{"id":1194,"date":"2013-03-01T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1194"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:07:56","slug":"a-sorry-letter-to-a-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1194","title":{"rendered":"A sorry letter to a rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dear Rubber,<br \/>\u00a0 Do you still remember me?\u00a0 Six years has passed, and I still can\u2019t forget you.<br \/>\u00a0 You were the best rubber I had ever had.\u00a0 In primary three, you erased every dirty mark from my homework, dictations, tests and exams perfectly.\u00a0 I thought you would stay with me until primary four, primary five\u2026<br \/>\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t left you at school carelessly that day, it would have come true.<br \/>\u00a0 Everything changed when the nasty boy Bobby Ho discovered you in my desk\u2019s drawer and put you into his pocket.\u00a0 You should know I was really worried about you.\u00a0 The next day I searched the classroom whenever I had a chance.\u00a0 Of course, I didn\u2019t see you anywhere.<br \/>\u00a0 Then I found Bobby Ho showing off his \u2018new rubber\u2019.\u00a0 Just a glance and I knew it was you.\u00a0 I went straight to him and asked him to return you to me.\u00a0 \u201cNo, this is MY rubber.\u201d\u00a0 He said with his dreadful smile hanging on his face, and he held you in front of my eyes.\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 How brilliant!\u00a0 The horrible child wrote his Chinese name, English name, nickname, signature and lots of silly codes on all six sides of your tender, white body.\u00a0 Dirty Bobby Ho\u2019s dirty handwriting covered you up.<br \/>\u00a0 Are those ugly marks still there?\u00a0 Did they hurt?\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t think about this at that moment.\u00a0 I was totally shocked by that scene.\u00a0 Bobby Ho and his friends laughed.<br \/>\u00a0 If I had reported the case to Miss Chan at once, you would have gotten back to my pencil box.\u00a0 But no, I was too angry and disgusted.\u00a0 You heard my reply, right? \u201cWhat a talented thief!\u201d\u00a0 And that was all I had done.\u00a0 I turned around and left you forever.<br \/>\u00a0 I regret doing this.\u00a0 It was my own fault; you were never the one to blame.\u00a0 Why did I hand you to that devil?\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t I try to take you back?\u00a0 If I had given him a punch on the nose and grabbed you away from his hand, things wouldn\u2019t have been so frustrating. <br \/>\u00a0 Please blame me, rubber#4.\u00a0 I am really really sorry.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t ever met you since that incident.\u00a0 Bobby Ho and I were in different classes, when we went up to primary four.\u00a0 I missed you very much.\u00a0 How are you now?\u00a0 Did Bobby Ho treat you well?\u00a0 Wish you have a fine life, and again, give you my most sincere apology from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yours,<br \/>Ching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dear Rubber\u00a0 Do you still remember me?\u00a0 Six years has passed, and I still can\u2019t forget you.\u00a0 You were the best rubber I had ever had.\u00a0 In primary three, you erased every dirty mark from my homework, dictations, tests and exams perfectly.\u00a0 I thought you would stay with me until primary four, primar.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1194\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-34"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}