O2
for O2, my OG got 1 new addition, girl from cedar who transferred from SA. quite a nice person, very enthu, outspoken, even wanted to teach us bimbo cheers for the OG. sad to say, i think the most enthu person about the OG is her, a person who joined us yesterday. (sorry to anyone who feels offended by this)and so today had batchgive. started off quite depressing cause rei min's appeal was rejected by RJ. i feel she really deserves a place here, definitely much more than all those ppl who take their place in RJ for granted. anyway, i know that RJ will find out that they've made the wrong decision when the A lvl results of our batch comes out. anyway, all the best to rei min!
so for batchgive we had to distribute miserable amounts of food supplies to the needy family (seriously miserable, how much can 5 tins of canned food last?!?!). and something happened which i thought was pretty ironic. in the morning just as we set off to queenstown, most of my OG stayed in the sch canteen to eat lunch, since its so convenient and rather cheap (yay, i only spent $2 on economic rice), while 6 of them went off to j8 to eat at pastamania.
its like the food we are giving is so damn little, like a bag of rice, 4-5 canned food, a tin of biscuits for an ENTIRE FAMILY. it probably costs around $10 or less and will last the entire family an entire duration of a whole 2 days, if they eat really little or if they skip a few meals. then over here, the supposed "samaritans" who have so kindly distributing canned food and dry rations to them are actually spending $10 per person on a single meal.
well, anyway, i ended up missing the distribution cause i went off to make my passport, quite a sad case cause i really wanted to go for it.
then after i finished applying for my passport, went back to j8 to join those from my OG who have already finished distribution and interaction. met them at mos burgers where some of them were having another meal, spending about maybe $6-7 per person?
not that i blame them for eating at expensive(yes $6 a meal is expensive, at least to me) places, but one would wonder if we have actually learnt anything from doing such a CIP, can we understand the importance of money from them? will we realise how fortunate we are to be able to even afford filling our stomachs for every meal without any worries?
i know that fastfood and restaurants are a staple to teens nowadays, but does it really have to be? are their food really THAT nice? could we have spent that $8 ($10-$2) on something more meaningful? we know that that money can make a difference to someone else's life, but will we donate it, or will we spend it meaninglessly on our selfish selfs?
wonder why my post keeps getting more and more philosophical and involve deep thinking. must start toking more kok again, oh well~
W toked kok @ 3/07/2006 08:45:00 pm
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