There are many Mrs Leung in Hong Kong, but there is one which everyone talked about in town in the last few days.
The majority of us don't know her in person, but are touched by her helpless situation and we feel quite helplessly useless, not being able to offer any form of assistance at all.
For the benefit of those who didn't catch the news, a former police officer who was upset at having lost his job took hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong in Manila on Monday, killing eight of them before he himself was shot dead.
Mrs Leung, one of the few survivors of the dramatic hostage siege, told the media her husband was killed as he tried to stop the gunman from attacking other passengers.
"I actually really wanted to die with him. But one of us need to look after the children, so I pretend dead in the bus," she said in tears.
It was only later, that she found out 2 of her girls were dead with her husband in the ordeal and her son, aged 18, is still critically injured in ICU.
To Mrs. Leung,
I want to say that the act of your husband was a natural reflection of his wish that you have to live well, and live twice as strong too - on behalf of his.
You have all of our spiritual support from all corners of the globe. We are all very proud of your husband's bravery.
The majority of us don't know her in person, but are touched by her helpless situation and we feel quite helplessly useless, not being able to offer any form of assistance at all.
For the benefit of those who didn't catch the news, a former police officer who was upset at having lost his job took hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong in Manila on Monday, killing eight of them before he himself was shot dead.
Mrs Leung, one of the few survivors of the dramatic hostage siege, told the media her husband was killed as he tried to stop the gunman from attacking other passengers.
"I actually really wanted to die with him. But one of us need to look after the children, so I pretend dead in the bus," she said in tears.
It was only later, that she found out 2 of her girls were dead with her husband in the ordeal and her son, aged 18, is still critically injured in ICU.
To Mrs. Leung,
I want to say that the act of your husband was a natural reflection of his wish that you have to live well, and live twice as strong too - on behalf of his.
You have all of our spiritual support from all corners of the globe. We are all very proud of your husband's bravery.
As for us, there's probably enough anger and rage on the social media floating around already. Let's stop the finger pointing and try to learn something from this incident perhaps by bringing love and peace to this world we are living in.
1 comment:
Thank you Audrey. The whole incident was ever so sad and unfortunate, but we need to focus, learn from it and move on. One important message the media seems to miss out--life is too short and unpredictable. Ordeals like these could happen anywhere or to any of us, we should feel grateful we are still healthy and alive. Live everyday and love all the people around you! Be strong, Mrs Leung.
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