Saturday, June 23, 2007
start of a new life... tribute
no, not for me. for someone else. my age, someone i don't know personally but was confirmed in our faith the same day as me.a brother in Christ. we went to the same church and i can't even picture him. Thaddaeus... what has he brought into the lives of the people around him? i didn't get a chance and will never get a chance to know.
youth mass today, a joyous event. after the homily, fr ho made an announcement, he was rushing to the hospital. appears that thaddaeus, for some reason collapsed. his heart had suddenly stop beating. just found out that he had a hole in his heart from my sis. it was so sudden, at once the mood dampened. how could one so young, the same age as myself... nevermind. there was a rush of emotions... mostly 'omg' or 'wth'.
throughout the entire mass, i was wondering what his friends and family could be thinking or feeling at that point in time. i also wondered, what legacy did he leave behind? it's human nature, the desire to leave a part of ourselves on the planet so that memories of us will not be forgotten. What will people remember him by? How has his passing on affect the rest of us and for how long? there were a lot more questions that one can reflect on that i thought about but... maybe next time.
they sang 'we will rise again', it was... comforting i guess.
i no longer have the mood to study... i would rather be thinking about... well... other stuff right now. maybe that's thaddaeus gift to the rest of us, even to those who don't really know him, a wake up call. i really really REALLY hope he led a meaningful life. pray for him guys, sometime during all that mugging, pray for him and his family. it's the least we could do.
dear Lord, we thank u for the gift of life that u gave us. thank u for thaddaeus and the impact that he has and had left on us. we pray for his family and friends that they may be comforted, comforted by the fact that he is one more step closer to being next to you now that he has left this world.
Josh
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9:27 PM
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Just Life
Yay, i finally managed to get a new blogskin, a decent one i guess. My blog seems pretty dead lol. Anyway, i do believe that it's due time i posted something on my blog.
Holidays, break from school, study break or whatever one wants to call it, its still boring... the exception was the 2nd week - Leadership Training Camp! Now that was something. Go UHU! Let's see... in UHU! we have... Jason, Joel, Menveer, Joy, Randy, Daryl, Rina, Cherie, Carmen, Elisabeth, Audrey and myself. Our facils were Christine and Timothy. haha, we stick like glue. There's no question about it, i love my group, a cool bunch of people :) Then there was Elects' Day, i seriously forgot about it until Joy reminded me during the camp. We took a rather long time but we elected our new exco.
President: Menveer
V. Presidents: Joy, Jason and Michael
Admin: Billy
HODs: Arthur, Kai Chuen, Rina, Daryl, Matthias and myself(didn't quite expect it though)
wow, lol. UHU! has produced 6 ex-co ppl out of the 10, so cool.
After all this, back to boring ol' hols. Tried to study but never got to it until yesterday which is just ONE WEEK BEFORE MIDYEARS!!! sigh, i better buck up and do well for my mid years man... oh yeah, i can't even complete the phy online assessment, EOM nowhere near completion and Econs project... what's that? What's more, Chinese A level ORAL is drawing near and i haven't done anything about it yet.
Oh yeah, got 3 of my teeth extracted under GA, curiously, the after effects wasn't as bad as when i extracted one the last time. But now my face is slightly swollen.
Slightly hard to eat too.
It's already the 3rd day of the last week of hols and all i've done is read through phy and chem notes. (and i'm bloggin now somemore)
The holidays always feels so empty, like something's missing. I would usually go out with friends during the breaks but this year, i haven't really gone out this time. I miss the weekly legion meetings at the Gift of Love Home, brings a bit of meaning back into life i guess. Haven't gone for weekday mass lately too.
Once again, i'm just drifting along, seemingly without a purpose. Maybe it's just life, let's just see what God has planned for me for the next few weeks. Hopefully, things'll get better when school starts. (not that the exams are good) :p
JamJosh
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1:05 AM
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