Headlines Predict Death.

If I were to not read the newspapers for 20 years,I would have missed out on the same old,same old.I would have missed out on another motor vehicle accident,another tsumani death toll,another politician or other who is trying to take over the world and how the stock market is crashing its head to the ground.
I would have missed out on how many more people made it to their deaths because obituaries are continually and consistently changed to allow for more grave-space.I would have missed out on why the earth is continually going to die and we are all going to have a hard time because the sun will become hotter and the sea levels will rise and the north pole is being less friendly to the penguins.
I would have missed out on how and why and what happened to Mas Selamat because he had been found smoking pot in the jungles surrounding NTU.
I would have missed out on why the ez-link is the utmost form of cruelty subjected to human beings of the human population in singapore.
I think I would also missed out on why fiona xie is the hottest woman in showbiz though some would argue that actually, its still anna nicole smith,nicole scherzinger or even the more notorious britney spears.
I would have missed out why a man carried out a hate crime because he felt that his vietnamese bride or his china wife was sleeping with a foreigner.
I think,I would have certainly missed out on why our legislative system is still the best there is in the world.Oh,that I would really miss.Regrets.
I would have missed out on the half-mast day and the one minute,or ten minutes or 12 hours of silence observed for the deceased and well-bereaved old man who gave us our "freedom."
I would have missed out on why Temasek holdings is still trying to conquer the singapore economy.
I would have missed out on why 45 year old aunty cum hard working cleaner at so and so building is suffering to make ends meet for her 12 kids at home and the useless husband gambling his money away because casinos are now free for all vagrants,aristocrats and of course,why would I forget the middle-class.
I would have missed out on why we have lesser land because someone and someone is fighting for the rights of island land at so and so place.
I would have missed out on why national service has been further shortened to encourage homosexuality in our fast globalizing and cosmopolitan society.
I would have missed out on why so and so university and so and so junior college and so and so secondary school is now the best institution for producing more get out of my uncaring elitist faces.
I would certainly be surprised though,if I do find out why,one day,while reading the newspapers,why I have ceased to miss anything it writes.