13/10/05

Tomorrow music quiz. The time to test my memory, after 1 week of intensive listening to those ahhhhhhh "nice" pieces. I do like classical music, and romantic music, but not for schooling purposes. The fact that i'll be tested on my memory isn't going to interest me musically. Music should never be linked to money or fame. Passion is the only thing.

芳说：祸不单行， 我说工不单行。 When work comes, it doesn't comes in single. As at today, I'm just having 3 more project thingys on my mind. Not forgetting a quiz tomorrow and another quiz next wed. Well, tonight is chionging night. I guess my stress isn't as great as the genius' one. I can see him lack of basic human needs, sleep. I think my part is just to ensure i don't give him more problems, hope.

Zhang Zhi Cheng accompanied me throughout my bus journey. It has been long since I last listen to Ktv songs. I missed those days where i could just go and sing without worry.... of course, that was the time where time was abundant. Well, I will sure jio my ktv kaki after all these busy shit. Who says 3 yrs are slacking, who says Uni lives are good? Bulldupe (hmm new word learnt?)

朱古立 (wrong characters i guess) 在哪里?

Slice of Life

STORIES - The Cost of Money

A boy was walking along a road one day when he spotted a ten-cent coin shining in the dust. He picked it up and thought, "This coin is mine! And it cost me nothing!"

He couldn't help beaming as he continued walking. He thought, "I'm sure there're more coins lying around. I just have to look out for them."

From that day, wherever he walked, he kept his head down, his eyes closely surveying the ground for more coins - and perhaps even greater treasure!

The years passed as if in a blink of an eye, and as the boy continued down his path, the sun and moon brought the light and dark over him in a rapid and whimsical manner. Kind of like in a stop-action-clay-animation film by Tim Burton.

The boy was now an old man. As he sat by the window of his rickety shed, he unfurled the handkerchief in which he kept his life's hoard of picked-up change.

He counted slowly? just to make sure. One dollar, two dollars, three dollars? $12.82! And when he'd finished counting, his treasure would bring the smile to his face again, lighting it up as if he were still the boy who'd picked up his first ten-cent coin.

His thoughts travelled back in time?"This coin is mine! And it cost me nothing!"

During his lifetime, he collected a total of $12.82. He kept his treasure safe, delighting in the fact that the money had cost him nothing. Or had it?

In the course of scouting out his treasure, he had missed seeing the full beauty of 35127 sunsets, the splendour of 327 rainbows, the beauty of white clouds floating overhead in crystal blue skies, leaves fluttering against a backdrop of brilliant sunshine, and possibly the joy of a wife and children had he only taken his eyes off the ground to truly see the real joys of life.

A life? worth all of twelve dollars and eighty-two cents.