is it really just me? i'm not sounding too heartless and uncaring i hope, but i really don't think the news about the grisly discovery of the dead body of the woman who works in the betting outlet (in this morning's Straits Times) really makes for excellent front page news, especially if one has the habit of reading the papers first thing in the morning, either before breakfast or during it... i can't seem to get the news out of my head now, especially the bit where it is written:

".... her son, a police national serviceman, became distraught and shouted at scores of passers-by who had gathered to watch the commotion.

'Who killed my mother?' he cried repeatedly.

He later hugged his father, who sobbed loudly: 'Daddy's a failure. I couldn't protect your mother.'

it was almost a scene from a movie... this sort of thing just sticks in your head, like one of those melodramatic scenes from a local drama series, and you wonder if the journalist could have written it in another manner instead... ever since Straits Times supposedly made some changes to the way they reported news (so as to reach out to more Singaporeans), they have become a lot more sensationalistic (à la tabloids), which in my humble opinion really doesn't make for great journalism (albeit making for pulse-racing news)... they should just keep that for the New Paper, at the very most...

anyway, i think i should go for a run to get it out of my head... sigh...