i know that my parents aren't the best out there in parenting. in fact, they have probably made damn a lot of mistakes in their lives regarding our upbringing. i feel quite upset sometimes because i feel that i have to prove to people that they do care for me, just maybe in a different way that your parents would care for you.

i know my dad would fetch me if i asked him to but it's inconsiderate of me to expect them to fetch me so far just so i can travel somewhere for fun.

and my mom is crazy sometimes but then she buys my favourite food because she specifically knows i like to eat them and calls me many times a day when i am overseas to make sure i am okay. she also wants to get me a supplementary credit card because i don't have one so that i will be okay in another country.

yes. my family is very inconsiderate at times. but it really really hurts when someone i hold dear to me think of them negatively.

they have never asked money from me also. i just feel like doing my part since i am earning money by giving them some every month. in fact, my mom forks out money regularly herself for me and doesn't mind if i don't pay her back.

she's bitchy sometimes but she's still my mom.

i know my parents cannot compare to a lot of other great parents out there. but they are the only ones i have.

so please please do not make comments such as that anymore. i know i am super sensitive about them and i know that you are super opinionated about a lot of things but i have never made such comments about your family so please do not say that about mine. just as you love your family very much and as much as they love you back, i feel the same about mine  

I've been keeping up with the latest spectacle lately, and all that drama which is currently unfolding amidst the start of the new hunting season of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.

I knew The Cove won an Oscar earlier this year, I just have not had the chance to watch it yet. I also was not familiar with their organization, and their affiliates until much later this year, around July.

Reading much about their cause in Taiji, and trying to save some of the thousands of dolphins that get slaughtered is pretty heartbreaking.

I decided to watch The Cove, after having my interest peaked when reading up articles about what was really going on in Taiji and why the fishermen would want to kill these animals.

The movie... is something any human should watch, really. The last bit of the movie was extremely gory, and irony of ironies, it wasn't a horror movie, nor was it special effects. It was reality. The water of the ocean at the cove where the slaughter was going on turned a bloody red because of the massacre. You could hear the cries of the dolphins which were almost deafening because they were afraid, much like how humans would be too if they were the ones being killed instead.

I had a friend, a Japanese friend commented on the links that I posted up saying that these poor fishermen should be left alone and later on mentioning that I have been blinded by these films as well.

He left me an email which I requested from him, detailing why the movie was fraud.

His argument was baseless, in my opinion, and pretty much so far from the point that any person who loves animals is trying to prove and make you understand.

He said that there were a couple of scenes in the movie which were made up, such as the scene where the couple was sobbing after witnessing a baby dolphin struggling from the slit in her throat and swimming up for air, and eventually drowning. The part where the couple was sobbing did not happen in reality, he said. They filmed that part seperately, where the couple was just standing at the beach, crying at nothing.

There were other bits which he said were untrue. The director of the museum did not get fired, as stated in the movie. Private Space, a weird Japanese guy against these activists who kept hanging around and filming them was not removed from his position as the movie mentioned at the end.

My question is... isn't my friend arguing semantics? Isn't the point of the movie to highlight the act os mass senseless slaughter of the dolphins which are cruel, rather than the other points of the movie which may or may not have been true? The bit where the baby dolphin was swimming in futile towards shore with blood spilling out of his neck was undeniably true. The bit where they speared hundreds of dolphins within a couple of minutes were undeniably true.

So how is the movie false and spreading lies if the main part of it cannot be denied or made up anymore than him trying to defend his countrymen for the sake of them just being Japanese?

If there are Malaysian farmers being cruel to cows, and mass killing them senselessly, then it's just that. That is all there is to it. They are doing a cruel act, and they should be stopped. Perhaps a movie was made about these people and in it, there were some deliberate takes or scenes filmed, to be addedinto the movie. But the act of senselessly killing the cows themselves cannot be denied.

This is what I was trying to emphasize. And this was what was deliberately ignored by my friend.

How can you justify such a barbaric act?

That it's culture? Tradition? How can it be culture or tradition if it involves only 26 of you? and not the other millions that constitute your country?

Please help sign the petition. They had already presented 1.4million signatures much earlier to the US embassy in Tokyo earlier, and now aiming for a much higher number. Every single one counts as a voice to contribute to the stop of these killings. I have already signed. So have a number of my friends. It takes less than 1 minute, so please help out if you do come across this tiny little website.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/724/210/624/

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