#149 customers

Today, everything and everyone are pegged to the dollar! Everyone is treated as customers: schools, hospitals… Are schools not centers or institutions of learning? Customers mean you have to pay and pay! Where are the state services providing for citizens? Will there come a time when education is so expensive that parents cannot afford to educate their [...]

#130 colored welfare

Recently there was the blog which received great traffic flow – stuff white people like. Shortly, I see blacks in the US wearing t-shirt with slogan, like I’m proud of black; I like being black. Previously if this word was mentioned, there would be short-fused and sparks appear! The latest news in Africa (South Africa) is welfare or help provided if [...]

#128 marriage

These days, some men expect their wives to bring in the bacon! These days macho men are nowhere to be found. These men prefer to be house-husbands rather than face the harsh reality in the dog-fight world. Do these men marry for convenience? They would rather gossip on the phone in the day. Where is love? What [...]

#106

I cannot believe that I hear and read (update #104). One minute visas given and then revoked for relief workers. The government wants the aid but not the professional and experienced personnel. There was swiftness in rallying together internationally to help, gleaned from Indonesia’s tsunami (2004 December) and the US’ katrina (2005 August), unfortunately it’s the Burmese [...]

#104 aftermath of cyclone in burma

What manner of man is the head of the military junta? A case of mixing politics and humanitarian aid? Pride? Six days passed after cyclone nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta and Rangoon, the head of state is slow to respond to international relief initated by the world — food and medicine. What a tragedy [...]