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! =)
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