Love lessons

The guy, Ricky, is in a Bush-led war in Iraq, busy liberating the people living there. His girlfriend, Michelle, is in USA enjoying the American dream. One day, Michelle wrote to Ricky through a snail-mailed letter.

It says,
"
Dear Ricky,

How have you been? I think that it is very difficult to keep this relationship because of the long distance between the both of us. In fact, I have to admit that I have already cheated on you twice. I think we should break up. Can you return me the photo which I sent over to you last month?

Lots of XOXOXO
Michelle
"

After Ricky received this letter, he was in shock. After a few moments of silence, he took his girlfriend's photo, along with other photographs of 52 gorgeous women (girlfriends/wives of his military buddies) and stuff it into an envelope, together with a letter which wrote:

"
Dear Michelle,

Oh sure. I am sorry, but I can't even remember who you are. Please look for your photograph, I am sure it is in one of the lot. AND please return the rest of the photographs to me.
THanks.

Truthfully,
Ricky
"

Mind your education

The first words coming out from a baby's mouth are normally "Mummy", "Daddy".. Then came the "Yes", "No". We were being taught to give a definitive answers to questions like ," What is your favourite movie?", "What is your favourite food?" Simple answers were normally given. Then as one progresses through the rigours of the education system in a place where being world number one is top priority and attracting foreign talents is the solution to the decreasing birth rate(not excluding the fact that defamation suits are a norm), we learn to answer the same questions with a slightly more argumentative format, such as, "It depends..."," Yes, I agree, but to a certain extent."

THen came the understanding of law and order. WHen asked by higher authority of power(military included), we have to give either a "Yes" or a "No", no further questions asked.

So really, what does education want from us? Or rather what does education give us? More importantly, does good education necessarily make us better people? Better in what sense? Smart? Kind? Able to make lots of money? It might just be a case that we are highly sociable species and that education is a necessary tool to bond us together, to orientate our minds to do things in a similar fashion.

Corruption, quality and safety

Corruption is the number one worry in the world right now. Not global warming, not the decreasing oil resources, and definitely not the current financial crisis. Greed is the catalyst to corruption. The never-ending demand for more is what makes us humans. Aliens who visit Earth might have a laugh.(Assume that since they are able to reach us, they should technologically more advanced than us in orders of a few magnitudes)THey would most probably view humans as species who divide themselves into countries according to location, skin colours. THe hypocritical ways of "world leaders" who do more talk rather than doing it.

Corruption is like a disease. It spreads so fast that it is almost uncontainable and is happening every second of time. Some do the act secretly, while some do it openly, saying it is in order to keep the talent intact within the powers of the country, which is also saying to throw money at them to prevent corruption. The saying goes, "Curing posion using poison."

Untitled for politcal reasons

The gradual erosion of human rights, the rise of a powerful nanny state, and the creation of a political system that imposes its will on the people on behalf of an elite, and which tries to persuade its citizens that it is for the greater good of the country. It shows, for example, how a country can develop into a First World state without the accompanying civil and political liberties that would normally be associated with such development.