Am back froem a super long trip.
We stayed in a dingy hut for 4 people where the walls and floors were all made of wood and mattresses on the floor were covered with dead bugs and other black things.
No matter, had a groundsheet. Also had something to act as a makeshift sleeping bag.
Thank goodness there were no mosquitoes because that is what I hate most!
We did waterfall abseiling which was uber uber cool! You could stop in the middle of the waterfall and lift your head up for a shower. The waters beat against your legs!
We did abit of caving too and this time, we went of the normal track and really explored the caves! Jumping through holes and sliding off walls, into super tight and super low tunnels..etc
Uber cool too!
Lastly..white water rafting! Our guide was insane and I got thrown /pushed into the water! Thankfully Im not waterphobic anymore. In fact all that jumping off stuff in the cave and jumping off branches into the water during kayaking, I'm more confident! Wah Lao! I got onto the branch, looked down and shook my head saying, "shit! What didi get myself into? I wanna get down but I cant....Oh man this is gonna be a slow ride..."
But I did it in the end w the guides playful help..haizzz...
Im glad I took all those risks and not be overwhelmed by fear..
Alot of other stuff I did but the 1 thing Im proud of most..is being able to gel with the students. ;)
God Bless and Im happy to be back
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
comperes training!
for the past 2 days, the comperes have had training for audio and compereing skills.
im quite happy and anvious fot he comperes getting training from rush (doing audio skills) and jeremy ratnam.
dont know if the comperes know how fortunate they are to have all this training! All the tips that Jeremy gave we're things that the seniors and I wanted soo much to impart to the juniors! In fact because allt hat he's said are thigns that Ive learnt from experience and things I feel, I felt reassured that I was on the right track as an advisor and officer in charge to comperes.
As for SPARC, I know I should do more with them. :/ more time to learn...
God Bless
im quite happy and anvious fot he comperes getting training from rush (doing audio skills) and jeremy ratnam.
dont know if the comperes know how fortunate they are to have all this training! All the tips that Jeremy gave we're things that the seniors and I wanted soo much to impart to the juniors! In fact because allt hat he's said are thigns that Ive learnt from experience and things I feel, I felt reassured that I was on the right track as an advisor and officer in charge to comperes.
As for SPARC, I know I should do more with them. :/ more time to learn...
God Bless
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Bleap BLEAP bleap! Pizza Hut taught me a lesson...
Rushed home for swimming lessons at home. before i left the house, my dad decided to call for a pizza...
I came home expecting to see a pizza but it wasnt there...I showered and came out hoping to see a pizza...it wasnt there...
So what my mum cud have done which was to call pizza hut..15mins ago...she didnt...And the moment I came out, she kept asking me to call them. Maybe she's scared to call, maybe she just doesnt wanna be the one doing it, maybe she feels someoneelse should be responsible for it and not her...I prefer to think the former one is the real answer...technophobia...
Why I think so? Coz despite having a handphone, she makes me call pple and she asks me for people's numbers...I have a feeling she doesnt really know how to use her phone....despite having it for 2 or more years...
Also despite having a watch..which she instantly takes off when she reaches home, she keeps asking me for the time.
Technophobia...
In my opinion..she also thinks that alot of things can simply be solved by"piling them up nicely" which I so definitely beg to differ.....in fact she says that when she wants me to do something...or feels I should have done something. "just pile nicely then it wont drop lah!" Aside from that she complains abt alot of things but never does anything to solve it...this is for things that are not housework based because the 1 thing I admit she is good in..is she helps us witht he housework..smething I admit Ive been pampered by. So what she comes across as not something she is used to doing daily...she find difficulty in it.
Did I also mention that she asks questions before she starts thinking of an answer? Something along the lines of...seeing me walking out of the main door and asking me, "you going out huh?"
Those "DUH" moments. Not stating her real life eg...just something that shows you what i mean.
Hence I diagnose...technophobia
As for my dad who made the order...I dont have much to say...my dad has his problems and i cant blame him for wat i myself cant overcome. Im trying hard not to feel a slight hostlity when he comes near. Im trying and God will help me.
And back to my main topic. What I learnt from this experience is how flawed my parents can be and how anal I am abt it. Im calling myself anal because I know its my fault...
But going back to my anal opinion...I felt that with all the time my parents have lived and heard instead of listened...they've grown up getting abit deaf. Im not saying this with any exaggeration. Indeed my dad is abit deaf but due to his cancer..and my mum..has become abit deaf too. dont know why but she herself acknowledges it..yet both dont do anything abt it...not in denial but in acceptance.
And yet...they dog us(sis and I) around for a million things that they themselves dont practice..which makes me the anal daughter I am.
I know that at this point, my relative who even reads this...deems me the unfilial daughter but quite honestly....Im not proud of what Im saying....nor do I feel its right for me being anal...
What I truly wanna learn from this lesson...is get myself used to them and being able to tolerate them and not turn nasty or impatient..and in the long run...preventing myself from becoming like them...physically or mentally or psychologically.
I admit..my family is not the best family..in fact its so flawed thatteh only thing that would ahev kept me good...is my relatives, my religion and the fact that they are still married.
If u ask me if them keeping their marriage together is good..it is good because any kid would mentally pretend their family works...idealism...self assurance or just plain.."we are one happy family"
Its a gray line....life is a mess of grey lines.
God Bless
I came home expecting to see a pizza but it wasnt there...I showered and came out hoping to see a pizza...it wasnt there...
So what my mum cud have done which was to call pizza hut..15mins ago...she didnt...And the moment I came out, she kept asking me to call them. Maybe she's scared to call, maybe she just doesnt wanna be the one doing it, maybe she feels someoneelse should be responsible for it and not her...I prefer to think the former one is the real answer...technophobia...
Why I think so? Coz despite having a handphone, she makes me call pple and she asks me for people's numbers...I have a feeling she doesnt really know how to use her phone....despite having it for 2 or more years...
Also despite having a watch..which she instantly takes off when she reaches home, she keeps asking me for the time.
Technophobia...
In my opinion..she also thinks that alot of things can simply be solved by"piling them up nicely" which I so definitely beg to differ.....in fact she says that when she wants me to do something...or feels I should have done something. "just pile nicely then it wont drop lah!" Aside from that she complains abt alot of things but never does anything to solve it...this is for things that are not housework based because the 1 thing I admit she is good in..is she helps us witht he housework..smething I admit Ive been pampered by. So what she comes across as not something she is used to doing daily...she find difficulty in it.
Did I also mention that she asks questions before she starts thinking of an answer? Something along the lines of...seeing me walking out of the main door and asking me, "you going out huh?"
Those "DUH" moments. Not stating her real life eg...just something that shows you what i mean.
Hence I diagnose...technophobia
As for my dad who made the order...I dont have much to say...my dad has his problems and i cant blame him for wat i myself cant overcome. Im trying hard not to feel a slight hostlity when he comes near. Im trying and God will help me.
And back to my main topic. What I learnt from this experience is how flawed my parents can be and how anal I am abt it. Im calling myself anal because I know its my fault...
But going back to my anal opinion...I felt that with all the time my parents have lived and heard instead of listened...they've grown up getting abit deaf. Im not saying this with any exaggeration. Indeed my dad is abit deaf but due to his cancer..and my mum..has become abit deaf too. dont know why but she herself acknowledges it..yet both dont do anything abt it...not in denial but in acceptance.
And yet...they dog us(sis and I) around for a million things that they themselves dont practice..which makes me the anal daughter I am.
I know that at this point, my relative who even reads this...deems me the unfilial daughter but quite honestly....Im not proud of what Im saying....nor do I feel its right for me being anal...
What I truly wanna learn from this lesson...is get myself used to them and being able to tolerate them and not turn nasty or impatient..and in the long run...preventing myself from becoming like them...physically or mentally or psychologically.
I admit..my family is not the best family..in fact its so flawed thatteh only thing that would ahev kept me good...is my relatives, my religion and the fact that they are still married.
If u ask me if them keeping their marriage together is good..it is good because any kid would mentally pretend their family works...idealism...self assurance or just plain.."we are one happy family"
Its a gray line....life is a mess of grey lines.
God Bless
Monday, September 08, 2008
Dang it!
The horrors of a pic like that that shows my muscular side. DANG! Loads of thanks to the sound guys knowing their not exactly very satisfied w the long wait. Thanks guys..if you even bother to read this hahah betcha wudnt.
So the event went well....with eugene getting a mini fan club. he's even got a stalker! They remember his name! By the end fot he 2nd day, Alia and eugene improved alot. A Greyscale theory also did very well :) Kudos to their performance that brought smiles to the dmat students faces for good reasons.
I for one am proud and possibly envious of eugene and alia. :) They got media coverage, photos, got blogged abt and etc. Im really proud that they tried so hard even though somestimes its abit frustrating. Comperes always have the tendancy to ramble off..no matter how quiet we are.
Im glad my advice I gave helped..maybe a little..after all everything else is dependent on whether they take the advice. I feel like I wanna teach them all Ive learnt but its quite hard to put it into words at times...
Anyway the event ended well. ;) Thats what an event should be.Thast how every emcee should feel at the end of the event. Thats what I miss now..I miss it loads....
Sat, had my sign language class... takes 2 lessons to finish the 1st level and we ended class w a silent graduation. Our "cher" spelt out our names using sign language and we all walked up, received our cert and signed "thank you"
Seems quite boring but its quite an interesting experience. Arent you curious to find out how hands can speak thru signs? When you watch someone sign, you will notice how much body language and facila expression is put into all they say and hte more excited they are the faster they sign. So imagine someone with an excited expression and his hands running off like a freight train...wudnt you wanna know what he's saying?
Plus, really wanna use it for my students..comperes at least..I feel its useful. really... Is so hard to give cues when you they cant read your lips..or hear what ur saying. sign language enables you to get he msg despite the distance.
This has spured me on to learn more. :)
You despite all this knowledge I think I have...I still feel liek i cant make it in the compereing world...sigh..maybe I should eb the platform to lift my students up..despite my own inabilities
:)
God Bless
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
kids these days..
I know I might get shot down by this but the students i have are definitely not the kind Im talking about. Lets say Im blessed...
Aside from them (who are mostly intl students anyway) Im starting to wonder if kids these days are just so fickle minded and irresponsible and inconsiderate...k maybe not all kids are like that but Ive had my share of 1-2 of them this week itself and I sorta wonder how they came about? Which factory did they come from?
If the nasty me kicked in, Id be askng why they werent labelled defective...nobody did a QC issit?
..Haiz...
my colleague and I are so damn pissed with students who think they are hte jewels of the world and blinded by their arrogance and snobbishness...its a small handful but its still there and despite the smallness in number...their strong stinch permeates the air and affect everyone.
I am dissappointed. Many would say, dont let a small ignorant fry affect you...he's only 1 person...maybe its just my nature. Im hoping these small fries dont work together and grow in numbers. then again..thinking of it...if they all work together..they'd cancel each other out hahaha
K enough bitching today. every body has a bitch feast once in awhile..its human's flawed nature. We suffer needlessly at times and need time to vent and our evil selfs materialize for that few lines..this would be my time...
Another Id like to say...knowing its already over yet I still need to say it...we (my colleagues and I) as admin staff but nonetheless still student developers, dont get the appreciation we deserve. K even if I dont get it...doesnt mean my colleagues dont. I always thought that everyone is a teacher to someone. If so..teachers day is celebrated by all. I guess everyone wants abit of "thanks" once in awhile....but we dont often hear it. Despite this..dont get me wrong and interpret as " without thanks why work so hard?" NOOO
Everything we do...we do for a greater reason than recognision...we do for a personal fulfillment of seeing our "kids" grow. YEt..thanks would be good once in awhile.
God Bless
Aside from them (who are mostly intl students anyway) Im starting to wonder if kids these days are just so fickle minded and irresponsible and inconsiderate...k maybe not all kids are like that but Ive had my share of 1-2 of them this week itself and I sorta wonder how they came about? Which factory did they come from?
If the nasty me kicked in, Id be askng why they werent labelled defective...nobody did a QC issit?
..Haiz...
my colleague and I are so damn pissed with students who think they are hte jewels of the world and blinded by their arrogance and snobbishness...its a small handful but its still there and despite the smallness in number...their strong stinch permeates the air and affect everyone.
I am dissappointed. Many would say, dont let a small ignorant fry affect you...he's only 1 person...maybe its just my nature. Im hoping these small fries dont work together and grow in numbers. then again..thinking of it...if they all work together..they'd cancel each other out hahaha
K enough bitching today. every body has a bitch feast once in awhile..its human's flawed nature. We suffer needlessly at times and need time to vent and our evil selfs materialize for that few lines..this would be my time...
Another Id like to say...knowing its already over yet I still need to say it...we (my colleagues and I) as admin staff but nonetheless still student developers, dont get the appreciation we deserve. K even if I dont get it...doesnt mean my colleagues dont. I always thought that everyone is a teacher to someone. If so..teachers day is celebrated by all. I guess everyone wants abit of "thanks" once in awhile....but we dont often hear it. Despite this..dont get me wrong and interpret as " without thanks why work so hard?" NOOO
Everything we do...we do for a greater reason than recognision...we do for a personal fulfillment of seeing our "kids" grow. YEt..thanks would be good once in awhile.
God Bless
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