30th May 08

Hi everyone! It's holidays! And this signifies the resurrection of my dying blog as well! :p I've so much so much to say!

Today is a good smooth day for me. My 2-day course ended today and i did my essay questions without much difficulty! You know, it has been such a long time since i attended "lectures" and wrote essays! I was so worried last night... totally lack of confidence to submit the assignment! And now im so glad that I DID IT! Actually.. nothing to be proud of la, cause i guess majority of my colleagues did it without much difficulty as well. Hahahaaa. All of us did not do our homework last night... and we sat together during our lunch break to finish up our essays! I had not have such feeling for a long long time.. it resembles those days mugging in nus library!

Talking abt the course i attended.. it's focusing on how to improve on communication and rship with others. The speaker, Jessica Leong, is fantastic.. she can easily engaged us in her workshop and she is a real good storyteller and joker! One of the funnier, useful and interesting workshops i have attended so far! I must really really recognise her talents!

She showed us the video featuring this song called "Don't laugh at me" and i fell in love with it. The video is very touching... however i cant find the exact same video online.

Here's the lyrics... take some time to digest it! very meaningful.

I'm a little boy with glasses
The one they call the geek
A little girl who never smiles
'Cause I've got braces on my teeth
And I know how it feels
To cry myself to sleep
I'm that kid on every playground
Who's always chosen last
A single teenage mother
Tryin' to overcome my past
You don't have to be my friend
But is it too much to ask
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
I'm the cripple on the corner
You've passed me on the street
And I wouldn't be out here beggin'
If I had enough to eat
And don't think I don't notice
That our eyes never meet
I lost my wife and little boy when
Someone cross that yellow line
The day we laid them in the ground
Is the day I lost my mind
And right now I'm down to holdin' This little cardboard sign...so
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm short, I'm tall
I'm deaf, I'm blind, hey, aren't we all




Personally, i'm touched by this video.. perhaps cause of all the bullying and jeering i've seen with my own eyes. The society isnt tt kind as what i have always thought to be so. No one is born to be perfect. We all have our own flaws.. and it just happened that some are slightly more unfortunate cause their flaws are much more visible. They should not be jeered at or outcasted because of that and you know.. it is really sad to see such scenes every now and then. Perhaps our flaws [which are like hidden within the self, or only obvious after people know us for a long period of time] are worse than theirs.. Much as we dont wish to be laughed at, we shouldnt do it to others!

I'm always teased by my friends.. usually i take it as a joke and laughed it off together with them. However i believe that it is not healthy to be constantly laughed at. Eventually, it results in a drop in self confidence and self perception. especially when that person is not an optimistic one!

Ok enough of all my preaching! After the course... i went Marina Sq Hotpot Culture tog w barry, marie and siewyin. We ate there from like 5.40pm to 10pm... tt's long right! Well... the food aint fantastic - not super tasty + limited choices though it is a buffet. However the dinner was enjoyable.. we were like super noisy n we kept laughing non stop. I almost puked .. heng i din do it again! :p

It's so relaxing n fun hanging out after work..

Oh... and one more happy thing! Ros smsed me and offerd me 2 tickets to zhang dong liang's concert! i've been wanting to watch lor but cant find kaki to buy tic w me. hahaha now i can go watch it! And while im still feeling super happy n excited over it... gillian offered another pair of tickets! i felt so blessed!

Blessed not really bcoz i get to watch for free... but rather, blessed bcoz my likes are being remembered by my frenz and bcoz my frenz are nice enough to offer me the tics! thanks girls! really really appreciate it!

Ok last but not least... we did a profiling during the course... and guess what.. i have a high "Nuturing Parent" nature in me... and next comes "Compliant Child" in me. Some of my colleagues have a gd laugh over it.. they onli believe the child side of me. Wahlau eh... im not tt childish right?? But it is true to certain extent la.. im compliant. what to do? hahaa