As I do every time, I dutifully celebrated New Year's by attending the midnight mass and spending the rest of the day with my family. I know that I will never be one of them who drink and go crazy to welcome the new year. Only this time, I was more thankful to be spending the beginning hours of the year in God's prescence considering the amount of tragedy that took place during the new year's season.
At 5.00pm Yesterday, I accidentally (cause I usually don't read the news) stumbled on this news-clip about the bombings in Bangkok, Thailand. The initial stories said that the people responsible were drunk revellers who wanted to have an extra kick. The nerd in me was so glad that that I did my parents proud by staying at home and being a good boy. Of course, later during the day stories came in sayign that it was a planned attack by supporters of the outsted president. (Ah, I knew Politics would enter the scene at some point)
Well, in order to get back into the news mood, it was around New Year's did a plane crash in Africa killing hundreds and a ferry sank in a storm killing many more. This is the most catastrophic new year's I've ever heard about. (I guess I haven't lived that long)
Saddam Hussein was executed around that same time too. Man, doesn't it get worse. ex-president Ford passed away. This definitely isn't the best start for year 2007.
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