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The End Is Near!

The first time I heard about the end of the world, it was a song. Nice song by Skeeter Davis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmnKCE99sYE Is this a statement "The End Is Near?" or a question "The End Is Near?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj2eXdhjrA8 (Apocalypto) (Highlight link, right click and click "Go to") The ancient Mayan calendar comes full cycle after 5,125 years on 21 December 2012. Some are suggesting that is their prediction of the end of the world. Or was it just an expression that it is just the beginning of a new cycle? Many cults have predicted often times about such calamities and these heightened during phases of war years or when there were global tragedies like a super earthquake or tsunami and I received tracts proclaiming that during the War  years. These dates have since been revised many times. Haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI66Xaj9-o  (2012) However, there were signs that things are not quite right with our b...

2012 - Happy New Year?

Cyprus became the 99th country to have logged on. Happy New Year! It'll be a century soon. The Fat Lady Sings On 2011 In the blink of an eye, 2011 was over. As in opera, it is not over till the fat lady sings and then curtains.  Did you realize how quickly the days, weeks and months just flew by? Whenever I meet people from my teenage or young adult years, I can't help but feel a sense of nostalgia besides the old landmarks that I see which are also disappearing . over time I may not even know or remember who I am anymore. Why? Simply because those years were different and actually fun years. Adults years are all the same - work, pay bills, work, pay bills and once in awhile, every two years the SEA games, every four years, the Olympics, the World Cup and every five years, the Election. You'll get a bit of distraction when you got married or have a couple of childbirths.  When my first child was born, Iraq annexed and invaded Kuwait. Everybody rushed to buy up mi...