May 3, 2007, 1:06am

Friends were trying to give me a surprise birthday party. Well, too bad, I found it out. :P

I feel I'm so loved. Haven't had this feeling for a long long time already... Or I have tried not to feel it.

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Very angry to read the tragedy about the mother setting fire and killed the daughter. Look at this, people. Recognize the fact. Not all mothers are loving. And I don't believe that mothers are "in fact" loving but some of them simply don't know how to show their love.

Look at this. Mothers can kill. Mothers abuse their kids. Mothers don't become saints once they give birth to kids.

Mothers kill and abuse. (Fathers too) They don't necessarily have to have psychological or psychiatric disorders. Mother nature is not completely love and only love.

Yet, somehow, when Mother's Day comes, the newspapers will be flooded with touching stories glorifying mothers. Sometimes some people simply don't want to recognize that reality is different from the ideal.

And they're still giving excuses for her killing. Stress in life, blah blah blah... Can this be accepted as a reason for the guy who shot 33 people dead in Virginia Tech? Why the double standard for a mother's killing? So, mothers kill for a legitimate reason? Would mothers got a reason to abuse kids too?

Damn nonsense. I begin to feel why checking assumptions is so important in statistics. Look at the assumption here. Why mothers are assumed to be saints? If they happen to do the opposite, so many people seem like they don't feel comfortable about it. Then they try to give legitimate external factors to explain the mother's non-loving behaviors.

Genes and environment interact. Mothers' horrible behaviors cannot be explained away by giving only external factors. Mothers are human beings, they got genes. Genes can suck. Or why is there Down's syndrome etc. Mothers got genes. They may suck by nature.