Today I went on a journey to Jurong East after class over. The sky became dark and cloudy and was going to rain. Everyday seems to be like this. It may be true that the rainy season has come to Singapore.
At that time, I felt a little bit homesick.
I have reached Singapore about two months. I have been gradually used to have meals with knives and forks; I have been gradually used to the map of Singapore; I have been gradually tendering to dissolve myself into that society; and I have been accustoming to use English writing journals and communicate with each others.
In Singapore, the relationships between individuals can be described as the contract. Owing to contrast, we are drove to work, to learn, to team up, and to break. In a way, the marriage can also be regarded as a contract.
The scholarship is also as same.
We cannot get free educations and hostels from MOE. In the other words, it should be paid off. We should use our 10 years even all lifetime to work for this country. What’s more, this is why we cannot go back home because MOE is afraid of us running away and never back.
On the other hand, our parents prefer to pay our schooling fees in university; they agree us to go to college by air; for our live comfortable, they can just go to Beijing only for us; when we go abroad, they can left their work aside and see us off; when we meet difficulties, they are willing to do what they can do; when we hurt them and make mistakes, they can forgive us without any hating.
As for them, they do these without any special attention. They just wanna us to lead a more ease life than theirs; don’t have to overcome the difficulties they overcame and go the wrong way they went.
J.F. Kennedy said: “ask what you can do for your country, do not ask what the country can do for you.” Just like parents, they are the people who never mind what I can do for them
Thanks for the devotions from my parents!
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After reading your blog, I know that you are a bit complaining about life in Singapore. Yes, I agree with you that we are limited in some degree by what we have contacted. But you should think about this situation in both two sides. We can’t choose our hostel, but in our own country we still can’t choose, isn’t it? Yes we will spend 6 years here, and I see from your words that you want to go back home and make contributions to China, that’s very good. But do you know that if you study here, you can even make greater contributions to our country? What we learn here may be more useful, and there are better work positions here, we can practice what we have learnt better. After accumulating a few years’s working experience, we can go back China and will do much better in China.
ReplyDeleteParents are our gods who will protect us no matter what happens, and I know they are really great, I also love my parents very much.
But we now have grown up, we are adults now, and we should be considerate to them. They have worked hard for us for many years; and we now have a chance to relief their loan, why not? And also you may be afraid of making mistakes and want to be forgiven, but you should always keep in mind that we are no longer children now; we should be responsible to what we do.
Of course, we have challenges here, if we do badly in our study, we may be sent back to China. We have pressure, but if life have no pressure, how can we go ahead? We need pressure to spur us on. And as you have said, your parents have also overcome some hard difficulties. Now that they could, why can’t you? Without difficulties, how can we grow up?
I guess that you have not left your parents for such a long time and such a long distance. It is not easy, but you should be optimistic, everything will be ok. And I have live in school in the senior high school for 3 years, so I have got use to the situation that we are away from home, so if when you are homesick next time, just turn to me, maybe I can help you.
And again, thank our parents, best wishes for them.
As a Chinese, we have received much education on our country and our motherland, and he idea that we should make contributions to our country has been rooted in our brains. Now, we are in Singapore, not in China, so some may think that we "betray" our country to some degree.But I don not think so. If you stay in China, what can we do for our contry? I believe most of us can not say definitely that what we can do for our country.Why? Because we have never specificly thought such problems when we are in China though we have heard and spoken much. Now we start to ponder it,and I think it is a good thing. After a long time of thinking, we can find out that whether we stay in China is not important and what is mportant is that we really make contributions to our country.
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