Dear Fellow Fish Friends
I am in Xian (陝西) right now, using the notebook from my colleagues, so I can't type Chinese but cut and paste Chinese characters only, sorry for using English to share with you.
I am travelling to China as part of a HK Christian Charity team (華恩基金會 and 角聲佈道團) checking out new potential project site for 第三個特困兒童村. At the time of earthquake, I just finished checking out a location at Guizhou, and is about to fly to Xian, the flight was delayed so I was stucked at Guizhou for half a day at that time, while I was complain about the frequent delay at airport, the news about earthquake come in. I really praise God for that as I am completely safe when I am waiting at the airport at Guizhou. My next stop is Xian and if everything is on schedule, I'll arrive at Xian just hour before the earthquake. I arrived Xion on 12日 at around 8pm, I was told that several old buildings were collapsed in Xion, and there were small amount of casualty involved.
I feel so differently about this earthquake when compare to other major natural disaster simply because I am in the middle of them, just like the 911 when I was less then 100 miles away from New York. I really feel the cry of the people here, and knowing that 只一瞬間,一座美麗的山中小鎮消失了,周圍的房屋幾乎全部被夷為平地 and this is just a few hundred miles away from you, it really is a heartbreaking thing and pardon me for unable to express this very well in wording.
I hereby urge all fellow fish-friends to donate what they can to the really needed people that was seriously hurted by the earthquake. Please do what you can while you can, once you are that close to the disaster, you konw how helpless we are when we run into instance like this.
http://www.hksaltfish.com/html/20080513.html
I'll continue my trip and meet with government officers in Xion today, hopefuly I'll travel back to Hong Kong tomorrow evening and back to work on Friday, looking forwards to talking to you all again.