Thankful for what I have...

Once again, it's the month of December. Christmas is just round the corner and I'm having a hard time keeping up with it. As each year passes by, it seems as though time gets faster and faster. It seems like the year 2007 was just starting and now its the end of 2007 and we're going to be ushering in 2008. Where has all the time gone?

On another note, I just returned from the Philippines yesterday, or early this morning, to be more precise. I went there on a mission trip to conduct a youth camp for the kids there. I am really glad I went on this trip. You can never fully understand the good life we have here in Singapore till you've visited a country where there is so much poverty. It was really an eye opener. When I mean poor people, I mean really, really poor. Poor as in, no clothes, no food, a family of 7 live in a space which is the same size of a standard HDB Flat toilet. These people are that poor. There is even a village where people live that we call "Smokey Mountain". This place is actually a rubbish dump. When I went to visit some of the houses there, the smell of the place is enough to make many Singaporeans faint on the spot. The smell of rotting food, dead animals, mud, shit, urine, the smell of thousands of people who have not bathed in like weeks, soiled clothes and many other horrible smells. These people build a small wooden hut no bigger than the toilet over the all the rubbish and they live there. It is so sad. It really makes you think. Here we in Singapore complain everyday about everything. Food not nice. Clothes not branded. Drive expensive cars. Live in big condos. Want to work in high paying jobs only. It has really changed my outlook towards life. Below are some pictures of my trip.