September

September is a significant month. Obvious reasons aside, Sept signals the end of summer and welcomes autumn. It is also the start of a new school term. This is how I imagine Sept would look like if I could put a face to it:
Do you notice how songs always refer to September, not October or February? Like Greenday's Wake me up when September ends or the final verse of Seal with a Kiss - "Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September.... and seal with a kiss."

And of course Sept 11 (11/9 not 9/11 as a friend pointed out impatiently). I'm surprised that nobody mentioned it during Aviation class today during our discussion on open skies policy. Come to think of it, a more liberalized industry means more security concerns. Bing was commenting on how the incident took place a day before our literature exam and all of us could think of nothing but the horrifying images.

I visited the WTC site but somehow under the sunny sky and rubbing shoulders with the endless stream of tourists, the feelings of terror and sadness were absent. All I saw was a fenced up up area which resembles, and probably is, a gigantic excavation pit. It only hit me when I saw the pictures displayed at the mini exhibition there. I can, then, almost feel the unbearable sadness of that fateful day.

Entrance to the Subway beside the WTC site

Work has begun on the Freedom Tower