Monday, July 24, 2006


Tears. Overflow.

Assalamualaikum wrh. wbt.

I have found, in recent days, that Yahoo!-ing everyday does not suffice anymore. Becauseif you are to compare the news articles presented on its website with various other blogs that are - how to say? - more up-to-date with what's going on in the world today, you'd see that to some level, they're trying to hide something.

Whether they realize it or not.

They're trying to hide some images. Things that would make you do what my subject title says. They're trying to separate you and me and everyone else from what's happening just a few thousand kilometres away. Have you been to the moon, mankind? A few thousand kilometres on this small, dying planet truly isn't all that far. It's far too near, actually.

Too close for comfort.

And as they say, denial is only too human.

And something I've just read from brother Lutfi's blog, just made me realize that despite the tears I've been shedding compulsively these past few days, the material on my blog no longer reflects that. It took me a few visits to a few fellow bloggers such as him and this guy here for me to see that we have to take a stand now, or not be counted at all. Superficiality takes you no where.

Lutfi is right.

How can we, as people (let's do this regardless of creed or religion, for the sake of mankind), feel it still relevant to harp on about the next concert on sale at Ticketek (The Strokes in Sydney, so I have heard) or what Jessica Simpson has done to her body (if you think I'm going to link to that, you are sadly mistaken), when wordless things are being done to human beings as we speak?

It's just too bad that Mr Coles-Janess can't get anyone to show his film anywhere other than Nova and Melbourne Uni's Copland Theatre. It's won 43 awards from various pretigious film fests. It's being considered for Academy Award nominations. That should say something about the impact it can have on society (I personally found myself crying endlessly throughout the 1+ hours; I don't know about the rest of my friends, but watching that toddler die slowly and painfully on the hospital bed as the rest of his aunts watched did the trick for me).

Or maybe. Just maybe.

Are we too scared to care?

Wallahu'alam bissawab. I have Advanced Chem right now.

Ya Rabbi, adkhilni mudkhola siddqi, wa ahrijni mukhroja siddqi, waj 'alli milladun'ka sultonan nasiro.

Wassalamualaik.

this has been a rant by Syazwina Saw at 9:44 am

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