we were there when it happened

did you hear the news re: the ambush of arturo tabara in sm fairview? my mom and i were there when it happened.

it was about 6:30 in the evening last sunday. my mother and i were in sm. since it was weekend, there were a lot of people. we were supposed to enter the department store to buy things for my sister. while walking in a very relaxed manner, people started to run towards our direction. i told my mom to enter one of the shops so we will not get bumped by the people running. then, shops started to close their steel doors. more and more people were running as quickly as they could including mothers who started to carry their small children so they can get away easily. they were not screaming. but you can see the fear in their faces. we tried to ask them why but they were unclear of the reason -- they just said: "may pumutok!" then, thoughts entered my mind like "could it be a gang of terrorists?", "was it a bomb explosion?" my mother panicked and said that we better run also. we were holding each other's hand so tightly and started to run as fast as we could too. i was scared as we started to run. what if i was right? a gang of terrorists is really nearby. killing people they see along the way. immediately, i asked myself if i was ready to die. but i did not let my mother feel that i was terribly scared. because i know, she IS too. then, suddenly, she asked me to stop because she was very tired from running. oh no! what if my mother passes out? what will i do? will i be able to carry her? then, i told her, ok. we won't run anymore. let's just walk briskly. after going down an escalator and seeing a father frantically looking for, maybe his wife and children and also seeing a slipper owned by a child left on the floor -- finally, we reached the exit. almost all the people who were previously inside the mall were already out. we quickly went to where we parked the car. we were able to ask someone waiting in her car and she said someone was shot dead. "andun, nakabulagta na." she said she just passed by the place when she heard the gunshots. so we hurriedly went inside our car to get out, but the security tightened and temporarily closed the exit, so we went circling 'round the parking area. and, true enough! there was the dead body. i saw it from afar but i did not tell my mom. i was only able to breathe normally when we reached home. WHEW!

the next day, news spread around that an ex-communist leader was killed at sm fairview. and people were talking about the situation. one said, she was having her facial, but she left with all the cream still on her face to look for her child who was waiting outside. another mom got inside a spa but was crying because she doesn't know where her child was.

some said, the reason why people ran that day was because the gunman/gunmen entered sm. i hope no one got hurt trying to run away from the crime scene and that lost children were already found by their parents.

after the incident, i thought about communism. they said they had one goal. but why are there many communist groups who are fighting with and killing each other. i also thought that if they think what they are fighting for is right, how come we can't see a perfect communist society even if we go back and review our history

looking back, i also realized that in situations like this will you see how one values his/her loved ones. but, i hope we don't wait for these things to happen before we show our love for them

http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=13058