07/07/06

Today is the one year anniversary of the London Bombings. I barely remember about them happening last year. But for the last few days, it has been all over the news and then yesterday, a tape was released showing one of the bombers from Al-Jeezera. My flatmates and I had a discussion about it last night and they were saying that they were going to stay away from the tube today just to be safe. I was saying that of all days, I am sure that today there would be really good security on the trains and busses (they didn't buy it by the way). I am sure since I didn't go through that whole thing last year, my attitude is a bit more relaxed about it.

So when I got up this morning, I was running late of course and decided that in order to make it to work on time, i had to take the tube (I noramlly take the bus, but it take about 20 min longer). It wasn't till i was well on my way to work when I saw some guy reading the newspaper with a headline about the 07/07 bombings, that I remembered about the conversation we had last night. I had a slight panic, until realized how many other people were also riding and felt a tad bit better. I was definately glad to get off the tube at my stop. And then i realized that one of the bombings happened at the next stop, Aldgate Station. Very eerie feeling.

Luckily nothing happened and after thinking about it, I did see much more police presence at al l the stations, but they just seemed to be looking around, and not really doing to prevent any attacks. I would have thought there would be bomb sniffing dogs or something. But I arrived safely and everything seemed as normal as possible. Made for a weird start to my morning.