The lessons in the rain

Yes, I rarely post titles for my posts, but this time, Im having one because this post is very significant to me.

Today is the day I've finally learnt something new, and a teaching to remember for life.

After sending my brother off to tuition at my ex-tutition teacher's new house (he didnt know how to get there since its his first time there), I was suppossed to play soccer at Serangoon. Then the weather started to get dark and it was going to rain. I didnt really mind since I called marcus earlier on and he said there was already 1 round of downpour before that. As he had his caregroup, I waited for him at macs until 5.45 where we were suppossed to meet at the soccer court. And that was when God started to plan his lesson for me.

Yes, the thunder accompanied the rain and it started pouring cats and dogs. I ran to the nearest shelter to take cover and I had this in mind, "I had to get off to the bus stop or else I wont have a good chance to later when the rain gets heavier." But on the other side of my mind was what if marcus came down looking for me and doesnt find me there, it would seem that I had abandoned him. But I knew this would never happen cos I know marcus would nv would come find me. LOL. So I just ran to the bus stop.

And yes,marcus didnt call me to ask me to go home and say that the match was cancelled,until it was about 7.He apologised though. Perhaps he was too busy but I learnt a lesson from that, or rather, I would have called him to do so if we were to switch positions. But I never blamed him because it wasnt his fault. It was the freaky weather.

So lesson 1, always be attentive to those around you. Never be too engaged in your own stuff to ignore the rest around. Its never responsible to do so.

At the bus stop, we were all forced to take a step back to prevent the rain from splashing onto us. So I squeezed with the ZHSS students in the bus-stop. Then came this parent that drove her car in front of the bus-boarding platform and her daughter was right in front of the platform. Guess what, her daughter told her mother to make a U-turn to the carpark 10m away to pick her up, because the rain was getting heavy. Firstly, the distance from the platform to the car was less than 0.5m. The girl covered her head with her history textbook and walked to the car under the heavy rain to tell her mum to U-turn, when I felt she could have just got into the car ASAP. The kids at the bus-stop that saw this incident later told their parents to do the exact same. Only 2 didnt. And both were ladies too. I seriously cant imagine why children of this generation are so "soft" .Im not generalising all of them but most. Is it that hard to just move into the car ASAP, at most drenched in a little little tiny bit of rain? That hard? So comforted are we that we take things for granted to even push our way in to best fit our convenience.

Lesson 2. Always be appreciative for what you have and accommodate. Dont push your luck too far and try to do things your own way. Sometimes, its good to give and take.

Lesson 3, never take a wife like that. =P

And the last lesson, its only in times of hardship do we see true kin/friendship. The sweet days are useless, the hard days are always the most precious.

Those lessons aside, Marcus, Joel,Mel Tan and I went to watch Money No Enough at PS ystd after gym. It was a funny movie, with all the hokkien stuff entertaining the audience around. But it had a realistic and unfortunate sad side to it. It definitely does reflect about the current situation in Singapore, regarding treatment to the elderly. I shall not be a spoiler so catch the movie. But do take some pointers from it, esp. the last part. It does re-iterate my last lesson as mentioned above.