I went to Canary Wharf yesterday to see the winter lights. They call it a warf but it is no longer used as a dock and the whole river peninsula is developed but I guess the name stuck. Canary wharf is a river peninsula filled with tall office buildings.
Canary Wharf is a bit like the Vatican in a way, it is like a city within a city. All the buildings on the peninsula are tower blocks filled with modern glass windows and offices. London is a city with little island cities embedded within it. The lights were nice and it was very crowded, I guess that helped break up the cold winter breeze. Perhaps the whole country to put winter lights out for the last third of January.
In the back of my mind is the sadness of knowing people in Iran were being murdered for protesting. They were doing nothing wrong, they were just tired of their dictator leader using all their oil wealth for their own agenda and being suppressed by the regime. Some of them were just children. When will it end? Will I still be writing out this struggle next month? Who knows? Imagine if a nation like Japan had the same oil reserves as Iran, they would have build some beautiful cities and all sorts of wonders. Perhaps they would have a moon base by now.
