Can you feel the Earth trembles?

Its earthquake! Not a harmless tremor! It's supposed to be a prospering year for China, as China is going to be the host for the prestigious Olympic Games 2008. Unfortunately, China has suffered a lot even though we haven't enter mid-year of 2008. In the beginning of the year, that's right before Chinese New Year, a serious snow storm had targetted China. Blizzards and avalanche had deliberately forced a large population of happy home-comers to be trapped at various stations. There were accidents and other troubles throughout the process of saving or freeing the people. At the end of the day, the whole world got to see that the China government really cares for its people, for things are done spontaneously and effectively.

Little do the epople know that another massive disaster will strike while everyone is focusing on the major event---Olympic Games 2008. Calamity left all of us in a shocking state. Sichuan is now a land of debris and dust, roamed by perhaps more than 50,000 souls and there are still millions of homeless survivors. Parents have lost their children ( most families have only one child). Of course, children have lost their parents. I have read of one news that showed a little girl managed to survive as her parents had sacrificed themselves for her.

There is also a 20-year-old girl who spent her birthday on a stretcher, with her rescuers singing a birthday song to her once she was freed from the ruins. The rescue parties are trying very hard to save as many lives as possible. What we could do here is to donate monay or help by any other means. At the mean time, we should pray together that the survivors will be strong enough to carry on with their lives, whereas the unfortunate to live in peace. What have happened have happened, we would just have to learn from this tragedy.

{ May their souls be strengthened...}