Am I a Fireman Now?

In Queensland, Australia, a 26-year-old mother
stared down at her 6-year
old son, who was dying of terminal leukaemia.
Although her heart was filled
with sadness, she also had a strong feeling of
determination. Like any
parent, she wanted her son to grow up & fulfil all
his dreams. Now that was
no longer possible. The leukaemia would see to that.
But she still wanted
her son's dream to come true. She took her son's
hand and asked, "Ben, did
you ever think about what you wanted to be once you
grew up? Did you ever
dream and wish what you would do with your life?"

"Mummy, I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew
up."

Mum smiled back and said, "Let's see if we can make
your wish come true."

Later that day she went to her local fire Station in
Brisbane, where she
met Fireman Bob, who had a heart as big as
Queensland. She explained her
son's final wish and asked if it might be possible
to give her 6-year old son a
ride around the block on a fire engine.

Fireman Bob said, "Look, we can do better than that.
If you'll have your
son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning, we'll
make him an honorary
fireman for the whole day. He can come down to the
fire station, eat with us,
go out on all the fire calls, the full Monty! And if
you'll give us his sizes,
we'll get a real fire uniform for him, with a real
fire hat - not a toy -one
with the emblem of the Queensland Fire & Rescue
Department on it, a
yellow slicker like we wear and rubber boots.
They're all manufactured right
here in Brisbane, so we can get them fast."

Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Ben, dressed
him in his uniform
and escorted him from his hospital bed to the
waiting truck.

Ben got to sit on the back of the truck and help
steer it back to the
fire station. He was in heaven. There were three
fire calls in Brisbane that
day and Ben got to go out on all three calls. He
rode in the different fire
engines that day. He was also videotaped for the
local news programme.

Having his dream come true, with all the Love and
attention that was
lavished upon him, so deeply touched Ben, that he
lived three months
longer than any doctor thought possible.

One night all of his vital signs began to drop
dramatically and the head
nurse, who believed in the hospice concept - that no
one should die alone,
began to call the family members to the hospital.

Then she remembered the day Ben had spent as a
fireman, so she called
the Fire Station and asked if it would be possible
to send a fireman in
uniform to the hospital to be with Ben as he made
his transition.

The Officer in charge replied, "We can do better
than that. We'll be there
in five minutes. Will you please do me a favour?
When you hear the sirens
screaming and see the lights flashing, will you
announce over the PA
system, that there is not a fire? It's the
department coming to see one of its
finest members one more time. And will you open the
window to his room?

About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck
arrived at the hospital
and extended its ladder up to Ben's third floor open
window - 16 fire-fighters
climbed up the ladder into Ben's room.

With his mother's permission, they hugged him and
held him and told him
how much they LOVED him.

With his dying breath, Ben looked up at the fire
chief and said, "Chief,
am I really a fireman now?"

"Ben, you are, and the Head Chief, Jesus, is holding
your hand," the O.I.C
said. With those words, Ben smiled and said, "I
know, He's been holding my
hand all day, and the angels have been singing.." He
closed his eyes one
last time.

My instructions were to send this to at least four
people that I wanted
the Gods to bless and I picked you.

--Well, I did post it for the whole world to see did I not?
(got it from my mom)

yosh.

This should count as post number 100. The previous was just a saying.

1. The first day I went back to school with this hairdo, guess who popped up while Ken Vin was criticizing me for not following our "pact". Zachary Hon Heng Soon. WTH. He came to blabber on about being a reptile and told us that shaving every single hair on our bodies will do just right. Yeah, right. I would like to see you hairless.

2. Finally managed to conquer yet another obstacle in my way: a book series. Haaa. It is called the Legend of the Five Rings aka Rokugan. The title was not clear anyway but what the heck. It is a D&D thing, all these serial books. Keegan was busy raving about it a few weeks ago and right after his incessant babbling, he shoved a book into my hand:
The First Scroll: The Scorpion
There were all together 7 books and here I am, almost 3 weeks later, alive and breathing having completed the series.

3. Yayaya Wei Li, you would say that the author took sooo much time to write it and I finish it in a matter of days. The Harry Potter series was a cakewalk though I would not want to read it again. It nearly destroyed my eyesight. But then again, my eyesight ain't that good anyways.

4. Tzuk and Boonz took to calling Keegan a traitor. =.=?? Looks like Keegan is the noob traitor now heh?

5. Oh and by the way (this is more of an announcement to myself anyway...) Dharma promised me a free set of skipping ropes! Yes, now I can exercise from the comfort of the unit I live in! Perhaps I will make a hole in the ceiling of the unit below mine.

6. Encik Wan has gone mad.

Arizwan: Saya ada lapan set soalan untuk kamu semua buat.

Us(5SC1): Aaah? Apa cikgu? Ayah, tak perlu buatlah!

Arizwan: Apa? Hai, saya dah fotostat dah. Kamu semua akan buat sampai muntah nilai.

And today, he gave us a fresh set of crap to finish. Suddenly, the forecast results don't seem so important. Wait, what am I thinking. Don't be stupid.
Ken Vin was crazy-er.

KV: Ayah, don't need to do wan lah.

7.
In winter's sorrow
Despairing shadows gone long
In my eyes, spring dawns.

--the haiku of a dead samurai

Got that from the last book of the aforementioned series.

8. Happy birthday Ng Wei Li.

"Great minds think alike, fools never differ."-Puan Siti Norbaya

paper bombs and flimsy dogfights

Yes yes!! Today we all went to watch some film on World War 2 during Mr Rama's lesson. Wohoo!
Though I could actually spot a certain few people bringing their Maths exercises into the theaterette (or however you spell it). Wow, you can see in the dark. That's a pretty cool feature. That a new and rare genetic variation?

Unfortunately for Malaysia, I have managed to interpret the film.

The one thing that we, citizens of this 'cemerlang', 'gemilang' and 'terbilang' Malaysia lack is patriotism and nationalism. When I saw scenes of Mussolini and Hitler uniting their people with flaming speeches, I could only see our leaders pointing at each other in the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara and telling each other who leaks once a month. How's that for patriotism?

I am sorry Malaysia, for I will be criticizing you for the months and maybe years to follow.

The regrets of this superficial life...

Yes, I have finally finished reading The Game by Neil Strauss. Well, what seemed at first to be like an indispensable guide to seducing women has turned out to be filled with moral lessons. I really am grateful I have been given the chance to read this book by Wei. No doubt I wanted to read it because of its intriguing storyline (Jia Min and Keegan AND Ze Yen would have said for the 'hamsup' scenes...even though I have found little enjoyment reading them..pointless) and guess where it has brought me now.

Let me further attempt to shed some light ahead with this aged hurricane lamp.

1. Picking up girls is definitely not what life is all about. People think professional pickup artists are the kings of the world and have the best piece of life i.e. girls. I used to think about that too. Only to discover how shallow and phony that 'fact' is.
Reality check: We all want to be loved at some point or another by one who is sincere and cannot always have one-night-stands. One can only rely on porn to a certain extent. After that, fulfillment is no longer there. What remains is a hollow shell of what used to be us.

2. Life, cannot be rehearsed. You cannot say lines and lines (routines is what they call it in the book) over and over again without breaking up. What I mean is that pick up lines are only meant for cavemen with no other interests in life besides women and women and women. Try to be genuine when interacting with people. Ok, let me rephrase that. Be genuine, be yourself when socialising. No false fronts. Be brutal. Be honest. Like me. For further information on how one should feel, refer to point 1.

3. Being too fanatical on one thing in life could very well destroy oneself. Take for example, playing video games. Addiction. Another very good example which comes from this book is picking up girls. Same thing. Sarging is an addiction too.
"What about God??" you may say. Even though He said, "Love no other gods but me." it does not mean you should love Him in that sick twisted way as to kill all life forms He created by blowing yourselves up. If he wanted to destroy life, he would have sent the second flood (according to the Bible, there was a first flood, Noah and his family were the only humans left after that). Nothing is a problem with God. So if you really want a good spouse, I suggest you start praying for one and do something about it, not go 'sarging'.

With that, hopefully life will be more fulfilling for you. Never hesitate to ask for help.

Signing off,
Yours truly.