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At #ThaiCaveRescue news conference the football team members say they took no food into the cave and only drank water from stalactites.
All of the boys will go home tonight, says news conference moderator.
Team coach says all of the rescued boys will be ordained as Buddhist monks as a tribute to the ex-#Thailand Navy SEAL who died during the cave mission.
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#THAICAVERESCUE
THE MOVIE : 13 HOPE

Alhamdulillah dapat khabar semua mangsa berjaya diselamatkan.

Kisah benar ini kalau dijadikan filem sangatlah epik. Tp kalau jadi filem, aku tak nak orang putih buat, nanti depa letak dua penyelam British tu jadi watak utama semata. #thread
Aku nak orang Thai buat, they deserved it as a whole.

Watak utama adalah Ekapol, football coach. Tapi akan ada dalam 4 sides of story : Ekapol, Adul (budak yang boleh speaking), Saman Gunan dan rescue team Thailand, 2 British expert cave diver.

Cerita akan bermula dengan---
--pengenalan latar belakang melankolik Ekapol, seorang anak yatim, stateless, family semua meninggal disebabkan satu wabak dan dia the only survivor, tinggal dgn nenek, merupakan seorang monk, tapi jiwa bola sepaknya sangat tinggi.

Memandangkan kisah ini berlaku di kala FIFA --
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#thaicaverescue A thread about the 25-yr-old asst. football coach, Ekapol, who was in charge of the twelve boys.
Ekapol was an orphan who lost his nuclear family at age 10 to a disease that swept through his village in northern Thailand. Relatives looked after him till he was 12 before sending off to a monastery. He was said to be "sad & lonely".
He then trained to be a monk but left the monastery to care for his ailing grandmother in Mae Sai in northern Thailand. There, he split his time between a working as a temple hand at a monastery and training the then newly-established Moo Pa team.
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Turned on the BBC #ThaiCaveRescue coverage.

Zoned out until I heard the theme music and just for a second, I felt like I was overseas again watching BBC on the hotel TV.

Some weathered hotel in India. Some sparse room in Vietnam or Laos.

Sigh. Not all flashbacks are bad.
I traveled a lot before my son. 35-40 countries maybe. I went to a lot of "hard places" figuring I could always hit the "easy" ones later in life.

I had all kinds of misadventures. Robbed in Costa Rica. Got Hep-A at least once and probably twice. Got lost. Sat through blackouts.
Got stranded in Africa and had to take seven flights to get home. Got run off the road on a rented motorcycle outside Hanoi. Got drunk in the very inland town of Sevilla, Spain and woke up close enough to the sea to smell it.
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The divers will attempt to bring out 13 non-swimmers through a very challenging cave dive! Harrowing. The way the cave-diving community has mobilized is impressive as cave-diving is a very specific subset of diving—even expert non cave-divers have limited skills for this.
Amazing. The volunteer cave-divers and Thai divers are reportedly tethering themselves to these—until very recently non-swimming children—to guide them through dangerous, narrow cave passages—putting their own lives on the line. Hope the rest goes as well.
Second rescue attempt is reportedly under way. A thread explaining how different caves are compared to what most people see/experience as diving. That particular cave was so challenging that it took days for world’s best cave divers to get through first.
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(1) BREAKING: Divers have entered the cave in Thailand to start bringing the boys out. Worsening weather has forced their hand.

Live updates here:

smh.com.au/world/asia/liv…
(2) Thai authorities spent the past 24 hours preparing the area with screens to keep the media out (good), and ambulances and helicopters on standby ready to ferry the boys to hospital. The mission is risky; anything could happen.

smh.com.au/world/asia/tea…
(3) 18 divers went in just over an hour ago at 10am local time Sunday (11pm EDT Saturday). Expect the mission to take up to two days.
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no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
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it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
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your breath

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only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied
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