Tribute to Stephen,Boon San, Jeremy, Reuben, Wei Cheng

Beverly Craven - Promise Me
*click one to activate control*
*click again to play*

I'm sorry if reading my blog these past days gets you all depressed.
But an avenue for me to express how I really feel. why supress your emotions?

Read the news again today.
Words from Reuben's father touched my heart and I believed, that of many others present....

"We are thankful we have him for 23 years because we have 23 years of memories
in our hearts."
"He's not in heaven yet, because if he's in heaven and if he's looking down now seeing his father crying, and his mother and grandmother so upset, he will not want to be in heaven. And heaven will not be heaven,."

And from Jeremy's brother,

'All five of you will have to take care of each other from now on, just like
what you did in life as a team.'

Being a fellow Singaporean and a paddler, I regretted I was not able to send them off on their final journey.

I hereby, pay my tribute to Stephen Loh, Boon San, Jeremy Goh, Reuben Kee and Wei Cheng, with this humble blog entry...

To their family members, friends loved ones, and all those who loves them....

Be strong, they will always live in thy memories...

*****

Eternity...

Sarah MacLachlan - Angel
*click to activate*
*click again to play music*

" ... In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort there... "

Been blogging almost everyday...
probably recently 感触特别多...

Past week, random thoughts that I had suddenly pop to my mind..
Its been "haunting" me since don't know when...
Infact, I blog it down in one of the first few entry when I started blogging...
Something many people will treat as a taboo.
Something which I dont wished to attribute its explanation to religion.
Cast your religion aside and think it through. I shiver at the thought of it... Not to mention dwelling more into it...

http://1-life.blogspot.com/2004/12/heaven.html
The recent event brought this thought up to my head once again...
I suddenly felt so lost.. felt so helpless....
I really wonder, where will I go after that? Where will everyoen be?
I never dared to think more into it. I shrugged and kept my mind occuppied with other thoughts. Anything other than that....

At some point, I wished for eternity...

Where have all the blogs gone...?

I updated my blog recently, after a relatively long while.
Cleared up the settings and had a new templates.
Amidst all these, its kinda sad as i went through/updated the blogs' links i used to have.

Re-visited them, but realised most have stopped blogging..
Was it just a hype then?
Does it not serve any meaning or purpose to continue blogging?

Yeah..., a strong deterrent would be work.
Most of my fellow "bloggers" have long graduated from the blogging world and started the race up the corporate ladder.
"Busy" has become the most extensively-used defense mechanism to push every other things aside. I myself am very much guilty of that too.

Nevertheless, I hope I can continue to read about their lives, their updates, their ups and downs. Even if we hardly have the chance to meet up amidst our "Busy" schedules which we gave ourselves.

I think the blog is a fantastic html scripts written thus far, where you get to 'see' what one never express it verbally, but deep down, those are the most sincere words & thoughts logged...

**********

"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." -- Charles Darwin

***********

Always in our Memory...

Yesterday, I went to bed with a heavy heart.

This morning, I woke up with a heavy heart.

Today, I went to work, with yet, a heavy heart.

The thought of the mishap which happened to the Singapore Dragon Boaters Team will leave a deep memory to many. Expecially so for everyone in this community.

Its a grief that will be shared by all.

But memories will be instilled.

You guys will be remembered by all dragon boaters / rowers in the fraternity, as we stand at the familar Kallange river...,

on the boat...,

and every moment when we hold the paddles in our hand....

They perished in the name of their Beloved Sports

It's sad how their lifes were taken away.
Heart-wrenching when you came across their profile online.
Exhibiting their young lives which has to be brought to an end abruptly.

5 young lives , full of dreams, energy and passion, ended overnight.
They may not be related to anyone of us, they may have never crossed our path.
But it seems so close when it hits.

They were great sportsmen to the nation,
great frens to those whom they knew,
wonderful sons to their parents,
loving boyfriends, husband/husband-to-be of thier other half
and rowers who will be remembered by everyone in the Dragon Boat fraternity.

We shall grieve, but bearing in mind, these 5 paddlers perished in the name of their beloved sports. They lived their dreams, passion, and they brought along with them, these dreams, these passion.

Always remembered...