first8
was reading this time magazine which is a few weeks old. still trying to catch up, cos there was a period of time where i didn't go home for a long stretch...
anyway there was a small column with an interesting photo which caught my attention.. (me being a wannabe photographer...) you can read the article from www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041004-702201,00.html
I went to the website http://www.first8.org and was fascinated.. the sheer magnitude overwhelmed me so much i cried briefly... i knew there was poverty and hunger and discrimation around the world, but the effect of putting all these into a photobook was amazing... it makes all my troubles seem so small and insignificant... why should i care how much money bizcom loses, when there are pple who live on less than a dollar a day? why care abt what clothes to wear for MM opening, when there are children who don't even get to live to my age?? haiz....
i suddenly recalled the project that i wanted to do at the beginning of last term... i wanted to hold a series of events to raise awareness of such pressing global issues in nus students.. wanted to tie in with unicef or something... somehow i was so caught up with mundane stuff like chasing standing comms for proposals, reports, budgets etc that this project just slowly slipped away.. now i'm so ashamed of myself... i could never do anything substantial, anything worthwhile... i see no direction anymore... haiz....
anyway there was a small column with an interesting photo which caught my attention.. (me being a wannabe photographer...) you can read the article from www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041004-702201,00.html
I went to the website http://www.first8.org and was fascinated.. the sheer magnitude overwhelmed me so much i cried briefly... i knew there was poverty and hunger and discrimation around the world, but the effect of putting all these into a photobook was amazing... it makes all my troubles seem so small and insignificant... why should i care how much money bizcom loses, when there are pple who live on less than a dollar a day? why care abt what clothes to wear for MM opening, when there are children who don't even get to live to my age?? haiz....
i suddenly recalled the project that i wanted to do at the beginning of last term... i wanted to hold a series of events to raise awareness of such pressing global issues in nus students.. wanted to tie in with unicef or something... somehow i was so caught up with mundane stuff like chasing standing comms for proposals, reports, budgets etc that this project just slowly slipped away.. now i'm so ashamed of myself... i could never do anything substantial, anything worthwhile... i see no direction anymore... haiz....
posted by zhenmingtianzi at 4:19 PM
1 Comments:
Hey dude,
Hmm i agree often we get caught up in the mundane things in life we forget wat we really wanted. Sometimes we juz do things without reflecting wat it means to us at all. Take time out to think. =) And heh i din know munchie is a gd place to pick up girls, so im wrong abt u being shy eh. heh
Cheers,
Faith
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