Ying Ying... Nurin... Presheena... and countless other innocent nameless, faceless victims of killers amongst us.

How many more?

At times like this we question.. we question the justice, or rather the injustice of life. What wrong did they do to deserve this? Nothing. Tragedy knows not it's victims.

Same with the news about finding Nurin. Sometimes we wonder if it's better not to know and keep hope alive, or whether the knowing is better, when there's no cause for hope anymore... Because hope hurts.

I feel for the families. Watching the reports on TV,reading the stories... it's sad. And the saddest thing is that there's nothing we can do do to help them save for offering them moral support and being there. Which isn't much.

At times like these we are faced with our own mortality. That we don't know which hug, which smile or laughter will be our last. Nobody expected the tragedy to happen, and yet it did. It happened, and who knows what was the last thing they did... would they regret the petty quarrel they had last night? Would their last memory of the dead be that of sorrow and pain?

Perhaps the only thing we can do it to learn from it. To realise that our life hangs on a fragile thread, and that we should never take out loved ones for granted..

Then perhaps, if this is the lesson that we learn, then maybe their deaths, though tragic, will not be so senseless...


Darshini Rajan at 5:14am November 16, 2007
Hope indeed can hurt. But if there is no hope then what use is there in life? So we hope and pray. That maybe this thing called hope won't hurt so much...We're survivors Vys and we will pull through...Love you!

Dod Chin at 7:04pm November 18, 2007
u'd be surprise how much weight moral support actually carries. so never underestimate it darling. being there for someone isn't nothing much. it could mean the world, especially since what had happened is irreversible. so thank you for being there and offering support when i needed it. -xxx-

Michael Ooi Su Guan at 12:57pm November 19, 2007
As Forest would say, life is but a box of chocolates... you never know what it would bring... It may be sorrow, it may be joy, we can never tell what comes... The important thing, is to enjoy what joy we have as they come, like love and friendship. Knowing that others support you, and feel as you do, helps sustain us through the sorrows we meet. ... Read MoreFor even in sorrow, there can be joy, for sorrows bring people closer together. Sorrows help us become more human. Sorrow helps us to grow and appreciate that which are important to us. And maybe... maybe the next chocolate will be joy. How much sweeter it would taste, after the bitter...