Tribute to James

I just can't sleep, many things are running in my mind now.Perhaps most of the Utarians are feeling the same as me, hell yea we've just lost three students in UTAR and one of them is my friend. All we can do now is to pray and mourn for them. James Khor, I supposed that name is familiar to many of my other friends, though he's not a close friend of mine, it's still a sad news for me and others as he left us all behind just like that. I received the news quite earlier, it's around 10pm I think and my ex-roommate told us about it. Honestly, I was taken aback by that piece of information. We even called one of his close friend to identified the news. The sky rains non-stop since then as if the almighty god is weeping with us too. My hands are still trembling, the incident recalled back my childhood memories, bad one unfortunately. Same thing happened to me decades ago and I'm lucky to be saved by the villager on time back then and still alive now blogging about the tragic dead of my friend. That explains why I'm hesitate to swim and petrified of the water.

Life is short and precious, you never know what will happened next, do appreciate and cherish everything in your life and especially the people you loved and care about. I can imagine if that person happens to be someone much closer to me, I'd definitely suffering from an emotional breakdown now. I was browsing his blog an hour ago, I used to like what he wrote and expressed in his blog when he's still alive. To my dismay, I saw lots of people degrading him by spamming his chatbox with vulgar words and one even pretend to be him. Inevitably, a popular guy like him will absolutely attract a lot of jealousy from the haters. But everything have a limit and that's over the top. He's already gone and why not let him rest in peace? Whether or not he offended you in the past, let it be, sometimes people need to learn how to forget and forgive. Instead of criticizing him don't you have a better and more important stuff to do? Those haters are plain ruthless and ill-mannered, I wonder how their parents educated their kids, shame on them!

Nevertheless, James will always be in our remembrance, my deepest condolences to the victims' families and friends, may their soul be guided by angel and rest in peace. Hope they'll have a better life over the other world.

PS: Just found out that the sole survivor is chin yeap.

Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.