AtmosFear

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– tHe nEw aGE oF gLoBal CoLDinG –

Today the weather becomes hot as usual and perhaps it will be even more scorching this week. However, last week was the longest, coldest period of time I’ve witnessed in my life. OMG, the temperature dropped dramatically, reaching the lowest peak of 16 degree Celsius two days ago. Some offical newspapers stated yesterday that it is the coldest temp in Southern Vietnam during the last nine years. Although it has just come and passed like my last summer, its consequences are unpredictable, raising a lot of fears in people’s mind.

To be serious, I call it the “AtmosFear”.

From the point of an economist’s view, cold weather has caused stagnation in all economics activities. Together with the spectre of deflation which has been haunting Our Peaceful World, it becomes the spectre of StaGnaTiOn. (For Marx’s sake, I borrow this sentence from the beginning of “The communist Manifesto“.) Fortunately, Vietnam economy has remained an appropriate output since the last quarter of 2008 to speed up the domestic demand and prepare for the Tet holiday phew phew. So we don’t have to worry much about the inflation happening again, or re-inflation. In fact, de-re-inflation (means solving the re-inflation problem) is much more difficult than de-inflation.

On a diplomacy level, this situation will bring about the more complicated dilemma on the aggressive global politics table, which has US as the leading person, Beijing and Moscow Bear as the supervisors, Japan and Europe as the financial assistants and Vietnam as the receptionist. What is the double proposition here? Due to harsh weather, more people want to warm up their body before exploring intimacy, the scarcer the oil would be. So the US unsurprisingly hits the table and politely asked some oil-exporters “May I invade your country?” But offer is rejected by radical Islamic participants. This jihad gang will come up with a gear of war with the US. At the result, the oil price will be even higher and the weather is still cold.

Lan, my beloved friend in the UK, told me that the temperature in London where he has spent the most boring part of his life has dropped unbearably so he has to stay in his room without a heater, stick his eyes on the window looking at the snow falling down softly, quietly and incessantly outside while the song “Hot N Cold” of Kety Perry sounds all the time. Imaging about his situation makes me lol non stop. Yeah is dat you Lan, a guy always thinks and speaks cryptically alone like having PMS. Today is your twenty birthday right? Joyeux anniversaire, acceptez de bon cœur. We all love you and miss you a lot.

But now the question is that how can I live in that severe weather when I go back to Melbourne next month. T___T