hullo!
now i assume that most of NUS students have already finished their exams. one battle down and its time to anticipate the damn exam results. because i dont fall under the category of higly-intelligent (or even, intelligent) individuals, my results sway from an A to an F. yeah observe the lack of precision. but anyway, that anxiety should only be felt a day before the release of results. for right now, we should all celebrate the triumph over pressure that we put ourselves into and got out of safely, these few weeks/days.
by the way, i’ve just completed reading “A thousand splendid suns” by khaled hosseini. guess you all have heard about it -nudge nizar- . while i read this book, i cried many times whenever i felt that the plight faced by the characters was beyond human abnormality. its toooooo sad! i flinched at every events in the story cos i know its not just a story. its a fact. and i feel so stupid. while i spent my childhood in school and making friends and had a home and family to run to and taking things for granted, somewhere else, children lost their lives even before they died. i feel so dumb. while here we were/are fussing over lift upgrading, gst hike or late retirement, some other people elsewhere contemplate the possibility of living yet another day. while we complain unfairness at its minute details here, equality and justice are like a rare pink diamond, to some other people in those countries. so rare, only very very few are entitled to it.
now i understand why when i went for umrah, some of them (whom i assume came from troubled countries) never understood the meaning of ‘being nice to others’. they just dont care if they pushed you and you fell, or they could just walk around bare-footed on the hot marble floor and how unnerving-ly emotional they were when they prayed for peace. they’ve gone through so much, that our everyday family problems appear like a speck of dust on their mountain of dirt.
renungkan….
okay im off to eat! i cooked curry today! ((:
