A boring day leading to an astonishing night...

If every Friday is Friesday, then every Wednesday is MyFreeDay(at least for this semester). Well, no link. While Mr Genki takes his time off his free schedule to bring you this entry of his boring day, he's slightly astonished about certain things.

Sunny is the weather for the day. Thus, I decided to hit the pool and take a short dip. Pouring oil all over the body, lying on the sun-beds to enjoy the sun, oogling at bikini clad chicks(none that I've seen today :P) are the routine things people do under good sun at the pool. Well, Mr Genki promised that he'll talk about Anything Under The Sun. However, as you read on, you'll notice that this part was included only to make up the length of this entry.

As Mr Genki had only been schooling for the past 10 days or so, he had already felt the pressure of being academically overwhelmed and not forgetting financially troubled. Buying textbooks and printing academic materials probably made up the core of my financial burden. And as such, Mr Genki decided to look into financial aid or scholarship the Residential Constituency or RC can provide and hence attended an interview at night.

Wow! I was rather surprised by the fact that how much attention I've been putting on the bigger picture while neglecting the smaller one. I must admit that I've been very passive in participating in the activities organise by the RC (To be fair, how many of you guys have been active?). However, that should not be an excuse of my ignorance of the humanitarian efforts put up by the RC. Apart from my knowledge of the existence of a hospice under the flat where I live, there's actually another humanitarian organisation called "The Loving Hearts Foundation" (if I had not mistaken). I was told that this organisation was set up to help needy people who have problems to even cope with daily basic needs and provide many other services to the RC.

While I thought I was totally embarassed by my ignorance, I think again and again and again. Something's not right. Here's a couple of observations that I've made earlier this month:

1. 8th Aug, NUS flag day. In lieu of me asking for donation, an old man came to me, dumped all his pride, and begged for $2 from me so that he can get on with his dinner. What an irony.

2. 12th Aug, NUS rag day. While I was at the bus shelter near my place waiting for bus 198, I saw another old man, bare top and limping inch by inch, picking up whatever "valuable" he can find in the rubbish bin or on his way.

It simply upsets me when I see all people, I mean old people, struggling to get on with life, where they've already spent their prime years doing so. If humanitarian efforts had been substantial, then why are the hands not reached out to these people? Things like that reminds us that we should put some of our attention at the happenings of the grassroots level and not be too concerned about how Chelsea and Man Utd both owned their opponents in their opening matches of the Premiership. Well, Mr Genki promised he'll talk about anything right eh?