I have left my blog just... like that? And it seems to be dead with only sporadic updates. I shall blog now then.

Unfortunately, next year I shall not have so much time on my hands. Next year is the year of hell, where life is a daily torture, where you are driven to insanity, where you wish you could kill someone to release all your anger, the year when students grind their teeth in an furious rage. Nah. Just a year when everyone mugs like an asshole, and you had better do so. Otherwise, your life will be permanently ruined, like a scar from a dishonourable battle which cannot be removed, fated to remain on your face for the rest of your life to remind you on a daily basis of your regrettable actions. Indeed. So I wish everyone luck.

My badminton game has improved. If this continues, and Zixin remains the way he is, it is highly possible I can win him. One day. But that is highly unlikely.





Times have been bad recently.. Singapore is in a recession, no? Only good thing is that oil prices have fallen to record lows, which is great news. But everything else.. well the outlook is dull. Today I was reading the newspaper and I remember reading something about foreign workers. One thing, it seems, that we have not been learning about foreign workers during all those Bao Zhang Bao Dao practice this year, is the fact that they do indeed have another meritable purpose - they serve as a buffer. When a recession like this hits and jobs are cut, these guys are the first people the be fired, to protect locals. Now isnt that a good thing? Heartless, but still, in such bad times, one must place the needs of his people above the needs of foreign entities.

Which brings me to one thing. About foreigners, and migration. A disturbing thing I have been noticing is that a lot of people seem to want to migrate overseas. Well, how about this analogy. People frequently say that what goes around comes around. Therefore, one should not do evil things, such as insulting another person, if one does not want to be insulted by others. Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you, right? So how about the case of foreigners steaming in. Like, a China guy comes, and throughout a few years, makes the lives of locals miserable like this - he tops the class, he gets into university, gets an education, and flies off like a bird. Well, maybe thats not really how things are, but as locals, you get pissed off when foreigners barge in and rob you of your livelihood. Although, as mentioned above, they make a good buffer and are a good measure. Similarly, when you migrate out, you piss people living in those countries. They hate you for taking over their jobs and robbing them of their livelihood, I am sure of that. This is hardly any different from old-fashioned colonialists, who reach a land, belittle the natives and make their lives miserable, plunder the land, steal cultural relics and disrespect local customs, before enslaving them under their flag and boot, and when all the riches have been sucked dry, they pack their bags and leave quicker than lightning! Do you want such things? No? Yes? Depends on which side you're on? Argh!

Well, my post is not to disrespect foreign talent, or to make a personal attack on locals who have migrated to other lands, but rather, this shows the world is one free-for-all. Do not get me wrong. I do not intend to discriminate anyone here. Just my thoughts.

And where did this whole freakin global economic crisis come from? None other than the subprime mortgage crisis of the United States, so screw the guys whose homes have caused this global mess. In fact, China has blamed US policies for the current mess - http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/12/04/chinese-blame-us-policies-for-financial-crisis-during-economic-talks.html

So lets hope the world gets out of this shit as soon as possible, the world is in a lot of other deep shit at the same time too, gah.

I know many will find things to refute in my thoughts, but, who cares.

Bye.