Eve of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore 2014. Will retired at 8.30 p.m. to wake up at 3.30 a.m. tomorrow for the start at 5 a.m. outside Takashimaya, Ngee Ann City! Single aim: to complete safe and sound! Best of luck to all runners!
"Zhou Yongkang: Oil man whose well of power finally ran dry - AFP Dec 06, 2014
BEIJING - Former top Communist Zhou Yongkang rose through China's state oil industry to become the country's internal security chief - and amassed so much power, according to analysts, that he brought about his own downfall.
The arrest and expulsion of Zhou from the Communist Party Saturday comes on the back of President Xi Jinping's much-publicised anti-corruption drive, but experts say it is driven more by internal politics within the factionalised ruling party."
It has been brewing. Incessantly. NOW, it is official. Mr Zhou is OUT! Kicked out of the CCP and striped of his membership! On top of that, he will be formally prosecuted.
Lessons for me are:
1. if you are corrupt, you will pay. Not if you will pay but when you will pay. For some, they believe it is karma. What goes round, comes around! You reap what you sowed!;
2. regardless of the motivations of Chairman Xi's anti-corruption campaign and the many high officials and 'small flies' snared are really due to the recognition that 'corruption will ruin CCP's reign' or 'just an excuse to get rid of any and all opposition within the CCP', the net result is: the corrupted are running scared and the 'I-want-to-try-my-luck' folks are seriously thinking to themselves if being corrupt pays or not! That is significant! If the campaign or charade can go on for a little longer than intended, who knows if it will usher in a NEW SET OF BEHAVIOURS!!;
3. when I was living and working in China, many foreigners and Chinese said: "TIC. This Is China." whenever they found something wrong with the system, the processes, the behaviours or whatever that they want to CHANGE genuinely and FAILED. As if 'TIC' means NOTHING can be changed here! It will go back to 'business as usual' when all the ruckus and commotions die down!
It is the most perplexing bit for an idealist like me. WHY would people NOT want to change something that they KNOW clearly is wrong, dysfunctional if they have a chance? Every change starts with ONE person - ourselves. The influence of One on One. Then 2 on 2. Then 4 on 4, etc will spread faster than you ever imagined!
A big tiger is down. Time to establish the ethical behaviours. Time to lead people to true equality as far as possible!
"Zhou Yongkang: Oil man whose well of power finally ran dry - AFP Dec 06, 2014
BEIJING - Former top Communist Zhou Yongkang rose through China's state oil industry to become the country's internal security chief - and amassed so much power, according to analysts, that he brought about his own downfall.
The arrest and expulsion of Zhou from the Communist Party Saturday comes on the back of President Xi Jinping's much-publicised anti-corruption drive, but experts say it is driven more by internal politics within the factionalised ruling party."
It has been brewing. Incessantly. NOW, it is official. Mr Zhou is OUT! Kicked out of the CCP and striped of his membership! On top of that, he will be formally prosecuted.
Lessons for me are:
1. if you are corrupt, you will pay. Not if you will pay but when you will pay. For some, they believe it is karma. What goes round, comes around! You reap what you sowed!;
2. regardless of the motivations of Chairman Xi's anti-corruption campaign and the many high officials and 'small flies' snared are really due to the recognition that 'corruption will ruin CCP's reign' or 'just an excuse to get rid of any and all opposition within the CCP', the net result is: the corrupted are running scared and the 'I-want-to-try-my-luck' folks are seriously thinking to themselves if being corrupt pays or not! That is significant! If the campaign or charade can go on for a little longer than intended, who knows if it will usher in a NEW SET OF BEHAVIOURS!!;
3. when I was living and working in China, many foreigners and Chinese said: "TIC. This Is China." whenever they found something wrong with the system, the processes, the behaviours or whatever that they want to CHANGE genuinely and FAILED. As if 'TIC' means NOTHING can be changed here! It will go back to 'business as usual' when all the ruckus and commotions die down!
It is the most perplexing bit for an idealist like me. WHY would people NOT want to change something that they KNOW clearly is wrong, dysfunctional if they have a chance? Every change starts with ONE person - ourselves. The influence of One on One. Then 2 on 2. Then 4 on 4, etc will spread faster than you ever imagined!
A big tiger is down. Time to establish the ethical behaviours. Time to lead people to true equality as far as possible!
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