The boy has been busy reading and talking about all sorts of natural calamities but what he didn’t realise was that his auntie’s family in Philippines was badly affected by typhoon Fengshen. Luckily, her family members are all safe as they managed to evacuate in time. One of her friends wasn’t so lucky cos her father was buried alive by the landslide. So even though yesterday was meant to be a birthday celebration, they were all choked full with sadness.
When he grows old enough to understand, I hope he’ll realise that he’s lucky in a way. That even though he resides in a small little island, he is kept fairly safe from such disasters that are rocking the other parts of the world.
Many natural disaster happening.
Glad your cousin is ok and all.
Kay: Er…auntie refers to our domestic helper.
Comment by Kay — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 @ 10:32 am
Ya man, we’re really lucky to be void of all these natural disasters…there seems to be many unfortunate happenings around the world recently…
Comment by Eileen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 @ 4:31 pm
It has been really bad the last few months, one disaster after another.
We’re the few lucky countries who are being spared.
Comment by zara's mama — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 @ 11:43 am
there were so many diasters recently and Rayner’s been reading bits of pieces of news here and there and he been gathering information and processing it within himself. And one fine day, he told me, mummy, the people in the china very poor thing, did you donate money to help them….my son has truely grown and matured.
We should be so so fortunate in our little island!
Comment by Jan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 @ 1:29 pm