This morning, when I served my daily ritual of reading a newspaper in an unbelievably packed subway cart while struggling not to lose a balance with tip-toed high heels, being pushed by and forcefully bouncing back the overly swollen body (it takes years of self-disciplined force to get to this enlighted stage, you see ^^;), a breaking news snatched my attention. "A coup d'etat in Thailand while its PM was away.."
The title reminded me of a sudden-death question once one of the roommates asked. It was when the president's impeachment was passed at the national assembly in Korea. "Would there be a coup, then??" Even considering she wasn't exactly a Korean expert, the question shocked me. But the awkward feeling was surged into my head as I hesitated to find an appropriate answer. Well, wishful comments like "what do you think the level of Korean democracy is at?" or "How on earth can you even imagine such a thing?" only lingered within my mouth.
Shaking the oblivion residing in your now comfortably settled body and soul, it is only for twenty something years that you have enjoyed 'coup-less' relatively civilized democracy in this complicated peninsula. Since the story on coups wasn't completely estranged to us, I read it with great concern that I may be no longer able to get those soothing Thai massage when visiting cozy parlours in Khao San street, not to mention about the most favorite beach of all, Kho Phi Phi in southern province, holy coconut~!
Anyways, the concern slowly moved to the land of my own. Its neighboring countries, i.e., Japan and China now almost openly express their expansionist ambitions surprisingly smiliar to those demostrated during the WWII, for China's case a little earlier than that. The next possible Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Ave (we.ll..., we'll see the result by tonight) will unlikely stop the controversial visit to Yasukuni Shrine as well as the frenzy nationalist movement to change its constitution article 9 that has barred Japan from expanding its military power. Not to mention that Japan has been distorted some significant historical events regarding the atrocities it committed during the war in the textbook, now China faithfully decided to join the Japanese footsteps. Indeed, there are no such a thing as 'friends' or 'enermies' in international affairs as somebody said.
Domestically,
