home.

flight MH370. B777 aircraft. 239 people onboard. red-eye flight, from KL to beijing.

we've come to memorize the facts of the missing plane. but they're still very difficult to digest. and it hits so close to home particularly because it's our national air carrier; one that we've flown with plenty of times before.

personally, i hate flying. you're thousands of feet up in the air, and you totally have no control over anything that happens. you listen to the safety procedures given out by flight attendants before departure but you never think that you're going to need it. i am well aware that flying is generally very safe and the statistics of people getting into accidents on land are millions of time more than something happening while on a flight but because i'm so afraid of heights, i still hate it.

"have a safe flight."

we say it to family and friends, sometimes without even a second thought. it's just become sort of a figure of speech. you send people off at the airport and you expect them to be picking them up when they come home. for the people in MH370, their loved ones are still waiting.

i remember waking up saturday morning, scrolling through twitter like i always do since R and jigglyboo were still asleep. i saw breaking news that said MAS had lost all contact with a plane that had left KLIA slightly after midnight and was supposed to have arrived in Beijing at 6.30am. MH370 was officially missing.

today, we are all hoping. we are all praying. everyone is clueless about what actually happened onboard, and we fear that no one will live to tell the story. for the past couple of day, we have been the headlines of world news and the whole world is praying along with us. our pilots and crew are acknowledged to be among the best in the world. whatever happened, we know they would have tried their best to save everyone.

there is a feeliing of hopelessness. and we turn to God. because in Him, we have faith. to the people of MH370, we are are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers. This was your fate, but we all know, that could have easily been one of us.

"to our guests, welcome to Malaysia. and to all Malaysians, welcome home."

come home soon, MH370. we'll wait for you.