Time has passed so quickly indeed, and we are about to usher into another year. All I can say is that this year was indeed one of great turbulence and difficulty.
- To start things off, a popular artiste died before the first week of the year was even through... Jimmy Nah MC King. His passing was unexpected, and he had so many unfulfilled wishes. He is still sorely missed to this day... :-((((
-And a few weeks later, an international star was taken away at the height of his fame, and his passing left shockwaves throughout the entire world... Heath Ledger.
- Lydia Sum sucuumbed to cancer in February, and half her assets went to her surviving child Joyce Cheng.
- Other well-known personalities who had passed on... Bernie Mac, Paul Newman, JB Jeyaratnam
- There are still a few cases of mass killings in universities, quite similar to the Virginia Tech University massacre last year.
- Quite a number of natural disasters took place within Asia... the cyclone in Nagris, Myanmar... the earthquakes in Sichuan, China... another landslide in Kuala Lumpur, the mudflow at Java, Indonesia... too many to mention.
- And who can ever forget the case of the melamine-tinted milk products in China that had affected the dairy industry for a while?
- There was the political unrest in Bangkok that resulted in the resignations of 2 prime ministers as well as the temporary closing of 2 major airports.
- Followed by the Lehman Brothers' Bankruptcy and the Wall Street Tumble which led to tough times in the financial department.
- There are cases of terrorism still going on, such as the Islamad Marriott Bombings, and the Mumbai bombings that cost the lives of about 200 innocents, among them fellow Singaporean Miss Lo Hwei Yen.
- AND who can ever forget the manhunt for the infamous ex-JI leader Mas Selamat Kastari, who escaped from Whitley Detention Center in the afternoon of 27th February (thanks not to the incompetency and carelessness of 2 prison wardens)??? It's not a prison break, but a toilet break!! Even til this very day, he is still at large... who knows he might have been killed and chopped to pieces... or eaten up by tigers (no pun intended)?
But let us not miss out on the achievements that Singapore had achieved...
- Singapore beat Moscow to win the bid to host the first ever 2010 Youth Olympics.
- Team Singapore secured its first silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, at table tennis nonetheless. Singapore was also the first country to feature the Olympics in HD format.
- Singapore earned 2 bronze and a gold medal during the 2008 Paralympics, in horesback riding and synchronised swimming.
- Singapore was the first Asian country to premiere "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", due to the fact that Lucasfilm Animation Singapore was involved in the production for the 3D feature series.
Hopefully, the upcoming year will be a better one... one of healing and restoration.
Oh yes, there is one more good piece of news I forgot to mention... BARACK OBAMA to be President of the US as of 20th January 2009!!! :-D
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