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Of Humanity

I don't know how to exactly write this post, I don't even know what to start it with. I hope this makes sense, well at least I hope at the end, you'll get the message that I intended to deliver. I was watching the 18th episode of Bones Season 8. It was the scene where Agent Booth interrogated a prime suspect of a murder, who was an RUF (Revolutionary United Front) general - the man responsible for recruiting thousands of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during the Sierra Leone Civil War. The suspect wasn't admitting to be the person the FBI agent claimed he is. So Booth then said, "Okay, so here are your choices..." "You either confess to this murder, and you're tried here or... we deport you back to The Hague,  where you have to answer to 17 counts of crimes against humanity ... for which you've already been indicted ." By the time Booth said 'crimes against humanity' , my chest hurt and my heart just broke, and by the

Memories

It's officially 2020, but I can't seem to let go of 2019. 2019 has definitely witnessed a lot of great things (of course there are the not-so-great ones but it's new year so who wants to talk about the not-so-great things right ahaks). This is not another series of my 'WandeRewind' nor any piece of my not-so-deep personal reflection. Just a piece of memory trail, I guess... since I don't really have much time to sit and think about things to write recently hehe 2019 was the year I turned 21. The start of a new decade of my life. It had also marked the 'halfway' journey of my undergraduate years. How did I start my 2019? Oh, with a trip to Vienna and also my first ever Europe solo trip to Bratislava . I still remember sending pictures to my family WhatsApp group just to let them know that I was doing fine being alone in that capital of Slovakia. 2019: Stepping up my game of travelling alone! Nothing exciting really happened throughout my term