I was stricken with some viral bug and had fever for the past 5 days.
My boy also caught it and his fever hovered around 38.5 degrees for nearly 4 days before subsiding.
However, what struck me most was the horrible freak accident that took the lives of 5 of our Singapore dragonboaters.
What made it even worse was that one of them was my childhood friend, Mr Stephen Loh. My heart aches for his parents and his brothers.
However, if I’d been in their shoes, would I have thought that wearing a life-vest would be “un-macho” in front of the other countries’ paddlers? If I was the sole one who’d believed that we should wear these jackets, would I have been chided?
It was such a waste of five fine lives just because they didn’t put on their life-jackets.
My condolences to the families of all 5 gentlemen and hope that they’ll be able to pick themselves up and continue living for the memories of these men.
Such is the fraility of life
