Craziness

2006 is gone and right now we are about a week plus into 2007. But as I look back into 2006, I can't help thinking what a crazy year it was. Taking it from a worldwide perspective, the most powerful man in the world (for those of you who do not know who I am talking about, maybe it is better that way) dug himself into a deeper hole than he was in, Iraq being a big factor in that. Sometimes when I watch some of his speeches and press conferences on YouTube, It feels as though he is talking to a five year old kid.

Then we have North Korea, one of the poorest and isolated countries in the world whose all powerful leader managed to gather enough resources go nuclear while their people starve in famine. I guess that is what happens when your priorities are screwed up, people closest to you suffer.

Closer to home in South East Asia, we have a coup in Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines each got two visits from typoons where people were killed, causing much destruction and suffering. It rained like never before in December which caused floods in neighbouring Malaysia displacing tens of thousands from their homes and again causing much destruction and suffering. The fact that Singapore managed to get by relatively unscathed amist all this chaos is nothing short of God's grace and mercy.

Yes 2006 is a crazy year but 2007 looks set not to disappoint. Already an execution of a former dictator (Saddam) has already gone horribly wrong turning him into a heroic icon even a martyr. Not only was the execution badly timed (it coincided with the Islamic Haj celebrations), it has also become a farce. Apparently, someone decided it was a bright idea to tape the execution and when the video leaked out into the mass media, we see people taunting him telling him to "burn in hell", while Saddam seemed to have this otherworldly dignity about him waiting for his time to come. Now I do not know much about executions but I think if the most dignified looking man in an execution is the man who is about to die then I think the whole thing could have been better managed.

Now with all this craziness one might be tempted to think that he or she is the only sane person in the world, but in this crazy world being sane might be very unhealthy. :)