老同學關注四川地震

昨天（14-5-2008）老同学王景华来电。他说，中国四川大地震，他想托我与星洲日报联络，以便捐款给中国灾黎。

他说，他代表马来西亚雪隆树胶厂商公会，准备捐出马币两万（RM20,000.00）令吉。他想通过星洲日报捐出义款，希望我协助与以前我所服务的星洲日报接触安排。

王景华同学是马来西亚雪隆树胶厂商公会主席，也是马来西亚全国树胶厂商公会前主席。几个月前，中国遭受另一场自然灾害时，他曾托我与报馆联络，捐出一笔义款，协助受天然灾害影响的灾民。

中国四川发生大地震的消息传来后，马来西亚的华人社会迅速作出反应，展开＂512中国四川大地震＂筹款赈灾活动，以协助灾黎渡过难关及重建家园。

对此，中国驻马来西亚大使馆参赞申永先高度赞扬。申永先参赞说，每当中国发生任何问题，马来西亚华社总是最快伸出援手，让他深受感动。

四川大地震，马来西亚华人伸援手。

大地无情 人间有情


雷大慶同學的反應如下：

The pictures of so many schoolchildren buried in the
rubble at the epicenter of China's worst earthquake in
Xichuan Province moved my wife to tears a few times.

In the town of WenChuan, the worst hit area, only
2,000 over people survive out of a total of 10,000.
Mom's tears,Pa's tear's, wives' tears and husbands'
tears, kids' corpses, they tear the heart out of the
toughest people
.
Mass media in the West are taking a kinder approach to
China this time, they say China is doing a much better
job rescuing the victims, mobilizing faster, more open
to foreign aids, unlike the Myanmar government.

Hopefully these better efforts would save more lives.

Does the name of one of the disaster center sound
familiar to you? Jian Du Yen?

Our Class 61' tour group stood in front of the gate
of Jian Du Yen for group pictures last year, after
crossing the dam construction of China's oldest and
grandest dam structure over the Min Jiang.

In the nearby area of Uolong which is the reserve of
Panda bears, many foreign tourists are now trapped,
including may be a few hundred Malaysians.

Luckily, the Three Gorges Dam -the world's largest
engineering project-where we also visited has stood
intact. It was built to withstand earthquakes with
the power of 10, how lucky and farsighted the
engineers and leaders!

I was told the power of the earthquake that hit
Xichuan was like the explosion of 200 atomic bombs!!

Nature still rules.