All the little things.

Quite a fair bit happened the past 2 weeks or so. I remember most vividly the last weekend which might have been one of the more eventful weekends in my life. Basically it was a cool give off from all the O level stress and I had a great time along with other people. Lots of reflection to do so ill just do it slowly.

On saturday, we had our flag day CIP to do for school. Mitch, Gable and I marched our way to tampines bus interchange to collect donations aimed to aid the Disabled People's Association. The Organisation caters to the needs of the physicaly disabled such as the blind or the wheelchair-bound. After about 30 mins of kind-soul searching, we went into tampines mall to get some stuff from the guitar shop as Mitch needed it. Upon our return, the density of people had increased. With hoarse voices and innocent-faced pleas for donations, we fended off most competition from other schools and even against other hopeful patricians. The words of "hi would you like to donate?" rang like a tape recorder repeated to the commuters and pedestrians. Many declined, others have already donated and some gave their contribution to help those not as lucky as they were. There were extremes. One lady strongly declined, shaking her hand and walking briskly away, saying NO and chasing us away as if we were aedes mosquitoes. There were enough generous hearts however, to give us enough money in our little tin can proportionate to 7 hours of CIP work. Well done.

Apparently steph was there too but not in the interchange. She wanted to join us on our way back to church but we had to return back to school to return our heavy tin cans. We later met her at church for cathecism. The lesson was fun and interesting considering we had nothing left to learn and played pictionary =P. there were 2 teams. The team with Steph, Joan, Cass, Joel, Gable, Veronica, Gericho, Cat, Issabella, Samantha etc. and the other group, the rest. We were evil people, giving them terms like "enzyme", Bowman's capsule, czechoslovakia, and all that stuff. They gave us stuff like "Joan and Jerome" and "handbag".So it was no surprise who got it in the end.

After Class and after mass, Catherine, Joel, Gable and I took a train to bugis to catch a movie. We watched Definitely Maybe, a romatic comedy which was more romantic than comedy in my opinion. It was nice. Makes you think sometimes and the story was well thought out. Nothing very cliche. However, it did feel very long and somewhat daunting at times. In the end we all had a great time and I nearly lost my jacket. During the whole outing we... had bubble tea, watched a movie, talked about random stuff, had random expressions, stood outside DC comics to hope gable would'nt find us and argued over which movie to watch. Everyone was saying "anything la"! For an initial plan to get the WHOLE gang down, it was still ok it was just the 4 of us. It was just nice a number, none too big none too small. could talk to each other more freely i suppose. Went home thinking about the movie, Ipod set to the playlist that plays some of the emotional songs.

the next day, the family and I went to watch.... We will rock you!!! In case you havent heard, its a musical based on queen songs and all that. In the future, all forms of rock will be bannedand technology takes over. The soul of music is gone and the fate of rock music lies in the hand of an unexpecting youth who hears voices in his head. It was really really fun, seeing how they incorporate the famous queen lyrics and other phrases from the era of music into dialogue and comedy. I really enjoyed myself singing along to "we will rock you", "somebody to love", "bohemian rhapsody" etc. All i can say is that it blew me away. The music was spot on, the acting was really good, it was very well written and is actually quite convincing! So if ou have the chance you should catch it.

It's ok if you don't feel like you are anybody relevant in this world. Many people feel that way and many people might buy into it. That what they do does not affect anybody. Even the smallest of habits may cause a whole corridor of doors to be opened. When someone loves somebody, it's usually because of the little things the other person does. How the other person talks, cares, carries out his or her life, her personality. No need to save the world to make others love you because someone out there is already loving you the way you are. All the little things that we do affect many people. You could be a role model to somebody only because you told that person something lifechanging. Something simple like "youre really something" can be life changing in many many ways. you could be saying it to your future best man, your future lover, your future head of state even. It's not the big things that mean alot to anyone. My treasured gift this year was not anything big but a piece of paper. Sothe little things matter and its the little things you do that make you the person you are. Not the big things.