tick tock, for whom time tolls

wow. can you believe that one third of 2015 is almost gone? 2015 just bounced in unwelcomed and unbidden and now it's trying to creep slowly out the back door. yes, this is the annual customary 'omg! look where has the time gone?' post. actually, no, it isn't but i just wanted to also scream 'OMG LOOK WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE!!!' because the toilet roll of time seems to be running out faster towards the end!

OK, back to subject at hand. I've started to write 2015 instead of 2014 and am slowly getting used to the change. Until I saw that it is actually the year 2558 instead of 2015! WHA????!!! time warp. stephen hawking has finally managed to manipulate the space and time continuum, was my first thought. actually, it wasn't but it just sounds cuter if i put it that way. :p

apparently, in a galaxy far far away, eons of light years away from ours, some alien planet write this same time plane as 2558. actually, that distant planet is thailand. our 2015 means 2015 A.D (anno domini or in the year of the Lord), ie (isn't it strange that i.e. is read as I.E. and not that is, even though i.e. what it stands for. haha. see, you can't interchange that is with ie. how do you read an abbreviation anyway? so if you read an abbr. as it literally is, then you will read the first part of this sentence as 'so if you read an ae-brrrrrrrr'....which is weird, right?)

anyway back from the extended round the universe tour, thailand's 2558 is 2558 years after the death of Buddha. sigh. that complicates matters for the rest of the world. why are days religion-spurred anyway? shouldn't it be more scientific based? then again, when does time start if not at the mark of something significant? there has always been altercation about religion, even starting from the middle ages or maybe even before then. each wants to pull in more believers and followers to make their religion more powerful, the almighty one. for many who miss the point, religion is synonymous to politics. so, if the whole world, or almost a major portion of it, is writing their year as 2015, does it mean that christianity, or the acknowledgement of the existence of the Lord at the very least, has taken a firm hold on the daily lives of everybody? or perhaps it is just the easy way, for lack of an atheistic one, to mark the passing of time.

to complicate matters further, taiwan marks this year as the 104th year, sounding very much like some golden wedding anniversary. for them, it is the 104th year after the founding of the republic of china....which is taiwan. not china. even though it sounds very much like china' *rolls eyes*  i think that the head of some countries are just too free and are just messing with our minds. it could have been the republic of taiwan... but nah, that will be too distinct and clear-cut. why not mess with generations of school children's heads and make it sound like people's republic of china, which is of course, china. wouldn't that be the greatest legacy and dinner conversation starter?

guest: so, what do you do anyway?
host: me? i single-handedly confused every single school-going child in the world. how's that for my resume!

so, apparently the marking of the passing of time, which sounds like a very scientific thing, is very much politically and religious motivated. don't tell that to my gprs-enabled wall clock which loses 1 second every 10,000 years. i think it is an atheist.

to mark this wonderful occasion (of what? that i am alive, typing and entertaining you with my delightful amusing thoughts) i should start my very own year, just in case one day i become famous one day. henceforth, this year will be known as 1m. 1me. :D

24/3/1m