Curly poo

Mom bought the most adorable lil puppy which she named Curly... Yeah, *sigh* I know. Don't even say it. All my friends are already laughing themselves silly over it. Still, she's the most gorgeous thing in the world and provides me with endless entertainment. Actually, the credit should go to Edeline too. She's hilarious. Curly's barely 2 months old so mom's still having trouble body trainning her. Basically, today was another one of those episodes where she refused to "do her business" in the designated area and after barracading her in the kitchen for almost two hours, we finally gave up and let her out into the living room. So obviously, the first thing she does is goes for the cream carpets in front of the sofa. Not only does this little squirt manage to pee and poo in one corner but then she decides to go and pee in the other corner too. Edeline was there reprimanding Curly about being very naughty and not learning. If that wasn't enough to keep me entertained, she then came up with a whole bunch of empty threats starting with: if you poo on the cream carpets again, I'm going to beat you. Of course, as T pointed out, I quote: "all Curly can probably hear is a lot of noise coming from this big creature in front of her," which is entirely too true cause even before poor Edeline is done cleaning up, the baby of the house is gallavanting off in a new direction to cause more mischief. Oh well, at least things have become much more lively in the house. ;)

Even the military officials say they need to get out

It's good to see that not all Americans are Bush fanatics and that they realize the extent of the mistakes made two years ago. Personally, I've recently gained a lot of respect for Sen. Chuck Hagel who lightly mocked the white house's intelligence in one sentence: "What I think the White House does not yet understand — and some of my colleagues — the dam has broke on this policy. The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together."

Another favorite quote of mine from the same article is when Hagel said "stay the course" is not a policy. "By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning."

US Presidency for 2008? I'm all for Hagel if only because of his obvious discontent with the situation in Iraq.

People, we have a problem...

I've just been reading the morning news and to justify my political diatribe on specific Western governments, I was suitably horrified by the US's new annoucement about Iraq, Ian Blair's speech and the general behavior of the London Metropolitan police. What the %*$@^ kind of response is "that's dreadful"???!!! Hello! *knock knock* Is anyone in there? You 're responsible for the first degree murder of an innocent man simply because of your ridiculous sanctioning of the harebrained shoot-to-kill policy and all you can say is "that's dreadful"? Are you even human?

And if that does not have you over-brimming with disgust, you'll find that the parties involved within the force are now playing a childish game of "it's not our fault, it's their's" in meager attempts to clear their names of such an unconscionable act. Does it matter whose fault it is now? Seriously! I hope none of the armed police in attendance that day will be able to sleep peacefully for the rest of their lives. I can only imagine what the de Menezes family are feeling now. In truth, T and I were discussing this the other day and we both agreed that Ian Blair should be thinking about resigning. Of course, this is unlikely to happen since he's blatantly refused to do so but this disgraceful act needs closure and someone has to take the blame. The worst part is that Blair actually tries to condemn the media for focusing on the wrong news. He actually has the nerve to compare de Menezes death with the deaths which took place during the bombings. I have never seen anything so preposterous. The nerve of that insolent man! To insinuate that the public is less concerned of one disaster over another is just ludicrous.

I have only one thing to say about the US: Have you not caused enough destruction in Iraq already? Is it not enough that civilians in Iraq don't even have the bare necessities of life, that they have had to fight for food, because of the war that you forced on them? I find the entire situation laugable because now even the Americans themselves are indignant about how long their troops have to stay in Iraq to try and right a wrong they caused which they had no business in being in the first place. Who gave Bush the right to play world police? I'm definitely with France on this one. But then again, one really can't blame the poor country since they have a president with a slightly unhinged ultimate aim of evangelizing the world. Now that is really scary - thank the God(s) for China!

Terror: defending or causing?

The Governments are getting paranoid. Proof that they are comes in the form of the deceased Jean Charles de Menezes. Not that I blame them of course but what happened in this recent incident is clearly uncalled for. Now we find that even the chief of police of one of the major cities in the world is lying to us. What's next? Whom do we trust? For it is evident to one and all that the Governments will not protect us individually anymore if only to defend their ill-bred policies.

Moving with the cheese

I read a book recently titled "Who moved my cheese?" It was a very enlightening book and despite the fact that I had no major changes going on in my life, I found myself thinking back to the past when I did. It gave me new insight into the situation and I regret to say that it's actually taken me this long to figure out that one needs to 'move with the cheese' so to speak. All this while I was hanging on to something of my past because it felt 'safe.' Now I understand that one needs to move forward into the future and let the past good. There's a chinese saying: if the old things don't go, how will the new things come?

So, with this in mind, I'll start a new page in my life. After all, I have better things to do than cling to the past. I have exams to pass! :P