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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 ♥ 8:49:00 PM
Good evening guys!
Today was a tiring but good day.
I had an interesting sex talk in the main lecture theatre in school today.
The speaker was someone from the life skills department and what she said was interesting…but I wasn’t really that interested.
Oh come on, I’ve been bombarded with this kind of information since I was in Secondary 1!
Only 6 of us turned up for it…amazing.
Anyway I went for my Customer Service lesson right after that and it was a pleasant surprise to see my ex-teacher, Loretta!
There were 2 new teachers together with her and I guess she was training the new teachers on the way things work in class by sampling Miss Wong’s lesson! Lol!
Anyway Loretta and the 2 new teachers left shortly
Had a interesting lesson but the best part was, Miss Wong showed us a movie that was ‘suppose’ to let us understand a particular person’s customer service.
And you guess what movie what that?
Hotel Rwanda!
I was a little puzzled at why Miss Wong choose that particular movie to enlighten us on customer service, for I know the movie was about the genocide that happened in Rwanda back in 1994, so where does her lessons comes in?
As I watch the movie, it literally seems to pull me back into the scene in 1994.
The main protagonist was a hotel manager named Paul, and the country that he lives in happens to have a racial hatred towards a minority group, called the Tutsi who was favored by their ex-colonizers to help rule the country over the majority Hutus.
Tensions escalated and eventually genocide broke out when the President of Rwanda was assassinated by some rebels.
Refuges poured into the hotel that Paul was running and there for the UN had a sizeable amount of guards securing the place.
As I watched the movie, I literally feel the tension that anytime some crazy bugger would roll their 3 toner into the hotel and start an Unreal Tournament match.
However, I saw one of the cruelest aspects of humanity that occurred.
The Westerners decided that Rwanda was not worth their time to sent troops to resolve the crisis, and opted instead to extract their citizens from the country as the genocide rages on.
Rwanda was worthless to them, the West do not want to bother what happen in this small landlocked African country.
It was real saddening man.
Imagine the very people that you know is going to get killed anytime soon just because of some stupid history.
And how would you feel when all those that is able to halt the genocide sits there, save their own backside and watches as the place, the very place that you grew up in, burn to the ground and the people that you know and meet everyday being humiliated and disposed of like some unwanted trash?
It was real shocking man.
Miss Wong pulled us back to the lesson, promising to show the second-half of the show as she was running out of time, telling us how Paul reacted professionally and calmly in the midst of the country’s most serious crisis, how he treated his guests with professionalism, who were the refugees regardless of whether they were the minority, the majority, the rich or the poor.
Even though she did not mention this, but I saw Paul used psychology tactics to deal with the people, the guests, the UN and the rebels, impressive. It’s like whoever he meets; he knows how to handle them.
Also, she asked this question, if Singapore were under such crisis, would the west come to our aid?
Yes, cause we are worthy to received aid.
That’s the sad part of life.
We have to be of worth in order for us to be worthy to receive aid…sigh.
If it was me, I would not even think or hesitate but offer help immediately.
Oh well, we live in an unfair world anyway.
Movie and moral issues aside, praise the Lord for His grace upon me as I took my VB test today!
Since the beginning of the new school term, I wasn’t that interested in VB and therefore…I slack a little lol.
So when Martin (my VB teacher) announced last week that we will be having a test, my heart skipped a beat.
I did not really pay much attention or really revised on VB!
I prayed and the Lord prompted me to study over the weekend on my VB, but even then I don’t have much time to revise.
Even on the eve of the test I stayed out late at a friend’s house to resurrect his PC.
So I woke up early Tuesday morning and prayed a little and right before the test, I prayed for strength to be upon me as I take the test.
Praise the Lord, not only did I completed the test quickly; my program doesn’t display any errors! Not those that can be seen easily anyway lol.
Truly God is amazing.
Only when I am weak will He be strong and exalted.
Hallelujah!
I thank you Lord for your grace. Praise be to You!
Truly it has been a good day.
Alright, I’m going to do my stuff now, till next time readers!
Thanks for reading and God bless!