Circles in a Spiral

This is a one time non-repeat offer. Yes, that’s true, my Blog is on the market for sale. Yes again, it’s heartbreaking to sell the Blog after all the hours spent on it. Yes, yes, yes, it is for sale lock, stock and barrel.

Don’t ask me why. See, does this explain it clearly enough?

Fortunately I have travelled rather extensively in the S.E.Asian countries, either having lived and worked at various countries or visited these countries. It is decades since I first began on these journeys and now that I have retired from regular employ, I reminisce on some of my travels and personal experiences in Asia.

What comes to mind is the sad fact that no matter whatever S.E.Asian countries have achieved by comparison to the Western hemisphere, Asian countries continue to be quagmired in poverty and political mayhem despite all the amount of financial and other economic support that these countries have been receiving then and now.

Just sit back for a moment and evaluate how fares the populace of S.E.Asian countries today?

I have often remarked to friends that the fundemental cause is that Asian countries lack leaders that have a clear understanding of what public administration means in practical terms. Graft is openly and shamelessly practiced, public coffers are plundered for personal pecuniary motives and whatever is left it would not even keep a beggar alive for a year.

Is it not peculiar that in S.E.Asia, people are driven into politics for personal avarice? Unlike their Western counterparts, S.E.Asian leaders at all levels who are into politics originate mostly from less fortunate personal circumstance. Eventually they become legalised bandits of the democratic process. In contrast, in Western countries, the wealthy find that the political platform is the means and the wheretofore towards inculcating social ideals and benefit for the populace.

So it is my claim that over in S.E.Asia, people enter into politics to become rich and richer. While over in Western countries, people who are rich enter into politics to lead the people.

Take a count and it will not fill the four fingers and sole thumb of one hand of names of Asian leaders, departed or alive, that merit the standing of competent and able Stateman and who have made a positive impact on the progress of States they ruled.

With the exception of the iconoclast S.E.Asian leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, there is no other S.E.Asian leader who has had neither the integrity nor vision nor Statemanship to bring prosperity to his own State.

Despite the fact that S.E.Asian countries are not yet by any measure considered endangered States however, the fact that they are richly endowed with natural resources, yet these States have brought upon themselves increasing economic hardship and detriment chiefly through political mismanagement and unbridled personal greed.

Now that figures really. This Blog “Windmill of my Mind” does not stand a chance in making much headway. Into the end of its three month existence, site reports for this Blog show that it receives roughly about 140 visits per week. Miserable to say the least.

Do I know why it figures?

1. At Google Blog Search. I entered “Windmill” and it displayed a total of 1,370,384 blogsites going with that first word title!

2. Elsewhere I read that in order to gain, it would be best to name one’s own Blog with the first word begining with the alphabet A. Reason being that on the spider crawls and whatever listings that follow it, Blog names starting with the alphabet A stand a far better chance in being up there.

Which summarily proves that the Asshole is the boss. Why did I not think of naming my Blog “Asshole” or “An Asshole” (now that’s a doube A)?

3. So while like every Blogger, I keep singing to myself Tina Turner’s “Simply the best, better than all the rest” Google Page Rank scores me a big fat zero while Alexa gives me some astronomical number just to even it out but Alexa counts it from behind.

So, what’s the moral about blogging and being a Blogger?

I think Blogging is the state-of-the-art meditation and a Blogger is the new generation of monks or monkeys who keep chattering mostly to their own self.

Asthma is a chronic but treatable condition. You can manage your condition much like someone manages diabetes or heart disease. You and your doctor can work together to control asthma, reduce the severity and frequency of attacks and help maintain a normal, active life.

Asthma occurs when the main air passages of your lungs, the bronchial tubes, become inflamed. The muscles of the bronchial walls tighten, and cells in the lungs produce extra mucus further narrowing your airways. This can cause minor wheezing to severe difficulty in breathing. In some cases, your breathing may be so labored that an asthma attack becomes life-threatening.

These are a few of the suggested remedial treatments for Asthma from:

H202 INHALATION THERAPY
RADISH, HONEY AND LEMON JUICE
INFARED, 125 WATT CLEAR LIGHTBULB
NOSE BREATHING
ACV AND COCONUT OIL
APPLE JUICE, GARLIC
VITAMIN C, 3% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE INHALATION
SALINE NASAL SPRAY
MAGNESIUM
COLLOIDAL SILVER
VITAMIN B-12

to:

YOGA
GREEN TEA
BUTEYKO BREATHING METHOD

to:

DOGS TESTICLES???
AUREOMYCIN (miracle antibiotic in the white part of chicken of chicken manure) ???

and the list simply goes on and on. As in the proverbial saying that one man’s meat is another man’s poison, these remedies do not necessarily work successfully for each and every person.

Bat’s meat
To add to the above reported remedies, I have heard from the natives from Sarawak (North Borneo) and from Indonesia, that eating the cooked meat of Bats is their traditional cure for Asthma.

Gibbon meat
One remedy that I can personally vouch is the heart and liver of a Gibbon (monkey) slow cooked. I was told that it is only the Gibbon that works as a cure and that it MUST be slow cooked. A close family friend of mine once treated his long suffering asthmatic niece with it. I knew how ill this teenage girl was with Asthma and I was more than surprised to find that she was completely cured of her ailment after she had eaten the Gibbon stew.

Blind as his binoculars! This photograph of President Bush that I stumbled across at a blog speaks for itself. It does not need me to add more venom to how the rest of the World perceives President George W Bush.

Actually, the photograph is so illustrative of one of several ugly traits of this person. On seeing the photograph, it made me burst out with laughter. There could not be any more persuasive damning evidence of this person.

Blogging is about posting or reading an article and also get interact with other people in comments. Would it be cool to have click comment widget on your blog? That is the first introduction by PostReach at their webpage. Cool indeed is their Comment widget as you would notice at the bottom of this Post and every Post at my Blog.

Click Comment is installable on several blog types and the best part is that you do not have to mess around with your Blog template. From their webpage,Click Comment is auto installable to your Blogsite.

I think that Click Comment gives a fresh outlook and hip appeal rather than the spartan 5 Star-type ranking widgets for Post readers.

Go on! give it a try; you’ve got nothing to lose.