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龙年2012

2012-01-30T20:40:00.002+08:00

新的一年，新的希望。我每年的都有一个不变的愿望，那就是那好多好多的红包。每到农历新年，那个愿望就有了新的希望。=P

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2012-01-23T06:00:00.001+08:00

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NDP 2011 Theme Song - In A Heartbeat

2011-11-06T14:54:00.006+08:00

This is the theme song for this year's NDP. It was sang by Sylvia Ratonel and performed live by Sharon Au and another Mediacorp artiste on National Day Parade.

The performance was presented in the form of a musical. I like the song as it is not focusing on the singer as what it has usually been for the past few years. I have always believed that NDP theme songs should be songs that can be sung by all the people. That is what Singapore spirit is when we can sing the song in one voice.

Lyrics:

I have a dream of starting a life
I have a hope, a flame alight
This is the moment, freedom is calling
This is my start, a new beginning

I have a heart, it beats for you
A step at a time, our spirits renew
Living together under the sun
Our hearts will beat as one

CHORUS

In a heartbeat, I’ll be there for you
In a heartbeat, no one else will do
In a heartbeat, we will always be
Together, united; you and me

In a heartbeat, time has passed us by
In a heartbeat, we will reach the sky
In a heartbeat, this will always be
Our people, our country
This is our family.

We found a home on this land
This is the place where we can
We have a part, a role to play
It’s time for us to stay

In a heartbeat, time has passed us by
In a heartbeat, we will reach the sky
In a heartbeat, this will always be
Our people, our country
This is our family.

BRIDGE

Nothing will stand in our way
We can be strong today
The flame is alive
This is our life

CHORUS

In a heartbeat, I’ll be there for you
In a heartbeat, no one else will do
In a heartbeat, we will always be
Together, united; you and me

In a heartbeat, time has passed us by
In a heartbeat, we will reach the sky
In a heartbeat, this will always be
Our people, our country
This is our family.

Source of video: http://ndp.org.sg
Source of lyrics: http://singaporebaby.com/singapore-national-day-2011-song-lyrics/

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2011-10-22T03:01:00.001+08:00

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Time Rhapsody

2011-02-22T01:01:00.004+08:00

This event was kind of exciting as the guest-of-honour was SM Goh Chok Tong. It's an event with much to learn. I prefer the security pattern used for this event than my previous event when PM Lee Hsien Loong was the guest-of-honour.

I was kind of disappointed that I did not get to be the VIP usher all because of some troublemaker. But I was kind of glad that I can be considered a VIP usher in the end as SM Goh exited from my door! Not bad.

I got to help with blocking of the middle pathway and guide the patrons while YuRi man the entrance. I was happy initially till a guy hit my butt. I clear the crowd efficiently when one of invited guest with a Dato status hit my butt with his hand. I was shocked. I do not know whether it was accidental or intentional. I did not scream or do anything. Deep in my mind, it was clearing the crowd and ensure that no one gets near SM Goh. Part-time security guard I guess.

My heart sanked but I continued to carry out my duty. I could not stop thinking about it. I was angry when he grabbed my arm after a while to ask me to do what I was doing then; not allowing the patrons to get near SM Goh. I felt like slapping him and give hime a piece of my mind but the crowd was overwhelming. What's done cannot be undone anyway. The thoughts were suppressed by my duty. I realised something about myself; I suppress a lot of things and I don't think I will make a noise even if I am molested. This is not supposed to be the way but I really do not know what to do. This wasn't the first time already. Going back to my position after the crowd was cleared, I was feeling really terrible. I can't really enjoy the beautiful pieces played by the orchestra, not even my favourite piece that was rarely played.

I thought I am not the old me anymore. Or rather, I am not the old me anymore, but why do I still can't do anything about this? I feel so useless.

Rhapsodies of Spring

2011-02-18T19:32:00.006+08:00

It was the first SCO event of the year to celebrate Chinese New Year. I was predicting that the Prime Minister will turn up but I was wrong. I worked for both days and there was not any important guest of honour. A little disappointed.

It was a normal SCO event and the unpleasant sight of a guy that we all ushers dislike.

As it was too long since the event has taken place, if I am not wrong, I was not assigned to be the VIP usher. I think that there is something that is going on "underground" that I am not able to see. Hmm...

新印StatusPro杯大决赛

2011-01-31T21:17:00.003+08:00

This event is just like watching a live performance of the TV programme on Channel 8, "黄金年华". Awesome costumes with some awful singing. Hmm.

The event dragged. I heard that there were extra charges for the organiser due to the extension and overheard the bargaining.

EY asked whether the organiser wanted landscape and the organiser said they had it. Well, guess what. It's just simply sticking balloons at some parts of the stage. EY was the one that highlighted that to me. Haha.

Ushering side was alright. Reverse engineering. I had a great time laughing at the awesome costumes some of them wore. It's really about courage though I still find some rather hilarious.

Many of the doors were newly painted and there were rather strong smell around the place. My hand was dirtied because the paint on door two was not completely dried up.

Some competitors were not understanding. Some tried to smuggle other people to the backstage. I really can't imagine what will happen if all the competitor smuggle one person in. Just one person each will cause the backstage to be in chaos.

The event ended so late that I board a taxi at 12am. My heart almost jumped out of my mouth. It was my first time reaching home after 12am due to working for an event. It was really a relieve when Dad didn't scream at me. I can feel that he is holding his frustrations...

The Purpose of Life

2011-01-23T01:17:00.007+08:00

This was my first event of another ethnicity ever since I started working. It was a brand new experience for me.

It was a talk given by a respected elderly in their community. All the people were so interested that lots of papers with burning questions were passed onto the speaker's table. I do not really understand what the speaker was talking about even though it was delivered in English. Too "chim" for me.

Many that arrived had their prayers at the Zhong Foyer before entering the house. Females were asked to take the seats at the right side of the hall while the males took the left and the middle section. The females were allowed to take the middle section of the second half of the hall after the hirer was certain that there were no more male participants that would be entering. Hmm.

Not bad that there were ushers from the organiser that guided the people where to seat. But we only know of the seating arrangements after observing for a moment as we were not given any instructions with regards to that. Hmm.

The event ended with a stack of questions not yet answered. The emcee said that the answers will be posted on their website. That was a good way to have everybody's question answered and share what questions other people have.

2010 National Chinese Music Competition

2011-01-19T15:08:00.004+08:00

I only worked for the 3rd and 4th day of the competition. It was a long day event just like how SYF is. Though it was tiring, I am happy with the pay that I got for the day.

Craps happen as usual. The hirer was alright thought sometimes we still find her a little demanding.

The slacker slacked again. She claimed to be sick when WX went to look for her due to her continual absence in the house. Liar. I caught her sleeping at Zhong Foyer by going to the fifth floor. Caught her hiding in the toilet the next time by purposely going to the toilet. She seemed shocked seeing me. I pretended that I was there to wash my hands. Jane made her trip to the toilet after a while. Jane said that she can smell her body odour and saw her peeping through the cubicle door. Mirror.

How ethical is that when there is already not enough manpower. It's just appearing for the sake of money while nothing was done.

I managed to watch some nice performance by those really skilful people. Love it.

The in-charge for these two days was not up to standard. I seriously think that unappropriate personal relationship shouldn't be expressed during work. I sense the presence of favourtism.

Tunes of the Butterfly Lovers

2011-01-18T23:25:00.008+08:00

This is another two-day SCO event that I worked for. It was a guest conductor that conducted the whole show for the two nights. It was his birthday and it was really nice for the people to celebrate his birthday for him. I heard the peaches that presented to him made a count of nineteen. What is the meaning of nineteen remains unknown.

For the sake of the show, the presentation of peaches was done for the two nights. Jane was the one assigned to present the peaches. We were joking that the peaches were too heavy for her.

On the first night, there was a sight that made me rather jealous. The backstage people took a group photo with the conductor and the soloist, the conductor's daughter. How I wish I can take a picture with them too. Why is there a very big gap between the backstage crews and ushers though we are the people that play a part in making this event a success? It's as if ushering is a very lowly job. It's awesome customer service alrights.

There isn't anything special about this event. I am glad that I got to have their autographs. What I heard was that this daughter did not have the same surname as her father because of the one-child policy; she follow her mother's surname while her sister follows her father's. Interesting.

I prefer the way this soloist plays the Butterfly Lovers. There is more feelings and more flexibility as compared to the previous one. There were times when she open her mouth side when she played. According to YuYue, that is the sign that she is very into the music. Wow.

Besides from the Butterfly Lovers, the soloist played another song to showcase her talent in violin. It was a tango music from a movie. Nice.

This piece of music is still as nice as ever. Hope to hear it again. The positive side of not being a flower girl is that I can enjoy the music more.

First Inter-Hospital Concert

2011-01-16T19:29:00.005+08:00

I saw the advertisement for this event while I was attached at National University Hospital. I thought it would be fun to see my supervisors singing so I signed up for this event with expectations of fun experience.

It was however turned out to be just the participation of the doctors. This event was organised by the Singing Doctors Society (SDS). The chairperson of this society is Dr Timothy Lee. Another doctor with the same "Tim Lee" name that I have heard of. What a small world.

A big photograph of MM Lee and his wife int he garden was put on auction to raise funds. It was framed with some golden words written on it. I did not get a chance to get a close look because it was placed outside door three, facing the other way. Initially I thought that it was just a board that describes the event of the day. But it became really weird when the number of people that came forward to take pictures of the "board". I only knew what it was when I took a glimpse of it when the patron was not that overwhelming. The auduence was then told that the picture was donated by Dr Lee Wei Ling.

No photography, no videography, no audiography. I hate catching the last one because patron still can hide. As much as I hate it, someone in front of me did it at door five. I asked BT for help. He came up, observed for a moment, and took his chance to inform the patron about the rule when she took out a pack of biscuits to eat. It was great that she cooperated.

The songs sang were still alright. There were groups that sang artistic songs and groups that tried to make a comedy. My guess that the artistic group will win their category was right! TTSH won the over championship because they earned the most number of trophies.

There were three main judges invited for the event. One of them is from the Dim Sum Dollies, the group of people that sang "train is coming, train is coming..." She is actually the wife of the emcee for the night.

Ending of the event, I was assigned to bring a wheelchair patron down via the VIP lift. Not knowing that she was already unhappy that she was asked to shift to the side because she sat in the middle of the way, I went up to her to inform her that I am the usher that will be bringing her down and I got scolded for "rushing" her. Her mother, I assume, was better. She nicely enquired whether the wheelchair patron can meet her sister and go down together. I replied that it was not able to be done as her sister was on the stage. Seeing that they are thinking about something, I waited. After a while, I saw them moving towards door three. I quickly catched up to tell her that the lift is at door four's direction. She glared at me and scolded me for "rushing" her. Continuing her way, she went to the stage front to talk to her sister who was on the stage. It was then I realise why she wanted to go to that direction. Is it that hard to say nicely?

After some talks, she then came to me so that I can bring her down. She nagged me from the third floor to the first floor. Bleeding ears. She even said that this venue has a "stupid rule" in her very educated tone. I really hope that the lift will move faster then. She even questioned whether my job is full-time or part-time. There is totally no link to the situation at all.

Knowing that she wanted to meet her sister, I let her cut through the VIP lounge to the concourse. I don't usually let patron to do that, letting them taking the exit beside the stairs. Not even a thank you from anyone.

It was going back for debrief that I knew that the patron was not happy that she was asked to take the space at the side instead of the middle because the emergenccy fire exit route was obstructed. Great understanding of her. Sometimes, I thought this kind of patron should be dealt by some lazy people.

My Barley Plant!

2011-01-03T10:51:00.004+08:00

Thsi is my first blog entry for the year and I shall introduce to you my awesome barley plant!

After months of watering and cutting away the dried up parts of the plant, it finally grew the beautiful black pearls, the barley seeds!

I have harvested 19 seeds on my first time touching the plant. The feeling was awesome! It grew so tall that I had to go to the level above mine to pluck those that I can reach.

I immediately made a pair of earrings with two carefully selected seeds. The product was really cool!

Happy Birthday to Me!!

2010-12-30T22:03:00.004+08:00

This birthday, I only enjoyed it on the lunar one. I was literally em0ing my day away though I had mini "celebration".

Auntie Peng brought me to buy two tiny slice of cakes from Polar at AMK Hub. The trip was a little frustrating. I was literally frustrated with how paranoid Auntie peng can get.

I took lots of pictures of the cakes at home. I got my birthday present from Auntie Mui. It was a very interesting present. Haha. I was frustrated again when Auntie Peng leaked a little on what the present was about when I was opening it and have not got to know what was inside at that time. Great.

Heading home, Dad brought me to Bishan Street 22 to buy me a slice of cake. I was frustrated when he keep asking me to choose a bigger cake so that I can share it with Brother. What's more fuming was he said that "I buy you another slice then you invite Brother to eat". I did my best to control my temper. I lose a little by replying, "it's my birthday". The rest of the trip revolves around getting things that Brother needs.

Reaching home, I carefully open the present Nicholas gave me, I like it because of his efforts. Was hoping the colour to be brighter though. It was a nicely laminated picture of dark clouds with a silver lining.

Friends that I thought would remember my birthday basically forgotten. Oh well. Jiewei asked me on MSN for my birthday. What a coincident.

I had a happy day on my lunar birthday not because there was a celebration. It was that I went out with Pei Fen and Officer Lee. We went to watch Gulliver Travels and had an awesome time together. I then headed over to Sentosa to meet Auntie Mui for Song of the Sea. It was a really happy day.

I really appreciate those that remembered and took the effort to send me their well wishes. Thank you people. =)

长虹有约

2010-11-29T23:30:00.004+08:00

The soloist for this event sang some nice songs though I thought there is still room for improvement. This was the first time that I heard hong lou meng being sang.

This event was held some time ago and I can't really remembered what had happened. If I am not wrong, the people were still rehearsing for a song while we went in to do teh routine house checks and briefing. Though there were still room for improvement, I can see that they are giving their best for the performance.

As special instructions were given, three ushers including me stood at door four for standby. YuRi seemed excited to first time having four ushers at one door. I listened to the encore of the hong lou meng again. Choir is definitely still not something I know how to fully appreciate yet. Still need some time I guess. The hong lou meng was sang with the accompaniment of a Chinese Orchestra. What I can say about the orchestra is that there is really a big room for improvement.

Hokkien Classics

2010-11-28T01:15:00.011+08:00

The sales of the tickets was so overwhelming that extra seats were added on the first day of the event.

As I do not really understand the Hokkien language, the concert seems too "ge tai" for me. Many of the things spoken sounded alien to me. The female singer from Taiwan have a nice voice. Her gestures was so unique that I have never seen before. I think that her makeup is a little too thick and she will look neater with her hair tied up if she wants her big gestures while singing.

The person that played the drum with his legs placed on top of the drum to create the variation in note is quite hilarious. It was his gestures that brought the entertainment. The whole crowd laughed their fill when he forgot to take his shoes after the performance, running back to retrieve the shoes he left at the side.

I have to report early on the second day for the pre-event talk. It was fun with all the craps communicated through the walkie talkie. There was a moment when Reuben played music on his handphone and blasted it through the walkie talkie. PeiShan was very quiet and YuRi started disturbing her through the walkie talkie after he reached the loading bay and was testing his walkie talkie.

Posted outside door three with Reuben for the start of the event, there were times when we "talked gangster". He stared at me and later asked me not to slash him. It really amusing to see his expression when he "pleaded" me with the fact that he got a gangster look. Haha!

There was a small change in the performance on the second day. The drum soloist did not wear his shoes out this time round. The female solo singer did not put on a make-up too thick and she had her hair half-tied. I prefer the neater her.

After the event, I took cab home with YuYue and YuRi in their Dad's car.

Dayspring Kindergarden Graduation N Concert 2010

2010-11-27T01:09:00.004+08:00

The graduation show was simple and nice. The parents however gave us lots of problem. So much for being educated. This was the first time that I shouted at the patrons because they were too much. My toes were stepped on for countless times. How nice. It was a crucial point at stage front and the parents are squeezing to fetch their child in a very not orderly manner. This was made worse when parents squeezed there when it was not even their child that was released.

I asked the parents to stay behind the white line which was drawn according to the seats instead of the ground. They kept shifting forward and tell me that they are behind the white line. Squeezing to take pictures and screaming for their precious child. Don't they know that their actions is actually causing harm to their child? It will be smooth if they cooperated. Civilised huh? I really do not know how their child is going to survive in future if they pamper them these much.

Honestly, with one parent sent to collect the child is enough. Having the rest of the family waiting at their seats with orderly manner will really helps. Widespread of hysteria I guess. It really slows down the work when all the people crowd around the staircase where the kids were released. I really don't see the point of squeezing at the staircase when the class of the kids were not announced. This is way too 'kiasu'.

I think that something can be done by the hirer too but it was not done. It would be really great if ushers' effort are recognised and have our presence known.

Informatics Graduation 2010

2010-11-25T18:32:00.003+08:00

It was only known to be a two session event after the ushers report to the loading bay. All of us were shocked.

Arrangements have to be made so that I could stay for the whole event. Honestly, I had kind of predicted that it will be a two session event due to my past experience with their graduation ceremony.

It was just another normal event I guess. Can't really remember what really happened as the event took place too long ago for me to recall.

Mozart @ Singapore

2010-11-16T19:17:00.012+08:00

I was totally amazed by the performance of the MozART Group! They were simply awesome! They just brought the appreciation of classical music to a whole new level! Amazing!

Not being there on the first day of their event, I have heard a lot of good reviews about them. I was told that I am going to like their performance.

Anticipating a great show, I was really excited. I was glad to have my placement at door three. Not a bad angle, just a little busy. My eyes lit up when the musicians started to make their way onto the stage.

Having heard what may happen, I stood aside so that the musician that was "late" can run in. He really knows his moves well; it is not easy to run so fast in such tight suit and with a cello held in one hand.

Having the manager of my department helping out in the house was rather stressful. I really do not like the feeling of being "monitored".

I didn't fully enjoy the performance as I had to keep a lookout for people that breach the house rules. Furthermore, being at door 3 means that there is a higher amount of workload. There were times that I missed a few details here and there. I really love their performance. How I wish that I can watch it live again.

Instead of just playing their instruments with some playful geeks, they totally made good use of their bows and other parts of the instruments. Other things of the daily life were also made good used in their performance. Actions with minimal words spoke were the part that made this music appreciation session more amusing. I guess I am in love with this group's way of delivering their music.

Due to the high response and liking, BT asked for permission for just this once that ushers be allowed to take photographs and autographs from the musician officially without having the jacket be taken off. I was overjoyed!

It was however a pity that I did not managed to get their autographs as they needed to rush off. I saw SCO staffs queueing up to take while no one helped me. Ushers, always have to be the last. Sad. On the brighter note, I managed to take a picture with two of the musicians as the other two had already went off. Thanks Jeanie for being the photographer.

Their performance may be over. But I will surely remember how awesome the MozART group is.

ilight Marina Bay

2010-11-10T12:48:00.012+08:00

Pei Fen and I didn't manage to finish walking the whole stretch of the map where all the displays were located. Guess I am too tired from work and it was already quite late. Not bad that we managed to finish taking pictures for most the displays.

My event ended way earleir than expected so I ate the buffet for the guests while I waited for Pei Fen. Nice chat with Jeanie and ShiHui.

I walked over to Raffles City MRT to wait for Pei Fen. What a coincident that she took the right escalator up while I was about to go down. Fate.

Walking towards the first point of ilight, we had a good chat. She gave me a surprise present; banana. Asked her to eat in the end as she had not eaten much.

Our crazy picture taking session begins after we reached the point. It wasn't a smooth trip as we kept walking the wrong way. We got to have nice picture of us with Marina Bay Sands as the background.

We did not really understand the first point though as it was a giant egg-like structure. We slowly understood after reading the description and have a better expectation of the pattern of the artworks displayed around the whole of Marina Bay.

We spent quite some time on an interactive artwork. It was cool! It was like a giant kaleidoscope but not really one. The patterns on the screen change as we change our positions. Cool!

We then went to the next point where there were three big fans. The lights went off when we we there. I found the way to activate the fan but could not activate the light no matter how I tried. Oh well. Honestly, we do not know whether it was one ofthe display or not because there was no description. We then proceeded to the next point.

Strolling on, what I coincident that I saw HongQuan at one of the point. I did not recognise him initially till I walked closer. It was the display of the "doves" with some eerie sounds that I could not understand.

Singapore has a very beautiful skyline. Sitting by the river side to enjoy the sea breeze and staring at the awesome skyline is very relaxing. Yes, it's sea breeze instead of land breeze. I have no idea why. It's the relaxation that matters anyway.

We had another interactive display on the helix bridge. Wattfish. There's no fish but a fishing rod that will light up when the motor was spun. It really can train arm muscles.

Our trip stopped at one display below the bridge near esplanade. My legs cannot take it anymore. Furthermore, it was late and I have school the next day. I rocks.

It was a fun trip. How I wish I can spend more time there with Pei Fen. We have got so much to talk about and so many pictures to take. The exhibition is innovative. It can be improved with maps placed at certain locations. The descriptions are really helpful to aid in our understanding of the artworks.

ICAS 2010

2010-11-05T16:08:00.008+08:00

I was so glad that I got the chance to be the in-charge finally after so long. It was a good thing for that day too as it was a short event. Being the in-charge allowed me to earn a little more.

Being a "three plus one" attendance, I really have to work very hard. I ran up and down to carry the queue poles and place the signages. I do not want to throw jobs to Shihui and Jeanie because I am a nice in-charge. I was panting away when I finally enter the house.

As I was not briefed much on what was going to happen, I approached the hirer for more information. She was a very nice lady who explained what she wanted with patience.

We had quite some time to rest till doors open. As this was my next event after the incident, the lazy colleague pretended to be a righteous person and did her best to crawl over my head. Throwing her at the even doors, I sorted out the door 3 deployment with Shihui and Jeanie, letting them choose where they want to be. My mind was rather blank at that moment, not knowing how I should deploy.

I was really glad that Shihui was with me as her brain really works very fast. Facing some miscommunication of instructions from the hirer, things only went smooth after a while. Warm-up warm-up.

It was a rather relaxing event as there were ushers for the prize recipients. All Shihui and Jeanie have to do was to guide them to the right doors and ask the guests to take the elevated seats.

Upon commencement of the event, I sat outside door three and update Jeanie on what happened. Jeanie told me a Chinese proverb, "害人之心不可有，防人之心不可无".

After the event, I quickly get hold of the hirer to get her signature and the programmes for the office records. Promoting University of New South Wales, she gave me some of the leftover goodie bags and pens.

After the event, it was time to debrief as usual. Asking whether there was any feedback and had no particular big issues, we left the house for the loading bay. After submitting all the required documents to EeYin and finish the administrative works, Shihui, Jeanie and I went to have our meal with the buffet provided for the guests.

There was not much left when we reched there. We took a little of everything to try. I aimed for the desserts. I tried to eat as much as possible as I was going out with Pei Fen later on. I left my stuffs in the locker as well in order to lighten my weight.

The chitchat session with Shihui and Jeanie was great. I love it totally. It was the last week of work for Shihui. How I wish that she can stays on so that we can have more of this session.

Accompanying them to the MRT station, I walked around while I waited to meet Pei Fen. She came rather late as I was told that the event would end late. The event however suprisingly ended way earlier, giving me lots of time to spend before meeting Pei Fen.

Gracefields Kindergarden Graduation 2010

2010-10-29T22:57:00.007+08:00

This my third year working for their gradduation. It was another round of kiddy performances with the jubilant parents as their strong supporters.

Doing the deployment, BT told me beforehand that hs is placing me with someone I do not like. Being confident, I said it was alright, thinking that I'll just have to be a little more hardworking. I was however wrong when the event started.

There were three new colleagues and I was not in the mood to talk. I forgot to bring my phone with me. The conflict was sparked off by an idiotic patron who insist on consuming starbucks coffe inside the house. Not bringing it out after being approached by me, I asked that lazy colleague to approach for a different effect. Disppearing as usual to skive, I can't believe that she actually shouted across the block of seats, asking whether the new girl and I had approached the patron. The mic of the walkie-talkie was hanging down the buttons in a very unglam manner. Saying that we have approached, which the new girl in fact did not, she laughed aloud in a mocking manner, saying that it was hilarious that two of us could not settle a cup of coffee.

Angered by that, I asked whether she was trying to buy time. At this point of time, she said ridiculous stuffs and went to complain to EeYin for a very long period of time, and not settle the idiotic patron. Ridiculous.

Coming over to listen to my part of the story, EeYin and I was shocked by how that lazy colleague sneaked up to eavesdrop. My story was interrupted by that lazy colleague, who kept spouting ridiculous words out of her mouth, trying to create a scenario where she is the holy and righteous one. Disgusting. If she was confident that she was right, she wouldn't be stopping and trying control what people say. I am sure that she felt guilty and attempted to make me her scapegoat.

Asking the new colleague to take over my position, BT asked me to the foyer, listening to what happened after I warned him that something is going to happen during debrief. I wasn't given the chance to finish the whole story though, only spoke the main parts. That lazy colleague was then called out to say her part of the story next. I do not know what she would say, but I am confident that the rest of my colleagues would be on my side despite of her lies.

While the event went on, that lazy colleague pretend to work, giving me instructions and sounded as if the patron with a restless baby was not attended by me. Despicable acts by her as usual. The atmosphere was tense and quiet till the end of the event.

Expecting something to happen during debrief, BT just asked the rest of the colleagues to keep our walkie-talkies and torchlights and brought us down. I was puzzled by what was going on but was expecting a talk in the office.

I was right, the issue is to be settled in the office. Having the feeling that I may lose control of myself, I did not talk much. So much lies from her with the despicable righteous tone, I was on the verge of crying. Yes, it was tears of anger.

I did not have the chance to talk as well. My mind was overwhelmed by anger. I aws dissapointed with myself. I thought I would settle this calmly. It was this session that I knew why I always have the feeling that she was expecting me to be exceptionally nice to her. It was all because of a small bag that she gave me when we first knew each other. She must be insane that a small bag could bribe me to tolerate and condone her mistakes and laziness.

It was concluded that BT have to write an incident report. I was afraid to lose my job when I heard that there was this report. The conclusion was that we quarrelled infront of the patrons which did not actually happened. I did not have a chance to say a word to this wrong conclusion made and I was doing my best to control my tears then.

Going out to finish off the administrative stuffs that is to be done after every event, I asked BT whether I'll be in trouble. He said no but I am still doubtful. That lazy colleague stayed inside the office to continue ranting. I was out when BT saw me rubbing my eyes and asked me leave the office first.

BT told me that the extra timings could be claimed. Weird. I just punch out my card as usual and record accordingly. I am alright with extra pay, I have no wrong in accepting extra pay for attending to this trouble.

I then went home with Jane who waited for me at the usher desk. Thanks to her that I was not so lonely when I left the place.

Share Investor Seminar

2010-10-26T23:18:00.010+08:00

It was my first time being late for work. Late for three minutes. I ran like a mad women from the MRT station to my reporting place. The haze was giving me breathing difficulty, causing my speed of running to be really slow. The bright side was that I was still able to pay back the time that I was late for.

Quickly got myself changed and equipped, I went up to join my colleagues, starting the day with the routine house checks.

I am deployed to Door six. I stood near Door four in the end as no patron was allowed to take the seats at the second half of the house. It was really tiring to persuade difficult patrons to take the seats infront. Getting really sick and tired of it, YuRi set up queue poles during the intermission to block the whole of the elevated seats. The layout was really drama. But it really helps a lot.

There was mainly speakers for five companies. The partner of the speaker's for the Australian win company was really tall! I stood on the blue platform of the elevated seats and the guy was same height as me when he walked pass me on the ground.

He went to stand beside YuRi, I was laughing at the big height difference. I asked YuRi whether he felt short and he replied "yes I do" with pause and emphasis. What a funny moment.

After the event, we quickly went for our lunch at Amoy Street before the next event commences. It was a marathon day.

101010!

2010-10-10T15:14:00.002+08:00

This is quite a beautiful number and date. Hope the many couples that are getting married today will have a blessed marriage.

According to what I heard, this October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. It will only happen in 823 years. Cool!

Wishing everybody a great October! =)

Mid-Autumn Festival By The River 2010

2010-10-07T22:25:00.008+08:00

My first time attending such big public event. I met up with PeiFen after attachment to enjoy this picture taking session. Thanks to Uncle Jimmy who told me about this.

We took pictures of the displays of the twelve zodiac signs and the additional displays of dragon and the famous classical Chinese stories and sayings.

After the camera-snapping session, we went to take a look at the quiz section. Staring at it for some time, I managed to make out some answers but those words does not seems to exist. One participant went up to give the answer I thought of, and he was right! PeiFen and I was shocked.

After much pondering, thinking and checking my answer for a hundred times, I finally took up the courage to give it a try. I was still shy to do so. Thanks to PeiFen for accompanying me to queue up for the microphone. Giving my answer, I was right! I won a voucher for free Mr Bean soya milk and pancake set. Happy!

As I do not know how to pronounce the word I thought of, I was allowed to write down. I was asked to explain by the "drummer" but he interupted me while I was talking. I was thinking, he might as well do the explanation.

I was really over the moon for first time for participating in a public quiz and won something! I really need to work on my courage.

PeiFen and I then strolled around the shops at Central. I was searching for a bear shop I heard from my senior of my secondary school. As we were about to give up and head home, we found the shop! Nice! The logo sure is very adorable and attention-catching. Simple and nice. The varieties of bears available sure is a lot!

After photo-taking, we chatted at the bus-stop where I waited for my bus before we left. I was looking forward to upload the pictures taken as I made successful candid shot of PeiFen finally.

aLife Charity Concert 2010

2010-10-04T21:55:00.004+08:00

It was a rather chaotic event. Reaching the loading bay, YuRi showed me the ticket for the night. It looked "awesome"! It was some kiddy drawings.

When the commences, the ticket did not turn out to what was shown to me. It was a bookmark with an additional piece of paper tied to it. I just have to tear out that piece of paper. Nice bookmarks.

As I was posted outside, I could watch the show from the TV. Nice ballet. How I wish I could watch it inside. Their splits are just so perfect. The music was nice too.

Looking around at the merchandises sold at the glass table, I like some of the creative items. The hirer was nice enough to give us the very cute horses and cows that were handmade. As it was on sale that day, she can only give it to us the next time she drop by.

It is really nice to work with nice hirers. This kind of situation however does not seems to occur very often.

UOB Kay Hian Seminar

2010-10-03T12:21:00.009+08:00

This event was pratically full of weirdos! Interesting! I was positioned at Door 3 inside with YuYue outside. Standing outside Dorr 3 while the patrons entered, I notified the rest of the colleagues inside that there were a lot of weirdo for the day. Weird questions were asked and lots of people queried for the location of the toilets. YuYue said that their face had the expression why isn't the toilet built inside the house.

The one patron that I remember the most is an old lady who wanted to consume her medication inside the house. Telling her nicely, she actually gave me a case scenario to solve. Wow. It was an easy one though. She laughed in a very funny manner and left the house to consume her medication. Coming back, she took her purse from her bag and shook it infront of YuYue and me, saying, "see, almost lost my purse". YuYue and I were literally shocked. After she left, we bursted out laughing.

It was good that they are just weird and not nasty. I really dislike those nasty people who thinks so highly of themselves.

Staying outside, YuYue, BT, Jane and I chatted. Gossips. We talked about the steamboat too. I went to the toilet halfway due to diahrrea. Going the second time before the intermission just for some "small business", BT asked me to rest at the loading bay and shut the door. Shocked. He said he had already asked Jane to cover my post. In any case, I quickly screw back the earpiece that dropped out from my walkie-talkie and went out after BT left the door.

Searching for "my" pregnant lady, I was not able to find her. Most probably she had left for a break. Waiting at the door while catching food and drinks, I caught hold of her when she came back. I offered seats at the front row for her so that it's easier. She declined as it was "too front".

I was shocked that no body actually bothered to shift towards the side and she had to squeeze into the seat deep inside. Her tummy was already rather big. While looking for a better seat for her, BT cracked a joke saying that her frequency of going to the toilet will be as high as mine. YuYue say I can just go to the toilet together with the lady. Funny. It was however a good learning point that I have never experienced. If this is to happen again in future, I would be able to solve it instantly.

After the intermission, it was time to relax. I drank water and "soaked" my lips into the water, attempting to hydrate myself. Lots of dried skin was torn off while I "soaked" my lips. That showed how dry my lips were. Some weird man came to chat with YuYue and me while I was "soaking" my lips.

The hirer was nice enough to pack two big bags of the leftover packets of food for us. Armomatic dry Mee Siam from Old Chang Kee. I can hear my stomach growling when I smell the food. They were kind enough to give a big pack to the cleaners too. Nice.

We distributed the food at the loading bay after the event ended. Asked people to take first so that I can take the rest home. My big appetite can accomodate to large amount of food. I took two boxes only in the end as someone wanted the other eight boxes. Whatever.

I made my trip to Grandma house for lunch and took a rest before the next event commences at night.

志摩的诗，我们的歌

2010-09-26T17:27:00.004+08:00

The choir was not bad. This is my first choir event ever since I started my work here.

There was once when the female soloist have to wear a mask and the rubber broke. Her fast wits solved the problem on the spot. That is really commendable. Her way of presenting the songs seemed kind of fresh to me. There were parts that were so "chim" that I do no understand.

The event ended and we did the routine checks. I was puzzled why there was a file placed inside the storeroom. Thinking that it's lost-and-found, I just took it out. Placing it on my lap and sat at the seat waiting for the debrief, someone rude pulled the file from my lap and said it was hers. How nice. Ignoring her, things went on as usual.

As there was a change in the form, we were required to sign on the new form. WX saw some forms kept inside the rude person's locker and said that those should be thrown away as it was outdated. What I next heard from that rude person made my eyes popped out. She actually said it was Julie who kept the forms! Wow! Lying without a blink of the eye!

I left with the others to return the pass and headed home. Thinking about what happened on the bus, I made a call to WX to tell her the truth. I remembered clearly that I saw scores of the songs performed in the black file. How can it belong to the rude person when she don't even know how to appreciate music? Besides from that, I told WX about the forms. It was really not fair to Julie. How moral and civilised it is to have a newcomer as a scapegoat.

The Dream of Chang'an: Music of Zhao Ji Ping

2010-09-19T13:30:00.008+08:00

Mrs Goh was one of the guest-of-honour for this event. This concert basically showcases the music pieces wrote by Mr Zhao Ji Ping. One of which includes a piece from one of the good show that I had watched, "大宅门".

Work for the day was kind of routine. I was Door 3 inside so I had to give the late comer queue. Due to last minute information, I was asked to be the second flowergirl. Due to the "special" request from GM, it has to be flowergirl instead of flowerboy because girls are more sweet. Rubbish. This is gender discrimination.

Jason took over my post while I went to the backstage. There were two times that I need to go to the backstage. It was then that I realise there was a miscommunication in requests as the second flowergirl was only needed at the end of the whole performance. It was three flowergirls that was needed officially. It washowever not able to be done due to the lack of manpower. I had to make two trips.

I was posted to do crowd control for the autograph session. Thanks to Jason for taking over me so that I am able to grab the autographs. I wanted to take picture with the composer but there was no chance for me to do so. Furthermore, that "great" GM was standing near the autograph table. Being able to grab the autograph is good enough.

Going back into the house for debrief, I heard some "great" news! That "professional" GM commented about my gesture of a flowergirl again. "Brilliant"!

BT say I am banned from being the flowergirl. I am alright with it as it was not something that I am looking forward to. According to what was said before the start of the event, I came up with a conclusion - I am a guy. This is the best explanation ever.

As the event ended late. Girls were allowed to claim taxi fare. I offered to share a cab with YuRi as he lives in the North, which is rather near to the central of Singapore. Sms-ing me the details of the trip, I was shocked that the fare went over $20. Hope that the claim can be done smoothly.

SCH Ushers Steamboat Outing 2010

2010-09-18T21:36:00.015+08:00

Reaching Bugis MRT station early, I went to walk around Bugis Junction before proceeding to look for the rest. While heading back to the MRT station to look for the rest, BT saw me and brought me to the fountain at the soup spoon where the rest had already gathered.

On the way there, YuYue called me to tell me of their new location and what a coincident that I saw NDP08 F2's leader again after YOG. I think he has already forgotten me.

We waited for Uncle Jimmy and Junying before setting off to the steamboat shop. It was then confirmed that Uncle Jimmy was not attending after Junying arrived. Great. He was actually one of the reasons why I chose to attend.

We walked towards the shophouses and stopped by a steamboat shop. It looks a little old though. We were directed to the second floor for our meal. It was air-conditioned at the second floor. I however did not find the ventilation very good.

Settling down, we started to take orders. I am the only person there who is unable to consume beef. Thanks to BT, YuRi and Reuben for accomdating.

Tasting the soup before the fire was turned on, I find the soup kind of salty. Soup ordered were duck and chicken soup, one kind on each half of the "pot".

After submitting the order form, we got our drinks and dishes shortly. There were some dishes that we ordered but were not sent to us. Great.

My side of people was not as happening as those on the other side. They were fighting and searching for their glutinous cake. My table only became happening when Reuben tried to put the whole chunk of noodles into my plate. The other table commented our table is finally having some happening event.

Chatted and ate. I ate more than I talked. I kept eating till the rest stopped eating and I was still hungry. I was a little shocked with my appetite though. The rest ordered one more bottle of green tea while I ordered a little more food to eat. The lotus root is nice.

I started to feel a little full after the third round. Guess it was due to the halt while waiting for my third round of food to be served.

BT went down to settle the bills first so we took a group photo without him before we left. Reaching the first floor to meet up with him, he didn't accept any money from us. He said it's alright as it is once in a blue moon.

The food was generally alright. I however still prefer the fish from the steamboat shop at Ang Mo Kio.

Walking towards ilumna, we then bid farewell to each other. Took the train back together with YuYue and YuRi as usual. YuYue hit my stomach and I felt my stomach was kind of protruding a little and it was kind of stiff. Guess I really ate a lot.

SYCO Chamber Recital: Elegant Music Series 2010

2010-09-12T14:17:00.006+08:00

This event was so short till I was shocked. The music was really nice and my passion of music that I pressed down seems to come up again. "大理情风" was really nice though it was a little different from what MF performed.

Before the event commence, I saw Benjamin Boo practicing his percussion. Nice melody. I was expecting some nice pieces for the night. One sanxian musician came up to practice as well. YuYue was telling YuRi that the sanxian musician is their senior and is a gay. I was shocked to hear that gossip.

The sight of that GM irks me. During the performance, he was talking non-stop to the music director (MD), Tsung Yeh. Does that mean that it's alright not to show any respect just because the musicians are not from SCO? Or is it that they are just simply youths? He should be banished from all concert halls! I really wondered why the MD talked too. Music should always be respected and especially by people who practice it.

I thought the presentation of music should improve. Some musicians seemed so stiff and some did not sit with a good posture. Overall, they are still good.

Many patrons were shocked that this SCO concert was so short. I had to answer many of their query. There was no intermission at all. Short session with quality music is cool.

I took a trainride home with YuYue and YuRi. Tried to talk to YuYue but there does't seems to have much things to talk about. I am not very good at finding topics for conversation. YuRi was dozing away throughout the ride though.

Catholic High School Chinese Orchestra Concert 2010

2010-09-11T23:21:00.004+08:00

Catholic High School has a strong Chinese Orchestra. I still however prefer Hwa Chong's Institution's Chinese Orchestra.

Weird instructions from the hirer. I was asked to follow the LCQ on the paper given yet the hirer kept doing things that she felt like it. Great. It was said that kids under the age of six was not allowed into the concert hall. I do not like this rule. While checking with hirer, the hirer allowed them in. Conflicts in instructions. I was glad that the parents were nice to us, remaining calm while waiting for the issue to be resolved.

The concert was alright. Not much of an issue for that night. Thanks to WanRong, I got to have the nicely designed program. It was like a wedding invitation card with lots of "postcards" inside. Initially, I thought it was some nice landscape pictures. I then realised that it was pictures of the musicians after I opened it. Oh well.

I feel so smart for being able to guess the pattern of the conductor. I have correctly predicted an encore piece. Anyway, the first song was kind of weird. Birthday song and a mix of another cartoon music. I understand the birthday part as it was their anniversary, but cartoon? Furthermore, I find the musicians rather robotic in their performance.

The concert ended and we quickly do the routine house-checks. I am still pissed off that someone is roaming around and doesn't work.

Ushers' Briefing 2010

2010-09-10T23:27:00.010+08:00

The briefing was held at the exhibition hall instead of the sectional practice hall. It was a very big room with a lot of chairs. I wondered why there were so many chairs when it was known that only twenty-two people will turn up.

Anyway, the chairs were separated into two blocks just like the previous briefing. BT refused to sit with the other two "old timer" and sit with us the "young timer".

Jason was a "star". He was famous over a night as he walked past the guest-of-honour some time ago. I was scared that what I did will be revealed too but glad that it did not.

After some discussions of the rules and some scenarios, we were brought to walk around to see the fire safty exit route. We were split into two groups. WX led my group. The funny thing was that she actually brought us to where the fire engine will park and told us that that is the placce that we will have to assemble. Shocked. We then see Mr Tai's group walking towards the other end of the place and we followed, getting to the correct place for assembly.

Mr Tai explained quite a number of stuffs. Justin suddenly asked whether we were listening. We replied no and he tell BT that we will not be able to survive if he is not the IC. Nice joke.

We then proceeded together to the main entrance of the building. Mr Tai mentioned that patrons that escape the fire from this side will just automatically run away. I wonder which patron will assemble at the carpark with us.

It was time for food after that. The time to punch our card was right after the walk. Time to eat the buffet was not counted. I ate with Peishan. We didn't talk much. I took three chocolate eclairs. There wasn't anymore when I went for a second round. Lin gave me her last eclair seeing that I was eating my last chocolate eclair. So sweet.

Punching out, I left the place after realising that my hope to pack some food home was not feasible. I was the last one to leave though as I ate kind of slow. My appetite for that day wasn't that big.

Walking alone to the MRT station, I was glad that I met some of them in the train. Reuben called me as I did not see them initially. Too focused on rushing into the train that was about to close it's doors. Had some nice chats with YuRi and YiTian's brother who both live in the North.

KPMG Seminar

2010-09-06T23:42:00.011+08:00

What a boring event. I was given a chance to choose which post I wanted. Door three outside. I was hoping to slack a little. It was a pity that the chair outside the door was removed sometime ago.

The seminar was so boring that many patrons fell asleep. Standing outside was boring. I kept walking around. Went into the concert hall for a while and out. Bored. Really bored.

I crapped through walkie-talkie till the battery went low. It has been a very long time since I last saw Justin. He slacked so much. I kept calling him and said chocolate eclairs as I saw plates of chocolate eclairs at the reception for the patrons.

YuRi asked whether WX can help us to pack some food. It can't be carried out as there was no green light given by the hirer. I saw some of the hirers packing the food up and I can smell it from where I stood.

YuRi warned me about the survillence camera. Great, I actually sat right in front of the cacmera and use my phone. It was really boring. YuRi have been adjusting the signboards with regards to no food and drinks and the arrow to the toilet. The reason was that the patrons kept asking for the location of the toilets. It was kind of entertaining playing with the signboards at that boring moment.

The event ended and I quickly make my way back to Grandma house for my yummy lunch. The walk to the MRT station with YuRi and Jason seemed kind of awkward as we don't really have anything to chat about. I really hope that we will be chatting noisily with anything on earth soon. Nice conversations are just great.

Intermezzo 2010

2010-09-05T23:55:00.004+08:00

This is a charity show organised by cristofori. Since it's a music school, I was expecting some nice music. To my disappointment, there wasn't much nice performance. I don't deny that there were some good performances too.

I was posted to Door Six. Rare. It was not very lucky for me to met with some nasty patrons. They ought to be banished from all concert halls. There was totally no respect for music at all.

Beisdes from some idiotic people, my work for the day generally was alright though I had to run up and down at times.

There was a moment when I was asked to help out at Door Four. There was this particular guy that bowed to me. Shocked. I knew that he bowed to people leaving the house but I was too shocked to react to his actions.

From his accent, I thought that he was a Japanese. I later heard from BT that he is an Indonesian Chinese. Nice and well-mannered.

The concert finally ended without any intermission. I went out with some of the ushers to The Soup Spoon for their dinner. Played with BT's doraemon on the way there and took YuRi's car home. He just got his license. Rounds and rounds on his car but I enjoy the ride; I love rides. It heartening to see that there is a good bonding between the brother and sister. How I wish I have an elder brother that dotes on me too.

Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra

2010-08-31T00:13:00.005+08:00

I thought I reached early but I was not the first. BT, Jason and YuRi were the first. Heard that they went to eat earlier on that's why they were early.

YuRi was the in-charge for the day as BT say he wanted to train him. How I wish I can be trained too. I want to be a good in-charge. I do not know why but I do not have a good feeling about what's going on.

The placement was alright as the people know that I do not want to be posted together with someone. As there were not any ushers from Bradell Heights Community Club, recognising the VIPs were a little difficult. I was very lucky that the guests that night were nice people. I stopped them and ensured that they were the guests before allowing them to pass through. None of them gave me trouble or scolded me.

The music pieces played were nice! Guess this is the first symphony orcheatra that I have watched performing live. Their presentation of music was good except for one violinist who looked lerthargic. The orchestra was small but they were good. I was rather surprised to see one of my classmate performing. For a moment I worried whether some undesirable people were present. I was really glad that there was no trouble created.

The event ended and I rushed to get the programme booklet and helped with the routine house checks. There was an interesting news during debrief. There was actually written ticket. This will happen when a patron requests for replacement of a lost ticket and teh sistic counter was not able to generate the ticket in time. Cool.

Furthermore, sistic made a mistake by selling row BB tickets when the BB row was removed. I wonder why tickets for that row were sold when the crowd were of so little people. There were a lot of other empty seats around. I don't think patrons get to choose where they get to sit.

After punching out, I then made my way home. I wonder why my lower back hurt so much. My right legs was kind of shivering while the concert was going on. I really hope I will be alright and can survive more events to come.

NAFA Convocation 2010

2010-08-29T14:31:00.006+08:00

BT was shocked when I reached there. I was shocked after he told me that it was full strength. Things were finally settled after Eeyin appears; I was replacing another usher. I really do not want to go home after making an effort to wake up so early in the morning.

I was so tired that I actually signed at the wrong row while I withdraw the security pass. Great. There were 4 new ushers. It took me some time to remember their names. Hope I will still remember the next time I see them.

I was kind of not happy with the NAFA staffs as they kept crowding around the walkway. They even crowded around door three, the place where I was deployed to. Their decision to place to cameras were werid too, blocking the walkway. It was a better job done last year.

Things were way more easy after the presenting of certificate commenced. BT suddenly called me outside. I thought I was needed to do something important. It was actually some chats. It was regarding the steamboat outing and the upcoming annual meeting.

I slacked outside as it was rather boring inside. Rare of me slacking during work. Chatted with a new girl as she was my door three partner for the day. According to BT and YuRi, many things happened while I was not around. I just said I did not come back for a month due to YOG which in fact was 2 months to be exact.

Lunch together with the ushers at Amoy Street again. We did the hosue check before going out. I found a phone. The owner came after a while to claim it. To verify that he is the ownner, I used my phone to call the number he gave. Silly me. Too nice of me to help BT as he was rather slow in retrieving his phone. I shall not do that again unless I am the in-charge. I do not want to leak out my number unnecessarily.

At Amoy Street, I ate char kway tiao and I was kind of disappointed with Uncle's standard. His speed was however very fast. I got my plate in about 2 minutes and I was rather stunned for a moment. We then took BT's car back. Four girls squeezed at the back seat. We managed to finished squeezing as Jason and Faith were to stay behind to look after the guest reception.

The second shift commenced and on graduate came to ask me for help. She wanted me to pass two tickets to her parents. I agreed to help but her parents did not turn up. Quite nice of her to thank me after the whole event when she took her leave. Guess she is disappointedd that her parents could not make it in time. For such a big event of a lifetime, I would really want my loved ones to be there to witness my achievements.

I had more chats outside than the previous session. Slack. I know it's bad and not professional. Too bored I guess. The shoes was making my heels hurt too. BT kinf of brought up YOG a few times. Eeyin asked me about the food that I ate. Guess it was kind of a big issue as that is the first thing that people would ask me with regards to my involvement.

The event finally ended and we got to have some rest before punching out as the same two ushers were required to guard the guest reception again.

I went to take a drink at the graduate reception before setting off to meet PeiFen. I wanted to grab some desserts too but there wasn't any. Wanted to have a meal at the buffet with Jane but I only remember after I reached there. I set off immediately after that cup of cordial drink. At least some thirst quenched.

NDP 2010 Theme Song - Song for Singapore

2010-08-11T12:48:00.002+08:00

Enjoy this song written and sang by Corrinne May. The lyrics is kind of meaningful. There is still however, a big room for improvement for the video.

I kind of feel that there can be a switch of theme songs between NDP 2009 and NDP 2010 as that would really be a better match the the respective themes.

Anyway, enjoy the songs and show your love for Singapore!

source of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGY5ff831B8

YOG 2010 Theme Song - Everyone

2010-08-10T02:07:00.013+08:00

This is the theme song for the first youth olympics games. This short and simple song is sang by five artists that represents the five different continents.

Here are the lyrics:

Walls are down
Hopes arise
Rings of the world unite

Every child
Has a wish
To glow like the stars above

Lift our voices as victories blaze
This is the day to win with grace

Chorus
Raise your hand for our generation
Fly the flags of every nation
Reaching out for that moment in our lives
Raise your hand for our generation
Living out your aspiration
Time to fly way beyond the skies
A world that shines for everyone

Be the best
Go all the way
Friends beyond the race

Cheer the joy
Share the tears
The journey remains our pride

Lift our voices as victories blaze
This is the day the world will shine on for everyone

source of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=hHrnaGJ8ckg
source of lyrics: http://singapore2010.sg/public/sg2010/en/en_multimedia/en_theme_song.html

Bishan Stadium BBQ Get Together Session

2010-08-06T22:44:00.004+08:00

Sharon was late so Peggy and I waited for her at the Mosque beside Bishan Stadium. When we reached the reporting area, there were already a lot of people eating away. It was really fast that the coke went out of stock. Being in a state of shock that it was not what we expected, we started on the buffet since there wasn't any queue.

The food were catered by Old Chang Kee. It tasted way better than what I got for my dinner as a performer.

We then gathered at the blue sector near the sports hall for the briefing. It took Sharon and I some time to find where we are supposed to report to as the person holding the signboard was resting his hands. Taking our seat, we listened to the person talking. We went really high as we were told that we will be given two tickets each for the Opening Ceremony combined rehearsal four that will be held the next day.

A girl came to sit beside me. I made friend with her. The tickets were being passed down as we chatted. Everyone got two tickets each. Seeing that the person distributing the tickets still have many left in his hand, some volunteers asked for more. Being kind, he distributed one more ticket each. More were then asked. He finally distributed all the tickets in his hand. Guess how many tickets did I grab? Six!

Sharon and I walked home after we were released; we were released after the tickets distribution. We did not wait for Peggy as she has things to settle. We took numbers of the new friends we made before setting off.

I wanted to grab a few more eclairs before leaving but all were already gone. I gave up the idea on second serving as I was really very full. The food was really nice.

POCC's "Pope Joan" Movie Preview

2010-08-04T13:22:00.005+08:00

The movie "Pope Joan" will only be released on 12th August 2010 in Singapore. As a winner of the movie tickets, I get to catch the show first. I was a little reluctant to attend the screening as the show seemed boring to me. My initial plan was to get the tickets first. I can give it to my friends if I am not interested. However, after knowing that I have to be present to collect the tickets on the day that it is being screened, I asked Auntie Mui to accompany me to watch the movie.

I reached there early. The people were late due to a traffic jam. It was kind of the person to message me, reminding me about the screening and that I can contact that person through that number if I have any query.

The booth was finally set up after some time. Almost 6.30pm, the time they indicated the cut-off. I expected a rather grand event but it was obviously not. The people seemed so unprepared. It seemed that there is some miscommunication between nuffnang and POCC.

After grabbing our goodie bags, a lady took a photo of Auntie Mui and I for marketing purposes that the cervical cancer is the only cancer that can be prevented by a vaccine. After taking the photo, she stuck it onto a board, asking me to write down 5 names of the ladies that I would like to protect. Names? I wrote the addresses instead; mother, sister, grandma, auntie, friends.

She was not familiar with the camera. I tried to tell her but she ignored me and kept asking to her people. Great. It kinds of gave me the feeling that "hey, only officers of this event knows". We were kind of jammed there for a while as we were the first to collect the tickets.

Proceeding into the hall, we get to choose our seats. Great! Auntie Mui and I chose the top and middle seat. Good view! The seats were not in good condition I would say. It shakes and there isn't much space in between the roles. My head was almost resting on the legs of the peson sitting behind me.

After some time, the show finally commenced. NC-16. It was my first time watching a movie with this rating. I thought that there were just some additional gross sexual scenes as compared to PG. I was wrong. There were lots of other disturbing scenes too. Violence. The sexual scenes were disturbing too.

The actors were great. Those acting the bad guys, I really felt like walking right up and punch them in the face. I hate male chauvinist to the core. The wits of the female lead was just great. How I wish I can be that smart too.

The story of the show was good. But I really dislike the disturbing scenes. I guess that are the things that make a movie comes to life. This movie is "very literature" I would say. The poster for the movie looks kind of scary. I then understood why after watching the show.

All the people left after watching the movie. I did not really see the significance of the screening of this movie with the POCC campaign. There was no talk to elaborate what's going on. This definitely need improvement. This event, seemed to be rather, cold.

YOG 2010 Water Stage

2010-08-01T16:00:00.002+08:00

The third combined rehearsal was over. As it rained earlier in the day, the water on the stage seemed way freezing than the previous rehearsal. Anyway, I strongly believe that the water was pumped from the Singapore river. My skin was irritated by the water. I do not agree with the idea that the water from Singapore river should be used.

I understand that water is precious. Since everyone is going to dirty the water, what's wrong with using water from Singapore river? The fact that using the relatively clean water would protect the performers from infections. There are going to be a few more combined and component rehearsal. What if performers were down on the actual day of performance? I believe that there are way lots of micro-organisms in the Singapore river as compared to water dirty by performers.

Honestly, I felt that YOG performers in many aspects were not sufficiently well taken care of. I seriously wonder if I can survive till the end of this event.

The freezing cold water is causing me to feel pain in my joints. The smell is so awful that it cause my body and clothings to have a really bad stench. Last but not least, the water is an irritant to my skin.

I am not the only person that is facing with all these problems. I really wonder where I can voice out all these issues. Knowing that the issue of coldness hard to be solved, I am just simply hoping to have some clean and odourless water.

It's not a mystery whether those people sitting so high up will even listen to the voice of the "small" and "unsignificant" performers. I really doubt that there will be any actions done to improve the situation since performers for NDP09 chapter 6 were denied of the small request to see and breathe.

Aichi Meiden High School Band

2010-07-25T13:44:00.008+08:00

A very tiring day for me so I decided to take on the post of being outside the house though I wanted to watch the performance. Furthermore, I thought it was just another band performance.

Standing outside, I realised that what I thought was wrong. From the TV, I can see that the band was superb! I had the urge to go in. However, work inside the house would be more demanding. I can see how much effort they put in to make the whole story of super mario with both the skit and music. Cool!

The bright side of the things was that I got to sneak in near the end, catching the encore pieces. The band is just so cool! The audience actually was allowed to encore three times.

A pity that there was no extra programme booklets that I can take as souvenir. It was the special perforamnce after the band "competition" that was held a few days ago and the booklets were only available on that day. I saw the same emcee that I do not like. I wonder if it's from the same company again. His presentation on stage was commendable but I still do not like his attitude that all about an event is nothing else but money.

The choreography of the musicians, the dancers, everything was just so great! How I wish that I can watch them perform more pieces. According to the conductor, it was their second trip after so many years. What a pity that I missed the performance. Hope that they will be invited again soon and that I will be ready to work in-house for the event.

Media Preview of our Singapore 2010 YOG Documentary

2010-07-22T22:24:00.006+08:00

I took leave from the supervisor and rushed to cineleisure to attend this event with Auntie Mui. As I was told that the event starts at 1pm, I have only 5 minutes to rush there after my quick lunch.

Reaching there, there was no signages to direct me. Glad that there was someone around whom I can ask. Reaching the registration table, the person at the reception looked at me blankly. I felt as though I went to the wrong place and that I am an intruder.

I finally got my tickets after introducing myself. I said something wrongly. I said "media brief" instead of "media preview", a little embarassing I would say.

Auntie Mui and I entered the cinema after getting our free popcorns and drinks. We have got a rather good seat at the back of the hall. It was quite nice of them to provide some refreshments. It was totally like a movie screening. I did not expected this to be held in a cinema. I thought it was going to be some talks given by someone in a room.

We waited for about thirty minutes till the screening begins. The show was quite alright though there were some of the things that I thought can improved on.

The documentary was basically about the journey to the games from the point of views of three athletes of different sports, judo, cycling and fencing. The only female athlete featured is in fencing. The three athletes were at the screening too. What leaves me an impresison about that girl was that she is very tall.

Seeing how the judo athlete trained, I somehow had certain thoughts. I wonder if this has brought me any motivation to push myself further in wushu. Though both may be of different sports, they are both martial arts.

The documentary also included the journey of the production of the mascots. Suana! Those people under the mascot puppets looked as if they just had a swim after they came out from their costume. They spent lots of time practising their dance movements so that the mascots will look genuine and lively. It's really tough on them!

My mystery to whether the person under the amscots were males or females was solved. The funniest part was when the person in the Merly costume said that Merly was part of him. It's kind of a good thing to know that his hard work and effort had made him grew feelings for Merly and fused with her.

I find the countdown to 99 days celebration familiar because I was there! That was the only thing I felt close to. A little disappointed that I missed out all the other events. Guess the publicity need some improvements.

From the factsheet given to me, this documentary is one of the two that is going to be broadcasted. The broadcasts of this firat documentary will be on 7th August and 14th August on channel 5. After seeing the timing of the broadcasts, I was so glad that I attended the preview as I will be away at the floating platform performing for the world!

After the screening, I had some thoughts while I rushed back to my workplace. The athletes are stars, what about the other volunteers? Though volunteers have roles that are small, they are the ones that make a very big difference. Maybe a documentary of people holding difference posts that make no matter how much contribution to this event can be made. This is one of the things that is going to make them feel like they are part of the first ever inaugural Youth Olympics Games.

Release of YOG 2010 Costumes

2010-07-19T21:43:00.006+08:00

The long awaited costumes were finally released. After much guessing of how they are going to look like, we finally get to see the final products!

As expected, my jaws dropped. I hoped that what I saw was wrong. It was however verified on the first combined rehearsal that what I saw is true. I do not like to wear caps or hats. I feel uneasy when there is something on my head. Hairpins would of course be exceptions.

I heard that the costumes were designed by a batch of Lasalles College's students. Final year project?

Anyway, I am going to wear a guy's costume. It's kind of a discrimination that martial arts is solely for guys. Anyway, I find the Silat costume way nicer than what I am going to wear. I wonder how the wushu costume looks like. It was not posted on the web. I am guessing that they are going to be way nicer than mine. I guess the wushu costume is red, a favourite colour of mine.

I like blue too, but not in this manner. Anyway, in my opinion, I think that some of the things doesn't mean that the more sophisticated it is, the nicer it is. Sometimes, simplicity is beautiful too. I do not deny that the costumes are colourful. The combination and design can however be improved.

There is only one costume that I thought it looked alright; the one in red that was rather simple and looked like it's for a gymnast.

Photos of the costumes can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634729208&ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=224914&id=89465677245.

Taiji For All

2010-07-11T17:37:00.009+08:00

Dad drove me to HongWen early in the morning to meet the rest take the bus to Jurong Stadium. I never knew that HongWen is so near my house. It was just a 15-minute ride. Since I reached there early, Dad asked me to sleep in the car till the rest of them arrive. Thanks to XinFeng for giving me the information.

Reaching there, I got my shirt from WenYeow coach. We then boarded the bus after some moments of waiting. After getting a "fengshui" seat, I commenced my adventure at lalaland. I was just too tired from attachment.

Shuting and I ran to the toilet to change into the shirt given. Quite glad that we managed to make it in time. As we were the last two to join our group. We stood at the back of row 48.

I do not really like the way that the emcee talked. From what I see, this event is very "RC-styled". Listening to what he said, I encountered the first cheat of the day. It was a Singapore records instead of a World's records. I was wondering how can we be recorded in the world's records when China can do better. Now the mystery is solved.

We rehearsed under the hot sun and waitied for the arrival of the guest-of-honours. My black pants started to heat up during the wait. The guests finally arrived to launch the event. We rehearsed together with the guests once and we did once ourselves for the guests to enjoy. Here's the second cheat of the day.

After we did the thirteen moves routine that we learned, the emcee said that the twenty-four moves routine was next. Shuting and I dropped our jaws. This was the third cheat of the day. Many people have retreated into the shade to watch the rest do the twenty-four moves routine. After much pondering, Shuting and I decided to stay on and try to imitate the moves. The results that we got were not bad, we managed to follow most of the moves. I like the right “金鸡独立” as I was able to do it.

Finishing the last routine, it was the announcement of the offical records of what wehad done. There were 1995 people that took part in the event. Fouth cheat of the day. Anyway, I wondered how they made the count.

Breakfast was distributed as we left. The food was alright. Took one out of the three bags of leftovers home.

I took the bus provided back to HongWen with Shuting and XinFeng. As usual, I dozed during the ride. Some memories came back as the bus passed by YuHua. Walking together with them to Boon Keng MRT station, I bid them goodbye and went to take my sleeping bus ride home.

Metiér VIII

2010-07-04T15:56:00.005+08:00

I guess this is the most energy draining event that I had ever worked. This is the first school event that I worked with so many students that do not behave themselves. I see that the teachers were kind of tired too.

The performance was quite good. The principal's talk was so dry and boring that I almost fell asleep. The students that wasn't behaving themselves got to restless and created lots of trouble because it was boring. The speech sounds like some propaganda too. The bright side of the situation was that there were teachers that helped to discipline them, sharing a small portion of my workload.

It was a small relief when the performance commences as it draws the students' attention and made them behave themselves for a moment.

More trouble were created during the intermission. Food and drinks. I had a thought that maybe the house rules should be told to schools that are going to rent the place and the the rules are to be told to the students beforehand. Those irritating stares from students that were informed of the house rules sure is annoying. I really dislike people who do not respect the music and the concert hall.

It was a relief when the event was finally over. One female teacher said that I did a good job. It kinds of brightens up my day. "I think you did a good job. Usually when you nag and nag they won't listen..."

There were three new ushers but there was not enough time to icebreak with each other. Only one of them talked to me. There was another one that I saw who looked quite experienced; it doesn't look like it's her first time doing this job.

It was so long since I last worked with Crystal. Heard that she has been asking for me! So sweet. I never knew that someone is looking forward to work with me. I was so happy when I heard that!

I did not attend the debrief after the event as I found out something after going to the washroom. There was some issues that I wanted to bring up but it was some same old issues as the other events that can never be solved even though it was being brought up. I dropped the idea in the end.

I then took a relaxing bus ride home after settling all the administrative stuffs.

Singapore River Festival - Air

2010-06-28T21:05:00.003+08:00

Attended this specular performance with Auntie after getting to know that the performance was still available. The planning was very organised and all the performers performed their part on time and accurately.

It was a pity that I reached rather late, unable to get a good spot to take good pictures. There were a few guys that were very tall that blocked my view. There were people that squeezed in inconsiderately when teh show began. With blocked views and not a very good camera, many of my pictures were not very good.

I kept switching between my handphone and camera, trying to capture pictures and videos at the same time.

There was a surprise component in the performance; fireworks. It was really a very specular performance. It is a rare chance for one to get to "smell" fireworks.

We then proceeded to watch the performance by another group of people. This performance involved the artistic usage of water to dance. Nice. The music is nice too.

I was so glad that the performance delayed so that I could catch it in time after "Air".

Technical Workshop - Understanding Cancer

2010-06-25T10:04:00.006+08:00

There were only four people that turned up for work for this last minute event. My attendance was only submitted a day before.

The seminar was like a lecture to me; it's about cancer. I felt so bored and it was merely a repetition of what my lecturers had taught me. I can even add in some extra information to enhance the speech by that doctor.

the talk was mainly about cancer of female reproductive organs. Fair? There were many guys at the talk too. I heard that this talk is to advertise the sales of an insurance. guys don't have to buy insurance?

I was the IC initially but was changed to another guy, a rather blur guy. I was almost saying the things to be done. I was almost having full control of the situation inside the house. Honestly, I should get that pay. Haha.

Some patrons does not seems to understand English at all. I asked them to move all the way to the other end, they replied okay and made their way to the side that was full. Some even tried to take seats on rows that were not "opened" yet. One plump lady tried to get her way and tried to use peer pressure on us. Great. The funniest thing was when a guy replid to me that his legs are very long and he will look for me if there isn't sufficient space after I told him that only the first-half of the house was "open". One venue marketing guy standing beside me tried to hold his laughter after hearing this hilarious remark. Funny!

I was glad that I was able to walk rather properly as I sprained my right ankle while doing the routine house-checks before the event. What a great start.

The event ended a little later than expected and I don't mind. Thanks to the IC that I got to get two sets of the "lecture notes". I can use it for speed revision when needed. It was a rather useful material I would say. The IC was funny, he tried to take everything down alone while we were just walking beside him. Commented on it and he handed one of the stuffs to another guy.

An average and smooth day of work I would say. I hope that I can be the IC again soon.

Power Over Cervical Cancer

2010-06-25T00:10:00.002+08:00

I believe that many people out there have heard of cervical cancer and have a rough idea of what it is, especially when it is one of the top rated "woman-killer". Just like any other cancers, early detection of the presence of cancerous cells would allow better prognosis and treatment. It is thus very important to raise the awareness to understand what cervical cancer is all about.

Some of the symptoms of a possible cervical cancer are as follows:
- abnormal bleeding between periods, after intercourse and after menopause
- water or bloody vaginal discharge
- lower abdominal pain during intercourse

Cervical cancer is usually detected in the later stages as there are no signs or symptoms in the early stages. In order to detect any abnormality, it is recommended to have regular PAP smear done. Vaccines can be injected to prevent the occurrence of the cancer.

In order to effectively reduce the risk of getting cervical cancer, a healthy lifestyle is strongly advised. Although this cancer is not hereditary and occurs more commonly in sexually active women, the risk is higher in smokers. So yup, smoking is not at all cool.

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Marina Bay Sands Opening Celebration

2010-06-24T22:15:00.011+08:00

Lucky me won two tickets to this occasion and attended it with Auntie Mui.

We reached there rather late as Auntie Mui had to work. It was time when the climbing competition commences when we reached and I managed to take a shot of them climbing. As they just started climbing, there were not at the very high part of the building, allowing my average camera to be able to capture them in action. There were a lot of people who crowded at the opposite building of the competition venue to watch the climbers in action.

After taking that shot, I proceeded in to the event plaza. I don't want to miss out any more performances. The walk from the shopping mall entrance to the event plaza sure is long. There were a lot of barricates set up that Auntie Mui and I had to walk rounds to reach the audience area.

We stood at a corner at the back. We could have been able to be in the middle if we reached earlier. The choice was then justified to be a right choice later on. The climbers in action were broadcasted live on the stage. At the same time, some parachuters just jumped off the plane. Though taking pictures of the climbers from where I stood was impossible due to the trees, I was able to take lots of pictures of the parachuters. What justified my correct position was that the parachuters landed in the water instead of the sky garden. So cool! Numerous boats were already on standby to fetch the parachuters and keep their parachutes. I was so happy that I got to take a shot of them "landing" into the water. I wonder if they rehearsed that before. Hmm.

It was then followed by singing session by Sylvia and Lin Jun Jie. I like the song "jiang nan" by Lin Jun Jie. Nice melody. It was really a cool thing to be able to listen to Sylvia singing "american Boy" live. Though I can't really see both of them on stage, as I was rather far away, it was a nice experience listening to them singing live.

The next thing was the main show of the day - the significant opening button pushing. Important people were invited up to the stage to push the big button together. I was surprised by the "fire crackers" after they did the significant "push". I like the glitters a lot! A little pity that I was not able to get a shot of it. I however managed to get two shots of the fire released on the top of the "palm".

After the official launch, Kelly Rowland was the next singer. Her voice is superb. Listening to her halfway, I had to leave as it was raining quite heavily. Auntie Mui and I went to take a walk at the basement to take a look at the "boating" service. Cool.

Seeing that some people are taking pictures with a "gong", we went to take a picture as well. HongQuan came just in time to help us took a shot. Nice.

We then proceeded home. I was already very tired then. HongQuan went to have his walk to the MRT station and taking pictures along the way. Auntie Mui and I took bus service 133. Not seeing the sign properly, we actually took the loop service. We then decided to take a train ride home instead. The distance of the train station from Marina Bay Sands was rather far though.

NYP ZhongHua WuShu Orientation Camp 2010

2010-06-20T12:06:00.015+08:00

The long-awaited three-day two-night camp was finally over. I am really glad to hear that the year ones have enjoyed themselves. We are very lucky I would say. I want to thank all the people for their effort to make this camp possible.

I hope that this camp had infused me with sufficient experience; it must at least worth the three exam papers that I had sacrificed and my two weeks without a proper sleep.

We started off the camp with icebreaking camp. It was called "the name game". I was the last one of the "queue" so I had to say out everybody's name with their chosen adjectives. As usual, I am "noisy". There were some funny adjectives chosen, quite creative. What I realised was that there were lots of people with names starting with alphabet 'J'.

Before proceeding with the amazing race, it was time for lunch. Lunch was "great". Quite nice I would say as there was my favourite fish fillet. I just do not like the spicy part.

Each of us led a group of people for the amazing race. It took a while for my group to warm up and I am so happy to see that there was teamwork. While completing the tasks for each station, I told them to reflect and see the games from another perspective. Hope they get what I mean. It's the process that matters, not the goal. Hope they can get the underlying meaning of each game.

As there were no VCDs available, we spent time playing some games instead. Human knot! One of the group were superb. They managed to finish untangling themselves within 30 seconds without talking. Cool! There does not seems to be any advancement when all of them combine together. Too complicated.

It was then time for some training. Paddings. We used the small space near the staff center as it was raining and we were not able to use the netball court. The space at block E was taken away by bei quan dao. Think they accidently took my new box of plasters while clearing the "stage". Humph.

With the guidance of paddings, I was able to do my "wai bai" better. I managed to hit my foot with my hands all the way. I stopped halfway through the training as I aimed at the padding wrongly, causing pain in my left foot. Anyway, thanks to HerChuan, Haojun and William for holding the paddings. It's not easy and it's really tiring.

Went to have a night jog with LY and RQ. Ended up running alone because I run very slow. Did some stretching after three rounds to keep my muscles flexible. I wanted to run six rounds but my legs were too tired to take it. We spent time at the playground relaxing just like the last training camp. I stared into the starry sky while lying on the slide. I really hate the fact that the accumulated water made my shorts wet.

We then went to bathe. The most fun part was when "someone" used water to splash me I guess. First time ever. It was so cooling after the bath. I don't like the sticky and smelly me.

Spent time brainstorming for ideas for the games for the second day on the "stage" before sleeping. It kinds of makes me easier to think while lying down and stare into the ceiling. I did not sleep the whole night as the temperature of the girls' room was very cold.

I heard from Serene the next day that she was disturbed by my constant entering ans exiting the room. I felt so sorry about it. I was trying to increase my body temperature by walking around. I wanted to sleep at the "stage" where I brainstormed for ideas but someone took that place while I was in the girls' room. I literally walked in circles outside the room before going back to the cold room again.

I finally managed to start getting the sleepy feeling at around 6am. A good sign I would say. I was however woke up by a phone call. After picking up that call, I can't sleep anymore. Great. I was kind of worried whether I could survive the long day ahead or not.

The second day started with physical training. Stretching and jogging. My muscles were so stiff. Serene and I then served breafast to the people. I took the beehoon tray.

It was then followed by a relaxing game; charades. The chosen person have to act out what is written on the card for people to guess. As I answered to the nature's call, I missed quite a few fun parts. I was kind of glad to see that some of my ideas were used. Anthony was busy setting up the checkers while this game was being held.

After that, it was time for some action games; captain's ball. Sitting around that area sure is dangerous.

The next game is checkers with some special "elements" added by Anthony. Initially, it was just some rolls of tapes. Later on, it was way more cool as signs such as "马步" and "金鸡独立" were stuck onto some "lucky" squares. Creative.

While the juniors were playing the checkers, some of us were preparing for "zero point". I was the first to test the string of rubber bands. I rocks! I was totally shocked by what happened too. I actually managed to make successful jumps upon first attempts. Furthermore, it was a backward swinging rope. I stopped as I was confused by Anthony's instruction to face Serene and my shorts was kind of being loosen due to the vigorous jump. It was only till I stopped that I realised what Anthony was trying to tell me. Guess my brain is not that good enough to do multi-tasks. It was a pity that there wasn't any pictures of videos. That was a very enjoyable moment.

I then continued brainstorming of what to write in the postcards while the rest continued playing. Tried some attempts later on with a front swing but failed. Oh well. Great moments are just rare to come by.

It was then time for lunch. Same food as the previous day, great. I gave my sambal chilli to Jacky just like the previous day. I finished all my rice as the spicy level is still manageable. Furthermore, there was my favourite fish fillet.

It was movie time later on. As I do not like one of the actor of that show, I did not watch. Furthermore, I have so much things to do too. I spent time in the girls' room continue writing the postcards. That seemed to be the most quiet moment of the camp.

After a while, I got news that the block E area is booked and we were not able to use it for training. I quickly ran to SHS to check on the status of the netball court and hope that I can book it. I went to the SA office after getting no results from the portal and found out that the court can not be booked but there won't be anyone using it. What I can do next is just to pray that no one uses the court so that we can train there.

We went there after the movie screening for training and the amoeba game at the netball court. The amoeba game and dog and bone were the warm-up for the training. A rather monstrous training. My legs were so jellified after that. I was glad that I managed to maintain some form of consistency throughout the training.

We had our dinner and it was almost the same as the previous day. The only difference was the eggplants. As it was too spicy for me to eat, I ate the leftover lunch. The rice was hard and cold but at least it was still "swallowable".

It was the drama thing later on. Can see that the juniors put in a lot of effort to make the "drama night" possible. I had a very good laugh at their creativity and it is really destressting. I was glad that I got the chance to give out the "prizes" to each group. Since there were four groups, there were four prizes; "最佳搞笑奖", "最佳篇剧奖", "最佳武打奖", "最佳创意奖".

Debrief was held next as a large group of people were not able to appear on Saturday. Gave out the postcards I prepared and I was glad that I managed to finish writing in time.

It was then time for free and easy activities. Many of them went to bond at Macs. I went to do my jogging alone. Stopped after running one round as my knee could not take it anymore. I then went to find the people at Macs to chit chat.

After bathing, it was time to brainstorm for the programme for the next day. The timetable was a little messy as the debrief was brought forward. I forced myself to be awake thought I was feeling very sleepy.

After the things were done, I went to sleep in the stuffy girls' room. The fan was adjusted to a lower level which made the room a little stuffy. I woke up in the middle of the night after around an hour of sleep as I was shivering. My legs were so cold that I felt a little feverish just like the previous night. Went to the stage to lie down, hoping to gain back my body temperature before returning to the girls' room. I was shocked that I actually fell asleep.

I woke up before my alarm rang at 6am. I set off to collect the cake that I ordered. I really hoped to sleep a little more though.

I walked out of the school together with Haojun and Jiayi. Both of them were heading to Kranji for the YOG training. I kind of strained my knee as I walked but I pushed on. I was glad that I made it back on time to join in the PT. I walked rounds together with XX instead of jogging as my knee was really strained. It was time for breakfast after we did our sets of pull-ups.

Serene and I served the breakfast again. I took the beehoon tray again. I like the finger food as it was the seaweed chicken and fried wanton! Yummy! The seaweed chicken were gone so fast that I did not get to have second serving. So sad.

After most of the people had finished their breakfast, I took out the cake and start the birthday celebration. I felt a little unhappy that there were some people who did not join in. I am really happy with the support given by the juniors. I served the cake after the birthday babies cut the cake as usual.

We went back to the third floor to play the checkers. I was eliminated after the game started for a while. How great was that. I did not survive long even though girls were given three chances. I rocks.

It was time to break camp after the debrief time with the alumni and some notes-writing. I was happy that I got a few. I did not write any as I had already given out what I wanted to write to them the day before.

It was the committee meeting after the juniors had left. I didn't spoke much as I was scolding myself deep inside my heart. I just couldn't stop scolding myself. In any case, I was really glad that the juniors were bonded and had fun during the camp.

After clearing the rooms for lodging and packed the stuffs in the clubroom, Auntie Mui came to fetch me home. I really needed a car ride provided with the amount of things that I have to carry.

The camp is finally over and that was a load off my shoulders. Though I did not feel that I had learned a lot from this event, I would say that this experience does provided me with some knowledge.

I love WuShu~

Music Extravaganza

2010-06-19T20:52:00.002+08:00

I did not sign up for this event as I planned to rest. Waking up early in the morning to travel to the west for YOG training can be tiring. As there were not enough ushers and there was a chance for me to be the IC, I signed up. It however turned out to be another guy that became the IC. Oh well.

The music was nice. Missed the erhu performance as I have to prepare drinks for the VIPs. Humph. I was so glad that I managed to get the people's signatures after the show. I however have to be more alert about my actions.

Being the most senior usher there, I helped to solve lots of problems. I was so happy when the IC told me that he was so lucky to have me there for the event as I somehow played a significant role.

The general manager somehow created quite a few troubles for me. I felt so annoyed that he is only concerned about his VIPs. He actually asked me to checked the VIP seats as some people sat the wrong place while it was the surge-in of the patrons. Furthermore, there was not enough ushers. I think the GM shouldn't work in this company as he does not seems to really appreciates music as well.

Workload for ushers seems to be increasing. We were told to do this and that while there is a limit to the number of ushers that they hire for each event. Great.

Thanks to Eeyin, we got to eat food from the reception after our work. So happy. It was never a thing that happened in the past during events that I worked. It seemed to be some segregation between full-time staffs and part-time staffs.

As the event ended late, girls were allowed to claim cab fare. Yes! I quickly hire a cab home as I was very tired and it was almost midnight.

SHS Graduation Nite 2010

2010-06-13T15:09:00.011+08:00

I didn't really enjoyed the event as I was rather stressed with the upcoming wushu orientation camp and, I am alone.

Reaching the clubroom right after my exam and I was ordered to do this and that. Felt more of like used as a labour rather than helping out. There's a difference between these two. Stayed in the clubroom to type out the undone stuffs for the camp after most of the things were transferred to the NYP lounge. It was kind of good that at least someone talked to me a little while I was in the clubroom.

I wore a skirt to attend this event, kind of grand yet not that grand. The people again I would say.

It was a nice event I would say. It was totally like clubbing. I wanted to dance too, going crazy with the music to loose up a little. I spent my time sitting at the side and watched people dance. The music was kind of destressing too I would say.

The food was alrights. I like the fruit tarts the most. Yummy. I ate so much till I was so full.

I did have some photos taken. There was one that I tried to smile but yet not able to smile. I was too stressed. I was rather shocked that I felt my skin so tighted-up. My muscles tried to smile yet the tighting up of my skin seems to be pulling my smile down.

I helped to clean up the place after the event. It was rather late already. Doing what I can do, I left before everything was finished. Auntie was already getting worried and I have to wake up very early for the YOG training the next day.

Not bad that I got to have one of the leftover doorgifts. It was a nice thing though I don't really like the colour.

There were times that I thought whether I made the right choice to attend this event and not going to work, giving up the few bucks that I may earn. I chose to attend just simply with the hope that the relationship between them and me will be improved. Hmm.

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EVS Marshal Validation Exercise - Bishan Stadium

2010-05-24T17:04:00.013+08:00

Two tiring days are finally over. I switched from the second shift to the first shift as I wanted attend the annual event at Kong Meng San Phor Khak See Monastry. I know how bad the feeling is to miss this annual event.

The venue orientation was held a day before the event and we got to famaliarise ourselves with the place. We got our uniform and accreditation pass. The feeling of getting the long awaited uniform was great!

I was posted to the last zone. Just like Chingay 2010, I have to walk all the way to the first zone to take attendance and walk all the way to the last zone to carry out my duty. Well, it's alright. Good spot I guess. I get to watch the competitions and my position was near the finishing line. Great!

Reaching there at 6.30am sharp on my first day, I was made to walk back and forth a few times due to some conflicting instructions given. A good warm-up I guess. I was brought to walk through the field of play. It was rare chance.

The organisers were a little late. It took them a very long time to open the gate that I was in-charged of. My partners and I waited for quite some time till the event starts. The first race was the 10000m Women brisk-walk. There were only three participants.

As there were not any rules and restricction, I took pictures. It was a rainy day and things were rather slack. I even had time to take a pictures with my partners. It was coincidently that there was a sign board indicating the sponsor of this validation exercise. It was actually meant for the media to take picture for the atheletes with that as the background. It was however not a very good idea to put it near the exit.

Being bored, David went to look for food. He brought back three boxes of breakfast for himself, Yulina and me. I was a little surprised as we were told that lunch was provided instead of lunch. Oh well. Budget.

During our free time, the three of us had lots of chat. Yulina is working in the LTA while David works is a manager for a company that helps people to do checks. Recently, he just got a project to check the structure of airplanes. He uses x-ray and ultrasound to do that. Cool! I never knew that this diagnostic equipments can actually be used in the aerial industry too!

After we got the instructions to step-down, we went for a debrief. Kind of disappointed that there were not chairs prepared for us. The volunteers' spirits?

I accompanied Yulina to wait for her husband to drive her before walking to the roadside to wait for Auntie's Mui car. I was so hungry and was looking forward to a warm and nice lunch at Grandma House.

I reached at six plus on the second day. I think I was the first person to reach as Anthony was sitting lonely at Zone one, waiting for the volunteers to report to him. After taking my attendance, he asked me to hang around there. I chose to proceed to my position first as I felt rather awkward. I gave an excuse that I wanted to see the sunrise.

Anyway, I reached my position and prepare the chairs before my partner arrives. Yulina will be my only partner for the day as David was not able to make it.

We get to have some time to chats. I took more photos than the first day. We however did not have time to take a picture with that sign board.

It was a sunny day. The sun was shining very brightly. It took a while for the sun to rise a little higher to allow some shade to be produced at my position. The first event of the day was 20000m Men brisk-walk. There was a water station that provide water for the atheletes during the long walk. There were only four competitors this round. The girl that won the first place on the first day came to help the guy to warm-up. How nice. Both of them were from the same country.

There was one more person that came to chat with us too. He was a photographer. It was quite nice of him though the chat was not a lot.

The race on the second day was more happening. There were more "fast-paced" races and more events as compared to the first day.

There were more Singapore competitors too. Some people who thinks so highly of themselves are really disgusting. Some atheletes hopes to be served while some people holding some passes expect me to let them pass just because they are "big". Sometimes I really do not understand why is this job that I liked so much is looked down by so many people. Myopic I would say.

Well, my shift concluded with a debrief. Took a ride home on Yulina's husband's car as they were heading towards the expressway. Really thank her a lot so that I would not have to make the 30-min walk home under the scotching sun. That 5-min ride really helped my hungry stomach.

This two-day event has allowed me to see a lot of things. Though there was "nothing much", I have gained some knowledge. One of which would be the advancement of the equipments used for the competitions. The organisation on the field of play was quite good too. Last but not least, the type of people that I interacted with has showed me some new variety.

SCO Mothers' Day Concert: For Mum

2010-05-11T16:24:00.014+08:00

I was called to work last minute as there was not enough usher. It was a chaotic event I would say.

Slacked a little and chatted with colleagues that came early. It was good reaching early so that I can take my time to prepare the necessary stuffs.

Upon the opening of doors, I really wish that I can split myself into another few more ushers. The patrons gushed in and I was almost the only person guiding them. There was already a lack of ushers yet the person who was supposed to help me was slacking. As most of the patrons were elderly, I had to bring them all the way to their seats as they do not understand the seating arrangement though their seat was stated on the tickets. I was literally running about.

There were instances when I was so busy directing patrons that I merely looked at their tickets and gave directions. Out of the blue, someone said that I am "sister zhen's" grandchild. Looking up, I saw my grandmother's friend. Shocked to them there and for recognising me. The second friend of grandmother introduced me to her friend.

While guiding the patrons, I was so glad that I can use mandarin to communicate. I felt more comfortable.

One of the guest-of-honour was MP Mr Seng Han Tong. I saw a guy, grandmother's friend, kept walking around and revolve around the MP. Typical.

I got an easy posting. Guess I can't be the VIP usher or flowergirl anymore. Guess it was due to the unreasonable GM.

There was a tough patron that I met. Seeing that he is taking pictures, I went up to him to inform him of the rule set. Instead of keeping his camera, he rebutted that he was just taking pictures of his friend. What an excellent excuse. I was amazed by how I explained myself in a very nice manner and he eventually kept his camera. I really did not expect that I could do that.

The performance was alright. The movie accompanied by live orchestra was superb. It made me cried. I quickly ran to the door behind to wipe away my tears. Glad that no one saw it. Embarassing I would say.

The event ended with a fast dispersal. As everybody was rushing out right after the event, I was worried that people may fall down. Together with the hardworking ushers, we completed the routine house-checks in the quickest time and we were released.

Food were taken out from the staff office for us. BT had given us ten minutes to eat during the second half of the event. I rejected. As I was hungry, the food just came at the right moment. It was some energy boost for me to travel home.

I was glad that there were some leftovers for me to bring home so that I can share some good food.

99 Days to Singapore 2010 YOG Countdown Celebration!

2010-05-09T18:30:00.011+08:00

HongQuan and I did not manage to get the limited edition collar pins as we reached rather late. I rushed my way there as I was released late from class but HongQuan was later than me. So I roamed around the MRT station and searched for food while waiting.

It took us a while to find our way there as the traffic lights was located at the other end. We dared not enter initially as we did not see anyone entering. Taking up some courage, I went to ask one of the people on duty. After going through the metal detector, we finally step foot on the party ground.

It was a disappointment that the pins and game cards were all given out. It was however great that we managed to try on two games; fencing and basketball. We got a key holder from fencing and a biscuit from basketball. Though the gifts were small, we were very happy!

The show started with Jean Danker gathering the crowd. We managed to find a spot near the middle of the stage. It was really hot squeezing with that large crowd. There were dance and singing performances. I really like the dance by some NUS students. Nice costumes, nice movements and nice music.

Standing at the side of the red carpet, I managed to get some shots of the VIPs! Cool! HongQuan was a little unlucky to get lesser shots than I did. He has a better camera than me though.

Shifting forward with attempts to get better pictures, there was a photographer infront of us who was very tall! He totally blocked our views. I managed to get some shots as I raise my hand really high up in the air and did a angled-down view.

The volunteers' uniforms were revealed. Some of the tops were nice while some were not. I don't think I am having the nice ones. The cargo pants is however very nice!

After the ministers left, the performance continued. I stood right infront of Hady Mirza as he sang for the crowd. Wow. This was the second close-up interaction with him. The crowd behaved well as no one dares to step over the "lines".

Singing his third song, HongQuan and I went over to get ready to take shots of Electrico. There was a live telecast interview by either suria or vassamtham central of a kid and a volunteer right infront of the band. It took us some time to get a shot of the band with no interference.

Songs sang by them were alright. I do not really understand though. A bunch of students danced with craziness like they were clubbing. The whole party ended after the third song.

HongQuan and I walked around to take more pictures before leaving the area. Managed to take a silly photo and it made me feel so happy. As a guy was removing the car plate of the car on display, I borrowed the car plate from him. It was nice of him to volunteer to help us take a picture in that silly pose. Nice. I can't wait to see the photo.

Before proceeding to the MRT station, we took a look at the shop selling the YOG merchandises. It's good money. The items were so nice that I hope to own some of them! However, they are just way to expensive for me. Hope that volunteers get to have souvenirs too.

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YOG Costume Measurement

2010-05-05T15:07:00.002+08:00

On Labour Day, I went to have my measurements for the performance costume taken early in the morning. It was at PKCC again. When I first went there, it was seniors that brought my group of people there. Now, I brought junior there. How time flies.

The process was fast. After testing on the given size, we just have to submit the card with our name and identity number. It was the queue that dragged.

As I do not want to go home "just like that", I went to meet my friend, passing him his overdued birthday present. As I wanted to buy another birthday gift for another friend, I chose to meet at HDB Hub. What a coincident! Leo and Merly was there! Thank KS for volunteering to help me to take a picture with them! It is going to be such a memorable thing. It was such a great opportunity as I do not get to see them during Chingay. Just a pity that the picture was a little blurred due to the quality of my phone.

This is the first step towards YOG. I wonder what kind of experience will YOG gives me..

Jane's 21st Birthday Party at Kovan Melody

2010-05-04T12:46:00.005+08:00

It took me a while to decide on whether to attend or not. There was no one that I know was invited and I do not know what present to give. On the contrary, Jane did not invite a lot of people and I am actually one of the people she invited. I chose not to attend in the morning as I was feeling very tired. After some rest, I felt alright so I went. It was rather late but I still get to eat tasty food. Yummy!

It was a little awkward as I do not know anybody there. Thanks Jane for being a good host, introduce me to someone who was same batch as me back in JC. Managed to chat a little but there was still some awkwardness. Well, it was the big day for the birthday girl so she shall have all the limelight for the day.

I rushed off from my house after wrapping the present and managed to reach the venue in thirty minutes. Fast. I drew the birthday tag on the bus in order to save time. I felt so smart for a moment.

After waiting for most of the people to arrive, it was time to sing the traditional birthday song and cut the cake! Yummy cake! The taste was just superb! Um-um! Thanks to Jane again for personally serving me a piece of the cake.

As there was nothing much to do after the cake-cutting session, I took my leave to end the awkwardness. I really want to thank Jane for being such a good host, trying to ease my awkwardness while entertaining other guests at the same time.

The Voyage of Spring

2010-05-02T00:42:00.003+08:00

Coincident? The flower used for the programme was my favourite flower and I just watched the show on that flower before reporting for work. My mind was totally filled with thoughts about that flower.

The concert was basically a combined performance by the school's chinese orchestra and guzheng ensemble. Great effort from them. The performance however still have room for improvement.

The songs performed were rather weird. It was more kiddy and does not really suit the theme of the concert. I just found one song that suits the theme.

I once heard my ex-conductor told me about this school's chinese orchestra conductor. It was finally my chance to get to see this person that I once heard about.

Door one was my post. Still manageable for me. What I fear was just trouble created by another usher near my door. As my position was rather crucial, I cannot just move around. Asked help from 'that' particular usher yet got ignored as she was chatting and slacking away with some patrons. Anyway, I do not know why, but many people that day said that I looked fierce. Looking serious does not mean that I am fierce. Most of the patrons were cooperative but there were still some black sheeps among the white.

Took a train ride home together with the in-charge for the day and wished to be the in-charge after we were calculating the salary we earned that day. Hope I get to be in-charge again soon.

Club Crawl 2010

2010-04-28T14:15:00.009+08:00

The theme for this year's club crawl is "happiness". I like the layout of the sports hall and the performance area. Going to the toilet was however not that accessible due to the exit being blocked by the booths. The badges given out with accordance to the theme looks nice too. What a pity that I did not manage to collect all.

I was not really in the mood to do anything as I keep feeling very fatigue for both days. Headed to the booth and spend the rest of the day there after my class.

I missed the performance for the first day as no one informed me about it. Felt neglected. I did not spend much time there as I had lesson and after-action-review for Orientation. I went to buy the cake for the birthday celebration held later in the day while the others went on to trained at night. There was not any time available for me to go to the booth.

The second day was more happening for me. Missed the performance again. I had more time available to stay at the booth and walk around giving flyers. I did some kicking of the padding too. The silat and taekwando club were kicking padding too. Bored I guess. Near the closing of the event was rather boring as the crowd was not there.

I went to try out rock-climbing. It was fun! My hands were like jelly after the trial. I tried the second toughest first. Gave up halfway as I was not able to hang on. Tried the easiest and I managed to reach the top. Yes! Thank you WeiChong and William for helping me to take videos. It is a very memorable thing for me. It has been a tiring job for the rock-climbing people to ensure the safety of the participants. Thanks for their effort too.

With my jellied hands, I tried to drink water and was shaking really vigorously. I took a while to open the cap as I could not really feel my hand! What a great impact.

After a while, it was time to pack up. Clearing at the fastest speed, we removed all our things and it was time to go home. Took a ride in WeiChong's car to the MRT station to take my bus. I alighted earlier as there was a jam and I have another bus to take from that bus-stop too. My hands were still jelly after reacihng home. The "jelliness" was there for the next few there though.

NYP Wushu Mar/Apr Babies B'day Celebration 2010

2010-04-24T23:59:00.006+08:00

Rushed my way to buy the cake after having things settled at SHSAC. As knife and candles were not provided, I got to drop at the bus-stop at Grandma House to get the items. Thanks Auntie Mui for making a special trip down to pass me the stuffs, missing part of the show that she was watching. So nice of her.

I was so glad that I managed to rush back to school in time. I estimated that I would need an hour to get the cake. Surprisingly, I took one and a half hour to do so. Wow.

Leaving the cake in the clubroom, I rushed to grab some tissues from McDonald's. A 'big grab'. Rushing back to the clubroom, I quickly take the cake, tissues and lighters, and make my way to the netball court. I was so scared that I can't reach there in time.

I was so glad that I made it in time. What a coincident that WeiChong was there for training. He was one of the birthday baby! The "crowd" looks nicer with three people than two. As there was no March babies in the club, this celebration seemed more like one for the April babies.

While serving the cake, Liping and Liyan helped me to collect the money. Thanks to their help that I was able to get everything done quickly and smoothly. It was kind of stress while cutting the cake as WeiChong and Ivan keep doing "stunts" near me. Haha.

Well, what I need to improve on is the rubbish part. I kind of get annoyed when people start to throw the tissues into my plastic bag, assuming that it was for rubbish when my stuffs are still inside. Honestly, there are times that I feel disappointed that I have to stay behind to clear the rubbish left behind. Teamwork?

Well, here is a picture of the mocha cake that I bought!

Happy birthday to the April babies! =D

NYP SHS Orientation 2010

2010-04-23T19:11:00.002+08:00

This big event was finally over. A great relief. My role for this year's event did not seems to have any importance.

I was not told of what was going to happen and what to do. On the event day, what I merely contributed was collecting food for the club members. I was sent to get the food alone. It was very nice of one of the students in-charge of food to help me carry the other 17 packs all the way from North Canteen to the Auditorium. I carried another 4 packs and 21 packs of drinks.

Reaching the auditorium, I was told to bring the food to the sports hall. Instructions was just given to me with no one offering any help. I waited. Another girl from the club came to help me. As she has a way smaller body build than me, I carried all 21 packs of rice and three packs of drinks while she carried the rest of the drinks. It was so heavy that I could hardly move.

As I was not feeling well, I was having a slight fever, I did not have much appetite to eat. Seeing that, someone asked for a reason for not showing interest in my food. Since it was nice of him to ask, I told him that I was having a fever. The shocking thing was that he actually shouted across the hall to tell the president, making the whole world knowing that I was sick. I know he has no harm in doing so but that totally shocked me.

After having our meals, it was time to get back to work. The freshies were going to play their bonding games. Having nothing to do, I sat at the bench the whole day, forcing water down my throat. My fever did somehow subsided. The rest of the club members with nothing to do went crazy on the stage, singing and dancing. It looks fun.

At around 3pm, I went to take a look at the Wushu clubroom as I believe that some of the people must have arrived. Played with "gun" and "dao", I really miss the feeling that I get during training. Itchy muscles.

The orientation ended with a mass dance. Looks fun. I was still sitting at the side. I helped out in clearing so that everybody can go home early. There were more things to clear after most of the things were taken up to the clubroom. I cleared the rest of the things after spotting them on the floor while going for wushu as the SHS clubroom was locked.

I planned to buy the cake for March and April's birthday babies celebration. I did not do so as the event ended late. Though it dragged, I really must say that the emcees had did a great job in hipping up the atmosphere.

The after-action-review was done the day before yesterday. It was a disappointing day for me due to some changes in post that I do not understand. I still feel alienation and isolation. Oh well. Tomorrow will be a better day. Anyway, the feedback from the freshmen was that it was a fun event. I am really glad that they had enjoyed themselves.

Muse Infusion

2010-04-15T21:53:00.005+08:00

This event was like a SYF event. A little happy that I got to work for this event as I was not able to work for SYF this year.

The organiser was not well-organised. People were not cooperative as well. As it was the grading for band from Asia, there were many groups that came from different countries. China, Malaysia, Thailand, Philipines, Indonesia and Singapore.

What the conductor from the China band did was really inconsiderate. They were the first group. While others were performing, the band and that conductor totally did not show any respect. I don't see any point for them to pursue music anymore as they are not respecting music too.

The emcee did something inconsiderate too. Standard house's rule; no food and drink. I told him about that as he was gulping down his 100plus and talking mindlessly, he did not seemed happy. He said something that made me feel more negative towards the hirer. He said that the "main thing about holding an event is to earn money, not whether the event is smooth or not". How ethical is that.

The music performed by some groups were nice. The music played by Thailand group in western suits was really nice! The best costume would go to the other Thailand group that wore their traditional costume. Nice.

Work-wise, I got door three inside. Initially it was alright. I felt annoyed after some weird actions by my "partner". I can't believe that she actually complained behind my back. Great. Besides from the troubles created by her, everything else was alright.

Dinner break. It was not confirmed that there was two shifts initially till I reached there. I didn't ate any as Grandma had cooked my favourite food. Thanks to uncle Jimmy for treating me instant noodles. Though it was a small pack, it managed to last me till the event ends. I topped it up with my favourite milo. I decided to drink milo only initially.

The very nice Thailand group got a gold! Nice! They deserve it! Their conductor did smiled to me when he entered the house earlier in the day. I did not smile as my mood was not there. Felt really sorry about it. I almost didn't smiled throughout the whole day till after the dinner break.

What a new experience I would say. Bad organiser with some bad ethics people who trys to do something grand.

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2010-03-25T21:56:00.002+08:00

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NYP Wushu Jan/Feb Babies B'day Celebration 2010

2010-03-21T18:59:00.006+08:00

Went back to school for the important briefing and also celebrate the birthday for the January and February babies. Reaching there, it was shocking that only one baby turned up. Guess it was the best celebration in history ever.

Reaching the clubroom, people present started handing money to me after seeing the cake. Thank you people. It definitely made my job easier.

Guangyao coach seemed happy that it was a strawberry cake. I bought the cake from NTUC fairprice. As there was no candles and plastic knife given with the cake, I went to get them from breadtalk. The lady at the cashier was very nice. She even gave me the "happy birthday" plastic label. Good service.

Buying that cake of a smaller size has helped me to save some money. Due to the smaller size of the cake, there was not much waste too. I did not take any leftovers home. Thanks Pearlyn for helping me to distribute the cake too so that I could collect the money. I was the only welfare in-charge that was present on that day.

The cake tastes alright. I still however find that the taste still can be improved. Here's a picture of the strawberry cake!

I am really sorry to KokWei that he was present yet did not celebrate his birthday. Due to some mistakes in the records, I thought that his birthday was in May. I felt so sorry about it.

Band Fiesta 2010

2010-03-20T22:00:00.002+08:00

Rushed to the toilet after reaching my workplace. Stomache. Usher in-charge was not me. A little disappointed but it's alright. After one tiring event, I really do not know how much more my lower back can endure.

Due to that I was in the toilet when the appointed in-charge arrive, I was not able to get the slacking post as someone else has took it. Got an important role. My lower back was aching badly after the end of the event. It was so painful that I did not help out with the routine house checks. I really thank the rest for helping out. It's really teamwork. The deployment has to be this way as there were no other alternative. I have to take the more important role.

The performance was a preparation for the people for their upcoming Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging. Instructions from the hirer was not very clear. We really got to play by ear. There was a reason why I got that post.

Doris confiscated a can of coca-cola. The patron did not came to claim it back after the event. I took it home.

The event ended at an expected time. I wonder why I kept feeling that it was still early. In the house, I felt like it was only 6pm. Weird.

I took a train home with Yuyue. I was so glad that I managed to get a seat. I can rest my tired legs and painful back all the way home. After a few stops, an old lady board the train. I gave up my seat for her. I know I did a good thing. I was however worried about my back at the same time. I can do it!

Yes, I endured till I reached home.

Chingay 2010 Leaders' Appreciation

2010-03-18T14:23:00.005+08:00

I reached the office late as I had to attend an event at school. Thanks to Chongyi for letting me know what was going on then. I sweated a lot as I walked really fast.

Entering the office, I was rather confused of what to do. There were some YPC people yet I was ignored. I went up to a table and sign my name after seeing that there were signatures. Went in to put down my bag as I was not sure whether I can take the goodie bags on the table or not.

Bored, I called Elaine and made a trip to the toilet. Yes, I felt really awkward there. The only people that talked to me when I went in was Victor, Alex and Aaron. It was good that I met Joshua at the door after returning from the toilet. Someone I can talk to I guess.

I finally got my goodie bag when Alex came to attend to Joshua. Though it was nothing much, I like the notepad. Proceeded to take some food after Alex said that there were food. Only three trays were left. Oh well.

I took one chicken pie, one triangle pie and three brownies. I simply loves brownies. Weiguo came to take the chicken pie and made a simple comment, "what's this?". As I just reached and have not taken any bite, I just answered him, "food". Haha.

The rest of the people were playing with Wii. Bored me ate the food and looked through the stuffs I just got back from Mr Ho. Didn't eat very fast as I already had a round of food at the student conference.

It was followed by the sharing session regarding the parade and I was still eating. The brownies did not taste as great as I thought it would be. Maybe I was full. I expected myself to eat a lot but I did not. The drink was nicer that what I had in school.

I was called up for the sharing session. Shocked. Chose one question from Victor. "What was the most memorable event in Chingay?". I do not know what to say for this question. After much thinking, I said that it was my first time watching live fireworks display at Chingay Parade. After saying that, I wanted to end my "sharing". Dana then asked me about my group. I then said that my volunteers are books that cannot be judged by the cover and ended my "sharing".

I wanted to "sabo" Kelvin but his name was not called. Oh well. Wanted to make him sing as he has just finished his choir lessons. He reached there late too.

The programme was then followed by speech by Mr Raymond Huang and the giving out of certificates. I was so happy to get my certificate. I earned it with my hard work.

I then left the office, forgetting to wait for Weishan for my file. Oh well. Didn't head back as I need to get myself prepared for work at night. While leaving, I heard that the leftovers of the goodie bags can be taken. Not being very close to the people, I did not take any. Great. I really hope to take some extra though. Hmm.

I was so tired that I fell asleep after reaching home. The event was generally alright.

SHS Student Conference 2010

2010-03-16T21:43:00.004+08:00

I was the first person to reach the school and waited for some time till the person holding the key arrived.

As most of the things were set up a day before, there wasn't much thing that I could do. I did not get what I wanted to do; registrar for the VIPs. Oh well. I am alright with it. Just find that the plan for registartion can be improved.

After resgistration, it was time to take a break. Sat around and rest till it was time for refreshments. I helped out to serve the food. Got a tray that I got to ask people to choose only one. We had fun hiding food away for the club members. I like the chocolate eclairs and cakes. The mini egg tarts are not bad too.

After serving the food, it was time for us to eat. We continued eating after the people went back to the lecture theatre. Many had left after the refreshment. It was a boring session to many I guess.

My jobscope for the day was not that much. It was more of a relaxing event for me. not being very involved in the preparation, I was not very sure what was happening. I just feel that things for this event can be improved.

My mind was not really at school as the Chingay leaders' appreciation session has started. Right after the end of the programme and photo-taking, I went off immediately for the leaders' appreciation.

Music.Life

2010-03-14T23:37:00.006+08:00

Worked this two-day event with my injured lower back. Tired. BT was the in-charge for day one while I was the in-charge for day two.

Due to my lower back, I requested to be the flowergirl for day one. I wanted some rest. Things didn't really went well. I was ticked off by Stage IC. WX came to tell me about the same thing after GM complained to her. It was good that I got the chance to explain to WX, but I am not sure how she thinks. Sad.

GM said that I did not smile while I present the flowers. I did smile. I was ticked off by the Stage IC because the soloist wanted to shake hands with me but I left. I have got no chance to explain myself. Seeing that his hands were full and he doesn't looks like he was going to have a handshake with me, I left the stage. Thanks BT for helping me to further explain to WX after I told him what happened.

Bad day. As I was affected by what the GM said, I forgot to smile at Shurong when she thanked me for being the flowergirl. Felt really sorry about it.

The conductor was nice. He made me waited for some time while thanking the musicians before receiving the flowers from me. He gave me a handshake with a "thank you". I thanked him too.

Besides from being the flowergirl, I helped with the drinks and autograph session. Got to get the autographs from the musicians! Thanks Lin for helping me to ask BT.

Felt weird when I get the qutograph from the lady musician as I felt a little awkward while presenting flowers to her. I apologised to the soloist that I "made" awkward. He was very nice. He said "oh, it's alright". It really made me feel better.

Yuyue asked me to join her and BT for supper. The benefit given was that I got to have a free ride home. Haha. I was in a dilemna. I really wanted to join them, but it was rather late already. Decided to join them when they say that it would not take very long.

I had a nice chat with them during the ride and supper. I did not eat anything. They asked me to help myself with the food that they bought but I said that I wanted to sleep as an excuse.

Sending me to my Grandma House, I did not gave clear instructions. Really do not like the part about me that I am not in a clear state of mind when I am tired. I really must improve on this. Lucky that there wasn't much cars on the road. Phew.

Day two was chaotic. I am not good enough. There were four newbies, three with experience but not good enough yet. Jeanie was the only person that can help me a lot. I decided on the deployment while I was on the bus to work.

I gave QianTing a rather important role. Her jobscope was what I had for Day One. As a newbie, she did a very good job.

Preparing for the autograph session, Doris and I had to carry the queue-poles. I tried to roll the poles over so that I don't have to strain so much on my back. Thanks a lot to the guy at the reception counter for coming over to help me out.

Near the ending of the concert, I got to have some time to rest my back. Painful. I did not check out the inside of the house as frequent as I used to. My back was way to painful. I have been running around. I felt really bad that I haven't been taken much care for the newbies, especially for the two that were first time reporting. I had totally neglected the new temporary staff too. I feel so sorry about it.

Clearance of the house and autograph session was very fast. Gave the debrief as requested by Jessica. People doesn't seems to be interested at all. After around ten minutes of debrief, it was time to knock off.

No one knows that I was scolded by the Stage Manager. It was not my fault, just trying to settle the mistake made by one usher. I have got no chance to explain myself again. Jessica knew what happened as I made a comment when I saw something wrong; wrong late-comer queue.

Called Jessica to clear my doubts regarding how to fill in the form before giving it to the temporary staff. I really still need more experience to be a good in-charge.

Mistakes made for both nights were explained, but not to everyone who knows. I wonder will my name be cleared. I just hope that the rest of the events will be smoother for me. I want to have better skills too!

TV Broadcast of Chingay Parade 2010

2010-03-02T23:16:00.003+08:00

Watched the repeat of the Chingay Parade 2010 on last Sunday as I was not able to watch it on the previous Sunday. It was a different view of the show. It brought back the wonderful experience on ground watching the performances.

The good part of watching it on TV is that I get to know what are the things that I am supposed to look out for. Well, I still prefer to watch it on groud as I can really feel the zest. The ability to smell the fireworks listen to the full blast of fire crackers is a really good experience. The people in-charge of the fire crackers seemed to feel nothing when they were standing right beside the crackers and have the crackers bursting onto them. Yes, it was the most looked forward show of the parade, the fire cracker dragon. It's dragon dance with the fire crackers cracking on the dragon. Some performers that were not holding the dragon held on to the fire crackers as they cracks.

The show started with the music from Chingay Wonderland. I once again felt happy.

The dragon dances are really cool. I remembered that there was a group of monks that performed a very tough way of the dragon dancing. I saw another group showcased on TV but rememeberd what I saw on ground.

Liang Zhu's music is nice. I got to see more of the dances and what was on the float. I got to watch the full performance of the group from Taiwan too. Their skills are really great!

The Sayang Sayang song is great too but I do not really feel the beat that I felt on ground.

The finale song was quite nice. I still prefer last year's though. Hope I can get the sound tracks of the songs.

After watching the TV, I finally understand what was going on for the segment on the "yellow river". As I was at the side on ground, the show was rather confusing for me.

The broadcast lasted for two hours. Quite fast. Maybe it was an advantage that the parade was not broadcasted live so that no segments will be missed and mediacorp can continue slotting in advertisements through the shows.

The commenters were alright. They have provided information that helps me to further understand the show. It can however be improved as I do not think some unnecessary exclaimation is needed. There were point of times when the voices of the commenters drowned the music of the performances, affecting my enjoyment of the show.

Though the show was the same, watching it from the VIP's view is rather different. I am so glad that I got to enjoy the live fireworks on ground.

Chingay 2010

2010-03-01T01:53:00.006+08:00

I reached City Hall MRT station early to meet Elaine. I was so scared that I will be late with regards to the meeting time as I left my house rather late to charge my phone. I used up a lot of battery for the previous day. I was so glad that I did not make her wait.

We then make our way to the reporting area and found that we were the third and fourth leaders to reach. The rest were late. We took a rest before the rest arrived and have the briefing started.

I was so glad that the distributing of water was changed. We got to have a bottle each at the start of the day. I really thank the guy leader that helped me to get the box of water. Volunteers slowly reported one by one. We did the necessary admin stuffs and give out the water.

I went to talk to SockHui when I see that I am not so busy. She gave me her three slices of garlic bread. The bread saved me as I was rather hungry then. It was still a long way to go till dinner will be distributed. I tried to talk to the other leader at times so that he won't feel awkward that I used to feel.

After I finished the breads, the people from the toilet company came to clean the toilet. The smell was so terrible that I felt like vomiting. Sensitive nose. It was a torture to carry this out after having all the volunteers reported to the tentage.

Mr Raymond Huang came to give a talk again. He came in the segway just like the day before. I do not really like the idea of him coming in the segway as it was a rather dangerous thing. It is a cool invention I must say, balancing the whole machine hands-free.

Just like the previous day, we went to put the pompoms on the seats. instead of placing the items on the promenade side, we were in-charge of the pit side this round. The people worked really fast I must say. Within moments, all seats were placed with a pompom. I was thinking that there is some time for rest and enough time for dinner. Well, I was wrong. It rained shortly after all the pompoms were placed and all of us have to run for shelter first. We got to rest while waiting for the rain to stop. I really dread wiping the chairs due to my back.

We were given a piece of towel each shortly. Proceeded to around garage 33 for dinner before proceeding back to wipe the chairs. Reminded my group not to hurt their back while wiping the chairs with what I learned in school. Dinner was alright. I was so glad that there were more gravy. The fishcake tastes nice. We got three pieces of checken each, but it wasn't really nice. The vegetables was alright, just the kind that I do not really like.

It was a change in timing for dinner due to the rain. Supposed to have it at a later timing, the second dinner shift. I really do not like the segway moving to and froth near me as it is putting my poor feets in jeopardy. I am not sure when my toes are going to be run over by that heavy machine.

I wasted the food again. Not enough time to eat again. Sad. We then dragged out feets back to the yellow sector, as garage 33 is around the blue sector, to wipe the chairs. Reaching there, I was surprised to find that the chairs were actually very dry! Wow. Great, I do not have to hurt my back!

As the gates will be opened earlier than the previous day, the other leader and I were told to get the volunteers into their positions first. After all of them got into their position and I gave deployment to a guy who only turned up for that day, it was time to rest my legs. I took a seat beside the staircase near the red sector so that I can watch the people rehearse. Had a nice chat with the other leader.

Volunteers beside me suddenly apologised to me out of the blue. It took me a while to realise that they were trying to say that they are the lamp-post. It's not funny. The mood of a nice chat turned a little awkward for a moment. We continued chatting till the gates were almost opened. In between the chat, I went to the end of the gallery seats and shouted over to Sockhui who was at the red sector. Her way of wiping the chairs is going to hurt her back.

I did a last round of checks and waited for the gates to be opened. I could see that many spectators were already waiting at the entrance point, ready to get themselves into the cheery atmosphere of the parade. Standing and waiting for the cue at the staircase, I saw the spectators rushing in once the signal for the gates to be opened was given. It was time to get to work.

I walked around just like the previous day. Got some free gifts as it was the last day. Furthermore, there was a special section dedicated to the PA members. There were extra gifts given to these people and I got myself some. Great. I got the blue-light Chingay fan too. It would be nice if I get to have the yellow one as well.

As I have watched the parade before, I still kept my spirits high. I still like the Chingay Wonderland music piece. I watched the parade with a different volunteer. The starting was filled with smoke. A little more than the previous day. The wind was so strong that all the smoke was blown towards my sector. All the colour papers were blown over to my side as well.

The people holding the gigantic flags had some problems balancing as the wind was really strong. But they did it! They were just so good!

As I sat at the side near the red sector, there was noise pollution. As it was the side of the sector, the ending of each performance, I did not really get a good view of the show. I sat in the middle the previous day and got a rather nice view. Well, at least I get to see something a little different.

We got ready for deployment as the parade is near the ending. Nice fireworks. I screamed till a guy volunteer in front of me got irritated. Well, it was a time for high-spirits, so why not? I really like the fireworks. Guess what? I got to see KungFu Panda too! I even got a chance totake a picture of it! Yes! KungFu Panda is just so cute. Being very high-spirited for the finale, he danced and his fat belly actually bounced within the protective ring. So cute! Though I have to take a picture of it through the metal railings of the staircase, I was very happy!

I saw a performer getting ready for her next act; dancing with a colourful pompom at the gallery. I asked to take a picture with her. Nice! Just a pity that the picture is a little dark. Great enough I guess.

I was told to stayed on top to clear the spectators while the rest of my group proceed down to be part of the "bye-bye party". As the City Alive people have taken over the pit, there was only one way to exit the venue. The volunteers were asked to direct them to that only exit.

After the people were cleared, I got a chance to take a picture together with the other leader and the PA in-charge. Nice. A pity that my hair was messy yet I did not realise!

It was time for a mass photo to be taken after that. The group was led to the blue sector to find a seat. Proceeded back to the tentage after a while as we were told that it was not a success in taking that photo. We took another mass photo at the tentage.

After the admin work, it was time that the volunteers were released. The other leader and I sorted out the excuse letters and certificates before distributing them out. Nice cooperation.

There was no certificates given out to the leaders on that day. After the leaders' mass debrief and submitting my name for the excuse letter, it was time to leave the place. It was nice of HongQuan to wait for me again. We walked really fast as it was late. I was so glad that we caught the last train to Jurong East. Phew.

I reached home at the same time as the previous day. Tired. I earned myself a wound because of the ankle guard that I wore. The protruding rubber caused my foot to be itchy. My foot bled due to the scratch. Ouch. I went to sleep after taking a bathe. It was really a relief that this project has ended. I am really tired. I am so happy that I finally got to rest.

Chingay 2010 Preview

2010-02-24T16:47:00.008+08:00

After all the trainings and meetings, it was finally the parade day. I reached the reporting venue a little late due to mis-calculation of time.

A very tiring day for me as I have to take two groups at the start. Thought I have to do this alone, I am rather happy that I can do this all on my own.

I find it weird that the water that were given were all restricted and will only be given out during dinner. Most of us came hands-free and the whole day without water is rather torturing. The restriction of water had made my job a little harder to get the cooperation from my volunteers.

As I have to work alone, I have to multi-task; getting attendance and giving out the passes at the same time. After the attendance were submitted to the admin team, all leaders were called to a side. I was expecting a briefing but to my surprise, it was an advertisement time! Two ladies from the RedBull team distributed flyers and explained to us the values of a can of RedBull. We were then given a can each to drink. I took a can indicated with the word "sugar-free". As we were rushed to finish the drink before going back to our groups, I had a moment of hard time forcing the drink down my stomach. I am not really used to drinking RedBull and am still a little doubtful with regards to the content. Sweet and concentrated though it was indicated to be sugar-free. Well, at least it quenched my thirst and is going to last me for three hours as mentioned by the lady.

Deployment to place the items on the chairs was the thing that happened next. As there were not enough water, I was asked to bring five guys from my group to collect the water from garage 45. Wow, I was so glad that I performed in NDP09, which provided me with the knowledge of where the garage is and how it is numbered. Aaron led the rest of my group to place the items. Due to some miscommunications, the five guys and I wasted time waiting. We got nothing and went back to help out with the placing of stuffs with the rest of the groups. It was nice having a short and meaningful conversation with them.

Reaching the yellow sector, I led the five people to cross the road at the designated crossing points though crossing through the middle was possible. I just do not want to bring upon any unnecessary troubles.

Helping out with the placing of pompoms, the job was quickly done. I then rushed them back for dinner. People just walked very slow. We were only given a box of water before the start of work. Just 24 bottles of water was simply not enough for such a big group of mine.

Reaching back the tentage, there was no space for my group. Seeing that there was an empty space ebhind the tentage, I asked the group to proceed there. I wondered who was that big group of volunteers that took away our space. It was tough as people were crowding around the RedBull station for the drinks. It took me a hard time to move them to the space to get their orders. I even had to go to the extent of shouting fiercely. As people were still not listening, I got to block the people from giving out RedBull to my group. I really do not wish to do that too. I really don't want to be fierce. After moving them to the side and took their orders, AAOIC helped me got a space inside the tentage. Shifting again.

I really thank the guys that helped me to get the food and water. Really. Due to my back, I was not able to carry heavy stuffs then. Thanks for being tolerance too while being told off by someone unreasonably. Due to time constraint and returning late to the tentage, I only got limited time to eat. The other two leaders turned up when the dinner was started being distributed. I only managed to take a few bites as the food was rather dry. I was thinking how nice it would be if there was some gravy. Well, I wasted most of my food. Sad.

Setting off to the yellow sector for deployment, I was introduced to the PA in-charge. It was quite nice working with him. After getting the necessary information and waiting for the gates to be opened, I did pairing and deployment with another leader. It was an easy job as I am used to doing this.

After resting a while after getting the deployment done and the people into position, it was time for the spectators to enter. The rehearsal was still going on while the spectators were on their way in. Weird.

As there was no empty positions for me to fill, I was so glad that I got to walk around instead of staying still at a position. After a while of walking, I felt tired and bored. I kept my spirits high as I was expecting some friends to turn up. The other leader was telling me that there was nothing to do. I agreed and said that we are walking around and waiting for something to happen. Guess what? Right after I said that, a big problem appeared for me to handle. I immediately proceeded to solve the issue when a volunteer told me about it. I have something to do finally.

It was indeed a big issue. Due to some miscommunications and confusion, three guys from a tour group took the seats of a family of three. It took me around ten to fifthteen minutes to settle the issue. This duration is way too long to solve a problem. The family of three has been standing at the side till the parent was getting irritated as the three guys was rather reluctant to shift. They have been very tolerance enough. It was rather shocking initially when the three of them can't tell me who was their leader that was holding on to the tickets and after the leader came to me, she was not able to confirm with me whether she has the tickets or not. Wow.

Due to the long duration used to solve the issue, I was tempted to call for help but did not. I was glad that I finally got it solved. After solving the issue, I continued walking around. I was so happy to see my wushu friends as I was not sure where they would be sitting initially. It was a pity that no photos were taken with them.

After a while, someone talked to me as I was taking a peep at the pre-parade. He was from SRJC and a friend of my senior, Lydia. It took me a while to recognise him. Had a short chat before I went off. Guess he is interested in joining Chingay too. Haha.

The pre-parade started shortly and it was followed by the parade. I was so glad that I finally can have a seat as my injured ankle was working up. Had some fun with some volunteers. It wasn't really fun to watch the parade alone. I was so glad that there were people I could have fun with. It was really fun waving the pompoms and scream. I enjoyed waving to the performers, and taking pictures and videos of their performances. The show was really nice. I really like all the wushu segments.

The start of the parade made me feel very happy as the music from Chingay Wonderland was played. I really like that piece a lot.

I missed the last part of the parade as it was time to get ready for deployment. My eyes totally lit up when I saw KungFu Panda and fireworks! I feel so high-spirited! It was a pity that I could not take a picture of KungFu Panda as I was back on duty. I was too busy to get to watch the show too.

My group was asked to return back to the tentage first as the rest of the people are enough to be part of the "byebye-party". After the rest of the volunteers were back at the tentage, they were released after the admin procedures were cleared. It was then time for feedback for the leaders.

After the feedback, I quickly ran off as it was really late. I really do not wish to miss the last train. I took a train home together with HongQuan though I was allowed to claim my taxi fare as I promised him first. Really thank him for waiting for me though he could have went home first.

I was so glad that there were seats for the both of us. I really want to rest my tired legs. Guess I really need to use my ankle guard for the next day.

I reached home at around 12.40am. Really late. Was lucky that I managed to board my bus as I thought the last bus was at 12.20am. Phew. I quickly went to sleep after taking a bath, going to get myself ready for the next long day.

River HongBao 2010

2010-02-22T20:26:00.003+08:00

This was my first time attending this event. Before going down to the Marina Promenade, I was expecting lots of beautiful displays, nice foods and a big crowd of people.

As I reached there at around 9.30pm, there were not that much people there. Joycelyn, HongQuan and I stayed till the venue was closed at 11.30pm. Because of the minimal number of people, we managed to take quite a lot of nice pictures. As I forgot to bring my camera along, I have to use my camera phone to shoot pictures. Many turned out to be blurred.

Items on displays did not turned out to be as much as I thought it would be. I especially like the pandas and the dragon made of molten sugar. As I went there late with a hungry stomach, I really felt like biting the dragon! It just looks so yummy. Some people were selling some masterpieces beside this sugar dragon. They use the molten sugar to draw out different types of animals. They are really cool! A beautifully drawn animal was done within seconds.

I took most of the pictures with the pandas. They are just unresistably cute. The one set of display dedicated to pandas is quite nice. There are pandas that are fishing, riding, and even taking pictures!

We went to the food section, hoping to try some nice foods. We ended up eating nothing as the price was way too high for the small amount of food. The food however smells nice though. Some of the food seemed common, for example, pancakes. I would rather buy the durian pancake from AMK Hub then from there as it was really very small. Furthermore, what was spread in the pancake was just simply strawberry jam.

There were some other stalls besides from those selling foods. But there were not relly very much interesting things there.

The three of us took lots of fun pictures at the entrace before heading home as the decorations of the entrance seemed nice.

It was a rather tiring day as it was rather rush. I can only visit the place on Thursday as it only last till the last day of Chingay. It would be nice if the duration could be extended so that I can take my time to visit after Chingay.

Youth Olympics Games 2010 Mascots

2010-02-15T14:18:00.003+08:00

I like this picture of the first Youth Olympics Games' mascots. I didn't really like the design of the mascots a lot but this picture nice. The cute side of the mascots I guess?

On the second day of this Lunar New Year, at 12am midnight, I accepted the post offered to me after a lot of thoughts. There were basically three opportunities for me to sign up for; dewu wushu to perform for the opening ceremony, YOG official site, and Heartware Network as ushers for opening and closing ceremonies.

I am offered a post to be an Event Service Marshal. It's something like usher but not really alike. I wonder how is it going to turn out to be. I am really looking forward to be part of the first Youth Olympics Games.

source of image: http://www.singapore2010.sg/public/sg2010/en.html

Grading for Green Belt

2010-02-01T12:37:00.005+08:00

I have endured and finished the three routines that were tested. It is really a good thing that I bit my lips and finish this journey. I had given my best and I will not regret it.

Thanks to Dad for driving me from Grandma house all the way to Kampong Ubi CC. Reaching there early, I started to warm-up and did some revisions. Nervous? Of course! Well, at least I got my emotions under control.

Some time after sending the white-belts up, it was time for us the green-whites to report. I got number seventy-four. What a great number. I was the first person from my batch to grade. I was paired up with Liyan for "lian bu quan" and "shaolin dan dao". As for the last routine, "shi mian ba fang gun", all of us did it one-by-one. Thanks Ruiqi for helping to pin up the number on my back.

I wonder if it was some improvement in my steminar, I do not feel so breathless. Or was it that I did only one routine at a time? Anyway, I felt a little stomache. Most probably nervousness.

Starting the "lian bu quan" after a second or two to stabilise myself, I became worried again after "eating" into Liyan's "territory". I was so scared to collide into her! I got the right side again. It was not as unlucky as I thought.

After finishing the first routine, "lian bu quan", I almost cried after leaving the exam area. I was stucked at that same old place again! For the rest of the moves at the back, I was not really stable as I felt like punching myself.

I did not forgot the routine this time round. What I forgot was, whether I did the "jing ji du li". After a moment of recalling, I went on with the "pizza move". Maybe it was the anxiety that cause what I did previously not properly encoded into my brain. At least I remembered what I did in that exam area. I totally can't remember what happened on the exam area for my first grading, I was just going auto-pilot. I was not as nervous as the first grading I must say.

Liyan told me that we stucked at the same place. She concluded that it may be dued to some "aura blockage" at that moment. No wonder I find it weird that she ended at the same time as me. Liping told us that Guangyao and Shifu was laughing.

I can feel some pain in my right ankle. I forced myself to press on, attempted to lie to my brain that it was nothing.

"Jian yi dan dao" was alright. Just that my feet seemed to be twisted at some point of time. The rough floor seemed to restrict some of my movements. It restricted my "gong jia" too. Hmm. Managed to make some sound but it was not desired enough. Choon Hong asked me to stand more to the right after my entrance. Guess I have scared some people there while I "ate into" Liyan's "territory" for the previous routine. He wanted to put me together with another boy who was also doing the broadsword. He changed his mind after I gave him the "O_O" face. Haha.

While doing the "ci bu", I remembered what Shifu said; no skipping. I did this routine with auto-pilot not because of anxiety. I just do not want to think too much, putting focus on my stability and confidence to finish the routine.

More pain on my right ankle after finishing the broadsword routine. Endure, endure! Felt some spasms while waiting for my turn to do the last routine.

While waiting for my turn, Jingting came to tell me that I slouched for my broadsword. At that time, the boy beside me accidently hit me with his sword. Demoralisation.

Thanks Choon Hong for guiding me to the specific place to start my "gun". Was worrying a little about where to stand before entering. I was really scared that my large usage of space may cause me to hit the main judges' table. I don't wish to shift my space halfway through the routine as it would be nicer if I can finish in one go. And yes, I did it in the end.

My "pi gun", I find it quite good as there was only one single sound. "Piak!" My "pao gun", I was a little worried, but I caught it! Yes! After "jing li", I went out of the exam area, putting a full-stop to this grading. As I was walking out, my face started to change. Yes, I have been controlling my facial emotion while I was doing my "pao gun" and "jing li". The reason was that I hit my left second metacarpo-phalangeal joint and it is now swollen. Tears were almost flowing out of my eyes. Pain. Very very pain.

After the whole thing concluded, Yeetian told me that my "pao gun" was very good. Happy! =D

I could not move my index finger till after some time. Maybe it was due to the excitement while I saw the exhibits near Eunos MRT station. Pictures taking time! Had lots of fun taking pictures with the zodiac animals and we met a "guai shushu". He wanted to take a picture of us after we asked someone to take a picture of us using my 8.1 megapixels handphone camera. The five of us (Liping, Serene, Yeetian, Liyan and me) had lots of question marks on our head. Haha. After he took a picture of us, he gave me his website to retrieve the photo. Heard from some aunties beside us that he is the photographer that follows Dr Ong, one of the Minister of Parliament.

I did not feel as nervous as my first grading. Guess it was me slowly getting used to the stress through the performances that I have participated. Maybe it was because there were a few more familiar faces than before as well? Well, since it was not the first time going for grading, I had kind of expected some of the things.

There were not as many people as expected that turned up for grading. Short queue. Relieved us headed home after having some fun at the Eunos MRT station open space. I wanted to stay on but my ankle needs lots of rest. I reached home at around 10pm. It was a fun experience. =)

SCO Opening Gala 2010

2010-01-31T00:12:00.004+08:00

Tight schedule for the day. Glad to hear that the repoting timing was a little late so that I have a little more time to prepare for work. Due to some technical problems with hotmail and the company's email, it was around 11am that I got to know the reporting timing. Great.

Shopped a little with Dad at the "pasar malam" before taking the train. It was the first day of business. I reached the loading bay at around 30 minutes before the reporting time. As no email was received, I went to look at the notice board regarding about the event. I was shocked to see that I was the in-charge for that day! Wow. I quickly went back to the security room to change my security card from number 6 to number 1.

Four reported one hour earlier than me to give out goodies. Two of them were the "cai shen". A little disappointed that I do not have the chance to take a picture with them. Hmm.

Work was generally alright. I was not a good in-charge that day. I forgot to do deployment before going up, forgot to inform my ushers when was the intermission, forgot to do the autograph deployment beforehand, first time stealing a bite from the reception and got caught, forgot to keep a good track of the timings that are to be recorded. I wonder what's wrong with me. I guess it was my luck. Anyway, there was some parts of the organisation of things that made me difficult to do what I want. I really thank my group of ushers who are almost auto-pilot. Glad that they know what is going on and are smart enough to decide what are to be done. Thank you people.

I am a little disappointed that I don't really get to watch the performance. Managed to peep a little here and there. I really like the music. I can feel the energy in the music. My spirit went up when a joyous song was played. I can feel some tears that were going to flow out when a low-spirited music was played. This is just how great the orchestra is. The short play by the 93.3FM DJs seemed nice but I do not get to watch as I had to stay outside. Peifen is pretty. Haha.

Peifen's parents was late and were not able to enter till a suitable break. The mother told me they were late as the father worked till very late. They looks nice, totally not the show-off type.

The event ended and I spent some time to fill in the form. A little stressed while filling up the form as I am still not that confidence whether I fill in correctly or not. First time filling up a lost and found form. Furthermore, I was still feeling a little bad about what I did. Good to learn something new.

I am rather disappointed with my performance. I am not professional enough. Took a cab home and had a rather good short random chat with the driver.

Festival of Love and Fortune - Wushu Lunch-Time Performance

2010-01-30T22:40:00.002+08:00

I was so glad that there are more chances for me to practice my routines under stress.

Performed the broadsword on Wednesday. It was a relaxing day as there was no lesson for me. Performance was alright. I just find the performing area rather small. Thanks Edward for being the cameraman. Anyway, this performance was a record "broken". There were only four person performing! There was only three initially. Fu Hong came last minute. I was the only girl again.

Preparation for the performance was alright. Timing was brought forward again. A little rush till I forgot to pin up my fringe. Thank you Ruiqi for helping me with my costume while trying to study for a test! Smart-looking me!

It was time to slack in the clubroom after the performance to wait for the club meeting. Quick upload of the performance videoes and pictures!

Friday's performance timeslot was cancelled at the last minute. Received the news from Yeetian one hour before the scheduled timing. Great. Oh well. The good part was that I got to have lunch with the wushu people! Nice! Haojun and William just couldn't stop making fun of me. They were lucky that I did not spill any rice on their face. Haha.

Since I brought my broadsword, I practised a little before going for class. Planned to perform "lian bu quan" initially but changed my mind as I wanted to familiarise myself with the broadsword that I had borrowed for grading. The broadsword was not the one that I usually used during training.

I feel a little cheated though, to bring so many things to school and the performance was cancelled. Hmm.

Well, looking at the bright side, I at least have one more day of practice under the stress of audience and a rare lunch with the wushu people.

Keat Hong Chinese Orchestra 35th Anniversary Concert

2010-01-28T21:00:00.005+08:00

This was the first event that I thought I can work with Cher. What a pity that she fell sick.

From the email received, I kind of deduced that some special guest is going to attend this event. Reaching my workplace, my hypothesis was verified. The minister of manpower was the guest-of-honour. I was the VIP usher as usual. What I would like to comment about his bodyguards was that they doesn't seems to be very fierce. Guess one tried to thank me when I helped to shift the sign-post away for the minister while he re-enters the house for the second half of the concert.

Work for the day was generally alright. Not much of uncooperative patrons. I get to put more attention on the performance. There were parts of the music that I find the beats weird though. Hmm. Of all the songs that I have heard that night, I like the erhu piece the best. Nice.

The suona piece was really great too. I just do not really understand the music. The conductor introduced the suona piece before performing. It is a story between a couple and the famous "bao gong' from the Song Dynasty. Cool. There were three suonas, depicting each character with each. Cool.

"Dali Qing Feng" sounded a little different from the one played by the people of MFCO for the first concert. Hmm. The song after this piece reminded me of my last SYF with MFCO as the "shou gu" was used. Yes, I am reminded of the song "tian shan sheng hui".

Work was generally alright just that there is a little lack of manpower. There were times that I have to leace my position but was not able to do so freely. An example would be bringing the wheel-chair patron to the toilet. The reason was that many patrons doesn't bother to read the sign-post placed atthe door. Well, most of them surprisingly read the sign-post on that day.

Well, it was a really tiring day for me as I had to wake up very early in the morning to the East for Chingay training, rushed for many things and endured till the end of work. Guess I broke my record.

NYP Open House 2010 - Wushu Performance

2010-01-09T18:38:00.008+08:00

The three-day event finally ended. It was a great experience though I am very tired.

The first day of performance my first performance of the year and also my first solo performance. I felt nervous and excited at the same time. It has been so long since I last performed. I chose the broadsword routine, "jian yi dan dao", as it was what I can perform relatively better and confidence with.

It was my first time wearing the performance costume too. Chose the yellow costume over the white costume as the lining of the latter was black instead of my favoured red. Furthermore, I like bright colours. I felt a little blur though. I am kind of worry whether I wore it correctly. Thanks to Ruiqi for helping me that I am able to look smart on that day.

As it was my first performance, I invited quite a few number of people to watch me perform. I was so glad that Auntie Mui took time to come down to support me. Yey! Lucky she left the house early or she may miss my performance. Due to some issues, the timing was brought forward. Due to the last minute instructions, we have to get everything ready fast. I was so glad that my class ended early so that I have sufficient time to try on the performance costume and wore my guards.

As I was very cold due to the air-con from the clubroom and there was not enough time for me to warm-up, I wore my jacket to the atrium for "speed warm-up". Hopefully my body heat will go up, making stretching easier for me.

Thanks Weichong for helping us to take care of our belongings when we were performing. Thanks for being the cameraman too. Haha.

My heart was beating really fast while I was waiting for my turn. It thumped really fast till I went onto the performing area. Excited yet nervous. I took a few seconds to "stabilise" myself by standing still on the performing area before getting on with the routine. I wanted to build up the "feel" too.

I performed the moves with much confidence, keep reminding myself to be stable. I almost smiled when I managed to create the desired sound with the broadsword; the sound had further boosted my confidence. According to Ruiqi, it was Shuting's broadsword. Till now, I still can't make the desired sound from my broadsword.

Mr Ho came to support me too! He helped me to take pictures! So happy! He came to the "backstage" to take a picture of me acting cute after my solo. Haha. He gave me a thumbs-up as he walked over to me. After acting cute, I ran off for the last minute added mass "wu bu quan" by Wenyi.

Generally, I had a great experience for my first solo. I feel really great! After the performance, I quickly changed and set off to go home together with Auntie Mui and Ruiqi.

The second day of performance was alright. I chose to do "lian bu quan" as I still have some problems memorising it. I want the pressure of the performance to force myself to encode the moves into my brain. Hopefully I can get it well-encoded into my brain before grading.

I was so scared that I may forgot my routine that I kept revising it in my mind. I even went to the extent of using the broadsword routine as a backup just in case I forgot my routine. That showed how bad my "lian bu quan" was.

My uncomfortable stomach further dropped my confidence level. It was definitly not the pain caused by my nervous feeling. It felt like, the diarrhoea type of pain.

My turn to go onto the performing area. Nervous. I managed to finish all my moves. I was laughing after leaving the performing area. Happy me. Shuting helped me to video down my performance as it was her break. I really appreciate that. Watched the video while I was on my way back to the clubroom. My stances were really high. Yes, lots of improvement are needed.

Bro came to watch me perform too. So happy. How great it would be if he had taken some photos of me in action. By the way, I was the only girl performing that day. Ruiqi was not able to turn up as she was sick. Humph.

Slacked at the clubroom for some time till my Dad come to fetch me back to my Grandma house.

The third day of performance did not went on very smoothly for me. Guessed I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Many things seemed to go wrong. I had a rather "emo" time.

For the first session, I performed "lian bu quan". I actually forgot the second half of the routine! I was stucked at the same old part that I always have a problem recalling during training. How great was that? I am not sure whether was it the sight of someone that I do not wish to see that affected me. In any case, I am utterly disappointed with myself. Frankly saying, at that moment, I guess I am more shocked by the fact that I forgot my routine rather than angry.

Thanks Shuyan for trying to make me feel better. The distribution of ice-cream came just in time after the short chat with Shuyan. Yummulicious. It was Wall's Cornetto chocvanilla!

I tried to boost my mood by using the ice-cream, the extrinsic factor. It however did not last very long. I was "emo-ing" again after a while. Thanks Jingyan for ringing my phone to cheer me up.

Second session, I performed the broadsword routine. Thanks Jessen for changing to "hu quan" so that I was able to perform the broadsword. I was not able to do that initially because according to Wenyi, there were too many people performing using the broadsword.

Reaching the atrium, I surprisingly saw the CO people getting prepared. Can't find Bro. Manage to see him after "jing li" to the audience. I quickly pass him my phone so that he can help me to take pictures. He helped me to take a video instead. Nice. I was so happy to be able to hear the sound of the broadsword in the video. That means that it was loud enough.

Anyway, while performing for the second session, I was not really stable though I managed to finish the whole routine. I wonder why. Shadow from the previous session? Or maybe it was due to the presence of another person that I do not wish to see. Great, two sessions with people that I do not wish to see. It's not hatred, just pressure.

After the performance ended, it was a relief. I felt so tired. Guess I somehow overstretched myself today. Each of us got vouchers from McDonalds to exchange for a burger and a can of coca cola. I asked for McChicken as I am not able to take beef. I got a Gloria Jeans voucher too. Not all of us have it as there was only five.

Wanted to give my can of coca cola to Fengwei but he went off before my order was ready. I was so glad that Dad waited for me so that I can have a relaxed ride home. I just felt so tired after the last performance.

Well, thanks for the effort, people. I had a fruitful experience. Hope that mistakes that I made will never be repeated and that I will improve!

On 02.01.2010, I Had A Thought...

2010-01-02T20:44:00.006+08:00

In Order to Be A Good Leader,

Be A Good Team Player First.

NYP Wushu December Babies B'day Celebration 2009

2009-12-31T19:53:00.005+08:00

This event was relatively more smooth than the previous celebration.

Thanks Dad for making a special trip to drive me so that I can get the cake purchased and reach school on time. Thanks for paying for me too. Thanks Xinxin for being my "loan shark" for the day. Thanks Liping for being the photographer for the day so that me, one of the December babies, can sit infront of the birthday cake with the rest of the December babies.

While getting prepared for the celebration, I searched up and down the clubroom to locate two lighters. Phew. Almost forgot to get the lighters though. During the celebration, there were only a few people who were rather high-spirited. I feel that there is something missing; sportsmanship.

Some of us stayed behind to clear the things and talked things out. I took the leftover cake home again. Here is a picture of the cake, tiramisu.

Wishing a very happy birthday to the December babies!

NYP Wushu Christmas Present Exchange 2009

2009-12-26T00:30:00.005+08:00

Spent quite some time planning this event together with Xinxin and Kenny. It was finally done. I would like to thank the people who have helped me and cooperated with me. There is definitely room for improvement.

I am not so tired as I didn't really trained much due to my newly "achieved" injury. Still had a rather clear mind I would say.

Gifts received were of many designs. What I can say is that there are lots of creativity. Some of the presents can be seen that lots of effort has been put in to design it. Liping as usual made a Christmas card and attached it to her present, so sweet.

I spent quite some time to wrap my present too, choosing to wrap it in a different way than usual. I want something simple yet unique, so I some sort of made a bag with the wrapper. Dad taught me how to do it some time ago. I find it nice and decided to apply for this event. The present I chose was something made by Auntie Peng. Asked her to make something so that its rather personalised. Smart Auntie Peng really made something out with a very christmas-colour. Nice!

I asked Eric coach to be the "santa claus" as he was the only coach free on that day. Guangyao coach was busy talking to Shifu. Things went on rather smoothly all thanks to what Shuyan told me earlier. She asked me to lay the things out first so that it would not be so messy. I did not thought of that earlier though. Guess I really have to put in more considerations when I organise things again.

Something really unexpected had happened and it was an additional learning experience I would say. Things were resolved smoothly due to mutual understanding. What I want to say is that they are just great people.

Happy Birthday to Me!!

2009-12-25T13:25:00.002+08:00

It seemed to be just another day though it was a special day. Tired I guess.

Spent my morning at my Grandma house and went to meet up with Parvin at AMK Hub. Spent time chatting and browsing through photos and videos she took in India. We proceeded to HDB hub later on as she wanted to buy a thumbdrive. Took some pictures with the christmas decorations at AMK hub before leaving. The gingerbread man is very cute!

Went home after that as I was hungry. I really enjoy dressing up nicely as I don't usually does that. Used my new converse bag finally.

I want to thank Auntie Peng, Auntie Mui, Grandma, Dad, Parvin for the wishes and presents. Thank you Xiuhui, Huiyue, Yaxin, Grace, Yushi and Joshua for the wishes though some were belated. I am just glad that you people remembered and took the effort to send your greetings. =)

Thank you people! =D

Sinfonietta VIII

2009-12-24T19:16:00.002+08:00

Went to my workplace straight after taking a walk at Chinatown and bought two breads for my dinner. Tried to sleep a little at the loading bay after finishing my bread. Can't really sleep due to constant disturbances from Uncle Jimmy. Noisy him kept singing hokkien song right in front of me.

Work commences when time was up. House-check. I found lots of chairs with the cilps released in just one block of seats. Great find I guess. I was still checking my block while the others had finished and were resting at one side. Junyu and Sam were practising their "synchronised dance", switching their crossed legs at the same "beat". Haha!

Doors opened and here came a guy with lots of special requests. He bombarded me with tonnes of questions and I was so glad that I managed to settle him. Guess he was one of the teacher-audience. Wanted to help my colleagues with the VIP seats but can't really leave my position as there are people who will just continue to exit from door four though a sign was indicated that no exit is allowed.

The performance was good though there is still room for improvement. Their band looks familiar. Guess I saw them before for their band performance I guess. Their uniform looked like nutcrackers.

After the end of the event, we waited for clearance of ther performers as they had their briefing and photo-taking session in the house. Tried to take a small nap but the others were rather noisy.

As the whole thing ended relatively early, I decided to go home by bus. Since I am still on concession, why not? Had a nice chat with the colleague that took the same bus as me again. The chat kept me awake throughout the ride.

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2009-12-10T20:41:00.006+08:00

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Mandeville Annual Concert 2009

2009-12-05T22:32:00.002+08:00

It was a event that almost all of the ushers were not happy with. Many of the patrons were really not cooperative. Rich people? So? The main thing we had was to stop them from taking pictures.

The hirer did helped us once by asking the emcee to repeat the announcement of no photography and videography. It did help us a lot. How I wish other hirers would do the same too. Anyway, we were just executing instructions from the hirer. I saw some people eating too. The sign, "no food and drinks are allowed into the concert hall", was placed at the entrance. Illerate? Missed it? What about our direct reminders?

Some nasty people just treated us as people who are stupid. Is managing to take a picture while we were not looking or ignoring us an achievement? Wow. Frankly saying, I really need some guidance here, regarding how to deal with these nasty people. It would be easy if it was an SCO event as it was the standard rule of my working venue. The security can be asked to help. Hirer's event, well, I need more knowledge on these.

Well, this event really showcases how nasty people can be. My skills and knowledge definitely needs improvement too.

Musical Variations

2009-12-01T21:41:00.003+08:00

It was brother's performance and I am working! I was assigned to be in-charged of door four again. VIPs. I was left to deal with the whole lot of people alone. Asked Jeanie to help me at times but I never got any. The event was rather, a mess. The principal of NYP did not produce a ticket. I felt rather annoyed that he talked to me with a tone depicting that he has the authority to do what he want.

After the VIPs were cleared finally, it was a relief. I found out that the people catering the food for the VIPs were actually from NYp's North Canteen. Initially I was thinking if there would be any leftovers for us. When I realised that it was from North Canteen, two words appeared in my mind - forget it.

From my position, I can see my brother though he was blocked at times by other people. Saw his solo for the "musique de cuisine". Cool. Guess that is the best piece of the day. It was a very lively piece. Zheng Laoshi wore his apron to conduct the orchestra too!

The concert generally was good. I was able to watch much of the show as the audience was rather cooperative. During intermission, I saw Mdm Wong Luan Wah, director for Allied Health. I greeted her. Guess she has forgotton who I am. Quite nice of her tosay 'thank you' to me before leaving.

While bringing my mum to the toilet, Mr Tan Swie Hian talked to me! Basically, he just asked me where is the toilet that's all. Haha. I was hoping that I can take a picture with him. Didn'tdo so in the end as I was too shy to ask. Furthermore, it wouldn't be nice if anyone were saw me doing that during my working hours.

There were some unhappy things that happened on that day. I really feel like scolding people. Planned to take a picture with my brother but did not in the end as there wasn't time. I was glad that I at least managed to take a picture with Cher.

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2009-12-01T20:08:00.004+08:00

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Wushu Outing at East Coast Park (27.11.2009)

2009-11-29T11:35:00.006+08:00

Though I had went there for wushu outing back in April once, I am still not very sure of the way. Met some of the wushu people at Eunos MRT station before we set off to East Coast Park together.

The way there was full of noise. All thanks to Haojun, I do not know I should laugh or cry.

Christian fetched us at the other end of the underpass. He found a big tree branch while we made our way to meet Ruiqi and Edward. A few steps after the place where he found the big tree branch, I saw a four-leaved plant. It looked like a clover but not really a clover. I am kind of regretted now that I did not take a picture of it then.

Met Ruiqi and Edward at area D. Mats were already laid out. We put our bags and it was time for games! Dog and bone was the first item. A little violent. Thanks Haojun for contributing his bottle of mineral water. The nice bottle was somehow "defaced" with the recurrence burying under the sand. The sand is full of sharp items. Christian got a rather big cut on his foot. Ouch.

The weather was rather hot. The sand was burning hot under the sun. We had to wear our slippers while playing the game. Guessed I got a little sunburnt. I realised that my face and foot were rather red. My foot have the outline of my slippers! Haha!

The rest went for their lunch later on except Ruiqi and me. We looked after our belongings together with Guangyao and Shuyan. The weather was slowly cooling down. I sat there for a while to enjoy the beautiful scenery. I just enjoy seeing planes flying. Later on, I lay down on the mat for a rest. It was quite cooling to sleep under a tree.

Slowly, clouds seemed to gather. I started to feel some rain. Jingting and Weimun were having a "slippers-fight". Weimun was made to go into the water to retrieve his slippers. It was some water-fun before the heavy downpour. All of us grabbed our things and ran to a nearby shelter. As the rain turned into a drizzle, a decision to cycle was made. I some sort of limped my way from the shelter to the bicycle rental shop; some sand were trapped under the skin of my feet. The skin of my "blisters" under my feet were peeling off. Pain.

As I can't really cycle and it was almost evening, I went home after we had our group shot. Nice! I had a really great day!

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2009-11-24T21:37:00.001+08:00

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The Three Suona Virtuosos

2009-11-22T12:28:00.002+08:00

It was really a great experience for me. This was my first time being the in-charge. As there were lack of people and due to some last minute changes, I finally got my chance to be the in-charge. A little shocked. I was a little scared too as it was an SCO event. As there wasn't much instructions given to me to tell me what to do, I have to ask around. I asked a backstage guy that seems quite friendly. He told me what to do and even help me inform the stage manager that I was supposed to alias with. He told the stage manager that it was my first time being an in-charge. Guess he some sort of hinted him that I amy be blur. The stage manager was nice too.

I didn't get to watch much of the concert as I had to run about. The soloists were really great. Awesome! Suona is not an instrument that is easy to control. The soloist played them like it's so simple. Wow! They can go from at least fortissimo to pianissimo. Cool!

Frankly saying, I still can't fully appreciate suona pieces yet. Maybe soon? It was quite a "good" training I guess. Though I was the in-charge, I still worked together with the rest. I don't feel much difference from them, besides from the fact that I had to run about. More freedom I guess?

Autographs, a lady at the counter helped me to get. I was so happy. The clearance took quite some time as the queue for the autograph was rather long.

I did made some mistakes for the day but generally it was alright. I forgot to place stoppers and place the stuffs in the storeroom. I felt so great that I placed the signages at door two and four though no one taught me to. I had learned a lot about how the show was carried out with such precised communication. It was a great teamwork.

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2009-11-18T02:06:00.003+08:00

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University of Newcastle Graduation 2009

2009-11-15T11:02:00.003+08:00

Had some difficulty waking up in the morning. I felt so tired. It was such a good weather to sleep in too. I quickly prepared myself and off I went to take my bus. I was really lucky that my bus came when I reached the bus-stop. Not much waiting and I did not miss the bus.

I reached my workplace relatively early. Chatted a little with Uncle Jimmy while waiting for the cleaner to refill the toilet paper for me. After all the preparations were done, it was time to get started with work.

Patrons gushed in to the house after we got our instructions from our in-charge. There was a moment of confusion due to a conflict in the instructions given. Bottle-neck. Glad that it was solved in a moment. The few minutes that I took to locate BT seems like hours as the patrons were accumulating at door three. Scary.

The chancellor seems friendly. He seemed to be the emcee for the whole show. He was "in-charged" of telling the patrons what was going to happen next, from the presentation of certificates to the performance by a performing group. According to BT, for serious graduation events, there usually would not have any performance at all. Was a litle shocked to see that there was a performance as the organiser was predominantly "angmohs". It was usually perceived that events by "angmohs" are more strict.

The performance was by a performing group in the school. They performed a traditional Indonesian dance. To some, it may seems very funny as it was not the type of performance commonly seen. It was really a great artistic performance as lots of coordination was needed. I can see that they had put in a lot of effort in rehearsing to make it so perfect.

It was the long presentation of certificates after the performance. I was rather annoyed by one of the photographer who kept taking pictures of the graduates that walked past me. Can't he just stand elsewhere to take pictures of them? The constant flash was rather annoying. Furthermore, I do not like the idea that I am at the background of the photos.

Heard that there was a delay in the timing but we got to have our one hour lunch after the first shift. I was hoping that the event would drag so that I can don't have to walk all the way to amoy street. We had to travel there in the end. It was a good chance for bonding. BT bought some fried stuffs to treat us after lunch. I took my favourite "youtiao". Yummy! Thanks Anna for helping me to take my stuffs back as my hand was too oily to touch my stuffs.

It was a rush as we need to punch in for the second shift. I really prefer the one hour to be deducted off rather than punching in a second time. Before the second shift starts, I was flipping through the namelist of the graduates, trying to recall if a friend of mine was called out. The reason was that I saw his name in the booklet before going off for lunch. Was hoping to see him again as it has been years since we last chatted. Furthermore, it was him who wore the graduating gown and I don't think I have seen anybody that I known of wearing that yet.

Second shift was a little tougher as there were more patrons. Met some annoying patrons who thought so highly of themselves. I was also again annoyed by that photographer.

I think I was tired. Some patrons walked past me and I didn't realise. They almost exited from door four. My fatigue has affected my quality of work. The photographer caused me to move around to avoid his camera. This had kind of affected my work.

There were a number of graduates that were awarded with the title "doctor". They came in together with the staffs and chancellor during the procession before they receive their certificates. Cool.

As I was still hoping to see that friend of mine, I thought I saw him when a graduate walked past me. Thinking that it must be my the doings of my eyes, I ignored it.

I somehow still felt that the graduate that walked past me is my friend, so I took the booklet to check again after the family members were cleared, hopefully I can find some clue to my question. Checking halfway, I was asked to go over to door three to direct the graduates to door two. Walking towards door three, a graduate called out my full name and asked me why am I here. Looking up, I was shocked. As I don't really recognise him, I took his certificate and look at the name written on it. Yes, it was my friend. Wow. We had a super short chat before he went off. I was rather surprised that he still recognises me.

Frankly saying, I don't think I will recognise him if I had not visited his profile page in facebook by chance some time ago. He really had changed a lot. Anyway, mystery solved. Guess this was the first graduation ceremony that I had "attended" with someone I knew graduating.

It was the routine checks after the people left. It was really a "good harvest". I found quite a number of things. The most expensive of all was a black colour PSP. Wow. I didn't see it initially. Only realise it's presence when I pushed the seat a few times and it doesn't respond; the PSP was stuck at the side.

During debrief, feedback was that our quality of work was not good. According to BT, the reason was that the "angmohs" want something that is more customer-oriented. It was finally time to go home after all the administrative stuffs were settled.

Uncle Jimmy packed some leftover food from the reception. Before I left, he asked me whether I want to have any. It was my favourite tiny eclairs! What a coincident that I was asking him whether he had any eclairs before he opens the box. I ate three eclairs. The tasty chocolate cream just "explodes" in my mouth. Yummy!

NYP Wushu Oct/Nov Babies B'day Celebration 2009

2009-11-13T11:53:00.006+08:00

It was the first birthday celebration that my fellow welfares and I had organised ever since we stepped up. Things did not went very smoothly I must say. I am rather disappointed with myself. Why can't I just accomplish such a simple task? Anyway, it was a good experience and I will never repeat the mistakes that I have made.

I want to thank Kenny and Xinxin, my fellow welfares, for helping me throughout. I am really sorry for the "hiccups". Thanks Guangyao for the short but informative talk. Thanks Christian for helping me to buy the cake as I had a very unpredictable schedule on Wednesday, and for trusting me that I will pay him back.

After almost everyone had left, Kenny, Xinxin and I left behind to clear the things. We have been so busy that we had not had time to change out of our uniform. It was a relief when we finally got everything done.

Here's a picture of the cake that I had chosen. It's called the "butter cream cake".

Wishing a very happy birthday to the October and November babies!

Informatics Graduation 2009

2009-11-09T20:28:00.005+08:00

Took a new route to work, walked some distance before taking a bus that would being me to the bus-stop right outside of my workplace. I am really lucky that my bus came rather soon or I may be late. Seeing the floating platform brightens me up a little.

I got a position that I haven't got for one year -- outside door 3. I was hoping to witness the graduation ceremony though. Since it wasn't a position that I always get, I accepted it. Furthermore, BT said that there would be a change for the second shift. Well, though it wasn't much, I got to have some chat with BT though there were times that I feel awkward. I did take some peeks once in a while. There was once that I heard the edited version "twinkle twinkle little stars" being played while the certificates were presented to the graduates. BT was a little puzzled to see me coming out of the house laughing.

It was a hectic day. Timings for the two shifts were so close that we may not even have time for our lunch. Glad that it turned out that we managed to have our one hour lunch. For me, I think half an hour will do. Weixuan helped us to buy our lunch so that we don't have to make a trip to the nearest market which requires us to walk quite a long distance. I was really reluctant to walk that distance as my ankle was hurting again. Yummy char siew rice was my lunch.

Weixuan bought some nice soya tarts to treat us too. Not bad though. I like the crust a lot. I find the filling a little bland though.

It was a nice chat with Jiewei after eating. Went to take a walk as I can't stand the cigarette smoke. Found some seats near the carpark that I never knew they exist. It was the start of work after the chat. I hid at the toilet to chat after returning back to the loading bay. Seeing that the rest were still slacking, I just continued my chat. I was shocked when I saw all of them ready to go up when I went out of the toilet. Helped Jiewei to say "hi" to the rest by shouting "Jiewei say hi" while I rush to get my vest and walkie talkie. BT said something really lame later on. It sounds like me talking to another girl is something that is wrong.

Same position again. Only a few got a change in the position. Guess I was tired, I did not have as much strength as the morning shift to tear the tickets. My swollen left thumb was a hindrance too. Thanks for Weixuan's help to tear the tickets so that I can managed to clear the crowd in time.

Once the event started, it was time for me to get too work -- counting of ticket stubs. Hated it as I have to bend my back to count the stubs on the table that was rather low. Felt some tension in my neck muscles after counting the stubs. My neck felt so "sour".

Stood there and waited for late comers. I felt so lethargic. There were two patrons that came really late. It was around five minutes before the ceremony ends. It was the rushing out of the patrons later on.

Looking at the crowd that was gushing out of the house, something funny happened. There was this guy holding a bear wrapped in a red bouquet. He came up to me and actioned to give it to me. I stared at the bear and then looked up at him with a puzzled expression. He pulled his arms back and walked off. Shocked. I don't even know who he is. Dots.

After the clearance of the patrons, it was the clearance of the graduates that stayed behind for the photoshoot. Took a seat near door three to prevent people from exiting from there as the graduates were to exit from door four. It was a long wait before the debrief.

Gathering for debrief, there were some weird stuffs found while the routine checks were done. What I can say was that this event is rather different from the rest that I have attended. It was really a new experience for me.

I tidied up my 6-in-1 locker before going off. It makes me feel good to have some space made in my locker.

Kathina Day 2009

2009-11-06T23:01:00.007+08:00

Took some putu mayam as breakfast upon reaching the temple. It has been some time since I last ate putu mayam. Nice. There were the beancurd and soya milk, fried noodles and fried kway teow. I just took the soya milk and the putu mayam. Yummy.

Went to kowtow to the buddhas before proceeding to the hall for the chantings. Squeezy. I was smiling happily when I heard the clappings -- the Thailand people has arrived!

After the chantings, it was lunch time. Vegetarian food. I chose the same area to take a seat as last year as I want to have a close look at the "money tree". I took a photo of the tree as it looks very different frome last year's -- there were pens, notebook, and a few boxes of toothpaste that were attached onto the tree as well besides from money. I saw a $50 note on the top of the tree too! A guy was going around with some satay sticks, distributing to people who wanted to put their money on the "tree" as well.

When I was about to leave the temple, I kowtow to the buddhas at the first floor as I was not able to do in the morning due to the crowd. I saw the person holding hte money tree coming. Upon reaching the door of the hall, he used it to hit the ceiling of the temple a few times, shouting things like "huat ah!" as he does that. Cool.

Here's a picture of the "money tree". It seems to be a good harvest this year.

Before leaving the temple, I got myself a "dot" on my forehead. There were two Indian guys at the Elephant Buddha "station", one giving away sweets, raisins and flowers while the other put "dots" on people's head. I wonder if that "dot" is called "putu". Hmm.

Colour of Joy

2009-11-01T23:54:00.006+08:00

There were way many people for this event as compared to last year. I remembered that I stood at the back to take pictures and there were lots of empty seats behind. Yesterday's respond was rather overwhelming. It was almost full house.

Helped out as VIP usher initially. There were some problems that need some intervention. Due to last minute changes in hirer's instructions on the VIP seats, we have to look out for people holding the VIP tickets that were entering the house. Some disputes occurred but it was settled before the event commences. I dealt with one dispute. For a moment, I felt that I was so great that I managed to settle something. Wanted to help out at the other area but I decided not to in the end as I was not sure of what really had happened.

Took my position when the event commences. The biggest challenge of the day was crowd control. Initially I thought that I would get back my old position at Door 4. I surprisingly got Door 2. Not very used to it but I was happy that I got a new challenge - crowd control. Parents will tend to rush forward to the front of the stage.

Things were generally alright as the emcee did her part for crowd control. Parents were rushing forward when the performance ended. I needed manpower then. As I have to stop people from going up the stage through the stairs, I was not able tostop one parent from climbing up onto the stage. Her action totally shocked me. Anyway, there is still room for improvement for the crowd control. More information regarding how the event is going to be should be told to us earlier as well. I was at a fix of what to do when a parent just took the child away from the stage. Furthermore, another kid just jumped down from the stage. How is the attendance system of the teacher going to be? I believe that improvement is needed here. More emphasis is of course needed to be done by the emcee.

Poppers were released at the end of the concert just like last year's. Nice. I like the poppers. The bad part was that the technical crews will have to work a little harder as they have to clear those "ribbons" that were stucked at the spotlights on the ceiling.

Lee Hao's students' choir

2009-10-15T22:14:00.000+08:00

Worked with my injured knee and jelly legs. Diarrhea again. Did my best to endure throughout. I have lots of thoughts for this event.

I took another bus to work instead of the usual bus that I took. The bus went pass the Marina Promenade too. I miss the Marina Promenade.

Met some weird patrons. Many of them were from China. Deduced that from their accent while they spoke. While we were taking a moment to think what answers we should give in reply to their questions, they repeated their questions in English. I felt like rolling my eyes as I am not a "banana".

It was a so called "sad" event. Vocalists wore white top and black bottom. Guess the colour of their accessories, bright colours. I saw red, and some white and shiny hair clips. Attending the event for the sake of attending?

I do not know whether I made a right choice to work that day. I did not enjoy the event. But I enjoyed chatting with a colleague. Took the same bus as him while going home. Since I have to transit no matter what bus that I take, I chose to take the same bus as him. Hope that I can have such nice chats some time soon.

My favourite perfume

2009-10-15T21:44:00.002+08:00

Personally, I am rather sensitive to "smells". I can feel like I am short of breath when the smell is too unpleasant, especially the smoke of cigarettes. I cannot really stand strong smelling perfume too, especially those artificial perfume.

I prefer perfume that are made from natural ingredients and does not smell too strong. Currently I like a type of perfume that smells like apple. Nice! Too bad that I can't afford it. The name of the brand is so sophisticated that I can't managed to remember. I believe it is from some European country. Hope that I can afford it someday.

I am currently using a brandless perfume when I go to work so as to "block" my body odour. Do not really like it but I have no choice. Hope that I can find one that is suitable to my nose and is affordable soon.

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