The Cove

ok dudes, on a sidenote..i opened Yahoo! and saw this news:

"Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008."
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090916/tts-science-climate-warming-ozone-wmo-c1b2fc3.html

Great job guys, if we keep it up, we may be able to buy some time for our scientists to help recover our ozone layer!! yay! Alright, switch off the main switch and spray less insecticide etc, got it! :)

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The Cove

Thanks to Diy, who introduced the show, i managed to catch it tonight with Rosy and the sis. Well, i bet Rosy and my sis are racking their head out trying to blog out how we felt and what we saw tonight on the film and same here, i'm just trying to find the right words to say to express how i feel. we are in a situation now where we type something and the next minute, we backspace it...truth is, there is too much to say and too much we felt. For one, i am really really glad that i watched it, i needed that boost, to pressure me into wanting to help. i felt ashamed halfway through, after seeing what people did for the dolphins in taiji, getting arrested, and really, getting yourself into really deep shit. i wished i could do the same, i wished i had the guts. and you know how you watch these kinda shows and get really agitated and start to think nonsense, well, at one point, the irrational part of me said: "heck japan, i will go there and throw myself in between the dolphins and the fishermen, get myself killed or arrested or banned from japan, i dont care." WHO wouldn't think of that??! but then after awhile, you start to think, so what do you get when you get arrested/killed/banned from japan? answer: that 2 minutes of fame on the news, which really isnt worth it at all. right ok, more about the show, less about me. i thought two scenes were particularly impactful:

1. the escaped dolphin
i think this little baby did more than he/she ever imagined. this little dolphin could be the reason why 5 strangers have decided to become vegetarians, and the reason why this film will be getting a million and one awards. this little dolphin must have knew, he/she swam out of the cove, towards the shore, towards the camera crew with his/her blood trailing along behind, trying to endure the pain, you could see him/her thrashing about and then the camera shot a hole in the belly before he/she finally gave up...tell me, what else can you do?

2. Mr Ric O'Barry
o brilliant man, he, banned by the international whaling commission from attending their meetings, walked into the room while the meeting ws in procession, with a TV hanging over his chest. the tv was playing footages of the dolphin massacre. he walked among the rows, in front of all the delegates who were surprised by this latest method of advertisement and then stood right in the middle of the stage, without even saying anything (i think). all the media just came straight up to him and his tv and started rolling away....until security came and brought him away. what an awesome thing to do. forget titanic or jurassic park, this is the best scene i have ever seen in my whole entire life up till now and i thank him for it. i think he might have just jumped to the no.2 spot in my role model list (after mr steve irwin of course.)haha!

anyways, i absolutely love this film and i feel like i just got an extra push! i hope i continue to work hard and think about the dolphins and whales and all other animals! if i am not wrong, the taiji massacre is still suspended and lets hope it remains suspended forever! brilliant, i am now waiting for the news to report the ban on whaling and dolphin slaughter! be strong guys!

for Ric o'barry, for the OPS team and for everyone who loves our dolphins, we will do it :)


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