Malaysians go to polls as rest of world reel

Today I cast my vote with my wife at our designated polling centre in Cheras.

Barisan supporters wooed us to vote for change chiding others at the centres to give Dr Jefferey Goh a break. After all, what has DAP's Tan Kok Wai done for Cheras folks?

Guess beside whose face I marked my cross?

While the rest of the country shuffled to the polls, the rest of the world continue to reel from the endless waves of bad news.

Top UN World Food Program official Josette Sheeran said the world's economy "has now entered a perfect storm for the world's hungry" caused by high oil and food prices and low food stocks. That simply means record high food prices and resulting inflation are set to continue until at least 2010, fuelling a "new hunger" across the globe and anarchy on the streets of poorer nations.

Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

The poor will be poorer and the rich will wallow in more wealth.

In Jerusalem, a gunman, who once worked as a driver in the same college, opened fire with an automatic rifle at students in the Jewish religious college library killing eight girls. Palestinian Hamas supporters celebrate the killing. Meanwhile, violence in the Hamas-run Gaza strip continue to escalate with the Israeli government vowing intensify major offensives on the city and the occupied West Bank.

For the dead, life ends. Chapter closes. Curtains. Game over.

What does it matter to you and me?

And in Baghdad, the death toll rosed to 68 when the whammy from double blasts tore through a packed shopping area, making it the deadliest attack in the capital for nine months. The bombs wounded 120 people. The horror unleashed hours after a brigade of 2000 US soldiers were withdrawing the capital.

Senseless killings persist.

The list goes on. You name any country in the world today that is not hit by some kind of madness.

What does it matter?

Life goes on meanwhile in our backyard. Pottering over our cute little bonsai.

Our upcoming vacation. Our next business deal. Our new job. Hmmmmm.

Perspective. O God, we need perspective.