yesterday's bridge-tragedy is another reminder of how easily one could slip away from this world... it was surreal and the scene looks terrible on telly. i have not been near the site -- thank you for the phonecalls and emails!... and am glad that i rarely travel to and from that area, which is very near the university campuses, unless i have paper-work to sort or health-appointments to make. i am based at the a medical centre some 30mins away. but you never know just when something like that might happen. there are hundreds of bridges in the twin-cities that span across the mississippi... i ride across one at least twice a day to get to work and home... sigh... i feel so sorry for those who've innocently lost their lives... some others are still waiting for the dreaded news of their lost ones... others are hopefully recovering from the traumatic event. there is so much to heal and rebuild... so many questions to answer...
other news... i am really upset not to be joining my 10-yr reunion at UWC in Wales... thanks to this great thesis i am supposed to be writing... i fear i have some trouble churning out over 50,000 words... surely you are supposed to be writing it concisely?!
i can't wait till the END of it all... a bonfire of all the papers and articles would be splendid!!! =)
thanks also to the wretched thesis... i am unable to spend too much time with people i like... it's really frustrating... =(
BAAAAAH will be Missing-In-Action for a while... drop me a line if you will... i could do with a bit of positive distraction and encouragements...
Glad to hear you're alright! Was going to drop you an email! Saw the footages on TV...looks horrible. What a tragedy.
Anyway, you keep well!
Posted by: dimsumdolly on Friday, 3 August, 2007 at 02:42 hrsI'm glad you're all right, if rather stressed about your thesis. I remembered you're in Twin Cities, which is close to but not where the tragedy took place. I can't imagine what the families of the victims must be feeling. Such an awful, awful thing to happen.
Posted by: monoceros on Friday, 3 August, 2007 at 11:06 hrsJia you, jia you, jia you!
Posted by: Fatgirl on Saturday, 4 August, 2007 at 11:33 hrsHeard the news and asked your gor to contact you, as I didn't have your mobile no.
Glad to hear you're all right! Hang in there and jia you for the thesis! :) i look forward to the bonfire :)
thanks peeps! Lynette, yeah, GorGor called! thanks for the concern.
trying to make sense of the data/info. pretty overwhelmed. =(
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