Confessions of an Idllyic Mind

You might find it strange because Amanda Liew and total silence/not making noise at all does NOT go together. I'm just the kinda person that just wont shut up. I have decided to not speak at all or to IM at all for 40 hours starting on Friday - 8pm till Sunday - 12 pm.

"Has she nothing better to do" did i hear you say? It's all for a worthy cause i assure you. My church - Zion Praise Harvest has just participated in a World Vision Australia programme called the 40 Hour Famine. Click on the blue words for more information. I dont know how to explain this but there are several ways in which you can partipate. When you sign up, you'll be given a booklet with some forms in it and receipt as well. Will have to fill in the particulars of the person donating to this cause and they will be given a receipt as well. So you can either,

1) Go without FOOD for 40 hrs - The children in places like East Timor, Mozambigue, Tanzania and Zambia go without food for more than 40 hours sometimes.

2) Go without TECHNOLOGY for 40 hrs - Needless to say most of them have not even heard of what the Internet is, what a computer looks like or will ever get the chance to lay hands on PS 2 controller.

3) Go without FURNITURE for 40 hrs - The only furniture that most of them have is probably a worn and tattered piece of mat on the barren ground.

4) Or come up with something creative

Therefore I have decided to go without TALKING for 40 hrs. Cant go without food because of the recent return of my gastritis, tech cannot cause of my darn assignments and furniture needless to say cannot. I know it may not sound reasonable or even worthwhile at all by going without words. But i've read the Blender forum and someone said something that made sense to my seemingly worthless mission. When a child has gone without food for more than 20 hours, and is so weak he/she can barely walk, will he/she go on chattering about how hungry he/she is? At some point you get so weak you wont even have the strength to utter a word.

I'm the kind of person that if given the right circumstances and the right person to talk to can go ON talking for 40 hrs. And i hope to correct my habit in the process. I tend to get very critical of a person or something if i feel that does not suit my taste. This is a better phrase for my existing condition. The not so good phrase is AKA Bad Mouthing.

I'm not gonna go on explaining that what i'm doing is going to be a reflective exercise of cleansing my inner spirit and give me a renewed attitude to ... la di da di da ... All I want to do is to help raise money for those children and their families and I want to see that the children get fed and are able to do what children are suppose to do everyday. They should be running wild and playing around and annoying their parents., not going into the fields to look for food, not going up to some mud infested waters for water supply, not having to watch their siblings die from malnutrition and starvation.

I hope there are people out there that supports my course of action. Wont be blogging for awhile now. Gotta go raise some money!

Toorah'