Another year's over
- and some things didn't get done!
By Norm(an) De Plume
Happy New Year people! This should have appeared last
week, but due to my happy habit of missing my deadlines, it got delayed.
Perhaps it's just as well. The last week was spent reading about what happened
in 2001, the important events in politics, music, sports and so on. But
I couldn't help noticing that very few people have written about what DIDN'T
happen last year. Thus, yours truly thought he'd fill in the void.
However since space is limited, I thought I'd just put in 4 items from
the least important to the most. You may notice that as we progress, it
becomes unnecessary to really write more. Some things are so obvious.
• 4) The Teleporter machine wasn't invented. The what? You may ask.
Those who have watched Star Trek know what I am talking of. It's this wonderful
little thing that makes you vanish and reappear wherever you like. Just
imagine, getting up late, and just at the time you need to be somewhere,
you teleport yourself to that place. Well, it didn't appear, and thus went
by a year crawling along in traffic. So, this is an appeal to scientists
all around the world - stop trying to clone sheep with arthritis (Get well
soon, Dolly) and invent something useful for a change.
• 3) More Sri Lankan girls didn't go online to chat. Not being a regular
'netizen', perhaps I am not too qualified to make this statement. But on
the occasions I have gone online to chat, I have found this massive dearth
of females in the Sri Lanka rooms. The Yahoo Sri Lanka chat room in particular
should be renamed 'The Meditation Room' since it's so quiet. Changes as
soon as a girl comes on though. She gets bombarded with messages, and who
knows how many PMs. So if there are any girls out there craving attention,
go online! And even if you don't, please do go, it would be such a pleasant
change.
• 2) Sri Lankan drivers still didn't get it that 'right of way' means
that the person coming from the right gets preference, and not that everybody
has a right to go whichever way they please.
• 1) Neither Britney Spears nor the Back Street Boys retired. No sense
of social responsibility at all. So sad. Sadder for us. Maybe there's hope
this year....
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