Constructive Deconstruction

Thoughts: 19th June 2007

June 19, 2007 on 6:17 pm | In Reflections | No Comments

I like to spend to time just chilling out at a cafe with my laptop, a good book and cup of coffee. Better still if I got the window seat because there’s this sense of peace I get just by watching the world go by completely oblivious to my existence. It’s like I could do anything I wanted and no one would notice(although this logic goes against me sometimes).

There are times when I wished I took a different path…to be a writer. To actually travel around the world, or even to just explore the unexplored regions of my own country and show the world a different perspective of life. Alternative perspectives matter a lot - it makes people wiser. It shows them things they never knew existed without them having to actually be there.

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Why is it that people don’t try as hard to understand each other as they should? I was reading an article from LEXEAN about the futility of the nuclear talks amongst the international nuclear powers…and it seems to me that the reason why these talks fail are because they’re not having a collective perspective. Let me show you a snippet of the article:-

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
Now let’s plat out this imaginary scenario. The differences in the players’ negotiating styles means that the US usually puts out some rigid goal. The Chinese will disagree because of their attention to principles. The South Koreans will ty to appease everybody with nice presents, and the North Koreans will act hurt. Japan will fume, but won’t do anything drastic to disrupt talks.

While both of them are alone, the Chinese will reprimand the North Koreans - probably just before they enter the talks. The North Koreans will start sulking even though they have been given more South Korean goodies. The US uses their direct line to Ban Ki Moon about those good ole economic sanctions. Japan will continue to silently fume.

The Chinese will then back off to save face. The US will say take it or leave it and the South Koreans will leave mints in first class for the North Koreans, who will have decided that it’s about time they return to their little nuclear hell hole. The status quo remains.

I don’t know if my experience is too limited for me to come to a worthy opinion, but I think at the end of it all, there should be a collective yardstick that’s agreeable by everyone at the table. It would then be based on that yardstick that negotiations begin. That way, everyone’s interest is represented.

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i think i need to find a travelling buddy. First I need to get a nice camera.

Can’t Think of a Title.

June 19, 2007 on 3:04 am | In Random | No Comments

I spent much of my day slacking around today…many things have been happening lately.

Of the many, I realised that i’m extremely unfit now. I took an 11km walk around MacRitchie with Jas on Saturday morning and found myself panting quite a bit. Gee. It was only a walk! In any case, it was really good to be able to do the route again…Must do this again when Keng Rui and Ivan comes back…

Oh, another exciting thing that happened is how I have an anonymous person who’s sms -ing me. Although she started off by pissing me off because she playing all that hard-to-get act, i think things will get pretty interesting from here on. If she happens to read this(because she did say that I do know her)…then yeah…Don’t make me play all those guessing games. I have guess enough things in my life. Where I don’t have to, i wont.