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My Goals
A long journey begins with a single step Contribute to the society Live life to the fullest Consistently thinking and learning Believe and motivate myself Having small goals to achieve the big goal Overcome setbacks Loving ppl ard me It doesn't matter how slow u go, as long u don't stop. |
Grandparents
Thursday, March 26, 2009 @ 4:43 PM Anyone can have an influence on someone, it could even be a stranger who has done things out of kindness, and the extent of influence on someone can be small or large. To me, the person who has the greatest influence on me is my grandfather. He was from Shanghai, China. From young, he knew his responsibility to support his family, he went through arduous journey, left his family and went to Malaysia to work. When WWII occurs, he went to Batam to work and hide in rubber plantations. Life was tough, but he did not give up and often sent money back to china. After WWII, he emigrates to Singapore and using his savings, he did furnitures and start a family, gradually, his business began to boom, using his hard earned money, he bought more machines, however, one night with a big fire, everything was ruined. His hard work had came to a null, and he had to sell away his big house with tenants in order to feed his family. But, he never gives up. Led by his friend, he went to Thailand to venture but he got cheated by his friend, all of his money that was left, was gone. He was once again left with nothing in a foreign land. But again, he did not give up. He did not want to disappoint his family did not tell them about it. He worked, sent back his wages, keeping little for himself, saving for air ticket back. After numerous months, he went back to Singapore and with his children understanding the situation, they went to work helping to alleviate the family burden and my grandparents began to work as food hawkers and afterwards, as their age grows older, they retired. But, my grandfather still continues his daily routine of reading newspapers and talking about current affairs. He and my grandma teach me morals and took care of me. I admired his perseverance and “never say die” attitude, to me, my grandparents are the greatest as they taught me a lot and took care for me when I was young. This gratitude is hard to repay in my lifetime and with their demises, had taken a big blow on me. As I know, I will never get to repay them, and this dream will never be fulfilled. Time had passed, I nearly forgot this daily saying of my grandma, “今日事今日毕”. I was typing for ntu essay but I had overtype and kind of 写离题 . But nevertheless, this is the feeling I feel for my grandparents.... So I post it here.. Missing them badly... My grandma food is the BesT! =D Love them always! |
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