since you've been gone......

hello semua orang cantik

i also want to extend a huge sorry for being missing. i have been in school-- it is very hard to be in school when you're almost a quarter of a century old. i think bin's method is the best because come 2009, she doesn't have to change her mentality into a 25 year old. she's been one for the past few months already . good job ah bin wei. so clever.

school is tough but good. i'm learning linguistic jargons and i know why articles come after nouns and why proper nouns don't need articles and all those exciting and breathtaking news.
i come to realise that we do get second chances, we're so so stinking fortunate that we get second chances because i hated what i did (i loved my business degree, but i hated working in the "marketplace") and God gave me a second chance to do what i really liked.
i knew i should have been a teacher la, i mean, there were all these signs:
talking alot
ponteng class (so i can learn the ways of how to ponteng- easier to catch the students then)
slacking in homework/copying sinlee's add maths answers

ok but really, angie chong got story for you all
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2 years ago i watched this video where this bald-headed guy said that the inner city of Los Angeles needs teachers. so i thought, "Hey i'll be a teacher." i had just graduated with my business degree but what the heck, i could do it. Then summer of last year i went and worked for that bald-headed guy in downtown Los Angeles. I drove everyday for a stinking 1.5 hours to and 1.5 hours from work because i lived in orange county and i worked in..well, downtown los angeles. i worked on West 29th Street and Pico Blvd. which is ironic because 3 blocks down from where i worked was the Univ of Southern California.
For those who don't know, USC is also known as Univ of Spoilt Children because it is one of the most prestigous and expensive schools to attend.
Now i say it's ironic because it's just 3 blocks from where i worked, and it's almost, well, a taunt to the inner city kids, most of which find it hard to even graduate high school, let alone go to a school like USC.
so anyway, i met a girl while i was working there. her name is AnaRosa. she is Hispanic (which means she hablas Espanyol) and the first of her family to GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL. can you imagine how proud that would make your mom if you were the first to graduate high school?
anyway, the reason why i'm writing is because just a few months ago, AnaRosa was accepted into Wellesley College, which if you've all watched Mona Lisa Smiles, is the first ever all girls college and one of the MOST prestigious schools in the nation. not everyone can get it, even if you have the monetary support to back you up.
AnaRosa not only got into Wellesley, she got a Full Ride Scholarship, which means she gets to go there all paid for.

this is the reason why I want to be a teacher.
what seems impossible to the world is not impossible to God.
AnaRosa is a girl from the ghetto's. it would be like one of the Chow Kit prostitutes' daughter getting into the prestigious national university of singapore or something. it's pretty awesome.
so anyway, if we could dedicate our lives to just better one person's life, i think we've lived a pretty good life, don't you think?

so to answer bin's question about what i would do if it were my last month, last week or last day on earth:
i would totally give away my money to someone to study somewhere good and pray that when they're done, they'd come out and make a difference in the world, to love and care for the poor, the sick, the orphans and widows and the homeless, those with AIDS and malaria, those child soldiers in Uganda- merely kids but trained to be killers because of circumstances.

i am so happy and thankful to be alive, to have a warm bed and my own bedroom, to always have food on the table, to be able to go to school, to have a heart that says I will do all things for the good of all men so that by that I may save some of them.

i'm so glad we're alive and can do these things for the sake of people other than ourselves. wow angie chong dai gor lui.