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is the weekly roundup of Good/Bad/Ugly/Fun of what happened.
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#Good 💚
- Connectivity and communication are key to modern day life. Bharatiyar, a great visionary Tamil poet whose 139th birthday was celebrated last week dreamt of such things in his poems (joining rivers, telecoms, global trade and knowledge transfer – India PM Modi referred to his lines last week, again!) Along that line, we have the new Portugal-Singapore longest train journey – 21 days it shall take to cover the 18750 km route changing trains in Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Bangkok and a few others. Well, if only omicron isn’t there… #TrainToOrient
- There is something about
those initials, I think. Maybe he was named after the great man. Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew has booked his place in the BWF World
Championships final, where he will meet India’s Kidambi Srikanth later today. In
the form of his life, Loh has beaten higher seeded players consistently and is
on the threshold of creating history, again. Good luck, young man! #LKYftw
#Bad 💔
- KL is flooded. Philippines is typhooned. Kentucky is tornadoed. Australia is being LaNinoed. Yet, Indonesia’s coal lobby is up against the government’s COP26 green commitment. It keeps happening. Are we listening at all? #BurnAndDrown
- In the recent British movie, Boiling Point, Stephen Graham, a chef at a popular restaurant will be beleaguered by a host of problems. Well, his PM Boris Johnson is also in a similar situation. Breaking his own tough covid rules through parties at 10 Downing, having a close ally resign a sure-Tory seat after being disgraced etc., are causing more bad-hair days for Mr Johnson than England’s poor Ashes showing so far! #GritItOutBoris
#Ugly 😡
- 30 years ago, logging what happens when the computer program executes was limited to a few messages on the screen. Now, logging – just like living your life on social media - is a separate industry in itself. Last week’s boiling over of #log4j security problem seems to be deadlier than the latest Greek alphabet variant of Covid. While a ‘security patch’ is available from Apache, vaccinating all the systems is not so easy and will take time. Just be careful with where you go on web. #logjam4j
- Putin has a pet project: Annex Ukraine. Crimea was done so in 2014. Now, he has gotten his troops near the Ukraine border. Experts say that there is a high chance of a war in Europe before Sankaranti. West is wringing its hands; pulling its hair; making threatening noises. Putin continues to call their bluff. Problem for west is that they are caught in a conundrum: Is Ukraine worth a fight when China is looming large in foreground? Is antgonising Russia good for their energy imports? #ZapadOffensive
#Fun 😆
- Two lions who were in transit at Changi airport decided to check on the duty-free shopping goodies. They seem to have gotten out of the container and one of them even was found atop the container. While NY Post sensationally called them to be ‘roaming around freely in the airport’, SIA managed to tranquilize them and even had the cheek to say that the lions’ ‘safety is key’. A worthy tagline for the Singapore Tourism Board to consider: Singapore – Where Lions Roam Without A Fine! #LionSinghs
- In what was a super-fun Sunday last week at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, the Dutchman Max Verstappen managed to pip Lewis Hamilton to claim F1 crown for the year. The race was full of drama and in a straight slap to those who crib about F1 races being driven just by machines, this year’s championship was dictated/decided by a human decision by the race director to make it a 1-1 race after the safety car was deployed. #MaxVroom
Sources:
The Straits Times, Tamil Murasu, CNA, The Guardian, The Hindustan Times, NZ
Herald, NY Post, Bloomberg, Top Gear
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