Tsunami 26 December 2004

The Tsunami has certainly rocked not only Asia, but the whole world. The devastation has caused an unimaginable number of lives at 155,000 dead to date. One would never thought such disaster ever happens in Asia, and so close to home too. A friend of mine who was in Taiping at that time claimed that he felt tremors that morning. With people dead before your eyes and everywhere around you, your possessions strewed all around you, your loved one missing and not knowing their well being, what do we do? Where do we even start? Who do we ask for help, when everyone is helpless and infrastructure completely destroyed?

Seeing the aftermath of the trajedy on tv has made me realise how vulnerable we all are. We can just be gone within seconds. One moment we are there, the other we're gone. All our loved ones, belongings and possessions wiped out before our eyes.

It has started me thinking. What if it was me? It could have been me and my family. I cannot imagine the loss the tragedy had caused. While we sleep in our comfortable beds, there are people out there who have nothing but the clothes on their backs and their homes reduced to rubbles, still wondering around hoping to find their loved ones, neglecting their own injuries.

We can only help by contributing food and money, but nothing can replace their loss and grief.

Al - Fatihah to victims of the tragedy.