Experience Triumphs Over the Need for Fresh Blood

The press has been featuring articles in support of the recent cabinet reshuffle. Truth be told however, many people are privately dismayed that in spite of so many contentious issues cropping up in recent months, the reshuffle, if indeed it even qualified to be know as such, was an anti-climax of perplexing proportions.

Someone even labeled it Kabinet Dapor... which ventures the question why?

For a country celebrating 49 years of independence this year, are we so lacking the necessary new blood that the country yearns for to rejuvenate the country? Search, but not too hard, and you cannot help but realise debate is alive, if only a bit muddy from being kept underground for most times.

We have rising new leaders who are not afraid to be right and I would prefer these any days to those who dare you to prove them so obviously wrong...

SUSOM - Still Utterly Special Old Mates

It's hard to imagine that it's been more than a decade since all 7 of us got together. Scripture Union Students' On Mission or SUSOM - more often just friends in spite of it all.

Where once we spent days on end together, the opportunity for reunion of old and very dear friends is becoming increasingly difficult. I remember lying under the moonlit skies, sharing what little food we could afford to buy and laughing as if we were made for laughter... Today, that sky is a roof we call home, food is purchased in excess, but I wonder where the laughter really went?

I still see some of the guys on the rare ocassion - Mike had the heart to buy me a cup of coffe one day after my birthday; and realise that we aren't the same seven young people who came together then... whatever it is I guess change is inevitable.

But the good thing is, we're still friends. There's no conditions attached to the joy I get from seeing each one of them. Perhaps when we meet this time, I will attest that the laughter never really went away, I just forgot where to look... Michael, Teng, Mei Yee, Ricky, Peter, Aaron and Jeffrey - somehow there's a special ring to it that makes it so special, at least for me.

Blue Paints Others Green...

John Terry claims that recent criticisms directed at the Blues are a result of jealousy rather than reality. Terry or Dickhead as some have come to call him, refers to the last 5 or 6 years in which no other English team has done better. Well, unless he is referring to Venus-years, perhaps he should compare the trophy cabinets of Chelsea versus that of Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool in the last 5 years before stroking his ... er... ego...

But the fool am I. With Abromovic's rubbles, history can be refurbished and the likes of United's 1999 treble, Liverpool's cup treble and Arsenal's season unbeaten are best left in the forgotten gutters of football.