Thursday, December 30, 2004
// When disaster strikes

Bahh. Every time I log on to CNA's website, the death toll keeps rising. My heart goes out to all the victims and those who have lost loved ones. Its scary how a small movement in the Earth's crust can lead to such a disaster. Seriously! Viewing the pictures and videos really send shivers down my spine.

I'm really thankful our small sunny island of Singapore is unscathed. I wouldn't want to imagine what would happen should the tsunami happened in the South China Sea. My instincts (or maybe just plain old common sense) tells me that the whole of Singapore had the possibility of just disappearing and just cease to exist. I shudder at that thought.

Now since this is a natural disaster, no one can point fingers at anyone. Every other calamity that strikes this poor world, fingers are pointed at just about anybody. Now we can't. No point saying its Indonesia's fault for not having those neat thingamabobs to detect the tsunami. They have no money man. Really sad, considering the fact that Indonesia is relatively volcanic. So shouldn't that be the first thing they invest in? Oh well. They do have other pressing problems. Yikes. This content sounds so GP-ish.

So yea. As all of you would have known, there is a mass appeal for donations of any kind to the appropriate organisations. To list them out would take a long long time since there are so many of them. Singaporeans have a good heart. If they can spend hundreds of dollars a week voting for their favourite Idol, what's a $50 donation to those who need it, right?