Very recently, which is a few months ago, my
very tall friend Hong Wei the dumpling (now when I say tall, I seriously mean tall) has become part of Ngee Ann's TRM (sweetie, that's tourism and resort management) and he didn't find it a lot of fun. That I know, since he's the one with a lot of complaints. Sorry, feedback. Ah, who knew it would be a whole lot of human geog? Anyways, if his work is suddenly very outstanding, as in an AD (A plus Distinction), it's gone through my help for sure (hehehe). Afterall, I am ever so widely-read. Hey, when you've got nothing to read, the travel section of TODAY is always good.
Which brings me to this: Once I chanced upon a webbie that promoted sex tourism in Thailand. Not gonna post the URL (can see the boys disappointed here). Oh umm ... why did I go to that link? Ahahaha, funny story actually -shifts nervously-. No, it was on a forum and I was curious. Who knew what I would click on. (clicked on a lot of male fantasising, over-exposure that's sure to make some blood pressure rise, comments about who's pussy/boobs are nicer etc.).
Didn't know the inner male psyche was so ... perverted sick. And to think that some of the comments try to pass off as mature intellect in being connoiseur of women. Please. Women do not equate to fine cheeses and wines you bunch of porn-starved half-wits that think you're ever so the most intelligent-est mammals on earth.
Get.A.Life. Or a cat, wait no, you might torture the poor kitty into fulfilling your ... whatever.
Or rather, male Internet surfers contributing to the drive of sex tourism. Cross-border.
To take Singapore as an example, the Republic has made it punishable by law for sickos fuelling sex tourism (yay!), for eg. Batam. :p Too stressed is it? Sure, just catch the latest ferry to Batam for the weekend. Apparently, they don't go to Batam for family fun. These pervs go there to procreate ... family fun? Ew. Besides the fact that many Singaporean families crumble because of such uncontrollable monkeys (seriously, they go around mating like nobody's business. Why do you think monkeys have bigger
uhs than chimps?)
That aside, don't these wired-wrong sickos get that nobody wins in the end? Let's give way to foreigners we don't know of as yet. Sure, we're all used to it now. LOL, okayokay no discrimination, you'll see. Selfish retards!
I suppose the only reason why I'm so uptight about this is that I really do know such cases. Like, I've seen them larger than life, not on TV or in the newspaper broadsheets or on the Net. Granted, some girls really are gold-digging sluts (you don't have to be a prostitute to be one, so no discrimination), but I do
believe they are the minority.
It hurts, really it does. And these words come truer than the fact that
Tickle Me Emo is angst-ridden and dramatic. And that Big Bird's retardedness is a sign of him getting bird flu. AAACHOO.
I went to my aunt's house, with the relatives on my Mom's side all gathered, including my Grandad (love him and his white hair-turned grey) and my hopeless uncle (i know not what to feel for this man. he is even one in the first place?). Then, it was for the first time I met my illegtimate cousin. I was told that I had another one - a girl. This happened in lower sec or upper primary, I can't really remember.
He raced around the house, but most of my relatives ignored him due to his ... status? He was entranced by all the new things he's probably never seen before. For example, a computer, lots of toys, new kids to play with. Well, what did you expect? Just as well, he's only a 3-6 year old kid who doesn't get what's going on.
He's this high, half or less of my height, which is 156. He'stan-dark skinned. Hair's asian black, big eyes. When he goes into speech, he speaks a different tongue. Not English, Mandarin or Malay. Go figure, Bahasa Indonesia. I had to stoop down to try to say hi, kinda like bending down to look up to your kid cousin in N1.
My brother and other cousins just found him to be annoying. Probably due to all the excited noise he made. Oh well, kids. Forgivable, but they're just as annoying to me. Which one of them would know, with their innocent eyes that this kid was the same, and yet very different?
This is a time for atheists to say "HA! Where's the God that you Christians speak of, but is clearly non-existent here, if He's so good to love each and every one of all the children like you said He would?" This is another argument, but it's faith mah ...
I guess when I found out, you know, the stunned reaction you get when you can't believe your exam results are from expected. I just stopped short of whatever I was doing. It's a whole new different experience to talk about. Really, way to different to see things in the flesh than just to see it flashed across a TV screen.
It's like, you know about Myanmar's 80 000 gone, but all you can feel is just really sorry, and you can't go beyond that. What next? Well, you turn off the TV and go get yourself some chocolate and go back to whatever you're doing.
Let's say, you're a relief worker. You go there, with the mindset that "fine, at least there's nothing much i can do when my ass is against the couch in my Singapore flat". You reach Irrawady delta (hardest-hit by cyclone), then you find that people are moved back from relief camps to their approx. location of their pathetic destroyed villages.
They scream, cry, die or watch each other die before their eyes. Got that in your head? Now, imagine the next person who dies is your neighbour of many years, then your best friend goes, then your sister, then your dad. Touch wood la .. but isn't that how it is for them? Then a big shit comes, the government would rather let these people die tragic deaths than opting for an effective solution which might save someone you love. Oh yes, mr Hongwei said that an aid of an egg is split between 400 people. So helpful.
It's precisely how I really felt. To be transported by this invisible force from my ass against the couch to the devastation which is very real.
Was he a stranger? Someone that I would rather not look at for being the shame of a family? It's not fair, why do things have to be this way? Does he really share a bit of my DNA, no matter how diluted? He wasn't all that different compared to us. Just the language barrier and physical features. Other than that, he was the same. Two eyes, one nose, two ears and one mouth. My hand is small, his smaller. Hopefully, they'd be bigger than mine in a few years. Thank God, fighting fit, perfectly healthy with no disorders. Why did it have to be so, that he would still have less of a fighting chance in his life than mine? Was he a friend? Am I supposed to talk to him? What will my relatives say?
His human form. Somehow, I'm glad he wasn't illegally killed as a foetus, and yet somehow i wished he was never born. Might as well not go through all the suffering he's soon to face. Would he have to fear for his life one day? Or the social stigma? Such is all the trouble brought. And it wasn't his fault, he never asked for it.
What if he went around peddling drugs, snorting cocaine? What if he is to be abused, to be trapped in one of those sweatshops? It was very clear that he isn't going to have a proper education in the near future. Life sucks when you're born into the cycle of poverty. Then in sec 3, it hit me. He might have a career in being a pimp. Trafficking people like his sister. Come on, how much of a life do you have when you're born into a red-light district of Indonesia? Oh and yes, I'm told that his sister might wing up as a prostitute herself. And they were disappointed that he's a boy, cuz he can't bring bread to the table since he isn't part of the lucrative industry of flesh trade.
Illegal aliens? I cannot fathom how one of my family members have to go through such pain. Somehow, the grown-ups have become very straight-faced about this? Doesn't this hurt them? Right, they have no use for worrying about a kid that isn't theirs. Plus, my uncle might mooch off them.
We live in a democracy, fairness and equality is what we promote.
My foot.
Loopholes slip like sand through your fingers. And in these loopholes, someone's bound to lose out. These children, what have they ever done to anyone? If we forget about them, don't worry. If they forget about us, then hurry.
To go back, it's all the actions of every individual that can impact the world in such a way. Weren't we taught that the earth rotates on an axis in P3? This, we should know very well. Granted, the situation is bad as it is, and there's nothing much we can do since they're so far away. Being an idealist doesn't help at times, but what I feel we need more of is less ignorance and myopia in this screwed world. Then, an effective solution that reverses.
To get started, for one, we have to understand things beyond glitzy celebs and MTV. Open your eyes people, you're never going to feel it bite if you choose to be blind about it. Be part of the global solution today, the bunch of people who actually care that crap like this happens. You can choose to be silenced, to close your eyes, or to speak out for such individuals. It's a choice. It doesn't take a lot really. Lift the finger already! You do not want such a thing to befall upon your family, and in all my teenager-ness, I choose to be one that's aware. I can tell you where East Timor is, and what happened. And who on earth said teens don't care? We'd like the grown-ups to take a look at themselves.
To spread recognition, adopt a charity, be it local or global. And yes, please, reliable. Read up on it, and make plans for contributions in the future. This is the way to go if we really want to see a change. Who knows, maybe in the papers, you'd see that so-and-so has gotten a better life due to so-and-so. Don't people ever get sick of sob stories in the papers, that is if they actually read. Yay humanitarian!
I guess that answers why Foundation Bare Feet is on my links. Click it. And do link a charity too. The net is a powerful tool to spread awareness, how else would you know people in Myanmar have had it bad for so long? Be the change that you want to see, as much as this phrase seems egoistic, it's also ambitious. Shall explain Fundacion Pies Descalzos next time. (:
In the mean time, gotta get back to studying or rehearsing lines from the musical. xP, like that helps!
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