Saturday, July 25, 2009

Spokesperson

This semester, felt a little bit hard to pull over, the academic papers were a bit heavy, require a lot of researching and reading. Sometimes even don’t know what or how to ask questions for the assignments. One of my assignment is Crisis Management, study about a long history of plane crash case during 1988, Pan American Airways the bombing of Flight 103, Lockerbie, the early sign of terrorism activities against U.S. It was a very interesting history to study upon, but to come up with typologies of crisis, theories, arguments, examples of recovery plans and prevention action, for such a crisis was really a headache for me.

You see, when this crisis happened the spokesperson and the crisis management team of the Pan American did actually tried their best to weather the crisis but the impact was too much for everyone involved; the airlines industry, in between nations, victim families and people who were involved in this conspiracy case. The funniest part I found was, the person who represented the Pan American as Spokesperson named Jeffrey Kriendler suffered job stress related stroke after few years handling the crisis which dragged on without an end. Thinking if I were to come up with the theories to solve, I should be working in the white house with Mr. President ahahaha.

But thank God at the final night before the presentation, able to vomit out the theories yet gave an incomplete report, before that I was a grumpy little old dwarf, said to my team members “I wanna to tell Dr. Cheah during the presentation, all this theories and arguments are nonsense!” My friends laugh and advised me not to do so ahahaha. Because I think it’s useless to place our arguments and ideas upon thing that had past and not at things that we can do to recover, since it don’t has any evidences that our cognitive theories really work. What is the purpose of this? Wasting time and papers lo! Just for the sake of academic study. Unfortunately when my lecturer evaluate on my points, she said they were very good ahahaha surprised!

In the middle of self defeating I found a few words, “Jesus is the best spokesperson for life crisis”. In our life there are uncountable, unexpected situations, or even it’s expected but uncontrollable things that just happen, so how are we going to do or say? Blame it on God’s act, blame it on another human, or might as well to our own? Try to fix it, sometime we made it, sometime it carries on without endless until finally give up. Or we just shut our mind and forget it. Or we hang around and round the circle asking why for everything.

Just like the case, although it’s human act of terrorism ripping of human life and changed many aspects of living but God allows it. So how we are going to say on that? It’s good at this moment of my life, I realized an answer, that is never ask why from God, to create or destroy is God’s freedom. As I learned too, we never ask question whether something fair or good but when something happen we started to ask is it fair to us?