uck in our bad habits. We even have bad habit COMBINATIONS, deadly indeed. Well, okay, not deadly. That's a mere over-exaggeration, but you know what i mean. For some people, it's smoking. Weed, Ciggs, whatever. It could be drugs, it could be drinking. Taggin', bangin'. Fighting. Violence. There are so many possibilities. OH, and don't forget, there are GOOD HABITS tooo! Well, lately, i've been having the worst case of this bad habits combination that i've
ever had in my life. LAZINESS + PROCRASTINATION + LACK OF SLEEP, now isn't that horrible? I could have turned in a project today for extra credit, but i've been slackin' lately. i'm sluffffin. It's not due until Monday anyway. This week-end i've gotten myself an ASSLOAD of homework and i plan to get most of it done. I AM DETERMINED :)I intentionally made this blog so i could write every day or something, but my laziness has been kicking in on full blast lately. I've been wanting to update this for so long, but i've been putting it off. You can tell by my last posting.
"i'll post more tommorrow when i get home, currently i am watching Rush Hour II at the parent's crib, yo."
Hah, that was REAL sucessful right? I don't even think i went home the day after that last posting. Maybe i did? i don't know.
So lately, i've been thinking on a whole lot of different things.
Subtropical storm Andrea didn't get to hit Florida or Georgia. That's a good and bad thing. good, because no one was injured or died.. as it could have happened with a storm. But the bad thing is, that those places really needed the rain. Subtropical Andrea hit the coasts of Florida and Georgia, a whole three weeks before hurrica
ne season. It's super dry over there, and it's called a drought. There are wildfires burning, killing land, not to mention adding onto global warming. Have you ever seen An Inconvient Truth? It's a documentary made by Al Gore, the guy who lost in the elections to Bush. If we don't act now, we will lose the earth. Our children and children's children and so on... they need an earth to live on after we're gone.
So i recently read the beginning of a book from my World History teacher's book collection and In 30 minutes of reading while being hella sleepy, i learned a lot. This book is called The Rape Of Nanking by Iris Chang. This book is about an infamous war crime, that took place in what was known then the capital of China, Nanjing. Janjing was known as Nanking at the time. This crime is called The Nanking massacre, but is most commonly known as The Rape Of Nanking. The Japanese militia went there and started killing innocent people. 300,000 out 
of 600,000 people were killed. Blood was seen everywhere, anyone could be killed by a soldier without reason at anytime. No one was spared, not even pregnant women. They were raped and their bellies were slit open, fetuses pulled out. Babies were sliced into thirds and fourths.. People were burned alive, shot, drowned, strangled, buried alive. Women were raped by soldiers. Soldiers made fathers rape their daughters, and sons their 
mothers. People not killed right away were brought to the outskirts of the city, and forced to dig their own graves to be buried alive. People were lined up and shot in rows. This was a terible genocide. I also read in the book that many people don't know as much as they need to know about the Nanking Massacre. This event isn't mentioned much in textbooks, and isn't really tought in Japan. Iris Chang was named maybe one of the best young historians ever by Hilary Clinton. This book sold more than a half a million copies when it was first published in 1997. It is truly Ms. Chang's most famous work. She suffered from depression and wrote 3 books (Including The Rape Of Nanking) before she committed suicide while writing her 4th book. She had a nervous breakdown and was found dead in her car by gunshot in her mouth by pistol. Iris Chang is a remarkable woman, and i idolize her. There is said to be a documentarty called NANKING, based on her book to come out this year, 2007. Rest In Peace Iris Chang.Okay, maybe that lack of sleep is kicking in now, but i have satisfied my writing craving. I'm pretty sleepy, all i want to do is relax. AAAANNNNNDDDD it is DEAD cold at my parent's crib. I should get another something to put on over this tank top. Haa.
Kathy Over & Out.
1 comment:
It seems like the Asian community in the United States has no problem with Japan being portrayed heroically in World War II.
http://azntv.com/axawards/night_of_excellence/winners.aspx
Outstanding Film: Letters from Iwo Jima
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima tells the untold story of the Japanese soldiers who defended their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima itself, the unprecedented tactics of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai) and his men transform what was predicted to be a swift defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. Their sacrifices, struggles, courage and compassion live on in the taut, gripping film Rolling Stone calls “unique and unforgettable.” It is the powerful companion to Flags of our Fathers.
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I am not one to hold a grudge but the Japanese used Chinese citizens for chemical warfare testing. The Chinese still haven’t forgiven them for that.
And somehow American history has lost the stories of how the Japanese treated American Prisoners of War
And how about the Rape of Nanking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EL3h8rTwvg
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4920138942953644691
But, no to Clint Eastwood (and I guess the American Asian Community who honored his film) the Japanese soldiers were merely defending their homeland against those mean olde invading American imperialists.
Clint Eastwood is a traitor to America who has denigrated all those who fought in the Pacific as merely racist imperialists going after the yellow men instead of the liberators of Asia which they really were.
I spit on Clint Eastwood! No wonder Hollyweird can’t distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in Iraq when they can’t even do that when it comes to the Japanese in World War II.
By the way, on the Truth Serum video, of course I disagree with the whole part accusing Bush or America covering it up in order to get access to the scientific research that the Japanese inhumanly performed. That is just insane.
But everything else on that Truth Serum video seems historically accurate. If that isn’t the case, I would really appreciate someone educating me to the inaccuracies in the video.
I do wonder why we didn’t after World War II convict Japanese of War Crimes to the extent we did the Germans. They Japanese did terrible things to AMERICAN POWs. From my understanding the Japanese treated American POWs far worst by and large than the Germans did. And then of course there was the way they treated the Asian Civilian communities they invaded. They never seemed to be personally held accountable for it the way the Germans were the Holocaust.
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