Archive for May 5, 2008

children… is it only about it?

Cloudy… (Thailand, Mar 2008 )

It’s Children’s Day in Japan. “Children” though, are not many as they used to be there.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, this year’s Children’s Day marked the lowest number of children since they started to record it. It’s 17,250,000, 13.5% of the whole population (Please read the AFP story in Japanese: 子どもの数が27年連続で減少、総務省). Read the rest of this entry »

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Silence de la mer

WAR A battle organised for/by the wealthy to gain more profit, by inpoverishing/killing/using the civilians (my definition).

This movie, “Silence de la mer (Silence of the sea),” just confirms it. Why isn’t Bush on the frontline in Iraq? Or his family members? Like the protesters in NYC screamed in the protest in 2003, “Bush says war; he’s gotta go!”

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departure

and this is another start. (Dec 2007 )

There are times when everything around seems so fragile. Like, what you see now won’t be there for you tomorrow. I feel a bit so lately: that lady who is making salad everyday on the street, that temple that always saw me go in and out, and more.

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