I know no one is going to see this, and no one will reply, but I will post for my own self-amusement and satisfaction anyway because blogging is the only fun I have :)
Random fact:
North Korea is the world's top persecutor of Christians, for the 8th year running. They also have a pretty large base of underground Christians. Nice, kudos to their faith, courage and determination!
(If that isn't relevant enough to us I don't know what else is)
Well... I think that we've been hearing so much news of disasters and genocides and epidemics that nothing fazes us anymore. So when we come across something like religious persecution happening in a country in our own continent, we just shake it off and say, "Oh, it's just another one of those things." Well, globalisation has both positive and negative effects, but at LEAST we know about stuff like that, now we just need to start demanding that some action be taken, or even better, if we have the means to, to personally take action.
Sometimes I wish I could have the control of the funds of a mega rich corporation just for a day. Then I'd be able to wield enough economic influence to enact some sort of social or slight political change. OR I could even donate some of the money. That's one of my fantasies. Wanna know what causes me to fall down? Thinking and daydreaming about stuff like that, that's what. Ok, well, and a thinking of a whole load of other nonsensical crap as well, like what sardine ice cream would taste like etc etc.
I need to stop ranting on about this.
And I WILL continue to post because it pleases me to see new posts every few days, even if the only eyes reading them are mine. Self reliance fail, much? Well so does North Korea's Juche ideology that is partially the cause of the widespread starvation in the country now. Ok, I really need to stop this.
God Bless!
(And yay I've been disciplined enough to do my QT regularly and I feel different already. I should so have started earlier :P)
-Kerryn (who else)
Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
I like GP, and stuff I found out about North Korea so please pray for the country!
oh dear we completely forgot to invite yuxun. i just did haha, at least, i HOPE i added the correct email.
haha GP. its quite fun don't you think? except i almost always fail my content because i have no input of facts and i just have opinions that deviate from the main question. WELL. the last GP question i did was "Boundaries that separate people are not only shown on maps. Agree?" i think i went a little off topic but i still passed, phew for that. Gp is fun though, less stressful than any other subject and you can talk about anything you like, you have so many options.
post, people, post! a class blog can never have too many posts :)
-Kerryn
PS. Huihan, the fact that there was a model essay on how religion still plays a large role in society roday does not make that a fact. If it was a fact it wouldnt even be in GP because the whole point of GP is to debate conflicting/differing opinions and views. Even though I also feel that religion plays a large role in society today. I think its kind of broad though. What kind of societies? Traditional, conservative, modern, developed, secular?
Sighs contradictory to the title, I find GP kind of meaningless now. I mean, what ind of argument is it when all youre usually supposed to do is to address the issue in a different context and environment and discuss how the various factors lead to various outcomes? It becomes set, like a format, and that's quite disgusting really. It ruins the art of the entire thing.
PSS. I was also reading up on North Korea in between doing this stupid crazy killer Math quiz online for school, and DID YOU KNOW THAT
1. Gulags exist in North Korea(no surprise there. political prisoners in a communist/socialist state are common no?). Those gulags are considered to be one of the worst forms of violations of humans rights ever, and most of the world is stilll blind to that. Their existence was doubted for awhile, but then there were testimonies of escaped gulag prisoners and also satellite images that proved them to be very real indeed.
3. Prisoners are all made to witness executions, and the executions can be more brutal than animal slaughters because the prisoners are told that they're not even fit to be humans. In fact, many North Korean escapees say that to survive mentally/psychologically, they had to stop thining of themselves as humans.
4. And while the poor toil and sweat for the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, the elites(high up in the ranks of the Party) splurge on luxury.
5. Those caught escaping are executed. Some who commit certain ridiculous crimes are either incarcerated or executed, and even their entire family clan is wiped out to stop the seed of dissent from spreading. Oh dear.
6. People flee North Korea usually NOT because they are oppressed or do not like the dictatorship etc, but because they are STARVING and dying from hunger
7. Back to the gulags, there are at least an estimated 200,000 prisoners there. Believed to be more. And about 20-25% die there each year
8. And even more horrific, new born babies of prisoners are killed right after being delivered, and before delivery, induced abortions on those prisoners are also common.
9. Similar to the Nazi concentration camps, biochemical experiments are being tested on the prisoners, and you can bet that the results are never pretty
10. Prisonerss usually escape to China at the China-North Korean border because the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is too heavily guarded. Some who escape successfully get married to Chinese but because of China's strict system, they're not registered citizens. They would never bother registering because if found out, they'd get deported back to North Korea by the Chinese authorities. Thus, their children are not registered as well, and once you aren't registered in China, your children have no rights to education and other welfare.
Do you see WHY Humans Rights is so important now?
North Korea is so going on my prayer list tonight.
haha GP. its quite fun don't you think? except i almost always fail my content because i have no input of facts and i just have opinions that deviate from the main question. WELL. the last GP question i did was "Boundaries that separate people are not only shown on maps. Agree?" i think i went a little off topic but i still passed, phew for that. Gp is fun though, less stressful than any other subject and you can talk about anything you like, you have so many options.
post, people, post! a class blog can never have too many posts :)
-Kerryn
PS. Huihan, the fact that there was a model essay on how religion still plays a large role in society roday does not make that a fact. If it was a fact it wouldnt even be in GP because the whole point of GP is to debate conflicting/differing opinions and views. Even though I also feel that religion plays a large role in society today. I think its kind of broad though. What kind of societies? Traditional, conservative, modern, developed, secular?
Sighs contradictory to the title, I find GP kind of meaningless now. I mean, what ind of argument is it when all youre usually supposed to do is to address the issue in a different context and environment and discuss how the various factors lead to various outcomes? It becomes set, like a format, and that's quite disgusting really. It ruins the art of the entire thing.
PSS. I was also reading up on North Korea in between doing this stupid crazy killer Math quiz online for school, and DID YOU KNOW THAT
1. Gulags exist in North Korea(no surprise there. political prisoners in a communist/socialist state are common no?). Those gulags are considered to be one of the worst forms of violations of humans rights ever, and most of the world is stilll blind to that. Their existence was doubted for awhile, but then there were testimonies of escaped gulag prisoners and also satellite images that proved them to be very real indeed.
3. Prisoners are all made to witness executions, and the executions can be more brutal than animal slaughters because the prisoners are told that they're not even fit to be humans. In fact, many North Korean escapees say that to survive mentally/psychologically, they had to stop thining of themselves as humans.
4. And while the poor toil and sweat for the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, the elites(high up in the ranks of the Party) splurge on luxury.
5. Those caught escaping are executed. Some who commit certain ridiculous crimes are either incarcerated or executed, and even their entire family clan is wiped out to stop the seed of dissent from spreading. Oh dear.
6. People flee North Korea usually NOT because they are oppressed or do not like the dictatorship etc, but because they are STARVING and dying from hunger
7. Back to the gulags, there are at least an estimated 200,000 prisoners there. Believed to be more. And about 20-25% die there each year
8. And even more horrific, new born babies of prisoners are killed right after being delivered, and before delivery, induced abortions on those prisoners are also common.
9. Similar to the Nazi concentration camps, biochemical experiments are being tested on the prisoners, and you can bet that the results are never pretty
10. Prisonerss usually escape to China at the China-North Korean border because the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is too heavily guarded. Some who escape successfully get married to Chinese but because of China's strict system, they're not registered citizens. They would never bother registering because if found out, they'd get deported back to North Korea by the Chinese authorities. Thus, their children are not registered as well, and once you aren't registered in China, your children have no rights to education and other welfare.
Do you see WHY Humans Rights is so important now?
North Korea is so going on my prayer list tonight.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
In reply to the class photo
May I just say that Yuxun looks super tall as always? And yes kerryn for an avid blogger, a dead blog is just wrong.
But then again...
I am really surprised when I click blogger and see this as the most updated blog among all the blogs I have haha.
Anyway just to share some random facts with you guys (which I stumble onto a lot when I was/am revising for GP. Oh common test D:)
But then again...
I am really surprised when I click blogger and see this as the most updated blog among all the blogs I have haha.
Anyway just to share some random facts with you guys (which I stumble onto a lot when I was/am revising for GP. Oh common test D:)
- Males suffer from suicide more than females do.
- It may be possible to produce a human egg from a male's stem cells (i.e. a homosexual couple can actually have a child with equal genetic makeup from the parents).
- Religion still plays a large role in society today (I have a model essay on this o.o).
- In America, some colleges celebrate 'pi' day (14 March = 3.14) by eating pies.
- It's 3 more days to June holidays (I CAN'T WAAAAAAAAAAIT).
Monday, May 24, 2010
The class photo of may 2010
This is for anyone who has been coming to our class blog faithfully and wanting to see a new post.
YESSSS YOU ARE NOT SEEING THINGS ITS A NEW POST!
(Sighs this blog is dead, we so need to revive it)
This is our very very nice class photo, and I will always remember this as the day that I was feeling high for some reason, and spilt some pretty embarassing things I didn't mean to actually say in front of the class, hur hur. But oh wells.
Since I'm here I shall take the opportunity to say God Bless Everyone :D
And if anyone from the class is reading this, UPDATE PLEASE, as often as you wish. A class blog shouldn't be dead, its just wrong.
YESSSS YOU ARE NOT SEEING THINGS ITS A NEW POST!
(Sighs this blog is dead, we so need to revive it)
This is our very very nice class photo, and I will always remember this as the day that I was feeling high for some reason, and spilt some pretty embarassing things I didn't mean to actually say in front of the class, hur hur. But oh wells.
Since I'm here I shall take the opportunity to say God Bless Everyone :D
And if anyone from the class is reading this, UPDATE PLEASE, as often as you wish. A class blog shouldn't be dead, its just wrong.
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