tsunami...

Tsunami, a sea wave of local or distant origin that results from large-scale seafloor displacements associated with large earthquakes, major submarine slides, or exploding volcanic islands.

Primary 5, searching through Encarta and other various encyclopedias to find out the meaning of tsunami... the title of my geography project. I compiled an impressive array of information about it...

but it was only yesterday when I really got a glimpse of the horrors and verberating effects of this natural phenomenum. Ripples... similar to those produced by droplets... but rising high and crashing down to have disastrous effects. Waves of force.

Am deeply saddened by the news of the thousands of tragic deaths.
Fishermen were strolling home after casting their nets...
Little children were building sandcastles...
Surfers were enjoying the waves.

I asked my parents why there was no large scale warning eventhough the first large wave appeared earlier in the morning.
One simple answer:
"we never expected it to happen here..."

I learnt today that
life is so unpredictable.
You never know when your last day is.

Makes us reflect on how we've been living our lives.

I know i've always been procrastinating.
There are many meaningful things I wanted to do
... but ...
I've always been too busy.
Or is that merely an excuse?
Caught up in the daily hustle and bustle,
I've ended up pushing these things aside.

Perhaps we can learn from this tsunami~
to say the things we need to say
as well as do the things we need to do...
today.