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Seeing is believing.

Today i stumbled across a Youtube video featuring Jason Russell the guy behind KONY2012. He was naked and he was running around the street it was also reported that he was masturbating in public. This i read from a less reliable news source, and later a seemingly logical reason was given, apparently it was because he was under tremendous stress from all the positive/negative attention KONY2012 has been getting of course i am not convinced by the reason.

But this led me to a different realization. KONY2012 has been under alot of scrutinization lately most of it says that it is a hoax and US propaganda to obtain oil in Uganda. Although i have not come across a reliable article saying that they found oil in Uganda. This realization is how i notice the passion and unity of people after they saw the KONY2012 video, i of course am one of those who shared it in my facebook page. It made me think how humans have to see in order to believe. There are brutal killings, rape, malnutrition, war, diseases all over the world today. The conflict in Darfur has been going on for years yet people do not care about it. People are generally ignorant and selfish they do not seek to pity people as long as their lives are comfortable enough.

How is the brutal abduction of children worse than high infant mortality rate or the mass rape in Darfur? or how is it worse than the current situation in Syria and Sudan? Who are we to judge which is worse than which? afterall we haven’t experienced what these people have. It made me question myself, would we be a righteous citizen only if we made an explanatory video and spread it around? or are we a righteous citizen when we search for news on brutality and injustice?

Korea - 2 weeks in time

Hello,

How are you everyone? i actually have plans to update this blog frequently but i have failed to do so because i was lazy.

Anywho, i am now in Seoul, South Korea doing an exchange program in Korea University one of the top 3 Universities in Korea and it looks breathtaking. It is Spring here but the weather is still freezing today it was -4 degrees C it is definitely torturing to be out and about in the cold weather, not only does your skin get extremely dry the wind blows through your bones except i you are wrapped in inpenetrable plastic.

The food here is wonderful, it is healthy, nutritious and it has been part of the Korean culture to not over season something - meaning that the food would be bland to foreigners such as i who come from a tropical country who have very strong flavors in their food. Koreans do not like salty things so their food is less salty compared to elsewhere which is good of course for people on diet.

I am staying with a loving and kind family but my room is down the hall and the toilet is right beside my room so i don’t get much disturbance and i could not categorize it because it does not feel like a homestay, it is however a little far from my school i am curently looking for an Officetel in Sinchon area.

School is very hectic, it is only the 2nd week and i have assignments piling already, every week there is something to be handed in. School is really tough in Korea you really have to work hard to get good grades, you cannot bluff your way through Uni…where many people elsewhere have been doing and succeeded. There isn’t much going on outside at night simply because it is still freezing people are not in the mood to Club in heels and miniskirts in this weather.

I miss home.

woopsers

Hello tumblr, well i haven’t been visiting you for months and months mainly because i do not feel any attachment to this little space and find mellow quotes on a sepia background meaningless and frankly it pisses me off to see a blog page full of reblogs from these tacky quotes, although i would not deny tumblr is home to alot of cute random things, some beneficial and interesting…those lie in the minority, sadly. 

Anyways, time flies and in exactly 2 weeks i will be on a plane to seoul, i will be spending a semester in Korea University as an exchange student majoring in International Relations, and no i do not speak Korean hoping i could pick it up as i spend my time there. I came home on the 17th of November 2011 and here i am packing to go again. This year is my last year in Uni i have 2 semesters left and i will be home, finding a job, joining the workforce like the rest of humankind. I cannot wait to start working because honestly that is when real life starts. As i turn 21 i look back and find elementary, middle and high school a piece of cake, what seems to be the world and what seemed like unsolvable problems just looks plain stupid now. I learnt that choosing the people you are seen with matters alot and so i decided to do a lot of spring cleaning in my social agenda from 2010 onwards, i like where it is going.

Also, now i find clubbing, drinking and smoking a useless activity that only wears you out, i am talking about drinking in a club just for the sake of it, just to find a reason to be promiscuous really, which now that i thought of it is completely undignified. Hence i distance myself from people who engage in the above activities, of course this is a way of life and i am in no position to criticize i just choose to not mingle because frankly we would not get along. My idea of relaxing consists of rolling around in bed watching comedy series, playing mmorpg, and going to the supermarket to get ingredients while thinking what to cook, eat it while watching tv, vintage movies not breakfast at tiffany’s kind - i haven’t grow too fond of audrey sadly. My favourite vintage movie hasn’t changed since 2009 it is still the seventh seal by ingmar bergman, recently i have been watching alot of Wong Kar Wai, i haven’t finished my Hitchcock collection, and i am growing fond of Katherine Hepburn, but nothing beats Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh and Grace Kelly.

And this is the reason why i only have that few people who i can ring up for a nice lunch, and it has never been simpler.

These past 3 months have been very relaxing, i chose not to do anything this holiday because let’s face it this is my last long vacation and i wish to do nothing to savor it.