Aftermath of the Killer Waves

It has been more than 24 hours since Tsunamis hit many coastal areas around the Indian Ocean. When i arrived in the newsroom early in the morning, the death figures were devastating. I get to see numbers increasing in thousands and hundreds. It really make my hair stand. I get many first hand infor from wire services. The reports were saddening. Even CNN put up footages of dead children lying side by side on the mortuary. Know wat, it is not a few but MANY. My heart sank when i saw this footages. Many pple were left homeless. Some were crying over the lost of their child or next of kin.

However, media reports tend to focus on foreigners. Well, i dun blame them. After all, when such crisis occur, the first thing that comes to our mind is are there any pple from home who met the mishap? There were reports on Europeans, Americans, Australians, Japanese etc. BUT what abt the locals? I mean their homes were lost, family members gone, their source of income disappearing, they are 10 times devastated than us. I really sent my condolences to the victims of the locals. They include Thais, Malaysians, Sri Lankans, Indians and Indonesians etc. It is pretty sad to end the year with such as a disaster.