A windy night full of stars is what seldom see during this monsoon season, the sky was clear and the stars shine brightly, what a good night to rode motor from one end to the other end of hometown. We were chatting about a friend's thailand trip and the border pass and i have no idea what is the relationship the topic suddenly change to another friend's relationship topic and this friend we call him "big boom" said this "another" friend will have to sell himself in E-bay to earn himself some money to get married and he said that he will put his border pass's photo which still have the Thailand Immigration Dept.'s cop on it. My suggestion was his Form 1 school magazine's "poker king" picture. There is a part in our school magazine where the editor will put in some candy pictures and there he was acting as "king" during our F1 registration day and when the enviroment become a sudden freez. The freez thing give us a flash back of 7 years ago when we come to school with our parents and register as a secondary student and also what both of the class do to communicate from opposite block, the balckboard, the T-back, "pipu" etc.
Although I not from both of the class but i enjoy being a listener of their "old times" story. This was not the first time i said about this, time move so fast, friends and thinngs have change, their thinking even myself also change a lot. Even some of our topics have change from childish to mature talks. I consider it mature not because I think Im big enough but the topics which normally "discuss" by adults, hmm...but at the end of the day, the look still the same but the wish is totally different. When we were small what we need is for small kids and when we grow up what we need is for us grown up. Everyone is looking on their future and awaiting the challenge in front of them, they will not look back to the "old", they learn the mistake and move forward. This is a simple living philosopy, you stay back you die but if you want to improve yourself, strart the future walk and finish at the sucessful endline.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Charity
Charity...hmmm...
Everyone knows the meaning of charity but does everyone knows that charity doesn't stop at a point although the "event" has end?!
I was chatting with a secondary schoolmate whom also introduce me to Tzu Chi Foundation and i realise that to do charity is not that simple as what we see, a normal charity society will organize an event like pay a visit to old folks home etc. and at the end of the day the old people at there will be very happy and feel sad at the same time because after today they have to wait till another day another group of people come to visit them. So does this call a good charity event? yes, i also agree that there must be a full-stop for such event but what do we learn from this kind of activities? do we learn how loneliness they are being alone in their bed? Many see me as walking around doing nothing and pass my day doing nothing but in the other side of me i do join Ci Qing activities although I still new in this side, many(i think la) cannot accept or even think that i will not go for these kind of activities because it just not "me"...human will change pls!!!
haha...the main point is I really learn a lot from the activities that I have join. So at the begining of the part I said charity doesn't stop at a point and you will question me," so what is your so call continue chairty activities?"...=.=
Take it this way, Tze Chi concept is that at the end of the day, for example give support in terms of money and daily stuff to poor, we must pay them a visit every month to see how they are doing and see whether we need to add in or change plan for them getting a better living. We are not that kind of give and take, we teach they how to make living, go for work, there is no free meal in this world, even 出家人 need to earn their living. They work to live well. The other thing that I learn was that we don't see how poor they are when we visit them but we see how good is our life is. They are not to be see as pity but as a description to ourself as how fortunate we are.
Everyone knows the meaning of charity but does everyone knows that charity doesn't stop at a point although the "event" has end?!
I was chatting with a secondary schoolmate whom also introduce me to Tzu Chi Foundation and i realise that to do charity is not that simple as what we see, a normal charity society will organize an event like pay a visit to old folks home etc. and at the end of the day the old people at there will be very happy and feel sad at the same time because after today they have to wait till another day another group of people come to visit them. So does this call a good charity event? yes, i also agree that there must be a full-stop for such event but what do we learn from this kind of activities? do we learn how loneliness they are being alone in their bed? Many see me as walking around doing nothing and pass my day doing nothing but in the other side of me i do join Ci Qing activities although I still new in this side, many(i think la) cannot accept or even think that i will not go for these kind of activities because it just not "me"...human will change pls!!!
haha...the main point is I really learn a lot from the activities that I have join. So at the begining of the part I said charity doesn't stop at a point and you will question me," so what is your so call continue chairty activities?"...=.=
Take it this way, Tze Chi concept is that at the end of the day, for example give support in terms of money and daily stuff to poor, we must pay them a visit every month to see how they are doing and see whether we need to add in or change plan for them getting a better living. We are not that kind of give and take, we teach they how to make living, go for work, there is no free meal in this world, even 出家人 need to earn their living. They work to live well. The other thing that I learn was that we don't see how poor they are when we visit them but we see how good is our life is. They are not to be see as pity but as a description to ourself as how fortunate we are.
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