What on earth are these people thinking

I suppose most of you know about the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai. It was scary when I first saw it over the news because I just watched 'Body of Lies' on Wednesday! I'm not going to blabber on how good 'Body of Lies' is, so if you're interested in a good film go watch it. The film serves as a reminder to us that terror threat is an on-going activity and there are uncountable people waiting in line to blow up themselves or go around shooting people.

But apart from all that, it is the film's relevancy that really shook me. In this supposedly safe country, I don't know about you but I personally feel detached from whatever war that is on-going on the other side of the planet, especially so when the reporting has subsided in Iraq / Afghanistan / wherever the troops are.

Whenever I get emotional, I start to think of all sorts of stuff which is actually happening around the world but we choose to ignore it. Like for example, when we're having our you tiao with soy bean for breakfast, some person might just decide to blow himself into pieces and bring many others with him, for whatever reasons he might have. And I'll think of the soldiers who aren't there voluntarily. I bet their only wish is to come home alive in one piece, that's why they're fighting so hard for the war to end.

And when I think of unvoluntary service, I think of MYSELF. *tsk....*

IF there weren't people like these around, why would we need to fight in the first place?

The cycle just keeps going on and on and on. We kill them. They kill us.

It is a terribly sad world we're living in.

p.s. I wonder what the world leaders were chatting about at the APEC when the world is in such a mess.