Ming’s Mind

World economy seems to be getting worse and worse every second.
Our government is going to try out the new unassisted electricity tariff to middle-upper and upper-upper housing types in some areas.

I’m glad to say we don’t have blackout here as often anymore. But this is still happening in some other cities. It can happen everyday or every other days starting from 7 AM to 4 PM. I personally has experienced it myself a few months ago and it was like living in a cave for half a day and back to metropolitan for the rest.

What I’m mad about is that the government don’t seem to be doing anything about it. They’re letting people die of starvation, mothers killing their newly-borns because they don’t want them to live a life of suffering.

And do you know what the government is so-fucking-unbelievably concerned about right now?
The election of the new governor of Bank Indonesia (Indonesia’s national bank).

Many candidates have been offered by our infamous-for-having-a-lot-of-disaster-during-his-reign President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and none of them have been approved by the Parliament. They’re busy doing all of these unnecessary formalities, which is most probably done for their own advantage, instead of struggling to give their people a better life.

Not such a surprise for me to read that the leader of Hanura party, who is a candidate of the 2009 Presidential election, has practiced the Politics of Symbolism by having Nasi Aking meal along with a villager. This dish is made from the old leftover rice which is then cleaned and dried under the sun and then re-cooked, the kind of food consumed by a lot from 39,5 million ’surveyed’ below-poor-condition Indonesians. “I have to sell my homemade cakes (not those modern kinds that you can find in your luxurious cake shops) everyday around the villages so that I can buy Nasi Aking. My husband had passed away,” the villager said.

Living a life of simply living…

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And to think that I just had yummy Conello Brownies Ice Cream in this hot tropical night, paying US$80/month of internet connection for typing useless blogs and other trivial purposes, buying a lot of expensive unnecessary stuff, and procrastinating my Human Resource Management assignment…

*sigh*

Bonne nuit.

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