Saturday, May 3, 2008

Dear 08S6E,

I’ve only now manage to gather the random thoughts scribbled on my notepad into a coherent message for the class. Thanks Valerie for the pics (:

Thank you all for giving me such a beautiful send-off, complete with a sing-song no less!

I really appreciate the thought and effort in organizing thi s, and so many of you coming to say goodbye... It was something so authentic and from the heart, and I never expected my HCI experience to end with something as beautiful as Wednesday night.

It took some time for us to know each other, but I know S6E is a class with depth. How apt that the card you gave required me to physically open up every individual heart to read the personal messages, and that each one was a different shape and colour – Just as every one of us is different, as long as our heart is good, we will find joy in our lives and others. Metaphorically, in the last 4 months, we have also opened our hearts to each other, as the class grew closer.

I hope all of you will savour every experience of love and pain at HCI, because they will mould you. No matter how broken or scarred your heart may become, remember to stay true to yourself, and your heart will be full.

It breaks my heart to have to leave you now, but then, I wouldn’t be honest if I told you to have courage,and remained myself stuck to the straight and narrow.

OHY

SHAPE OF MY HEART

I live my life in chains
Got my hands in chains
And I can’t stick with the cards
That I got with a deal
Like this I must insist
That a girl’s got more to do
Than be the way you think a woman should
I’m taking it into my own hands
In this man’s land I can understand
Why I’m taking command
Had enough of stuff
And now it’s time to think about me, me yeah

And you can easily gamble your life away
Second after second
And day by day
You play the game or you walk away
Its a new turn on a blue day
And a cool deal of life for me
And it’s all good

...

I’ve always played it safe, nothing’s ever safe
Give me the courage to back my own convictions
Every decision I make I pay it back and more
Now turn the cards and let them fall to me
Cos I don’t need to play on with the hand that they have given me
I’ll give it back cos it’s not the way it has to be

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