I know I say this every time but what's different between this time's hiatus and previous times' is that this round, I've had zero desire to post anything here. AT ALL.
Call you laziness, a prolonged writer's block or whatever you will (it may even be a combination of both) I just couldn't bring myself to typing out any entries in this space. I blame my new (well, in technological standings it might as well have already reached teenhood) Instagram account for it has been my outlet for daily and weekly logs since end June. However, about a week back I thought it would be good to come back for writing entries on a blog and writing an Instagram caption are two completely different ball games.
1.0 Quick Comparison
I'm not sure what I will be writing about in this space but I am hoping to expand some of the thoughts I've been keeping in my head and heart that I don't deem fit to expound on on Instagram.
Just to keep things a bit more exciting in this post, here's what has happened in the latest |-block-| : the semester holidays! This |-block-| can be further broken down to more than a couple of /chunks\
/Italy 2016\
Since becoming a housewife a few years back, my mum has been watching heaps more travel and cooking shows in her free time. I would think that this influx of TLC programs is what inspired her to go on this trip. It was decided sometime in May that she would be going for this trip and I would be her company. We didn't go free and easy though (we may still be lost somewhere in Italy if we did that) and went with a tour package under Insight Vacations.
The trip lasted 10 days with the tour spanning 9 days. We came in a day earlier so we could spend more time in Rome. If we had planned better earlier, we would've probably extended our trip an extra day to spend more time in Venice but that didn't happen. All in all, it was a rather enjoyable trip. Traveling with my mum wasn't easy because well...we just don't get along that well even back in Singapore so things got quite rough from time to time. But beautiful sights, new experiences, gelato and very enigmatic tour mates made everything better.
I'm terribly unproductive without deadlines/when I'm given too much time to complete a task which is why even though it's been 3.5 weeks since I came back, my footage and photos have yet to be edited and compiled. (:
Okay here's a draft of the vlog. Cut me some slack. Also, please forgive the glitches. I'm still at an amateur level when it comes to filming & editing independently.
What the heck is the 'Click to Analyse' even?! And 480p?!!?! I have sinned.
/SRE-YMAC\
That long acronym stands for 'S Rajaratnam Endowment Youth Model ASEAN Conference' and it's something I signed up for back in June without really knowing what I was getting myself into. I'm ashamed to say that the only reason I signed up for it was because I was at a TP camp at the time and a fellow group mate of mine from RP said she was signing up and I should just try since not all who sign up get in anyway. On the spot I signed up and yeah as you can tell by now, I got in.
About a month leading up to the conference I received an email regarding more details like which country and committee I was representing as well as this task to write a position summary. I was assigned to be in the narcotics committee representing Cambodia. The first thing I thought was "the heck do I know about drugs are you kidding me can you please just stop all this madness I WANT OUT NOW" but I sucked it up and finished the essay in the two days after returning from my trip.
First day of the conference: why am I here?? It started on a Sunday morning so I had to miss church and then all the NP students met up at the wrong place HAHAHA. All the delegates were meant to gather at SP but our staff advisor (if you ever read this ms mel, I still love you) got us to meet at the hotel so we walked from Furama Waterfront hotel to Outram MRT and that's one damn long walk I'm telling you. Also good to note that 1) I took a $12 cab ride to the hotel in the morning to avoid this long walk 2) we were all carrying our luggages 3) it was really hot
But okay besides this morning mix up, which was laughable, it was the training sessions regarding conference protocol that made me really wonder why I put myself through this. To make things worse, I had a really bad night back at the hotel at the end of the day. I couldn't sleep between 1240 and 2am because my room mate had her light on to do work and there was just a bad and uneasy feeling within me. Alright it's getting late and I'm feeling tired so to cut things short, things turned out well in the end and since the conference ended one week ago (it was 5D4N), I've sorta missed it. The task we had, which was to write a declarative draft after having 6 committee in sessions), wasn't fun lah I'm not going to lie to you about that but it was something that really pulled me out of my comfort zone. The fun part was meeting delegates from all the other ASEAN countries and simply getting to know them.
/The Autism Centre\
Today was my last day back at the centre for this holiday period. This time round, I was back for 14 days. Would've done two additional weeks but my trip and a conference cut the time short. It was a good run though and I'm glad I went back.
This is the third time I've volunteered since February last year though I'm not very sure the first time counted since it was part of my attachment for the SERVE program.
Similar to when I went back in Sept/Oct last year, I was assigned several classes but stuck with one main class for most days. This time round I was attached to an all-boy class. Due to privacy and confidentiality issues, I'm not allowed to go into much detail about what exactly I did everyday, who I interacted with etc. however I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the boys and the two awesome teachers of the class. It was sad saying goodbye to them all while giving them their snack packs today, not knowing if I'll ever see them again but I am grateful for all they've taught me in these 3 weeks (I went four times a week). Be good boys and study well. I'll always be praying for you and hoping that you'll do the best with the abilities you're blessed with.
/floaty bits\
I AM TOO TIRED TO ADD TO THIS NOW. I WILL BE BACK. WHEN I HAVE THE TIME.
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