I first signed up to be a blogger in 2008. The very first blogged sentences I wrote was "I can hardly believe I got myself a blog. Ain't this WOW? hehehe... " The blog WAS www.panha-konkhmer.blogspot.com. I was kinda excited for me at first to have a blog of my own...But hey, why WAS? It's because the blog has been removed already. It has been too long for me to write something else on it. The reasons were laziness and lack of motivation. I told myself that I would try to blog, but I never did because after the rush of excitement, I thought that blogging was just a waste of time and that it wouldn't do me any good or change the world in any way, so I stopped.
A year had passed, and still, I didn't buy the idea of "blogging" UNTIL...
On Saturday night, November 28, 2009, I was supposed to be reading something for my literature review of my thesis, but I kept myself busy with my one-hour-or-so dinner just to watch TV. I was channel-hopping around 66 channels on my TV until I was fed up with it having nothing interesting to watch, so I grabbed my towel, wanting to have a shower and then sleep, pretending to forget my reading since it was around 9:30pm already. A second after wrapping my half-down with the towel, stripping my night pants off, my brother accidentally turned on CNN. There it was CNN's Heroes: All-Star Tribute. The very first candidate I saw was a Filipino guy named Efren Penaflorida. He was nominated because he was bringing education to poor kids in a slum area by having books and other learning material put in carts and teaching them English, or something else (I didn't really care about that).
To others, it was just a so-so charity act, nothing dramatic, but for me, OMG, it was overwhelming. My eyes leaked just by seeing the kids he taught smiled and laughed and had fun being educated. I know for sure that it was because I personally have strong compassion for kids. It was an absolutely touching sight...I cried, happy and promising tears.
At the end of the program, the name of the CNN Hero of year was announced, and it was him, Efren. He went up on the stage, holding the trophy and a miniature of the cart he used for storing learning materials for the kids. He wept and said, "Be the change of your dream... Unleash the hero within...You can do it."
From that moment on, I determined to do something to achieve my long-though vision which is "Children being educated and enjoying their rights."
Here I am, writing this post, believing and doing, not just trying.
Oops, the librarian is kicking people out. I'd better go now.
More later...
