Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse

did this scared you? read on abt heartless pple and pray you don't know such pple.

My name is Sarah
I am but three,
my eyes are swollen
I cannot see.
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I must be stupid,
I must be bad,
what else could have made
my daddy so mad?

I wish I were better,
I wish I weren't ugly,
then maybe my Mommy
would still want to hug me.

I can't speak at all,
I can't do a wrong
or else I'm locked up
all the day long.

When I awake I'm all alone
the house is dark
my folks aren't home.

When my Mommy does come
I'll try and be nice,
so maybe I'll get just
one whipping tonight.

Don't make a sound!
I just heard a car
my daddy is back
from Charlie's Bar.

I hear him curse
my name he calls
I press myself
against the wall..
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I try and hide
from his evil eyes
I'm so afraid now
I'm starting to cry.

He finds me weeping
he shouts ugly words,
he says its my fault
that he suffers at work.

He slaps me and hits me
and yells at me more,
I finally get free
and I run for the door.

He's already locked it
and I start to bawl,
he takes me and throws me
against the hard wall.
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I fall to the floor
with my bones nearly broken,
and my daddy continues
with more bad words spoken.

'I'm sorry!' I scream
but its now much too late
his face has been twisted
into unimaginable hate.

The hurt and the pain
again and again
oh please God, have mercy!
oh please let it end!

And he finally stops
and heads for the door,
while I lay there motionless
sprawled on the floor.

My name is Sarah
and I am but three,
tonight my daddy
murdered me.

There are thousands of kids out there just like Sarah. And you can help

It sickens me to my soul, and if you just read this and don't pass it on I
pray for your forgiveness, because you would have to be one heartless
person to not be affected by this email. And because you are affected, do
something about it!! So all I am asking you to do is take some time to
send this on and acknowledge that this stuff does happen, and that people
like her dad do live in our society , and pray for child abuse to wither
out and die, but also pray for the safety of our youth.

Please pass this poem on as a Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse because, as
crazy as it might sound, it might just indirectly change a life.



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*~*~*AGAINST CHILD ABUSE*~*~






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Cheer Concert 4 Apil 2009

(12/07/2009)

Although 4 April was like quite some time ago from today, I really really need to blog about this Cheer Chen Concert we went to....

Cause this was like the first time we bought such expensive tickets for concerts ($150~~~!) for non-siao-onz concert goers like us, such a pricing really burnt our pocket. Nevertheless, for Cheer, its definitely worthed it.

Concert was called "The Immortal" which actually was for her new album "Sun" though I'm not sure why it was translated that way.

I must admit it again, the Cheer fans cohort in Singapore is very small compared to Taiwan where Cheer was hot stuff and they called her 老师 (teacher) though I'm not sure whether its due to her talent in music or the way she puts different views of life, love and friends into words. Quite sad that a lot of people in Singapore goes for commercial songs that they can understand directly from the lyrics. Yes, I do admit that it takes some thinking to understand Cheer's songs.

This was the quietest concert I've ever been to ... at least the starting. With Cheer performing her gigs with a little more than her usual no frills style. With masks, 伸降台... she looked a bit uneasy and her fans including us were just sitting there quietly listening to her singing and of course mesmerized by the visual displays that changes according to the songs performed.

The audiences started to high when one of her older songs "Self" came on. This is one of my favourite songs and I can keep repeating this song when I travel from West to the East without getting bored. In fect I have to keep from singing out loud.

幾次悔過掩埋狂妄的惡魔感覺卻好像毀棄善良的自我幾次脆弱掩飾不甘的示弱這就是我 再說我也不特別渴求永久其實我也無法忠於單一感受靜止了 沉溺了無聲的滅絕 暈眩

She seems more of herself and at ease on stage when she finally shed her heavy dress and mask gimmick. I simply love it when she sings with just a guitar. When she sang this song 嫉妒I felt as if there was no one else there with me except for her. She is my "女神" .. as long as she sings, I don't mind sitting there for hours listening. I'm sure most of her fans felt that way too.

I will only cry when 2 persons sing. One is Fish Leong and the other is of course Cheer Chen. Especially when she sang this 失敗者的飛翔 and many many other songs like 嫉妒。。会不会。。。距离。。。鱼 .

In the middle of the concert, we were all damn high and stood on the (shaking) chairs when she appeared on motorcycle and her signature helmet, crane, mingle with the audiences and use guitar hero to introduce her band....

We had wanted to go to her Taiwan concert this year January and one more in November but of course not quite possible due to money and we weren't able to get the tic. (Tix sold out within 1 week from start of sales!!!)

This had become our dream and we really hoped someday it will come true ... accompanying with a trip to Kenting, Kaohsiung in Taiwan which was the home town of Cheer Chen and contained the beautiful beach that we all wished to visit...

Health Vs Money

With prices of everything going up, our health kept going downhill. In addition to the falling cleanliness of air and water, the increasing level of stress affects our health too. In fact, human beings are so vulnerable, a whole lot of factors could affect us, even a tiny bacteria could wreck havoc to us.

Bird flu, Swine flu, SARS and any other illnesses that came suddenly with little warning. This tells us that Health needs to be monitored. But health is usually the one to be neglected when it comes to reducing cost and effort. Hence more advanced and cheap packages like Ameriplan for Dental and Ameriplan for Health are required. Packages that includes most of the common check ups and tests would be the best to enable people to monitor their health sufficiently without bursting their wallet. I planned to go for such a package as an annual check up on my health as well as my husband's health. Its better to know early than late. Its better to do something now than never.