There is a pretty sad looking tennis rebound wall 5 mins from my place. Sad because it is so short! Yes, I'm a bit rusty after haven't play for almost 5 years, but you can't really have a rebound wall that's 2m max in height....
So, imagine how happy I was when I found this, wide and tall tennis rebound wall in the next suburb. After a more dedicated search, there are in fact quite a few in the neighbourhood parks. I shall explore them all and see which is the closest.
In my early 30s now, I can get a taste of why my dad always wanted me to be good at martial arts. Play good tennis is one of my yet-to-realise dream and perhaps, that'll be something I insist on my offsprings..
December 2011 will be remembered as the month when the Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died and the month Americans pulled out out of Iraq after a 9 year long occupation.
Is there hope for a unified Korean peninsular? The same question can be ask, 25 years ago, is there a hope for a unified Germany. And yes, what about a "unified" China? (Mainland China and Taiwan). I am not prepared to go into the myriad of factors that led to the collapse of East Germany given no ostensible parallel can be drawn with the current Korean or Chinese situation.
My contention is that a regime change is an inevitable proposition. Why? Because the events in the 21 century told us Marxism has failed, utterly failed in the face of capitalism. (Although after spending the last week in getting familiar with the Melbourne real estate scene I think I know what Carl Marx was on about when he described "capitalism" as "dictatorship of the bourgeoise")
The real question is whether a war is necessary element in the unification process - if only we have all learnt from the atrocious wars in the last century.
