my upcoming eighteenth birthday..

would need me to call my own relatives down for my birthday dinner.
not that my family owes me a birthday dinner or anything, but..wouldn it be sweet if..
is this just a 'chinese families' thing?
anyway,
surprises aint quite surprises.
in fact, these untimely realisations
makes me feel less important and not as valued.
Twice.

doode, ive not even pass my birthday YET.

will reply tags another time. =) not quite in a mood now hmmm

one thing that has been on my mind of late is about those human organ transplant.i have yet to read friday's(?) papers on to sell, or not to sell your organs.i reckon it should be a good read to get some insights.ha! after all its somebody's daughter who only has to power to stir up this kind of a media attention!

i dont know if one should feel happy about this opt-out system for human organ transplant.in singapore, when u reach 21, your organs are automatically donated when u are pronounced brain dead. so, u have to opt-out when u hit 21 if u dunt wish to be in this scheme, otherwise, well, u are in the scheme lah.haha i mean well, your organs goes to save some lives and that's a perfect reason why one should donate.but the problem comes when we decide at which time do they pluck out your innerds, willing or unwilling. the 'legal' time to take out organs is as soon as the doctors pronounces one is officially brain dead. and chances are, the body will stop functioning soon after the brain is dead.

in a study of the 150+ people who lived on the support system after confirming brain dead, everyone survived more than a couple of days, and 2 more than a year. there was this taiwanese newscaster that was pronounced brain dead in either us/uk but because her mom insisted on bringing her back to china,( and thankfully, the system for human organ transplant at the place she was called brain dead was an opt-in system) she received some treatment and got some electrical waves sent into her brain, she regained consciousness 3 mths later. how grave, and a pity it would have been if her organs were removed then!

then i begin to wonder, as altruistic as this could be, but if i were on the decision panel, would i allow this 'everyone is in the scheme unless u opt-out' system? i mean, if i say yes, would i be undermining god's power to heal and save? would i even deprive god a chance of doing his miraculous deed? i mean, i dunt know what's god's stand on donating your organs, but before u are offcially breathless, u have 'willingly' taken out your living organs, isnt it as good as suicide? on a more extreme note, wont that make doctors murderers?

ughhh my train of thought is disturbed now.. someone's rushing me

yes so here i am with an entry, and sk do not stink, all you beautiful creations of God!

oh my gosh oh my oh my. today's PC(jj's acronym for PE lessons) was at 230 to 330. my goodness, the blazing sun, the stifling, and not to forget, stinky hot air of the track wasnt the best thing to inhale when you're breathing(read: panting/gasping)while running(jogging actually). gosh, its my first time running in close to 7months! 7 months! ( i mean, excluding the time i ran from gerald house to jumbo sometime in dec that i cracked my knee a bit that i couldnt walk properly, and couldn't squat for the dover joyful dance the very next day haha.) 7mths of no running, which coincidentally, has the same numerical value of th number of rounds around the track i had to chiong today.i almost died. BUT I REMEMBERED WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY CELL LEADER, PRISCILLA =)

see, last time when pris was still in ntu( my fellow jurong mate then)she would take a jog in the campus at night.once during cell, she shared a mini testimony that she was so tired that she almost gave up running.however, she decided to talk to god while running, saying something like, 'god let's jiayou together! we can do it!' similiarly, as a cell member, wo you yang xue yang(translate: i got shape follow shape. in proper english:i emulated her example)and started talking to god in the middle of jj's much-boasted 0.5million synthetic field.(see, 0.5million=500k. do u see the diff in impact it leaves on u?). as weird as that may seem to u, sk made it thru =) without a tan from the blazing sun.

see, i was an attentive cell member =)i dunno whether if pris is crying or laughin in hysteria in germany as she reads this hahaha!