Yes I'm gonna be a star~
Today I traveled all the way to Joo Khoon - where, on a silly day, I could totally imagine myself being kidnapped and dumped in one of the containers - to collect my mum's shoes that I left behind on a bus during AYC (I always seem to be leaving my mum's shoes around ah! I'm such a horrible girl). It's the first time I've actually been to Joo Khoon, rather than gape at it like when it first started appearing on MRT signs, so I was very lost and very scared. I cabbed to the transport company but it was expensive so I just asked very casually how to get out of the place by public transport (if it was even possible) and the lovely ladies there very eagerly asked me to go along on their company shuttle bus, like they really cared even though they had absolutely no obligation to. I was like, wow that's really nice of them :) And then at night, I had dinner alone at a food court and had to face this huge tray containing a lot of food (because I was hungry and greedy, as always), while carrying my schoolbag, my file and my pouch. I had to gingerly balance everything and try and get a seat and I swear I was gonna drop something when one of the cleaner uncles swooped over and helped me carry my tray and find me a seat. And he was so friendly and completely un-naggy about it.
And this morning, where we finally managed to interview this American bigshot for PW - we called him on Skype and it felt like we were trying to communicate with an alien from Mars (or at least I felt like that) and he was so warm and friendly and the best thing was, he accomodated his schedule to be able to talk to us.
It's these ordinary little things that keep me in awe of how nice people are, and can be. They teach me to be kind, that there is always a choice available to be kind regardless of how easy or convenient it is to act otherwise. :)
Oh I just realised I actually kinda miss AYC, even though I'll never publicly detail it on facebook or things like that because somehow, that would feel very trite. It's just me; what some of my little juniors and some of my not so little non-juniors have written is really quite sweet and reminds me of the days back when you were all exuberant and excited from attending conventions. Well, so I did start off feeling very grouchy and very sore about having to miss another week of school and not being able to see certain people, and I did get very little fulfilment out of the entire thing, but I also met some pretty awesome people (whom I'll probably never again seen in my life but that's not the point...a fleeting friendship is still a friendship, just a different sort) and had the chance to know some of my classmates so much better. Memories: Charm and I making ourselves redundant at the appropriate junctures using a camera+our qt faces hehheh; doing very well at Flood It!; all of us being stressed with Leon on The Day Murphy's Law Struck; stayovers with lisa, yongy, sally, claire, robyn, matthias, nghi; B&B; being The Sexies; laughing at, and with, zhong ming; secretly thinking that nicyeo is very pretty; being Hubie's ahma; being entertained by Lisa & her truths; hugging Lisa and being there for each other; appreciating the core comm; appreciating the foreign delegates for their earnestness and humility, which some sporeans can really do well to emulate; being updated on that polygon; having a secret slight (perhaps unresolved - I dunno!) identity crisis and feeling like an extrovert-turned-introvert during odd moments; having a simple life that involves no math at allll!
And this morning, where we finally managed to interview this American bigshot for PW - we called him on Skype and it felt like we were trying to communicate with an alien from Mars (or at least I felt like that) and he was so warm and friendly and the best thing was, he accomodated his schedule to be able to talk to us.
It's these ordinary little things that keep me in awe of how nice people are, and can be. They teach me to be kind, that there is always a choice available to be kind regardless of how easy or convenient it is to act otherwise. :)
Oh I just realised I actually kinda miss AYC, even though I'll never publicly detail it on facebook or things like that because somehow, that would feel very trite. It's just me; what some of my little juniors and some of my not so little non-juniors have written is really quite sweet and reminds me of the days back when you were all exuberant and excited from attending conventions. Well, so I did start off feeling very grouchy and very sore about having to miss another week of school and not being able to see certain people, and I did get very little fulfilment out of the entire thing, but I also met some pretty awesome people (whom I'll probably never again seen in my life but that's not the point...a fleeting friendship is still a friendship, just a different sort) and had the chance to know some of my classmates so much better. Memories: Charm and I making ourselves redundant at the appropriate junctures using a camera+our qt faces hehheh; doing very well at Flood It!; all of us being stressed with Leon on The Day Murphy's Law Struck; stayovers with lisa, yongy, sally, claire, robyn, matthias, nghi; B&B; being The Sexies; laughing at, and with, zhong ming; secretly thinking that nicyeo is very pretty; being Hubie's ahma; being entertained by Lisa & her truths; hugging Lisa and being there for each other; appreciating the core comm; appreciating the foreign delegates for their earnestness and humility, which some sporeans can really do well to emulate; being updated on that polygon; having a secret slight (perhaps unresolved - I dunno!) identity crisis and feeling like an extrovert-turned-introvert during odd moments; having a simple life that involves no math at allll!