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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Ok, I really didn't regret going to the German Embassy today, which was some visit organised by the MOELC for willing-to-participate(I thought it was compulsory so I went but it turned out it isn't. But then I decided to go anyway) students.

And I thought I'd be late, but I guess I wasn't. Considering that my teacher was gonna wait from 2.30pm till 2.50pm(I reached at 2.45pm. stupid traffic jam) and I already warned him earlier that I would be late. So when I reached my classmate was like, "Oh, you're not late."(to which I replied, "yes I am." since the official meeting time was 2.30pm) and my teacher gave me that "Wow! You're on time!" look. I think I really gave them the impression that I'd be majorly late.

German Embassy was quite simple and modest looking. White walls, white floor, not much decoration. The place looked so freaking new, it was like stepping into a showroom. I think there aren't a lot of people there.

We were led into the conference room, where they have this long table(like in TVs where they have serious business meetings) with chairs and everyone immediately went all tense and twitchy because we didn't know if we were supposed to sit at the table or at the chairs behind. Turned out it was the table.

So anyway, the guy who was in charge of the embassy(or maybe just in charge of talking to us. Who knows) was beaming at us like mad for some reason, and then he spoke in german. And no one really managed to catch what he said. Then he spoke in English, and his accent was so American I couldn't even detect any German in it. Oh, and apparently he speaks 6 languages(German, English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew. :O :O :O) and did this really neat imitation of how the Americans in Spanish evening class last time couldn't pronounce the Spanish 'no'.

Other than that I think the whole talk itself was quite informative and interesting, if you like such stuff, which I do. It's better than sitting in Biology class listening to mundane explanations of photosynthesis and pollination in detail. I would say it's like a Social Studies lesson.

Oh right, and in the talk the guy mentioned that because Germany started 2 world wars they had really bad historical relations with european countries but know what?
I DON'T THINK THAT GERMANY WAS AT FAULT FOR WORLD WAR I AT ALL!!!!! I mean come on, all they did was to be loyal and join the war on the side of their ally. Is that wrong? It isn't. It's friendship over political ties. And not to mention that they didn't even trigger it. It was some stupid teenager who shot some important guy dead wasn't it? Sure, war is never right. It kills, it tortures, it traumatises. But suppose you weren't even in the position to choose whether you wanted war or not, and only had the choice of remaining loyal. Wouldn't you remain loyal? Maybe some people won't, HYPOCRITES.

Ok, so I guess WWII was their fault. But then think about it. Why did WWII start? Because Hitler was angry about Germany's defeat in WWI. So the cause of WWII is actually WWI(in my opinion anyway) and what caused WWI? Not Germany, definitely. Germany PARTICIPATED, sure, but it DID NOT start the war. Don't they always blame the country that instigated it? And not to mention that Germany had the most number of deaths too.

Actually, wars shouldn't even exist. I mean, you talk about being mature and talking things over and then in the end, you resort to the lowest form of negotiation possible except on a much larger scale. It's pretty much the same 2 little boys fighting over something. And the adults who have the NERVE to tell them to "not use violence" but resolve their differences peacefully actually think it's OK to kill people using mustard gas and weapons and bombs for their own personal interests like territory and resources. Seriously, it's the SAME. They, who claim to be mature, are doing the same childish act and saying it's adult just because they "declare war" and use 'chim' words to cover the meaning of it.

No amount of literary prowess will change the fact that war KILLS. You're willing to exchange LIVES for material possessions. How inhumane can you get? You say there's no choice. There is a choice. There is. No one forced you to rearm or develop weapons for that purpose. No one forced you to invade. You CHOSE to because you WANTED to, don't say there's no choice.

You want to start war? Very well then. Try being in the horrible uncomfortable uniform with dirt all around and mosquitos biting every visible surface of your skin then carrying possibly 10kg on your back and running from place to place for your LIFE and THEN spending majority of your time listening to people screaming because they're either dying or injured and sitting in the trenches which are wet and soggy and filled with corpses of your comrades and you have no choice because it's the only form of protection. Oh yes, in addition, add a heavy thunderstorm and the feeling of being away from home for months. After all that, TELL ME that you want to start a war.

And of course this is entirely different from defence. I was talking about countries that invade and attack. Not countries that are trying to protect themselves.

My Kitchen blogged at Thursday, May 15, 2008

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