27 December 2007
8:47 PM
MY FIRST MOE BRIEFING!
I am pleased. I'm gonna have to start finding some real Teacher-looking clothes, vests (yay!) blouses (waah?) long pants (yux) heels (nooo). The mail just came and my town council just gave me $$$, so I don't have to spend my first paycheck on Old-People Clothes.
You know something. I've realised how powerful these holidays really are. I read my friend's email just now, a thread from an imprompt email I decided to send her this morning, and her reply did make me cry in earnest.
I think people don't know how much we mean to each other, and how much our lives have changed because of a chance encounter, because of exams, because we were meant to be together in a class, cca, school, lift, shopping mall...
I don't know what to say now, only that God has worked in such an incredible miraculous way, that there is no doubt in my mind that things have come, yes, full circle.
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My friend read the email I sent aditi, when I was whining mercilessly about uni apps and the sianness of it all. Haha. She asked me to put it here, for the inspiration of others lol. The 3-minute Essay-of-the-year.
This is what I really want to say:
"a sense of who you are." Hi.I am a girl with black hair and small eyes from Singapore. We have 4 races and many religions here, and we believe in meritocracy, but some things are more fair than others. We are politically apathetic unless we're supporting the opposition, and even so sometimes we're merely supporting Opposition as an Ideal, not a party. (Please don't tell the PaP I said this.) I believe in God, I love music and literature, and I enjoyed relaxing by the teevee during christmas. I like turkey but I prefer chicken with black pepper. Guess what? (That is my hook) I'm going to miss my friends when I'm forced to grow up by setting myself up for rejection / selection by your esteemed university. This is all part of life, but what happens if I just want it to slow down? My contributions have been many, and I've been proud of them. But somehow forcing me to write them reduces their import to words and acknowledgements. But I will cope, because I'm as resilient as a grasshopper, and these days I've eaten more corn than usual, what with food prices and maize sky-rocketing. No doubt your innovative country has contributed much to the solution as to the problem, but I do hold the belief that ethanol is not the answer to global warming. And besides, you people are eating too much beef. Not good for your cholesterol, and worse still for the environment. You could try innovating a new lifestyle for yourself. I will fit in nicely with all the other kids in your university, because we have an essential bond already - apprehension for the unknown, misery at leaving home, and hope. Lots and lots of Hope. Like it? Yeah it's terrible I know.
