Congratulations, you're very, very old.

I usually try to publish a post at least once a week and last week I missed one deadline. There are two main reason for this; one is that I'm working now so I don't have as much time to prepare and the second reason is that last week was Hari Raya and with I spent the weekend with relatives so I didn't have time to write anything. Hopefully in the future I won't miss any more weekends but if I do please don't be surprised, it's not so easy to blog when you have a new job.

This week I'm introducing a new category in my brilliant if underrated blog. I usually go through the newspapers and pick out stories that I find somewhat interesting (although you may not and frankly I don't give a damn) and comment briefly on it in my special way. It's getting very hard these days to "find the funny" as Stephen K Amos likes to say, what with all the murderous fake Datuk's out there. Some of the stories I've chosen are from a few months ago because I'm a slow writer I have a backlog of material to publish. Today's "Newstory" is about a Ms. Eugenia Blanchard, the World's oldest person.

I don't think I want to die young nor would I want to live past a certain age, lets say for arguments sake past a hundred. There wouldn't be much point to it; chances are that most of your family, friends and loved ones are probably dead. You're probably not as physically strong as you once were in your youth and if you're unlucky you probably lost lost your marbles a long time ago. If you haven't and wanted someone to talk to you'd be in a bit of a pickle; after all, I don't think your grand-children or great-grandchildren would want to spend too much time with you listening to stories of when you were young in the good old days (for the record I love my grandparents).

To be fair Ms. Blanchard who is 114-years young (why do the elderly insist on saying that?) is still enjoying a wild life style; she gets a glass of champagne on her birthday. And at 114 years how many glasses of champagne does she have left?

Living the dream eh?

 

Source:

The Star