Friday, October 9, 2009

A cup of 'Chai Spice' black tea

I know...I know, its been awhile...I took a little break. Even Charing is starting to stay quiet and almost don't want to tell me anymore stories. Our last posting was all happiness and excitement about this new social networking,shopping and all-in-1 launchpad called 'BLASTOFF'. I still am excited about BLASTOFF, in fact last Oct 12 at noon CST, it officially BLASTOFF.

I guess it always happens that when there is a lot of positive energy coming I tend to forget that a negative energy is on its way to balance the surroundings. Sure thing a lot of things happened for the past three weeks or so that I've been absent from this blog. I'm still sorting which one is negative & which one is positive but what's more important is its like a cup of 'Chai Spice'' black tea that I'm sipping while listening and typing at the same time about Charings stories.

She told me about Jayne's story, she's very young about 26yrs old and a single mom. She probably would have a lot of good stories to tell her 4yrs old daughter if she would have lived longer. Sad, isn't it? But that's the reality of life. All good things can disappear in a second or a minute. The bad part of her story was she didn't die of natural cause, she was shot and the suspects are still at-large. Although her family has an idea on who might have done it, it will probably take a long time before that person will be put in jail. Especially, knowing the slow and outdated justice system we have in the Philippines that most crimes remain cold case for a very long time. Charing said she's following the story of Jayne, so she'll update us about it when something new comes up.
The main point of our story here is that the bullet shot that killed the life of that young girl happened in a blink of an eye. Jayne was a nursing student and wanting to continue to be an OB-GYN doctor, now all of those are gone. What will happen to her daughter is up to her siblings and parents. This is only one of thousands of sad stories that we often see on the street that wish we can stop, but how? I've been asking Charing same question and her respond to me was "I'm too old and too far to do something". She said the best contribution she can do is to tell the story and hopefully someone we'll be able to read it and possibly be able to do something or learn something that when they're face in such situation they will be able to prevent it.
We decided to finish drinking our 'Chai Spice' black tea and hope the next story would be a happy one.