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Friday, May 02, 2003
meaningful poem.....read!
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. It was sent by a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM. Slow Dance Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done Do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through your head? You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Ever told your child, We'll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say,"hi" You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over. Dear All: PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the request of a special little girl who will soon leave this world as she has cancer. Please send this to everyone you know or don't know. This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, She wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can send it to at least 5 or 6. Just think it could be you one day. It's not even your money, just your time! PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, New York 10461
Thursday, May 01, 2003
haha its ITE lesson now we're doing on Macromedia Dreamweaver!!! yay so fun! i realise my website is very very incomplete....shall try and touch up while the teacher's not looking...so anyway. i'm planning to do a sub-website that i'll link to from my current website. hmmm...let's see. i shall title it "DREAMS" *grins* or ILLUSION. *grins even more* haha yea. and shall use it as my IT assignment! ok...i've been slacking for so many IT lessons....let me do something productive, for once. anyway just had a geog test....oh NO.......HORRID!!!!!! there's this question on "name another country where ERP is implemented"...i put Germany at first, then i put Britain, and at the last minute i put Hongkong, then i cancelled it out at the very last minute and put Britain back. in the end...it was Hongkong!!!!! *faints* urg.........2 marks lost, just like that!
haha nevermind. shall die for today. there's AEP after that (really hope Mr Ellis is still on course; haven't done my AEP homework), and after that there's Chinese Orchestra ensemble practice!!! *dies* i haven't practised, as usual. so well....i'll just pray time passes quickly for today. haha. and for our Public Speaking Competition, oh NO. we haven't started yet. SIGH. the GEOG project too. we'll just meet at Nat's house on Sunday. but one day isn't enough, is it? i don't know what we can do -- everybody's schedule is just so hectic. sigh. hehe. nevermind. ~always look on the bright siide of LIFE!~ *whistles* hehe. LOL.
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Today during assembly, there was a talk by someone (arg i think i forgot her name. Anne Seow or something like that. i shall call her..say...Anne?). She came from a broken family, didn't have much love and warmth in her family, left schoool and left home at 14, started working. then she found some guy who cared for her and listened to her troubles when she was down, and thought they were in love. So she moved in with that guy, after which she got pregnant and they had to marry, but their marriage broke off just after 3 years. she served as a nightclub bar-tendress to earn money, smoked and drunk to get rid of her troubles (but alas, in vain.). in the end this regular customer went to her house at night, stabbed her many, many times, and (as if this was not torture enough), poured a whole kettle of boiling, hot water right onto her face, and escaped. in the end, she became disfigured. her right eye went blind, much of the flesh and skin on her face disintegrated, and her right ear was half CUT cut away by that ..that.....(i have no words to describe him)..man. she was told she had 30% chance to live. she could have committed suicide (many of us would have, if we were her. she used to be quite pretty...and then. her face was disfigured) but she found hope, she found faith, and courage to continue living on. and as she was recounting her experiences today on stage in the auditorium, in front of all of us blessed sheltered ignorant students, she was..crying...she told us that she had went for 24 cosmetic surgeries to look less ...less frightening. and she cut flesh off her thigh to patch up her right cheek, cut flesh and skin off her fore-arms to rebuild her nose and the rest of her face, and her left ear. she showed us her right ear -- it was...half cut off. the top half was non-existant; severed, cruelly, at the hands of a mad man. and she had forgiven the 3 men who ruined her face, her life -- her father, her husband, and the man who had disfigured her.
the important lesson learnt -- no matter what difficulties you face in life, other things may be given up, but don't ever give up the courage to live on. As long as there is life, there is hope. another side-theme covered. she taught us that, however superfluous (is that the word?? or is it superficial?) this society may be, ultimately, what matters most is not the appearance, but the character. People will respect you not because of your looks, but because of your strength and beauty of character. sidenote: people tend to get character and personality mixed up. character is basically what you would call, your heart. its more of...the goodness of your heart. how true you are to yourself and your values. how much integrity you have. whereas, personality is more about how one person behaves, one's style of actions and thoughts, preferrences and dislikes, i guess.
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
hahahaha. FINALLY caught up the blog to TUESDAY. *laughs* i've actually written alot on my private PRIVATE JOURNAL. these entries are much more than mere recounts of the day's happenings. they contain my reflections, my thoughts on sensitive issues, my feelings, and alot of much personal stuff. perhaps i might post some extracts (which are not THAT personal) onto my blog, here. Yesterday i spent 2.5 hours writing an entry in my journal, then tearing off the pages of the entry, addressed it to Mich da jie, and gave it to her today. there's this fascination and liking i have for handwritten letters. those torn-off-from-journals/diaries, handwritten letters. i really treasure those, whether the handwriting be scrawled or painstaking neat. somehow they seem to.....i don't know how to say. but they just seem to be much more true, and from the heart, then emailed letters. so much for our digital world based on the analog sequence. so much.
perhaps one day people in the future might look back, and look at writing (handwritten text) the same way as we Modern Chinese now view calligraphy -- an art, most interesting, most intriguing, most artistic and genuine, but not relevant, not necessary, not a part of life anymore. but that is digressing from the main entry. but nevermind. oh. and Acey reminds me to collate all the photos of me growing up, for Ms Tan's presentation on march babies. and somehow i SHALL sneak in a picture of ARAGORN!!!! *grins widely* he has the same birthday as me!!! *beams* then i'm going to incorporate his photo into my photo using photoshop. *laughs* hehehheez.
Monday, 28th AprIRS today. DIED HORRIBLY. my IRS experiment's gonna cost me 400-500 bucks!!!! *freaks out* it's so expensive, i've to foot the budget myself!! sandy tan only advised me to, "ask your parents to sponsor". Like...ARG!!! ................ anyway there's a FAINT HOPE that i MAY get an education fund / grant. that is, IF i manage to convince the panel of judges that my project (creating fluorescent Yakult by transforming Lactobacillus Casei with the pGLO gene) is praCTICALLY APPLICABLE. which i don't think it is. just a fanciful / fancy project. oh SIGH. another hope would be Yakult. to sponsor me. but i doubt so. which company would be so nice as to sponsor some project which does not have any practical applications for it???? SIGH. but i'm soo NOT going to pay more than 100 bucks for my experiment. i'll either find sponsors, or change the experiment to an experiment which is a cheaper alternative. HELP ME PLS!!!!! help me think of any cheaper alternatives?????? PLS PLS PLS!! i'm going to DIE!!!!!
Monday, April 28, 2003
Sunday, 27th Aprwatched a REALLY GREAT SHOW today. its a chinese show, teh finale, of da4 zhai3 men2, a "play" set in china in the early 1900s. guang1 xu4 3yrs i THINK. anyway for the finale, it was really really TOUCHING. at that time, the japanese were invading China.then the Bais, the protagonist family, were a prominent family in Beijing. so anyway, there was this guy of the oldest generation and he used to be the "black sheep" of the Bai famiily. then after that his son grew up, attained scholarships and distinctions, and made him proud and sobered him, so that he became good, and after that his son got killed by the Japanese in his late-middle age.so after that he was good in the heart but i didn't expect him to be THAT good. PART TWO. so in the end, he sacrificed himself. his spirit of patriotism. really touching. (bleah. in no mood to describe lengthy details. sorry! >.< am sourcing for a picture of ARagorn, LOL!) after that, i went downstairs to the Gym with Renyi, and we goofed and loafed around the gym, asking the kind patient lady to explain to us the use of each machine, and went home at around 7.10pm. real fun *grins* heeeheehe.
Saturday, 26th Aprtoday was quite an exciting day, for one. in the morning, dad gave me green tea to sample. well i suppose that doesn't count as any exciting thing, but well. after that, i went for chinese orch practice from 1pm to 4pm. it was quite a traumatising time for me, i guess. SIGH. LOL. but i brought it upon myself. i didn't practise my liu3 qin2 at ALL for 1 whole month!!! *faints* oh yes. not even during the SARS break. not even when i had my QIN at HOME right beside my bed! eck, all MY FAULT. anyway i was left feeling really inferior and lousy during the ensemble practice today, huo2 gai1. haha. yea. LOL. so anyway after that at night i went for the Romeo and Juliet play. it was a really GREAT play and all, yea! ^^ *grins* so anyway i arrived there quite late, as usual, and found Ren and other friends already there. i got paid back my tickets and then went in for the play! oh but there was this muddled messup in ticketing and all. oh SIGH. as for the play itself, it was really good. haha. Romeo was particularly good at the banishment scene, yea. and teh NURSE was really FUNNY!!! LOL. acted by my senior amanda, who sold me teh tickets! she's really funny. anyway after the play, i waited with renyi for her parents to come ferry both of us home (and we waited till around 10.50pm!) we were talking with our NICE senior ellana. i gave my rose to ellana coz she was complaining no one ever gives her rose and all. LOL. i got the rose from sarah. NICE JIE! *hugs* anyway i saw Ms Lim during the break, and HUGGEd her!! *grins* so sad she went away to teach. sigh. but Ms Choo's really good too! :D:D:D anyway. i guess i must conclude this post. we had a nice ride home, and i went to sleep almost immediately after reaching home. =)
Friday, 25th Aprtoday was quite a fun day in school, and Charmaine and I were competing during Maths lesson to see who finished our maths homework first. it turned out to be a great motivator, for we finished one of the homework pieces during lessons, ahead of others. but it was quite stressing, LOl! during English class, we had to sit for the Eng Lit Passage based test on To Kill a Mockingbird, and i correctly predicted the questions that would come out during the test, causing Nat to have a strangled expression as we saw our testpaper. LOl! but so much for the telepathy, i didn't put it to good use, for i didn't really study for the test, just browsed through the text. after that Ms Choo gave us the rest of the day to discuss our Public Speaking assignment. As usual, our group was doing together again. *grins* we're a rather cohesive group, aren't we? *laughs* but LOL. we're staying in THIS classgroup too for our geog assignment, coz we love each other so much! *laughs* So anyway. After school, when i arrived home drenched, i went for a game of tabletennis with Renyi. renyi beat me 3:2. sigh. i always lose to her in tabletennis. LOL! but nevermind. i shall JIA YOU!!!! hahaha! :D:D:D
Sunday, April 27, 2003
 You're a Sapphire. You seem to be unreachable, but deep inside, you are really a nice and warm person. You are elegant and get along well with people once you know them. What Jewel Are You? brought to you by Quizilla bleah it's reaal late so i shall continue blogging tomorrow. its 11pm now!! =S
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