The Agronomist

Eng called me out of the blue asking whether I want to catch a movie. I said yes cause I had spend half a day fixing my tv box up to a point that it is usable. So I meet up with her at the fed square info centre. She was 5 mins late.
The movie was actually a documentary about a democracy in Haiti, and not about some outer space movie like what she had told me earlier. It turned out to be quite an interesting movie mainly about a guy called Jean Claude Dominique, who run a radio station in Haiti through out the political struggle in the country, being exiled twice to US.
He supported a priest cum president who he thought would bring peace & uphold the democracy for the people. But in the end he was assasinated right in front of his radio station.

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Exchange Student

I was in some sort of exchange student program with a bunch of friends. We are there for some sort of aid program.
Destination was Korea. The place was in a remote area. Before we start doing anything the students happened to start a protest action. So to blend in all the exchange student are going to join the protest as well. There are alot of student who went to protest.
But because we are exchange student, the teacher didn’t allow us to go straight away but gather us around and then asking us one by one, whether we really want to do this, because we don’t have to involved in local affair. When my turn come to be asked, I answere yes. So she let go of me and we join the line of student who are going to the rendezvous location.
We had to skirmish around jump over high fences and up through a broken fences, half sommersaulting. Then it come to a point where we had to half jump and pull our self up to the roof of the building. Because of the heavy use of the emergency ladder and rope. It was worn out and the rest of us can’t get up to the roof of the building and we are stuck. So we gather around trying to figure out some solution to our current situation.

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