My Brush with Death

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Yesterday evening (301208), i almost lost my life while crossing the traffic light junction along Still Road South. It was blinking Green light and i was walking halfway across the road when a reckless vehicle just bashed the Green light. I was centimetres from being hit. FUCK this Fucking vehicle. His Carplate number is SFJ 3571P. God has mercy on his soul as i hope He will Rot in HeLL and may his car just explode in mid-air. Drivers in Marine Parade are really a bunch of jack-ass reckless and proud drivers. Since, yesterday almost became my Death Anniversary, it bore special meaning to me. Somehow i felt a tinch of being re-born again. The meaning of Life and how one treasures and fights for it caught my attention. As i recollect the significant events in 2008, there are two episodes which caught my attention.

A China registered cargo vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Aden by pirates using speedboats and armed with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers. When the pirates successfully boarded the ship, the 30 Chinese crew refused to yield and locked themselves in their sleeping rooms, mess rooms and recreation area. The crew used 'water cannon, self-made incendiary bombs, beer bottles and other missiles to fight the pirates' during the five-hour stand-off. (See Pics 1 & 2). Five hours later, two helicopters from the multi-coalition naval force finally arrived at the scene. They fired at the pirates, forcing them to flee the ship and nobody was injured.

News Commentators were shocked and impressed with the Chinese crew because it is rare where pirates have successfully boarded the ship but failed to hijack it. Bear in mind that 109 attacks occurred this year off the coast of Somalia, with 42 hijackings. Fourteen vessels are still with the somali pirates with a total of 240 crew members (of various nationalities) held as hostages. The Chinese crew's will to survive is so overwhelming that they fought heavily armed pirates. This is in sharp contrast to crews of other nationalities who simply yielded without putting up any fight.

I think most of you can remember the Sichuan Earthquake which struck China in May 2008. The China press featured Wu Jiafang, a farmer who tied his dead wife on his back riding on his motorcycle. He was desperately seeking a mortuary in town. He refused to let her lying on the debris. He wanted to give his dead wife a decent burial- He was deemed by the China Press as "the loyal Husband of Sichuan" (see pic 3). The impression of "Till-death do us part" is deeply imprinted in my mind.

At this juncture, my point to make is simple: Life is too short and can end abruptly anytime. For e.g, i should be dead by nw if that jack ass car hit me. Fight for the pleasures and joys in life like how the Chinese Crews fought against the SOmali Pirates. Say whatever you want to say to your Loved ones and don't wait until your spouse pass on. I am sure Wu Jiafang, the china Farmer should have some regrets in not telling how much he loved his wife when she was still alive.