It's a year of ups and downs. Seems more major downs than ups though. Maybe caused it's been sensationalised by the media...
We are close to the end of the year now. Just four more days to the new year and the our airline industry is again hit by another missing aircraft. This time from AirAsia. The plane was heading to Singapore from Surabaya this morning before it went off radar not long after departure. It's now almost midnight and rescue mission has been called off to be continued tomorrow. Scary as we have relatives whom are pilots on AirAsia. Many many many people we know have also flown because everyone can fly now on AirAsia. Praying for a miracle. Though we fear the worst.
As I'm writing this post, as many as 160,000 around Malaysia are being displaced due to floods caused by the monsoon rain. Critically ill patients are being stranded in a hospital in Krai. Supplies which includes gasoline to run the ventilating machines are not able to reach the hospital. The helicopters are unable to land to transfer these patients out from the hospital. There's no clean water available so even if food is available, the affected people may not even be able to eat it if it needs to be cooked. Refugees are living now on the third floor of a school as the flood water has reached up to even the second storey of the school building. So gloom and doom... Happy though that Malaysians are standing together to donate and send supplies over to those in need.
And just 10 days before Christmas, a man who is linked with IS held some people hostages at a cafe in Sydney's CBD. At the end of it, two precious lives were taken away - the cafe's manager, Tori Dawson and a 37 year old mother of three, just like me, by the name of Katrina Dawson. I really feel for their family.
Earlier this year we lost Malaysian Airlines MH370 which is still not found. Then there are those on the ill-fated MH17 which was shot down in Ukraine. On top of that is the deadly Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa.
Lord, have mercy on us. Praying for a better 2015 for all and for peace on earth...
* Images from www.dailymail.co.uk, twitter.com, thestar.com.my
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