Let there be peace

The purring of the scooter attracted the barks from my two dogs. The postman is at the gate to deliver mails. Just as soon as the scooter made it way down the next turn, my dogs promptly pranced their way back to the house.

Life is peaceful from where I am. Plenty to eat, a lot to look forward to, and there's opportunities for everyone. My son has gone out with his girlfriend, while my wife is going to give my dogs a hair trim.

But reading about events around the world, it saddens me. Everyday lives are lost in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Sudan because of political strife. And these deaths piled up when you add in the natural disasters that descended on countries like Bangla Desh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and so forth.

The world needs a relook. There was AIDS, then came bird flu, mad cow disease, SARS and now swine flu. So what's next?

Some blame it on the nuclear tests, others on the callous attitudes of manufactuers who dump toxic materials into the eco system, and yet other say it is the global warming. Till now there hasn't been an answer...not because there is no answer. More so, it is because there is no will. Countries and politicians are thinking of their own economic growth. Thinking of their own glory and wealth and politicians think of their own hold to power.

The only hope lies in non-government organizations and the stamina of their volunteers to soldier on till the day when all nations can come to an agreement to set out the framework for a new world order...and a new world peace.

Good luck, good health...

It's just funny how things come not by the dozen but by the droves. Even as I am recovering from saying farewell to my male Shih Tzu, I am now told by the vet that my female Maltese is suffering from nose cancer and probably has about six months or so to live. Well, if I were to backdate to the time when I first noticed a swelling on the bridge of her nose and her frequent sneezing, then at least two months would have gone by. We discussed chemo and radiation, but I guess having been associated with medical teams that handle cancer patients, I would just have to face the facts and move ahead.

All said, I was working with a client after some four years and now she has resigned to take up another job. Barely weeks after she tendered her resignation, it was time for me to send my maid back to Indonesia for her work contract has expired after two years. Thinking that these were just coincidences, I went to my usual watering hole, and there was the two guitar strollers who told me that they were leaving because their contract was terminated. So another "adios amigoes" and they sang their last seranade. But before they left, another solo guitarist who was performing at an affiliated pub also had his contract cut short, and strummed his last song one Saturday evening.

Tomorrow, and I hope it will be the last for now, I will be giving a lunch to bid one of my staff good luck and good health as he takes up another job. But at the way things are going at home, I may have to shake hands with my new maid because she's just unable to cope with her duties.

Well I am just thinking of the lyrics from one of the evergreen songs: "I wonder should I go, or should I stay...The band has only one more song to play..."