the newspaper ran a story today on a singaporean guy who was "15 minutes away from death" or something like that. honestly, i wonder why people would care about someone who was 15 minutes away from the vtech massacre. since he was 15 minutes away, what he knew about the killings would only be as much as what we knew about it, so it's really senseless to be interviewing him. just because the dude was from singapore, the papers had to interview him on the incident. its quite sad that our country is trying to sponge on every situation by telling everyone that "WE WERE INVOLVED TOO. YOU KNOW." i'm really tired of reading such news as it really doesn't make me feel proud of my country. on the contrary, i feel disgusted by the fact that we are trying to shamelessly promote ourselves as a big player in the world, which honestly, we aren't. let the people mourn for the dead. instead of writing of singapore's part in the vtech massacre, why not write up of the suffering the family and friends of the killed had to go through. that would have been much more meaningful.