In Other Words

Hurrah!

Shazam’s alive! He finally sent in a message yesterday night that he is fine and so is his family. Unfortunately some of his friends aren’t doing as well, but we’re happy to find out that at least he’s still fine and still looking forward to joining us in a month’s time (he’ll be coming for Australia day).

His SMS’s were a relief. Everybody we know seems to be ok. Which is surprising, considering that they are all spread around the South East Asia region. Thanks the stars (or what ever you may believe in). I have a suspicion that the after shocks of this disaster aren’t over yet. Even if the physical ones are long gone, the social and economic repercussions will be felt for a while yet.

The economies of Sri Lanka and Indonesia are both going to take a hit. Indonesia will probably be able to absorb it well, being a huge country, but Sri Lanka was only just really starting to improve. Well, at least the armed soldiers wandering the streets bored might have something to do, instead of shoot at each other. Of course that certainly does not compensate the human cost.

So I was wondering, two days ago, if we’re now going to declare nature a terrorist. ‘We struck at nature, and nature struck back… Blow it up!’ Then we can have declare war on the different branches of nature. Those trees that won’t bend, will be broken!

Ok, not very funny, I’ll stop. I’m at L’s sister’s house again and once again it is noisy as hell. It can’t be all bad, at least I’m being trained to ignore the things around me (I was never very good at that). The only people that suffer for all this noise is my audience and if somebody has to suffer, I would rather it were you then me. (I love making the implicit explicit, especially if it’s going to stir up a bit of noise!)

I would like to thank Loobz for sending in comments to my posts, since I’ve restarted. It is always nice to get a bit if feedback. I’ve actually been surprised with the number of people that are now looking at my Blog again. I let this place slip away for a few months, I would have thought most of you would have forgotten about this place. Apparently you haven’t, that’s really cool. (Or, if you’re new, I hope you’ll learn to like this place of brain farts).

Oh, I thought I should say this. If you feel you aren’t getting the full story on my Blog, make sure you go see Banana’s Blog. Seeing as I’m with her all the time you’ll probably get the gist of things if you fuse both our rambling tangents together. Or don’t and entertain yourself by just pondering the life that underlies the words thrown up on this page.

posted by Symbol @ 30.12.04