Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Plans, Plans, Plans
I've been back from Singapore for more than a couple of weeks now. It took over a week to get back to a regular sleep schedule. I haven't been blogging as much as I would have liked and now I have new distractions. I have registered for a general GRE test and a subject matter GRE test in computer science -- the first in mid September, the latter in early November. It's all part of a plan to get back to school and get a Masters. I have also promised my wife Nian that I would find us a house by the end of my apartment lease. Nian isn't with me yet here in America, and there is another trip back to China in late November to celebrate our one-year anniversary. Nian is studying for the MCAT test to apply for an MBA once she moves here to America. All in all we're one busy family.
I was happy at first to notice a comment to my last post, but it turned out to be SPAM. Now I have to wonder if someone took the time to post the SPAM, or whether some SpamBot is now smart enough to the read the "Captua" (distorted picture of password) that should prevent SPAM. Time will tell -- if it is automated there will SOON be a lot more.
God I wish the war/wars would end. Despite the patriotic drum beating for support of Israel, I don't think many of the "accidents" that have left UN personnel and Lebanese civilians dead are true accidents and now today comes news of a shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. I don't doubt Hezballah started this latest round of violence, but Israel's reaction has all the finesse of a bull in a china shop. To some degree I think Israel is not-actively avoiding civilians, not targeting directly exactly, but using any Hezballah presence to extract a revenge toll in civilian casualties. To hell with American media's "how could you think that of Israel." One doesn't have to be anti-Semitic to disapprove the way this war is being waged. The spill over of course is more hatred of America by side effect. Everyone in that region of the world seems to be crazy, but Israel found a way to make the bat-shit crazy Islamic extremist ones to seem sympathetic and noble.
Time to study for the GRE. In future I'll try to blog a little more often, but with a little less obsession on "the look."
