whole pointless row

it's friday noon and my office space has just turned into a carom hall.

my colleagues purposely went out for a quick lunch then returned to play till 1pm later, when it's unofficially time to continue work.

not just today, but most other days as well.

i'm not so much into carom though. it's harmful to my delicate fingernails if i were to give reason, but the truth is i'm not really fascinated by it.

like golf. i detest golf.

carom looked fun though, although occasional loud cheering whenever the carom seeds did out-of-the-world stunts did disturb my concentration in reading the latest china-japan war of words from the internet.

which, i can assure you, is very amusing.

if i were to take side, i'll go with japan anyday.

first, there's no point bringing up sth that happened more than half a century ago. modern japan now is nothing like WW2 japan.

not as if they never apologized bout their past aggression too. even someone so blur would have noticed if they were spoon-fed apology 17 times.

and not like they denied the nanking massacre never happened though. instead of saying 200,000 ppl killed (which btw still being argued as exaggerated figure), they used 'many ppl'. instead of 'massacre' they used 'incident'.

fine, they are a bit underplayed words but this is only one of many choices of textbook available there.

if you ask me, a country who teaches their every single 1.3 billion citizen to hate another country to the core, is the real problem.

the same government obviously have short term memory loss to have written about tiananmen massacre in their own textbook, or bout muslim oppression in the name of terrorism in xinjiang, or bout military operation in tibet just to mention a few.

anyway, the point is, this is such a pointless row, and a pointless topic to debate about too, though i must admit it's such an interesting piece of news to read and discuss.

i mean, surely this sounds more interesting than what president bush hears in his i-pod while cycling, or britney spears pregnancy, or even that micheal jackson court story. and it's definitely more interesting than this genesis training we're going to have later at 2pm.

i attended last week's 1st round training and it was a torture to keep my eyes open throughout the session. nobody in the history of mankind died from extreme boredom yet (as far as i know), otherwise i should point that class out as a health hazard.

well, at least it can keep us off our work for the whole afternoon. maybe i'll use that training time to plan on where to go tonight with CY.


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