christmas

hey lcia-ers! it's christmas!! merry christmas to all of you. :) definitely a season to be jolly cos Jesus Christ is the reason all behind it. and it's not only this one day -- Christmas, or this one month -- December, but the whole year round. keep your spirits up cos there's a living hope!

guess what's the first thing i did this morning after waking up, using the toilet etc etc! i made myself breakfast, not like i don't usually do that, but this time round, i made my own milo. every other normal day, it's either my mom making milo for me (that's for school days!), or me being too lazy (during the holidays!) and making do with nice plain water. what a start to the day!

i've been out of touch with the newspapers for weeks. all the way since holidays started and i got caught up with squash trainings, meeting friends, camps, etc. and when i got back from obs about a week ago, right in front of me was a pile of overdued newsweek that i used to finish up so fervently only to cast it behind my desk. i think there were 5 different issues, and when i tore open the plastic wrapper, i was shocked to find out there were double issues in two of them. and just to let my mom be assured that all the money plunged into this investment (2 years newsweek subscription!!!) was necessary, i began my hike into the unfamiliar terrains of words (after 5 weeks of brain inactivity). and i'm beginning to see the light at the end of this seemingly impenetrable jungle, which is a good sign i suppose.

okies, some good stuff to share with you. now, let's turn with me to pg 19 of your issues 2005 special edition if you have it with you. yar i know i don't sound like a teacher. but i've put teaching as a career back on track, after some enlightenment from higher orders. anyway, back to what i have: "greatness comes, it seems to me, when leaders make real a vision of the world as they wish it to be without losing touch with the reality of the world as it is... ... there was no ambivalence, no fear, no reservation. it was a courageous clarity, however, matched by patience, candor and a healthy respect for the vicissitudes of history. churchill, the student of war, knew triumph would not come overnight; reagan, the old union president, understood the art of negotiation; bush senior, the seasoned diplomat, grasped that force had to be matched by assiduous alliance-building". this reminds me of my obs experience, when we had to conduct the commitment activity. we were to climb up this high structure, and at the top, we had to remind ourselves of the commitment that we wrote down the night before, and brace ourselves for the worst as we leap forward to grab hold of a bar dangling about 1.5m before us. at the moment when we leapt forward, i'm pretty sure there was no ambivalence, no fear, no reservation, but in place a courageous clarity of what we want to commit ourselves to. and i respect everyone there for embracing that courageous moment.

did you realise that my paragraphs keep getting longer? time for me to end it off short and sweet. yup, off to church. have a merry christmas! a good time to start pondering the reason for christmas, and the reason for living. :)

posted by ::wt:: @ 8:34 AM