I want some water, I say, with a burdened sigh.

The mainstream media often paints my generation and I think it's much more accurate to say we are deeply overwhelmed.

And half of those make them feel like shit. So they got five or six good frickin' feelings, right? It's like they feel happy, happy, excited, oh shit, frustrated, frustrated, overwhelmed, depressed.

Against a total appropriation of 641 million, the Mission had incurred expenditures of 636.5 million, resulting in an unencumbered balance of 4.5 million and a budget implementation rate of 99.3 per cent.

Indeed, they have shared only one, albeit crucial (and disappointing) feature the inability to rely on rapid growth as the safest way to deleverage an over indebted economy.

The other narrative describes an economy that is encumbered by never ending European debt crises whose perpetrators seek to shift their responsibility and their financing needs onto Germany s pristine balance sheet.

But the real problem is that the global economy is badly overleveraged, and there is no quick escape without a scheme to transfer wealth from creditors to debtors, either through defaults, financial repression, or inflation.

It is not surprising that policy approaches have also varied. Indeed, they have shared only one, albeit crucial (and disappointing) feature the inability to rely on rapid growth as the safest way to deleverage an over indebted economy.

But Asia cannot be complacent financial systems remain fragile economies are burdened with high fiscal and current account deficits and Asia remains too heavily dependent on North American and European export markets, increasing its vulnerability to external shocks.