stuff to think abt.

i cant believe we won talentime! haha its so surreal. but i guess all the practices during recess/after sch/at joan's house were not in vain huh. (: ohhh.mrs wang asked me to sing a solo for family nite! i super super want to do it la, but its like 3 days before prelims start so i dunno. its a dilemma i've been pondering abt since thu. gahh.i think i'm really too fickle,hve to learn to be more decisive. o.o
anw. on fri nite i was supposed to do prep for el oral the next day but i ended up reading thisbook called kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. u noe, the bk that sgp's promoting as part of the read singapore campaign or smth like that. anw, its absolutely fantastic. it made me cry so hard.dunno even noe why.... but it was just so moving and it evoked so much emotion in me. i highly recommend this bk.like one of the critics said,"it makes everything else i read seem bland". hurr(: it's set in afghanistan and its basically abt frenship,war,violence,love etc.super riveting,super evocative..go read it. and now with all the hoo-ha abt lsrael and lLebanon and whathaveyou... i guess by reading kite runner i'm getting a deeper understanding abt the middle east and stufflikethat.before, stuff happening in the middle east was totally foreign to me and i didnt really care much abt it cos it didnt affect me so i always thot what the heck, i have better things to think abt than how many bombs went off in israel, that kinda thing.but now...i'm just so saddened by whats happening. it really got me thinking.
u noe, i grew up listening to spicegirls,michael jackson and all that. children in those worn-torn countries grow up hearing gunshots and bombs almost on a daily basis.they're so innocent and yet they have to go thru all this shit because their ldrs have warped minds. its totally unfair. and this realisation has left me really humbled. imagine if i had been born in say,afghanistan, instead of sgp.my life wld have been so different. sometimes i really think that we take the peace and security in sgp for granted.
like on fri, we celebrated racial harmony day in sch, and when we recited that declaration on religious harmony thing... i thot abt all this too. i think its something that God wants to impress on my mind. ohwell.dun wish to sound sanctimonious or anything...but from today onwards i'm gonna be praying for the ppl in the middle east on top of the stuff i usually pray for everyday. all are welcome to join me.