Headlines of the day...

Farewell Pope...yes, live coverage...more than 5 millions people sending him off...big funeral...and the part i am most impressed...is the humble wooden coffin he lies in...hope he rest in peace although I may not have agree to some of his believe. Again...this incident has informed me of certain things that i am not aware of for my whole life...an informative journey...as the media blast us over and over again with the life of the POPE everyday...I now know that the Pope is polish...and Poland used to be a communist country and also now know that Roman catholic oppose abortion and use of condom....plus the pope is a well-travelled man...blah blah...i guess he had live well for his life..I would conclude that i admire him in some sense...not for the religion part...for the fact he live his live with a passion till he dies...to me..he is an artist.


Farewell Rover...yes..MG-Rover..the car company which 6000 livelihood had depended on in longbridge of Uk has annouced it's end yesterday evening when their proposal of a joint-venture with the shanghai company was rejected. The Tv broadcaster made the comment of the whole thing sound as if it was the chinese at fault for the end of the british car empire...he said something like " Rover fail to savage the company becos of the chinese..."...??!!?... and the whole story is...Rover is already in serious financial debt plus plunge of sales...and is hoping that a joint-venture with the Shanghai company will save the company, unfortunately becos of Rover finanicial status, ...the chinese conpany will only agree to the partnetship if the UK govt is willing to give a loan to the company for this joint-venture as a sign to support the "fact" that rover still has the credible status for a partnership...meanwhile the UK govt insist that they will only approve the loan if MG-rover can confim their deal with the chinese...so...in the end...END of story. I was pissed off by the fact the the media makes it sound as if it was the chinese fault that Rover face closure..and the chinese were to be blame...they commented that Tony Blair actually make a 25 minutes overseas call to the premiere of china for the deal and the reply from the chinese premiere was (in singaporean term) " NO money no talk"....I was angry with the way the media put this whole issue in..yet..i am secretly smiling becos of my superiority complex of being a chinese...finally...being a chinese is not about having a coolie ancester...but a deciding factor of the world's economy...and to speak a fair word for china....this deal...was a failure becos MG-rover fail to convince neither the UK-govt nor the chinese...hence if the Shnaghai company were to be blame...I dun see why the UK-govt should be spare the responsiblilty...and finally...if you were the chinese...would you agree to an oversea business deal when you know ur business partner is not capable of even securing a loan from his own country...we chinese are not stupid!

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