ok. they have gone haha. anyway what i wanted to say is, at the yep sharing i dunno i just felt kinda wierd. cos like everyone kept saying tt they wanna go back again and stuff but actually i really dont want to... as in. its not as tho i din like the people there, cos i did, but i just didnt really feel like that is what i want to do and i guess i dont want to keep doing stuff that i know isnt what i have been gifted to do or meant to do in the first place. also, they kept saying tt after they went they didnt feel like helping people in singapore anymore but only people from overseas countries and like people in our society dont need anymore help and stuff. as in ok lah thats your opinion, but to me i think that ever society needs help in different ways and there is no society in which there is not a single person that needs help. they were saying tt the people in yanling were so enthusiastic about the gospel and were so much more open than singaporeans but it comes with the exposure, doesnt it? the more people are exposed to something the more hardened they become so its not something that can be compared. anyway, its not as if the people in singapore are any less loved by God than those in china or any other places. of cos i know they din mean that lah but i just feel that maybe we are too idealistic sometimes... like we just go once and it was a good experience so we start saying things like our own society doesnt need help and stuff.i dunno. maybe im like loy and cl and is like hardened and being too cynical about it, but i didnt feel any urge to cry when we left even when those around me were like bawling thier eyes out. its bad in a way because its harder for an unemotional person to tap into an emotional persons feelings and stuff, but thats just the way i am, and i cant force myself to cry when i dont want to.i dunno lah. i just feel that sometimes we let our emotions make us say things and make statements that if we had thought carefully about it we dont really mean.
to be frank, i was quite appalled at the statement that they dont feel any need to help our own society, because if we do not want to help the people around us then maybe we are wanting to go overseas not for the helping but for the experience of going overseas. im not like condemning anyone lah ok just that thats the impression i got. if we really want to help people, it wun matter where they are or what kind of people they are right? i mean, ok the people in yanling are really poor but the thing is there are in poor people in singapore as well and sometimes i think its worse to be poor in a rch country than a poor one becuase at least in a poor one everyone else is like u. everything is relative, isnt it? to us they have so little because we have so much, but the things they have there are cheaper, and its just their way of life.i duno lah. sometimes i think im really too cynical about such things lah.im a patriot at heart i guess and to hear that a singaporean would rather help people from other nations before the needy people in thier own country shocks me quite alot haha. so i guess its just different feelings for the country lah haha.
anyway the yep gathering was ok although by the end only a few pple were left. it was a good experience and although i wun say it was like the most impactful thing in my life it did teach me alot of thigns and for that i do not regret going. and i guess God really was glorified through the trip which is a good thing too!(duh!)
ok lah. mr huang dingwen is coming my hse tml at 845 to collect files and notes and file them up haha. so i better sleep else ill really just let him in then fall asleep again! oh and if anyone wants pics of tim chay in a skirt come to me :)
oh yah and thanks to everyone who gave me presents, cards and wished me merry christmas... thanks to all shalomers, to alive in christ kiddos, to darren and lijia, to gene ri, to duane, zhong, leon, es, tim, to marcus who called me from hongkong, of cos to my family :) and last but not least to Him who gave me the greatest gift of all, JESUS! :)
and im leaving nxt sunday so better arrange meetings with me ok!!!
to be frank, i was quite appalled at the statement that they dont feel any need to help our own society, because if we do not want to help the people around us then maybe we are wanting to go overseas not for the helping but for the experience of going overseas. im not like condemning anyone lah ok just that thats the impression i got. if we really want to help people, it wun matter where they are or what kind of people they are right? i mean, ok the people in yanling are really poor but the thing is there are in poor people in singapore as well and sometimes i think its worse to be poor in a rch country than a poor one becuase at least in a poor one everyone else is like u. everything is relative, isnt it? to us they have so little because we have so much, but the things they have there are cheaper, and its just their way of life.i duno lah. sometimes i think im really too cynical about such things lah.im a patriot at heart i guess and to hear that a singaporean would rather help people from other nations before the needy people in thier own country shocks me quite alot haha. so i guess its just different feelings for the country lah haha.
anyway the yep gathering was ok although by the end only a few pple were left. it was a good experience and although i wun say it was like the most impactful thing in my life it did teach me alot of thigns and for that i do not regret going. and i guess God really was glorified through the trip which is a good thing too!(duh!)
ok lah. mr huang dingwen is coming my hse tml at 845 to collect files and notes and file them up haha. so i better sleep else ill really just let him in then fall asleep again! oh and if anyone wants pics of tim chay in a skirt come to me :)
oh yah and thanks to everyone who gave me presents, cards and wished me merry christmas... thanks to all shalomers, to alive in christ kiddos, to darren and lijia, to gene ri, to duane, zhong, leon, es, tim, to marcus who called me from hongkong, of cos to my family :) and last but not least to Him who gave me the greatest gift of all, JESUS! :)
and im leaving nxt sunday so better arrange meetings with me ok!!!
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