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Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Year plus one
A lady just came in the office to hand in her references and while she was talking to Lynn she would whistle her 's', and it reminded me of my Nan and when she got new teeth and they look like bigger and brighter than usual, and remembered she would whistle her 's' also. Brought a tear to my eye as I remembered a perfect image of my Nan smiling with her new teeth.
I missed my one year anniversary of the blog and in doing so I was going to go back and have a read through my old input, but I think I won't until further down the track.
It's been an off and on year of sorts and amazing how in 12 months my road and train of thought has changed and metamorphed into other bizarre areas. Just coming back from Munich with Horse and Benny makes me even more happier to be in London again, even though I fell ill to some sort of mad-cow disease and made my ribs hurt, Oktoberfest is something everyone in their life should go along to, the amount of crazy stuff that we got up to and missed out on is well... I cannot explain it - you just need to experience it.
Jo and I are starting to commit a little more every week and I'm finding it difficult to pull away from the individual aspects I have made for myself in the land of single-dom. Going to leave you all with this. It's from one of Jo's friends as she use to live in Taiwan and this guy still lives there, I do believe somehow she misses her life there and I'm sure I would love for her to re-visit it... sooner rather than later.
How-D all,
Sorry for the mass-mail, and for the lack of communication from my side.
I'd like to claim all kinds of excuses; Typhoon Haitung destroyed my
computer and a lot of Taiwan - but for some reason Taiwan was prepared
for a massive tropical storm (because they don't spend all of their time and
money looking for oil) and they had the manpower to offer aid to those who
neened it (because they didn't send almost 90% of their National Guard to fight
in a war thousands of miles from the nation they were supposed to be
guarding)... so that excuse is only valid if I happen to be American.
I'm not trying to sound callous, but really - I live in a country where
the majority of people live below the poverty line. The storm that struck
here was as large as Katrina (and the waves that surely followed), but for
some reason the only fatalities in Taiwan happened to be reporters that
decided to step into a flooded river to demonstrate how fast the waters were...
and they were fast enough to swallow reporters whole - more news at eleven.
Could it be that a country deemed "Third World" by most of western
society has a more advanced global weather monitoring system... or could it be
that every American satelite and television is focused on a shore far from
home?
I saw yesterday on CNN that Hurricane Katrina has been deemed "The Most
Devestating Natural Disaster of Our Time." It's a good thing that every
major international television station is American - otherwise people
would know about that other natural disaster that struck Southeast Asia... I
remember something about a tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands -
but that's an acceptable loss because Southeast Asia has neither the
resources, money, television networks, or celebrity power to be deemed "The Most
Devestating Natural Disaster of Our Time." No, that title is reserved
for A-list celebrities to spout in a plea for aid. If Mike Myers tells us
it's important, then it must be.
I'm not trying to demean the deaths of Americans or any other losses in
any other nation - I'm just trying to reinforce a fact that CNN and every
other major "News" broadcaster has omitted in each of their commentaries -
people die all over the world, every day. Every race, nationality, and age -
they die just like the rest of us will. Where they - or we - happen to call
home makes no difference, and hundreds of thousands of dead is no less a
travesty than one. Just because there's more coverage in the news, it doesn't
give something a greater impact.
Yeah, it's easier to look in our own backyards and see problems there
than it is to see the problems in the rest of the world. It's easier to bitch
about the war in Iraq than it is to do something to stop it, and it's
easier to call president Bush a chimp than it is to prove he is one (that one's
debatable). When someone we've all seen in movies tells us that Katrina
is "The Most Devestating Natural Disaster of Our Time," it doesn't mean
they're saying anything other than what they were paid to say - and when we
believe it... what does that say about us?
I say we take all of those blowhards that appeal for cash, all of those
famous faces that manned the phones after 9/11, and all of those
corporate emperors that cash in on conflict, and ask them to donate 2% of their
annual salaries to a global relief fund. Suddenly telethons will be extinct,
relief funds will be in a surplus, and the average Joe can sit back and
forget about the rest of the world, watching pre-fabricated sitcoms on
tv and munching on equally pre-fabricated food. Welcome to utopia.
Cheers - hope your day's a sunny one,
I missed my one year anniversary of the blog and in doing so I was going to go back and have a read through my old input, but I think I won't until further down the track.
It's been an off and on year of sorts and amazing how in 12 months my road and train of thought has changed and metamorphed into other bizarre areas. Just coming back from Munich with Horse and Benny makes me even more happier to be in London again, even though I fell ill to some sort of mad-cow disease and made my ribs hurt, Oktoberfest is something everyone in their life should go along to, the amount of crazy stuff that we got up to and missed out on is well... I cannot explain it - you just need to experience it.
Jo and I are starting to commit a little more every week and I'm finding it difficult to pull away from the individual aspects I have made for myself in the land of single-dom. Going to leave you all with this. It's from one of Jo's friends as she use to live in Taiwan and this guy still lives there, I do believe somehow she misses her life there and I'm sure I would love for her to re-visit it... sooner rather than later.
How-D all,
Sorry for the mass-mail, and for the lack of communication from my side.
I'd like to claim all kinds of excuses; Typhoon Haitung destroyed my
computer and a lot of Taiwan - but for some reason Taiwan was prepared
for a massive tropical storm (because they don't spend all of their time and
money looking for oil) and they had the manpower to offer aid to those who
neened it (because they didn't send almost 90% of their National Guard to fight
in a war thousands of miles from the nation they were supposed to be
guarding)... so that excuse is only valid if I happen to be American.
I'm not trying to sound callous, but really - I live in a country where
the majority of people live below the poverty line. The storm that struck
here was as large as Katrina (and the waves that surely followed), but for
some reason the only fatalities in Taiwan happened to be reporters that
decided to step into a flooded river to demonstrate how fast the waters were...
and they were fast enough to swallow reporters whole - more news at eleven.
Could it be that a country deemed "Third World" by most of western
society has a more advanced global weather monitoring system... or could it be
that every American satelite and television is focused on a shore far from
home?
I saw yesterday on CNN that Hurricane Katrina has been deemed "The Most
Devestating Natural Disaster of Our Time." It's a good thing that every
major international television station is American - otherwise people
would know about that other natural disaster that struck Southeast Asia... I
remember something about a tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands -
but that's an acceptable loss because Southeast Asia has neither the
resources, money, television networks, or celebrity power to be deemed "The Most
Devestating Natural Disaster of Our Time." No, that title is reserved
for A-list celebrities to spout in a plea for aid. If Mike Myers tells us
it's important, then it must be.
I'm not trying to demean the deaths of Americans or any other losses in
any other nation - I'm just trying to reinforce a fact that CNN and every
other major "News" broadcaster has omitted in each of their commentaries -
people die all over the world, every day. Every race, nationality, and age -
they die just like the rest of us will. Where they - or we - happen to call
home makes no difference, and hundreds of thousands of dead is no less a
travesty than one. Just because there's more coverage in the news, it doesn't
give something a greater impact.
Yeah, it's easier to look in our own backyards and see problems there
than it is to see the problems in the rest of the world. It's easier to bitch
about the war in Iraq than it is to do something to stop it, and it's
easier to call president Bush a chimp than it is to prove he is one (that one's
debatable). When someone we've all seen in movies tells us that Katrina
is "The Most Devestating Natural Disaster of Our Time," it doesn't mean
they're saying anything other than what they were paid to say - and when we
believe it... what does that say about us?
I say we take all of those blowhards that appeal for cash, all of those
famous faces that manned the phones after 9/11, and all of those
corporate emperors that cash in on conflict, and ask them to donate 2% of their
annual salaries to a global relief fund. Suddenly telethons will be extinct,
relief funds will be in a surplus, and the average Joe can sit back and
forget about the rest of the world, watching pre-fabricated sitcoms on
tv and munching on equally pre-fabricated food. Welcome to utopia.
Cheers - hope your day's a sunny one,
Brad
