De BIG gamble

Today's the day.

Today's the day daddy and mommy went overseas, looking for an apartment and all the necessities for a LONG stay in aussie land.

Today's the day when our family's big 'gamble' begins.

31st December 2006.
And in exactly five days from now, my brother and sister would be leaving Singapore too. They are the stakes in this 'gamble' (my dad prefers to call it a game).

I do not gamble, I've never gambled, I have no idea about odds. But just like any gambler, I'm asking for the best.

They say, words can describe your feelings. My feelings can be translated into a clean sheet of paper scribbled with invisible ink. sigh..

Metro-SIF-PJC day 2

Had to compromise today's training for this (good cause) which is very much worth it! Its charity for the needy children in Cambodia, after all. What we did today was pretty much the same as yesterday, just that we saw fewer people. Fewer people, less job, less donations.

Well, having less to do doesn't usually equate to more rest time. Haha, for no ryhm or reason, we had more trouble getting the job done than yesterday when we saw more donors. And the problem was that we had more people mending the booth today! Some of us (this does not include me) felt that someone in our group was a jinx and that person is DEFINATELY NOT me. This I can assure you. hahha.

This was what happened:
First, one of our cameras (we were given only two) broke down - maybe it has decided to take a break? I mean, who couldn't use a good relaxing break? "especially when we dun see much donors visiting our stall".

Disclaimer: The above-stated quotation is not in anyway fabricated by this writer. This writer shan't be held responsible for any disagreements with the above-mentioned quotation. (In short, let's not blame the "camera" for being a little loose with its words, yea?)

Second, we started loosing our memory cards. One's damaged, the other got corrupted and one of the remaining two went missing. So we had to make do with one camera, one memory card, a crowd. Great!

Next, our printer went out of printing paper. and this brings us to the fourth problem.

Fourth, our ink roller (something along that line. Its an "ink jet" for photo printing except the mechanism that functions this "ink jet" is similar to that of our correction tape) went hay-wire and it can't get it fixed somehow. After much desperate tryings, we made things worse. the film connecting the ends of the ink roller (I really don't know the technical name for this, so it shall be named as such, for now at least) snapped.

I think one thing just led on to the other and eventually, we'd got donors waiting for their photos and the worse was most of them are tourists! Actually, we only have four waiting larh. But only one of them is local. So, we decided to call for help.

Sixth problem. Help didn't come. haha.

We decided to close shop after much consideration cuz we waited for 'bout an hour and made many calls during the wait but to no avil. So, packing up was the best solution, I guess.

I almost walked in the rain again but kind hearted An Qi sheltered me with her umbrella until I reached my bus-stop (haha, thanks so much!)

Actually, It wasn't a bad day, just a day filled with little mishaps. At least the donations did not stop coming. haha. This is my consolation, I guess; our consolation.

Make up training waiting for mua tomorrow! till then!

Noobie trying on blogging

First Blog! haha! Hurray!

Though this is MY first blog, it is my second time blogging. My first time was on my class blog and it was a slip short one, so I'll remedy it with an ultra long posts here! Anyway, its my blog so I can do anything I want. Well, mostly anything actually. haha!

I've got no idea what to write cuz confidence was never part of my life, really. So I guess I'll just pen down the little happenings of my life for a start.

I think I'll just write about the things I did this week. Actually, there aren't much, I guess.

OBS
I went to OBS for five days (monday-friday) with some of my schoolmates (Shi Hua, Jian Hui, Yann Ming, Brian, Kah Hwee, Syazwan and Jeremy) and "members of the public" (Neil, Samantha, Yu Rong, Faiz, Johari and Yong Kian). We did a little of everything - high ropes, trekking, kayaking, leading, trustfalls, team bonding and staying in tents. Basically, we did stuff you would do in any back-to-basics camp. What makes this camp different is that the facilitator is more of a phantom, watching over us, while we "ran the show" (quoted from Steven, our camp facilitator). Steven is a great guy! He was always trying his best to make our stay wonderful - long expeditions, interesting activities, you name it.
I love Day 5 of the camp because that was when you see everyone coming together, chatting and laughing. Maybe because it was the last day already. The last day in Ubin with 13 other people; people who became our friends. Friends who braved through thick and thin TOGETHER.
Yup Yup, so I would say I brought home with mua the faces and names of my friends from Marco Polo and all the joys we've had. Lest will I forget those fun times picking on SAMANTHA CH'NG CHENG YI, a nice girl with a nice tan (really, she's a nice person, with a nice tan. Its a compliment. No form of sacarsm. No really, Not even a tiny bit. hahhahaha!)

Metro-SIF-PJC
I signed up for this Metro-SIF project, a fund-raising project which helps needy children in Cambodia. This project has been on for years but this is the first time PJC is doing this project though. I'm tasked to run the Santa & Me booth which was rather nice, cuz photography is something I can handle much much better than talking. Also, I took the opportunity and photographed myself cuz i wanted a picture of the tanned me for keepsake! haha.. Of course, I paid for the picture just like every one else; and I took it after my shift. So i guess i didn't flout any rules, I hope.

Okay, that's all from me, for now. haha.. There's still a shift of Santa & Me waiting for me tomorrow. hahha..

Goodie Night!