Yesterday the world was shocked by the senseless, surreal and no-one-has-ever-seen-such-deadliest massacre in America. But yes, after all, this is the most shocking because it happened in America. It is also the most ruthless because innocent people being killed are college students and professors - those considered upper-class and bright minds of the society. Would the same killing happening in say Bangeledash, Palestanian or somewhere in Africa, be covered by as many news reports as of this massacre?

You bet. Probably not.

People vividly recall the shootings at Columbine High School, which was 8 years ago. But do people still remember just as much the Russian Beslan school siege? which was barely 2 years ago? and hundreds of childern, not even counting older civilians, were killed?

USA is such an over-rated country.

But how can we escape the fact?

Even now I'm writing in English and knowing very well that this is the language forced upon me. I'm not a selective bilingual, I'm a circumstantial bilingual in which I had no choice but to learn English. (btw for those from NTU, HG210 is a very interesting subject on bilingualism, very thought-provoking)

English is forced upon Singaporeans too. This is what we term as language engineering and perhaps even language genocide, when many local varieties of dialects are no longer spoken by my generation in Singapore.

OK maybe I'm digressing.... I have no idea what I want to say either.

Then I was reading Philip's blog (Sorry Phil I didn't get a chance to meet you while you're back :( You always are back during this frenzy period of revision and projects deadline time. And when you're back again in summer I'm probably still in Shanghai for my internship! Faint... but anyway I'm very happy to see that you're happily and madly in love and being all so sweet, which reminds me of something I somehow no longer am able to recuperate...Oh yes hope you recover from your fever soon!) Yeah reading your blog reminds me of the good things still happening around. That is what brings me to write this blog entry.