I have not been writing my new blog for a month. This has nothing to do with my tenaciousness. I love writing, always do. It's just that I have other more important writings to deal with à la moment: compiling and recompiling and writing and rewriting my fieldnotes. At this stage, I am quite a mess as I am still at the stage of interviewing and reinterviewing and having interviews that need to be understood and analyzed and somehow I am afraid that I have overanalyzed some of the phenoms in my research process. Anyone who is working, or has worked on their research will know what I mean: that I am in a stage of hysteria and utter desperation. But the good news is that at least I have some stuff: two notebooks filled with notes and data and information. I think I am safe. At least that's what I hope.
That leaves me no room to notice anything happened around me for the past month, not even my investment. I have finally decided to leave it in God's hand and sure God spares me. My financial planner has transferred all my money into the monetary funds and by the end of the mandatory period, I will still have gained HKD 7000. It sounds very pathetic to me but it's better than haemorraging and losing all my money in the end. At least I can now sleep in peace.
Speaking of which, it seems like the world is now betting their hopes on Barack Obama and he is now our Savior, the reincarnation of Jesus the Messiah. He who we know little (I bet lots of people would differ because of his kiss-and-tell autobiographies and his famous dancing episode with Ellen deGeneres) will be shouldering, at least in the coming four years, the responsibility of revamping a collapsing/collapsed economic system and re-establishing a sound and healthy financial mechanism; dealing with the mess left by our dear ex-president George W. Bush on Iraq; recovering from the tarnished international reputation as an imbecile, inconsiderate and irrational aggressor; coming to terms with the world community on the global warming issue, and last but not least, saving face from the world scorn over Americans as a stupid and thoughtless group of people who will let someone as thick and selfish as Bush and Cheney to be elected, time and again. What daunting tasks Obama is facing!!
Changes are good, but not always. I remember when I was still working for an international magazine in 2000, I traveled to China and I bumped into a pair of Americans. Naturally, as the election was just around the corner, I asked them who they would pick as president, Bush or Gore, and they said, "Certainly Bush!! It's so boring to have the Democrats for eight consecutive years. We need a change!" Well, look what they have done to themselves. The Americans should have asked for tips from the fashion gurus: What you wear can change your life. What you choose, buddy, can change your entire dear life! Look what Bush the wrecker has managed to do to the world and he is an absolute disaster. I cannot say Obama will be a good change. But at least I hope he is smart enough to learn from his predecessor's mistakes and bring a good new era to America and to the world and of course to people like me, who won't be disappointed every single day again when I turn on the TV or flip through the newspaper, and time and again, shake my head and sigh in despair.
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