When I got home this evening, my mother—who is recently undergoing chemotherapy treatment—startled me when she confessed that earlier, she just couldn’t keep herself from crying. I thought, no, she’d been in such high spirits lately and had faced this recent ordeal with so much strength and positivity—I was fairly certain it had to be something else. It certainly was.
The reason for her tears was the heartbreaking news she just saw on TV—about an absolutely senseless and tragic death of a student nurse, who was gunned down by a robber—for a reason most dizzyingly unwarranted, irrational, and unpardonable—a cellular phone.
Her name is Ruby Jade M. Ruba, 20 years young, who was already scheduled to graduate from her nursing course this March. Yesterday, she and a friend went to a dormitory near her school in
For a cellular phone, a life was lost—a life brimming with so much promise and hope. She was, I’m very certain, a priceless jewel to her family, as could only be ascertained from the very name she bear. I cannot even begin to comprehend what evil could push one man to so easily end another’s life for such flimsiest of reason. Surely, this grievous crime could not possibly be reflective of a society, which is so besieged with hopelessness, destitution, and despair—that a human life has to be so exceedingly debased, lowering its value - to the price of a cellphone?
We can only hope that the man responsible be soon identified and brought to justice. Even then, this certainly could not completely assuage her family’s pain over such a tragic loss. Senseless.
(The picture posted above was taken from Sunstar Cebu Online through this link: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/ )
tito rolly, the perpetrators were apprehended, and confessed they did the robbery (you wouldn’t believe it) for fun.
Posted by siu at March 20, 2008, 9:29 amKilled? For a phone? That’s not right… It’s sad how the state of the country is going.
Posted by Greg at April 28, 2008, 5:44 pmi missed her
Posted by gurl at July 9, 2008, 6:32 pmHe is Atty. Alan F. Siu - a thirty-something practicing lawyer based in Cebu City, Philippines. He also teaches at a local law school. His practice includes litigation, as well as corporate and tax consultancy. He likes to write. He just found out about blogging and decided to make it his welcome diversion. As much as possible, he veers from writing about Philippine politics (and politicians) which he looks down with utter disapprobation but ...on second thought - he might be tempted to scrawl up some lampoonery on the matter after all.
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That is really heartbreaking. Senseless indeed. This man ought to burn at the stakes.
Posted by rolly at March 15, 2008, 9:27 am