I’m sure pretty much everyone is already aware of the events occurring over the last two days, but I’m feeling a bit more attached to this one than other local tragedies in the same genre. Perhaps that is in part due to my interest in refugees and reading many related books, some fiction, some not…but all leave me with the same feeling; A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier , Kite Runner, 1,000 Splendid Suns and The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur.
Anyway, Hser Nay Moo was found last night in her apartment complex, apparently in an apartment that was not her own, but relatively close. Who knows the events that took place beforehand or why they took place, but that’s not for me to speculate, just a really sad story. I can’t help but feel tremendous sadness for the parents, they came here from a Burmese refugee camp obviously in search of a better place. Sadly it didn’t turn out that way….hopefully they’ll find some comfort through this, somehow.
April 2, 2008 at 4:37 pm |
Phil I agree; today is a sad day in certain respects. My cousins are sitting in my hotel room watching the news about the aforementioned incident and it’s making me sick. I hate bad news but I hate more so dwelling on bad news and dragging it out by airing some cop for 1/2 an hour who “can’t comment on that” and “can’t comment on this”. So what the hell are you commenting on it for!?
Good news is you’ve got a blog and that’s one more thing to distract me from boring days in the office. YES.
April 2, 2008 at 4:44 pm |
I don’t know that my blog is too entertaining, but when trying to avoid work it does the job…at least for me. And I agree with you, watching fox news last night (yes, I admit it) was like scratching my eyeballs. Every comment was this, “So we’re going to stay live right here until the press conference starts that we were told would start very soon. So we’ll stay right here until it does.” Followed by, “What you’re seeing is actual news come in live on location because our reporters are right there on the seen, which is why we’re going to stay right here until the press conference starts.”
Dust your bike off, lets get out.