My heart goes out to Senator Ted Kennedy. This week he has been diagnosed with a maliagant glioma, which is the most common form of brain cancer.

Although I'm a fan of the Kennedys, Ted is my least favorite Kennedy. But it doesn't mean that he should be exempt from well wishes.

Luckily, he has good company in his cancer battle - his son Ted Jr and daughter Kara, and his colleague, Senator Arlen Specter. Ted Jr had bone cancer in his right leg which forced his doctors to amputate in 1973, when he was 12 years old. Kara is in remission for 5 years now after having an infected area removed from her right lung in order to treat her lung cancer, which was found in the right lung in 2003.

Senator Specter of Pennsylvania had brain cancer - the exact same type as Kennedy's - two years ago, and is currently in the middle of receiving chemotherapy for his Hodgkin's - another type of cancer.

So Kennedy have a good team behind him. I hope he beats this brain cancer.

The double disasters in Asia - namely China and Burma (Myanmar) - are staggering examples of how tremendous human life losses can be.

No one should be on that scale of human suffering. My heart goes out to the people of China and Burma (Myanmar).

But I must take issue with Burma's military junta. First, the junta are a bunch of uncaring people who doesn't even care if their people are suffering or not. They're the same junta who are keeping Au Syu See Kim (?) a virtual prisoner in her own country simply for trying to have the junta overthrown and get Burma to its former democratic government.

If anyone out there is trying to make a donation to the Burmese cyclone victims, please don't. Know why? The junta are refusing to let U.S. aid get through to the victims, and have been seizing and blocking foreign disaster assistance. And the aid they did seize, they're spending it on themselves and their militaristic endeavors. Look, they're the same people who held an election just a day or two after the cyclone, and just approved a constitution that is backed by the junta.

The Myanmar junta is the most selfish, self-absorbed, and uncaring bunch of militaristic morons.

If you're truly outraged by the actions of the Myanmar junta, please take a stand and send a message to the junta in Myanmar by withholding your hard-earned money and give that money to those who deserve it the most: the victims of the Chengdu (Sichuan Province) earthquake in China. At least China is willing to accept all foreign disaster assistance.

I do not mean to sound inhumane (I am not - when it comes to disasters of this magnitude, I am a bleeding heart), but the treatment and attitude of the junta toward the cyclone victims and the international community makes me furious.

I have zero sympathy for people who have no respect for others.

Thank goodness 2007 will be history by midnight tonight!!! It's such a crappy year for just about everyone in this nation.

Anyway, as I have promised....I'm not sure if I would want to get married. I mean, it'd be a wonderful thing if I am to find the right man and marry him. But with my friends divorcing left to right, I have to ask myself this question: if I am to get married, why would I do it? Lately, I've been coming up with the wrong reasons, such as loneliness, money, in a hurry to have children, etc. It's a definite sign that I am not ready for marriage, and even if I do find the right person, what reasons would I have then?

I watched my friends abuse their marriage vows. I can be frank and tell you that I have watched one of my parents' younger friends get drunk every time we go to Key West. He was married, but he almost never came down with his wife. He would hit the bars right away once we touch down in Key West. I have seen him flirt with ex-girlfriends and strange women in the town. I kept my mouth shut, but I did not approve of his behavior. Then when we go home, he was so drunk that I was almost afraid to be in the same place as him.

I have another friend whose husband just had told her that he had fallen into love with another woman. There are two twists to this: 1) He did not tell her for FOUR YEARS that he wasn't happy with her; and 2) the other woman is now living with my friend and her estranged husband. My friend is grieving at the loss of her marriage and is right now experiencing a range of emotions. Because of this, coupled with her history of eating disorder, hyperactivity, and depression, I'm constantly keeping an eye on her, even if I'm miles away in Florida. I'm also urging her to complete her college credits and move back to Florida, because what her husband did amounts to destroying an once-intact marriage by the sheer miracle of being selfish to the extent that he doesn't even care about my friend's feelings.

The more I watch my friends (and Hollywood celebrities) abuse their marriage vows, the more compelled I am to take a closer look at the institution of marriage and ask myself whether it is working or not. One of my hearing friends from my middle school days said that she believes that the problem with the marriage institution is not the concept of marriage itself, but lies with the people's willingness to take their marriage vows seriously and stick it out for better or for worse. She is right. I'm willing to take the marriage vows seriously, but would the guy I eventually marry do the same?

I'm beginning to think that maybe marriage is not for everyone. I'm questioning whether marriage is right for me or not. Especially with my history - I am a high-risk marriage prospect because I have 3 divorces on my father's side. My great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents were all divorced. While it's true that a family history of divorce doesn't mean that I would get divorced myself, the risk is still there.

Enough talk about marriage, except to say that I hope that God will someday provide me the answers I've been searching for in regard to the question of marriage.