Jealous? I'm not~ Not jealous at all...

Just recalled a conversation I had with William the other day on MSN, on when he's going to come back to Singapore:

William: I'm not coming back to Singapore so soon, cuz I'm enjoying my days in Jakarta.

Me: I see...

Here I was thinking: That's not fair... He's enjoying his days... I'm just bored... He must be HOLIDAYING!!! I'm JEALOUS!! I wanna go see sights too!!

Then recently, if you've been keeping up with the news, you'd have heard that Jakarta has been flooded...

That makes me less than jealous.

Here are some excerpts from the news:

More than two-thirds of the 340,000 people forced from their homes by the floods remain in temporary shelters.
(Hotels crammed chock full of wealthy people escaping the flood)
Power supplies are still cut off, disrupting telecommunications.
(No phones, no air-con, no nothing..)
Where the waters have receded, a thick layer of smelly mud and debris has been left behind.
(Horrid, gelid, smelly sticky mud... Think the lotus pond dug up and splattered all over the place.. The smell..@_@)
Coupled with typhoid, dengue, cholera and other respiratory and skin problems.
(Wonderful. Fall sick at the same time...)

So, after that, I have decided that I am currently less than envious of William's position atthe moment. Sure, he might have made it to the Hilton or The Ritz, but I'll bet that he couldn't carry ALL his stuff over, so they'll all be wet and covered by a layer of sticky smelly disease ridden mud.

Call that sour grapes if you will, but this is how I see it and, well, who said having sour grapes was bad for you?

At the very least, you won't be crammed in a hotel with hundreds of flood displacees, flooded roads filled with sticky smelly disease ridden mud.

Do I want to see and meet all that? Nosirree.