A Lack of Time and Breathing Space.
It had been such a busy time for me during these few months. Except to post a few interesting YouTube videos on this blog, I have had the time to sit down and run proper articles. I don't even have the time to write articles for the now 2 month old site www.workingtribe.com .
So much had happen within these months. Here in Singapore, we were sadden by the man who jump down the MRT (subway) track, killing himself, so that attention can be thrown on him and his family's plight. Apparently his family were suffering from extreme poverty, with sickness and much emotion distress. When all efforts on seeking help proved to be without avail, the man decided on the ultimate sacrifice and end his life in a rather terrible manner to bring the society's spotlight to his family. This man really broke and touched my heart. His love for his family put him in the number spot for any heroic fatherly figure position.
One the other side of the scale, a rather immature Wee Shu Min made the headlines (at least on the net, not the mainstream news) when she shot a rather arrogant reply to a heartlander, Mr Derek, who was commenting on some of the difficulties of maintaining a living in modern Singapore, where the standard of living is rising rapidly, and job security is dropping the other way down the axis. In her reply, she bombarded Derek, mocking him and picturing him as a whining lazy creature, with the language in her article reflecting her thinking as an "elite", rich, and on the high side of the local society. What made the matter worse was when her Minister father declare in the local newspaper an apology, and also that he "stand by her view". This placed the local blogosphere into Defcon 1, with retaliation from almost every single major and popular, local blog account. People seemed to be more taken back by her father's reply and stand rather than his teenage daughter's blog article.
On the international scene, North Korean had detonated a nuclear explosion, almost putting the North-East Asian backyard into a cauldron of high blood pressure responses. Even long time ally, China, was rethinking on their position and some news even reported that China had dispatched additional troops to their border with North Korean. Apparently more concern with an influx of refugees, should the regime implode, rather than to create an invasion threat.
Finally we have the mid-term US elections. And boy oh boy, the evil gang of grouchy old men, the so call neocons, finally have their power broken. Many of these powerful, rich, and heavily backed figures were from the "secret society" like (at least in terms of idealogy and thinking) organisation, The New American Century, which avocates militarisation and turning the US into a hyper-power, and putting down all threats and nations in its path, through military, economical, or political means. The organisation thinks that american leadership is good for the world, which seems to put them on the same nut-case mentality as the Emperor in the Star Wars series. Fortunately, with the vast and almost total swing of votes to the Democrats side, the senate is now finally secure by moderates, and the world can now finally breathe and hope for a much saner, fairer, and peace-oriented US foreign policy to kick in. Puppet figure, George W Bush, can finally detached himself from his puppet masters, and shift into a more moderate gear.
Ha, so much for writing about current affairs online. Now to find the time to write some inspiration articles ...
So much had happen within these months. Here in Singapore, we were sadden by the man who jump down the MRT (subway) track, killing himself, so that attention can be thrown on him and his family's plight. Apparently his family were suffering from extreme poverty, with sickness and much emotion distress. When all efforts on seeking help proved to be without avail, the man decided on the ultimate sacrifice and end his life in a rather terrible manner to bring the society's spotlight to his family. This man really broke and touched my heart. His love for his family put him in the number spot for any heroic fatherly figure position.
One the other side of the scale, a rather immature Wee Shu Min made the headlines (at least on the net, not the mainstream news) when she shot a rather arrogant reply to a heartlander, Mr Derek, who was commenting on some of the difficulties of maintaining a living in modern Singapore, where the standard of living is rising rapidly, and job security is dropping the other way down the axis. In her reply, she bombarded Derek, mocking him and picturing him as a whining lazy creature, with the language in her article reflecting her thinking as an "elite", rich, and on the high side of the local society. What made the matter worse was when her Minister father declare in the local newspaper an apology, and also that he "stand by her view". This placed the local blogosphere into Defcon 1, with retaliation from almost every single major and popular, local blog account. People seemed to be more taken back by her father's reply and stand rather than his teenage daughter's blog article.
On the international scene, North Korean had detonated a nuclear explosion, almost putting the North-East Asian backyard into a cauldron of high blood pressure responses. Even long time ally, China, was rethinking on their position and some news even reported that China had dispatched additional troops to their border with North Korean. Apparently more concern with an influx of refugees, should the regime implode, rather than to create an invasion threat.
Finally we have the mid-term US elections. And boy oh boy, the evil gang of grouchy old men, the so call neocons, finally have their power broken. Many of these powerful, rich, and heavily backed figures were from the "secret society" like (at least in terms of idealogy and thinking) organisation, The New American Century, which avocates militarisation and turning the US into a hyper-power, and putting down all threats and nations in its path, through military, economical, or political means. The organisation thinks that american leadership is good for the world, which seems to put them on the same nut-case mentality as the Emperor in the Star Wars series. Fortunately, with the vast and almost total swing of votes to the Democrats side, the senate is now finally secure by moderates, and the world can now finally breathe and hope for a much saner, fairer, and peace-oriented US foreign policy to kick in. Puppet figure, George W Bush, can finally detached himself from his puppet masters, and shift into a more moderate gear.
Ha, so much for writing about current affairs online. Now to find the time to write some inspiration articles ...
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