Saturday, May 26, 2007
Although I am not a very "Social Studies" student...
But I think I can still differentiate between good and bad...
A few days ago, I was finally given a CARE topic...
to write about leadership...
so that I can present it in September...
with some sleeping partners...
So that foiled my plan of saying that CARE has also a bad side of it...
as I had already made the slides.
So I think it is better if I record it down in my blog...
Everything has a bad side to it... I presume.
Even CARE.
As what my school tells everyone...
CARE= care, committment, attituse, respect, responsibility and excellence.
But what if I give you these scenarios...
Scenario 1Henry is a very young boy and this story narrates his first time picking up/answering the phone... when he was about 3 years old.
The phone started ringing...
Henry sat beside the phone, but is engrossed in his "Barney and friends" show.
His mum shouted, "Henry dear, can you help me to answer to phone? It is too noisy."
"Okay mum.", Henry replied.
Henry then went to say to the phone, "Shut up, my mum says that you are too noisy."
But the phone kept on ringing...
and ringing...
and ringing...
until Henry's father was pissed off.
"Pick up that bloody phone,Henry!!!" Henry's father snapped.
Henry then picked up the phone...
and I mean the whole thing.
As he pulled it up...
he felt a tension tugging the phone.
He pulled harder and finally the phone's cable fell out.
The phone stopped ringing.
Okay, from this first scenario, you can see that Henry is just trying to do the right thing...
instead of conitinuing to watch his television programme, he took the time and tried his best to help his parents...
but too bad he isn't that educated...
He had portrayed the CARE values...
But lets' not make any conclusions now...
only after the next scenario.
Scenario 2It was Henry's first day in his prmary school and his first lesson was when the teacher came into the class and talked to the class about taking care of the environment.
Henry had a new dictionary for his first day of school and because of the incident when he was three, he did not want to not understand what others mean, and so, he got a dictionary.
So the teacher started making the wonderful "speech"...
If you want to care for the environment, the basic thing you can do is to pick up any litter you see and throw it away...
Henry did not even finish listening to his teacher's "speech" and started to check his dictionary for the first word, "litter".
Litter: Rubbish left lying around
Henry was not satisfied and he searched for the word "rubbish".
Rubbish: Waste or discarded material
Henry then wanted to check what was a waste.
Waste: Something discarded because not wanted.
Okay... that was it. Henry closed his dictionary...
The bell rang and the first school day ended.
Henry walked back home from school for the first time...
and I don't know whether should I say it is good or bad...
he saw an old man throw litter on the ground.
He tried to be a good citizen...
he went up to the rubbish and saw that it was a tissue paper smeared and covered with mucus.
Henry was disgusted at the sight of it but in the end he still threw it away... Ewww....
This shows that Henry had a good attittude of trying to learn...
but in the end he still got to do something he did not like...
just like how he forced himself to...
So in conclusion... (cos i need to rush for CCA)
I feel that CARE still has a bad side...
and people just don't know which side to follow...
For me, personally I prefer doing what I think is right...
not always doing what others say...
I still have a mind of my own...
So I will end this post with a question...
"Do you have a mind of your own?"
(R^3)CMI wrote some crap again... <3 8:16 AM
