yeah....Things will only get better

Alright New Year's Day's over.

And yeah.. we're into the new year of 2005. Well, kinda sad to start the new year on a not so pleasant mood. The tsunami that destroyed so much ( yeah.. uncountable mah) reminded us how insignificant, how weak mankind actually can be. For all the wars we have started, for all the destruction we have brought about, they really pale in comparison the kind of damage Mother Nature can inflict on us.

I shall not go into the damage brought about by the tsunami, you can read them all in the papers on from the net; some sites even have clips to show you.

If there's anything that can be attributed as a silver lining, ah well, perhaps the unity shown by the rest of the show in rendering assistance and support, in one ways or another. Singapore too has gotten into the act, wasting no time in sending it's armed forces and civil defence forces to aid in the rescue works. Singaporeans have donated more than 10 million Sing dollars so far to the Red Cross Society and the amount is still increasing. There's some dissapointment here when you learn that some of the wealthiest Singaporeans can still have reservations with their donations. I shall not brand them as being overly misery, after all, donations' purely voluntarily... you can't forced anyone to do it. It does seem to me that this amount donated seems like to help them reduce their payable income tax?

While money seems to be the prefered form of donation, some would prefer to contribute items. However, not every single item's really required. Make a trip down to any collection centre such as SSA, I'm sure you would find many interesting stuff. Not too sure how a pair of roller blades can help the victims. That inclusion only added unnecessary work to the volunteers sorting out the items.

As usual, the media woudl like to do some reporting on this. Somehow I find it uncomfortable that things like the Singapore Government spending a certain amount of money helping the victims, or the types of hi tech equipment the SAF has , are in fact hogging the headlines. Not that I'm against the press from reporting this or the tv station from filming this, but just that is there a need to place so much emphasis on it? Anything more than this would seem to be a propaganda showing off what we are doing where in actual fact the bulk of the reporting should be on the rescue works, the victims that survived and how they are coping and so on. As long as we know that the Singapore government is supporting the rescue works, I'm sure that it fine.