All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 / 2:35 PM
Everytime you turn on the news, you're bound to hear something regarding the Haiti Earthquake. Well, on the 23rd of January, the search for the survivors were called off, just hours after two more people were found alive under the rubble. The decision was made the day before, ten days after the quake ravaged the capital Port-au-Prince and just hours after after a man and elderly woman were found alive against the odds. Now, 15 days after the earthquake, a teenage girl was found alive. It obviously begs the question, should the search have been called off? Granted that this rescue is nothing but miraculous, the idea is that there could have been more survivors who may have died due to the search being called off. Hopefully, this will cause the rescue teams stationed in Haiti to perhaps look a little bit deeper and just a tad bit harder every single time.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 / 1:31 PM
I was randomly reading news articles online about the earthquake in Haiti when I came across one that mentioned adoptive children. Turns out that many couples in the States were waiting for the children that they have already legally adopted or were in the process of adopting due to visa problems etc. One couple actually waited 4 years after the adoption was legalised. Anyways, thats besides the point. The point is that some of these couples will not be getting their child. The point is that due to red tape and beaucratic shit, their child that was suppose to be with them ages ago is now buried under some rubble or in some makeshift morgue. Alone. They never got a chance to be with a family that loved them and wanted to be with them. Now, those that survived are en route to the States but apparantly only a handful have reached the US. How many more innocent children must die before the stupid government realises that visa problems can be solved in days, not years. Realise that they have caused pain and anguish for families that never got a chance to be with their child. Realise that all this could have never happened. RIP the children
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 / 3:04 PM
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst. Then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
Friday, January 15, 2010 / 3:58 PM
The mind works in many different ways. The ways however can sometimes lead to problems with others
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 / 4:58 PM
I love how you always want to be with her and no longer with me
sometimes you think life is horrendous then all of a sudden you read a story that makes you realise how wrong you are. Jani Schofield is a seven-year-old girl living with childhood Schizophrenia.Jani has to be constantly engaged by her parents or else she may have sme hallucinations and could hurt herself and those around her. Jani has a friend her age called Becca who has paranoid schizophrenia and they can play together because they get each other. She has many halluncinations however of pets and friends and describes her life as somewhere between 'our world' and 'her world'. Jani's parents Michael and Susan Schofield decided to split their family in to two separate apartments so that they wouldn't have to be concerned with Jani hurting her younger brother Bodhi during a 'psychotic moment'. She was diagnosed with childhood Schizophrenia when she was only five. People with schizophrenia are at high risk for suicide, which accounts for about one in five deaths in this population. This impulse includes children, although it is less likely that they will complete suicide because they are under constant supervision. Jani has said she wants to die and has attempted to take her own life several times, including an attempt to jump out a window, choking herself with her hands, and saying she will crawl into the oven. All her parents want is to try to keep her alive.
Its things like these that should make us realise how truly blessed we are.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010 / 2:28 PM
We are responsibleConservationists say there are just 3,200 tigers left in the world as the future of the species is threatened by poachers, destruction of their habitat and climate change.
The world population of tigers has fallen by 95 per cent in the past century.
Tiger numbers have dwindled due to a combination of activities by humans.
Demand for their skins, still regarded as luxury items in some countries, has left them at the mercy of poachers who have increasingly targeted the animals. The threat is compounded by the market for their body parts, which are deemed to hold medicinal properties in some cultures.
Poachers also hunt many species which are tigers’ prey, diminishing their natural food supply, and forcing them to attack farmers’ livestock instead.
At the same time, destruction of forests for timber, agriculture and road building has forced tigers into ever smaller areas where they are increasingly vulnerable.
Climate change also poses a growing threat – 70 per cent of the Bengal tiger’s remaining habitat in the Sunderbans mangrove forest may be lost within 50 years due to rising sea levels.
Of its nine main subspecies, three – the Bali, Caspian and Java tigers – are now extinct, while there has been no reliable siting of a fourth, the South China tiger, for 25 years.
Only the Bengal, Amur, Indo-Chinese, Sumatran and Malayan tigers remain but their the numbers have been reduced to a few hundred per species, save the Bengal and Indo-Chinese.
Monday, January 04, 2010 / 12:26 PM
another year has passed and nothing really has changed. all i look forward to now is seeing u in april cause u're the only person that can make me laugh and have fun
