Good Morning! 1st January 2005

Last year when i was going out, i overheard that the esplanade is cancelling the fireworks for new year cos alot of them are grieving for the tsunami victims. A number of places are actually cancelling the celebrations as well. WHat the heck. Although its a big scale thing, lives are lost, lives are fragile, homes are wrecked, earthquake and tsunamis that happened so near to us, its just that its not us yet. The radio said: It happened to the world, it happened to us. Here's my two cents worth. Its all bullshit. Its a natural disaster. We cannot prevent it. We can only avoid it. We have the watever trackter to track watever vibrations of the earth and movements of the volcanoes. Wat happened to that? Wat about man made disasters? Nuclear bombs? War? Iraq? Terrorists? Lives are lost, homes are wrecked too. Wat about the poorer countries that kids dying of malnutrition? Its happening everyday. Arent we suppose to grieve everyday? Arent we suppose to stop partying totally then? Why dun we all become Mother Theresa or even Ghandi to make the world better place then? Maybe thats the hot topic for now, For the news. Maybe it happened near new year. And another thing: Wat about the trees we killed? the earth we stomped onto the ground to build high rise buildings? We can only take control of the world but not the other way round. How ironic. Who are we anyway?