Today I visit my secondary & F6 school...thanks to David CHoo Teck Wooi for dragging me along to teman him...well I guess it's for a purpose after all.
So much changes in just 3 years....Lepak & rounding the school really brings back many memories ...F1-F6... I smiled at my own foolishness & funny actions last time... my deeds... thoughts... ideas... emotions......my past crimes...... & suddenly I teringat someone....I wonder how is she now...suddenly miss her pulak (oops). Haha it's just history.
The physical changes is very amusing...from a dull & ancient feeling school into somewhat...nice environment (or at least BETTER). But what strikes me the most is the changes in me.
Back to school, I'm considered a senior...graduated. When the teacher introduce us to the students...(F6)..they were somehow..."wahhh!!!" at what I'm doing now. I wonder how would I react last time. Seeing them really gives me the feeling that I'm OLD. Shyte... Time to move on?
Reflecting on the past, I realized I'd grown a lot in this 3 years. Seriously..my values on life changed. The way I think changed. Even the way I relate with teachers changed. Now I can talk like friends to them. Thank God for all this. Each stages in our life will definitely change us. Some may say "You are still the same after xxxx years". I don't think so. Try to reflect back on the past. Surely you will see changes. It's the way how you feel about your changes that may differ.
When we shared our experience with the teachers, I realized that everything moves on...eventhough the school is still there, new systems are currently being implemented. The canteen management changes. School personnel changed. Pengetua changed. The F6 lengluis also changed. The schooling, campus & soon to be working environment really different from one another....my world changes. Telling the teachers about my campus life which is sooooooo different from their campus life in the past with their reaction towards it...shows that things changes with time.
If I do not continue to move on, the changes surrounding me will overwhelm me. Move on...flow along with the changes. Comfort zones are not permanent.
Seeing the cikgu-cikgu faces...I felt F6 is just like yesterday. How I missed my friends around me that time...Am I being too emotional?(F6 really means A LOT to me, the Jeremy today is the result of my changes in F6). Many had gone their own way...for the remaining still in contact, when will you leave my world?
I saw the teachers berbual dengan gembira about the past with us. Happy with our progress, advancement, changes, or with just the sweet memories of the past? I guess it's both.
What am I 3 years ago? An innocent guy knowing nothing like a small kid. Living selfishly in denial.
What am I 3 years later? Going to grad BSc soon, planning to take MSc...will have ISP rank in PDRM soon...start to know the Lord more (yeah Hallelujah)...& know how to express...I LOVE YOU, my parents.
Isn't the changes good?
Forget not the past...it's a mirror in our heart.
That's the reason we studied history...to reflect on the past...so that we can move on...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tolerate
Was just wondering about something...
If I recalled precisely, last time during pendidikan moral there was one nilai murni called "Toleransi antara kaum" or something like that. To me it just sounds so WRONG.....
They should change it into "Menerima antara satu sama lain". This is not about difference in races.. It applies to all. I'm just taking the nilai moral as an example.
According to dictionary: (of course there are many meanings to a single word...I select the one that i relevant here)
Accept:
be welcoming to somebody: to treat somebody as a member of a group or social circle
Tolerate:
endure something: to withstand the unpleasant effects of something
See the difference?
Why tolerate when you can accept? Our kids should be educated to accept each another...not to tolerate each other. How can true forgiveness comes into the picture when all the while I am tolerating with someone? I can only truly forgive when I accept the person for who he is. Because I do not want to reject him I decide to tolerate. Tolerate in another word is being patient. & we can only be patient over something ugly. Otherwise it's passion not patience. The borderline between acceptance & rejection is tolerance.
If again I recalled correctly, there was an element of tolerating each other when "a certain country" was fighting over her own independence & during the construction of her constitution.. Race A & B & C...etc have to tolerate each other on some terms of nationality & rights. & until now....see what happens when it's toleration & not acceptance? Tolerate over something "unpleasant" in each other...bersabar...bersabar...no wonder the "certain issue" still exist even after half century of "freedom". Btw those who WERE there that time are almost half "departed". The new "flame bearer" knows nothing about the past..they were just being educated the wrong way by those who were there last time.
Even among friends or family members.....or even in church. Because of some unforgiveness issue, "zealous" persons were missing in action. I think that if we don't get our own heart fixed right before God about this acceptance & forgiveness, it's pointless even if I become very "holy & spiritual". It's just faking. Tolerating is a fake version of acceptance. Tolerating is just a form of polite-rejection & partial acceptance.
Do not tolerate. Accept.
If I recalled precisely, last time during pendidikan moral there was one nilai murni called "Toleransi antara kaum" or something like that. To me it just sounds so WRONG.....
They should change it into "Menerima antara satu sama lain". This is not about difference in races.. It applies to all. I'm just taking the nilai moral as an example.
According to dictionary: (of course there are many meanings to a single word...I select the one that i relevant here)
Accept:
be welcoming to somebody: to treat somebody as a member of a group or social circle
Tolerate:
endure something: to withstand the unpleasant effects of something
See the difference?
Why tolerate when you can accept? Our kids should be educated to accept each another...not to tolerate each other. How can true forgiveness comes into the picture when all the while I am tolerating with someone? I can only truly forgive when I accept the person for who he is. Because I do not want to reject him I decide to tolerate. Tolerate in another word is being patient. & we can only be patient over something ugly. Otherwise it's passion not patience. The borderline between acceptance & rejection is tolerance.
If again I recalled correctly, there was an element of tolerating each other when "a certain country" was fighting over her own independence & during the construction of her constitution.. Race A & B & C...etc have to tolerate each other on some terms of nationality & rights. & until now....see what happens when it's toleration & not acceptance? Tolerate over something "unpleasant" in each other...bersabar...bersabar...no wonder the "certain issue" still exist even after half century of "freedom". Btw those who WERE there that time are almost half "departed". The new "flame bearer" knows nothing about the past..they were just being educated the wrong way by those who were there last time.
Even among friends or family members.....or even in church. Because of some unforgiveness issue, "zealous" persons were missing in action. I think that if we don't get our own heart fixed right before God about this acceptance & forgiveness, it's pointless even if I become very "holy & spiritual". It's just faking. Tolerating is a fake version of acceptance. Tolerating is just a form of polite-rejection & partial acceptance.
Do not tolerate. Accept.
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