Priceless
These 3 weeks is almost leaving home super early either for class or for work. And then coming hm late mainly for CCA. My mum was like "I haven seen u at the dining table for the longest time man...." oh well ma, i din exactly plan it, the school and work is planning me instead..hahaah..so really got no time to tink bout other things except schoolwork and BE. Nth else tk up my mind. Dun even feel like shopping..haaha...tt's an omen! i m losing sense for the surrounding...aahahahahah
Now I am waiting to cool down a bit before bathing and now I am watching Jap Anime - Bleach on SCV now..it's my only half an hr of entertainment nowadays..ahhaha
Let me start a few priceless things in my life..i duno why, i just suddenly felt like writing it..ahhaah
#1: Family - Papa, Mama and Jie Jie
U noe how they always say everything in this world has a price tag. U want this, u give up that. U want that, u gif up tis. In one way or another, in an attempt to achieve something, something else hafta be given up. For one thing in my life, and i believe in most people's life, family's love din come wif one. My parents always complain I make too much noise at hm. But i noe they din really mean it. Whenever i nid to wake up early, they make sure I have sufficient breakfast before leaving the hse. Whenever I work too late, they make sure I slp a little more the next day. They rem wat i loved to eat, they rem wat i dun like to do.
I have days where i throw my temper when I haf a bad day at work or at sch. But they nv tk to heart. They will leave me alone first before attempting to probe further. My elder sis always say i m irritating coz i just love disturbing her. But when I fell out wif my parents 1 yr ago, she was there to lend me support and gave me allowance when my mother cut off my financial source.
I rem when we were in pri sch, she loved to bully me coz I was so short and she was so tall. But whenever I haf problems in sch, she will just bring her gang of frens and they will just settle it for me.( i mean not gangsters la..hahaha..just her bunch of khakis..hahaha)
Family's love is unconditional. They gif it at no cost and nv expected returns. When the world turns on u, they r always the people i can look to for emotional support. My dad is strict but when he noes i m seriously troubled, he will bother to stop and listen. My mum is jokish but she's the best candidate to turn to when i nided a dose of optimism. My sis is serious, but she can churn out lame jokes every now and then just to lighten up the mood.
Take it from the world's richest man Warren Buffett: "The amount of money certainly can influence how much things I can buy, but it can nv change how many people truely love me." The next time u find urself too caught up in work, the next time u cant even recall when was the last time u sat down wif ur parents over a leisure cup of tea, the next time u realise u spend like 16hrs in school and just going home just to slp, mayb it's time to tk a break and gif ur loved ones some part of ur life.
To me, they r the number one on my priceless list :)
#2: Frens, TPJC Band and SMUBE:
I always count myself lucky coz I haven really met any evil people in my life (or mayb they r evil and I cant really c it OR that i nv regarded them as frens..hahaha) I have had met many true frens, from pri sch to sec sch to JC and up till SMU. I shall not name names, lest i leave anyone out and ya..and be paiseh about it..hahahaha
They were there to share luffters, to cry on each others' shoulders and cheer together for the happy things in life. From pri to sec, I have always put school and family in 2 separate categories becoz i nv believe in giving too much to the school. One will leave it anyway, so why bother? Glad to say TPJC Concert Band changed a lot bout tt.
The year I joined TPJC Concert Band, the strength amounts to ard 70-80 people i tink, including the seniors. The whole band did everything together like a family. We practised together and suffered blunders to together. Studied together and tide over Band's difficulties together. It was for the first time in my life, I truely felt that I can nv gif too much to a school. Although I did felt bad that I was treating my hm like a hotel since i went hm just to slp..hahah..but i was glad my parents were understanding and that i do make a pt to spend more time on weekends with them.
When I left TPJC Band after finishing JC, i tot i will nv find this kinda feeling again. When I was accepted in SMU, i was vv attracted to BE's spirit and tt's y i signed up even before school start and even started trainings wif them before school started. But tt time, I was still badly attached to percussion and so I took up Samba as well. The 2 CCAs took its toll on me so i decided to drop both. I was only briefly involved so I tot the clubs din haf the family feeling that I was looking for. It was during the Grand Opening when I signed up as a student helper, did I get back to BE again. It was as if it was fate, i din specify i wanted to do backstage but I was given the post of backstage. It was then when I was truely thrown into the BE backstage team. It was warm, vv fun and everyone was vv united.
After spending 2 semesters in BE, I found the feeling of TPJC Band again. Once again, it's nv too much to gif to a school :)
The friendships that were forged over such a long period of time and the time spent in Band and in BE, is indeed priceless.
#3 My Nose:
Ok, i love my nose. it's priceless coz it's natural. Hahaha! Next!
#4: Beautiful mentors who gave me valuable advice:
From pri sch, I have had the luxury being at the recieving end of plenty of quality advice. My frens always tell me how optimistic I am. Actually it is an accumulation of many advice all these years. I was a gloomy kid becoz I worry too much and tink too much.
My mum used to tell me :"The day pass when u r happy, it passes when u r gloomy too. Imagine the 24 hrs are money. U dun wanna b spending ur money on redundant things(i.e to tink of unhappy things) rite?"
She also told me:"U can lose ur status, u can lose ur money. But never never never ever lose ur courage to stand up again. Never lose ur integrity. Never lose a positive attitude."
To encourage me to read when I was little, she told me:"A person's status can b taken away. A person's money can be gone in one night. But one's knowledge is forever one's asset. It's is smth valuable and yet smth tt no one else can steal from u. Whatever u haf read, it's urs. No one tks it away."
I haf had a relatively close fren in sec sch who used to gif me great advice. She was like a mother..hahaha..
She told me:"When u see the sun rise from the dark horizons everyday, u will come to realise that the darkest, most suffering and toughest thing in ur life will pass eventually."
Actually I have many more, the usual encouraging lines i leave on my MSN or in my entries were quotes from frens, family, famous people, successful businessmen and many more. But too many liao la..next time then slowly put some more...haha
#5: My ability to luff:
Sometimes people ask me how come i can luff so easily. Am i just being polite? Or do I truely find it funny?
Honestly, I am a person who is easily amused. There are times when I can just stare at ants moving bread crumbs and smile to myself. People will tink i m nuts (hahahaha.oh well..i mean people who dun noe me...like tis lunatic is smiling to herself..eerie..). But what i m tinking inside is:"Wow, even small little creatures like them are fighting vv hard in life to survive. I believe I can too."
My sis used to tell me: "Never lose the ability to luff at urself. It's the best way to make life easier". I used to hate being teased. Esp since I dun look like a chinese and I started my education in a pure chinese school. I used to just crouch under the table and cry, refusing to go to school. Until I see how my sis react to such comments in school. She will go :"oh ya man! I suspect i was mixed wif malay blood like 5000 freaking yrs ago! You noe genes, they surface when they like!" and then another moment she will go like :"Gosh how did u noe i m not pure chinese?! I got mixed like african blood bout 10 million yrs ago!" People will luff and forget bout the difference.
Luffing is important. I can't go one day without luffing like every few min. I tink i might die of depression..hahahahaha...(of coz there r occasions i noe i cant luff la, i m not dumb..bleah..ahahah)
And becoz of this character trait, I tend not to stay upset for too long. When I feel vv lousy inside, i tend to isolate myself for a while so I can dissolve the anger/sorrow before starting to luff again. I love tis part of me.
Why? Coz it's priceless :)
#6 I see smth interesting in boring things:
I admit, i m afraid of boredom. I guess it's a sagittarius thing la. I cant tk boredom vv well. When i get bored and there's nth for me to find smth interesting in (like when we r standing ard waitin for smth to happen and there's nth to play ard wif), i will start finding things on myself interesting. Trying different styles of tying the shoelaces, playing wif my fingers, creating sounds and doing funny things. That's the time i realise i can bend my thumb really well! ahahahah<
Sometimes i just suddenly do smth tt can make my frens go :"wat was tt for manz?!". Yep, tt's me for u.hahahahaa...
I always tot everyone haf this trait. Actually no, not everyone can be professional self-amuser as good as I am..hahahha..coz i get amused wif myself quite easily
#7 Short term memory:
I have a relatively short term memory for unhappy things. Coz my teacher used to tell me dun carry around the faults of other people and make urself suffer. I haf a vv quick temper. In the past, when i unhappy wif smth, i just shoot my mouth off. As yrs go by, i realise usually the words that came out in the spur of the moment, i always regret saying them.
Now, my temper is still fast but i hold the mouth and let the steam dissolve first. My fren used to tell me, my anger comes up fast but it goes away fast too. I m not sure bout tt coz i tink there r many pple who can hold their temper so much beta.
But then again, tis trait was mentioned as a priceless trait :) So i wanna include it :)
#8 My love to make people luff:
To me, seeing someone luff is an enjoyable feeling. I dun mind putting myself down just to see my frens luff. It's a priceless feeling to see the people u care and love having a good luff around u.
Frens, luff more. It's good for the lungs and definitely can burn calories..hahahahahah
Shld I write somemore? Mayb not la..should be bathing already..ahha
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