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Saturday, September 10, 2005

reality hits hard

SINGAPORE: A woman's severed head and limbs were found next to Orchard MRT Station on Friday.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/167369/1/.html

Sad reality. What a gruesome find by the cleaner. It must have been a big shock to him. I don't understand the need for murderer's to cut their victims into bits and pieces.What is exactly going on the murderer's mind when he did that? Did he enjoy what he saw when he did the act? Like some kind of thrill to see the blood oozing out, and bits of the flesh flying around? Do they feel really guilty and frightened after they did that? Or were they craving for more? Sometimes I really wonder what's the point behind doing all these are, and what triggers them to do such a nasty act.

Well I guess it is no doubt that our psychology is greatly affected from the various exposure we get from the media. Look at what we are watching on television everyday. Yes, it is nothing wrong for the scriptwriter to release his imagination wildly. And if he doesn't, we might very well be watching soap opera everyday. Something not very appealing, isn't it? But looking from another point of view, these awful scripts that are being written and exposed to us, the masses, stimulates a very unhealthy mindset.

Even your daily television serial carries along in it a certain amount of violence. Who hasn't seen a television serial with some psychotic killer in it? Just to mention some, remember the show where actor Chen Han Wei who acted as a crazy man that woke up from a long coma and ended up wanting to kill his wife and best friend? Or maybe take the show "Meng Zai Shou Li" where the crazy uncle acted by Huang Wen Yong wanted to kill his wife, his niece, his niece's fiancee and another lady whom was close to his niece.

Television can be a dangerous! Just look at the amount of violence in what we see daily! And now days with kids staring into the black box almost 90% of the time, wrong messages can be conveyed to them if they do not watch certain programs under parental guidance. But with the busy life a typical parent lives in, it is really hard to have a good control in every aspect in life. Yes, these television dramas always carry along a similar ending message that tells us that violence is not the way to resolve problems. But in a fit of anger when you are fuming mad and you let your imagination run wild, and all these violent acts pollutes into your mind. You might just end up being a murder seconds later. But the television is here to stay. That is for sure.

Perhaps the television is not the only median that exposes us to all this violence. For example the game Counter-Strike. It was a big gaming hit in Singapore a few years ago. Well I won't deny I love to play that game. Basically the game is all about killing spree. Killing, killing and more killing. With the highest number of kills you get, you become the top fragger and you would receive admiration from people around you. What exactly each player feels when they receive this kind of admiration? The sense of satisfaction of killing plus the increasing urge to kill more so as to maintain as the top? But for me, it is only a little praise for my accuracy and speed in playing. It doesn't mean anything more. We've heard the media reporting that youngsters getting hooked on the game haven't we. It is hard to come out with a proper explaination why the game was such a addiction. I've had a friend who told me that he scrimped and save on his meals so that he could spent more time in the lan shop after school. He even missed going back home to rest so just that he could play more of the game. Well, even if the game didn't bring him much negative effect on his mentality, it definately had harmed his health.

The reason why I brought up this game was because I had a negative encounter when playing it a few days ago in school. One of the player (who was in my enemy's team) started abusing vulgarities at me after being killed by me everytime we met. Well, I guess he was boiling mad for he didn't like the feeling of losing everytime. But it is only a game. A game that I felt he took too seriously. I bet with high stakes that he was damn pissed off and everytime a new round starts, he would swear to himself that he would kill me. Well, there you've got! The negative effects on a person's mind when exposed to violent games. Thank God he didn't know my real identity for I wouldn't want someone stalking me preparing to strike any moment! =p

On a serious note, what have mankind turned into? Beast? It won't be surprising that the future generations would turn into cannibals. With so many psychopaths popping up in every corner in Singapore, I think Singapore very soon qualifies as a psychotic country. What a pity.

While I penned my thoughts down, the rain drops fell hard on my rooftop. All the pitter patter drowned the soft music from my pc. And as I gazed outside, I thought to myself: I could die any moment for life is so fragile, so unpredictable.

3:27 PM
i spilled milk on the lawn