so it has been 5 years since the twin towers were crashed..
i can still remember that day clearly when it all happened..
i was in the st nicks school canteen studying with michelle for we were going to have a physics test the next day.. i could still remember it was on pressure.. (think manometer.. haha..) and we studied well into the evening and then left for home..
when i reached home.. i continued studying after dinner in my room.. the radio was switched on and the next thing i knew.. i heard jamie yeo's voice announcing on the radio that a plane had crashed into the world trade centre.. i was thinking what? is this some kind of a joke? why would anyone want to crash their plane at world trade centre? (think harbourfront) so i decided that it was a prank and continued studying.. but jamie yeo kept repeating the announcement after each song and i decided to watch channel news asia to check it out..
and there i saw a plane crashed into the New York world trade centre and i was just stunned beyond words.. i quickly yelled for my parents to watch the news and the whole family just sat in front of the tv shell-shocked.. and before we could come to terms with the first crash.. we saw the second plane crashed into the building LIVE.. yeap.. i can still rem the whole thing.. it was horrible.. soon.. teeny sized ppl were filmed jumping out of their hundred plus floor office and it was only then i really felt the fear and desperation those people were feeling.. imagine sitting in ur office and a plane crashes ten floors up from ur office.. OR WORSE.. ten floors down.. that's when u really have no way out.. and u start seeing ur colleagues turning frantic and jumping off the building.. what would you have done?
and for the months to come.. you hear about how brave firemen risked their lives to save people only to be crushed when the towers collapsed.. about how the heroic passengers in the planes fought the terrorists and prevented them from achieving their aims only to end up crashing elsewhere.. about how the passengers called their loved ones from the plane when they realised that they are going to die.. about how the people in tower 2 could have actually survived if they were not told to stay put in the tower after the first crash..
sigh.. what's the point of this post? i don't know.. maybe it's for us to treasure life more? to be glad that we are still alive? to live each day happily and to the fullest? i look at my blogskin and it says:
The most important thing is to enjoy life - to be happy - that's all that matters.
corny? yea.. cheesy? absolutely.. i first chose my blogskin cos i thought audrey hepburn was really pretty and did not care much about that funny phrase.. but that's really how life should be.. how many of u now are truly happy and enjoying life? or are we all upset about something and thus preventing us from living the way we should and want.. are these things that upset you really worth it? or now that u think about it and u realised they are really petty issues compared to suffering that's happening elsewhere in the world?
ah wells.. this post has gone on long enough.. it shld end here..
on a side note..
mocha was watching cnn with my dad when he started growling at the tv.. i looked up to see osama bin laden.. hurhur.. so i carried mocha and told him.. "you don't really like him do you.. well.. i dun think he likes you very much either.."
hurhur.. yep.. lame i noe..
GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE!
This is Me.
