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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Hiya, I know it's been ages since I last blogged. Oh well, the busyness of this 'holiday', or should I say holidays don't even exist in this little country called Singapore? How true... I've been waking up every friggin' (sorry misao, u kept saying that, so it got stuck in my mind) morning to go to school... work attachment... CO practices... blah blah blah... Hmm, the only few days of enjoyment I had was when I went to watch a movie with my sis and those long hours spent in Kinokuniya last Sunday (my mum had to drag me out of the bookstore to have dinner). How I wish I could camp in that bookstore overnight. Now, that would be heavenly... Unfortunately, I only bought two books, due to shorten of cash. Seriously, books at Kinokuniya costs a bomb. Those two books I've bought already cost me $36.

Anyway, I went to the library two days ago and borrowed two books by Jude Deveraux. I've finished reading both books yesterday and I almost wanted to run back to Kinokuniya so I could purchase my own copies. It's great!

The Junior Orchestra concert is drawing so near I'm getting more and more worried for the Sec 1s. And to think that our concert preparation last year consisted of those 10- hours-long practices... But it was worth it I guess... Yeap... I really don't know what would happen on that night of the concert... Hope that all would turn out well. CO camp is tomorrow, but I'm not attending it coz I'm leaving for London tomorrow morning.

What's more, I haven't completed the humongous piles of homework our teachers had so 'graciously' buried us in for the holidays. Which reminds me, I'd better do my biology quizes by today.

By the way, I haven't had time to post my experiences at the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) for my work attachment. Well to summarize it, I mostly did admin work: filing, photocopying, faxing, calling up companies, fold letters and put them into envelopes, data entry and so on, you get the main idea. But the best part was, after my lunch, I would go to the Day Activity Centre (DAC) and interact with the people there, who have physical disabilities and some have low IQ.

At first it really felt awkward and I didn't know what to do after saying 'hi'. Then Kelvin, my first friend, started talking and slowly, I warmed up to them. He is blind in one eye, has a maimed hand and partial memory loss due to an accident which occured in his army days. And because of him, I got to know many other people like Eddie, Seoh Hui, Kevin, Kok Wei, Bernard and so on. They do very basic things there like colouring, pasting stickers, drawing, well mostly art and craft. Some can't even talk, and some mutter gibberish you can never understand, and that's why it was kinda hard to communicate with them. And when it was time for their lunch, I get to help them push their wheelchairs to the canteen and one my first day, I fed this guy, and if I remembered correctly, his name is Chee Chong. He's kinda hard to feed coz he's restless. Anyway, my 5 days there had been really great and as I visit the DAC more often, the beneficiaries could recognize me and have warmed up to me as well. Oh, and did I forget to mention that the youngest there is about 20 years old. The people at the admin office are really friendly too. Like Annie, Alice, Angela and Katherine. I gained lots of experience there and had my share of fun. Oh, and I also made another friend called Jovin, he's representing Singapore in sailing and is leaving for Athens (is this how u spell it?) soon. He had spiked hair and a pair of sunglasses hung from a chain on his neck. He looked every bit like a normal person till you see his wheelchair.

Last wednesday, I returned to the SPD to return my donation ticket stubs with Dan and Li Zhen. I brought them to the DAC and introduced them to everyone. I'm glad they still remembered me. During lunch, Seoh Hui asked if I was coming back tomorrow. I was surprised, but I couldn't make it the next day. They were gonna make rice dumplings today and I regret not being able to stay longer for I had tuition later on. When I bade farwell to them, Seoh Hui grabbed my shirt and said "Stay here". Okay, I was shocked into silence. After I regained my speech, I got my shirt out of her hands and told her I had to go home for tuition. Li Zhen seem to like that place a lot, like me. I hope I'll have the time to go back there again. It's really far away from my house.

Oh, and I've decided not to waste my energy being mad at a person who badmouthed me when he has no rights to. He doesn't even KNOW me... and has NEVER TALKED to me before... Ahh... I better stop before I get mad and start cursing that certain someone.

Oh well, it's been a looong post and I'd better go pack my luggage now. Cyax. Oh, I forgot to mention... I'm so in love in Ross Roy!!! It's so nice!

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge.
-Napoleon Hill

Y o u r N a m e _ b l o g g e d _ @ 11:52 AM |

Saturday, June 05, 2004

Hiya, it's been some time since I blogged. This holiday is insanely hectic for me and probably for many other people as well. I've got like loads of CO practices a few times every single week for the least of 3 hours and a maximum of about 9 hours. Like about yesterday, I was conducting my section and I about vomited a sea of blood. Sighx... so frustrating. I shall not go into details.

There's gonna be a Junior Orchestra concert in July. It's called "Moonlight Rhapsody". Gee, their concert name is so much nicer than our... "Musical Epoch" last year. I think it's really kind of crazy for them to hold a concert for the sec 1s. They haven't even got their basics right! And we keep having to throw new scores at them to make them practise. Being SL is so... how to describe? I'm literally going nuts. That time Xue Fang told me lunch at 1pm and told me to announce at everyone, they like wanna throw rotten eggs at me... Shouts of protests and groans could be heard. My section is like so hard to control. It really isn't easy controlling 22 people. Sometimes ask the seniors to teach the juniors, they also don't wanna teach. Then Xin Yi and I had to walk about helping each junior and making sure everything is okay. Tiring.

It's getting real late now, I should go to sleep. I'm really tired nowadays. Mentally and physically.

You learn to love not by finding the perfect someone, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Y o u r N a m e _ b l o g g e d _ @ 11:29 PM |