The Lady ♥

Monday, May 26, 2008 Y

I've always know that I'm fortunate to be living in Singapore, having food, water, shelter and clothes within my reach. All Singaporeans are just like me, living in a world without natural disaster or political riots or racial riots.

Therefore sometimes we take things for granted: Wanting the unnecessary stuffs, spending money without thinking twice, wanted more food that we could possibly swallow, whining about how miserable our lives are, or just whining in pain of a simple bruise. All these luxury(yes even slight pain is considered a luxury) do not exist for the people in Si Chuan in China.

The earthquake took countless numbers of lives, injured countless people, and broke countless families apart. We weren't there to witness the tragedy, but yesterday night's charity show.. I saw the graphics of the damage done to China --> Lives lost, parents weeping over their children's bodies, children still holding onto the last glimpse of hope that the parents are safe under furnitures or debris.

There was this particular performance that made tears welled up in my eyes and my heart ached. It was a poem recited by 2 girls, 1 old and 1 young... The title of that poem was "妈妈别哭"(Mummy, don't cry). It wasn't the way the poem was recited, it was the content of that poem that I couldn't hold back the tears... The content was from a dead child's point of view, the things the child would want to say to the parents... Thinking about that even right now made me realized i was even more fortunate than I initially thought I was.

The sum that was collected yesterday through the charity show was nearly 7million SGD, so about 35mil if converted to RMB(china $). Giving money i think is the best way we can do to help them out.

Usually the natural disasters that happened don't give people this kind of feelings even after so long a time... Gosh, it was really heart breaking to see or hear these kind of news.

I really hope Louis' famous line: "Love and Peace Everywhere"will always be true and fulfilled at any part of the world.

After all, strangers are just family members whom you have yet to meet.

Y The Lady @
11:54 AM