== Tagged by Cindy ==

1) Name the last person you just asked to go out:

Elyn.

2) Name an activity that you wish you're doing right now

Learning.

3) Name 10 people that you are thankful for in this life

One:
A newborn lion cub is a cowardly cat, unsure of itself and afraid of the environment. It will even shiver at the sight of hyenas and tremble at the howling of the wolves. But once the cub comes to the realization that it too, possesses the heart of the lion heart, courage is found. Similarly, man is fundamentally weak. Yet each one of us possesses infinite potential. How do come about this potential and power? Only when we first find a worthy man and then realized that we too can be a true disciple of a great mentor, can be tap this power as a human being. I am thankful for having found my mentor, Dr Daisaku Ikeda.

Two:
I am thankful for my mother. Not merely because she bore me and keep me alive in my childhood years. And it is not just because she showered her love to keep me emotionally stable but because she is a really amazing person. Alone and without much education, she raised three schooling children till each one of them completed their university education.

Three:
I am thankful for my father. His mistakes created a drive within me to succeed in life no matter what.

Four:
I am thankful for my siblings. I grew up with them after all. They affected the way I turn out quite a bit.

Five:
I am thankful for ZJ, a friend who grew up with me in the heartland of Hougang. Only a year older than me, his death before our twentieth birthdays due to an auto-accident roused a demand in my soul to search for answers to life and death. I pored into the teachings of Christianity and Buddhism which were the predominant religions of the people with Chinese ancestry. Those studies provided me with a sound foundation in life philosophy. After the “9-11” incident, I took to studying about Islam too.

Six:
I am thankful for Camy. Although the four years we were together as a couple did not work out in the end, I learnt much about being in a relationship from her.

Seven:
I am thankful for my comrades in the SGI/SSA/SD. There are my comrades! ’nuff said.

Eight:
I am thankful to my wacky colleagues and my lovely students. They make my working life bearable.

Nine:
I am thankful for my NIE gang mainly because I was tagged by one of them.
(The appreciation is real. But the one-liner reason is also real. That is because there are simply too many people I am thankful for and there is no way I can finish listing them all with ten entries. That is why I’m leaving number ten hanging and open-ended.)

Ten:
*wink*

I shall just pass the tag to... anyone who bothers lah..

Showing appreciation is a very humbling process. I don't usually respond to BLAG, but I found this one worth doing.

# posted by Raymond Chng @ 7:14 PM