nihil novi sub sole

news that gets repeated over and over so you think it's the same but it's actually not:

• demonstrations in bangkok
• fiscal cliffs in the ol' united states
• strikes in france - although to be honest i haven't heard this in a bit
• faux pas by singapore against her neighbors - indonesia, malaysia - you name it

in local news, of course, we get, with commendable dependability:

• the haze
• the dengue outbreaks
• the psle the psle results and the psle scores
• the fare increases
• the rising indices
• the record coe's
• the road hogs and other unpleasantries, and
• the political one upsmanship

the only new thing is learning to say it in latin.