when i can handle rejections.
and when disappointments do not translate into depression.
thank you mum and dad for your concerns =)
Friday, April 11, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Little Acts of Kindness
little acts of kindness like these make my day =)
today i came back to my room to find my rubbish bin cleared, my carpet vacuumed,and my sink scrubbed to sparkly cleanness! the bedder must have come by for the termly cleaning. sometimes i am envious of friends whose college still has the full bedder service, i.e. the bedder comes by to vacuum your floor, scrub your sink, change your sheets (!) and clear your bin, at least on a weekly basis. contrast this to magd bedders who only clear my bin if i put it out in the morning.
it's not that i am lazy or that i have been living in a mess before the bedder came by today; it's just this nice feeling of being taken care of that i miss, especially when work is stressing me out and i am missing home.
well to be fair, magd has quite good supporting service.in the last lent term, my personal desk lamp stopped working one day. the replacement bulb-S i bought from sains all wouldn't make it work again. so i went to the clerk of works to see if he would be willing to help me. you see, the lamp is my own, not a college property, and it is a different kind from the ones that the college provides, so the clerk of works really has all the reasons for not helping. but he did =) on the expense of his television! he found that the fuse of my lamp was broken. he didn't have a spare one at that moment so he took the one from his tv to fit into my lamp! i was so touched!
and there is also the computing office and bob the handyman. the last time my laptop broke down, the guy from the computing office spent hours to find out what's wrong with it. he then gave me advice on how to get it repaired. then bob the handyman helped me searched the stores for a suitably sized box fot mailing my laptop to the manufacturer.
such little acts of kindness are especially cherishable in times of distressed =)
people in general like being taken care of =)
today i came back to my room to find my rubbish bin cleared, my carpet vacuumed,and my sink scrubbed to sparkly cleanness! the bedder must have come by for the termly cleaning. sometimes i am envious of friends whose college still has the full bedder service, i.e. the bedder comes by to vacuum your floor, scrub your sink, change your sheets (!) and clear your bin, at least on a weekly basis. contrast this to magd bedders who only clear my bin if i put it out in the morning.
it's not that i am lazy or that i have been living in a mess before the bedder came by today; it's just this nice feeling of being taken care of that i miss, especially when work is stressing me out and i am missing home.
well to be fair, magd has quite good supporting service.in the last lent term, my personal desk lamp stopped working one day. the replacement bulb-S i bought from sains all wouldn't make it work again. so i went to the clerk of works to see if he would be willing to help me. you see, the lamp is my own, not a college property, and it is a different kind from the ones that the college provides, so the clerk of works really has all the reasons for not helping. but he did =) on the expense of his television! he found that the fuse of my lamp was broken. he didn't have a spare one at that moment so he took the one from his tv to fit into my lamp! i was so touched!
and there is also the computing office and bob the handyman. the last time my laptop broke down, the guy from the computing office spent hours to find out what's wrong with it. he then gave me advice on how to get it repaired. then bob the handyman helped me searched the stores for a suitably sized box fot mailing my laptop to the manufacturer.
such little acts of kindness are especially cherishable in times of distressed =)
people in general like being taken care of =)
