And they heard boom tarat tarat tararrarararrarat boom boom boom.
Only the beat wasn't of happy-wowowee-game-crazy mood but of gloomy-macabre-death march-somber mood. 33 died in another school shooting massacre in the US of A
Setting : Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America
Mood : Intense, Horrifying, Mournful
Hero/Victim : Students, Professors, Lecturers
Villain : Cho Seung-Hui (South Korean)
33 lives were claimed including the villain.
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The news came but we were not shocked because event like this has happened before in the US of A. Alarmed, not even. Media sources has long painted the American culture of today's generation to expect such violence. Hate crimes, accessibility and legality of possessing guns, xenophobia, etc breeds and infects them like plague. What really caught our attention was the number of victims plus the Asian looking killer?
Whoa... Asian... napaka encompassing... Naku sabi ng kapatid ko, baka pinoy? Malalagay na naman tayo sa mapa (think Gianni Versace?). Hindi naman siguro kayang pumatay ng tatlompu't-tatlong tao ng isang pinoy sa isang araw. Oo nga't may mga ganung insidente sa atin massacre, serial killing, pero isang tao + 32 na biktima... hindi pa yata. So, sabi ko, hmm, baka Malaysian?, Vietnamese?, Indonesian?, Chinese?
And not so long a wait, they revealed he was a South Korean. Sigh of relief. Just imagine if it turned out to be a Pinoy, the possible retaliatory attacks, and hate crime could be perpetrated against Pinoys in the US of A? What was his motive? What made him transformed into a horrible creature randomly zapping the life of anyone caught by his eyes. A little research and the wonders of CNN and Google led me to this site. You can read two of his school play described as twisted, macabre violence.
And then our conversation shifted on our beloved country where recently have been welcoming the Korean Invasion. Should this news made us feel suspicious and malevolent towards our South Korean visitors?
It should not... I cannot imagine jangyum, chunyang, jessy and justine, etc going ballistic and gunning everybody down. So far the Koreans in our paradise manage only to have drinking parties and fist fights.
My Prayers go to all the victims and their family and friends.
