A Very Unlucky Nation

What has Indonesia done to deserve such frequent lashes of Mother Nature's wrath, I wonder?

Well, actually we all know how some Indonesians had misbehaved in recent times - providing training facilities for Muslim militants and terrorists, leading the racial clashes with fellow Chinese citizens, bombing the fellowmen and foreigners to crispy bits in Bali, and burning vegetation to clear land for farming crops. Heck it must have been the latter crime that brought about Mother Nature's wrath.

As if the recent devastating Jogjakarta's earthquake was not enough to shake them up and help them "wake up their bloody idea", here comes another earthquake with a splashing Tsunami to boot!

Whatever horrigible (terrible + horrible) things some Indonesians have done, I'm sure the majority of the disasters' victims were innocent. I saw the image of an Indonesian father crying over his toddler's body during the Channel NewsAsia's coverage of the recent Tsunami incident... and I thought it was so heartwrenching.

Seriously speaking (which I seldom do) though, many other countries are also experiencing some natural disasters, like burning temperatures in Europe, heavy rain and flash floods in Japan, killer monsoons, floods and landslides in Korea...

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

No amount of trips to the temple, churches and mosques can help us wretched mortals. No amount of vegetarian food can save us.

So we should just let loose and indulge in what life could ever offer before we all die. Makes more sense, right?

So grab that Loewe bag you've always desired, stuff yourself with those ridiculously unhealthy but tasty foie gras, go catch that expensive Crazy Horse performance, have earth-shattering sex with that handsome/beautiful stranger y0u met at the bar last night...

But try not to indulge so much that you croak before Mother Nature or the mad Al Qaeda reaches Singapore.

Nothing is worse than dying from your materialistic sins just before Al Qaeda throws in the white towel officially, Mr Weatherman declares incredibly good weather for the next 100 years, N. Korea declares the end of their mad nuclear testings, China & Taiwan kiss and make up, and Bush kicks the bucket, thus putting an end to the stoopid mess he had created in Iraq.

Right. I'm going to smoke a cigar now. But first, I need someone to teach me how to use that thing.