At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children,
the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be
forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated
staff, he offered a question:
"When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is
done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other
children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the
natural order of things in my son?"
The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. "I believe,
that
when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the
world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it
comes, in the way other people treat that child."Then he told the following
story:
Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were
playing baseball. Shay asked,"Do you think they'll let me play?"
Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on
their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to
play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence
to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay
could play, not expecting much. The boy looked around for guidance and said,
"We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he
can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning."
Shay struggled over to the team's bench put on a team shirt with a broad
smile and his Father had a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart.
The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of
the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by
three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in
the right field.
Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in
the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to
him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored
again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run
was on base and
Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay
bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given
the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible 'cause Shay didn't
even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing the other
team putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few
steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least be able to make
contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The
pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.
As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball
right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over, but the pitcher picked up the soft grounder and
could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been
out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher threw
the ball right over the head of the first baseman, out of reach of all team
mates.
Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, "Shay, run to
first! Run to first!" Never in his life had Shay ever ran that far but made
it to first
base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!" Catching his breath, Shay
awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to second
base.
By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the
ball, the smallest guy on their team, who had a chance to be the hero for
his team for the first time. He could have thrown the ball to the
second-baseman for
the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions and he too intentionally
threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head.
Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled
the bases toward home. All were screaming, "Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way
Shay"
Shay reached third base, the opposing shortstop ran to help him and turned
him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third! Shay, run to
third" As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams and those watching
were on
their feet were screaming, "Shay, run home! Shay ran to home, stepped on
the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the "grand slam" and won
the game for his team.
That day, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, the
boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into
this world.
Shay didn't make it to another summer and died that winter, having never
forgotten being the hero and making his Father so happy and coming home and
seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
happy bday Zawani!!!
Hey guys, can do this for me?? click on the link and choose 5-6 words tat u'd associate with me...... sort of personality test..... its cool!
Why men have better friends... Friendship Between Women:A woman didn't come home one night. The next day she told her husband thatshe had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew about it.
Friendship Between Men:A man didn't come home one night. The next day he told his wife that hehad slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight of them confirmed that he had slept over, and two claimedthat he was still there.
the men's part quite true......hahaha...
read on someone's blog abt symptons of pre aging depression........ damn funny..... constant sighing, nostalgic thoughts... and so on......
have u ever felt this way when u're alone and suddenly memories of the past just floods u and u feel like u'll drown soon.....cos u cant seem to get them out of ur head no matter how hard u try.... and all of a sudden, they're gone, like a dam letting out its water..... u urself will feel like pouring with tears.....
yesterday was one such day..... i had a sudden image of myself walking through the JJC side gate from BP, carrying my egg sandwich and 2 bottles of pokka tea (2 bottles cos i'd always call lynn and ask if she wanted to share with me, it was 2 for $1.45 at tat time if rmb correctly) in tat familiar BP plastic bag...... i'd always look at my watch which will always say '9.30'... i rmb break time was 9.25 and i'd always wait till 9.30 to go in, just in time to meet A2 ppl at the locker..... i find myself walking tat familiar route.... all the way to the locker...and finding myself grinning at those familiar faces....... where the boys would always tease me "wah carine, so early again ah"....
the image suddenly changed, i was back in the canteen, buying fried beehoon with lynn for the 4 of us girls..... i recalled telling the auntie "4 packet, 2 extra chilli, 1 chilli and one without chilli" while lynn gets all the chopsticks and starts peppering her beehoon.... cos hers is always the 1st to be ready.... must cook the w/o chilli beehoon first ma....
suddenly i was in the LT, the boys sitting behind us..... me and lynn wasn't listening to miss mandy, we were listening to wat the boys were talking abt.... then i felt someone tapping the shoulders on my right, i turned to the right and saw no one, i knew i was tricked by Farhan again....
we were at mac..... me, lynn and may....... we really didnt planned to meet there, all 3 of us juz happened to be late tat day, like we always did.... but no one'd believe us.....i was having big breakfast... lynn too...... then i saw how lynn cut her egg into soooo many many tiny pieces..... pouring packets after packets of pepper and salt.... and i copied her.... and realised it tastes so much better......
all of a sudden, i realised i was back in my room...........
i cant believe how much i miss A2 and how much i miss the days in JJ........
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: for those who are using contact lens... stop using the Bausch and Lomb solution NOW till further notice from ministry of health... a woman is going to be blind after using tat brand... investigation has shown tat 18 out of 20 ppl using the brand has mild to serious eye infections....
saw this on the news......... damn worried for those ppl using tat brand ah...alot of my frens uses tat brand cos its like the most popular one..
had a make-up valentine's day on friday.... we went suki yaki buffet at marina square... the food was one of the best food i've ever had in a buffet... super nice!! the teppanyaki was damn nice... though the soup really sucked... we had fried ice cream too!! the teppanyaki thing and fried ice cream thing was done all on the same stove!... after our teppanyaki.. the person came and cleared the stuff... she then covered the stove with a lid... then u can hear the "sSSsssss" sound of the steam when she let out the ice cold water to cool the stove.....then after 10minutes the stove juz turned into an ice stove!!! so cool rite! difficult to explain it here lah... the fried ice cream was not really literally 'fried' but it's 'fried' cos when we pour it onto the stove it'll turn into ice cream (the original state of the ice-cream is in many many wonderful colour liquid form)
like this:
grape flavour... heh....
then after a few stirring it became ice!
then my bf started designing!
yay! the end product:
ya i know.. the end product damn ugly rite! hahaha.. but he did this all by himself... :P in case u're wondering... they serve hei-bai-pei too!! and waffles! but we didn't have waffles though.. we were too full by then....
 love this photo... so bright, sunny and windy at East Coast Park!!
YAY!! my bf won 3rd prize from his Alpha dinner and dance.......
3rd prize a.k.a trip for 2 to Hong Kong for 4 days 3 nites!!!!!!!! $1200...... includes accomodation at Majestic Hotel, air tickets and.... forgot alrdy...... nvm lah, the main thing is we can finally go overseas other than Genting and JB!!!! and he said he's going to sponsor for the rest of the trip there.... which means my shopping expenses all on him!! but of cos, i must also bring cash there ah.......... juz in case... but i'll leave that for my mum who'll sponsor me... i think she's more excited than me.... hahaha... must go within 6mths.....i'll go after my exams!!
he said the 1st prize was a $2600 trip to Japan, 2nd prize $1800 to Taipei..... was wondering luckily he nvr win the Japan trip ya..... cos if go Japan sure not fun, cos even if can do alot of things there like spa or watever, sure damn fucking expensive ah!! my japan aunty say a can of coke there is like S$7.. siao ah!! then eat fastfood ard $20+. WAH. somemore 5day 4 nites.... by the end of 2 days i think we'll be fucking broke...
*happy*
the c.o.t had fun fun fun yesterday. fun.
it's always the 4 of us, hanging ard under lynn's block at the playground, hanging around at holland v under the famous block and with our 7-11, and now we've found a new hangout! may's hse! yay!!
played daidee, played bridge, listened to Class 95 old old songs and realised we're getting old very very soon...listened to may's songs in her laptop (lynn was our dj) so there were many mambo songs going on....hahaha... anyway, i won 2.5bucks yesterday when we played daidee... muahahahha....
can we play bridge everytime we meet? heh.....
WE'RE AT MAY'S HSE NOW!!! YAY!!!
sam's sleeping and it's may's bday!!
just learnt how to play bridge... damn fun!! addicted liao...
heh...............i addicted to card games easily...
 Lime Magazine 2006 Feb
bf's younger sis... daredevil sia....
Happy Belated Valentine's Day to my dear hubby............... although u had to postpone V day to this friday... but im glad u did... cos if we were to celebrate it today then we will only have at most 2-3 hrs to celebrate and we'll hafta squeeze in those restaurants with tonnes of other couples.... AND plus bear with those hiked-up prices.......... this friday we can spend the WHOLE DAY celebrating a belated one.....so sorry im quite broke these days.... so no $$ buy u present.....
*muackz*
and HAPPY BDAY TO MAY!!!
finally learnt how to reset the password for my router.... kns.... hopefully the internet connection will be much faster from now on... and hopefully ppl wont tap into my connection...
anyway, i was thinking these few days what i should get for my bf's bday and for the valentine's day... maybe not getting anything for him for valentine's day.....but bday how???? should i get him a PSP, sunglasses for him when he drives... or what?! PSP is damn fucking EX AH!!
today when my piano teacher asked how old i am this yr.... i had to FORCE myself to say '20'....... i couldn't believe what i said...... the word juz didn't register in my head.... 20 yrs old.... GOSH. my god. ARGH!!!!. i can't believe i'm so damn fucking old now!! in the past when i went to town i'd always think im one of the youngest there... and i'll look at those old hags with a smug... i'll think 'lucky im younger' whenever i see some woman trying to act young but u can juz tell at a glance they are damn old.... and now.... it's my turn to be laughed and scorned at by those young 16-17 girls loitering around orchard everyday...... SHIT.
in any case..... as i grow older... i realised i wanna learn how to beauty myself more.... im more enthusiastic abt learning to put on makeup... and look up for beauty nourishing products..... cos as i grow older.... pores become bigger.......knn..... and now im very into skin whitening.... i realised that ppl with very fair, pearly skin looks damn nice with makeup on.... like Fann wong... though im not a Fan of hers... but her skin is really damn nice, pearly, shining white..... i've also got a cousin whose skin is so damn nice!!! she looks like an angel... super super fair, glowing skin...tanning only makes ur skin worst..... my resolution now: get fair. haahhaha....
the archives list was getting rather long...........
so much neater now...
lynn.. remember my wisdom tooth with a huge hole?....that mutated wisdom tooth lying flat? (i remembered i was always complaining abt tat wisdom tooth to u)... gosh....talkin abt wisdom tooth these days made me realised i mentioned abt that wisdom tooth to you when we were back in citibank.... and xiaojun was always going on and on: CARINE! 好心你去拔掉啦！and both of us will turn away and *roll eyes* hahahha...
i juz realised tat was a year ago............... and to think i still thought it was juz recently that we left that-hell-of-a-place... i still remembered we even went to work on eve of CNY and got a 10bucks red pack from citibank.... i even remembered what u wore~! tat flowery very cny top with the very revealing lacy middle.... GOSH!! tat was LAST YEAR!!!
anyway, tat wisdom tooth is still there... and the hole gets bigger................. im juz too fucking scared to go take it out lah....
had quite a good CNY.... heh... super busy tho......
chinese new year eve wasn't spent with my bf this yr... boo.... unlike other years when i usually go watch movies with him and his frens or play cards under some block and only go home at 6am in the morning..... in the end he went his fren's hse to play cards and gave me tonnes of excuses for me to not to go...... was damn pissed... but i forced myself not to be angry on the EVE of CNY.... oh ya.... reunion dinner was at my paternal grandparents hse..... we had video conferencing with my aunt who's a PR in Japan.... she had a virtual reunion dinner with us... hahaha... how cool...
anyway.... this yr's CNY quite boring.....went alot of places but nvr gamble.... paternal and maternal grandparent's hse.....(both grandparents' hse alone i got 18 red packets. imagine the no. of ppl who gathers there), then went ex neighbour's hse (god father of my 1st bro ONLY, and ONLY he had an ang pow frm them of 20bucks, mine was only 8bucks. :P) after which went uncle's hse..... i WAS soooooooo looking forward to my aunt's place to gamble.... cos we always have lotsa fun at his place when we play cards..... EVERYONE will play lor... even old old aunties, young young pri5 kids and the eldest grandma there..... then all the very cute aunties will take out their secret weapons: the underwear clipper (watever u call tat, the one ur mum uses to hold the clothes on the bamboo stick so clothes wun fly off when wind blows. longwinded. waha) they will use tat THING to clip all their money together so hopefully they will win.... BUT to my great disappointment.... 3 of the aunties went Taiwan for CNY.... and so no one gambled tat day.... *BOO* later tat nite went bf fren's hse to play cards.... ended up No-win-no-lose.... played till 6am still nvr win anything....sian.... hahahha....
nxt day woke up at my bf's place with a super messy hair.... and the worst thing was i had to greet my bf's mum with the bad hair.... gosh.... super super paiseh.... 2nd day of Chinese New Year i stay over already.... i tot it was super rude of me... but my bf say NVM every year also like tat... kns.... anyway, i still managed to exchange mandarin oranges with his mum despite my bad hairdo, and the fact tat i was still in my pyjamas looking damn sleepy.... ARGH... guess what she wished me?? 'happy new year, zao bao shun zi'............. -.-" which meant "faster get grandson" WTH. anyway, her angpow was still the biggest i've ever received, 28bucks for the 4th yr running..... damn weird ah... me and my bf together for only 3yrs 4mths but i already spent 4 Chinese NEw Year with him..... I STILL cannot figure tat out.... no matter how many times my bf explained i still cannot get it....NVM....
but this yr's no. of angpows increased alot.... HEH... cos went my bf's aunt's place and the whole world gave me redpackets..... even those who didnt' see me also left red packets for me.....glad tat i got closer with his relatives after a few rounds of card games...i mean, after so many years i finally had the guts to talk to them.... known them for 3yrs alrdy... nvr talked as much before...
anyway, guess how much my angpows this year? the highest i ever had.... minus those 3 aunties i nvr see :P
Incident 01: A little boy died because surgeons found ants in his brain! Apparently this boy fell asleep with some sweets in his mouth or with some sweet stuff beside him. Ants soon got to him and some ants in fact crawled into his> ear> which somehow managed to go to his brain. When he woke up, he did not realize that ants had gone to his head. After that, he constantly complains about itchiness around his face. His mother brought him to see a doctor but the doctor could not figure out what was wrong with him. He took an! X-ray of the boy and to his horror, he found a group of live ants in his skull. Since the ants are still alive, the doctor could not operate on him coz ants were constantly moving about. The boy at last died. So please be careful when leaving food stuff near your bed or when eating in bed. This might attract ants. Most importantly, NEVER eat a sweet before going bed. You might fall asleep and suffer same fate as the little boy.
Incident 02: Another similar incident happened in the hospital in Taiwan. This man was warded in the hospital and was constantly warned by the nurses not to leave food stuff by his bedside for there are ants about. He did not heed their advice. Ants finally got to him. His family members said that the man constantly complain about headaches. He died and a post mortem or autopsy was done on him. Doctors found a group of live ants in his head. Apparently, the ants had been eating bits of his! brain. So friends, better be safe than sorry !! Never leave food stuff beside your side when you go to sleep !!!!!
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