Hello and anyone wants letters?
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coolohohPM me your address if you would like to be my penpal! Or well it's fine too if you reply back electronically rather than by snail mail.
I've been writing letters recently and it's fun... Though I'm not sure how long letters will take to get delivered now, or even at all with the current covid-19 situation. Damn. Like Japan has stopped regular mail service out of the country, can only use like EMS, DHL and Fedex or something. Sigh. And the worse thing is we have no idea when this will come to an end! Be warned that my handwriting isn't the prettiest nor the neatest though!
I guess I'm definitely lucky though. My job isn't affected by the pandemic - the salary part I mean. And although I absolutely dislike it... I *can* and am more than qualified to do the SARS-CoV-2 qpcr testing, so it's like... Ok if things really turn that desperate I can get myself a job doing that I guess.
But things are looking up once again in SG. Fewer community cases at last. No not zero, but much fewer. And fewer unlinked cases too. Though once again, not zero. As for the dorm cases? Meh. It was an elephant in the room that nobody wanted to acknowledge ever, until disaster struck. What's 'best' though are the politicians who shoot their mouths off claiming that the dorm situation did not contribute to the outbreak. Erm ok? Meh. TBH I care way less about the local politics than I should. I don't even know many of our ministers. No I haven't been following the US drama either, not actively. But it's in the Chinese news my mum tunes in to at dinner. It's in the fountain pen chatgroup I'm in... It's in my mail. In the medium articles I'm shown. Everywhere. I'm just like... Waiting for a very drastically different world to emerge once this is over, one that I'm sure China a play a much bigger role in, and the declining of the US is more pronounced than ever. It's not like the US is gonna be dead. They still have a lot of innovation going on, I mean, my beloved Apple products for one... But on other fronts? Idk man. Really gonna be interesting to see what happens. Not from a insider, US citizen point of view of course, but as someone living in Asia... Where the world we see is very different.
I thought to myself when the epidemic started getting worse, and no it hadn't turned into a pandemic yet... I thought to myself, as a biologist... What an interesting time it is to be alive. Indeed it is. Perhaps if you take a step back from the mess and the chaos, and take a more zen approach to things, you might find the whole lockdown/self isolation situation more bearable? Of course such philosophical thoughts can only come about when you are secure (with a roof over your head) and fed. And again I'm glad that my job hasn't been impacted.
So pardon my random musings...
But hey, how 'lucky' is it that we are alive, and well, and witnessing this crazy event unfold right in front of our eyes? It's a mouth gaping event worthy of the aurora borealis. Hardly as beautiful of course, but... A world war without a world war. What an experience to live through! After this we'll all be war vets!
Oh wells. I hope pandemics of this scale won't repeat every 10 years though. If it does then yes, the world is really burning to the ground. And my environmentalist minded ex-colleagues will remark about how the earth is getting rid of the human beings who have been a plague upon the earth... Because yes, that has truly indeed been the case...
I've been writing letters recently and it's fun... Though I'm not sure how long letters will take to get delivered now, or even at all with the current covid-19 situation. Damn. Like Japan has stopped regular mail service out of the country, can only use like EMS, DHL and Fedex or something. Sigh. And the worse thing is we have no idea when this will come to an end! Be warned that my handwriting isn't the prettiest nor the neatest though!
I guess I'm definitely lucky though. My job isn't affected by the pandemic - the salary part I mean. And although I absolutely dislike it... I *can* and am more than qualified to do the SARS-CoV-2 qpcr testing, so it's like... Ok if things really turn that desperate I can get myself a job doing that I guess.
But things are looking up once again in SG. Fewer community cases at last. No not zero, but much fewer. And fewer unlinked cases too. Though once again, not zero. As for the dorm cases? Meh. It was an elephant in the room that nobody wanted to acknowledge ever, until disaster struck. What's 'best' though are the politicians who shoot their mouths off claiming that the dorm situation did not contribute to the outbreak. Erm ok? Meh. TBH I care way less about the local politics than I should. I don't even know many of our ministers. No I haven't been following the US drama either, not actively. But it's in the Chinese news my mum tunes in to at dinner. It's in the fountain pen chatgroup I'm in... It's in my mail. In the medium articles I'm shown. Everywhere. I'm just like... Waiting for a very drastically different world to emerge once this is over, one that I'm sure China a play a much bigger role in, and the declining of the US is more pronounced than ever. It's not like the US is gonna be dead. They still have a lot of innovation going on, I mean, my beloved Apple products for one... But on other fronts? Idk man. Really gonna be interesting to see what happens. Not from a insider, US citizen point of view of course, but as someone living in Asia... Where the world we see is very different.
I thought to myself when the epidemic started getting worse, and no it hadn't turned into a pandemic yet... I thought to myself, as a biologist... What an interesting time it is to be alive. Indeed it is. Perhaps if you take a step back from the mess and the chaos, and take a more zen approach to things, you might find the whole lockdown/self isolation situation more bearable? Of course such philosophical thoughts can only come about when you are secure (with a roof over your head) and fed. And again I'm glad that my job hasn't been impacted.
So pardon my random musings...
But hey, how 'lucky' is it that we are alive, and well, and witnessing this crazy event unfold right in front of our eyes? It's a mouth gaping event worthy of the aurora borealis. Hardly as beautiful of course, but... A world war without a world war. What an experience to live through! After this we'll all be war vets!
Oh wells. I hope pandemics of this scale won't repeat every 10 years though. If it does then yes, the world is really burning to the ground. And my environmentalist minded ex-colleagues will remark about how the earth is getting rid of the human beings who have been a plague upon the earth... Because yes, that has truly indeed been the case...
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Date: 2020-05-20 06:19 am (UTC)It's been a while...how are you doing lately?
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