What a wonderful world…

I see skies of blue

And clouds of white

The bright blessed day

The dark sacred night

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Yeah… it’s a wonderful world out there… but amidst all the beauty and wonders… there is the ugliness of humans… the ugliest a human can be… as disgusting as humans can be… as cruel as humans can be…

I am not a perfect person

As many things I wish I didn’t do

Yeah… I am not a perfect person myself… I make mistakes… but my mistakes seemed minor compared to what those heartless human beings have done… I started to think to myself… Are these people humans? Do they have a single feeling in them? Do they have a heart? Don’t they know that those people that they bring hell to are humans like them? Why do they commit to doing what they did? Aren’t they humans at all?

Some of you might be wondering by now what am I talking about or referring to… well, you see, I’ve been watching movies that are shown on TV about Nazis and the Holocaust, I’ve been reading news about abused children and abused maids, I’ve been reading a novel that shows an abuse of power by the people who are the ones who should bring safety and peace in the world, the policemen…

Are these people humans at all? What goes through their minds when they hurt others? What is the feeling like when they do all these heartless, inhumane things they did? It couldn’t be joy, could it?

Channel i showed a movie called “The Last Days” last week, and two weeks ago, the channel showed another Holocaust movie starring Kirsten Dunst, I don’t recall what it is called though. When I watched both the movies, I couldn’t help but cry. Even though it is all in the past, it’s over now, but I couldn’t help but to feel sad for those who have survived the worst ordeal… In the movie with Kirsten Dunst, it tells us how a girl went through what her auntie had gone through during the Nazis time… it showed how her auntie’s cousin had sacrificed her own life to save her… what showed was probably the cruelest thing ever… the Nazi had killed about a hundred over people already, but the “big boss” was not satisfied, so the officer chose those people who were sick to be killed… her auntie was sick and coughing non-stop… she was also not wearing a scarf over her head… the scarf somehow symbolizes she would be safe… so her cousin actually took the rap for her… she took of her own scarf, put it over her auntie’s head, told her to stop coughing… and when a Nazi soldier walked past them, she pretended to be coughing… so the soldier pulled her away… leaving her auntie crying… her cousin and others who were ‘chosen’, were brought to a chamber… outside the chamber, they were stripped naked… after that, they were brought into the chamber… what happened next was probably in our history books… the chamber is the gas chamber… yes, the soldiers put in carbon dioxide or was it carbon monoxide? Either one… they died…

In the movie “The Last Days”, 5 survivors and others told the story of what happened in the camp during the last few days of the Nazis… even though the Nazis knew they are losing the war against Americans, they were still stubborn and would not lose the war against Jews… it was probably the saddest and scariest stories of what happened even though I did watch a movie on Holocaust before when I was in Secondary 2 during History class with Mr. Andrew… they told the story of how children were killed by tearing them apart by the legs, throwing them onto a truck, how people were killed in the gas chamber, how people were shot to death, how one survivor had to swallow the diamonds that she brought along so as to keep them from being taken away, how their family members were ‘wiped out’ totally, how another survivor had to leave behind the swimsuit that hold a lot of memories for her, how they went into the camp as teenagers but came out looking 100 years older, how they had to survive without their loved ones with them, how horrific it was when the American soldiers saw the corpses and dead bodies of people packed into a train cabin… and this is shown in “The Band of Brothers”… Hitler could be one of the best dictators in the world, but he’s also the worst villain and the cruelest human ever stepped into this earth… the movie also showed Hitler’s will to continue the war against Jews… my question especially to those who studied History, if they know that is: What has the Jews done to make Hitler to hate them so much? I remember in the movie “Seven Years in Tibet”, the soldier said, “Religion is poison”… but I couldn’t relate the two together… because if that’s what Hitler might be thinking, then why didn’t he do the same to Christians and Catholics and other religions? Why Jews? I am not Jewish… I am Muslim but Jews are still humans like me… they just believe differently… I believe in my God, they believe in theirs… nothing wrong about that… well, there are many questions that are unanswered… I believe Hitler was not born evil… no babies or young children are born evil in this world… I believe something must have happened for him to be who he was and do what he did…

There were three news about abused children… one in Malaysia, another two in our homeland, Singapore… in Malaysia, a 2-year-old baby girl was sexually-abused and killed… who is the suspect? Unbelievably, the mother! Yes, the mother could be the one who forcedly inserted sharp object into her body… beat her and pulled her ears… what has the child done? She’s a 2-year-old kid, for goodness’ sake! What has an innocent child do? Another child abuse at home… Alex was abused by his mother’s lover… in the end, he died… and he’s just 7 years old… a few days or months after that, I think, it would be his eighth birthday… reporters were told that he was an obedient boy… so what makes the mother’s lover to do such a cruel thing to a kid? He’s too young to die… he has a bright future ahead of him… but I guess, it’s better for him to die now rather than later for he would have to go through hell again… all because his low-IQ mother met the wrong man and afraid to break the relationship up… I understand that she did all she could to try to protect her children… but if I were in her shoes, I would rather let the man kill me than kill my flesh-and-blood son… then, there’s another news about another mother who slashed her son for not doing his homework than claimed that she loves him… fine, her son didn’t do homework… but slashing your son is not the way to punish your son… you can scold him… beat his hand… threaten to not let him play or watch TV… but not slashing him with a knife… for goodness’ sake, she could kill him…

And recently, I read a novel by Michael Connelly called “Lost Light”… the story is generally about a murder… however, the author somehow could squeeze in about power being wrongly used by the law enforcers, themselves… he wrote of how 2 FBI agents torture a practically-dead man – meaning, the man, who was a policeman, was paralyzed from neck downwards and depended on a machine to live… one of the agents crimped the tubes closed with his fingers, cutting off the air supply, leaving the victim gasping for air… in the end, the victim cried… I cried too, imagining the whole thing happening… although this does not really happen… abuse of power by law enforcers are already made known publicly before the last time about White policemen hitting a Black man using those sticks that policemen have – I have no idea what it’s called… and recently, the issue that rocked the whole world about US soldiers in Iraq…

However, I do agree that without all the violence and hatred that’s happening in this world, there will be no sympathy and compassion, without them, there’s no love… I end this topic with the song “Where Is The Love?”

What's wrong with the world, mama

People livin' like they ain't got no mamas

I think the whole world addicted to the drama, only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism but we still got terrorists here livin'

In the USA, the big CIA The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK

But if you only have love for your own race, then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate

And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah

Badness is what you demonstrate and that's exactly how anger works and operates

Nigga, you gotta have love just to set it straight

Take control of your mind and meditate, let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin', children hurt and you hear them cryin'

Can you practice what you preach and would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us, send us some guidance from above

'Cause people got me, got me questionin' where is the love

It just ain't the same, always unchanged

New days are strange, is the world insane

If love and peace is so strong, why are there pieces of love that don't belong

Nations droppin' bombs, chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones

With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young

So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone

So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong

In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'

In makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends

Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother

A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug

If you never know truth then you never know love

Phew… the topic is quite heavy, don’t you think? Anyway, I caught the movie “Troy” on Tuesday with my best friend… and, as always, in Cineleisure, it’s fully packed… luckily the guy at the counter gave us seats that were not so front nor too back… now, I know why Jean Danker gave the movie a full rating… it rightfully deserves the full rating… it was a great, excellent, exciting movie and possibly the best movie of the year… if you are still contemplating on watching the movie, don’t hesitate anymore… watch before it’s too late… if not you’ll regret it… it’s worth your $6.50… believe me, it’s great! It has a little humour, and you will find out how damn smart the Greeks and Trojans were… I actually cried too, you know… it’s a little sad also… so I don’t wanna spoil the ending or the plot… so if you are wondering whether it’s worth the full rating and your money, go and watch it! It’s for all of us… if you like romance, “Troy” has lots of romance, if you like comedy, it has a little comic relief, mostly from Brad Pitt’s character, Achilles, if you like action, it has lots of action… so watch it, people! And here for you, some of the memorable quotes from the movie itself:

Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he’s good at charming other men’s wives.

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Achilles: Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn’t that be a sight?

Agamemnon: Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.

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Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. I could have forgiven a dumb brute!

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Hector: Sometimes the gods bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon.

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And the very popular…

Achilles: Is there no one else? Is there no one else?

So till next week! Ta-ta!

PS: Liverpool got to the fourth place and qualified for next season’s Champions League! And the Americans have done me proud by voting Jasmine Trias out of American Idol. Therefore, leaving Fantasia and Diana to battle it out in the finale! Watch it ya! Oh and yeah, I LOVE AMERICAN IDOL!!!

Princess Siti Grint is feeling obsessed on 2004-05-21 at 11:57 p.m.

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