Yeah, I wasn’t able to sleep last night, too much going on in my head. I will start a new class by Monday, need to prepare some other teaching materials, and pull myself together to seriously study neuroanatomy.
George W. Bush is in St. Petersburg for the G8 summit. I wonder how many people would care about this news in Taiwan. I’m always intrigued by international politics, and thanks to the three political science courses I took at the university in America, I got to learn politics from another perspective.
Many European countries complain Vladimir Putin’s seemingly backward policy in democracy. But what can they do? Russia got oil and we are in an energy crisis all over the world. Yeah, perhaps we should release the machine invented by some genius, using just water as energy, and no body gets to fight over gasoline. Then what would those Middle East countries do? They would probably become poorer but maybe there won’t be so much conflict for oil.
Long time ago, I published a poem called “Formosa”. It’s about Taiwan and its history and political situation. I know I have Chinese roots but just despise the complexity of cross-strait relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan. We did not get democracy until recent decades but being always threatened by the biggest communist country in the world is definitely not a comfortable thing to live with daily.
Like I said in “Terra-Cotta Soldiers”, I refuse to be anyone else's belongings but my own master…
Formosa
Tossing from the ocean
Rushing to an island
Deep blue lilies
Shed a light on
A broken family
Hundreds of years
Numerous tears
A colonial past
Bled an enormous gap
From tulip to cherry
From red stars to green leaves
A grand new hope
Is about to free
Dragon is awakening
Phoenix is hovering
I shall make myself known
As my name was shown
Formosa
The eastern nova
Glowing like a diamond pagoda
Written by Jerski Bjorksen
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