I want to be a koala

Guess who designed this? :p Okay, it is not awesome and I am sure anyone on the street can come out with a cooler design than this. But I am glad it is done now. Could not upload the back print of the design though. Anyway, it is just a map of the location and some directions. Honestly, I am not thoroughly happy with what I came out, as you can see some parts are senget and the fonts could be way better but it is the effort that counts rite. You know what is the most tedious part? The colouring. Blame myself for not being IT savvy. No doubt if I use photoshop, this can be finished in half an hour. I still feel awkward seeing this design projected out during church service. Feeling paiseh.

Yay to my first design! I hope the design DO get people coming! cuz I am worried it is going to turn out otherwise!

On the side note, I bought my UNIQLO jacket, red. I am relying on it to keep me warm during lectures, in libraries and in exam hall! :)

Post camp

Camp was energy draining! But in a positive way :) I really thank God for a bunch of super enthusiastic group members. This makes being an OGL (orientation group leader) less stressful.

This is my first time volunteering as an OGL. Although i could have prepared and done more (was pretty busy the few days before camp so i didn't really read up the devotion materials and do some mental preparation. Please don't learn from me), but overall the experience was great!

I only met my co-leader, Charmaine on the first day itself. She is definitely better in socialising than i do. So, she is always the one filling in the silent gaps during group time. For me, I prefer one-to-one talk instead of group talk. I just feel more comfortable in that way. Oh yea, we called her Princess Jasmine - the one in Aladdin. Could be the eyes of hers, really exotic middle-east-ish eyes.

I realise our group did not face any trouble about members being shy. I even think that I am the most shy among them all! -.- apa OGL ini. Alright, when it comes to preparing a skit or presentation, I am not that kind of person who has lots of creative juices flowing out. The skit, the bonding games on the first day, the heart-to-heart-talk (HTHT) questions and topics were all contributed by my members!

On a personal note, i think my heart feels for those who are the quieter ones in the group. Maybe I am like that too? hehe. There was this petite freshman guy Clement who was really quiet. FYI, he is only 40kg, imagine that. I wonder how he survived through army. I was afraid that he felt out of place in our group, especially when everyone was so responsive. But as the days passed, I can see him open up more and more. He even shared his life-changing experience with us - how a hardcore gamer transformed into a guy who totally overcame that addiction, something which I am very happy to hear about.

Though sometimes there are moments where I could not really understand the things they were talking about, such as Singapore issues, which obviously I do not know a single thing about. But it was interesting also to listen to their experience, especially army :)

Hoping for a good day ahead! Meeting Stephanie later to seek advise. Please please please make it a fruitful one.

Updates

Latest update: I found a job at the chinese library as a student assistant. Since there is not much to do in the orientation due to the small numbers of freshmen, I were not much involved in their activities. So for the past one week i was actually more occupied with my CF stuff. Funny right, I came back early planning to help out in the malaysian orientation, but it turned out that I was more involved in CF stuff. Alright, back to the job at the chinese library. It was quite unexpected how I got this job.

The story was, since we never landed our feet in the chinese library, my friend suggested we visit that place and at the same time borrow some books to kill time. So there we were, overwhelmed by the number of CHINESE books and jakun-ing about the japanese books there. Well, it is called chinese library but somehow, you can find japanese books there. Then, while we were waiting at the counter to borrow our books, the lady just asked whether we were interested in working part-time. Being quite desperate for something to do to make the early trip back more worthwhile, there is no reason to say no. Ptl, God knows I need this. haha. 6dollars per hour is not exactly a lot but I guessed it's sufficient to thrill me. The taste of working and earning money. Although there are jobs around uni which offer higher pay like 8dollars per hour. Then said, I must be contented with what I was provided. So, yeah :)

The job was so-so lah. Not really exciting. But the aunty was really nice. Brought us to tour around the library, to other places not accessible by students. What I did today was tagging the old books, basically old (really really old) school magazines. Very simple, just shift the books using a trolley to the comp, scan it and tag it. Yes, simple! But imagine doing this for 7 hours O_O haha.

VCF freshmen orientation camp is next monday! Looking at the schedule, there's a lot of group time, which means bonding time between the group members. The add on, the wonderful thing is, I volunteered as the group LEADER! Plus I have yet to meet my co-leader. To lead, facilitate, create bondedness within the group. This is going to be a huge task for me. But yeah, as someone said before, if you're uncomfortable with the situation you're in right now, then you're doing fine, on the right track. However, if you're feeling comfy and chillax, then something is wrong. So, I think what I'm feeling now is normal.. (?) I shall not say much about FOC, I will leave it til camp ends then only I update whether miracles happened and whether I did a fantastic job. haha.

A few things in mind:

1. Call up the remaining 2 group members tomorrow morning.

2. Thank God I managed to come out with a design (hand-drawn woohoo! what to do, me no IT savvy) for young adults evangelistic meeting. I'm glad they 收货 la cuz I was quite concern my design looks unappealing to them. Since they like it, I am happy.

3. Finish up budget tomorrow! Deadline on Sunday.

4. Go cook my ba zheng and go sleep. Exceeded my sleep time advised by doctor, which is 12.

5. I need to constantly run through all the things i need to do cuz i scared i forgettttt.

6. Yes, pass my chem notes to charlotte

I'm expecting to tire myself out after saturday. Since I'll be in sentosa for the whole sunday (have to leave at 5, 6am!!!) and monday is camp, til thursday. SO, all the best to me.

Not wanting to grow up

By the way, while I was having an early dinner just now, the childhood memory of mom walking me to 心算 just flashed through my mind. You know, these memories just make you feel nostalgic. Those days, that can never come back again.

湖滨公园.

masak-masak using leaves as rice.

making up random customers during masak-masak and talks to them.

dad buying 爱玉冰 from ss2 pasar malam while me stays at home.

secretly take 1 ringgit from mom's purse to buy snacks from 明康.

me wanting to skip 心算 class because i have a lot of things to do and mom persuaded me to go, reasoned out the a lot of things to do is actually not urgent.

McD's playground.

sendiri slide down from the slide, turns, tried to climb back up while shouting "HELP ME!!"

Hehehe.

Hola!

So here am I, back to the same old PGP and IT'S VERY HOT. I was allocated Block 1 - the furthest block. sighh. I guess the management wants to put all the people who come back early into the same block. Well, to look it in a good way, this means more exercise for me! I stayed in Block 2 previously, so it's like another 20meters away. roar.

I have been running up and down for countless times... shifting stuff... laundry... Talking about laundry, they have new washing machines and dryers now. I put in my laundry, throw in a coin but it kept being rejected. I was like what on earth is going on! I got frustrated and took out my laundry. I pressed the 'colours' button and 'start' ( trying to figure out how this works). Once I pressed 'start', the washing machine started operating. Mind you, I took out my laundry so there's NOTHING inside the machine. I tried to look for a stop button but there's none -.- So I left an empty washing machine running while I quietly took my stuff to another laundry room. After that, only I realise that it's free of charge for now..... no wonder the coins keep rolling out.

I need to get used to the weather D: *sweats and pants*