Sometimes In April

As i sit on my couch watching "Sometimes in April", my heart bleeds for all who have died in wars that were cause by greed and men who know not what they are doing. Perfectly sound communities that have been living together in peace for years and moons, have suddenly been turned against each other. I cannot imagine the bodies that filled the streets and the blood of thousands of people that have flowed. Rivers have turned red and swamps into refuge havens. Massacre numbers that tolled up to 800,000 and more have filled up shallow graves of screams and despair.
I cannot claim to be a humanitarian. For i have not done anything that might help to change or improve the lives of others. But, genocides are still happening right now and killings are taking place for selfish reasons. I must say that we live in very lucky conditions. We are not faced with the thread bare option of survival. We have not faced the stares of the people who would have murdered us seconds after. I am still alive. We are still breathing.
When you think that the world has been unfair to us, when you think that our lives are hard because of bosses who do not comprehend the importance of having a human heart, think again. We do what we do unto ourselves knowingly and sometimes unknowingly. Others who feel the need to oppress will always do so.
And so to the hundreds of thousands who have died for a cause or no cause, may your souls rest in peace and may the deaths of your existence be a reflection onto the better life that we seek.

Big Fat Oily Droplets

It is 3am in the morning and here i am awake, thinking of the peak oil issues and how the heck we will survive the crisis if it were to hit us face on. I think, no offence taken, Veve will have an even more prosperous business since her family is in the 'undertaking' industry.
It has come to my attention that my government is not really doing anything about it. Perhaps they do not really care or that fear has taken over them. Maybe i am wrong? I don't know. But nothing has been said or educated to the public. Many of us do know that the oil prices are going up but not many are aware that we have effectively used up 1/2 of the entire world's oil reserve in a span of 150 years. And this is a scary thought. I panicked momentarily and thought of something someone mentioned to me a few days ago. She said that i'd better be prepared and have a lot of money at hand in order to survive. "Life will become harder, we are talking about basic survival here." she grimaced.
While i reflect, sitting on my swiveling chair, i realised that money will not do any good either. Economies will crash and people will suffer. We will be facing a major crisis. No matter how much land or cash you have, it will not matter here as we are going to face basic problems like the lack of food, clean water, sanitation and transportation. I may have gone a little extreme, in terms of looking at the bad news, and that perhaps you might think that we will not see the day where a situation like that might happen. But i beg to differ.
Remembering that we have not much land, no natural resources, we do not grow food nor have water. We only have people and a strategic global location. We have a servicing enconomy that depends on other countries and businesses. We are quite heavily dependent on others and while oil is the main common factor that pushes everything everywhere, what is going to become of our lives? Are we to wait around like sitting ducks while the problem will become more apparent as time goes by? Or maybe our million dollar government should think about putting their scholars into good use. Instead of shoving them into jobs that they may not even excel in, why not bunch them into a program that researches into alternative fuel or energy that may work for us? I am sure if we start now, we might just be in time to save the country from the BIG power outage that might just see to the deaths of many.
Or perhaps while i lament and comment, someone has done something about it? If anyone out there knows anything at all, please do let me know too. I am, too, relatively new to this. If there is any misconception or misinformation on my part, do let me know. I would love to find out.
But then again if New Zealand can move on to progress their own country into becoming approximately 60% self sustainable in terms of energy, i wonder why we are taking such a long time to change our ways when we have the glory of the sun all year round...

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(This picture was taken at the end of March of 2006 in Kyoto, Japan.)

I am a Narcissist!

As blatant as the title above, i realised i have posted pictures of myself shamelessly. ARghhhh muwahahhahah!

Gold - The Soppy Truth

"Gold lies in rivers undiscovered. Hidden from the sight of those who don't know what to look for.(They ain't never gonna find it) Sometimes the value is uncovered, other times it's cast aside by those who are just unsure."
-Beverly Knight, Gold

That is one of my favourite songs. And as i spent the eve of national day with my old friends, i realised how much i've missed them. We used to hang out ever so often, almost every other day - rotting and lazing around in that clubroom of ours. It made me realise that though we have aged through the years, we have not changed. We are still the same 'ole us, just a bit more mature, more intune to the monetary stresses and getting hitch! Yes, yes,... getting married!
Man,... and to think that good news comes in a bunch! Yes! THREE of them ARE tying the KNOT at the END of the YEAR! AND i wonder who is going to be next! This is heavy on my pockets man! Imagine this - all of them having kids around the same time. And will our kids play together?
All those funny episodes, snorts and sniggers that we use to have - right down to whistling at sexily dressed AUNTIES in the malls and wondering what 'KUKUBIRD' and 'POS' are doing and snapping Camille's bra straps till they go all wobbly... If anyone asked me that should i get a chance to relive my life again, what would i change? the answer is - I will change none of it. Everything that we have gone through is precious to me. Even the times when we had to smell each other's fart and listening to the snores at night in the middle of the hall at the sports complex. I've had a truly wonderful life so far.

Yuri The Magnificent!

This is Yuri, the dog that i took care of for 1/2 a day on Monday (07/08/06). He is soooo adorable!! Though the weather may be a bit too hot for the husky cutie, I think he was quite happy with my air-conditioned room that day. Besides entertaining himself with a ball and slobbering all over to the likes of a st bernard, Yuri is rather docile. Don't be deceived by the small size of the dog, he weighs a lot. He loves to be around people and i think he gets a tad bit too excited when he knows that you are showering him with the attention he 'deserves' - a KING in the making, i'd say.
BUT BUT! I must say! He is a attention magnet! I remembered when i walked him home, the stares i got was amazing! Not to mention, and i SWEAR, the traffic seemed to slow down when i was standing at the junction, waiting to cross the road! Okay, maybe next time I'll dress up a bit more,.... Hahahaha. Okay just how cheap am I?