Holocaust Cartoons?

Middle-Easterners are a crazy bunch. A crazy confused bunch. Okay, so a newspaper printed a cartoon about Prophet Muhammad, a little insulting perhaps, but not illegal. This is a moral issue we're dealing with here, there's nothing at all legally wrong with the printing of those cartoons. Maybe it wasn't so wise to insult an already overly sensitive people. And these people aren't the type to just break down and cry when insulted, they're not your girlfriend back in secondary school who you broke up with because she was fat. These people aren't proponents of the proportional response either. They hit back really really hard. And outrageously too.

Look, some of my best friends have been Muslims, and they haven't been bad people. The cartoon made a generalisation of the Muslims all around the world, and that was wrong. Apparently, some Muslims have now taken to not depriving the world of their persona as protrayed by the cartoon. Protests turned violent have only solidified the image of Muslims as terrorists. Their actions, burning the Danish flag and such, have enforced the cartoon with credibility that was previously questionable. And how dare they torch a church!! The stupid bastards. For all you know, it was a Jew who came up with the idea for the cartoon. Or a Hindu. And what's that nonsense about the cartoon about the holocaust. Why bring the Poles into this. These protesters, with their tiny-nearly-nonexsistent brains, have taken to generalising the cartoon as the image of Islam among westerners and Europeans. Well, sure.. go ahead and burn another church, that'll help improve that image. Stupid fuck-ups.

On the brink of Valentines...

It's Valentines day in 1,2,3, 4 days time. My second Valentines day. When I say second, I don't mean second Valentines day I'm celebrating, but the second one which I would have liked to celebrate, and yet again, didn't. With noone. Feeling that noone could have been someone. Not for lack of trying too, the first time, I asked the wrong person; the second time, sigh.. It's kinda hard... I hesitated too long to make a move. In retrospect, it's much easier to ask this particular girl out in person, rather than doing it through friendster messages, SMS, phone calls.. the lot. You know for sure that you've got someone special when it feels like this, and to lose it, because of bad timing.. well.. it's heart breaking. And what a time to lose it. On New Years day. Too-rah. Boo-hoo-hoo. Talk about elation becoming mixed feelings becoming gut-wrenching despair.

Note my January 1st post. Don't sense any great despair there, do ya? If there's one thing i pride myself in being able to do, is that I can cloak my feelings deep within in my heart. I hide it well. People say I don't have a temper. That I don't get angry. It's not so much that as.. my cool is my meal-ticket. Look at Marlon Brando in The Godfather. You can't buy that sorta cool. Sometimes there's simply no point in getting worked up about things, but sometimes you just can't help it. There are things that you should get worked up about, and then there are the other things.

But I'm not alone being alone this Valentines day. Some of my friends have their loved ones kept far from them, others sense rejection from the ones they so greatly adore. But we have each other. There are two kinds of love. No wait, three. Familial love, friendship love, and relationship love. I count us lucky to have two out of the three. Thank God for those two. And thank God you're girls, or this would sound so totally gay. :D
Ciao guys, and to the girl i missed out on.. I hope he gives you a Valentines you deserve, and beyond that, the life you desire. I won't stop kicking myself for a long time from now. Love.