In Other Words

Mondays are a horrible way to spend one seventh of your life -Garfield

I just spilled tea all over myself. White shirt, first hour in the office, tea all over myself. Brilliant. Great way to start my Monday. I guess its better then spilling acid all over myself, or molten metal, or cum. Those would be more embarrassing, though I grant you that I probably wouldn’t stick around long enough in any of those three cases to find out how embarrassed people think I should be.

Interesting weekend. Went out on Friday night, new bar, music, friends, fun, came back home on Saturday afternoon. Had managed to sleep a little bit, but still couldn’t get myself out of bed till late on Sunday (not too surprising, is it?). Wondered around Toa Payoh to shop for silly products for our doll’s house. Spent the first night sleeping there, without aircon and with one fan (we had two, but one sounded like it was drilling for oil, so we decided that a little bit of extra warmth was ok compared to a whole lot less noise.

Did read the news a whole lot lately, didn’t know what to say about it. Looks like Bush is finally ahead in the polls. Lets hope it doesn’t stay that way for long. I have, however, started thinking about the repercussions of another four years of Bush. I think it will be a matter of putting our heads down and just trying to survive (or maybe an assassination attempt, though Chenney as president would probably be an even worse idea).

I think the world might survive it, though four years of Bush will probably herald the end of America as the sole super power (Bush does not have the economic, militaristic or political clout to contain and help shape China). We would probably head into another twenty to forty years of one-upmanship between those two countries if Bush is reelected.

That reminds me of a question somebody asked me six months ago ‘would you rather America or China were more powerful and held ‘control’ over your part of the world?’ At the time I said America, without a moment’s hesitation. I would probably still say America, despite the religious overtones that have crept all over the country’s words and deeds.

I wonder if that’s all because of propaganda? Probably has something to do with it. Though I would like to think that I would almost always choose between a democracy and a totalitarian state. I don’t know, I think I’ll mull over that for a while and give you a real opinion a bit later today.

posted by Symbol @ 30.8.04