Sweet Home and Melody

FINALLY

We have just submitted our CP reports and all the deliverables.
In the same time, it marks the end of my undergrad life in NUS.

My 8-months CP journey with Gawad Kalinga has come to the end.

I am grateful, but at the same time also sad.

Regardless, time to enjoy the holiday, before I need to start working and start the new life as a non-student.

My last horrible 3 weeks in NUS

Today I and my CP team went down to Victoria JC to participate in OCIP Fair there representing Gawad Kalinga, the organisation we are working on.

Started with setting up all the exhibition materials for our booths, pasted all the posters and pictures and did some deco.

Continued with eating a super cheap yet tastes nice lunch; $1.50 for my meal, Bak Chor Mee.



And... our exhibition started... It didn't seem very crowded at the beginning, but after the OCIP talk and all the JC1 student came out and started approaching us, here's our show time. haha


It's indeed a wonderful experience, though it's pretty exhausted coz we talked non-stop for some time. But...I just feel very happy when someone came to us and wanted to know more about us. Some of them that I talked to were really interested on what I said, they really listened to my story about GK. It's awesome when someone initiated to sign up with us to get the follow up from us, watch the video we did. Imagine how you can make a difference, even just by talking shortly to somebody that you don't know, how you can help the poor by talking to them, and how you can contribute to community.

Check out our video: It's our experience when we went to The Philippines for immersion program 5th-9th December 2011.



On a side note, looking at students wearing JC uniform, it reminded me to my high school life...haha

This year I was spending the CNY in Singapore, unlike the previous year.

My aunt from my dad's side picked me to have a steamboat dinner at her mother's in law house in Achorpoint, queenstown.

 The next day, my aunt from my mom's side came to Singapore and we stayed at Festive Hotel in Resort World Sentosa. We had CNY-eve dinner at OSIA, an Australian Restaurant in RWS. This restaurant is nice enough to let us bring the Yusheng from other restaurant, do the prosperity toss, and make some dirt on the table because they never sell it. The food looks great and the taste is delicious.











The next day, I went to my far relative from my great grand father - but still same surname to bai bai. We are not very close as per say, but they are really nice and always welcome us.
I was planning to just bai bai to this family and went back, but couldn't find excuse to go home. I ended up went for family gathering lunch, and my uncle's god brother family gathering dinner. Last thing to do was gambling for fun. They said, they have tradition to play this during CNY, of coz we only bet small amount from 10c-$10 per bet. Started by losing money consecutively, but finaly I made little bit money from here. yay! I oso got hong bao...hahaha..







The last day of CNY, I felt bit tired coz of the tiring consecutive days, always slept late. The only thing I did were two cooking-session with friends (lunch and dinner) + long sleep, feeling bit unwell now...






Happy Chinese New Year, World! Let's welcome this dragon year with smile. Hope for a prosperity, luck, and happiness. 

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