thoughts in words

so much has happened since the last time I wanted to blog. and the best part is i've forgotten what I had initially wanted to blog about. ho-hum.

the crash of the financial markets has everyone talking. literally. big players like merrill lynch going down is something i never thought i would ever hear. but i guess that's life, nothing ever stays the same and the unpredictable should always be expected. even now, the AUD is lower than the SGD. the last time this happened was like 10 years ago. even during my holiday to brisbane in 1998, it was alrd 1.05 SGD to 1 AUD. goodness. everyone is cashing in on the drop now and everyone i know has been getting funds transferred over from their home country. talk bout bad timing for me man. PFFT! but it's good considering that bro could very potentially come over to study. DROP MORE, AUD! haha

the crash of the financial market also got me thinking about things on a personal level. if these establishments of 100 over years with such prominent and renowned history can crash overnight - well, not quite overnight but in such a short time and not being able to detect the warning signs - how does that reflect the ability of individuals to realise and react to things that are happening in their lives? i've been constantly thinking, of my daft-ness and insensitivity to the issues that were accumulating. i keep looking back, thinking back, to everything that was said, everything that had happened to figure out when exactly it happened. i guess i have a rough idea but that was probably at the point where it was too late already. i keep asking myself, how could i have missed the warning signs (if there were any)? i guess warning bells should have sounded in my head but i honestly would say that I did have that level of trust there. i guess i was dumb, and at the end of the day, it is never really in me to be the paranoid girlfriend kinda person. that was probably my downfall not because i did not detect the signs, but i made the other party feel unwanted. i seriously cannot pen down all the thoughts i have about this but i guess its kinda best left as thoughts.

anyhooooo, mummy's off to dong guan for a week tmr and min darling will be home alone! egads!