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A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master's house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you."

"Why?" asked the bearer. "What are you ashamed of?"

"I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master's house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.

The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, "As we return to the master's house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path."

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master's table. Without your being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house.


Moral of the story: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what s/he is, and look for the good in them.

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HX drew this as revision for her O's I think.
Enlarge it.


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How come after downloading msnplus, there are so many pop-ups!?
Stupid lah.

And you know what.
I think we've lost all our past year tour pictures saved in the computer. DD:
Actually I don't know how we lost it cause it's saved under one drive and not one folder so I guess unless somebody goes and delete it or something, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
Argh. /:


P/S: Try not to read the small fonts in my posts.

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It's upsetting.

Mrs Lee surprisingly didn't xun-ed me (I think) today!
My mom didn't get to speak to her in person, only through the phone cause we couldn't find her in school.
Actually is I didn't want my mom to look for her.
But I really wanted to listen for myself what she has to say about me (negative things I mean).
They talked over the phone and I didn't exactly know what they talked about.
My mom said she praised me cause I managed to improve by 2 grades to D7.
But still, my opinion of her hasn't changed. {:

Anyway, my cousins came over and yeah, they just messed our already-very-messy-house up.
I don't wanna say this because we're a family afterall but then there comes to a point where I'll just explode. So I don't care now.
I know many things they didn't do it on purpose but still, they can really be a pain at times.
Many things happened today and it's already frustrating enough so to have them here today simply adds on to the frustration.
What happened just now made me even more pissed off and I really felt like kicking them and chasing them out.
Everything has a limit. I hope they'll learn how to spare a thought for others and stop making people so fed-up.

Gross.

D:

Just watched some videos from PETA about animal abuse and those abusers are such idiots lah.
Go watch and get enlightened.
No matter how much I like disgusting stuffs, I won't do such things to animals like what they did though I always joke about the hamster thing.
They're simply inhumane and disgusting-way more disgusting than how much I love disgusting things.
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Actually wanted to watch JDMA but was lazy to get off my seat and leave the comp on so forget it.
Anyway I can watch it on youtube. (;

School was extremely boring today except for the farewell thing for Mr Lim.
He's gonna be the principal of PHS which is FQQ's school leh!
So coincidental huh! XD

The soccer competition was kind of stupid and I didn't know what was going on andandand Mrs Wong was down there 自 high...! Lmao.
I think she has some kind of personality problem you know.
Perhaps some problem with controlling the pitch and volume of her voice too...
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Ohyes, some pictures from the Palawan class outing:



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想到将会发生的事就不安, 甚至有点后悔去.
i dnt understand why we always have to suffer because of him.
i mean it has been 16 years, haven't YOU had enough?
the fact that he's just someone who doesn't appreciate anything remains no matter how much or what we do for him.
why do you always have to give in and forgive him once after another, only to end up
getting angry and pissed off after that because history simply repeats itself.
it isn't worth it AT ALL.

i hate him and i can't wait for him to like just get out of my life.
to me, whether he's there or not doesn't matter because he simply doesn't matter.
no difference anyway so might as well spare us all the trouble we have with him.

it's still okay if he at least knows how to make life easier for us by not being such a poop.
but that's not the case, obviously.
outsiders won't understand because they don't live with him.
wait till you get a chance to do that.

with a million things waiting to be done in a house, he thinks by carrying bamboo poles out to sun ONLY is such a great thing that we must praise him everytime. dots.
dnt talk about the stupid ancient thing that guys shouldn't do housework.
save that crap for the great-great-great-grandparents instead. /:
wonder who came up with that rubbish in the first place.
actually, it would be goooood enough if he doesn't dirty it.
so for him to lift a single finger to help, that would have to wait till i've grown to 160cm.

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I just wanna let you know...
that I know what you're thinking with every movement that you make.
Body language, understand?
And I also wanna tell you that that is really irritating and absurd of you because it seems you really have no right to do whatever you're doing blahblahblah.


KQ and I made tangyuans today[yesterday]! ((:

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There's no school tomorrow but
there's dance. =.=
Damn it.
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I tried making MuahChee today. Haha.
Failed completely though. ):
But the glutinous dough itself is really cute and feels like clay!
And in the end I had to throw the whole thing away.
Oh well, wasted XXg of flour! =.=

Anyway we did archery today and I was such a failure lah.
Out of the 9 times I tried, like 7 times the arrow hit the ground.
Whereas the others could grasp the correct technique within 3 tries.
Super embarrassing man. Ugh.
And then standing under the hot sun somemore. /:

Do you think anyone would call him/herself: mwiie iish the cutieepie, the xiia0keaii ??
I'm so lame. Eeeeekkk.


Ohyes, I've bought my hoodie yay! :D

Shit.

I can't download atn!
See?


WL.
Okay, nevermind I'm going to try downloading this stupid thing for the i-don't-know-how-many time without opening any other windows in case that's the cause of it.

This better work...
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NO!! IT DOESN'T WORK. ARGHZZZZ. WHY?! THIS IS SO IRRITATING. HATE THAT STUPID THING LAHZXZX. ):
nevermind I go try again for the last time.
I'll pray this time...
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I accidentally closed the window while don't know clicking on what.
Can I kill howanxin that loser?

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Yesterday's chalet was great except for those stupid mosquitos.
I almost got smacked on the face with wipped cream by Sihui leh but luckily I ran away fast enough.
Actually wanted to snap some pictures back as memories but didn't anyway so I'll just go to Ethel's fb and take a look.
Anyway, the chalet looked almost like a bungalow (half-size one) with 4 huge rooms lor but it had an eerie 1934 nailed at the door there.
Originally I thought it was for 3 days 2 nights but it was only for 1 night. Jaime, Rachael and KQ should have went lor! Haiyer :/
I love BBQ-ed marshmallows and I learnt that once marshmallows puff up it means it has turned gooey from Ethel. So cute right cause they look so fluffy!
Liuzhi and me weren't staying over so we went home together and honestly I was quite embarrassed to let her see the messiness of my father's car lor.
And thanks Fooxin, Ethel and Shichin and all the others for organising this chalet for us!

I thought I had offended some people over some things or perhaps I'm just being idiotically overly-sensitive. I hope it's the second one.

Sleep.

I can't access my Hotmail! I can't read my e-mails, I can't delete them and I can't clear my junks. DD:
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Today's our last paper yay! :D
Imagine what we'll be doing next year at this time-just burying our heads in books.
So of course we must enjoy ourselves while we can.
Anyway, G J R and I went to Central and Marina today and we practically spent 6 hours standing and walking.
Who said window/shopping isn't exercising? (for our feet)
Of course it is cause we felt like our legs were about to break anytime and it was really difficult to look for a proper seat without going into a cafe or something in a typical Sg shopping mall.

First we went to Central to eat and shun bian look around cause I've never been there before.
[Pepper lunch tastes nice when you're eating it but not after that. God knows how much MSG they add into their food (or maybe I added too much brown sauce). Jaime and I felt like dehydrated souls after that meal. D:]
Actually Central has nothing much lor cause most of the shops aren't open yet.
Ohyah I saw some cute little mini donuts for sale in one of the shops. Haha.
Nothing much more to see at Central so we went to Suntec then Marina.
I forgot what we did at Suntec except we saw Xinyi and Huijun and Xinyi was carrying one cute little paper bag with handles I think meant to make the paperbag look like a proper bag?
I don't know lah but it looks cool.

Then we went to Marina and helped G J R choose T-shirts for I think their common tee.
Then we walked around there but I've forgotten the details then we went home.
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Tomorrow's class chalet (:


Take care ah, KQ. D:<

Quizziessss.

Quiz, tagged by Liuzhi:

1. The person who tagged/pass you is?
Liuzhi. :D

2. Your reationship with him/her?
friend.

3. Your five impressions of him/her?
是 meh?!
cute
independent
straight-forward
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4. The most memorable thing he/she has done to you?
eats lunch with me after school.

5. The most memorable thing he/she has said to you?
i dont know?

6. If he/she becomes your lover you will?
impossible.

7. If he/she became your lover, he/she has to improve on?
impossible.

8. If he/she became your enemy, you will?
i don't think so?

9. If he/she became you enemy, the reason will be?
she's too independent.

10. The most desired thing you want to do for him/her is?
spam her with my tags, lols.

11. Your overall impression of him/her is?
friendly and straight-forward.

12. How do you think the people around you will think about you?
i'm stereotyped.

13.The characteristics you love of yourself are?
I'M HEALTHY!

14. On the contrary, the characteristics you hate yourself are?
alot alot.

15. The most ideal person you want to be is?
you win some, you lose some. so you can't have everything.

16. For people who care and like you, say something to them.
HELLO, HERE'S A HUG FOR YOU. :D

17. Pass this quiz to ten people.
1-10, just anyone who's interested. (:

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I'm gonna try to type this in 1/2 hour which I don't think I can. Cos I wanna watch SURVIVOR.
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That's sun-dried pomelo fruit's skin with wrinkled skin and moulds-for treating stomachache. My father made that. I went to smell it and it smelled like fermented cod liver oil.
You know I'd rather have stomachache hor.

Ohyah, I went to school today at 7 again.
AGAIN, the first was during MYEs. The paper didn't start until 10.30am so the whole F3-1 row was empty. I was embarrassed like anything anything.

And just now I saw one signboard or whatever you call that: zui shou zhong guo ren huan ying.
Like omg, are they kidding?
Cause it's like uhh you know. Their behaviour and all that, huan ying? Oh please. -.-
Yes, I dislike/loathe/h--- them.

My grandmother's birthday tomorrow and she's turning 80. XD
That means I'll see my cousins and Troy, :D.
And my father, I'd rather he doesn't go tomorrow.
Blahblahblah.

Some random pics:

I know this's so cute right. C=




P/S: I finished this post at 11.34pm.