Sunday, August 01, 2004

He
He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea,
He alone decides who writes a symphony.
He lights every star tt makes the darkness bright,
He keeps watch all through the long n lonely nite.

He still finds the time to hear a child's first prayer,
Saints or sinners call and always find him there.
Though it makes him sad to see the way we live,
He'll always say, I forgive.

This always gets me teary eyed.
I've been thinking abt learning sign language. Suddenly been noticing alot of pple communicating wif it. No, my aim is not to eavesdrop(eyesdrop?!), it's just fascinating how so many words can b converted to hand gestures. N it's a gd way to talk softly in the quiet discussion rms in the lib. Personally, i believe there's no such thing as quiet discussions. If it's a discussion, (especially wif regards to ones wif opposing viewpts) it's gonna b loud wif hands wildly flapping ard to perhaps add emphasis to the pt put across. Wif sign language, i can still b flapping wildly minus the decibels thus giving quiet discussions a whole new perspective. I probably shldn't use 'flapping wildly' cos it's insulting to sign language, on the contrary it looks rather professional the way i see them do it. I'm thinking it'll make 'i'm gonna take a crap' look pleasent. I dun think they haf vulgarities.... oh... wrong, they can just use those common hand gestures.
Anyone seen any sign lang courses ard? cos i haven't. Even if i do learn it, seems like no one i knoe to practise it with. Another one of those, i-once-wanted-to-pick-up skills.

I'm trying to b optimistic wif sch n lessons n life. I'm no whiney baby!! Sometimes i think maybe it's betta for me not to start complaining to someone, cos if tt someones hears one there'll b many more to come. N i end up convincing myself tt "i suck at it/my day sucks/sch sucks" thru repetitive reinforcement. N tt someone would probably b quite bothered n wish i'd shut up.
Sch's not tt bad u noe. I got a wonderful roomate. And at least i got pple to escort me ard so far, the only time i had to go alone in search of the sch's bkshop i got lost. I can't even find my way wif the map in hand. Guess 'Navigating' as an eca is out for me. Did i mention they dun haf badminton/tabletennis/basketball/soccer in their list of ecas? How perculiar. Not many pple came to solicit me during the eca fair. Humph. Probably got tired of it liao n i was there pretty late. There's this silly club called the 'hobbies club' or something where u sit ard n play scrabble/uno/boardgames which u haf to pay the membership fees there n den. They must b really hard up for members. *ponders* I wonder whether they can sue me for defamation. Got talked into joining co again, not by the pple mending the booth mind u, but by st nicks frens. Peer pressure. I seriously think the pple at the booth weren't veri frenly, for one they din even bother to persuade me. The guy just handed me the form n din even tell me wads pracs were like, wad to expect. bleah. Unlike the pple at the Catholic apostlate club n the tennis recre club, so happens tt the guy who was talking at the tennis recre booth was frm cath apostlate too, it felt somehow felt more warm n more forthcoming and yet not hardsell like the iceskating club person. Who even used "iceskaters haf veri nice figures, haha but not me la... look at the others there'" as a selling pt. Erm... pass. Shld knoe wad i ended signing up for. I seriously did consider Chinese drums but wenyi was rite abt their drums not sounding veri pleasing to the ear adding to the stiff expression they had to gif. Community service was another one under scrutiny. But at the end of it all, everything boils down to, 'mei ren pei wo!'. Succumbed to peer pressure again.

by tab at 12:37 AM |