Tired

Am very tired. Must have been all the crying as I took in every bit of the Mediacorp Sichuan quake fund-raising show over channel 8 last night. Can't help weeping when they showed all the injured and dead people, how mothers wailed for their lost children and how families were torn asunder by the calamity. I was moved by accounts of brave acts of heroes / heroines in China, and by the poetry recitals and renditions of hastily composed songs by fellow Singaporeans who rallied to raise the needed funds. Wow, about 6 million dollars raised! Proposed to the six that maybe we should make a trip to China to help rebuild the schools and give free English lessons. No . . .no. . .help with English will do. They just went through a disaster, . . . no need to punish them with our embarassing command of Maths and Science. My daughter pinched me . . . how could I still joke while shedding tears uncontrollably?!