Dear world,
it's been only 2 days since the Perdana Global Peace Conference on War Crimes. Kams did an excellent entry on it. and so did apparently the whole world. i'm tired. i don't plan to bicker.. i don't plan to criticise. i'm tired of listening and reading about it too.
Honestly, i contemplated once, twice, many many times whether to blog about it (hence the delayed entry). cos in order to write on it, i'd have to think about it, and to think about it i get depressed all over again. but who am i kidding. i can never forget what i learnt and saw. it bleeds me to know how awful war can get. LOUD, Bloody, DISTURBING, Ugly and damn EVIL. any war. no war is ever a pretty sight...
so my only comment would be the fact that they should have focused on WAR as it is.. and not do an all-bashing-bush-and blaire campaign. Heck, even the invited guests and witnesses from Iraq were Neutral. but, i must say it was a bold move to bring awareness to the country (sidetracked from the title of "Criminalising War", no doubt) but still.. a bold move nonetheless. He might "get in trouble" for what he said.. ('though he wasn't the only one being brutally honest those 2 days).. and he might have been making it more of a personal attack. but we saw this coming didn't we?
the girls and i (i believe) learnt a lot throughout the conference. and i'm proud to know that we've not only took in what we learnt, but (being the cynics we are), managed to look into the whole matter with our on perspective and opinion. sad to say, we're equally aware half of the Hall wouldn't have seen it the way we did. not everyone's neutral.
but as a side note, on a very semi-related topic, (di, kams and prom would've seen this coming) - Dr. M's speech mesmerized me - with or without a prompter, with or without a written speech, he is the world's greatest speaker in my book. i'll always love him like a granddaughter. no granddad's perfect, but i'll always love him nonetheless :) (comments, anyone? :P) it was dissapointing when i didn't get his autograph, or a personal shot (actually i did - where's that journalist??).. ah.. long story.. at least (self consolation) i got to stand beside him, had flashes of light flashing, and said hi. LOL..
thank you,
sho
*more pix in friendster
4 comments:
i totally agree with you! (your thoughts and about dr.M) i do think that he was a great PM when he was and i think, even at his present age, his mind is still very sharp.
:) hard to believe he's over 80, huh.
hey babe, u were at Dr M's speech on the 1st day of the exhibition???
I was there also with Ernest! we were there hoping to enter the exhibtion but we couldnt enter bcos Dr M havent officiated it! & we didnt have the time to wait later bcos we need to catch a flight to miri with other batchmates! *sigh*
BUT we did went there again to check out the exhibition on another day!
yea, i read your blog cl.. ernest pointed it out too :) looks like you had a blast of a time in Miri!
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