1300 hrs June 23rd 2004

Visited a client this morning

An American bank

Was stopped at the entrance

for security checks.

Now,

if I were a terrorist,

Would I bother

walking through the doors?

I would drive

a car bomb

into the basement carpark.

Nobody checked me

when I drove into the carpark.

Hegemony

Megalomania

Oil

Palestine.

On the other side of the equation,

you have

Poverty

Injustice

Grief

Hopelessness.

Something is bound to give,

yesterday,

it was

the head

of

a Korean.

The killers reasoned,

if the Isrealis

get away with

world sanctioned murder

of their Muslim brethren,

so its blood,

for blood.

We live

in a flawed system.

Where there is

inequality,

unequal distribution

of wealth,

power

and influence.

Some people call it

GLOBALISATION.

Don't get me wrong,

I'm a financial markets trader.

Globalisation and capitalism,

keeps me alive.

Just that

it benefits some people,

at the expense

of others.

Until we learn to share,

more heads

will roll,

unfortunately.

I kept telling Ms X,

the Indonesian Chinese

never learnt.

Seems to me,

neither did

the Americans,

or

Everybody else