11:24:00 AM
For a split second I thought my heart had stopped. My friend's dad (names undisclosed for privacy matters) was thought to be one of the passengers onboard UA 175 from Boston to LA that crashed into WTC. A Penn State friend called me earlier telling me that the father's name was on an Indonesian newspaper, although the reliability of the source telling the newspaper has yet to be confirmed. So my Penn State friend called them to check whether this name was of my friend's dad's.... and thankfully the father along with my friend are safe and sound at their residence. Thank God..... Apparently it was someone else, with the same name. And the info is not quite true, since there isn't any further info about that person. However, it was a pretty heart-throbbing coincidence, seeing that name on the newspaper.

I have also confirmed that my New York friends are safe and sound, including one who works at Wall Street. However, my heart is still very heavy... thinking about thousands of people who were killed in New York and Washington, DC. Not to mention hundreds of firefighters and police officers who bravely came forward to the rescue. I cannot do anything... except to pray solemnly for the innocent victims.