Nice coffee break wit this?
I have came back with different perspective in life....feeling so wierd comin back to Singapore..hahahas..maybe bcos of the bulidings. All of them are mostly 3 stories high n the environment there so was much more backward. The air was dusty at dawn( u tin this only happened in story book?) and man..it's 39 degree celsius in the afternoon.
it was not at all comfortable and relaxing holiday..but one humbling experience. Saw so much of the outside world outside Singapore. the desperate of earning money by the locals makes me stop and ponder how should we treasure what we have...
i saw houses along river no bigger than your bathroom..kidding? no kidding.. i was chased by local kids atmost everywhere,..persistently trying to make me buy things from them: 'jie jie..san ke mei jing yi qiute'( sister, 3 for US$1).. plenty of kids everywhere, more like begging for money rather than genuinely selling u things. i talk to heros that survived the cambodia war.. one of which whose parents had no choice but to bury him with leaves under the tree when he was 2 years old. His parents were running away from soldiers, get it?
n another hero...our war museum tour guide.. whose family (father, mother, n sister) was ALL shot by a soldier when he was a kid!!! u noe..ALL ALL ALL!!!!!!! hey, do you know that 3millions victims were shot by the king and his soldiers during the cambodia war? My tour guide was hit three times by gun shot, involve in land mine for five times which caused him to lose a leg, gone blind temporary for 2 yrs, ... n suffer from seisure every now and then bcos of the ball bearings that when into his skin during land mine. I'll cry bcos his tradegy did not end here...
His wife was killed by land mine 2 yrs ago. He will be blind permantly 2 yrs later...n he has a 8 yr old daughter to feed..how will he cope? I truely respect him for his determination to live on in life! u noe, Doctor once tried to try to put him to slp but he escaped, i believe he'll find a way out in life 2 yrs later=)
i tot of something...we had every single freedom choice to study but the kids there dun. They are weigh down by circumstances..trying to earn enuff for good life..N man..our life is at least haf better than what they wanted to earn for. Or perhaps i shall offer another perpective..do the kids even know that studying is impt? All they care is earning money! n i really wonder, when can they walk out of the provety circle without education?
THis let me...
LOVE KNOWLEDGE...LOVE WORKING HARD FOR KNOWLEGE..so do you?
Shalom in me(-.-)
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