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I have been spending the last few hours chatting with friends online, reading the newspapers, reading this book I have started on a few weeks ago (Jeffrey Archer's Sons of Fortune) with Class 95 playing in the background, boy am I enjoying my break before the school term starts on 7th May '07. *...all the love in the world* (The Corrs) playing in the background. Anyway, came across this newspaper article on yesterday's paper on a 10-hour hostage stand-off. Apparently it resembled what I just read in my book, purely coincidental. Children held hostage by a day-care centre ownder are carried away from a bus in Manila after they were released unharmed following a 10-hr stand-off stand out in bold on the newspaper front page of Straits Times. Apparently this man had issues he wanted to voice out and had gone a little extreme on the medium he wanted to use to get his point accross to the public and government. Thank God the children were too young to know what situation they were in and the whole event was under controlled with the Senator being involved as well, made a successful attempt at releasing a child who was suffering from fever. Thank God all the children were released unharmed in the end. The story in the book seem to tell this real life incident in complete resemblence. Children were held hostage in their art class by a lonely but intelligent man who's full of ideas, seeking attention and wanting to prove a point and tipped his mental balance using such a extreme approach when he lost his job, his wife left him and took his children. One of the main characters in the book who happens to be a senator was also present at the scene to mitigate the situation. Really makes me ponder if the grenade-wielding hostage taker identified as Amando "Jun" Duncat had read too much Jeffrey Archer, causing it to flick on the creative switch in his grey matter to attempt such a "feat" to draw media attention to get his message accross. Anyways, on with my reading... on the book... hope it doesn't just flick on some creative switches in my grey matter too, even if it does, does not instigate me to start taking hostages.