Monday, September 25, 2006
I swear that the router we have at home is
biased! Before my daddy came home, the internet could not work. I checked the connection, restarted the computer and the router countless times and still my internet could not work! I even tried connecting the router to the computer manually to no avail!
However, the minute my daddy came home, all he did was switch on the computer and
ta daaa... the
computer worked!!!
Waahhh... computer oh computer, what have I done that has made you hate me so?):
Anyway, on to today. What happened today? Well, nothing really significant. For Geography lesson, Mrs Mohammad showed us this powerpoint presentation on world hunger. I was particularly disturbed by the photograph showing the poor malnutritioned man crawling after a fit man who had just stolen his food. The former had just queued for
hours to get the food and that fit man just simply took advantage of the poor man's situation and stole the food from him!
I feel very strongly regarding the fit man's bahaviour. He is already so fit he should have just queued up for the food himself! I am sensitive by nature so when Mrs Mohammad flashed the photograph once again on anotehr slide, I looked away and told Marissa to tell me when the photograph had passed. I was extremely distraught that humans could be so cruel! The poor man was already so skinny that his limbs were as thin as sticks and yet that fit man had absolutely
no compassion within him.
Mrs Mohammad also showed us many other photographs but none left as deep an impression as this photograph had. Just now, I was describing the photograph to my daddy and I really felt like crying. Tears were welling up in my eyes, but I forced them back. How can this world be so cruel?
How I wish that I could just kick that fit man in his balls and slowly kill him. Oh gosh, I am getting very very disturbed by this photograph.):
Anyway, on to the other lessons. During Chemistry, Bernice was falling asleep (as usual). So, I used this weird-looking bottle with distilled water and started squirting distilled water onto her hand to wake her. When that didn't work after a while, I launched several attacks on Bernice(:
1. Burette Attack - I used the burette to poke her cheek(:
2. Funnel Attack - I used the funnel to poke her nose (i think) x)
3. Thermometer Attack - I used the thermometer to poke her arm several times until she woke up(:
All in all, Chemistry was fun, but that image of the poor man and the fit man still lingered in my head.
During Character and Leadership Education (CLE), we had to do
peer evaluation! It was hilarious. I had to peer evaluate Eleanor and Si Rui and Eleanor, that stupid girl, was begging me not to write about her tendency to look at people's legs(: Oops, did I just say that x)
Then, Eleanor suddenly remembered that she had yet to sign up for Inter-House Arm Wrestling Competition and she asked Mrs Loh that if she (Eleanor) joined, could she (Eleanor) challenge her (Mrs Loh) to a round of arm wrestling. Mrs Loh demanded to look at Eleanor's muscles and Eleanor was like, "Rui Fen, show Mrs Loh your muscles. Mrs Loh, my arm is Rui Fen's arm so you do not need to be afraid of me beating you." Haha, very funny Eleanor :D
At the end of the day, I learnt not to take advantage of the abundance of food around me. People in Sub-Saharan Africa are
trying to
survive on
bush leaves and twigs only. They do not have the luxury of choosing whether do they want to eat
wanton mee or
chee cheong fun.
So, my message to you is: treasure what you have ; others may not have even a quarter of what you have.
I need to go and rest for a while now. The rush of emotions sucks.
;5:27 PM
