the sweet/salty/bitter irony that is life
as i was sitting down to breakfast on the 24th floor of the swissotel in sydney this morning, the irony of the situation struck me. ok...firstly, the reason i was having breakfast up there was because, as stated in my previous post a parental unit, in this case my dad , had come down. it was a working trip. he's in cabin crew in SIA. now, the thing is only senior crew and the pilots are allowed access to the executive lounge, where i had breakfast. so as i was digging into my ball of ice cream looking poached egg, i thought to myself, "here i am having this really nice meal for FREE and the junior crew , if they want to have this same breakfast, would have to pay 15 bucks for it." Quite laughable that when you are junior (ie, poor and scrimping and saving) you have to pay for your meal, but once you become senior (ie, rich enough not to need to have to penny pinch) you get stuff given to you for free.
it's like at banks. they only give you loans if you show proof that you can afford to pay them back. now seriously, if i had the money to be able to afford that bloody thing, why the hell am i trying to get a bloody loan?? no wonder the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep on becoming poorer.
on another note, i was unde the impression that william safire was a republican with his rather hawkish stance at the beginning of the third gulf war (yes, it is the 3rd. the 1st was the iran-iraq war, which was essentially a gulf war, the 91 gulf war was no. 2). anyways i'm digressing. after reading this article (registration required), i'm not too sure what's safire's political stance.
it's like at banks. they only give you loans if you show proof that you can afford to pay them back. now seriously, if i had the money to be able to afford that bloody thing, why the hell am i trying to get a bloody loan?? no wonder the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep on becoming poorer.
on another note, i was unde the impression that william safire was a republican with his rather hawkish stance at the beginning of the third gulf war (yes, it is the 3rd. the 1st was the iran-iraq war, which was essentially a gulf war, the 91 gulf war was no. 2). anyways i'm digressing. after reading this article (registration required), i'm not too sure what's safire's political stance.
