You bet!  Our cafeteria is buzzing these days with discussion about the hostage drama in the Philippines.  We, Filipinos somehow were so saddened by this tragedy and embarrased and angered by the cold blooded behaviour of the disgruntled police officer, Rolando Mendoza.  Lunch break became a lively discussion on how incompetent the police in handling such crisis.  It rattled the Philippines and it raised questions about the police ability to deal with hostage-takers.   It was reported that 8 Hongkong tourist were killed despite the hope that negotiations could bring the standoff to a peaceful conclusions.    But it failed!

Now, that the Hongkong government had issued a warning against travel to the Philippines and requested tourist still in the country to return home, we were telling our lunch buddies who are scheduled to tour Hongkong to cancel their vacation.   We were telling them not to take the risk, but of course we were just joking!  However, they were hoping that by the time they will go on tour, people had already  gotten over the news. 

So, we are expecting a busy cafeteria in the next few days….