Went for a performance on Saturday evening to support a friend of mine. At the performance, the performers made a special tribute to their ex-president who passed away. And something they said really hit me. One of the performers said: "As a performer, I think the way he will want to be remembered is not though a minute of silence, but a standing ovalation.". It was a beautiful tribute to a wonderful person.
What happened that night started to make me think... how will Starlight like to be remembered? One thing I know for sure, is she will like to be remembered. She will like to be loved. But how does she hope to be remembered exactly? I realise I don't know her favorite colour, her favorite song, her favorite book... There are so many things I don't know about her... somehow, I feel that my lack of knowledge had crippled me to remember her as well as I hope I can remember her.
I've been acting pretty childishly recently towards some people... not a way I will like to have behaved... but very often, the espoused theory and the theory-in-action differs greatly.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Starlight
Dear Starlight,
It's National Day today. Are you looking at the fireworks through the clouds?
School's starting on a few days' time. We will be starting a semester without you... and soon, we will be graduating without you. I think alot of us will hope that you are here to go through this stage of our lives with us. But well... unlike us, you don't need to worry about FYP or curse the jap department for letting Intro to Jap Studies clash with our timetable for the 7th time in a row (yes... 7th time = =). Hope you are enjoying yourself in Heaven my dear.
Just want you to know that we all miss you dearly. *hugs*
With love,
Ale
It's National Day today. Are you looking at the fireworks through the clouds?
School's starting on a few days' time. We will be starting a semester without you... and soon, we will be graduating without you. I think alot of us will hope that you are here to go through this stage of our lives with us. But well... unlike us, you don't need to worry about FYP or curse the jap department for letting Intro to Jap Studies clash with our timetable for the 7th time in a row (yes... 7th time = =). Hope you are enjoying yourself in Heaven my dear.
Just want you to know that we all miss you dearly. *hugs*
With love,
Ale
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
社会は病気？
Was going for Jap classes this evening and while I was walking through the underground tunnel from Orchard MRT towards Shaw House, there was a wheelchair-bound gentleman trying to push his way through the crowd uphill towards the MRT station. There must have been hundreds of people who walked passed him, but no one seemed to have noticed the gentleman. As as he was using all his might to push himself up the slope, people simply walked by him.
Was it so difficult to offer to push him up the slope? While it's a gentle slope to us, any one who drives probably know that you need more power than it seems to go uphill. Didn't anyone see that he was having a hard time pushing himself upwards? Or did everyone simply ignored him because he looked like he's salivating and have problems talking? Or was everyone so caught up in their own lives that they can't even take 5 minutes out to help a fellow human in distress?
Was it so difficult to offer to push him up the slope? While it's a gentle slope to us, any one who drives probably know that you need more power than it seems to go uphill. Didn't anyone see that he was having a hard time pushing himself upwards? Or did everyone simply ignored him because he looked like he's salivating and have problems talking? Or was everyone so caught up in their own lives that they can't even take 5 minutes out to help a fellow human in distress?
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