tete-a-tete

since the airing of Channel U – 明星志工队, victoria and i have been catching it every thursday. i want her to see the harsh condition in the many countries the celebrities that goes to help. she doesn’t know the celebrities of course and i don’t think the people they help know that they will be on TV.

every episode moves me. makes me feel really small not being able to help them get out of their poverty. i can only watch and say ’so poor thing. appreciate your life victoria!’ that’s all i can do. but how many of us out there have the ability to help but ignore.

how many of us are still complaining the foreign workers taking nap at theor void deck during lunch time make their area ugly (wabiang! this is real report in the papers ok?! give the workers (foreign or local) a break please!)

i think its a shame that my kids can practically wear something different every sunday to church for a whole year (if i bother digging the hundreds of clothes in many toyogo boxes) most of their clothes are hand me downs but stil so many! and kids of those country wear the same clothe the whole year (realise there’s no ’s’ in clothe).

my kids have toys that is enough for the whole village children to play and my situation is already consider as ‘normal amount’ here.

my kids can play in water featured garden with clean water when those children dying of drinking filthy water cuz of thirst.

whenever victoria food drops on the table, i’ll put it back into the bowl and eat again. many people feel i did the worst thing but with the thought of hungry children in my mind, i rather walk to the tap and wash it and give her again (guilty! i dun wash them, i just chuck it in their mouth IF the table are ok to my eyes lah)

people here are whining their pay kena cut 10%, they can’t finance their car, their kids have to cut 1 enrichment course out of their 10…people there live base on their catch of the day (if they have, if there’s none…you can imagine)

some of you may say its not fair to compare but i guess at least what we can do here is – whine less, help people around (but dun kena the cheaters),  appreciate life, volunteer your time – i know you need a rest day but the difference you make bringing lunch to an elderly make a whole world of difference to them. don’t a be a rich pesticide.

make a difference to the world, make a difference to your life.

since the first episode by a taiwanese host ‘ah bu’, building library, filling it with new books for the szechuan quake children, victoria wants to do the same too. she will once in while suddenly tell me…

‘UH OH! we forgot to build a school for the children.’

‘don’t forget to build a library’

‘they can have my books…except the Dr Suess’

at first i tell her, let’s give what we dun want to the children there since you have som many toys and books…then i quickly change my sentence. why should we give something we dun want to the children? then i told her, what is most precious to you, it’ll be the best for the children there. let’s give Dr Suess to their library.

i can see her face change, but didn’t respond to that. thn change topic…’er…how about the these?’

one day…one day, i hope she will understand.

i’m gonna keep her dream alive, and she will help build school and library and teach other 3years old to read.

wanna join in this big dream to build libraries in Indonesia and India? email me