Thursday, March 31, 2005
Moments after Jeannie took this picture for me, we realised that someone had left their phone on the table behind me. I reached for the phone and we all came to a consensus that we should keep it and wait for the owner to return for the phone instead of waiting for the waiter to do the same - largely because we highly doubted that he would do the same. We only realised it was a Nokia 7260 after we removed it from the pouch. As much as we wanted to keep it, we made a unanimous decision to call several numbers on the phone to try to get someone to inform the owner. Not only were those people Jeannie spoke to oblivious and indifferent towards our rare act of kindness, we were not even rewarded with some more waffles after she came to collect it! In fact, when she arrived all she gave us was a cold "thank you." I even tried to tell her to be careful next time to try to force in some form of conversation but to no avail. We were then left with no choice later on but to console ourselves that at least we had done a good deed.
Friday, March 25, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
Watch this kid on the left, he's both the fly-half and the kicker for his school's rougby team. I thought he had potential. All of us looked terrible in this picture but I'm posting it anyway coz' it's meaningful. We kicked the kids' ass in touch rugby coz' Chloe and I had superior tactics and strategy. Guess who came up with them? Haha...ok ok...Chloe's catching was pretty good too.
I think the kids at the Children's Home were a really funny bunch. For some reason, that gal behind us in this picture gave Chloe an ice-cream stick with her name on it. I told the kids that Chloe's my sister coz' they caught us holding hands. I think our lie failed miserably when they caught us holding hands again just before we left.
Unfortunately, none of the pictures I took that night turned out nice. The lighting was just unsuitable for the camera I was using and this was probably the best picture I took of Chloe's performance. I thought the guy and the gal in the middle danced pretty well despite their disability. I think the concert was very heartwarming and reminded me of how blessed I am.
This, I felt, was the starlet of the charity performance when she salsa-danced and mesmerised the audience. I am so not biased. In fact, her professor who was also present commented after the show, "Hey Chloe, I didn't know you could dance so well!" She replied by saying, "That's why I'm always late for your class professor!" I hope she doesn't think this will allow her to get away with her tardiness.
This picture was taken after I parked my car just before I went for Chloe's charity performance at SMU. The proceeds were sent to the Tsunami Victims in which I felt bad not contributing to despite the fact that I got in free. In the end I just donated the same amount as the cost of the ticket because I felt that the worst thing you can do is to "gatecrash" a charity concert. The amazing thing was that the performance was actually a joint effort between some SMU students and a school for the mentally disabled.