Gavrilo Princip actually wanted a sandwich...

My mum asked me if I wanted to pay a visit to Giant this evening. 

"Want to go to Giant?"

"What? No thanks."

"Why not?"

"I'm scared."

"Of what?"

"Lots and lots of people?"

"If we see a traffic jam, we could just turn back..."

"NO!"

And that was how I ended the really short conversation that could've ended in my demise. 

Maybe not that bad.

It's scary. Just because this place sells really, really, really cheap goods, everyone flocks to it like ants to a sugar cube. 

This afternoon, I just had to force myself to read a bit of History. I sum up the start of the First World War like this:

- Germany is united by Count Otto Von Bismarck (whose dad shares a birthdate with me) after the Franco-Prussian war.

- Germany and Italy get jealous of Britain and all the other countries who have colonies in the East.

- Germany manages to find herself some colonies in the East and starts working on her army and navy.

- Everyone gets jealous of Germany, particularly Britain.

- Arms race begins, because both Britain and Germany want to show each other who's boss or "Mistress of the Sea".

- The British reveal the ultimate battleship of the time. The HMS Deadnought- I meant, Dreadnought was launched on the 10th of February 1906. Interestingly, "dread" means fear something that is going to happen and "nought" means nothing. Therefore, HMS Dreadnought means His/Her Majesty's Ship that fears nothing. From my understanding, that is. I may be wrong.

- Eight years later, Britain builds 32 of these ships and Germany builds 20, because I think they copied off Britain, so it was a bit slow.

- The European countries decided to gang up against each other and call themselves really lame names such as the "Triple Alliance" and the "Triple Entente". Germany, Italy (both the jealous countries) and Austria-Hungary decided to become "friends", while Britain, France and Russia decided to adopt this gay-ish "if anything happens to another, we'll seek revenge for you" policy. Which is exactly what they did.

- So what happened? To make things simple...

...Russia thought she was the "protector" of the Slavs (a type of people. Like, Chinese and Malays. We're types of people. These Slavs happened to live in the Balkan states, e.g. Serbia.), but that had nothing to do with it, until...

...Austria-Hungary took Bosnia and Herzegovina under her. The poor Serbs felt unhappy (I guess everyone was a bit pissed then. No internet, television, come on, I'd be a tad vexed then, too) about that and the unhappiest ones formed the "Black Hand". The Black Hand decided that their time had come when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Countess Sophie thought they'd go for a drive through Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

So they were driving through the city, but they didn't know the Black Hand were prepared. 

"At 10:15 A.M., when the six car procession passed the central police station, nineteen-year-old student Nedeljko Čabrinović hurled a hand grenade at the archduke's car. The driver accelerated when he saw the object flying towards him and the bomb exploded under the wheel of the next car. Two of the occupants, Eric von Merizzi and Count Boos-Waldeck were seriously wounded. About a dozen spectators were also hit by bomb splinters.

After Čabrinović's bomb missed the Archduke's car, five other conspirators, including Princip, lost an opportunity to attack because of the heavy crowds and the high speed of the Archduke's car. To avoid capture, Čabrinović swallowed a cyanide pill and jumped into the River Miljacka, but was hauled out and detained by police.
Franz Ferdinand later decided to go to the hospital and visit the victims of Čabrinović's failed bombing attempt. In order to avoid the city centre, General Oskar Potiorek decided that the royal car should travel straight along the Appel Quay to the Sarajevo Hospital. However, Potiorek forgot to inform the driver, Franz Urban, about this decision. On the way to the hospital, Urban took a right turn into Gebet Street.
Princip had gone into Moritz Schiller's cafe for a sandwich, having apparently given up, when he spotted Franz Ferdinand's car as it drove past, having taken the wrong turn. After realizing the mistake, the driver put his foot on the brake, and began to back up. In doing so the engine of the car stalled and the gears locked, giving Princip his shot. Princip stepped forward, drew his pistol, and at a distance of about five feet, fired twice into the car. Franz Ferdinand was hit in the neck and Sophie in the abdomen, and they both died before 11am."

                                                                           -Source from Wikipedia. 

So with their heir to the throne dead, Austria threw a terrible tantrum and declared war on Serbia. As I had mentioned earlier, Russia saw herself as protector and went to help Serbia. 

Then Germany declared war on Russia because Austria was her urm..."friend". 

Then Germany declared war on France, I think 'cause she felt like it.

When Germany followed her "Schlieffen Plan", she invaded Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany because France was part of the Allies too, like Britain was.

To sum it all up, Germany loved names (Schlieffen Plan), France loved numbers, (Plan Seventeen), and Britain loved the alphabet (Plan W). Aw.

How do you even pronounce that? Schlieffen.