When politics and free men collide...

I think it is extremely sad and pathetic when being worried of government interference in ones' blog leads the blogger to shut it down. This is exactly what happened to the Egyptian Sandmonkey and to many other bloggers. If we can not speak our minds, share our thoughts and express our feelings about what is happening in the world, something that affects each and every one of us one way or the other, then what does that make us? Free as long as we never go against our governments?

Sad... very, very sad.

May they rest in peace...

Ever since the Virginia Tech massacre happened and I've been meaning to blog about it. However, whenever I sit myself to do that, I am taken back to the day the very same thing happened at Dawson college in Montreal. I remember crossing the road, walking into my building and then suddenly being pushed by some lunatic woman who was screaming at me not to go out again. Yes, I admit she wasn't a lunatic, only someone who had just heard a gunshot, knew it was a gunshot, and wanting to protect the people around her. I went up to my buildings' terrace, and for almost an hour, I was dumbstruck with what i saw taking place right in front of my eyes. The cops where there, the ambulance, people you could hear screams, you could see people running, cops trying to surround the place, media choppers flying about, TV cameras everywhere... I swear, if I did not know any better, that could have been a scene from a movie. Yet, it wasn't. That day, a young man decided to go into Dawson and shoot people. Last week, the same thing happened in another part in North America. It happened a few years back at Columbine, at the Amish school, in Montreal at the Polytechnic, and it will happen again.

The question is: Why? What gives any man, woman or teenager a right to walk into a place of education, hold up a gun, and shoot someone? More importantly, what drives that person to do it? What anger, grief, hostility, shattered dreams and hope lies within them?

Another thought that crossed my mind is, who are the real victims here? Are they only the students/teachers/staff/visitors at the colleges and schools, or are they the shooters themselves? Who should we blame? The media, society, parents, teachers, fellow students, movies, games, reality?

One last thought I had is that even on the land that prises itself on being democratic and free, even on a land that prises itself for being acceptable of all societies, this savage act of killing takes place. What is sad is that people there do not realize that this happens in countries at war all the time. it happens in Palestine, Darfur, Uganda, Afghanistan, Iraq... and the list could go on for so much longer. Is it not time for the world to decide that saving younger generations is more important than some silly power struggle? Is it not time to stop manufacturing and selling weapons. Is it not about time to set a good example for this generation, the next one and all the others to come?

Make it stop!!!!

1) They are everywhere... asking, nagging, pushing, deciding, interfering...

2) I can't shake "it" off... I can't move on, I can't leave it behind. I am stuck.

3) I just want this nightmare to end... I am going mad... mad I tell you!

Ooooops, that is not right...

hahahahahahahahhaa, I LOVE the internet. It does not fail to find a way to entertain me. I just stumbled across this article where they actually put the picture of Sheikh Maktoum as one of the Guantanamo prisoners. Later on, ofcourse, the same newspaper apologized. Still funny though...

Coz apparently, that is the ONLY thing on my mind...

Scorpio for today, Saturday, April 14, 2007:

"This is familiar territory, yet today you might be inclined to push through the issues once and for all, so you don't have to be here again next year. You could have love in a form that you don't want or you want love in a form that you cannot get. Either way, the dissatisfaction will ease by Friday without any action on your part."




What about life in general? What about the future? What about the past and the present???
Stupid horoscope people...


Meh...

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Know what is funny? I have so many things to blog about but I can't. I either can't think of something, or i can and I don't want to talk about it anymore. I don't know... things change, or remain the same, and you find yourself stuck in the middle of it all. Ever had that feeling?

Happy anniversary

One year has passed since i was rushed into emergency gull bladder surgery. Funny how time flies...

Thank you Clau, Liza and Liza's parents for holding my hand through it. Much love

Grey's Anatomy

I got one of my good friends, Umen, addicted to Grey's Anatomy.

My work on earth is complete
=)

Check out the link

Thank you BBC, this was very informative... NOT!

Happy Easter