N U R S A F I A H

Monday, August 15, 2005/

60th Anniversary of Hiroshima @ 6:38 pm

Coming to terms with reality is sometimes bitter and painful but it is still there. No matter how many times you shut your eyes, pretending not to see.

Me, I lost my wallet with money and my ez-link in it. My maths is going down the drain. Everyone has flaws in the quest for the utopia that they dream of. But we have two choices when we see these things approaching.

1) We can just let them pass by us
OR
2) We can choose to change it and make it into something better.

I'd rather choose the latter won't you? Life would be so much more meaningful when you take that action.

In the above picture, women light candles in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima (AP Photo/Kyodo News). More than 55,000 people gathered Saturday in Peace Memorial Park, a sprawling, tree-covered expanse that for one day each year becomes the spiritual epicenter of the global anti-nuclear movement.

Yes, we do have to remember the past and not make history repeat itself but until now there are still people who debate whether it is really necessary for the atomic bomb to be dropped.

For me, I would rather remember the past but focus on the present. The past has happened, the future has not. The present is yet to change it. So, i'd rather concentrate on the future. Do what we can do with it now and not repeat the past mistakes but learn from it.

In the heat of the anniversary of the droppping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Channel News Asia has displayed documentaries, some from BBC and from other sources too. I think we should take every oppurtunity to learn from it. The way the documentaries are shown are in a way that the victims themselves, tell their experiences so that it is a first-hand account. It is so real that I can imagine the pain that the victims go through. The stinging 4000 degrees of heat from the atomic bomb, burnt, melted, skin hanging from fingernails... But all of this is knowledge that I treasure. FYI i love BBC documentaries. HEH...

The dropping of the atomic bomb was an experiment, a cruel one. The scientists did know the effects like radiation. But they did not know that black rain would fall and this rain was full of radio active material. They did not know that the people affected by the bomb would have radiation sickness. True it was cruel but is it justified? The Japanese after all did invade almost the whole world and did cruel things to us too. So the judgement lies in you.

Wait, im asking you to debate....do you want to? Take up the challenge....

My father--"If the atomic bomb did not drop, Japan would have taken over the world"
My mother--" They are already taking over the world- Neoprints, anime, manga..."

*[poof]***

a lyfe* like mine-; 6:38 pm