homecoming

it's two in the afternoon and i'm waiting for lunch to appear, so i might as well blog something.

holidays are (sadly) over and it's a new semester, new term, a new beginning. but to be honest, i sorta missed hearing the school bells and noise pollution from the kids. i've got new classes on my timetable, so that amounts to about two hundred faces and names i gotta remember.

there are times when i wonder if this is God's calling, or am i at the wrong side of the grassland. but something affirming is that i feel that the love for these children is growing, though it drains myself dry.

it almost feels strange to have ex-students visiting; faces that you used to see everyday, they disappear for some time after graduation and here there they are again. i know its like a homecoming to them, but what i didnt notice was that it felt the same to me. if this is cyclical, i better get used to it.

where is my lunch?

wonder in most everything i see

you just need to listen to this twelve year korean old dude.













wow.

the pot calling kettle black

what's on channelnewsasia today?

1) Singapore's total population grew to 4.84m in 2008, up 5.5% over previous year



let's take a look where did the 5.5% really come from judging from the low fertility rate here.

"Foreigners now make up about 25 per cent of the total population. "
Channelnewsasia

with a quarter of the population being foreigners, i say that is a pretty substantial number. imagine for every majong table you set up, there's a foreigner there. pretty amazing how many people can squeeze into this little red dot.


2) Chinese star Jet Li 'takes Singapore citizenship'




So is he Chinese or Singaporean, or both? i'm just wondering if the reporter will address him as singaporean star, or chinese star in the next report!


3) Could North Korea Provoke a New Korean War?

for the future of korean dramas, i hope not.



4) McDonald's Garlic Chilli is back! (yes i added that)

this is no rumour! goodbye bad chilli! garlic chilli is here to stay!

whatever will be,

will be.

i will be fine.

the alchemist

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. "

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

the alchemist's a pretty short but nice novel.

"It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning."

i like the pretty pretty language used and the little nuggets of truth embedded within.

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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