The video went viral this week of a performance in the American’s Got Talent show. A friend shared it in our WhatsApp group chats and all of us were humbled by the brave lady and what she has gone through in the last year.
The COVID year had made everyone a mental wreck and even with the rollout of the vaccination, many have wallowed in self-pity from one lockdown after another. Along comes a brave soul who had suffered through 3 rounds of cancer and still is able to put up a strong and happy smile to face the world.
It makes the rest of our sufferings minuscule compared to what she has been through. She held her head high throughout her AGT performance and gave a surreal rendition of her original composition “It’s OK” which gave a heartfelt explanation of what she went through over the last year. It touched the raw nerves of all the judges and Simon Cowell decided to reward her with the golden buzzer.
Cowell teared up when she said: “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” That about sums up the new mantra we should all embrace now, to live for the moment and count our blessings, to be happy and banish the negatives.
She went through a divorce where her ex-husband walked out on her at her lowest point which discovering she had cancer with a 2% chance of survival and then went on to have cancer thrice over the last few years even up to today. But she chose to look on the bright side and said that 2% is better than zero. It still means that she has a chance to fight back. She is indeed a role model for those feeling depressed and thinking that there is nothing left in life for them anymore. Her personal blog shared her innermost feelings of what she went through and is highly recommended reading for everyone. https://www.nightbirde.co/
Meanwhile, the dams have burst overnight for the orange one and the floodgates of new abuses were revealed. They are chilling and read like a mafia boss novel where absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The overnight DOJ article bombshell points to DOJ’s (Department Of Justice) systematic subpoenas on multiple individuals including at least 2 house Democrats in an unprecedented effort to track leaks tied to contacts between Russian officials and Trump associates. Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions are now in deep shit for having OK’ed DOJ to conduct witch hunts using data from Apple to seek evidence of the wild allegations the orange one was spewing.
The blatant abuse of power and the crossing of lines over a few years is sure to anger many. Even reporters were targeted and most only got to know recently once Apple’s gag order was not renewed by the DOJ. This is going to be an evolving shitstorm that gets bigger into the next week.
It could be the real reason why the GOP is so afraid of him. He would have amassed the full power of the DOJ to collect dirt on everyone he hates or might block his path of madness to blackmail them into submission. I would not be surprised if he has many FBI/CIA files of everyone’s dirty little secrets to threatening them into obedience. We should see more shocking details as this fiasco unfolds in real-time.
S’pore finally opened up the vaccination program to the last age group yesterday. Those citizens between 12 to 39 years old numbered 1.5 million. They will be given a 2 weeks head start to book appointments now. My older son finally became eligible and he is the last one in the family to get his vaccine. He will get his first one at the end of Jun and the 2nd one in early Aug.
This is a sigh of relief for us as he will be going back to the UK at the end of Sep to begin his 2nd year at Oxford. This added layer of protection against the virus will make us sleep easier when he is overseas. Hopefully, the whole world will be in a better place by the end of this year.
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