Ranting #18

China vs Japan
Disclaimer: this is only my personal point of view and should not be taken as any political argument. articles are from TodayOnline, 13 and 14 April 2005.

there's this unhappiness between China and Japan regarding the latter's approval in the whitewashing of Japan's atrocities in the new Jap's high school history syllabus... this has also led to unhappiness in South Korea...

seriously... i think Japan has been trying to 'beautify' their military history ever since after WWII... well... shouldn't comment too much cos i think anyone who knows about Japan's involvement in WWII should know... if not one can always read about it in history books (not written by the Japanese of course...) i recommend the book yamato dynasty by sterling seagrave... quite boring at times... but it's history...

anyway... think Japan's economy might be affected by the strain in relationship with China...

click to read

we can only sit and watch this 'match' between this 2 countries... but this is what caught my eye today...

click to read

hmmm... interesting i think (about how they point fingers at each other)... hopefully it won't lead to war... there's already earthquakes and volcano eruptions in sumatra that all of us are worried about...

to digress a bit... read the part on the quirky world on the 2nd article... the part about the man eating the cockroach... EEKS!!! and he's only awarded 700 pounds for his act... darn gross... if it's me... i'll definitely go hospital to wash my entire gastrointestinal tract and demand a compensation of at least a million pounds... next time remember to look at your food before u eat hor... cos u never know what is inside... *shudders*