE MARRIED TO THE FEMINIST/MODERN WOMAN SUELEBRITY NEXT DOOR JUST TO NAME BUTT A FEW!!
I HAVE TO CATCH HIS NEXT MOONALICE CONCERT WITH YUE NANCY!! HE NEVER GOT BACK TO MEE REGARDING MAI REQUEST TO BEE HIS ELEVATION PARTNER! ALL THE GOODIES ARE TAKEN! I SUPPOSED YUE ARE ONLEE AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST PALM PILOT W/ THE MIRROR ON THE BACK INVENTION AFTER MEE! 🙁
I’M STILL LOOKING FOR THE YOUTUBE VIDEO WHERE ROGER ADDRESSES MIT AND STANFORD ON HOW HE WAS INSPIRED BY MAI INCREDIBLE BEAUTY TO INVENT THE PALM WITH THE MIRROR ON THE BACK=I CAN’T FIND IT WITCH MEANS THAT YOUTUBE REMOVED IT!! 🙁
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE BACK OF MAI PALM PILOT 🙂
Today, I went to the beachfront with my children.
I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year
old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed the shell to her ear and screamed.
There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic but I had to tell someone!