Aurum Est Potestas

Gold is power。In this trip, I am understanding why people do a lot of the things that I thought was bad and swore that in my generation, I and my fellow peers would never do. Ha ha, was I quite the young visionary? If my family were lower-class or upper-class, this kind of thinking may have manifested itself into revolutionary and idealistic behaviour at my age. Fortunately (or unfortunately) my family is middle class. So I am currently trying my best to play the game and earn money. Sigh. Such is fate.

Oh yes, those things that I didn't understand were, among others, war and love of gold. War I now believe is absolutely necessary. World peace really is trapped in the minds of beauty queens and stoned hippies. Oh yes and young idealistic souls that know no better. I mean, there is no incentive for either party to settle without war. Think about APEC and Doha and WTO and UN and ASEAN and CER and EU and AU whatever abbreviations that people give them. Think of all the taxpayers money that has been eaten or drunk at these places. Result? NIL. Nada. Why? No incentive. You need to fight. To blackmail. You see? The Americans are perfectly correct. Invade ze weak country for oil. No way they were getting it any other way. The Chinese are walking a tightrope with the African countries. We are not No. 1 so lack the kind of military and political weight to actually invade. One day, I think a revolutionary will arise and fight against this digging of natural resources. So actually, in a way, as China develops Africa more for resources that are under their feet, we are creating our own enemies. Oh well, leave that problem to later.

Anyway, this is something that I loved at the museum:

http://www.njmuseum.com/ware/images/big/treasure/100.jpg

BC 202 to AD 8 years. 2000 years of history. It is the cutest thing. I totally fell in love with most of the little gold things. So shiny and pretty! So, that is why I think there must be some kind of inbred love that humans have for gold. They beat out the wood painting, pottery etc totally.

I also loved this big bronze vase (maybe 63cm high) with some kind of inlay from the BC 476-221. Even earlier. Absolutely gorgeous.

http://www.njmuseum.com/ware/images/big/bronze/06_20021010.jpg

My first open-eyed introduction to chinese historical objects. It just shows that the human ability is limitless.

Have you noticed how I haven't been on for a while? Been addicted to Sex and the City. It is like, all the problems every woman faces in her life. The thing that really scared me is that.....do women really become Stepford wives once they marry and breed? I don't plan on marrying, but the idea of a Mini-Me is just too good to pass up. Sob sob. Life is hard. And I should consider these things later. But....there is the body clock problem.