An Unfortunate Incident

News just came in that the bodies of the 5 missing dragon boaters have been recovered. I guess alike many, I kinda knew that chances of finding them alive after 1 day was slim, but despite having at all no attachment or whatsoever to them, I was also praying that there was a miracle. Unfortunately, it was not to be. Condolences and prayers go out to the family and friends of the victims.

Kinda sad how unpredictable life is. Guess one reason why I was following so closely to this incident was because when I was going through facebook, I had a friend who had his status changed to something like 'praying for the guys to come back', Of course, he is a dragon boater too. Out of curiosity, I went to view his profile, and many of his friends also had their statuses changed. Some of them even wrote 'praying for xxx', with xxx being the one of the victims. As I was surfing even deeper into the profiles, it was saddening as I actually chanced upon the profile of one of the victim, and he had wall post from his friends saying 'please come back soon'.

Reading the papers just now, these 5 men were young. The oldest perhaps 31, and youngest 20. Seeing pictures of their worried families and relatives was again very saddening, as their sons were all young and fit young men who had a long road ahead of them. Some just graduated, while a few others were still in school. Its a sad and tragic day for the sport of dragon boating in Singapore.