Saturday, May 11, 2002
// Listening to: Bastrik 99 - World's Flow
Yoohoo~~ I'm back from the chalet.... Anybody miss me? Muahahaa....Ehh, actually, I'm back since Wednesday, it's juz that I'm always out of the house and when I'm home, I'm too lazy to on the PC and blog, get it? Hee... =PpPPpPp
Anyway, chalet's fun, with the exception that there were too little ppl there. And I really mean too little! The mere mention of having to pay $30 for the chalet made everybody run away, so you can imagine how pathetic looking the chalet was. Nevertheless, it was fun as I said, and true enough, I had an overdose of satays....wahahahaha. There were just too much~~
Spiderman was good, at least not as bad as some people claimed to be. Maybe they had high expectations on the show since it's their childhood hero afterall.... I had my hair trimmed yesterday, not much of a difference, so be it. Til then!
Some food for thought:
A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the student's friend, from his kindness to those who waited on his instructions.
As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day's work.
The student turned to the professor, saying: "Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, and conceal ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them."
“My young friend," answered the professor, "we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of this poor man. Put a coin in each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how this affects him."
While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, but feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his countenance. He gazed upon the coin, turned it around, and looked at it again and again.
He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin.
His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving in which he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread, whom this timely bounty, from some unknown hand, would save from perishing.
The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. "Now," said the professor, are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick?"
The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of these words, which I never understood before: "It's more blessed to give than to receive."
If you want happiness...
For an hour---take a nap
For a day--- go fishing
For a month----get married
For a year---inherit a fortune
For a lifetime---help someone.
