Tuesday, September 05, 2006
lijuan said to blog more. ok looorh. ;P but the small and ultra bright screen is turning me off and i can't seem to find the button which adjusts the brightness.
i collected my visa from the corporate offices yesterday. hoho. i met teri and jialing and another girl there. and i think that they are very hip and very fashionable. they were dressed to the nines. and they speak perfect english with a slight accent. and there i was, super sian, bespectacled, hair unkempt, dressed in boring blue tshirt, boring blue jeans and boring blue flip flops. (but of course, different shades of blue) and i suddenly felt very shy in the absence of my sook yee and my candy. cause i felt very low class. not that i am saying sook and candy are low class., but they accept the low class yafen. haha. paranoia is teeming. oh man.
on a brighter note, i called ucl yesterday and i found out i will be staying in ramsay hall! :)
my students wished me a happy teacher's day last week! though i am no longer their teacher. yay. :)
13 more days on this sunny island. i just can't wait to go! priscilla said that it chills her heart to see me so eager to leave. but, i guess it is because i am so bored and my friends are all so busy with uni life. i guess that's part and parcel of life. fragility of human relationships makes me sick.
i brought andy to church last sunday. i was so surprised he agreed to go. he seems rather receptive towards Christ even though he's telling me that he's having religion ala carte now. andy, will still be andy. Lord, touch him!
du lai du wang de sheng huo. ni xi huan ma?
i saw this ah pek at wheelock place. he was standing at the end of the escalator, peering up as if the beams of sunlight streaming down would literally light up his life, as if the mob of people would give him a ray of hope. he could barely stand independently. one hand clinging onto the railing; the other hand tightly clutching onto 5 packets of tissue paper. his face was wrinkled and lined, it seemed as if years and years of hardship have been carved on his face. stumps in place of fingers, leprosy has devastated his life. this man has a story to tell. will you stop to listen?
and thus, today, i stopped. many a times, i would feign ignorance and simply walk past without batting an eyelid.
O Lord, clothe me with compassion.
He's my way
