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Monday, October 21, 2002

More deaths

Got woken up today at around 11:30a.m. by about a zillion sms's coming into my phone this morning. Normally I grump at these sms's, for taking away precious minutes of my already overlong sleep... but these actually managed to get thru my groggy state, wonder of wonders.

'parently there was a shooting at Monash Clayton campus earlier today, at 11:20a.m. (SG time). It happened at the Robert Menzies building, one of the hallmarks of the campus - being the tallest building there. The gunman just walked into one of the tute rooms and fired indiscriminately. According to the newspaper article from The Age, the arrested suspect was of Asian background, and the two dead victims were of Asian appearance. There were 5 more students injured.

Was pretty saddened by this news, for some reason - more so than how news of other disasters usually affect me. I'm usually quite desensitized to these things. Don't know why this one seemed to hit closer to home. Maybe it's cuz it's in Melbourne? The city that I love, and hope to return to someday - my ideal place to be, etc. Maybe my warped mind just didn't like the idea of me seeing Melbourne in any other way except through rose-coloured glasses.

And prolly the fact that I still have friends studying in that campus compounded the problem - aaand the fact that they took their time to reply to my frenzied sms's. *grumble* :P

Sigh.

But as usual, I didn't take sufficient time out to wallow in this mood, cuz I was going out painting. I seriously think that I was a lil' high the whole day, from all the paint I whiffed. Maybe this is how glue-sniffing is like... But on the other hand, I honestly think I'm quite good in painting now! =) Always helps to have a friend patiently clean up the paint drips that strangely appear all over the floor though... tho' I honestly resent the fact that I seem to cop all the blame for that... blah.

So here I am, with paint-stained and achy feet (among other things)... typing out this blog. Trying to see how long I can keep up this regular-blog thing. I think I'm doing pretty well so far! =) *struts*

. o O declared Lid at 2:24:00 PM