this is a summer well spent.
in around a week from now I will make that dreaded 10 hours flight plus transit over in two airports before getting back into the motion of a student life.
this is my final year as full-time university student. i intend to keep it that way. if I am ever meant to get a PhD that can wait when I have crow’s feet around my eyes.
Thanks to my trip to Colombo, my love of my country has grown by two-fold. despite the bad drivers, and potholes that can kill your rims, I have come to recognized that peace and stability are two things that should not be taken for granted in any country that you are from.
Thanks to the office retreat, I realize office politics are often inescapable. Even if you are in an industry that vows to save the world.
I would love to talk about the upcoming elections, the dissolving of the cabinet, the who’s who in the running elections but the interest hasn’t quite peaked yet.
Maybe I’m just not politically savvy enough to be politically opinionated about something…
I have been thinking of doing this for a while now. To set up a blog where I can talk about development, and the issues of development, and my fascination with UN. I wanted it to be thought provoking. I want it to inspire discussions in the comment box. I want to find out what the rest of the world has to say this term of ‘development’ that was once upon a time coined by the League of Nations in the 1940s.
Of course, in an ideal world I would be worldly and capable of talking about global political issues like it lives at the tip of my fingertips. In this world, my posts will probably be confined to South-East Asia, the country from which I am from and the country that I happen to live in at the moment, and perhaps the country that I happen to visit at that time.
For a while now it has intrigued me the amount of influence and discussion some blogs can generate. How does a blog make it big? How does someone like jeff ooi make so many people, even teenagers want to quote him and sound cool? How can some opinions of a person caused him/her to get in trouble with the authorities and perhaps spend a night or two in the lock-up? I don’t know the exact answers to these, but what I do know is that all of them have something important to say and they are saying it.
.. and so here goes, my important 2 cents for the world
