Gone with the wind

 Covid- 19 virus disease has gone down tremendously. As a result, manufacturing firms producing the covid 19 preventive and protective equipment and protective gears and wears are watching their profits slump. To make matters worse, there were many related firms, which, seeing money coming in so fast and in plenty during the very prevalent covid 19 epidemics, had expanded, constructing new and up to date manufacturing plants. 

All those firms are feeling very uneasy now, Demands have considerably diminished. In Malaysia, especially, the glove manufacturing companies, most of which did the expanding, are feeling the pinch. Workers are being laid off. These expansions are now regretted.

Then, there are the vaccine producers! Big stories there! You know what I mean.They may say they helped the humanity. Sure, and themselves, too. Abundantly!

How greedy can man get! It is hoped no new viruses are created and spread, to keep profits coming in again!

To All Women - HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

 

God created all the living things in this world. And women continued with God’s work, creating the human species of the world, with the help of their male partners. God left it to the poor woman to bear the burden of the weight of the growing child, in her womb, for 10 long months and then, finally. bring it out on to this world. God, surely, planned it that way. He had instilled a soft side to women, to all female species, and they are sternly possessive towards their offspring.

Possessiveness emulates passion, and this passion results in the mother’s willingness to sacrifice all her comfort of life for the sake of the wellbeing of her child. She would rather face hardship herself than see her child in destitution. Seeing her child in comfort and happy in life, fully gratifies a mother - the always all loving mother.

As we know, Hinduism potrays several Gods and Goddesses. To many Indians their mothers are also Goddesses!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! 

To me, if you please, all women who are unable to have children for various reasons but have motherly emotions and devotions towards their siblings and loved ones and care about their comfort and happiness,are also mothers of sorts. Also, to them – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

Russia-Ukraine war = more lessons to be learnt

 

What happens when a big, strong man is found beating up a weak man? Normally. passers-by or the friends of the weak man will push the big man away from hitting the poor small man, further. Looks like that’s the same case as with the Russian-Ukraine war going on now. The big man is Russia, the weak, small man, Ukraine, the passers-by and the friends are USA and the other NATO countries.

In the gone old days, USA was known to have its famous cowboy character and trigger-happy notions. Anyone, or any nations going out of line and causing the displeasure of the Americans would have to answer to strong arm manoeuvres and decisiveness of the Americans. The tragic outcomes of Egypt’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Gaddafi and Afghanistan’s Osama Bin Ladin are some examples, Perhaps, you can also add the bombings of Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki to those illustrations. It was the real policeman of the world, then. National leaders would run to America to report to the American leaders of any excessive martial or military problems that they cannot solve in their own lands. And the Americans would jump in straight away. 

Not anymore. They have got their fingers burnt in Vietnam, Afghanistan and other middle eastern countries. Thousands of their military men had died. They are now trying to be more patient, civilized, if you may, and unwilling to sacrifice their soldiers. That is why the hesitation in the Russian Ukraine war. Not only are they worried over their troops but also the citizens of Ukraine and Russia. So, they are going about using sanctions against Russia as the main weapon. Even an emergency meeting of NATO and other friendly countries just resulted in just a statement by American President Joe Biden that ‘NATO countries have never been more united’! He tried to make that statement look big! 

Anyway, it almost looks like an agreed-upon progression of psychological war by the Ukraine friendly countries is in headway, like, with threats of complete sanctions, trying to feed the Russian people what is ‘actually’ happening, through whatever means, and statements like ‘Ukraine is winning the war’. Maybe, ‘winning the war’ is true to a certain extent for now, as the Ukrainian fighters were able to prevent Russian soldiers for advancing further in certain areas, with the help of NATO armaments. USA’s President Joe Biden had also said, recently, that President Vladimir Putin is a ‘war criminal’ for the death of so many civilians. Suspected or expectant usage of chemical weaponry by the Russians  had also been mentioned. Surely, it is done to sway the opinion of the people of the world at large. 

Russia, on its part, is trying to portray to the people of its own nation and its friendly countries, that everything is normal within its homeland and just doing what it ought do in Ukraine after having been very patient for several years. Russia is afraid that, Ukraine, once part of the Russian Empire, is slowly moving its alliance to the NATO countries and will be untouchable once it becomes one of the members of NATO.

Physiological warfare or not, both by the Russians and the Ukrainians with their NATO friends, we only hope everything ends here without more bloodshed and tragic displacements and sufferings of human beings.

The oldest still surviving language of the world!

 

Didn’t know they had a day for mother tongue language – the International Mother Language Day, which fell on 21st February this year and of course will fall on that date and month every year. On googling, I found out that it was mooted by the United Nations in 1999 to recognize and promote multilingual diversity of the world.

They seem to have a day for everything. The other day, I had written a post in this blog, saluting the all-spicy chicken, and later discovered that they had a day for the chickens, too! How nice! How very nice! And now when I was feeling all proud for having Tamil, which is the oldest existing language in the world, as my mother tongue, I got to know through a Tamil TV channel in Malaysia, that there is a day for the mother tongue, too. The news reader, a young Tamil lady, was telling or rather conveying about sending of children of Tamil parents to Tamil schools that exist in Malaysia, so that the Tamil Language does not die of, as had many ancient languages, Sadly, she failed to mention that Tamil is the oldest language in the world, I, being a proud Malaysian of Tamil origin, who started his education in a Tamil school, felt deeply disappointed,

 Anyway, a little info about the language of the Tamilians, Historic engravements in ancient times show that Tamil language existed about 5000 years ago. It was found spoken  commonly around the Godavari River in Southern India.  Tamil is called as a Dravidian language as Tamils were one of the tribes of the Dravidian family, which existed in southern India in ancient times. Linguists say there are touches of the Tamil language in many other languages of the world. The language of the Tamils can be summed up as The Ancient Main International Language! 

I am sure everyone of us is proud of his/her native language and desire to portray the beauty and the benefits of their own mother tongue. Sure, go ahead!

Territorial Whirlwind in Ukraine!

Will there be a Russian-Ukraine, a Russian-USA or a Russian-NATO war? 

Whichever nations they may be, the main question is will there be a war at the Russian Ukraine border.

Russia has equipped 100.000 troops at the border. And of course, with the armaments of war. It easily gives the signal and perception that an invasion of Ukraine is imminent.

The acclaimed savior of the world-democracy, the USA, is worried, is panicking. It is initially sending about 8500 troops of its own to the Ukraine border and also waiting for other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization} countries to follow suit. So far, Britain, its strongest ally, has pledged its involvement militarily. France and Germany are trying mediation. Germany is in a great predicament. It is depending on Russia for almost all of its petroleum gas supply. New pipelines are being constructed at a drastic cost.  Showing of hostility to Russia will affect Germany critically, in terms of man, money and material.

Well, first, let us refresh our mind. Which are the NATO countries? There are 30 nations in NATO – Albania, Belgium. Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA.

A look at the map of the NATO countries with Russia will show that most of the nations in Europe are NATO countries. Russia has Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania among its immediate border nations. Belarus is its only ally and serves as a buffer. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have already left the once Soviet Republic or the Russian Empire, and have since joined NATO. And now Russia is afraid that Ukraine will also be absorbed into NATO, as Ukraine itself has been asking for it. This will make it one less buffer nation.

And so, Russia could not be blamed for equipping its man and armaments at the border with Ukraine, with the threat of entering Ukraine anytime. One of the criteria of being admitted into NATO is the applying nation should not have any disputes, especially of the military kind with its neighbors. So, there you are. Russian troops are there with the threat of invasion. How can NATO accept Ukraine when such is the situation? For its part, what Russia is asking seems reasonable. It wants promise from NATO not to admit Ukraine within its organization. We can see Russia has Belarus as its buffer. It also needs Ukraine. It is hoped the NATO countries see it that way. And get that agreement that says Russia should withdraw its troops from the border of Ukraine and NATO in turn should never admit Ukraine into NATO.

At the bottom of it all, It will be very much beneficial for Ukraine to stay non allied. NATO countries (especially USA) and Russia will compete with each other to be of economic value to Ukraine and to be in the good books of Ukraine! And that part of the world will be in peace!

 President Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden, over to you!

 

Come to think of it.....

*Are you still writing 2021 instead 0f 2022? I do still. But it has lessened. Because, I pause before writing up the year! I hope in the month of February I need not pause anymore!

*Never be careless or absent minded with words and letters or even the spaces. Abnormalities like these (below) can happen!  

There was much noise and slaughter all around!

 "No, officer. I am a therapist. Not the rapist!"

Dear John,  .........I used to love you once. Now I  ate you.

Don't trust him. He is a ship in wolf's clothing'

The chairman thanked all thr bored members for standing up upon his entrance.

.....And she replied that his dress was also  ice.

The vessel to Tioman Island is cap sized now.

*The motivation words 'be positive' is very much unwelcome during these covid times.

* Often it made me wonder, while driving, in my home town, Taiping, in Malaysia, whether my eyesight was getting weaker or was there a mist in front of me. I am a diabetic. That was why this worry. When someone said it was misty out there it would make me  happy and relieved! Anyone out there in my position?