Thanks Lilyruth for this wonderful Award. Lily is passionate about blogging and she hosts two blogs “This and That Friendly Cottage” and “Dog Cents“. She just love dogs and for a low donation of $2.50 you can own a virtual pet! The money goes to feed neglected pet dogs!

I feel so honoured to be given this Award and her guidelines to receive this from Lily is based on visits and comments left on her blogs! Similarly I will share this Award with my fellow bloggers who gave the most comments! Clumsymommy, Marzie, Trinity, dbimbo, Kevin Chong, Notesfrommyheart, Rainbow, Zooroopa, J@nice, Bubba Stuff, Keeyit, Waterlearner and In His Time.

Tagged by Mariuca on this Peace Meme lately. First I would like to give credit to Zari for designing this beautiful Peace Symbol and of course thank-you Marzie for this Meme. Marzie rightly said that this Meme helps bloggers to spread some Love and Peace around, reminding everyone to be concious about promoting Peace and Love.

I remembered the days of The Hippies which started sometime in the late 60’s and into early 70’s in America who was involved in what was commonly known as the Vietnam War. They called themselves the Flower Children and the birth of Woodstock where Rock Bands gathered for days to play their music with literally thousands upon thousands lying around having a jolly good time. It was the era of the Rolling Stones, The Beatles etc and the slogan was “Make Love Not War!

It was an anti-war statement by the young adults then who were totally against the war in Vietnam. Even Mohammad Ali then Classius Clay refused to be enlisted into the army as a protest against the war. This Meme is a timely reminder to all of us about the importance of upholding Peace, a rare commodity nowadays be it in regards to Nations, Families, Neighbourhood etc. At all cost we must maintain and promote Peace for without which will be the breaking down of families, societies and nations! Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself!

I am sure the following bloggers will have something to add to promote Peace and Love! Franco, Trinity, Flsam, First Time Dad and Clumsymommy.

Received two emails yesterday reporting about two incidents that could turned out to be terrible crimes! One happened to a woman in the car-park of a popular local shopping mall and the other happened to a mother with two kids on their way to the play ground in a residential area.

In the first case, it happened with some others around but these people were either too stunned or shocked that they did nothing. The woman was approached by two men forcing her to unlock her car with the intention of driving her away in her own car. I dared not think of what could have happened if these two men succeeded! Could be just robbery or a triple crime of rape, murder and robbery! Fortunately that woman had the presence of mind to run when the opportunity came and she escaped. The two men also fled the scene immediately.

The second incident was quite astounding in the sense that it was not robbery but rather two people on motor-bikes approached this mom and two kids, demanding her to give them the youngest kid while having a knife pointed at her. The mom screamed and shouted for help and when the neighbours came out to investigate, the two sped away. Reminded me of the recent spade of crimes involving children being kidnapped sexually molested and murdered.

From such brazen criminal activities, it indicated that safety and security is getting to an alarming level. Its not even safe for moms to bring their kids out to play! Both incidents happened in broad day light with other people around. I can understand that people around may not get involved mainly because they do not understand what is happening more than anything else. Of course there is an element of personal safety involved but mostly I believe that without knowing what is really happening people are reluctant to get involved. Another reason being the surprise factor which usually make one immobilized or in shock.

I am amazed at the boldness of these criminals. Perhaps they know that people around are slow to react to the calls for help and so they are convinced that it would be over in less than a minute! Perhaps they also know that there is a lack of security personnels (who are trained to respond to such situations) around making them bold. I believe our Police Force and Management of shopping malls must seriously come out with effective patrolling or else, our play grounds and shopping malls will be shunned by people. How do you like to live with such fear daily! Dare not go anywhere but stay at home!

Recently done a post on Presumption of adults as compared to kids, today received a Youtube video more or less on the same theme! I titled it as the video, “Don’t Judge Too Quickly” and it will make you laugh! Great Ad though, send the message across! Enjoy!

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