#120 a teen-survivor’s courage

I want to record this one of many human stories…the Sichuan earthquake has seen survivors young and old saved from rubbles from several to hundreds of hours after the quake struck; in one case, water fed with love by one’s spouse.
Xue Xiao, the 17-year-old, was saved after he survived 80 hours in the rubble — his parents [...]

#119 one prays for China

I’m praying that my Lord Jesus Christ will give the Chinese the courage to face tomorrow and at some unkind and callous words of discouragements to the victims and people of China. 
I pray for all aftershocks to cease and allow those in authority to concentrate on reconstruction and serving her people.
I pray for salvation and healing [...]

#118

多难兴邦 :
the 4-character Chinese phrase is an apt encouragement given to the students by Premier of China after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan that took many lives and left 5 million or more homeless.
The Chinese language has that terse quality in describing the devastation as nation’s hardships. I doubt if the English language is able or do justice to translate these [...]

#117 when earth shook

He cried when the earth shook
schools, hospitals and homes turn to rubble
burying the living
roads inaccessible.
In helplessness,
man dropped his differences and ego
to help the devastated.
Courage found in victims to start afresh…

He cried when his wife left him
the innocent 15-month-old son
a stamp of their short-gun marriage
causing a deeper earthquake
in life.

#116 rain

The sounds of rain…soothing…
‘Tis music shutting out noise
made by thoughtless young
in deep of night
consoling the awoken light sleeper.

No home to return?
Has loneliness drown you to love
hearing your voices?
Has loudness become your companion
in still of night?

#115 public library users

Have you visited a public library where you find bags on seats and not a human being?!
Are these seats reserved? Are users allowed to reserve seats in public libraries?
I found out from the librarian — at the Central Library, officers were not allowed to remove the bags; at the Jurong public library, the officers were allowed to [...]

#114 a 3-day national mourning

image from xinhua
Wenchuan earthquake claimed 40,000 to date… The air was filled with ammonia and lime powder to prevent epidemic resulting from the decayed under the inaccessible rubbles.

On 19th May at 2.28pm, China called for a national 3 minutes silence with sounds of air-raids, honks of cars and ships to observe those who died at [...]

#113

Most interesting! I received this sms on the recent happenings in China — when adding the single numerics, they all add up to 08.

On Jan 25, the snowstorm preventing many from returning home for family reunion at the Spring festival celebration – mother nature from the sky (天灾）:   1+2+5= 8
Mar 14, human rights groups gathered in protest about Tibet during the Olympic Torch Relay – man [...]

#112 earthquake 4

A Time’s reporter wondering why the earthquake was not predicted (even when she knew earthquake was not predictable) when it first struck.
Alerting a tremor is different from predicting a tremor.

#111 earthquake 3

I continue to follow the earthquake at Sichuan with great heaviness. Like BBC’s James Reynolds shared — one cannot fully understand the scale of disaster or even describe fully that seen on sight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/ – on 16th & 18th May posts.
Yesterday at 2.28pm — that was when the 7.9 richter scale earthquake struck on 12th May, China observed [...]