PK

Pakistan (PK) has begun an offensive in the northern frontier to root out militants.  This will be interesting because the government must balance an effective campaign with also appeasing the populous and preventing a mass uprising.  This is a difficult task, but one which was brought upon by bad governance in the country.  The PPP is a bunch of corrupt, money-grabbers looking to empty the coffers of PK.  There's a reason they ran Bhutto out of town the first time.  She lived in luxury outside the country and I don't trust her return was to take of people of Pakistan.  The irony is that they promised to bring democracy to the region, but Benazir and Zadari were the unelected self-proclaimed lifetime leaders of the PPP.

So with some sort of U.S. backing, I hope PK can drive these militants out of the region.  They've left them alone for too long and it's time to remove them.  Their support of the Taliban has only driven instability and violence in the country.  Since PK is a nuclear-armed country, it is in the interest of the world that PK succeeds in their campaign.  I may not agree with all of it, but if nothing is done then the ultra-conservatives will be able to slowly gain a foothold in the country and drive it further into violence.

And now a turn to simpler things.  I has my exams yesterday.  I've gotten one score back; so far, so good.  Still waiting on the other two (which I should be getting back today I think, assuming they pass them out at the same time as last block).  I'm looking for that nice little buffer that I can ride out through the semester.  It also allows one to take advantage of the short blocks to do well.

We went out for Degaulle's birthday dinner last night.  The place was really nice.  It's in Simpson Bay and puts you right on the water.  There was a beach that you could walk out to and watch the water.  The food was decent.  I'll have to thank Phuong for telling me to splurge a little bit.  I was content with getting a burger, but he reminded me that we had finished blocks and I should celebrate a little bit.  So what did I do?  I ordered the Mahi Mahi.  I'm not a big fish person, but I do enjoy a nice piece of Mahi Mahi.  It's not an overly flavorful fish, so it allows the sauces to stand out.  So, it was well worth it.

We made it out to Soggy Dollar, but no one was there yet.  The thing worth seeing was the $15 million luxury yacht parked right next to the bar.  It was pretty damn amazing.  There is "exotic car" rich and then there is "luxury yacht" rich, which is a whole different category.  It was worth checking out, but I was pretty tired towards the end of the night and came home at 11pm.  I watched the Sharks game for a bit and crashed by 12.

And I actually made it out to class this morning, which is more than I expected today.  Congrats to me.