kettling

went to see the recruiter for the role about the hedge fund on friday to discuss the role and what it was about. sounds good and we shall see what happens with it but i doubt it will in 2012. 

i cycled to the gym yesterday and felt ok on the way there. it was a little bit of extra effort but it was cold and shitty weather and its always quite unpleasant cycling on those condition. anyways, after about 20 mins in the gym whilst working out i started to feel unwell and dizzy and lightheaded and had to stop and go back to the changing rooms. all of a sudden i lost all power in my body and could barely lift anything. decided to get changed and go home which was an interesting experience as i had to cycle 7km, which is a bit difficult when you are dizzy and weak. 

managed to make it home and spent the rest of the day huddled up watching tv and feeling unwell. today i feel the same and i think its a cold/flu thing but with out the blocked and running nose. i ache all over and i have a headache and am weak. hopefully it only lasts a couple of days and i get over it soon. 

in other news it was very sad to hear about the massacre of children in newtown, conn. it reminded me of a couple of things i read recently. one was the murder of the the teenagers in norway and the other was when obama was wiping away tears in his press conference. it was an article i read about the killing of a 16 year old american by an american drone. you can read about it here, and next time you see Obama on tv balling his eyes out, remember they might be crocodile tears. killing kids is wrong whether its in newtown, norway or yemen, and whether its perpetrated by mentally unstable 20 year olds with guns or 51 year olds with drones. here is another drone strike that happened a few weeks ago and killed 3 children from the same family aged 8,10 and 12. 

when you see the reporting that is still going on about the newtown massacre and now 2 days later the stories that are being reported about the names of the children and their families speaking about their grief, obama should remember that these 3 children he bombed had names as well and a mum and a dad that are overcome with grief. they are just as important as americans or british kids, even though they have darker skin and do not speak english. he said he thought of his own kids and as a parent when he heard about the newtown massacre. clearly he does not when its afghan kids, because he did not say anything about them. maybe they are un-humans. maybe he does not care or care enough to mention them. maybe it just seems like the right thing to say, when you say you are outraged by children being killed, as opposed to going on tv and saying you kill children, which is the policy he has put in place. 

shame on mr obama and shame on him for pretending to be outraged by the killing of kids, when he clearly was not outraged and emotional a few weeks ago, when the same thing happened.   

today i have mostly been listening to bloc party - kettling.