Its me again! =]=] Guess why am i here to post an entry since there is no session this week? haha. Alrite , our fellow CCA mate ( jolene ) is leaving spore for further studies. We planned a simple outing for her and bought her a bear =] . I guess most of us didnt get a chance to know her better. Personally i feel that she is a sweet and loving girl. ( smile ) . I wish her all the best for her future =] . I was actually the organiser for both the KTV and Steamboat. It wasnt easy to organise this outing but i hope everyone had fun on that day =]
here are some pictures at KTV =]
Hui min dun hide.. haha
Fred is so focus!!! haha.. Hui mIn ( cheeze!!! )
LOlx.. yong ting!! always anyhow choose songs!!! end up not singing =X
desmond and fred singinG! Was it " peng you" haha..
me and desmond singinG!! =]=].JPG)
Hmm.. never stared so hard at a screen b4.. i cant read a lot of chinese words.. =[
hmm.. fred emo-ing ?? =P
Fred solo!! hehe.. nice =]
our li sheng jie!
its me.. solo! haha.. shld sound bad! haha
"wen lan" and my dear jolene ( our special guest! ) haha
Singing with LI SHeng jie is quite of stressful.. =X
well, i guess i will need to stop posting KTV pics though there are still a few of them ... i am impressed by the number of pictures which jolene had taken for us.....
Here's the pic taken during steamboat and after steamboat! hehe...
new faces! Dr chua , SKY and kian Boon joined us later =] .. ah
V for victory!! i gt double victory! haha..
yeah!! me & jolene.. hehe..( hui min said i gt BIG EYES ) haha
hmm.. i am just too tired to smile! haha
Yep.. i guess that's all i will upload =] . I hope that everyone had load of fun yesterday! CHeers.. HAppy new year to everyone!! miss u guyz...
liwan
Desmond msned me asking if I wanna help out with the swimming event. My first reaction: sian. Seriously, I am on the verge of rejecting him but then a kind-hearted soul like me couldn’t resist the temptation to concur. I am kidding. That day for us is pretty slack because prior planning was done efficiently and so everything was done in a snap. We had to catapult ourselves out of bed early in the morning, transferred those life jackets we borrowed to the minibus from my room. Everything was done pretty fast and we headed to Ngee Ann Poly. Initially, we kinda lost our way in NP as we couldn’t really find the swimming pool. Riddled by our stupidities, the way to the swimming pool was just a turn right from the entrance. Luckily, we were on time or should I say, the boys were late. The whole event went pretty smoothly and the boys were very well-behaved. The “life-saving” portion was quite brief and desmond said that boys have very little attention span so they need to make the session short. The boys learnt different life saving techniques such as wade rescue, pole rescue, etc etc. What was the most interesting part of the whole event was the telematch. They have the dog and bone game and I could see the enthusiasm in the boys(even though we were at the sides, chilling). While the boys were having fun, we practically have nothing to do but to talk cock sing song. We were bored to the extent that we were discussing what I was going to write in this particular entry. The event ended at around 12pm and I have this malicious thought of leaving straight from NP but then again, as I mentioned before I am a kind soul. So, we headed back to NTU to return those life jackets and we went off from there.
Peng Wen
Since hes such a kind soul i guess we should be able to expect him be to present in all future events as well and maybe writing more blog posts as well :p
Desmond
hmmm, shall skip what happened in the morning =X
Yup, we headed to the boys' hostel earlier yesterday. I must say that i really had a fun time =]=] . Initially i didnt know how to interact with them. I was very shy. I simply have no topics to talk to them. So i started playing " soccer" with the boys using COINS. It was fun! at least i feel happy that the boys laughed and enjoyed themselves. I was the judge! Kind of scared ya because i was a bit biased towards one of the boys. I really enjoyed playing with 4-5 of them. After that i decided to move to the next table. That was when i felt so rewarded. =X haha. Yup, chatted with one of the boys. I asked him about studies. Well, i would say that he knows what he want! i guess this is really important. He told me what he is lagging of now and then, for e.g. commitment etc. Well, i started sharing with him my thoughts. I told him that he is really halfway there to achieve his dream because he could actually tell me what he wants in future. I felt that it was quite silly when one knew that what had gone wrong and not correcting it! I asked him why he didnt try to correct it. Well, i got an answer from him which i guessed correctly also. well, in my previous post i mentioned on "external force" , i guess this is where it can put to use =] .
feel disappointed that yesterday was the last session for this year =[=[=[ . SAD
i really look forward to the next session . I cant wait for that day to come. YEAH! I hope some of them will still remember me =X
liwan
my life is now worthwhile.........................
Haha..so today there's like the three old birds a.k.a desmond, fred & hui min, and me =.= So we were like waiting for the latecomers outside the hostel, then desmond was like telling me that this was like going to be one of the few times that we came to the hostel before sun sets.
So, today was really different from the past two times i came to the hostel. The first time was a game session, second was a briefing and this, was really a eye opener. It's like, wow, I don't have to do anything. LoL. Just sat back and enjoyed the show. This Christmas celebration was actually a talentshow. So, they did like hmm, basketball shuffling, shuffle dance, magic show and song performance. Even the other volunteers also got a special christmas carolling item. As usual, hui min forgot to bring her laughter-suppressant medicine... we were singing christmas songs then got a part glooOooOOooOOooo...ria in excelsis deo. I thought nothing wrong with the song wad, why is she laughing? Turns out the boys at the back was making the oOOooOOoOoo that amused her. Haha.
But besides all that, the director said something that was really important today. That is, everyone has a hidden talent. They need opportunities to exhibit and develop that talent and this christmas celebration really showed me quite a bit. And that, being admitted into the hostel, doesnt mean it's hopeless to change. We, as volunteers can make the hostel a better place, a place full of hope.
Image of the card made by the boys for us
gloria in excelsis deo,
yongthieng
Why voluteerism?? Why Youth? i was posted with these questions most of the time when people asked me what CCA i planned to join in NTU. Well, even the interviewer ask me these questions. I was asked again yesterday by one of the POs. I was quite afraid to answer because he might think that i am just being naive.
My answer was " i hope to inspire and motivate the boys . On top of that i strongly believe that they are not as bad as we thought ......"
well, yesterday was like a sharing session. Yes, inspiring and motivating them is rather challenging but i strongly believe that they need the so called " external force" to push them or stay with them =]. I just want to be the "external force" to help them along their way. Well, some of them might have lost the "inner force" they used to have due to low self esteem hence i hope that the "external force" can compensate it . The " external force" will slowly help to build the "inner force" because the "external force" will have to leave one day. ( ARE YOU ALL LOST ALREADY?) i am not sure if i am right but that has always been my mindset.
I felt kind of irritated or disappointed when the PO told us that some of the boys were being despised or detested by the teachers in school. I felt that the teachers should provide these boys with the "external force" rather than pouring cold water on them. Yes i know , the teachers feel that the boys are not interested to learn but have they gone in depth to learn what is going on? Are the teachers willing to guide , motivate them? They were probably say " i have too many students and work to do " I guess i cant blame them too. Perhaps , i have an ideal picture of how a teacher should be like so i tend to grumble... ( haha)
Well, i am looking foward to thursday not because of the suppers etc but really to interact with the boys. Perhaps , initially i would be a bit shy, but certainly i believe as time flies, things will be better. =]=]
Okays, i shall stop here =] . Sometimes i wonder how many of you would visit this website . haha
LIWAN
the greatest happiness in life is to love and be loved
