a Journey

ever since the london tube bombings, i've been turned off by e thought of eating meat. i've always liked my meat::always:: except now, when i look at my plate and i realise that a life had to be lost for my plate... i jst feel so ill. sick to e pit of my tummy: a life had to be killed for me. do i need tis to be killed for me? always, always, ever since that day, e ans has been a resounding NO. i guess what i mean is that in my own air-head sorta way, i'm making a twisted connection between e food on my plate and e senseless killing that's going on around me.

 there's enuf senseless, mindless loss of lives going on around me everyday. be it a suicide bomber, the *'war against terror', riots, murders... what have you, they're happening. there's no denying that fact. and right now, i guess the full impact of e daily tragic waste of lives are hitting home hard. in whatever lil' way i can make my stand i'm making it: i'm going VEG 'cos i can't stand partaking in e killing of anymore unnecessary lives: human or not. i do not want to kill another life to satisfy what i like. i think we have forgotten what it means to live in moderation. everything we do nowadays seems to be aimed at achieving a large-scale shock and awe effect:: war, advertisements, mega malls, hypermarkets, 'super size me' food portions, sex escapades, battery farming::everything is mass produced for the masses:: why?! what happened to those mama shops where e fat jolly ol' shopkeeper knew ur name; family restaurants where e head waiter invited all of u to dance e greek dance with him; homemade danish pastries; hot chocolate that doesn't come from a packet; handmade fishballs with ur mee; hairdressers who've been cutting ur hair since u were young and told u ur hair was thinning without trying to sell u any hair products...

* Bush's war on terror: but to e civilians of e bombed countries of Iraq & Afghanistan... Bush n his troops are e terror... isn't it? what about e rest of e islamic countries... when will they be condemned as terroist 'allies' too?