China, Taiwan opposition mend ties

CNN - BEIJING, China (AP) -- Taiwan's opposition leader and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised on Friday to work together to end hostilities between Taipei and Beijing, during the highest-level meeting between the two sides since they split amid civil war nearly six decades ago.In a ceremony televised live in China and Taiwan, Hu and Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan smiled and shook hands in the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China's legislature in central Beijing.

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Bwahahahahahaha! *laugh at Lien Chan*

Loser!

Chinese people might view this peace talk as a step closer to unification of Taiwan and China. But I view this differently.

The talk between the Lien Chan and Hu Jintao only means that the Chinese Nationalist admitted defeat to Chinese Communist.60 years ago, Nationalist and Communist had internal war in China, but Nationalist was defeated and they took refuge to Taiwan, where they gained control and licked their wounds.

Their leader then Chiang Kai Shek sworn his Nationalist party will one day unify China with force. And Chinese Nationalist had been holding on to that ambition for decades since. But now, Nationalist is starting to lose their power in Taiwan, with their ruling party seat taken over by Democratic party, with the presence of Taiwan independence supporter gaining popularity.This current situation must have forced Nationalist leader Lien Chan to look upon his brethren in China for help. Now that his position in Taiwan is getting hopeless, he had no choice but to wave white flag to his party's old foes.So he went to China.

I can almost imagine what Lien could've said.

"Sorry, I lost hope in conquering China. You win, we lose. So let's put the past behind us, and unify Taiwan and China together. So please put me as provincial head of Taiwan, okay?"

Some people might welcome this move by Lien, thinking this would bring peace to the region.

Yeah, right. A "peace" under oppression of Communist China.

It makes me wonder what makes people think Nationalist party is the party that legitimately represent Taiwan? It was originally a group foreign to Taiwan, and since their forceful gain of strength they had been oppressively ruling Taiwan till recently. Most of the Nationalist members are mainland Chinese who ran away from mainland during the Communist rules, with dream that one day they can return to their homeland.

Well, good for them now that Lien had peaceful talks with Communist leader. They can pack their bags and leave Taiwan and spend the rest of their days in China.

But why can't they just leave Taiwan alone to claim independance?

Spending duty at my workplace...

Surely nobody's going to disagree with me that having duty on weekend suck big time. When you are a National Serviceman conscripted into Singapore Army, you just have no rights to say no to this things (unless you think of ways to work your way around the system).

In combat units, the one doing guard duty will be obliged to do a tiring task of prowling around his camp like guard dogs. Thankfully, the duty of my workplace is not that demanding. The most you have to do is just locking/unlocking the camp, and walking to cookhouse to grab food. Other than that, we can just sit at air-conned room surfing internet.

But still it sucks just for the fact you can't go to town, you can't spend your time with family, and do things you can only do at home.

During weekend duty, there are only two things duty personals usually do.
1)Sleeping
2)Surfing net

It's not a bad thing, but I decided to make my time more worthwhile.

Today my duty partner was 3SG Kai Loon. He's a cool guy and is into kickboxing nowadays. So before lunch, he and I had a good session of kickboxing training. He was crazy enough to wrap Staff Sg Larry's tennis racket with other people's towels to turn it into mini punching bag. We walked around the place half naked, like as though the camp was our house.

Then around 3.30pm, when sun was shining bright and hot, I laid a training mattress on third floor veranda and spend an hour sun bathing. I took a bath after that and chilled out at admin office. It felt damn refreshing.

Before dinner, I had some chin-up exercise. I did high number of sets with low repetitions, eventually doing total of 40 reps in the end. My forearms and lats muscle were completely wacked out. Due to that, I have to type these out with shaky fingers.

Other than that, I got not much else to write about. Maybe when I'm bored I'll post something...

My 1st post in my 1st blog

Watching my friends enjoying themselves creating their blog, I decided to give it a go.

Please note my blog may at times contain something very political, racist, erotic or anything you might find evil and unholy. Any rational and reasonable comments/arguements are welcomed and appreciated.

If not, it will just contain my never ending ravings, to vent my anger and stress.