shopping with my mother...

21/12/2004, Tuesday, "Dong Zhi"



back in at 8am. Today have to standby, which means come back 8 to 5 only. The initial plan (planned by S3) is to have trianing on standby days... but how to have training when there's a serious manpower shortage? so in the end, we have to help the mounting shift do 1 duty, mine is from 12noon to 3pm...



Let me share with you a very special and meaningful article I saw in Digital Life (The Straits Times). There's a woman named Grace Chow who had a brain tumour and kept a blog in the last 11 days of her life (http://www.dyingis.blogspot.com). it's so amazing that a person who don't have energy on half of her body has to the ability to type a blog, even when she's dying. It's so admirable and inspiring that she look at life in a positive way even when she's dying...



"The enthusiam to believe that I will get better is based on the reluctance to think about the concept of death.



You do not comfort me with your assurance that I won't die, because escaping death is not what I'm longing for. What I'm longing for is for you to understand what death is. Look it in the eye and see it for what it is. And then you'll see that undestanding death is the only one and true liberation." - Grace Chow



After the duties, we did area cleaning. And then PC Ho announce the new system that we have to report to 1 sergeant for anything, and go by the chain of command, something like the infantry style. And he also say that shift 4 will be permanent (I'm originally from shift 2), which I don't want it to happen. I had enough of shift 4, there's people hating each other, eating (push responsibility) each other, and there's zero co-operation and teamwork. A bit sad upon hearing this news, but have to accept the fact...



Later in the evening, met up with my mother at 8pm at Bukit Merah Central. She want me to bring her to see doctor for her "rotten" leg (some skin problem). The clinic is quite ulu ulu, and we are their today's 1st customer! But nevermind, it's free anyway, because it's part of my father's company medical welfare. After which, accompany my mother to shop around that area. Anyway, hasn't been to there for over 1 year! There's a special stage set-up for senior citizens to sing KTV, quite interesting... And got a sale of 2nd hand books outside NTUC Fairprice. And by the way, today is "Dong Zhi" (translation: end of winter), the festival to eat rice ball (Tan Yuan). So my mother bought some Tan Yuan "for the Gods". went home around 10pm, when my mother finally stopped shopping (because the shops are closed)... Pray to "Da Bo Gong", wat GuessX3, done some blogging and then slept at 3am... yawn...