Where were you on 9/11 ?

[Crimson_Viper]

hala uy kinder paku ani

[PseudoSurgeon]

hala uy kinder paku ani

Bagag face! 35 naman gali ka karon! Hahaha

Naa man tingali kos school pagkahitabo ani...

[hitch22]

I was in Singapore on this day, getting ready to go to work. I always had Channel News Asia on, as I went around with the morning rituals of breakfast, bath, etc. The breaking news flashed about a fire in the World Trade Center building. I remember how the news reporter gave some eyewitness accounts of a plane crash but insisted on getting confirmation. I initially thought this was a freak accident; perhaps the pilot lost control because of some malfunction. But it was possible too that the pilot intentionally crashed the plane into the building, because, a few months back, there was a report about a depressed pilot who committed suicide by crashing his passenger plane into the sea.

I remember stopping everything I was doing, just to see what the news could come up with. Then all of a sudden, I saw the second plane darting from the corner of the TV screen and crashing into the same building. That really answered all of my speculations. This was a terrorist attack.

I found it curious how the news channel played it really safe and took quite a while before they called the incident a "terrorist attack". Then I found my answer a few days later, when a list suspects began to emerge. The Muslim community in Singapore and Malaysia demanded that people should not jump to the conclusion that the people who perpetrated the act were Muslims until all the evidence are in. And when all the suspects pointed out were indeed Muslims, they insisted that the media should not use the word "Islamic Terrorism"...at the backdrop of crowds of Muslims in large parts of the world celebrating the collapse of the twin towers with shouts of "Allahu Akbar!"

I remember thinking how the U.S. inflicted Hiroshima and Nagazaki in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. I shuddered at the thought what they'll do in this instance. Fundamentalist Christians were raising placards with a quote from the Book of Hosea: "They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind". There was a woman in a Christian rally who shouted "You (Muslims) don't realize the hornets' nest you've just stirred."

People nowadays seem to think that we live in a live-and-let-live world where everyone's free to practice their faiths. Sad to say, there is a holy war going on. A large number of Muslims around the world still thinks that the Crusades is still being fought. And it didn't help when Christian fundamentalists like George W. used the word "crusades" in his war on terror. As Bob Dylan puts it, "If God's on our side, He'll stop the next war."

[azaleayve]

wala pa koi buot atu..kanang, "awh!naunsa d aie na?okay...hahahah, duwa na ta na" mao na siya

[leurabelle]

balay sa ako amiga sa mango green, birthday niya..halfway through my carbonara..gi flash sa CNN..then pg uli nako tanang tawo sa balay nakatutok sa tv...

[floppy]

4th year high school.

wala mi klase ato na time and then ni tan-aw daun sa news.

[facuztha]

i was in school that time... (high school) while nakig away sa amung madre nga principal... lol
pag uli namu kay mao nato ang news, la sad ko idea what was happening...

[Saint_hard]

Whats your point man TS of knowing?

[sicnarf]

sa boarding haus buhat project

[shufah]

nq sa school.. pgka ugma nq nkahibaw.. hahaha grabeh ka way kalibutan..