Was walking home today, when I realised why I serve.
I want a Singapore that is like how it is today, a country which is orderly without being sterile, a country where people can walk down streets feeling safe. Perhaps others serve to protect Singaporeans but I find that be they Singaporeans or not, I want a place where people can rest and feel at home. Looking at the buildings around the country, I realised how much progress Singapore had made and was glad that I am doing my part in protecting it.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Friday, November 2, 2012
To do after A levels....
Code ;P
Run
Read
Bake
Darksiders I
Darksiders II
Kingdom of Amalur
Skyrim
American Sign Language
Ice skating
Basketball
Run
Read
Bake
Darksiders I
Darksiders II
Kingdom of Amalur
Skyrim
American Sign Language
Ice skating
Basketball
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Nepal
And... we are back....
Nepal was nice. Going back a second time gave a different kind of feeling. The first thing I realised was that our old camping site has become used for constructing new classrooms. I still recognise some of the kids there from last year but I don't think they recognise me anymore.
The villagers there seem to live a very relaxed life, but we who only went there for 7 days and only visited their village for 1 day can never be sure about that. Singapore is much too clean and we were not even given an opportunity to try their local food items as they were afraid that we would fall sick. Everything that we did there was first planned through carefully here in Singapore, nothing there was done on impulse except maybe Mr Ng letting us climb trees but even that was carefully thought about there.
Interacting with the kids have resulted in us realising that we have a lot more opportunities compared to the kids there. We were also kind of sad that those who can do well might not have a chance to do so in future due to where they were born. I believe that some of them are as smart if not smarter than us, we can see this through how they picked up what we were trying to teach them very quickly, much quicker than the others in class.They might have been able to excel and become some important members of society had they been born in a developed nation. I hope that in future, we would be able to sponsor one student a year to come to Singapore to study. This is quite hard however given the state of their current education in Nepal now.
The teachers worked very hard behind the scenes to ensure that we were doing what we had to do and that we did not have any accidents. Ms Choo's outburst might have seemed kind of an over-reaction to many of us at that time but in Thamel there were posters about a lady who has gone missing while trekking. We might not have been facing that kind of risk but if anything had happened to us how? There was a main road behind the school albeit there being not much cars there.
I hope I do not forget all that we have done and learnt there. Its only being 4 days since we have last seen the kids and already they seemed to be a lifetime away. I'm missing all the people around me and all the people for me to talk to, I'm so bored now alone....
Missing all my Saathis....
Nepal was nice. Going back a second time gave a different kind of feeling. The first thing I realised was that our old camping site has become used for constructing new classrooms. I still recognise some of the kids there from last year but I don't think they recognise me anymore.
The villagers there seem to live a very relaxed life, but we who only went there for 7 days and only visited their village for 1 day can never be sure about that. Singapore is much too clean and we were not even given an opportunity to try their local food items as they were afraid that we would fall sick. Everything that we did there was first planned through carefully here in Singapore, nothing there was done on impulse except maybe Mr Ng letting us climb trees but even that was carefully thought about there.
Interacting with the kids have resulted in us realising that we have a lot more opportunities compared to the kids there. We were also kind of sad that those who can do well might not have a chance to do so in future due to where they were born. I believe that some of them are as smart if not smarter than us, we can see this through how they picked up what we were trying to teach them very quickly, much quicker than the others in class.They might have been able to excel and become some important members of society had they been born in a developed nation. I hope that in future, we would be able to sponsor one student a year to come to Singapore to study. This is quite hard however given the state of their current education in Nepal now.
The teachers worked very hard behind the scenes to ensure that we were doing what we had to do and that we did not have any accidents. Ms Choo's outburst might have seemed kind of an over-reaction to many of us at that time but in Thamel there were posters about a lady who has gone missing while trekking. We might not have been facing that kind of risk but if anything had happened to us how? There was a main road behind the school albeit there being not much cars there.
I hope I do not forget all that we have done and learnt there. Its only being 4 days since we have last seen the kids and already they seemed to be a lifetime away. I'm missing all the people around me and all the people for me to talk to, I'm so bored now alone....
Missing all my Saathis....
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Night Sounds of the Yellow City
黄城夜韵
A cast and backstage crew who worked tirelessly to bring us the show, thank you!
A night of fun and thrills, behind it, one can imagine the work that goes on, looking at the tired, but delighted faces at the end of the show, one can tell the pride that they take in finishing this show.
Ah the things that they tried to say using the plays, somethings that we know and understand but refuse to take aboard. Often there are many things that we do not notice despite them being at times quite obvious. Haha it often takes others to show you how to look at things from a different perspective.
Hmm, hope I can still go next year ;P
A cast and backstage crew who worked tirelessly to bring us the show, thank you!
A night of fun and thrills, behind it, one can imagine the work that goes on, looking at the tired, but delighted faces at the end of the show, one can tell the pride that they take in finishing this show.
Ah the things that they tried to say using the plays, somethings that we know and understand but refuse to take aboard. Often there are many things that we do not notice despite them being at times quite obvious. Haha it often takes others to show you how to look at things from a different perspective.
Hmm, hope I can still go next year ;P
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
JTS
Hahaha our much belated JTS....
Grinz, our table was the noisiest but dare I say the most fun table to be at
Learning how to cook was fun, thanks to ZY, we got to eat tasty onion chicken but the lousy Seoul Garden didn't want to give us our onions and made us waste lots of time haha oh well
Haha our soup became inedible due to the Tanghoon forming a layer of burnt things on top
We were laughing all throughout the evening, so fun ;P
Miss you guys, hope we will do something like that again soon
Grinz, our table was the noisiest but dare I say the most fun table to be at
Learning how to cook was fun, thanks to ZY, we got to eat tasty onion chicken but the lousy Seoul Garden didn't want to give us our onions and made us waste lots of time haha oh well
Haha our soup became inedible due to the Tanghoon forming a layer of burnt things on top
We were laughing all throughout the evening, so fun ;P
Miss you guys, hope we will do something like that again soon
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Lalala Blocks
Whee just chem and phys left for blocks ;P
Well econs wasn't so bad after all... though I still don't think can get A or B for it
Math was not up to standard....RARGH...but it aint too bad considered I studied about an hour for it
Chem.... hais stupid Cambridge... why must memorize stupid temperatures for rxns, oh well hope I remember my rxns for tmr
Phys should hopefully be okay since its just understanding ;P Hope I got enough time to digest it....
Oh well, they are just tests, just an annoyance in our time in school ;P Without them, there won't be the after tests feeling of relaxation ;P
Well econs wasn't so bad after all... though I still don't think can get A or B for it
Math was not up to standard....RARGH...but it aint too bad considered I studied about an hour for it
Chem.... hais stupid Cambridge... why must memorize stupid temperatures for rxns, oh well hope I remember my rxns for tmr
Phys should hopefully be okay since its just understanding ;P Hope I got enough time to digest it....
Oh well, they are just tests, just an annoyance in our time in school ;P Without them, there won't be the after tests feeling of relaxation ;P
Sunday, March 4, 2012
OCIP
Writing OCIP essay is killing me.... Rargh! Really hope I get in though...
Hmm being troubled by a question that Ms Tay raised during the last trip. "By showing them all this stuff that we have, are we causing them to want things that are at the moment out of their reach? And if so are we doing more harm then good?"
Oh well, I shall just trust that the net benefits are greater than net costs and still sign up ;P and ponder that question some more during my free time
Hmm being troubled by a question that Ms Tay raised during the last trip. "By showing them all this stuff that we have, are we causing them to want things that are at the moment out of their reach? And if so are we doing more harm then good?"
Oh well, I shall just trust that the net benefits are greater than net costs and still sign up ;P and ponder that question some more during my free time
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