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read between the lines
in the news mildsad to know that the o.c. got cancelled in the u.s. and will not be returning for a fifth season..the fourth just only started showing here last week...and dang i missed it. mild also a little disappointed that the only christian bookshop near my workplace has closed last week...there was a little sign telling us to go to its next nearest branch in future, which is, though near, not within walking range. strong and i still find it hard to stomach that my state has been put on 'red alert' and might be declared in a state of emergency if needed. it seems too incredulous to believe, even more so with the fact that the sole cause of this heightened national alert is because of record high-level floods that don't exactly occur in the district i'm staying in, which is a big one by the way. but i thank god death tolls are not by the hundreds, nor even up to a hundred, and the situation, though desperate, is not so dire like when the nation's first tsunami struck us (what a record for all those textbooks that said major natural disasters don't hit us here). with that said, i am really disappointed by reports that rescue boats are taking the opportunity (since the first round of floods last month) to demand a fricking fee just to get saved. (how inhumane can these losers be, to let people risk the prospect of dying just because they want to gain a few extra bucks?) even more disturbing are reports that rescue boats rescue the malays first and either leave the chinese stranded or save them at a price, i.e. extortion. (seriously, does a saved life have to depend on the colour of one's skin? what else can be said; the news speaks for itself.) |
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