guarding

yesterday i learnt the purpose of cloth plasters. all my life, i thought that cloth plasters were the most useless things, because plastic plasters are obviously way better. they are water resistant, and they have holes for your skin to breathe! they were unlike cloth plasters, which turn gooey when they get into contact with water. so i was thinking, “anyone in his right mind would choose plastic plasters right?!” so duh, they should just cut the production of cloth plasters.

well i lived with this belief for the next 18 ++ years of my life, until yesterday. yesterday, my sister enlightened me about cloth plasters. but first, let me explain why this enlightenment was so important.

so what happened was that my sister bought me this pair of addidas sneakers that were too cool not to be worn. on wednesday night, i decided: i shall wear it to school when school reopens tomorrow! i was feeling so excited about wearing the new shoes cause i told wy and js that i have new shoes! okay actually i was just a bit excited, and no, i was not trying to show off to them or something cause well, there’s nothing to show off since wy and js have like 3 pairs of nikes each. haha!

thursday morning came, i woke up, and it was totally raining shoes (cats and dogs). the rain was so heavy! on one hand, i was happy cause it means my mum will fetch me to school! (i usually go to school by bus) but on the other, i was disappointed cause i wouldn’t get to wear my new shoes to school! ah wells. i went to school and told wy and js that and they kind of rolled their eyes at me so never mind. i decided to wear it on friday morning then!

okay i think i am reaching my point. so on friday morning, i happily wore my new addidas sneakers to school, but not long after leaving home, i realised that the new shoes were causing abrasions at the back of my foot and yes, it hurt a lot. exactly like how it hurts when i wear my twice-a-year courtshoes. thankfully i bring plasters – plastic ones of course- in my bag (contrary to popular belief, it is not because i always fall down. uhm actually it is. never mind.) and so i put one of each side over the wounds. i took two steps and walked. “OMG why was it still so painful!” then, i realised that the plastic plasters were rolling up, exposing my wound again. consequently, i had to sit down and apply another 2 plasters, 1 on each side to prevent the rolling up. so in total, i had 4 plasters on my legs. which is kind of like many.

yeah and i was reminded of the previous time i had to wear courtshoes and the exact same thing had happened before! which led me to the inductive conclusion – plastic plasters had the disadvantage of rolling up when you walk. now, what would solve the problem?

on saturday, it was hiral’s birthday party. and guess what, it was held on a BOAT! a boat that actually sailed while we were at the party. we got to watch fireworks and the musical fountain at sentosa too! her extended family and friends were really sporty and enthusiastic; the adults even played all the station games and taboo and what not. haha it was great fun, and i wondered what hiral would do for her 21st birthday and her wedding. oh wells i hope i will get invitated again! here are some pictures i took -

it was almost sunset.

the foam forming, telling us that we have left them behind.

guarding the seas.

oh anyway. i wore another set of shoes to the party, thinking that they would not hurt my abrasions cause well they usually do not hurt me. however, that wish did not come true and i had bleeding legs soon after. thankfully, my sister had plasters in her car. and guess what again! it was cloth plasters! coincidentally, my sister informed me that cloth plasters were good cause they do not roll up! so all i had to do was to stick one cloth plaster on each side and it was sufficient! and for the rest of the day i did not have any problems with my abrasions (:

the end.

so that was how i learnt about the use of cloth plasters and why they have not gone out of style! next time i shall stock up on cloth plasters. anyway i was thinking, does this mean that our sense perceptions are not incorrigible? my skin used to feel bad with cloth plasters on them, but with the new knowledge about the advantage of cloth plasters, they did not feel any different from plastic plasters! oh wells.

anyway the point is that i learnt something new.

i hope tomorrow brings good things.

i am crossing my fingers and praying very hard.

hands in my pocket

all the best my friends (:

uhm well all the best to me too!

the shot into the water

finally “shades of truth” is over! haha even though i’m quite sad that the drama serial has ended, i’m glad i have 1 more hour to study everyday! i thought the show was really quite funny, i like it! even though sometimes the things that happened in the show were quite expected, they were still quite funny, and there were a lot of things that were unexpected too. plus the good thing was that my dad watched the show too, so it was hilarious to hear him say that the director should be consulting him about the plot. haha!

right. anyway and i was half-watching “room in my heart” today (gosh i am watching so much tv!) and something that happened kind of struck me. the gist of it was that wenhui’s aunty sabotaged kaixin, wenhui’s mum was very angry and demanded an apology, but kaixin refused cause she didn’t do anything wrong. then after that the aunty said kaixin should have just said sorry and then explained everything.

this made me wonder about the value of “sorry” in our current context. it seems to be so overused such that it has in fact lost its meaning. when someone knocks into us on the street, the immediate word that falls out of our mouth is “sorry” even though we did not do anything wrong. so does the “sorry” actually mean anything? it just seems like a word to “cover all ground” so to speak, like if the guy who knocked us insists that he didn’t do anything wrong, nothing bad will come out of it since we had apologized, meaning that it’s our fault. i think we say it so easily because saying sorry is in fact of no cost to us. it’s like “i don’t really really mean to say sorry cause i didn’t do it, but since it’s so important to you, then i will just say it. besides, both of us will come out of the situation happy and without much losses.”

the interesting thing is that to one party, sorry is just a word of no meaning, while to the other party it seems to hold a lot of meaning! (that’s why they can let the situation go.) i am by no means saying that then that means some people still see it as a word full of meaning. it seems to have a different weight depending on which side you’re on. when you’re not the one saying it, then it means a lot, but if you are the one saying it then it means really little.   

but then come to think of it… when i am really the one in the wrong, then “sorry is the hardest word”. when you really mean it, it seems like the word is so ”heavy” and you just kind seem to be able to face the person and say “i’m sorry”. at that point of time, ”sorry” this word really means much, and that’s why we find it so difficult to say it out loud to the person we have offended. it’s like how some time back i really said something so wrong to my favourite brother – i only have one though – and i just could not bring myself to say “i’m sorry”. if i had, we would have got over the situation so much faster. but it’s okay, cause i think a week or so passed and everything was well! but during that one week i did feel quite sad cause i really do love my gor gor a lot. (: haha! (i love you too ah cheh! hehe)

hm. so it seems that we can’t say sorry when we mean it, and we are only able to say sorry when we don’t mean it. so strange. perhaps not though. “sorry” is such a versatile word, don’t you think?

anyway a week back i was asking my family if they believed in unconditional love. i’m glad my family members do believe in that – as said by my gor, “isn’t family love unconditional?” awwwwwwwwwwwww. (: