death toll
has reached 55,175 bodies and counting. it's the biggest earthquake in 40 years, underwater and giving rise to what the news dubs 'killer waves'. even after reading all the news and watching the destruction and bodies piling up on tv, it seems unimaginable. the numbers begin to lose all sense of meaning when it keeps climbing. and we had a narrow escape.
from CNA:-
"Singapore, a densely-populated, economically vibrant but tiny island at the foot of the Malaysian peninsular, escaped the tsunamis altogether."
"If the epicentre of the quake had been a little further north, above Sumatra's tip, the tsunamis could possibly have been funneled down the narrow Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, which separates Sumatra from Malaysia and Singapore."
u don't often find me commenting on things happening in the outside world. maybe im a turtle on a mountain (or island), sheltered brat. i used to give the excuse that i don't watch news because after a time i just find it depressing. it disturbs me, the massive numbers sick, bombed, starving, drowning, dying. in some subtle way i feel even unfair that we've never had a major crisis, SARS aside. in some subtle way i wonder why i deserve to be alive when all these others are dead and dying. it's stupid and useless but i just feel disturbed and i cant shake it off.
if i could do something about it, i would.
donations are being collected. a friend sent an sms canvassing clothes, food, and medicine to 19 Dalhousie Lane (behind Tekka Mall) to Sri Lanka.
part of me, too, marvels at the spirit that the entire world is showing in putting its hands together to offer help and aid in this time of unmitigated disaster. if we could all work together in a time like this, why do we ahve to fight ourselves senseless about other trivial stuff like land, money, oil, water? what next, fight for air to breathe?
if only it doesn't take a senseless act of destruction before the rosier side of human nature struggles through.
from CNA:-
"Singapore, a densely-populated, economically vibrant but tiny island at the foot of the Malaysian peninsular, escaped the tsunamis altogether."
"If the epicentre of the quake had been a little further north, above Sumatra's tip, the tsunamis could possibly have been funneled down the narrow Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, which separates Sumatra from Malaysia and Singapore."
u don't often find me commenting on things happening in the outside world. maybe im a turtle on a mountain (or island), sheltered brat. i used to give the excuse that i don't watch news because after a time i just find it depressing. it disturbs me, the massive numbers sick, bombed, starving, drowning, dying. in some subtle way i feel even unfair that we've never had a major crisis, SARS aside. in some subtle way i wonder why i deserve to be alive when all these others are dead and dying. it's stupid and useless but i just feel disturbed and i cant shake it off.
if i could do something about it, i would.
donations are being collected. a friend sent an sms canvassing clothes, food, and medicine to 19 Dalhousie Lane (behind Tekka Mall) to Sri Lanka.
part of me, too, marvels at the spirit that the entire world is showing in putting its hands together to offer help and aid in this time of unmitigated disaster. if we could all work together in a time like this, why do we ahve to fight ourselves senseless about other trivial stuff like land, money, oil, water? what next, fight for air to breathe?
if only it doesn't take a senseless act of destruction before the rosier side of human nature struggles through.
posted by daa | 1:41 am
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