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Tsunami Donations Comment

January 8, 2005 on 2:01 am | Topics, 英文日志 | 暂无评论

Tsunami Donations Comment

arg… another year, the second term of my university life have just begun.

The most upsetting news these days is certainly the tsunami in southeast asia on boxing day last year. I have been following all the information feed from all sorts of media it certainly is the most shocking disaster I have ever seen in my life. Big countries are in a competition of pledging donations, but how much aid will be actually delivered? Even China, which is a developing country who is still receiving help from developed countries pledges to give a lot(despite of many indonesian’s hostilities to indonesian chinese)

Western countries are particularly generous this time, which amazes me. Yeah, because too many westerners were there on holiday at that time, the destruction and hard feelings were actually witnessed and felt by them and delivered back to their families. Western media are bombing the public with shocking statistics and images which are really touching and have the power to make people spare some of their pocket money. Some of the rich people are generous too, like Jackie Chan, Michael Schumacher, but what about Bill Gates (I know, just because I don’t like windows)?

Aids seems to be in favor of Sri Lanka, I heard that India refuses some donations just because its government want to show that India is capable to deal with its own matter just like how Chinese government dealt with Tang Shan Earth Quake which kills thousands of people years ago. 440 and possibly more than 2000 Britons were dead in southeast asia, is this the reason why British were so generous and the media were so keen on following?

Media is really powerful, not many people will notice people in places in Africa such as Sudan just because they don’t report or give limited coverage of information.

ANYWAY, GOD BLESS THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING!

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Very good！

Published By songmuyang – 25/01/2005 04:40

Well Said! Cool comment!
keep up~~!
and I’ll be adding you to my favourate list

Published By Fan_Yang_ – 20/01/2005 00:23

Quote:
by the way, have you committed yourself to the living God?
Are u a brother ?
Published By Dragon – 10/01/2005 23:10
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no, but why i said “god bless” is just to express my best wishes to them, it does not necessarily imply i am committed to god or anything.

Published By Trivance – 11/01/2005 00:05

by the way, have you committed yourself to the living God?

Are u a brother ?

Published By Dragon – 10/01/2005 23:10

Hi!
You have quite a few interesting thing in your blog, I wil keep and eye on it … maybe you update it often with more news

cya Lili

Published By Lili (http://spaces.msn.com/members/lillykins1976) – 10/01/2005 21:27

hello how u doing long time no see. hope ur ok that and uni treating u well, its sad about the crisis but theres always been crisis everywhere else why cant people be always giving that much money?

Published By im_a_lady_you_no – 10/01/2005 17:28

trivance, a tall,handsome,clever and romantic boy seems a enthusiast as well, well mate ,good luck ,顶！keep in touch~~~

Published By man_who_invented_fire (http://spaces.msn.com/members/eplasinba/) – 09/01/2005 01:52

Great sentiments there. We will not see many, if any, natural disasters as big as this one in our lifetime, so get donating everyone!

Published By PvtRyan17 (http://spaces.msn.com/members/ashwhitfield/) – 09/01/2005 01:19

I’m actually quite glad that the countries from the “developed” world are donating considerable amounts of money to help the aid work going on in the aftermath of the tsunami, but the idea that anyone could treat saving lives as a competition is quite disappointing really.