I said some time ago that my family was screwed up.

However, after seeing a show on TV, I changed my mind.

There's this show on channel 8, it's called Life Transformers in english, ??? in chinese. =D It airs from 8pm-9pm on Monday. Heard of it before? o.0

Anyways, in this show those mediacorp celebrities go around helping those poor, needy people... and they usually end up doing stuff like giving their houses a makeover, and basically just helping them in any way they can.

Whether the people really benefit from this show I don't know, but after watching these families and sometimes how poor they are financially, I start to realise that I'm not so screwed after all.

Although my father can go crazy sometimes, at least I have a decent place to live in... atleast I have a good computer to post on, at least I have a wonderful broadband internet to use... at least I have parents who care about me... at least I'm healthy and strong... after seeing the plight of others, I realised that all these things are really PRIVELEDGES.

However, come to think of it, there are different definitions of a screwed up family. A family can be quite well-off but not happy, a family can be poor but happy. It's all very subjective, it's all very relative. There's no fixed definition to 'screwed up'... it's all up to you to determine what is screwed and what isn't.

It's all this indefinity (if there's such a word! ;p) that made me decide on one thing: It's time to throw 'screwed up' out of the window.

Why should I pity myself by saying something like 'Ohh, my father is bad, so my family is SOOO screwed?' Why not put away the past and stop focusing on 'screwed up', but MOVE ON instead, so that slowly, we will become a more united family?
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"A family that eats together stays together"

"A loving family has God in the center of their lives"

Just some of the many quotable quotes from The Journal. It may not be like 100% accurate, but essentially, the above are just a few of the take home points from this very powerful drama. Everytime I hear the narrative in my head I feel touched... even though I watched this drama a few weeks ago. I think I'll never ever forget the lessons I learned from The Journal. It's just too powerful to forget. =D

And of course, it was a 100 times better and more meaningful than the Dramafest play. Not saying that Dramafest was bad, however. ;p

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