We are just a speck on a sand.

How appropriate is it to blog excitedly about a loved one’s birthday and meeting Spice Girls’ Mel B on such a day?

Yes, today is my little brother’s 19th birthday and also the day I got to meet a bonafide celebrity.

But it’s also a day of sadness and fear as we watch Japan, a nation considered most well-prepared to face Mother Nature’s wrath, brought down to its knees.

I don’t know whether this melancholy I’m feeling is for Japan or for the nagging truth that our days are numbered?

We are insignificant :(