back from my macau trip with 900 over photos in just 5 days =DD haha!! we are the camwhore family! =p



macau trip was like an adventure with the loss of our luggage when we first set foot at macau! this got my mum so worried! hahaha! but no worries, we found it back eventually with the help of the airport staff =) soon after we left the airport, we got cheated by some random ah peh telling us there isnt shuttle bus from the airport to our hotel WHEN IN FACT THERE IS! ended up, we had to transfer 3 shuttle buses just to get to our hotel from the airport. but it was fun la, hopping up and down shuttle buses, looking at map and asking around. like backpacking like that =) AND their transport system is BAD! too long a story to tell but i would say, it is always better to walk in macau given its small size...and we did walk the entire macau!

this entertainer decided to entertain us with his magic when he saw my sisters and i stoning at a corner in the mall =)

but macau got a little boring when it came to day 4 =/ because we have already walked the entire place, visited all the attractions and sites and whatsoever, eaten/tried all the food...but still, it has been a nice time spent with my family =)

chalet with the babes! =) its the first time i go chalet with only 2 girls! hahaha!! a pity allena and rousi cant join us! but its ok! another time =)

our first night out together =D

lets backtrack a little....

Saturday
helped out at camp mumbo =) and believe it or not, it's my first time sitting on a lorry! HAHA! im such a noob. my entire saturday was just spent at east coast park and at deyi secondary with the kids. THE KIDS WERE SO ADORABLE I FELT LIKE HUGGING THEM. and theres a 3 year old girl who came for the camp as well!! but trust me, the facilitators were worn out baby sitting her. heh. heng im just a helper. go there to play with the kids only.

Sunday
headed to benjamin's house in the morning. played monopoly deal while waiting for the cadets to prepare their food for picnic. and what with the craze over monopoly deal nowadays eh? i see people playing monopoly deal while waiting for train?! omg. hasnt this game been in the market for like very long? anyway, headed to marina barrage for our picnic and kite flying =)

i swear i feel so old when i went back! but it was good in a way because i got to noe more of my little juniors now. AND I SWEAR IM NOT GOING TO BE UNDER THE SUN ANYMORE! so much for wanting to turn dark! tgyc camp got me dark a little! then an entire day spent at east coast during mumbo camp got me darker. THEN, kite flying at marina barrage got me roasted! now im like some aunty who seeks for shelter under the sun =/

monday

behavioural observation session at the family's house today. i would very much want to do something to help their son and i hope they hire me! but a part of me feels scared because im afraid im not up for the role as a therapist. well, lets see how it goes eventually. headed to yew tee at night for work and home sweet home! going out everyday + under the hot sun + slping late at night + waking up early in the morning = FALL SICK =(

today

met up with meijuan to shop around bugis =)

its meet up for the TRIOS! =)) WE HAVE NOT MET FOR 2 FREAKING LONG MONTHS! that seems so longgg! and as a result of that, we talked like we nva talked before...hahah!!

nice meeting up with the TRIOS! hugss!

i cant help but to dig out the past photos when we were still working at stradivarius....reminiscing man...damn, and i think i grew fatter comparing this old photo and the current one =x its time to diet man!

i've already chopped joyce to go run with me! MJ U ARE INVITED TOO!

and i went NEX with my mum today! it wasnt as BIG as what other people said but it was pretty alright la. and its damn funny just now when my daddy and mummy were both trying to make my hair. cox i bought this funny looking don't know call what thing to make my hair and i cant do it on my own!! and im amazed by my dad because he seemed more pro than my mum in making my hair! hahahaha!!

im contemplating whether to run or not =x

run?

don't run?

run?

i know i have gotten over it. but sometimes, i just think back about the past and i ponder. ponder about what i do not know. is just that tinge of....i really don't know how to describe...sadness? bitterness? that things have to end in such a manner? i was looking through past emails and relationship is such a freaky thing. can i have an insurance that will guarantee me that it will last?
- random thoughts, whether u understand me or not just ignore me!

perfect condition to run now. when ur head is all messed up with incoherent thoughts, running is the best solution. GOODBYE!

HAPPY 21ST REGINA! =)

my BFF from primary sch =DDDD i still remember the days when my BFF would send me home after school! cute right! we were only in pri 6 then!!! she is like my bodyguard! haahhaha!! and even up till today, 9 years down the road, she still sends me home!awwwwwwwwwww.....HUGS!

david the TALLLLLL and CLUBBER boy who is a law undergraduate in disguise...haha! he is soooo freaking talll =/

and u must be wondering why regina's 21st has no regina's face in my post eh. thats because she hasnt uploaded her photos and im itching to blog so i'll upload the rest of the photos when they are up!

the overseas call and sms warms my heart. thanks dude! keep them coming! and good luck for ur interview in a few hours time!

TOY STORY 3C has officially came to an end!


group shot!

the committee members!

Shi hui and Si hui =D

me and my assistant facililators =))) CJ and his cranky self =p the lightings make all of us so fair! which is not true ah, IM SUN BURNT!

my buddy during camp =)

my wonderful group =DDD

REFLECTION!
As much as we hope the children would learn from us during the camp, I must say I have learnt a lot from them too. For instance, I learnt to be more patient with myself and with the children, learnt to work with children and most importantly, learnt to deal with conflicts among the children. I must say dealing with conflicts among the children was not an easy feat and thus I would particularly like to thank CJ, Eileen and Zhenyuan. There are times when I am unsure of how to handle my children and I would turn to them for advice. They have been really helpful and have given me the needed guidance.

Also, the camp has given me the opportunity to bring myself down to the level of a child, to look at things from a child’s perspective and to understand how a child thinks and acts. In fact, it makes me ponder a lot. Philosopher John Locke posits the image of a child as ‘tabula rasa’ which means that when a child is born, he is born with nothing akin to a blank piece of paper. It is only through socialisation with surrounding people and environment that a child learns and develops to become who he is. I cannot help but to agree with what John Locke has to say about the importance of nurturing. Even though Toy Story 3C has only been a short 3 days 2 nights camp, I certainly do hope that these children through interacting and socialising with their facilitators and their peers, would picked up some good values and skills that would shape and mould them to become a better person in future.

In particular, I was heartened to see that my group’s children finally managed to take the first step out in overcoming their fear during high elements after all the persuasion and encouragement I gave them. I was really overwhelmed with emotions when I finally see them nod in agreement to try out high elements and yearning for more tries after they have successfully completed the obstacles. This camp has really helped the children by bolstering their level of confidence and self esteem to believe in their selves that they are capable of overcoming challenges set ahead of them. I do hope that this experience would follow through these children and generalise to other challenges in life.

In addition, I was particularly touched at the end of the camp when one of the children looked at me sincerely and said ‘Thanks Dear’. I almost melted. Sometimes we looked at children thinking they are too young to appreciate or understand the things that we have done for them, but I was all wrong. They know and they can sense it.

If you were to ask me whether i would go for such camp again, i gladly say yes =)

and i must say, im no longer that quiet introvert me anymore! ahahha!! looks can be deceiving. nicholas was telling me when he first saw me he went 'die la, how can this girl lead the group of children, she looks so quiet' MUAHAHAH!! but after 1 day, he decided to change his opinion because he said i was way too noisy =p and valerie must have been the first person on this planet to say i cheer damn loud. MUAHAHHA! its interesting to see how ppl perceive you at times. it is through knowing how ppl perceive u that u get to know yourself =)

ITS THE END OF EXAMS!!!! =DDDD its freeeeeedommmmmmm!! and a time for me to revive my blog and update stuff that is long overdue! SO BE PREPARED FOR MY LONGGGGG ENTRY!

dear allena yan has turned 21 on nov 22!! =) and seriously, she made me feel like staying in her house!

a pity i couldnt stay throughout her partty because MS FIONA LEE has turned 21 too!!! but no photos for this part yet...sooo...i just went to dig out one photo from laptop...heh!

Dear nana lee! this is specially dedicated to you because u claimed that we very mei cheng yi because we wrote a corporate message to you instead of writing individual messages...hahahha!!! u very gei gao leh! so here u go... happy 5 years to our friendship and happpppyyyy 21st birthdayyyyyy to uuuuuu!!! a pity i missed the front part of your birthday surprise but im sure you were reallly touched by what trixie, fangyi and weeseng did! but you must NOT FORGET the FAIRIES too because our presence IS VERY IMPORTANT to boost the atmosphere!!! heee! looking forward to more swimming/running/eating/laughing/cooking/baking/kite flying/gossiping/chatting/shopping WITH YOU! HUGSSSSSSSSS! and im going to do some research to find somewhere nice to eat for next tue when u end ur exams! cant wait =) and yes! this is open to all fairies too!!! free next tue not?!!!! we can help nana celebrate end of exams. heh!

next up! happpy 4 years old to my little niece eris =)) she is still as cute as ever and im surprised to find a 4 year old kid uses words like 'hmmm, this is tricky!'

no this is not my niece, is my elder sis...HEH!

next....HAPPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY AH SIAN! =)))

my first visit to tea cosy for dinner! nice ambience =) and to be fair, later u as gei gao as fiona lee, say we write corporate message to you...i shall dedicate a post to u too!

dear ng hui xian! its finally ur turn after 4/5 of the fairies have turned 21 =) happppy 21st birthday to you!! HUGS! even though we have been very much busy with uni, no time to update each other on what we are doing (although some times news spread among the fairies), but still! you know you are still my very great friend! hahaha!! this is so cliche but i find it really apt. its time for a meet up soon ok! don't keep working temp jobs right after exams! must learn to take a breakkkkkkk!

belinda's 21st party!!! happppy 21st birthdayyyyyyyyy!!! =DDD hope you enjoyed ur party =) and ur mummy is really cute...hahahha!!


haha! we all looked so happpy =)

so many things happening within my study break huh! haha! but it was good catching up with each other in the midst of drowning in my notes and books. hee! and the finishing of my sociology paper today, officially marked the end of my exams and marked the end of YEAR 3 SEM 1! omg! i still cant believe im a year 3 student. and im glad i made another friend this sem! someone whom i can just clique with =) haha! you know it when you can clique with someone. its that sense of connectedness! and so i headed to town to find my sis to shop!!! and down to chinatown to meet up with the rest of my family members, visited some tour agencies and did comparisons. seriously i don't mind where we are going, just get me on a plane and take me somewhere! settled for dinner at robertson quay! I SWEAR THE CONDOS THERE ARE OMG! oh man, the penthouse is like wahhh...ok, nvm, i shall not make myself sound like some noob. anyway, dinner was good and the waiter WAS CUTE! hahahh! this thai guy who kept smiling and smiling. very service oriented.

and now i can start planning what to do! im itching to bake somethingggggggggg!

THIS IS DAMN CUTE! babe and i came to sch wearing the same colour top, same colour belt and demin shorts =)) and something in common i notice, our hands looked stiff in the photo. hah!

and that day na was cute too. at the end of the lecture, she went 'give you smth!' and she handed me a packet of orange peels! and it got me laughing. orange peels meant for old ppl to eat one meh? no what.


AND TODAY MARKED THE END OF SEMESTER!!!!! this is damn fast. freaking 12 days to start of exam and i seriously need to start revising.



and i was so busy yesterday i didnt have time for my lunch and dinner! i had lecture from 12 to 2, met up my groupmates to finalise term paper from 2 to 7.30pm and i had to left them in school for dec camp meeting which lasted till 10plus11pm, and finally home near 12am. bathed and edited my group's term paper till 3.30am, somehow i couldnt really slp because i was so stressed with 'i don't know what' i only slept at 4plusam and woke up at 8.30am the next day to edit again! OMG! i think typing out all these is tiring enough.

and to think a usual bus ride from nus to harbourfront took 1HR instead of the usual 20mins. hate peak hr. tsk.

this is such a whiny post. complain too much.

and now! time to start my revision!


my all-time motivator for this sem =) iced white coffee!

i hate what im feeling now.

why do i always find myself being disturbed by this kind of thing? maybe this kind of thing is just not for me.

moooody to the max =( ROARS! I JUST FEEL MOODY =((( i dunlike to see 'Inbox(0)' in my hotmail.

and i don't know why i was so stressed yesterday. i just feel the essay that i've written is crap =/ and final exams are coming and i've yet to prepare. 1 more presentation and 1 more paper to go before i end the sem. boooo! thankfully babe was around and that makes me less stress after talking to her =)

anyway,

volunteer work at botanical gardens was fun despite the scorching sun. and i guess i haven been to botanical gardens for longgggggg, it suddenly seemed sooooo big to me! lectures about autism in school makes me understand the kids more than before. which is good in a way but i really hope one day, there's a cure for it. the food prepared by the parents was a whole lot! i think the whole group of us can survive on those food for 2 - 3 days. haha! sometimes i feel glad that despite these kids having intellectual disabilities etc, they still have a loving family. at least they are not being abandon.

one volunteer was saying he doesnt like to do volunteer work that has no purpose/no objective etc. initially i also thought so. but then i thought abt it again and i felt that what these kids really need, is our presence. sometimes we just play games, have meals with the kids. it may seem meaningless on the surface but our presence is what that allows them to see that they can be integrated into the mainstream, that they are not oddballs in the society. our interactions with the kids also teaches them the proper way to communicate, to interact with other people. our presence is like a practical session for them. sooooo...what that seems meaningless is NOT.

and i seriously think there is a need to remove the stigma in our society. why are ppl staring at these kids like they are monster or smth? one of the caregiver was telling me how a middle aged lady shouted 'molest' when the boy accidentally touches her. oh pls! want to molest also molest someone younger right? and even after the caregiver explained to the lady that the boy has autism, the lady was still so irritated by him.

ok. enough of my random thoughts.

im stillll moodddyyyy after typing a whole chunk of random thoughts. feel like slping but i think im wasting time. i have such a boring life. was telling babe n rousi that i want to pick up some new skills. likeeeeeeeeee dance or smth. AND BABE TOLD ME LEARN WHAT TU FENG WU! =x thanks ah. i cant imagine myself doing that.

BABE'S 21ST BIRTHDAY PARTY at cineleisure preview lounge =D

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY JACLYN SOH!

ST JOHN 24th NCO CAMP - ECHO (our camp group name back then)! hahahaha!!! the echo reunite =) and i met jeremy during candy's 21st, and now i met him again at babe's 21st. all the common friends we shared. heh.

the psychology clique =)

went to MINDS to conduct my experiment and the kids actually still rmb us!! OMG! they are so adorable =DDD and just nice my sis was working on a saturday...and the conversation went as such...

sis: what time u coming over MINDS?
me: meeting my friends at 1.30pm
sis: oh ok, wanna have lunch together?
me: yea..can ah..
sis: but i feel like eating tom yum macaroni...
me: so u asking me to cook from home and bring to ur workplace ah?
sis: hahahha! u noe i only get to eat tom yum macaroni on a saturday and i have to work today (saturday), this is so depressing..
me: okok, i cook then bring to u lo..
sis: =D



HAHAH!! here presenting u my 'FILLED-WITH-LOVE-TOM-YUM-MACARONI' for my sis! ok, it may not look appetising, but its nice ok! my sis was so touched when she saw it! because she WAS KIDDING WITH ME when she said she wanted me to cook lunch for her! -_-'' im such a nice sister, go where to find another me? HAHA! =p