A year after the disaster...

A year had past since the megascale-earthquake struck the Chinese province of Sichuan, with the county of Wenchuan as the epicentre of the quake. The quake, measured a whooping 8 on the Richter scale, devastated the province with little effort, bringing down the already poorly constructed buildings into nothing more than rubbles if not dust. The result of the quake and the numerous shock waves that followed, saw tenths of thousands of people killed and another few tenths of thousands went missing, not to forget the millions of Sichuanese who were left homeless.

It is a fact that the Wenchuan Earthquake, which took place in May 2008, shook Sichuan. But it is also a fact that the quake had shaken the hearts of people from all over the country as well as the globe, resulting in the pouring in of aids from almost every part in the world. The incident had been the focus and the issue of concern across the world. I could still remember vividly seeing images and footages of the quake depicting the aftermath a year ago and I was emotionally overwhelmed… It is just unbearable to see the loss and the sufferings of the surviving victims, and the rising number of dead bodies that were recovered from the debris.

To the rest of us in the world, the disaster may seem just yesterday and the year had passed by in barely just a wink. To those unfortunate souls who were caught up in the middle of the quake, however, the year was undoubtedly a difficult period for them and I am certain that each and every day went by excruciatingly slow as every moment in life may possibly be a challenge for them. Till today, many of the Sichuanese who survived are still picking up pieces of their lives, and working ever so hard to rebuild their shattered homeland and lives.

I’m just glad and contented that I do not have to encounter with such hardships in life and I’ll pray for those who had survived the disaster that they would be blessed with the strongest of will to carry on.