last day thoughts
Monday, December 10, 2007 @ 9:01 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
Today was my last day of CIP in Science Centre. Same for Evangeline, Anna, ZiYu, Edmund and Jovan.
I realise that I certainly have got very little or no sense of identity:
When i was primary three, the aunties in my CCA all said that i looked like a girl they used to know. When I was primary one, I was known to look like my buddy. In the beginning of this year, some mistook me for Ching Han. Then when I first cut my hair, some thought I was Sihui. AFTER Deb cut HER hair, they called me 'Deborah'. Then, during the holidays, after I trimmed my hair, Anna said I looked like Phoebe. Now, no thanks to Jovan, people started calling me 'Clara' coz I look like her - whoever she is.
Anyway, I did puzzle cart for the WHOLE day. Almost felt like sleeping...it was quite boring doing the same thing for both durations. I had some difficulties explaining the puzzles in Mandarin for the people from China. During the afternoon, I shuttled between the thaumatrope and my own group coz it was really dreary. Did two thaumatrope but didn't bring them back coz my mum would only throw them away later.
Oh, and I finally found someone who reads 8days too. Yes, finally. Too bad this week's issue is delayed due to the stars awards. Jovan said that the auntie told him it will be out only at eleven today. What's worse was that I'd forgot to bring my novel and sudoku puzzles - meaning I had nothing to do but listen to music on my way to Jurong East. Gah.
Anna and I don't have the license to steer the push cart for the puzzle thingy - that's what the staff said. We had to major accidents while trying to push it out of the stairway. We first banged into the staircase then into the door frame. By then we were laughing too hard. XD
BTW, Anna went absolutely bonkers this afternoon. After the tesla coil demonstration couldn't work, she went into despair. Freaking many visitors out in the process.
I saw Clement at the MRT station in the evening. I didn't recognise him at first. After he said hello, I was like, just staring blankly at him. Anyway, he took the train with me all the way to Tanah Merah - he was meeting some people there.
I will miss doing CIP at Science Centre. Afterall, the other volunteers are all spontaneous and fun people ^^
I realise that I certainly have got very little or no sense of identity:
When i was primary three, the aunties in my CCA all said that i looked like a girl they used to know. When I was primary one, I was known to look like my buddy. In the beginning of this year, some mistook me for Ching Han. Then when I first cut my hair, some thought I was Sihui. AFTER Deb cut HER hair, they called me 'Deborah'. Then, during the holidays, after I trimmed my hair, Anna said I looked like Phoebe. Now, no thanks to Jovan, people started calling me 'Clara' coz I look like her - whoever she is.
Anyway, I did puzzle cart for the WHOLE day. Almost felt like sleeping...it was quite boring doing the same thing for both durations. I had some difficulties explaining the puzzles in Mandarin for the people from China. During the afternoon, I shuttled between the thaumatrope and my own group coz it was really dreary. Did two thaumatrope but didn't bring them back coz my mum would only throw them away later.
Oh, and I finally found someone who reads 8days too. Yes, finally. Too bad this week's issue is delayed due to the stars awards. Jovan said that the auntie told him it will be out only at eleven today. What's worse was that I'd forgot to bring my novel and sudoku puzzles - meaning I had nothing to do but listen to music on my way to Jurong East. Gah.
Anna and I don't have the license to steer the push cart for the puzzle thingy - that's what the staff said. We had to major accidents while trying to push it out of the stairway. We first banged into the staircase then into the door frame. By then we were laughing too hard. XD
BTW, Anna went absolutely bonkers this afternoon. After the tesla coil demonstration couldn't work, she went into despair. Freaking many visitors out in the process.
I saw Clement at the MRT station in the evening. I didn't recognise him at first. After he said hello, I was like, just staring blankly at him. Anyway, he took the train with me all the way to Tanah Merah - he was meeting some people there.
I will miss doing CIP at Science Centre. Afterall, the other volunteers are all spontaneous and fun people ^^
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the clouds of
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 @ 8:56 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I love being an exhibit explainer!! It's much better than doing activities booths and puzzle carts!!
Anna and I got to be guides in iSPACE in the afternoon. I was in charge of level two and Anna level one. I love it!! Anna didn't last long downstairs though - coz no one wanted her help. Hahas. I approached a lot of people and they didn't mind my help though. Many thanked me =]]
Although it was cold, the place was so cool! Of course, DAT exhibit is much more advanced than iSPACE but this place is already very advanced. I did a digital drawing and played with almost all the exhibits ^^
Had such a fun time. I really wanna be exhibit explainer there again!! It's fun walking around with people, leading them around, telling them about the exhibits. Although you must try to memorise which way to go and what to do at each station, it's great ! =]]
Got caught in the rain while walking to the station after dismissal though. Andro and I were totally squishing our way to the station. My socks were so soggy and squishy. And I could even wring water out of my skirt. At least I had the sense to bring my windbreaker with me everyday =]
Anna and I got to be guides in iSPACE in the afternoon. I was in charge of level two and Anna level one. I love it!! Anna didn't last long downstairs though - coz no one wanted her help. Hahas. I approached a lot of people and they didn't mind my help though. Many thanked me =]]
Although it was cold, the place was so cool! Of course, DAT exhibit is much more advanced than iSPACE but this place is already very advanced. I did a digital drawing and played with almost all the exhibits ^^
Had such a fun time. I really wanna be exhibit explainer there again!! It's fun walking around with people, leading them around, telling them about the exhibits. Although you must try to memorise which way to go and what to do at each station, it's great ! =]]
Got caught in the rain while walking to the station after dismissal though. Andro and I were totally squishing our way to the station. My socks were so soggy and squishy. And I could even wring water out of my skirt. At least I had the sense to bring my windbreaker with me everyday =]
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the made-up 'saga tree'
Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 1:53 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
My mum thought that the poem in the previous post was not by me at all. FYI, it is 100% by me and me only. If not, I would have written the writer's name there.
Choir on Monday was the usual, we ran through most of the concert's repertoire. By next week, all the songs must be memorised. El Barquito is quite a nice song but it's definitely difficult to sing it with the different actions, beats, and dynamics. I'm trying my best to tackle the snapping of fingers part.
CIP was fun as usual. Yesterday, while I was doing Thaumatrope in the morning, a girl of maybe two to three years old came up to me and hugged me. She's adorable!! Since the mum said that she was too young to colour, her brother sat down to do it instead. His colouring isn't really good so I helped him do a thaumatrope and gave it to him. They are really cute.
I did Balancing Butterfly after lunch. Anna, Evangeline, Ziyu and I had to run all the way from JEC to Science centre coz we didn't keep track of the time. Ate unagi don at the food court there ^^
Brought jelly beans so Sihui and I shared them while sitting next to the saga seeds looking bored. Many people came to ask us what are saga seeds... I told them they are a kind of seed - doesn't answer the question though. I seriously don't know what kinda tree do they come from...saga tree? is there such a tree? Oh well.
Yesterday was many people's last day of CIP. Sheena said that if she can continue, she would. She gave me a thaumatrope featuring an elephant in a cage with her signature and the time [including seconds] and date on it. In return, I gave her one of my balancing butterflies. The elephant looked like a hamster though... Btw, I did a butterfly family tree yesterday coz I was that bored. Unfortunately, Evangeline and Sihui didn't know how to appreciate them at all. Too bad for them.
no time now. ta.
Choir on Monday was the usual, we ran through most of the concert's repertoire. By next week, all the songs must be memorised. El Barquito is quite a nice song but it's definitely difficult to sing it with the different actions, beats, and dynamics. I'm trying my best to tackle the snapping of fingers part.
CIP was fun as usual. Yesterday, while I was doing Thaumatrope in the morning, a girl of maybe two to three years old came up to me and hugged me. She's adorable!! Since the mum said that she was too young to colour, her brother sat down to do it instead. His colouring isn't really good so I helped him do a thaumatrope and gave it to him. They are really cute.
I did Balancing Butterfly after lunch. Anna, Evangeline, Ziyu and I had to run all the way from JEC to Science centre coz we didn't keep track of the time. Ate unagi don at the food court there ^^
Brought jelly beans so Sihui and I shared them while sitting next to the saga seeds looking bored. Many people came to ask us what are saga seeds... I told them they are a kind of seed - doesn't answer the question though. I seriously don't know what kinda tree do they come from...saga tree? is there such a tree? Oh well.
Yesterday was many people's last day of CIP. Sheena said that if she can continue, she would. She gave me a thaumatrope featuring an elephant in a cage with her signature and the time [including seconds] and date on it. In return, I gave her one of my balancing butterflies. The elephant looked like a hamster though... Btw, I did a butterfly family tree yesterday coz I was that bored. Unfortunately, Evangeline and Sihui didn't know how to appreciate them at all. Too bad for them.
no time now. ta.
Labels: cip, Crez chorale
the longest post
Friday, November 23, 2007 @ 9:24 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I have been having a headache since morning and am very grumpy because of that. Felt close to dying in the afternoon - although it was not as bad as being carsick, my head still pounded incessantly. Homework made it worse. And I dislike numbers.
I did CIP at Science Centre on Monday to Wednesday. Yeah, many found it crazy that I was willing to travel for almost two hours to Jurong. Well, I found it fun doing CIP there though. Monday was okay. Anna and Evangeline got irritated by my comments on how cute the children were. The children were adorable!!! That's one of the reasons why I wanna work there. If only I can have them as my siblings. I was grouped with Anna and Evange on Tuesday too. And this boy from Korea did a cartwheel in front of us in the afternoon. He is really spontaneous 0-0 And after that, he just took one of the chairs in front of me and told me about his age. He is six years old but in Korea, he's seven and he knows how to do cartwheels and he is really proud of that. He likes to draw tanks and proceeded to draw some for me. He took the paper meant for zoetrope.
Wednesday, Ziyu and Andro came. I got grouped with Andro and Clement who came on Tuesday too. We did the twirler in the morning. I love twirlers ^^ But it was also because of it's appeal that we went off late for lunch. Since I was fed up with eating McDonald's and Andro and Clement aren't that enthusiastic about eating there either, we went to some hawker centre to eat. It was a bad idea to sit there to wait for time to pass though. Andro and I were just stuck there being silent while Clement finished his tea. He said that the lady who took his order for his teh must have worked in those wayang operas before since she can shout freaking loud. DIAO. And then for like 30min there was no conversation at all...there was nothing to talk about. Nothing. Then we walked all the way back.
Then it was puzzle cart D. All three of us felt so inferior when this girl came and managed to fix up a wooden cube in a matter of seconds while we couldn't figure it out. Then this China woman came and just sat on the footstool meant for little toddlers to step on if they were too short to reach and started talking to us. She asked about Singapore's education. Clement was the one who was replying coz Andro couldn't be bothered and I couldn't understand her accent. He lied that three of us are the same age and we are sec3s. Wow. And surprisingly, that lady seemed to believe him entirely. None of us are fifteen for goodness sake. He's seventeen and we are not even sec2s. Sheesh.
Anyway, Anna and Evange heard about it and called us 'seniors' after that. We went over to their booth at the other side after we packed up. I did a nice butterfly there. Andro and the others were saying that I do not act my age. I mean, what's wrong with doing a balancing butterfy? There's no age limit. And Clement had to choose that time to get lost. Andro and I panicked since the card to the volunteer room was with me and he can't get inside without it. We had to search for him and it was all very annoying. Turned out that he managed to follow someone else back =.= He got lost somewhere in the marine alcove. Anyway, Andro dedicated a post to him so you can read about him on her blog.
The next day I had choir. We couldn't get into the room in the arts con. since the lady was missing so everyone had to wait outside and practised the songs in the corridor. It was only until ten plus that we could all go in and enjoy the air con. Went with Juniper for lunch. Also bought the other books that I need from the bookshop during that period.
Oh, and I managed to successfully peel an orange without getting hurt yesterday. Serious. Although I took about 20min to do it, I did it! I spent the first five minutes planning how to cut it and how to peel the skin away. But anyway, I feel a great sense of accomplishment- afterall, this is my first time =]]
Well, that probably sums up my week. This is my longest post ever. Round of applause please =]
I did CIP at Science Centre on Monday to Wednesday. Yeah, many found it crazy that I was willing to travel for almost two hours to Jurong. Well, I found it fun doing CIP there though. Monday was okay. Anna and Evangeline got irritated by my comments on how cute the children were. The children were adorable!!! That's one of the reasons why I wanna work there. If only I can have them as my siblings. I was grouped with Anna and Evange on Tuesday too. And this boy from Korea did a cartwheel in front of us in the afternoon. He is really spontaneous 0-0 And after that, he just took one of the chairs in front of me and told me about his age. He is six years old but in Korea, he's seven and he knows how to do cartwheels and he is really proud of that. He likes to draw tanks and proceeded to draw some for me. He took the paper meant for zoetrope.
Wednesday, Ziyu and Andro came. I got grouped with Andro and Clement who came on Tuesday too. We did the twirler in the morning. I love twirlers ^^ But it was also because of it's appeal that we went off late for lunch. Since I was fed up with eating McDonald's and Andro and Clement aren't that enthusiastic about eating there either, we went to some hawker centre to eat. It was a bad idea to sit there to wait for time to pass though. Andro and I were just stuck there being silent while Clement finished his tea. He said that the lady who took his order for his teh must have worked in those wayang operas before since she can shout freaking loud. DIAO. And then for like 30min there was no conversation at all...there was nothing to talk about. Nothing. Then we walked all the way back.
Then it was puzzle cart D. All three of us felt so inferior when this girl came and managed to fix up a wooden cube in a matter of seconds while we couldn't figure it out. Then this China woman came and just sat on the footstool meant for little toddlers to step on if they were too short to reach and started talking to us. She asked about Singapore's education. Clement was the one who was replying coz Andro couldn't be bothered and I couldn't understand her accent. He lied that three of us are the same age and we are sec3s. Wow. And surprisingly, that lady seemed to believe him entirely. None of us are fifteen for goodness sake. He's seventeen and we are not even sec2s. Sheesh.
Anyway, Anna and Evange heard about it and called us 'seniors' after that. We went over to their booth at the other side after we packed up. I did a nice butterfly there. Andro and the others were saying that I do not act my age. I mean, what's wrong with doing a balancing butterfy? There's no age limit. And Clement had to choose that time to get lost. Andro and I panicked since the card to the volunteer room was with me and he can't get inside without it. We had to search for him and it was all very annoying. Turned out that he managed to follow someone else back =.= He got lost somewhere in the marine alcove. Anyway, Andro dedicated a post to him so you can read about him on her blog.
The next day I had choir. We couldn't get into the room in the arts con. since the lady was missing so everyone had to wait outside and practised the songs in the corridor. It was only until ten plus that we could all go in and enjoy the air con. Went with Juniper for lunch. Also bought the other books that I need from the bookshop during that period.
Oh, and I managed to successfully peel an orange without getting hurt yesterday. Serious. Although I took about 20min to do it, I did it! I spent the first five minutes planning how to cut it and how to peel the skin away. But anyway, I feel a great sense of accomplishment- afterall, this is my first time =]]
Well, that probably sums up my week. This is my longest post ever. Round of applause please =]
Labels: cip, Crez chorale
