Delusional North Korean Government

The North Korean regime lives on a different planet! This you know when you have something to compare them with: Malaysia vs the DPRK over the killing of Kim Jong Nam.

Kim Jong Un regime is clearly more unstable than his father's. One can expect and understand that during the change of regime but having being in power for several years this is how the North Koreans behave if really cause for worry. Meanwhile the Chinese have practically given up and telling mad Trump the DPRK is his problem.

If the North Korean government was unstable before, it is probably dangerously so now.

If the six powers especially America cannot resolve the debacle with the North Koreans then this will eventually be resolved tragically on terms worse than any we can imagine now even with a military solution.

Update: March 7, 12:50 pm

Quoting from the end of the article:

Pyongyang’s move to prevent Malaysians from departing “is unprecedented stuff for the North Koreans,” said Michael Madden, the editor of North Korea Leadership Watch, a website that tracks the movements and policies of North Korea’s leadership. “North Korean diplomats have been involved in some funny business before but it has never been handled like this,” he said.

North Korea’s ban on Malaysians leaving the country could invite an international response beyond just Malaysia, said Leonid Petrov, an expert on North Korea at the Australian National University. “North Korea is playing with fire,” he said. “What North Korea is doing right now is akin to their longstanding tradition of kidnapping people.”

Kim Jong Un is possibly more dangerous than his grandfather and father. I wonder if he understands what he is trying to do making other countries imagine that he would be easily provoked to launch a nuclear attack once he is capable of it. In this scenario, it would make sense to bumped him off or even attack and destroy the North Korean government. The question is whether China and the US would bit the bullet. The rest of us must understand that with Kim Jong Un in charge the peace we live under now would not last long, the longer we wait the higher the price we will pay to protect the peace. The path he is taking is utter foolishness. Of course as I write this on my mind is the recent simultaneous launch of four long range missiles suggesting that he would use a volley of projectiles to overwhelm any anti-missile defenses protecting American bases in South Korea and Japan.

A levels: Just change the personal particulars

Finally the younger child is also out of the MOE school system. On this page one except for the personal particulars and year it would be a cloned copy of her elder sister's results. Now the happy problem is what to read in university?

Update: Feb 25 9:50 am

Was looking for something else when I came across this before finding what I want - Minister Anifah calling the DPRK ambassador delusional.

"Why me?" Probably nobody knows the answer but I was pining for a fairy tale ending to the story. There wasn't one. Perhaps some time in future? Pray so.

Cannot just read what was said but unsaid as well. Nothing mentioned how her father is coping with lung cancer.

Never be too happy, neither be too sad. Not yet anyway.




Update: Feb 26 9:40 pm

Elder sis who has had slightly better results three years before writing to her younger sibling.

Choosing a university course

The wait is over, it’s done!

The results are in your hands

The A level, its fuss and stress

Is finally at an end

You celebrate and vow

Never to do that again

You will never again suffer

That horrendous pain

But now a different problem lies waiting

Whose importance ranks higher still

Choosing a university course

Decide on which you will?

It’s harder than you expected

A million thoughts cram your mind

Job prospects, workload

Any other that you can find

Should you do what you like?

Actually, what is that?

What would you do

If things turn out bad?

Stability or opportunity?

Now or in the future?

And all these university material

The paper waste harms nature!

You search for a direction

A way to think it right

But you find you’re not sure

What is your guiding light

The stress mounts up and you sigh

It’s too much for today

So you stop and leave it

In the back of the brain as you play

But you know you will return

And think on it some more

Because without this decision

What was all those As for?

NASA JPL: Make my day!

This is so exciting. It was my brother to brought us the news. We are all Trekkers (or Trekkies)


With such an observable and tangible discovery, it would add much impetus to develop the technology to mount a space mission there. But I think better also keep watching them if assuming there is an advanced civilization there trying to reach us. It would be far harder for them to spot us than us coming across them. Who knows, some other space faring race might have already been there and perhaps colonize these planets and using that star system as a base to launch out. The barrier between them and us is 40 light years. How forbidding is that depends on what you have to travel.

Meanwhile I see Bible theologians who are used to thinking in the box convinced that these are lifeless planet size rocks.

Committee of the Future Economy and UPS

There is so much going in my mind and I am not ready yet to blog about the Committee of the Future Economy and Budget 2017. But part of the thinking process is Amazon's surprising physical store effort and this experiment UPS has been conducting in using drones to deliver parcels.



This is a huge topic and our education system is not preparing as well for the future. On the other hand and very fortunate for us, we are most likely among the best prepared as a nation and economy. Where we fall short is when we are benchmarked against the niche best. E.g., Sing Post can do better than most national postal services but what about comparing it against say UPS? Our universities might improve in ranking but to be meaningful the competition is not taken at the college level but the schools and departments within.

Digitization, artificial intelligence and robotics are involved in this UPS effort and also key ideas and thrusts in where the Committee of the Future Economy is taking us.

As for jobs, sometime in the foreseeable future the UPS girl might not be driving the truck but captain all the capabilities of a self driving multi-functional vehicle. What we are seeing in this clip is a baby step toward that future reality.

Future healthcare: Our greatest adversary

To put it bluntly, should we under certain circumstances which is yet to be decided, allow mercy killing or euthanasia?

At some point affordable healthcare will become unaffordable healthcare. How do we ration it?

This issue has the potential to tear our society apart especially when the decision on who gets very expensive medical treatment is decided by the size of your bank account.

I think the government doesn't want to deal with this and all our efforts is focused on studying the problem better.

At the end of the day the greatest threat to our security will not come from outside but inside. Just as the greatest danger to America's and global security as we have seen is the millions of stupid American voters.

Read MMS article.

How financial markets usually think

Just received this at the chat group of my secondary school classmates. Yep, this the sort of logical thinking that operates in financial markets pretty often!

Drunk most of the time.

Received a pre-loved Casio watch

New watch and old watch or more like pre-loved watch. What a positive use of language when it used to just be called USED.

Got this watch from my brother today saving me about $79 if I buy it online. He has gotten himself a replacement, one without hands so that it doesn't block the digital display.