#52 interview: what tibetans want

Of late, I found self taken in…and  I do not want to dwell on this happening in Tibet but a sense of imbalance overwhelmed on hype created by human rights groups and advocates using the Olympic Games as platform for ill-intent(?) – mixing sports with politics!
I read this interesting interview – Robert Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University, ended [...]

#51

Dalai Lama is seeking the world community to help resolve… How does he propose the world community to help when this is an internal matter?
Did the EU leaders stand in solidarity not to boycott the forthcoming Olympic Games on objective grounds or, because Dalai Lama had not called for a boycott? What if Dalai Lama decided to [...]

#50

Alamak! So many new faces in the cabinet! What interesting changes!
Some go up the ladder, some come down…some on showcase? More back scratching?
Hm…why the increase in numbers? One way to produce more millionaires using the taxpayers’ money? I’m sure this is nothing new…we have the highest paid politicians. Where are the good and efficient results?
In the West, you’ve [...]

#49

A discretionary move of China’s leaders — selected journalists allowed in to view the aftermath of the protests and unrests. The latest, diplomats to view the situation.
If the recent protest instigated by those human rights groups and advocates was protest for peace, surely the Tibetans would not turn violent. Is this what these groups want to see and achieve? [...]

#48 earth hour

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh43FNFI8TY&NR=1
60 minutes of total darkness [ or candlelight hour ]…
the Earth Hour event is
a campaign to bring awareness to climate change/global warming.
“In 2008, 24 global cities will participate in Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29. Earth Hour is the highlight of a major campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take [...]

#47

Congratulations to those…calling for boycott to the Olympic Games at Beijing?!
Boycott the display of the best of the best?
Boycott those athletes and sportspersons who had spent years of training and monies expended just for this meet?
Thank you for turning this Olympic Games into protests and unrests…turning good into evil?!
Thank you for calling boycott on the [...]

#46 update

28 days sped by. Considering this is an island of a little more than 224 square miles and highly developed environment, surely there must be traces!
There were inconsistent reportings…he’s in Singapore and he’s not. Yesterday on news, a reckoning he is still here whereas days ago, news rendered he was in Indonesia!
Do we have able people on [...]

#45 buying happiness

I heard on the radio that ‘money can buy happiness’ and then read…
Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist, at the University of British Columbia made a survey on 630(?) American volunteers. They were asked to rate their general happiness, report on annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves and others…to charity. It [...]

#44

“Arghhh…vandalism! I exclaimed when I saw the “O$P$ followed by a mobile phone number” while descending the public lift.
‘O$P$’ stands for ‘owe money pay money’ — a slogan of warning by the loan sharks.
Why go to loan sharks? Out of desperation? A result of overspending? Or a case where banks do not lend to those having little means?
There’d been situations when a new [...]

#43 why blog

I blog
my penny’s worth
of thots.