...appraisal...

...appraisal day. story from chuah...

once there were 2 oysters sitting on the bed of the sea. these 2 oysters were friends and good neighbours. one fine morning, one of the oyster woke up and open his clams wide and big and feeling happy and cheerful. feeling energetic and joyous, he then woke the other oyster up. screaming his lungs (as if got lungs ler) out with good morning. but his neighbour sort of like feeling miserable and tired and down said to his good friend that his body was aching and painful. his cheerful and joyous friend seeing his neighbour in pain and suffering couldn't do much to help at all. then, a crab (don't ask me why a crab) walked pass and saw the aching oyster in pain and seems to be suffering.

the cheerful oyster then ask the crab what is going on with his good friend. then the crab said that, the oyster is suffering because he is cultivating a pearl inside him. somehow someway a little stone went into the oyster and because of that, he is suffering high and low now because the alien stone is going through some processes that will eventually turn it into a pearl.

chuah's version of the moral ::

we need to suffer and be in pain first before we can enjoy the fruit of it. pain and suffering is part and parcel of life (hmm, chuah so buddhist...basic buddhism). we need to learn how to deal with it and eventually the pain will be gone and we will see the positive results of it.

my version (partly chuah's version too. add on) ::

olden days yes. its by chance that the silly stone got into the oyster in which eventually it became a pearl thru some heartache processes. these days, ppl purposely put an alien into the oyster to cultivate pearl. i see it as, we need a mentor to guide us and lead us the way. the mentor picks us. alot of things is not by pure luck anymore. we need to lay alot of groundwork to make things happen for us. don't underestimate the power of the mentor. alex gave me a very interesting topic to think it over. choose your mentor properly. and learn from them. but more importantly is how we can be a good mentee. are we a good mentee? alex words truly rings the bell ALL THE TIME.

(well my version don't really jive with the story. its just that alex just only talked to me and somehow its still fresh in my memory and just relate to it and i think its a great to have met up with alex that morning)

...my appraisal the oyster story...