Hello all, good day!
After a month-long break, here
is the weekly roundup of Good/Bad/Ugly/Fun of what happened.
#GBUF #sriGINthoughts
CYA: Views are mine.
- Two sports. Two records. On Friday night, it was the Memphis Grizzlies who won by the highest margin in NBA history – 73 points! Then the other teddy bear, Ajaz Patel picked all the ten wickets in one innings following Laker (1956) and Kumble (1999). We are in a #BearMarket alright!
- Xmas Spruces are everywhere. Norway even gifts one to Britain every year for her help to the Scandinavian nation during WWII. The gifted tree finds its way to Trafalgar Square and stands tall there through the festive season. Only problem this year is that the 24-metre tree seems to be lambasted for being ‘sparse’, ‘threadbare’, ‘ill’, ‘half dead’. All due to a few broken branches! Talk about the ‘thought that counts!’ & ‘look a gift horse in the mouth’! #GiftBranch
#Ugly 😡
- Politicians prevaricate. Politicians mislead. Politicians lie. When they do all these one after another, the lose credibility. And when they do it in the Parliament, then it gets ugly. Raeesah Khan of Workers’ Party, Singapore did all this and her leaders – yeah, Pritam! - kinda threw her under the bus. In turn, she threw them under the MRT when she said that it was them who asked her to ‘take the lie to the grave’. #LiesDontWork
- He was the poster boy of Singapore’s opposition when he was jailed six years ago for wounding religious feelings. He sought asylum in the US citing persecution at home. Today Amos Yee is jailed in the US for 6 years for grooming and possessing child porn. We lost a young man somewhere. Parents? Teachers? Society? #AmosInfamous
#Bad 💔
- South Africa did a favour by identifying handful of variants. The whole world did the apartheid on them; named the variant as #omicron (can’t name it as the next Greek alphabet Xi, for obvious reasons); closed borders – pretty much played the COVID playbook perfectly. Typical situation everywhere. Experts say something and the talking heads take over. #ShootMessenger
- World #1 and #2 are still fighting. US says China’s Taiwan moves will have ‘terrible consequences’. China warns China-linked US businesses that they can’t make a fortune silently. Didi delists from NYSE. US-EU is looking to start Global Gateway as against China’s Belt Road Initiative. Competition is good – only if it is healthy! With COVID-induced imbalances, this is not looking healthy at all. #FightLikeKids
#Good 💚
- China (them again!) funded (almost 20% of Laos’ GDP) and built a 400+ km high-speed rail from Vientiane to the border town Boten and eventually to Kunming within China. There is of course a grander scheme to snake through Thailand, Malaysia and reach Singapore. How this will work with the HSR between Malaysia and Singapore – noises of revival can be heard now – is a moot point. But overall a good thing for the region’s connectivity! #LaneXang
- When #AdiPenne
created by Singapore’s Suria Velan/Stephen Zechariah, made it to some of my Indian
contacts’ Insta reels, I was feeling good. We do need some good news in these
gloomy times, don’t we? Enter ‘Tank’s Good News’! Founder George Resch’s motto:
“Making people think a little bit more positively, and making them laugh,” is
something that we all can use, right? #GoodNewsSellsToo
Sources: The Straits Times,
Tamil Murasu, Bloomberg, Forbes, Nikkei
Review, The Guardian
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