Hello :D

Indeed, this Teachers' Day Holiday is not like a holiday. Well, the rainy weather is a good time for sleeping! Okay, anyway yesterday's celebration was.. kind of fun? Although there were still lessons and homework :O

It's the last week of the term, and term 4 is going to mark the end of our SecOne life D: Of course, we sure will miss each other when we part in sec two, so cherish the times together! Term 4 is also going to be the toughest term, having all the review tests. Yupp. And I know there are many things that everyone is upset with, but afterall, it has happened and well, just have to forgive and forget! Regarding her, I guess she have thought about it, and who knows what happened, because there were no eyewitnesses or evidence. According to my observation, she dislikes being here, because everyone does not think and care about her. Actually, we just have to think if we were in her shoes. Behind her flaws, there will be positive points, and maybe we could change our perspective, our point of view. Her behaviour may be due to her background or just something that caused it. Everything has a reason, right?

Forgiveness

Jesus said to turn the other cheek

He also said to forgive 7 times 70

Easy for Him to say

He was God

Or at least the son of God

How do I get to the place

Where I forgive those

Who disrespect me and malign me

Those who could care less about my feelings

Yet I still care about theirs

Why is forgiveness so hard

Why does it take so much out of you

Why is it easier to hold on to a grudge

Rather than to let it go

Am I doing something wrong

If it is true that we are to love others

As we love ourselves

And we stay mad at ourselves

For our misdeeds and misdoing

Is it realistic to easily forgive someone

If you extend the olive branch

Of friendship and kindness and forgiveness

And it is not returned

Should you really keep trying

Even if you feel it is a lost cause

Or will persistence win the day

With the honesty and sincerity of words

Be recognized and acknowledged

Followed by a reasonable attempt

To let bygones be bygones

Is this one of the famous battles

Between head and heart

With both having opposing views

But the same hold on your psyche

Neither winning, neither losing

Sometimes I wonder

If our lack of ability to forgive

Is truly more rooted in our

Bruised ego and hurt feelings

Perhaps the pain we feel is comforting

If I were to release my anger and my pain

Only to be knocked again

Who becomes the bigger fool

Me for trying

Or them for doing

I wish that such matters were as easy

As a game of tic-tac-toe

Or perhaps it is

Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose

Neither happens if you don’t take a chance

So I resolve to forgive

To be the bigger and better person

Give of myself as I would want others

To give to me

And perhaps this time everyone will win.

Chuck Smoot

September 1, 2002

http://www.chucksmoot.net/poetry-forgiveness.html


HOMEWORK/THINGS TO DO/REMINDERS:

1) Literature Assignment!

-Essay on Relationships
Have to fill in the boxes for filing purposes but the words in the boxes are not graded.
Read the requirements carefully.

Due: TOMORROW! marks will be deducted for late submission.

2) HCL 听写

TOMORROW!

3)Design and Technology

-Prepare Recycled Materials for Project

Due: Tomorrow

4) English

-Distinction in English
Page 36-41, 153-159
-Read Reader's Digest :D
Page 11-13 Where's Daddy?
Page 118-125 Inventors

Due: Wednesday, 2 September

5) T4W4 History CT Wednesday

(tentative)
Chapters 7-8
MCQ 5marks
Fill-in-the-blanks 5marks
Short Questions 10marks
SBQ 2x5marks

30marks
40minutes

Thank you and God Bless,
Dorcas :D