Katrina
I'm sorry, New Orleans. Despite the severity of your situation, I only knew about it 2 days ago. Althought I couldn't do anything to help at all, but it saddens me to be ignorent about the pain your people are going throught right now.
I'm in the office like 15 plus hours a day, the only news I get is throught reading blogs and reading the previous day's papers every morning. It doesn't help when the paper is the infamous chinese tabloids WanBao.
From my limited sources, the only news recently I gathered was the show down battle between the blind dude and the air stewardess. It's covered in a 10 page spread. From blogs I only knew that there was a writer's convention coming up and the battle of XiaXue and KL. So it was a rather peaceful week, or so I thought.
I knew I should have read widely, but people don't wake up everyday rushing to check the news for disaster. I thought such a huge event would have been widely covered. Apperently not.
My mother overheard a man telling the pastor in church " I'm so happy it happens. America deserves it." Guess many people felt the same about US.
The next common thing I heard is, "Why are the people reacting this way? Why the rapes and looting? What has the world come to?"
Sad to say, the world is always like that. They just don't tell you that. Now when I read the papers I'll always remember. Behind 10 pages of local entertainment , lies a dying city in the corner of the last page. Behind every local blog that curse the rapist, the looters and America, lies the victimes of a natural disaster that is turning into a human disater.
I'm sorry New Orleans, my condolences.
I'm in the office like 15 plus hours a day, the only news I get is throught reading blogs and reading the previous day's papers every morning. It doesn't help when the paper is the infamous chinese tabloids WanBao.
From my limited sources, the only news recently I gathered was the show down battle between the blind dude and the air stewardess. It's covered in a 10 page spread. From blogs I only knew that there was a writer's convention coming up and the battle of XiaXue and KL. So it was a rather peaceful week, or so I thought.
I knew I should have read widely, but people don't wake up everyday rushing to check the news for disaster. I thought such a huge event would have been widely covered. Apperently not.
My mother overheard a man telling the pastor in church " I'm so happy it happens. America deserves it." Guess many people felt the same about US.
The next common thing I heard is, "Why are the people reacting this way? Why the rapes and looting? What has the world come to?"
Sad to say, the world is always like that. They just don't tell you that. Now when I read the papers I'll always remember. Behind 10 pages of local entertainment , lies a dying city in the corner of the last page. Behind every local blog that curse the rapist, the looters and America, lies the victimes of a natural disaster that is turning into a human disater.
I'm sorry New Orleans, my condolences.
posted by monotone at 9:20 AM
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