An MC day

I got fever and headache. Hence took an mc and stayed at home for the entire day.

Realize that it actually feels good to have a quiet day at home. So nice. My fever subsided in the morning and my headache is much better in the afternoon. So I hv time to just sit down and reflect and to just rot, read newsweek.

Watched lots of television too.

The headlines: "Protests in Thailand heightened, demanding Thaksin to step down."

Read an updated newsweek which I got from the library on sunday:

The headlines: "Hamas rose to victory in elections. US and Israel employing dollar policy to force the Hamas government to accept Israel"
Another headlines: "Muslim protestors burnt down houses and cars in France."

Went to clinic, read a newspaper while waiting to see doctor
"Ma Yin Jiu urged China to stop pressuring taiwan"

Hmmm...

I remembered that during a soka meeting that I had in the states, a soka member brought out the fact that after sep 11, she noticed that the world is becoming an unsafe place and that it is hard to achieve world peace."

She also said that she began to question how can an individual like her contribute to peace. Her conclusion is that she will try to make peace with people around her. When there are disputes, she will try to solve it in a nice way. And she will try to be friendly to everyone.

At that point, I was quite touched with what she said. Because she is very right. If you cannot even have peace around you, how can there be peace in the world stage. After all, the world stage is but a macro reflection of the neighbourhood situation which is a macro reflection of a family situation.

Perhaps "peace starts at home" just like how "courtesy starts at home" too.

Now as I reflected upon what she said at that time. I began to feel that mebe this is why exactly there is no world peace. As I look at my neighbours, my workplace and even my family, I realize how hard it is just to achieve peace around me.

For years, my neighours living upstairs had been giving us problems.

For years, I did not really like my aunts and my grandma thinking that they are biased against me.

For this year, there are many challenges at the workplace.

Hmm.... there is indeed a long way towards peace. (in the world, in the neighbourhood, at the workplace, in the family and last but not the least, within oneself.)