6/22/2549

Dishearteningly quiet...

It's almost as though the Thai media is simply not equipped to dealing with news of violence... Why is it that I feel there has been a considerable amount of failure to report facts or even search for them in the Thai news? Everything seems to be reported vaguely behind 'opinion pieces', with some quoting 40 bombs, some quoting 50 that went off last Thursday. What's the deal? Why the mixed reports? The silence? So how many people died? How many were injured? I'm sick of these mixed reports!

It's as though the majority of the people are more interested in sweeping the conflict under the carpet than actually dealing with it. When one incident occurs, like the one where the school teacher was beaten into a coma, it recurs in the news like a plague. I guess that's only human nature - when we find one piece of dust, we use it as an example to show our guests how otherwise spotlessly clean the house is... when they peer into the cupboards and a huge pile of dirty dishes comes tumbling out, we can't really offer much in the way of explanation. Our embarrassed faces say it all...

So much in the same way, the government, the media and the people seem to be embarrassed by the mess we've made in the South, and our stuttering comments on this violent incident reveals all!

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Yesterday was my grandfather's 90th birthday :) Happy Birthday Vaari! I called him but I don't think he could really hear me... My manager was really nice. I'd asked her specifically to get a break around 9 so that I could call him... no worries there :)

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Feeling like there is something severely missing... *sigh*

And sick, too. No good :(

Feeling drained. Had to change my undergrad plan again because of clashes, and now I'm not doing the courses that I really want to do. All because of one compulsory course on Aboriginal Languages! If I had decided to take my time about graduating, then my compulsory course would have been 'Syntax', which I'm slightly less disdainful about. But hey, if I want to hurry it along, I guess I've got to make some compromises...

*sigh*