Immaculately random

Someone asked me if I have been ISA-ed via sms. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t be able to reply the sms, would I? Hehe…

Anyway, I have not been feeling too well for the past few days; top that up with 2 weddings over the weekend means blogging activity has to be restricted to only reading. Also, things are happening so fast; blog topic in my mind just kept changing.

By the way, I was so busy till I missed the match between Liverfool and Man U. And I am too numb to feel the pain.

And so we are here on “the” day, the self-imposed deadline by the so-called “messiah”. Everything seems to be rather quiet. I don’t feel the excitement that I had a few days about Project 916. Is it going to happen? I am sure we all have that burning question in our minds now.

Someone just told me that the process has started, that thing are already moving as we speak. We need to be patient. But put it this way, I personally think that the rakyat has seen enough that even if Project 916 fails to materialise, most will still be behind the “messiah”.

If nothing concrete happens by the time the clock strikes 12 tonight, the comics newspaper will literally crucify Anwar tomorrow; as some are already doing it today. But then, the sentiments now are such that… anything and everything the govt does is wrong while anything and everything that Anwar does is right. As irrational as it may sound, but that seems to be the way for now.

I am not going to make a big fuss if Project 916 is revised, are you? Nevertheless, I have a feeling that Anwar knows, if he fails to deliver today, the repercussions might be damaging.

Amidst the current political blockbuster, some of us are keeping a very close eye on things happening across the globe, one that will most probably impact our wallet. The US govt announced they are going to bail out Freddie and Fannie, once reported to have 2/3 of US’ mortgage portfolio. Those in the financial market will know that US is going to do this by just printing more $$$ and according to some reports, this is going to caused massive inflation.

Sorry I don’t have articles to back-up my claims. You can always try to google it.

But the one that takes the cake has to be Lehmann Brothers, they just filed for bankruptcy yesterday. A 150 year-old investment bank, one of the best in the world, is now bankrupt. Coming in as first-runners up is Merrill Lynch, which has just been taken over by Bank of America. The collapse of these 2 giants is causing a market meltdown across the globe.

Just to put things into the right perspective for those who are not familiar with the financial world, we are talking about the collapse of companies like Microsoft and Apple.

The reason behind the collapse?… Sub-prime, a phrase which many are familiar with now.

But if you were to ask me, it’s all about the middle class trying to make it big by helping the rich to get richer. To achieve this, the middle class squeezes the poor to make them poorer and when the bubble finally breaks, when the poor cannot be squeezed anymore and just run away; everything collapse.

And all these bail-outs, bankruptcy cases, take-overs are just going to protect the interest of the rich while the middle class will be out of jobs and the poor… totally screwed. Welcome to the real world.