Poor blog, it's been abandoned for almost a month now. so i am here to bring it back to life! -blows dust off- and i shall begin.
begin with talking about how the holidays have been. Despite spending much of my time pretty much rotting, i think i've done some things that were quite err fulfilling.
believe it or not, i actually volunteered with kids for an entire month! considering that i used to only admire kids/animals (ohmy i used to lump them together) from afar, this is quite a feat! the program was to prepare kids to organize a party for cerebral palsy kids. so it's like helping the helpers. but it was good fun! they're a bunch of cute kids. and one little boy talks to me on facebook calling me audrey jiejie which is a first. HAHA.
and then i spent 3 days taking temperatures for the Asian Youth Games at Raffles Hotel. so i held those gun thermometers at foreheads of delegates and gave them stickers. they're all really friendly people. one Japanese guy said 'hi present for you' and gave me a tokyo candidate city badge which i think is super coool! taking temperatures is surprisingly a fun job. okay, i only did it for 6 hours in total.
i also volunteered at the museum night festival! i was stationed at the side door to the museum, a carparkish place. it was a not-very-busy place which was gooood. the people i met - fellow volunteers, were really interesting people. it's like really meeting people from everywhere. one is the exchange coordinator for nus, and has done work and travel in alaska twice. another is a year younger taking a gap year, and interning at the new paper. she asked if i want to intern there too. which is ooooh. the list goes on!
carol and julia came to visit on the first night! which was YAY. they managed to go to all 3 museums mann! and took jump shots in front of the lambo. HAHA.
after 11.30pm volunteers/festival assistants (as they call us) have nothing much to do till about 2am, which is the time we sign out. so we go roaming the museum. the first night i just sat at the open air movie screening place to watch 881. first time watching a movie the old fashioned way- with rolling film. second night i was walking around the living galleries and stuff.
and ohoh we got to watch the fireworks too! from a super close proximity. i was cameraless, so had to take pictures using my laopok phone.
felt as if the sparks were gonna drop on our heads or something. i was screaming the whole time. but i guess noone heard, since the fireworks were so loud anyway.
the second night it was raining, so the fireworks were cut short and really not as spectacular. so sad it rained! people were wet and werent as happy. sweehuang and ida also werent able to come. heard last year's night festival was much bigger and better, but i didnt know it existed so no comparisons!
here's the view of orchard road on the second night after the fireworks. so misty!
enough about the museum.
i wanna end by saying that i really feel my age when i go for a haircut. i dont get student prices anymoreeee. it's a good thing the hairdresser sort of knows me, and still charged the student price. hoho!
didnt use smiley faces the entire entry. wowwee!
begin with talking about how the holidays have been. Despite spending much of my time pretty much rotting, i think i've done some things that were quite err fulfilling.
believe it or not, i actually volunteered with kids for an entire month! considering that i used to only admire kids/animals (ohmy i used to lump them together) from afar, this is quite a feat! the program was to prepare kids to organize a party for cerebral palsy kids. so it's like helping the helpers. but it was good fun! they're a bunch of cute kids. and one little boy talks to me on facebook calling me audrey jiejie which is a first. HAHA.
and then i spent 3 days taking temperatures for the Asian Youth Games at Raffles Hotel. so i held those gun thermometers at foreheads of delegates and gave them stickers. they're all really friendly people. one Japanese guy said 'hi present for you' and gave me a tokyo candidate city badge which i think is super coool! taking temperatures is surprisingly a fun job. okay, i only did it for 6 hours in total.
i also volunteered at the museum night festival! i was stationed at the side door to the museum, a carparkish place. it was a not-very-busy place which was gooood. the people i met - fellow volunteers, were really interesting people. it's like really meeting people from everywhere. one is the exchange coordinator for nus, and has done work and travel in alaska twice. another is a year younger taking a gap year, and interning at the new paper. she asked if i want to intern there too. which is ooooh. the list goes on!
carol and julia came to visit on the first night! which was YAY. they managed to go to all 3 museums mann! and took jump shots in front of the lambo. HAHA.
after 11.30pm volunteers/festival assistants (as they call us) have nothing much to do till about 2am, which is the time we sign out. so we go roaming the museum. the first night i just sat at the open air movie screening place to watch 881. first time watching a movie the old fashioned way- with rolling film. second night i was walking around the living galleries and stuff.
and ohoh we got to watch the fireworks too! from a super close proximity. i was cameraless, so had to take pictures using my laopok phone.
felt as if the sparks were gonna drop on our heads or something. i was screaming the whole time. but i guess noone heard, since the fireworks were so loud anyway.
the second night it was raining, so the fireworks were cut short and really not as spectacular. so sad it rained! people were wet and werent as happy. sweehuang and ida also werent able to come. heard last year's night festival was much bigger and better, but i didnt know it existed so no comparisons!
here's the view of orchard road on the second night after the fireworks. so misty!enough about the museum.
i wanna end by saying that i really feel my age when i go for a haircut. i dont get student prices anymoreeee. it's a good thing the hairdresser sort of knows me, and still charged the student price. hoho!
didnt use smiley faces the entire entry. wowwee!
