Should I Risk It?

I am going to Malaysia in a couple of weeks to attend a friend's brother's wedding. I need a visa for that and so need to turn in my passport for a week or so. This is fine, except that I really wanted to travel to Indonesia/ Thailand at some point. And though they give visa on entry...they do need to see my passport!! Hence I spent an hour this morning trying to figure out the best flight and hotel deals and contemplating the right time to turn in my passport..

And then I came across this...
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html

My first reaction was obvious shock. But my follow up response almost surprised me. I realized that I was shocked because I could have been in the vicinity, not because such a thing 'could actually happen'. I have gotten so used to hearing about bomb blasts in tourist hotels/ trains/ crowded areas all over the world that I have become desensitized!! What kind of a world do we live in? Where its almost normal to 'expect' a 'terrorist' attack!

So, now the most important question ( of the moment)...should I risk these possibilities? Risk the happenings which we take for granted... read about them on the news and forget about them as soon as something else manages to capture the headlines...should I attempt to travel in South East Asia or should I play it safe and shelve those travels for some other time?