friday nights - sabbaticals of another sort.

here i am, blogging after a long day of well... fun and work i must say (sentosa -> kbox -> CH meeting) reaching home at timings close to midnight are slowly becoming a routine of mine as i religiously pledge my commitment to Project Creative Home. haha, i'm sounding so cult-ish and random. but as my title puts it aptly, friday nights are sabbaticals of another sort, to a ever-so-uncontented me.

and if you can pardon me for littering the phrase "project creative home" so conveniently in my previous entries, let me do a little bit of introduction but with lots of brevity (lest i fall asleep typing this entry of mine hah :p)

i'm currently in the project as a project director in charge of the accounts. basically, this project promises a tangible change to the society as we encourage youth expression through arts. and what better way to make their expression ubiquitous then to paint dustbins with social messages that they strongly want to convey to the rest of the public. from inspirational talks and technical workshops to the actual painting process to the grand finale of concert and prize presentation in a span of 5 months, we seek to involve youths in having a stake and say in the larger society. after which, 88 bins will be placed permanently along orchard road and the esplanade!

sounds succint enough? ha. tried my best to be non verbose even though i've always been in speech and writing.

and! a writeup of mine has been recently put up on the youth.sg website. do take a look here!

and perhaps why you want to ask me why involvement in CH will be a sabbatical of another sort. as i was sitting on the train along the north-south line with my project mates (miak and crispin), it's really refreshing to talk to them considering that one of them is a ntu comm studies undergrad while the other is entering the same faculty in years to come. so to speak, most of my friends i have are from science streams. and while i dont trust stereotypes that much, my "sciency" friends are those that tend to be more analytical and no-fuss whilst my project mates being "artsy" people have a natural appreciation for the philosophical side of life and tend to be more introspective and pensive.

and so we talked about arts appreciation (though, i really know nuts about it), raved about good books for long travelling on public transports like those from neil humphreys and shared about the misconception most people have about emo-ism - in particular their culture and way of life. and through my speech with them, i feel so inadequate again though in a postive sense. i realised that's so much more to life that what i think of life. and this is what makes life exciting - the vibrancy that diversity brings.

ha, i feel alive once again.
do you?