Thank god that I stuck around to enjoy the receeding sun, though, for after a while I saw the Apaches making their way back. They seemed like they were about to pass parallel to St. Stephens in the far background, somewhere around Marine Parade. Yet their velocity seemed to change, and things seemed to be approaching a crescendo as I realised they were making their way towards my general direction.

Still, I didn't expect them to pass right over me, literally right over me, flying at a height that wasn't too near but wasn't too far either. Framed by the blue-hued sky and the setting sun, it was seriously a tantric moment that kind of blew my mind. Oh, what I'd give to see that again, and what I would have given for a DSLR at that moment.

Anyway, I have a bumper crop of articles to talk about, (sometimes I feel as if I am doing my own holiday homework of newspaper cutting and review) but I don't have the time to go into detail with each of them. You'll want to search them up if you have the time, I think they're interesting, plus I'm pretty sure they all have online counterparts on the web.

1) Putin puts on a show again, this time berating supermarket CEOs by dragging them down to their shops and blasting them for incredulous prices. Frankly, I think Putin is the only leader who can pull such a thing off, and I like it. Its amusing, it's different, and well, its only in Russia.

2) Americans leave their mark on Iraqi style and culture. We've always known that many colonies of Britain, Portugal Spain and so on all left their mark on the indegenious people through their years of colonisation, so it is of no surprise that this time, no matter how oppressive and brutal the Americans have been made out to be in Iraq, they have still influenced Iraqis.

3) The Parisian Velib biking scheme has just gotten an update today. Once more, it cites the astounding number of public bikes that have been vandalised, thrown into rivers, painted pink and generally been laid about like supermarket carts here. What started out as an original scheme by the French company (I forget) in return for the government allowing them majority advertising space has run up huge costs as a result of some disgusting Parisians who show us, indeed, how something that belongs to everybody suddenly belongs to nobody.

4) If you study econs and know your stuff, you'll know no government really wants to, under normal circumstances, have no inflation. Low and steady inflation is good; it shows that there is steady growth in the country. Japan is now seeing the threat of deflation as its CPI continues falling owing mainly to the financial crisis. I haven't fully absorbed this article, but I think it will be interesting to see the in-depth economics of the ramifications of unplanned deflation.

5) This one was not in today's papers. "Singapore's rich list takes a beating: Millionaires down 22% to 61 000 people" I don't know about you, but I find 61 000 itself quite a high figure indeed. If we round up our population to 5million, thats... hey wait that's actually only 1.22% -__- Okay, well... point defeated.

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