MINing of Life

Saturday, 21 February 2009

Thinking Day 2009Y

This is the last year I'm so called celebrating Thinking Day. It's definitely not some lame day ok! Some lame people actually asked me," Thinking day think what?" Well, to me, every Thinking Day is special because it's a day when brownies, girl scouts and girl guides from all over the world join our hearts to think about one other and how we can serve and help other people while keeping the Guides law, as said in our Promise.

Every year, we renew our Promise, and this promise has been kept the way it was originally for more than 100 years.

The Guides Promise:
I promise to do my best,
To do my duty to god,
To serve my country,
and help other people,
and to keep the Guides Law.

Well, let's not talk about how well the contingent did or what even happened in school. But but but but but, I'd finally got the chance to take a picture (maybe not 1) with my brother!!! I mean my scout brother =D

okay, enough of HIM.

So, this year's Thinking Day Rally was very different from the 3 others I had attended for the passed 3 years because TK guides didn't just go there to be part of the audience; we participated in the performance! As part of the theme: Preventing the Spread of Infectious Diseases, we skipped! According to Ms Tan, it's suppose to give the impression that maintaining a healthy lifestyle can prevent us from infectious diseases.

Usually, Thinking Day Rally is from 1 to 5 pm. This year, it's from 9am-5pm. Somehow, it didn't feel that long. In fact, it felt even shorter than 4 hours. We were red from head to waist so we were the most "spottable" in the Indoor Stadium. And how cool is it to be able to walk around the back stage area, to lie down in the middle of the stadium, to skip in front of Mrs Nathan, to simply skip and the crowd of more than 10 000 people will scream and cheer for you?

That was definitely a total different perspective of Thinking Day Rally. I like the song item put up by Geylang Methodist Sec and CHIJ Katong Convent:

When the Colour Party took over right in front of us:

And bading farewell to the VIPs:

More PICTURES...

So it's time to leave evidences of our memories in guides...

This was taken when we were in Sec 1 =DDD
Compare and contrast...

Clarissa's idea to get puffy

The above and bottom are of course my ideas lah
(at least more natural looking =] )

The 3 long-haired persons;
I seriously feel extremely fortunate to have snipped off my
long hair in Sec 2 so that I don't have to go through such
TORTURE!

11:35 pm;

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Thursday, 12 February 2009

Let's drop the topic... NOT!Y

You know, when someone is not feeling happy about a certain incident or act or whatsoever and chooses not to bring out the unhappiness in himself/herself, it kinds of bring me to a conclusion that the person has given up the relationship (be it friendship, kinship or BGR) and found it pointless to clarify things.

I don't see why one cannot be open about one's thoughts so that since it doesn't make one very please, it will not happen again!

Yes, I do agree that any party should continue to dwell on the topic, but it absolutely irks me because there is no solution to this problem and without a solution which can be easily obtained only if the person is willing to unfold the hidden emotions, nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING of the same situation can be resolved! In other words, the same situation will most likely happen again.

Think about it, this unhappiness doesn't only affect the person alone, it affects people around the person. So if it is not something pleasant, why not we just prevent it from occurring again?!

What is so difficult about it? Unless friends/family members/partner(s) are people who are not understanding... that, I would see as you have totally no faith in me as a friend/member of the family/significant other.

Wait a minute, those groups of people should be classified as "loved ones", shouldn't they? However, from how things seems to be, the "loved ones" will gradually drift to become "loved, once".

People, it's fine to speak your heart out. Trust me, it will make you feel a lot better than what you thought. Even if a teenie weenie incident can blare into a volcanic commosion, so be it; at least eventually, there'll be an effective conclusion (effective in the sense that it not only enhances the relationship between the parties, it also allows each party to have a better understanding of the other(s) ).

7:23 pm;

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Monday, 9 February 2009

Don't support KleenexY

Why should you not support the use of Kleenex tissues?

Watch this video:

Spare a thought for the environment; spare a thought for the forests...

6:34 pm;

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Sunday, 1 February 2009

Lunar New YearY

This year's visiting should be all and done unless there are any other last minute invitation or guests.

The warmth of family cosiness was surely something to cherish and something which makes me look forward to the next Lunar New Year. Nothing else on this earth ever replace such warmth I'd felt.

It's really difficult to get to see everyone, be it immediate relatives or not. I haven't seen my dad's cousin's family for probably 6-7 years. Uncle Foo's place used to packed with people from the third level of his terrace house to the ground floor living room with his sisters and their family members, and especially the kids running everywhere. I miss those times.

At least, I'm glad that my dad started visiting his god-brother since two years back and his place is now one of our destinations of the routine annually. It's quite interesting to listen to the adults chatting about their history and all the exciting childhood they enjoyed.

Fate gave my god-uncle's younger brother and my dad the opportunity to meet each other once again after almost 2 decades! Cool, 1 more new family member to know =)

My paternal family tree is seriously so complex that I guess only he himself can understand.

On the second day, we visited dad's friend who used to be his business companion, Uncle Richard. See those floats during Chingay, the street decorations along Orchard Road, Chinatown and Little India? He has been bringing Singaporeans all these visual satisfaction for years, or even decades. (He doesn't get the bid everytime, so if you see not so pleasant looking fabric decos, that's most probably not done by him.)

Mum's side is more clear to everyone. We always go to Hua Yew Wee for dinner on the 1st night of the lunar year for dinner. It's my grandfather's sworn-brother's family business established by him. As the cousin-gang *ahem* ages, more people are joining the gang and upgrading to the adults level (or rather, the married level), we do have a junior cousin-gang forming up too!

Before I go on, there's this practise in the family that for any gatherings, there'll always be 2 tables, 1 for the adults and the other for the kids =D

Anyway, back to the leveling-up, 3 of the gang members had tied their knots, 1 is already on stand-by mode with the ropes (so that adds 4 more members in the gang photo). The junior gang is extremely green, with the oldest only 2 years old and the 2nd member just born in January. Cute right?

That's the 老大, Leanette (not very sure of the spelling). Her daddy is the 老大 of my generation's cousin-gang too.

I'm still young and youthful =D I'm the youngest in my gang, okay?! I'm the only one who's still schooling in a school ( as in not colleges or polytechnics). The problem about this wide age range is, whenever the I finally learnt how to play the games the older ones always played, they upgrade to something new when I've not mastered the old one yet -.-''' It started off with fire crackers, then they moved on to mass games like captain's ball (like I was 5-7-year-old only?), then to poker cards. When I finally mastered the game of Dai Di, they advanced to mahjong. Lucky they were as new to the game as I was, if not, how will I ever catch up to their pace?

I'm contented to have seen my grand-aunt (Mum's aunt) in better health this year. As she ages, she tends to get forgetful. However, she was very clear about her past, like how she got to Singapore and raised her children. Very adorable, and lovely lady; I wish her good health forever.

Last night, I invited the TK-HK-SLCs over to my place for dinner. Rifat or Siddharth, if you happen to read this, I didn't invite you 2 because I was afraid that the food preferences, so do understand. I think it was so fun and funny! Everyone STOOD up to cook their food. Then when the oil "pop-ed!" and spattered on us, you could hear people exclaiming in fright and sting.

Kenny, Ryan, Olivia, Josephine, Vivian, Sharmane, Estee, Clarissa and Sharon came. So fun, so fun... ok~.

I shall now reverse all the way back to the lunar new year eve night, also known as 除夕夜. It's a tradition to have reunion dinner on this night. So we prepared loads of food!

To include something new on the menu, korkor prepared soba noodles and raw egg for the cooked beef. It's vey Japanese style.

I love this year's Chinese New Year the most out of my 15 years! Oh, and I didn't eat Bah Kua!!! Yeah!
在此祝贺大家新年快乐,万事如意!

10:11 am;

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