If i'm not mistaken, it's been 7 months since I last updated this godforsaken blog.
Always wanted to post sth regarding my holiday anecdotes, for some reasons, I didnt.
This time, the very reason that drove me to write this blog entry was simply to share the good experience of participating in 30-Hour Famine Camp.
Frankly speaking, my initial purpose of joining this camp was merely to take up the challenge of fasting for 30 hours.
Nth more than that.
And people just kept giving me the same kinda reactions whenever I told them I was going to this camp.
Jaw-dropping, eyebrow-raising, and as always, the intriguing question:
OMG, you're already so freaking skinny, why would u do that to urself?
And as always, I would give the SUPER fake answer:
To help the children.
(Usually I would end up getting beat up by the inquirer. LOL.)
Anyway, this camp turned out to be quite an experience and also an enlightenment to me.
I hav to say fasting isnt as hard as it seems/sounds to be. It had been interesting (since it was my first time), sometimes annoying, sometimes downright tiring, but overall interesting.
The camp was so packed with games, performance and video sharing.
The time just flew like no one's business, even the feeling of hunger was no longer there.
(The oni group photo I grabbed from FB. Havnt taken others from frens.)
The slogan for the 30-Hour Famine is "Light up their Life". In chinese, it is "to create no poverty city for the kids".
Apparently, it wasnt sth I expected/intended to do when i first joined this camp.
But in the end, it did change my mindset a bit on this whole helping-kids-concept.
I was so moved by the video played during the video sharing session.
Its definitely gonna be on my list of top 5 touching tear-jerkers.
Now u get why the subject line? hahah, pretty lame.
And TADA,
here is my latest list of TOP 5 Touchin' Tear-Jerkers:
#5:
Liu Li Interview On Nu Yu's Talk Show!
Here she is, Liu Li, the lady who had changed my perception about sponsoring a child.
I was trying to hold back my tears when I was watching this interview.
She is just amazing.
(Google her if u wanna find out her story)
(Incidentally, RM50 to sponsor a child, considerably cheap rite?
Again, this is gonna sound cheesy, like I'm trying to be Mister Malayisa, but perhaps, perhaps I would sponsor one when I start working in the future.)
#4:
Aftershock (movie)
a bit boring in the beginning,
but man, it gets darned moving at the end.
The most touching scene is undoubtedly the one where the mother kneels down in front of the daughter and asking for apology.
Sounds absurd but u would know the reason why the mother did so if u watch the entire movie.
#3:
A thousand Splendid Suns(Book)
Khaled tells us a story of two Afghanistan women and their struggles for lives in a society that thinks they should not live.
I was entirely engulfed in the lives of the characters,
and literally shed tears, as Mariam's being executed.
The flash back memories are plain tragic and painful.
Highly recommended by Jacoby!
#2:
My Sister's Keeper (Movie)
Got this movie from a fren.
Good recommendation.
For me, the adaptation is better than the book.
The heartwrenching scene tt got me weeping:
Kate asks Anna to do one last favor for her,
(Sisi, can u do me a favor?)
and it is sue for emancipation,
bcuz she believes she will die anyway.
One word~~SAD!
#1:
Japanese Drama: One Litre of Tears
In cases like mine, its difficult for a drama to make me shed tears in multiple scenes.
And yet One Litre of Tears made me shed more tears than I had for any other movie/drama/book.
The drama targets at ur tear ducts heartlessly, it might as well sponsored by Kleenex.
That's why this drama has always topped my list.
