News, news, news...

It has been quite long since I last blog. Why? I've been engrossed with reading the news from Malaysia actually. I just couldn't believe what is happening in Malaysia...Anwar? sodomy? again? From my point of view, it's just a plain nightmare. Just think about what it's doing to our economy. We are sadly embracing inflation with the oilprice hike among other things and with the current 'blame-game', no investors in their right mind would put their money into Malaysia.

I've been reading a lot of other political blogs and what I gather is that the Malaysian public is angry, and showing it. It's quite entertaining at times but also sad that a lot of things are happening to the 'rakyat'. They are the ones who are suffering from inflation, everything is more expensive now...and yet to be offered the 'spectacular' news of sodomy, news of statuory declarations among other things. Who cares about those things if they couldn't afford some simple pleasures like eating out for example? I bet that with the current oil price, those with cars are really watching their oil consumption...what's the use of having a car if you couldn't drive it?

In Sudan, there's been a second plane crash on the 30th of June. We actually went past the crash site, 4 people were killed as it's a cargo plane. It was burned out of recognition. The first plane crash was on the 10th of June, also a Sudanese Air plane. 2 crashes in the space of 20 days, not very encouraging indeed. The first plane crashed on the runway of the Khartoum Airport itself, the latest one came down near Afra, the area of the shopping complex, which is about 5 minutes from where we are staying. As we are not far from the Khartoum Airport, this is definitely scary.

Ok, that's all for now...