New Year! Hope or Gloom?

As the year opens up to a new year of 2009, admist the celebration, there is the bleak outlook in economic growth and also the starting of war in Both Parkistan and India as well as the Israel and Hamas war. The war has already starting to show casualties particuarly on Hamas side. I think this poltical/war game is a "adult" version of computer games that we are playing. Aimless killing of one another for no reason at all such as Warcraft 3 and such. Except that this involves lives.
Sure in History, we learn that normally the stronger side in terms of manpower and armour will win the war. But, this senseless wars will only harm countries in the long run and create a deep sense of hatred with each other, so i strongly condemn these wars between countries. Sun Tzu's Art off War states that the country should absolute never go to war except for last resort.Moreover with the spiralling economy, its only going to further worsen the impact the fiancianal crisis on the world.

Now i think the UN is just a figurehead with no one in absloute control of the situation of the world, first it didnt defused the US-Led invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now i think it will also sit on the fence for the Israel situation. Kind of ironic as the main purpose is to promote world peace, but now nobody cares about the Hamas, as they are rated as a terrorist organisation. It is typical of people to create law to make outliers such as the Hamas organisation out of the world and as outcasts. I believe that without Social peace and harmony in the world, there would not be a progress in both economy and for the better of mankind. After all we are possibly the only species on Planet earth that has devastated the environment in terms of nuclear warfare and bombs to kill each other. We are all classified as Homo Sapiens, why cant we all coexist peacefully?

Now as we enter the year the year 2009, I pray that the Singapore economy would recover so i can get a job by the time im out of national service =p

christmas: a spirit of giving and sharing?

Here comes the time of sharing and giving and celebrating the Christmas spirit with loved ones and relatives. As the year come close to the end. Though nothing much goes through the months that seriously affected my studies or whatsoever, i feel that this year is a very action-packed year with full of events with the most serious of course being the economic crisis.

Now we all know the story about Jesus was born on Christmas day as the story goes on and on. About how God is giving his son and sharing him so that he can cleanse and all the story. But is the spirit of giving and sharing is now being embodied by those who celebrate Christmas round the world?

For Starters, now the Christmas period is a beginning of mass rush of buying sprees as Adults start to buy gifts not only for their children, but also for their loved ones, be it in the workplace or for parties. As such in an economic sense, this means sales for the companies and it boosts the economic growth. Even with the sluggish economy, this would surely help to stregthen and boost the economy. Though people may buy cheaper products for their loved ones, due to recession, it still doesnt symbolise the meaning of Christmas, buying gifts for loved ones is the same as buying gifts for birthdays, and on Valentine's Day?The Only difference perhaps that i can tink of is during parties where there are gift exchanges making it seem as it seem as if it is sharing, or as the word goes "spreading the joy around"

in Singapore, there are many horror stories, or rather funny storries about what people bring into these sharing parties. We heard about people giving what other people gives, the cheap trinket that can bough elsewhere, stupid stuff, such as an barney water bottle to a teenager. Since the claim of bringing gifts is "its the thought that counts" why must people keep bringing weird stuff as gifts ? isit the "cheapness" of the gift that people tend to bring ? So in this case, the Sharing part plays a larger role than the giving part. However, here comes the irony as Singaporeans always scared to lose out, the normal thought would be to outdo each other with expensive gifts, yet in this case, it seems more like a "race" for the cheapest gifts.

Christmas is so important to the commerical world that the week is dubbed the "christmas week" and with the month desginated "christmas month" what is once meant as a celebration to celebrate the birth of jesus, is now comericalised to become a way to splurge gifts on loved ones. I guess looks like most of the economists/businessman are Christians.

We also forgot the underprivilged of the world as well, we dont share nor give them anything as either pittance or simply being charitable, even for such a lazy person like me, we tend not to give a damn for these people, because they are not related to us. In real life, everybody is a selfish bastard who does not care about the less fortunate people.(maybe with the exception of social worker), the Globalised world has made everyone choose carrer as a pirority and caring as a minor requirement. Even those rich people who donate are no exception, they donate part of their wealth as they are already rich but they dont need the cash i highly doubt whether Bill Gates has been charitable in his younger days.

heres a thought to think and merry christmas and happy new year!

the weather

its been raining everyday since the start of the monsoon season here. wow its not damm cold onli about 20+ less than 30 better than the summer period. its sometime so cold that i even had to wear an extra shirt (i sleep half nude btw)

but the world has experience freaky weather such as snowstorms and heat wave and all that nonsense. i dont know but i think this has something to do with the global warming. sigh... i wonder why men have to pollute the earth and cause such trouble. i believe that soon global warming may cause so much damage that the earth will never recover from it, such as the movie wall-e.

1st post

i am creating this blog to remind myself of both present current and world affairs of the world. currently now is december, the tropical monsoon storms period. where storms would ravage the equatorial part of the world and cause floodings.

At the same time, we must be reminded that though in Singapore we are relatively well shelthered from all the tropical storms, i think that we are damm lucky in Singapore though is FARKING hot every day of the year. haiz tomorrow another raining day

while there are physical storms, there are also economic storms in the form of the economic crisis. though both my parents are working in the civil/goverment sector, i dont know what will be the path for me when i step into the working world? i intend to persue an economic or business or accountancy degree and i would be fucked up if the crisis havent not been cured.

netwon law is in effect here what goes up will always come down .