this team of 22 dragonboat rowers went to Cambodia happily last week for a competition. but @ e comp last fri...their boat capsized!!! 17 of dem managed to get themselves out fr e waters but 5bodies were unfound until last sun!!! when their bodies were found...dey were all rotten!! juz like dis...we lost 5 promising rowers who had so much passion in their lives!!
thou i dunno dem personally...but reading e newspaper articles abt wat their family n frenz sae of dem...it sumhow seems like dey're oso mi frenz n i feel sad for losing dem as well!! sumtimes when i entered their blog which their frenz set up for dem....reading thru e long lists of blog entries really made mi cry!! dey were so full of life n passion....yet we juz lost dem overnight!! 1 of e rowers...Jeremy Goh was oso fr SIM-UOL...we might haf walked past each other b4 n even took e same bus b4....even if we dunno him as a fren...many of mi frenz n i didnt feel good when we learnt of his death!! dere was a table in SIM where we could write sum tributes to him n his family!! wif this opportunity...many of us went to write!!
Jeremy, Stephen, Reuben, Boon San and Wei Cheng...your smiles, your passion in things that you enjoy doing, the memories that you left behind for your family n friends will always be remembered...even by a stranger like me. i know you all won't be lonely...becoz you all are in e arms of e angel!!! please bless e pple around u. hope i can be fortunate enough to know e 5 of u n be your frenz in my next life. till we meet again....rest in peace.
(a small tribute to e 5heros who died while rowing e singapore flag)
what we could have been, 6:33 PM.