Sunday, February 26, 2006
The ever priceless things in life
The night spent at amk mac was indeed a unique experience.Although that wasn't the first time i spent my night out,it was the first spent at mac. We did maths throughout the night. The night was cold and the food were tempting. We survive it and went for bowling on sat. Imagine not sleeping for one night and try concentrating on the game. I went home and slept from 4pm till 5am the next morning,waking up once for dinner. Today we(bowling mates) had to wake up early for the CIP event.It was the Singapore Duathlon(race event consisting of running and cycling).Held at east coast,thus some of us including me had the rare luxury of sleeping more than the others.We had to be there be there by 6.30am.Sky was dark then.Only a handful of us were punctual,the rest were either late or too late that they won't make it in time. We were given roles as the run marshal,they changed our roles a couple fo times,from run marshal to bike marshal to time keeper,finally to help out at the drinks station. It was our first time though. We had encounters such as the public(a Singaporean lady) being very mean to us with the words used when we refused to give her drinks as they were for the runners. A typical trend,those who said thank you, are the non-singaporeans.What's happening to our values system?
We were wet at the end of the day as there were alot of water spillage when the runners grab the cups as they passed by.
It was a frutiful morning indeed.The experience gained and fun we had together was priceless and precious.
I finally realised that ideality and reality are totally opposite. In reality,ideality doesn't exist.However,why do we still want to compare with the ideal suitations? We may hope for the most ideal suitations but it will never exist.
付出的爱收不回 还欠你的我不能给 我才明白爱最真实的滋味 我终于明白
~}Dreaming of you @ {8:16 PM}
Saturday, February 18, 2006
A enjoyable weekend
I'm finally blogging again after about 2 weeks. School was extremely busy for all of us.Tests are coming non-stop and work is stacking higher.Another block test is sneaking in quietly again.Soon...
Beloved CTYesterday we had steamboat with the bowling mates. Didn't join them for the eating part though. Mdm ho treated us to pizza,spaghetti and ice cream for celebration of the success of Value's day stall. The ice cream looks like milk shake when we ate it. It was chun kiat's birthday too.Happy Birthday chun kiat! Felt so guilty as i didn't get anything for him. The class bought him a cake and leonard dedicated the birthday song to him after our maths lecture in front of the whole LT. "romatic" huh? It was really surprising to get a treat from our ct.She's a very nice person in fact. She offered us with her own money just in case we might lost our cost price to the school.(The money is divided in ratio of 3:7 and 7 goes to the sch,therefore we might not get back the cost price). It was really touching in fact. Another incident is when Mr Sim noticed that Mdm Ho actually helps us to keep a look-out while we were playing cards in school.She let us play instead of stopping us and still help us. Nobody actually notices the thing she have done for us.Maybe we should be more sensitive and not take advantage of the help and support she has been giving us. I am really touched and thankful for the things she have done us. SteamboatBack to the steamboat, i sat with my bowling mates and i watched them eat for a least a couple of hours. It was a nice and warm(heat from the steamboat?) gathering too. I learnt another way of holding the chopsticks too.Success rate was quite low in fact. We intended to go for pool, however when we enter the place,we were chased out by a rude and arrogant owner because we wore school pants.(Maybe his business was too good)Despite the fact that we borrowed shirts. We left the place and had no where to go.Some went off and we(shuyan,yilong,me), went to the nearby mac and had a long,interesting and entertaining coversation.That lasted till about 12 plus then we took cabs back.It cost about 18. I reached home feeling dead tired.Today, we have this CIP briefing early in the morning(have to wake up at 7). It was held at this ulu club house within some private property estate. We were given a photocopied map, we could hardly locate the place and ended up walking a big round under the hot sun. Its either the map is not readable or we can't read maps.We had to pass through many private housings before we found the place, reaching there rather late and sweaty. We saw another YJ group at the Mrt station we met,but they(bigger group than us) took cabs and we decided to walk.Maybe we should have done it too. We waited for quite long there as there were some other groups from other schools. We were finally briefed in the small conference room and rushed off.Feeling hungry,we walked all the way to serangoon central for mac.It was another long distance walk under the sun. We sat down and chat for a couple of hours again before leaving for home in a cab. I took 3 hours nap and went out for my dinner and shopped for a while.A enjoyable 2 days for me at least.Wish everyday can be like this without being bugged by homework and tests.Here's a cute pic for all to enjoy.
Look how shy this doggie is!
Just like me huh? Wahahaa
~}Dreaming of you @ {9:45 PM}
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Leadership.
I'm slowly recovering from the post block test traumatism. Yet the stress is there. Im not picking up speed the way i wanted. Maybe there were too many distractions recently. I counld't sit down and do my work. I admit that i slacked for the past one whole week. Stress doesn't come from the heavy work load. It comes from slacking when you are given responsibilities.In this case, it is my responsibility to study. I ought to be thankful for my chance to study in a jc.Even though it is one that is so far away from where i am staying. Looking on the bright side,i was just one point away before i lose the chance to enter a jc. Although the travelling time wears me out, often i have to remind myself how lucky i may be compared to others who are not able to even enter a jc, to stop my self from grumbling. I know i couldn't help it at times,after hearing people staying nearer to school complaining about the distant Although we must compare ourselves against those better or the more fortunate than us, we musn't neglect and must spare a thought for those less fortunate.214 seems to be drifting apart.Maybe it is my opinion only. It might be stress getting to us or the lack of communication? The values Day is coming, yet not many are committed in helping. I admit i may be one of the not committed ones.But i do want to help. However, the changing of plans again and again do turn some people off. It's nobody's fault,but i feel that it might be better to work on a problem rather than brainstorm for another and face new problems. Initially,more of us were active in the discussion, slowly many drifted away. Some autocratic "leaders" rose up and started screaming at everyone. If that would help would there still be any peace? Good leaders don't scream at others,they lead and motivate by example.Everyone agress that a good leader has to be democratic. Any leadership workship would mention that. Although some believe that leadership skills can be built upon, i do not agree. Leaders are born this way.Leadership workshops only enable leaders to discover themselves. If everyone can be trained to be leaders,who will be the follower. If we are not born leader, let's accept this fact and do our part in other ways. Everyone has their own potential,that makes us unique.
~}Dreaming of you @ {10:38 PM}
