January 2011
4 posts
Again, being normal
is what my third story is about. Similar to the second story, but not quite.
It’s about being normal - as compared to the less fortunate around us.
Recently I had the fortune of catching this movie - 聽說 (Hear Me), starring Eddie Pang and Chen Yihan, with the girl.
It was a wonderful romance flick, and if I could rate it as though I rate movies I caught in theatres, it would be a...
The simplest things
are easily ignored. When they are taken away from you abruptly - suddenly you feel the loss. It is a kind of presence only felt with an absence.
The past one week was kind of like a mini-hell for me. Because of one bar of chocolate, I developed a mild fever that escalated into a full blown fever garnished with headaches that woke me up in the middle of the night and horrible sore throats that...
What do $15,000 mean to you?
For us, it was an expensive resolution to an unexpected predicament. Luckily, we didn’t had to bear the blunt of it.
My dad has always been built like a bull — he is rarely sick, and the only time he got hospitalized was when he was robbed when I was 3 years old.
Then one day recently, he hurt his back. The strain and pain resulting was so intrusive that he had to take time off work...
Being normal
is something all of us take for granted.
Until it’s all taken away from us — and then we realise that we should be glad that it’s there in the first place.
This dawned upon me in three different ways, and I came out of them learning three different things, which perhaps in the end — at the most basic level — aren’t so different after all.