Realized

I did some thinking & reasoning with Brainy

then realized why had i felt quite uncomfortable

at times when i read Tuesday with Morrie

and during the ‘talk’ i had at least once-

wishing that time would pass at the speed of light.

Tuesday with Morrie is not a Christian book.

the person who “talked” to me about life is not a Christian.

These two have one thing in common:

The Meaning of Life.

Having read the Bible,

having read Christian books,

Having heard sermons & teachings on the meaning of life.

Of course i would be a little uncomfortable

listening to what the world

think and have to say about the meaning of life.

Even though at times-rarely, they talked about a god,

it’s not God whom they’re talking about.

Tuesday with Morrie is a great book for those who do not have the chance to hear what the God & Christians have to say about

the meaning of life.

When i read the book, when i listened to the person talking

I knew in my heart

There’s more to it than these.

This is not what it’s all about.

Through this, I now see the difference between the world and us-who have such an Amazing God on our back-supporting us all the while, and all the way!

Tuesday with Morrie

The Morrie I knew, the Morrie so many others knew, would not have been the man he was without the years he spent working at a mental hospital just outside Washington, D.C., a place with the deceptively peaceful name of Chestnut Lodge. It was one of Morrie’s first jobs after plowing through a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Having rejected medicine, law, and business, Morrie had decided the research world would be a place where he could contribute without exploiting others.

Morrie was given a grant to observe mental patients and record their treatments. While the idea seems common today, it was ground breaking in the early fifties. Morrie saw patients who would scream all day. Patients who would cry all night. Patients soiling their underwear. patients refusing to eat, having to be held down, medicated, fed intravenously.

One of the patients, a middle-aged woman, came out of her room everyday and lay facedown on the tile floor, stayed there for hours, as doctors and nurses stepped around her.Morrie watched in horror. He took notes, which is what he was there to do. Everyday, she did the same thing: came out in the morning, lay on the floor, stayed there until evening. It saddened Morrie. He began to sit on the floor with her, even lay down alongside her, trying to draw her out of her misery. Eventually, he got her to sit up, and even to return to her room. What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want-someone to notice she was there.

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Morrie observed that most of the patients there had been rejected and ignored in their lives, made to feel that they didn’t exist. They also missed compassion-something the staff ran out of quickly. And many of these patients were well-off, fro rich families, so their wealth did not buy them happiness or contentment. It was a lesson he never forgot.

Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom [Anchor Books] pg109,110,111

Number Two

It is 1979, a basketball game in the Brandies gym. The team is doing well, and the students section begins a chant, “We’re number one! We’re number one!” Morrie is sitting nearby. He is puzzled by the cheer. at one point, in the midst of “We’re number one!” he rises and ells, “What’s wrong with being number two?”

The students look at him. They stop chanting. He sits down, smiling and triumphant.

Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom [Anchor Books'] pg 159

Book Sale!

26th Nov which is also Christina's birthday
we went to the Big Bad Wolf Sale!

Here are some of the books that I spotted-but didn't buy.

budget. budget. X )

Check this out!
Not baby! hehe

Recently before I went fo the sale, this was my display name in MSN for a very short while. =)

hmmmmm......

=(

=D

XD

=)
Mine's the rectangular box

$$$

Me!

mam...mam...

=)

-SWT-

more...

i'll blog more soon...
later...

tuesday with morrie makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
at times.
the problem lies within me.

i've had this kind of 'talk' before
and i really wish at that time that
TIME would FLY
at the speed of light!

Choosing

choosing between *Raphael* or *Seth*
is gazillion times worst than
choosing whether to eat Bak Kut Teh or Japanese food!

-SWT-

24th Dec

I have come to the comclusion that the foods that I cook-s/ed
is farfarfarfarfar better & nicer than the simple foods you eat outside.
But, when it comes to the more tricky ones like western, japs, and etc
I won't say a single thing. = X

The Claypot Yee Mee @ Taman Chi Liung Restaurant is bad...
What you eat is dark-brown-glue-paste-yee-mee-ewwk!chicken
and it cost 4 ringgit! 4 ringgit!!!!!!!!!
with NO mushroom!!!
Without eggg!!!
.zomg.
Mushrooms was one of the main reason I ordered!

@ 3.30pm bak kut teh was not ready yet.
however dry bak kut teh was available.
It'd consist of Soting, Bak-Pork, and Chilli
We do not want to sing with soar voice so we refrained from eating it.

If I were cook a RM 4 worth of mee
I would be REALLY filled and satisfied!

I'd rather eat an Egg or Tuna sandwich!-
which will be far more filling & worth it than the
rm4-withoutegg-withoutmushroom-darkbrowngluepaste-withewk!chicken-yeemee

-Sher Wyn-

Whens-day

aka "Yesterday"
one event after another filled the entire day[23rd].

This is an outline of the events.
9-11am skit practice
1.30-2.30pm piano class
6-8pm dinner with Aunty Gan
8pm choir rehearsal

and this is what occurred
10am-12.20pm skit practice
it started @ 10 am
2-3.30 piano class
arrived @ about 1.40
watched celtic woman christmas 'opera'
mom came late to pick me up
4-5pm Aeon
shopped for un-bought pressies
found & saw Raphael/Seth
RM 3.90
this will serve as a reminder to myself to
practice my piano at least once a day;
to pass my exam with flying colors;
so that i will be able to hold him in my arms soon.....

http://swtland-sherwyn.blogspot.com/2009/10/raphael.html

6-8pm dinner
8-11.15pm choir rehearsal.

-Sher Wyn-
more soon

=)