more awaits me ahead.

it's been a long time since i've updated. lately after the makeover "debacle", i've been juggling more and more tasks on my side. talking about the makeover, i realise they are really putting in much effort in publicising this makeover affair. now i really wonder how i got myself into such a fix.

anyway, as i was saying... i'm piling up a lot more responsibilities on my shoulder. firstly, i'm taking up the role as the adventure team leader and i'm leading a team to mt ophir in june. like 'huh', you will ask. since when have i become the adventurous person and leading a team? haha i really don't know anyway too. but i guess the only constant is change. ha.. what a cliche.

besides that, i'm travelling to vietnam at the end of this year for another overseas community service trip. this time, i'll be a sales executive for the fund raising effort. a rather novel opportunity to take on tasks that i'd like to envision myself taking up in the future. just last saturday, i went to farmart in lim chu kang for a short introduction course. basically, this farmart place is a huge entity that houses the many community development (CD) concepts that can be applied to aid the needy in the 3rd world countries. we were introduced to ideas like the faith (food always in the home) garden, self reliant house and vip latrine - all of which will increase the self reliance of the users and ensure sustainability in the long term so that we are actually teaching them to fish instead of just giving them a fish to last a day. the former perception was what i had actually harboured for our previous expedition. as much as we did achieve our objectives like construction of toilets and water pumps etc., alot of the work was done by the local carpenters. there were little if not no technology and knowledge transfer. so this time, i believe after equipping ourselves with the CD concepts we learnt from farmart, our experience and presence in vietnam will be a more meaningful, fufilling and lasting one.

yesterday, during jap class our sensei taught us origami. haha, she was still saying some guys can be good at origami eh. (otokono hito wa origami ga tokuyi desune) - ya i'm shure lah. at least, she's not referring to me. i only know how to fold straw stars but other than that, i'm just too clumsy when it comes to artwork lol. i'm glad my japanese school takes effort to add some spice to our curriculum so learning japanese wouldn't be just learning the grammar and vocabulary all the time.

last but not least! my pen pal has replied to me. ha if you have read my post about my trip to philippines last year, you would have remember that i made a penpal from garing national high school. so as i was waiting and waiting, finally i received the reply from kimberly. well well, she told me that the boy we helped to deliver the drawing and letter over to his mum in singapore wanted to thank us all for what we did. i guess the biggest consolation of it all is that such gratitude is what really motivates and keeps me on to volunteer when the passion and interest is waning. it is all the more heartening when you know you have become more than a volunteer to the needy but as a friend and an aide that they can confide with.

i'm more than contented! =)

made over, though not thoroughly lol.

okay, today was the actual madeover session. okay lah, actually i dont feel exactly made over. mainly coz i couldnt dye my hair but only cut it short! stef, the female contestant dyed then permed her hair. made her look like some princess lah. okay not that i will look like a prince if i could play about with my hair but i believe i will certainly look different with longer and coloured hair. haha. did my hair at chapter 2, marina sq. and coincidentally, junhan and jun jiat was at there shopping also.

did the photoshoot at *scape, opp ceneleisure. was quite a good experience lah, just that i'm not one that's used to photo whoring. so some photos were nice, others not so lol. nevertheless, it was great fun lah. abit surreal like on tv but not as extreme only. hope the photos will turn out fine! dont know what's the voting thingy about but if got prize to win maybe i go ask everyone to vote for me. hahahaha. if not, i hush hush... coz so paiseh lah.

omg -_-.

shoots. of late, my rather mundane life has taken a quirky twist. one day as i was randomly surfing around on the net, i chanced upon a new event www.youth.sg was organising. so it says "A free make-over from Youth.sg" Since i had nothing else better to do, i sent in a haphazardly taken picture and a short writeup of why i needed a make-over.

shucks. and guess what? i was promptly notified that i was among the 3 male contestants selected for the make-over. so today, i went shopping for 2 set of clothes with the organisers and daphne khoo, the sg idol yah... she was there as some critic lol. i thought if this was a simple one-off makeover session, well and good. i get a free haircut and some fashion know-how. clothes i think they are only loaned for the photo shoot. not a bad trade off.

but my worst nightmare had to come true. im going to get featured on the youth.sg site as one of the contestants and get voted for the favourite makeover contestant. like what so favourite not favourite lah. omg, this is so embarassing.