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*

MC

So what were I up to for the past few weeks, masterchef australia season 2 did a good job accompanying me during the hot afternoons at home.

How did it started, as in me and MC, started back in church camp. Surprisingly, the tv in our room has starworld :D Not having starworld back at home, most of my free time is spent watching starworld. yea yea i know, supposed to be a camp and here i am, watching tv. It so happened that MC australia was showed quite frequently. I dunno why, everytime i turned on the tv, 70% of the time there will be MC. I think it was kind of a marathon, showing all the episodes throughout the week during the weekend. So it's a good thing! :D

Now, thanks to youtube, the MC fever continues. While i searched for the picture above, i ter-saw the winner for the season..... nooooooooooooooo. argh, spoiler. Now i have to pretend that i did not spot anything.

It's a nice show to watch, getting to catch the aussie accent, learn some new things about food (like what's basil, fennel, veal..) and yes, it did managed to trigger a teenie weenie interest in me to cook. But i deem that won't last too long. haha.

You know you get a little too much of something/someone when you start seeing it/them in your dreams. And yes, there was one night i was dreaming about MC. I still remember specifically i dreamt about this chef - Heston Blumenthal. I was mumbling his name in my sleep, then i woke up -.- But i would not say i'm obsessed with it. Must be me watching it before i hit the sack. Yea, must be, disturbing my good night rest.

Met up with a couple of my form 6 mates. All i can say is i miss the good old days :)

When i have a hard time deciding which cake to eat, sticking to new york cheese will never go wrong. haha.

I think this will be the most productive day out of all my holidays. haha. Managed to cross out a few of the to-do things on my list.

First thing, my passport. 2 weeks back i headed to the terminal 2 in the old subang airport, thinking it is still at where it used to be. I was quite surprised when there isn't many cars there. After asking an aunty..

"Sudah pindah lah!"

Err, sorry lah, how i know wor.

Since it was during the school holidays, i thought i might as well wait another week after the school holidays end to avoid the crowd. This time i do my homework in advance, i google map first. haaah.

I tried using the subang airport way but couldn't find it. i even stopped at a char chan teng to ask the uncle where is plaza glomac. He didn't seemed to get what i mean so i told him the passport place, then only he get what i was talking about.

"Passport then say passport lah, you say glomac how i know? "

Err, okay, uncle not in good mood.

Okay, ended up i use the kelana jay way, actually not that hard to find, just turn in after shell, then you can see signboards directing you towards the place. It didn't take me very long, maybe i was early. The procedures were pretty fast. I waited for an hour for it and done!

Cuz i applied the passport for oversea students, so the lady asked me which bandar in singapore do i stay in. I was thinking, does singapore even has a bandar? I was telling her no bandar, then she look at me, "you belajar sana you tak tau ah?" (what!)

Err, okay, i memang tak tau singapore has a bandar. In the end, another man came and ask, which part do i stay in, like woodlands or bla bla. The truth is, i don't even know what place i stay in. I said clementi and so clementi it is. Well, at least it's NEAR to where i stay. On second thought, i think it's kent ridge. Dunno lah, nevermind.

After that, went to the car service centre. Boss told me have to wait for an hour plus. Not so bad right, so i waited. And waited, and waited.... for 3 hours!! The boss talked to me lah, maybe he pitied me waiting for so long. haha. But seriously, my attention span did not lasted very long. He did most of the talking and i just gave him one word replies, trying my best to keep smiling :]

Later on, headed to buy shampoo. yes, shampoo and conditioner. Being lunch hour, I didn't want to drive in the streets and look for parking, knowing it'd be hard so i parked at the road side. illegally with the sign zon tunda. But you know being human, in your mind you'll think, yea right, zon tunda, what are the chances? somemore there are other cars parking also, nothing wan lah. I just need 10 minutes. So i bought what i needed to, and guess what i saw after i stepped out of the kedai? Our lovely blue tow truck and the lovely officers in blue! I was praying please, not my car.. I saw a kelisa behind the truck, ready to be tow away, and a lady begging the officer. She looked really desperate and i felt sorry for a moment for her. But i have no time to feel sorry for now, needed to save my car first. Seeing my car still in front of me was a huge relief. Okay, no saman paper, checked. No kunci on my tyre, checked. I quickly hopped onto my car. Right after that, another tow truck came along. Thank God man! If i spend another 10 minutes mingling around, i might find my car missing!

So, lesson learnt, zon tunda really means zon tunda!