if only i could get to a point where i can be committed to community service. i know it's a crazy thought. i just hope singapore will be where it's a peer pressure thing and everyone around (at least 60% people around my age) finds it common to help the needy and poor. and on a more frequent basis. then it wont be so "weird" for me or "having intertia" when i want to help on a more constant basis. hmm.......organise a group or find people with the same interest? lol. i hope.
Talking to a lecturer from Brown university today at the hospital....who was more than 70 years of age....(i was just visiting a friend at hospital and he was in the neighbouring hospital bed). He was like "To enter some ivy-league universities you need to be committed to community service", and i was like, "hey we should have that too.....in singapore!" that would be serious motivation man. for all the jcs and polys.....whoa. haha......at least the action of doing the right thing would be right....even though the motive could be wrong...
Oh well there he was, despite having just undergone surgery, just giving a free lecture on history and religion....and well, he being jewish, there was a whole lotta updates about his latest research and readings into the latest research. and onto his fascinating life....i mean call it strange or whatever, but his life was actually fascinating to listen about. like how he got married at what, 50 yrs old (whoever heard of that in usa.....stats usually show a much lower range...but oh well. he's happy!). how he was arab yet believed in judaism....moved to usa at age 10.....hearing about the talmud and the dead sea scrolls....etc etc etc......
Talking to a lecturer from Brown university today at the hospital....who was more than 70 years of age....(i was just visiting a friend at hospital and he was in the neighbouring hospital bed). He was like "To enter some ivy-league universities you need to be committed to community service", and i was like, "hey we should have that too.....in singapore!" that would be serious motivation man. for all the jcs and polys.....whoa. haha......at least the action of doing the right thing would be right....even though the motive could be wrong...
Oh well there he was, despite having just undergone surgery, just giving a free lecture on history and religion....and well, he being jewish, there was a whole lotta updates about his latest research and readings into the latest research. and onto his fascinating life....i mean call it strange or whatever, but his life was actually fascinating to listen about. like how he got married at what, 50 yrs old (whoever heard of that in usa.....stats usually show a much lower range...but oh well. he's happy!). how he was arab yet believed in judaism....moved to usa at age 10.....hearing about the talmud and the dead sea scrolls....etc etc etc......
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