Remembering Princess Diana

Taking another break before the last in the series of the HK travelogue.

If some you may have noticed, it’s 2007 already. In fact, we’re almost half way through the year.

That means that it’s been ten years since Princess Diana died in that much publicized car crash. She passed on on 31 August 1997, our 40th national day. Not hard to remember.

The thing about dying young is that people will always remember you as a young person, not the old, frail version if you are advanced in age. For Diana, whom at that time was the most photographed person in the world, i think the world couldn’t get enough of her.

(pic from wikipedia, as usual…)

I remember watching her wedding broadcast ‘live‘ from St. Paul’s Cathedral on our local RTM as a small kid. It was probably one of the first time i watched a ‘live telecast’, even football was mostly delayed at that time. i also distinctively remembered that the telecast was sponsored by Public Bank, which at that i that time, i thought was a little odd.

When the news of her death came to my phone via SMS, i was actually at Bukit Gasing – i rushed down to get a copy of the Star, for commemorative sake. I also got the TIME magazine special edition on her. Not really a big Diana fan, but for posterity’s sake. At the time when the news broke, my first reaction was, “boy, are her two sons going to grow up pretty much screwed up…” At least for now it hasn’t happened yet.

When my friend went to Australia, soon after that, she got me a copy limited edition CD single ‘Candle in the Wind’ by Elton John.

Anyways, here’s to remember Princess Di. I think she would make a better Queen than that Camilla would, but we’ll never know for sure, now, would we…? 🙂

[tags]Princess Diana, Princess Di[/tags]