Kammys Musing

One of the “perks” at my current job is that they are subscribed to the local newspapers. I know it doesn’t sound much, but news are – as with most of the other things nowadays, “at the tip of our fingers”. The simple act of flipping through the newspaper while sipping a hot coffee is quite relaxing.

Any avid reader will tell you that it is a different feeling, reading from a paper material versus from your electronic device. As you turn the pages, your fingers running through the paper, the smell of ink, flipping pages after pages.

The main issue I have with the local newspapers in Australia, is how biased they are in their unwavering supporting Israel. Nearly all the contributing editors/writers will support the on-going 75 years genocide, under the pretext of “self-defense” – even when the ones mostly dying are Palestinian women and children in thousands. (Currently Israel has started to start attack its neighbours, Lebanon and also targeted victims in Iran).

But I still enjoy reading articles about the on-goings in the world.

Just this morning I read about the microfinance scheme in Bangladesh; or the husband -wife falling out of a Chinese property giant in Sydney (Aqualand), or about Richard Osman coming out with a new series We Solve Murders (take a break Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron & Ibrahim).

I occasionally enjoy doing the word puzzles. I definitely love looking at the fancy magazine inserts that shows watches more expensive than my yearly salary ($80k watch anyone?) or unique places to visit (icy cold places does not really entice me much). So how do I balance it?

Easy – as much as possible I just skip the articles. It is hard…very hard. Eventually you start to recognize the editors and your eyes would skip the headline, saving me headaches and annoying feeling in my system. As with other things in life, it takes practice.

Until then, stay hungry, stay safe.