Land Of The Dead @ MindSay

I had a dream about zombies last night. It was very Dawn of the Dead style. I'd gone up to Sydney for some reason in my dream and was in a house with some randoms. We were all friends, but we didn't directly know each other. I'd driven my car up, my littel red Suzuki Serria and it was night when it all happened. The whole, dead are walking the earth thing started. I remember trying to get back to Canberra to make sure everyone was okay. There was minimal traffic of course, most people seemed to drive carefully as if you stopped, that's when they could get you. I remember driving for hours, I wasn't in my car though, it'd been destroyed whilst trying to escape where I was staying.

I remember coming to a bridge that was out. It was a main bridge, with a railway track on one side and road on the other. The whole thing was gone, and just a drop remained. I remember seeing a memorial type shrine which I got ut of the car too look at. There was necklace of beads, some cans of drink and various other items that looked like they had been left in the hope friends would find them. I remember taking the beads for some reason, even though they weren't mine, and the cans of drink. I got back in the car I was driving and I didn't know where to go. I started to reverse and ended up getting attacked by a zombie with an axe. He put it through the passenger side window before I floored it.

I woke up suddenly after to an erie silence in the house. That creeped me out quite thourghly.

And now Land of the Dead is on Foxtel... so I might go watch it...

-- Lory 

Horror is not zombies feasting on human flesh in Land of the Dead.

The real horror isn't in the realms of fantasy where once bitten you become a mindless walking corpse on the hunt for warm human flesh, but in the poorest parts of China where life is cheap.  I heard a missionary named Donald talk about his work there and it was utterly heartbreaking.  Most of us have comfy lives and complain about the littlest things when there are people out there in the world just struggling to survive.

Babies are thrown out with the garbage and found in tips because they have deformities or are disabled in some way.  A state orphanage had children tied to chairs the whole day with holes cut in their pants, and holes cut in the seat of the chairs so if they needed to go to the toilet, they were already in one.  It was only at night that they were put to bed.  In the back there was a dark little room called The Dying Room where kids drew their last breaths.  Donald held onto the hand of a five-year-old boy who was nothing but skin and bones and wondered what this boy ever had to live for.

This particular orphanage has since been transformed with proper help and care, but the babies are still dumped in the tip and on their doorstep.  One -25C day, a little boy was found on the doorstep of the orphanage, his face frostbitten.  There was a swelling tumour in his face that continued to swell so much that his eye popped out of its socket.  When consulted in a hospital, there was nothing the doctors could do.  If they took the tumour out, the boy would have a hole in his face.  So all they could do was keep him comfortable until the day he died.

When you think you're having a bad day, think of these children and Thank God for how lucky you are.  

let's see... i woke up, cleaned, did some laundry, read some hgg, and visited mom while she was working at the townhouse. i only went to drop off one of my uncles, but he insisted that i come inside as well. i always feel a little weird after going there. it's a nice place and everything, but i just try not to go there too often. i dunno though, sometimes i think i've learned to control my feelings so well that i can no longer distinguish between real feelings and feelings i've forced upon myself.

then left at around 4:15 to go see land of the dead with phillip, rachel, lucas, hunter, will, edna, and edna's brother (i don't know his name). it was a both a funny and scary-ish movie. i jumped a few times, i admit, but not as much as rachel. hehe, it was so funny, rachel grabbed phillip when she got scared. and she said she was covering her eyes for a lot of the movie. we were all making fun of her. there were lots of gory parts too. a lot of it was just funny. then we went to a restaurant called sam's. and i'm pretty proud of myself, i didn't get lost. for a change. phillip can attest to that. woo! first time i've been there, pretty good food. i had this big chicken burrito. yummy! but i still couldn't finish it. i got about halfway through. brought the rest home, but i don't know how good it'll be tomorrow. we'll see. hehe, it was also funny when we made fun of will for being whipped. wi-ch! <-- the best i can do spelling out the whipped sound. anyways, i left early, while the rest went to lucas' house to watch team america. all in all, lots of fun. i also got to wear my yellow shoes. yippee :)