The week is one of the busiest and tiring one since the year had began. Well all work and no play makes Marlin a dull fish. No worries, I'm not dull yet... however if this carries on, I'll be one in no time.

Warning: Politically sensitive topics ahead!

Okay, the news had been playing on and on about the natural disasters in China and Myanmar. Well, both countries had one thing in common, which is the reluctance of allowing foreigners to assist in their countries' relief efforts. China, over the past decade has been slowly moving to allow foreigners to assist in their country, however foreign restriction is still largely in place.

Myanmar, being a country that has been targeted for humanitarian cruelty and such, has been hostile to foreign countries too. This can been clearly seen by the whole World, even without the media increasing publicizing it.

Is it the ego and pride of the country at stake? or is it the government's pride and ego at stake? Will it cause the country to collapse beyond hope if foreign aid comes into the country to allow the country to recover? Or are the people nothing to the country at all?

People are suffering from lack of necessity, comfort and lost of love ones from the event. Yet, instead of providing maximum relief efforts for theses victims, it seems that due to political and strain relationship among countries assisting, that causes the relief efforts to be slowed down and resulted in the victims to suffer even longer.

It's my opinion that people comes first, as the country becomes a country when the people living it in agrees so. The country is make up of people that are called citizens.

Seeing the news of the young Singaporean girl commenting that foreign competitors are a threat in Singapore's education system. Well, isn't competition the main criteria to allow people to constantly improve themselves to stay ahead of others. The world isn't made fair and square. It's round.

I do agree with her when I was younger that these foreigners are really taking up the spaces of the top few spots in schools. It can be irritating to a certain extent when you are about to be in the top 10% of the school cohort to receive the edusave scholarship award of $350, and yet the foreigners who do not have the right to claim such award, takes up the spot.

However, knowing that these students are here to compete, it not only spurs local students to study better and more tactfully... but also to allow local students to see that the World out there is just like this. Competition competition competition... unless you are a child that is born with a silver or gold spoon in your mouth, you have to compete to stay ahead and alive in the society.

Thus, by discriminating foreign students as a threat, why not accept them as assets to the country and in your life. Learn from them and improve from there. The World you see from the classroom window is incomparable from the World they have seen before coming to Singapore.

Well, basically, theses are just my point of views for the both topics.
Well, spammers are attention seeking arseholes that has a tons of time to waste in their life. I wonder why they have so much time to waste, where as others have so little time to spare for themselves. I need a break soon... away from the city and off to the country-side... or back to the ocean...