The promised special day turned out to be excruciatingly miserable for these residents of the Henry Gurney School in Telok Mas here.

I read NST headlines today and it makes me wonder why these kind of things happened...Yes..people make mistake...but they deserve to be forgive and to be love by their families...

Dressed in spanking white overalls and with excitement gleaming on their faces, the 82 boys waited. And waited. And waited.

Out of 82 boys only 2 families turn up...what happen to the rest?..the others were left waiting in despair..they have gone through a lot of things and I am sure the least that the family can do is to come n visit them..by doing that at least they know that they are people who still cares about them..and they will be motivated to become a better person in future..The pain was all the greater because none of them had ever been visited by their families since being sent to the school...Some of the boys have been here for several months, others for up to four years..the families are being informed about it but why dint they turn up?. ..I understand it is not easy for them to accept it and to forgive but there's nothing wrong by opening some space in your heart to someone who are related to U..ur blood-ties.. Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald