If there's one thing I admire, it's the Malaysian process of logic.

"It's our 50th year as an independent nation, to start it all off we need a new attraction, one that fully encapsulates the entire proud multicultural and historical heritage of our nation, one delightful package that other countries will look upon in awe and heightened respect. What should we get?"
"How about a ferris wheel?"
"I love it!"
"Not just any ferris wheel, one with air-conditioned gondolas and a brilliant view of the city's most congested highway!"

Policemen taking bribes, structurally unsafe schools, people flooded out of house and home, what do we do? Send a man into space. And blame the floods on the weather, now there's originality for you. I'd love to meet the poor government spokesman who had to deadpan that one out. "It flooded, the weather was bad." "Oh." Various relevant government officials were unavailable for comment as they were too busy stepping out of their posh cars and into KLCC for the Il Divo concert.

Now I'm not trying to be critical about our political proccesses, I mean, Lord knows every country needs a man in space, but what I'm trying to get at is there is always something wrong with the way things work, in every country. In Australia, the solution to the long-standing water problem in Queensland is, apparently, an ambitious new dam system on the Mary River which is so innocuous it'll only put a few hundred acres of land underwater, flood out about 1000 farms and cause the probable extinction of three native species. Yes that ought to solve the water crisis properly. I mean, there isn't much of a crisis if there's no one around the area now is there?

Clearly mankind can't do very much anymore that isn't either pointless or outright destructive to something else. Indeed it is my firm belief that mankind is proof there is no God. If there is a God, then He'd know by now that mankind is really a horrible experiment that should've been prematurely ended long ago, tossed into the dustbin of Creation together with the flat version of Earth and tetradic lifeforms. Just something I needed to get off my chest after seeing Malaysia lose to Singapore, really.