minds cip

hello once again.
i'm sad to say i haven't blogged in such a long time,
becauase i have simply lost interest in coming online.
i'm serious! i have absolutely no idea what's wrong with me.
then i go around surfing the web for other of my fav blogs
only to realise that they've already blogged up to 5 new entries.
shows how lag i am.

today 0720 went to minds for cip.
we were split into 4 different groups, i was under the cooking section!
together with shanyi and cassandra.
we were going to make sushi!!!
its damn cool okay, i never knew sushi would be that easy to make!
xy cooked the rice part, which i thought was the hardest,
the other ingredients like cucumber, crabstick and egg
were pretty easy.

the rolling part was the best!!!
i did it right on the first go!
but it was pretty hard to communicate with the residents there,
half the time i felt like i was talking to myself
cos they simply lose interest after a while.
well, can't blame them, i have a boring voice..
which is why i cann never be a teacher,
cos i'll make all my students fall asleep,
andd then i'll have to yell at them to get up
when its not even their own fault that they fell asleep.
or on the other hand, i would actually just let them do what they wish,
cos that's wad i always HOPE AND PRAY teachers will say to us.
"alright students. today lessons will be cancelled as i cann see you are all tired after a long day in school and there's simply no point to teach. please use this one hour to do whatever you wish.andd keep ur voices down as well, i'm trying to get some sleep myself."
fat hope.

whoops digressing too much!
okay, but finally, everyone in my group managed to make pretty good sushi.
what can i say, we're naturals! =D

after that we went down for part 2 of the programme,
which was activities to make them move about and basically, get some exercise.
we played blow wind blow and this obstacle course thingyy.
pretty fun actually, but i was already kinda tired,
so all i wanted to do was just sit down.
finally the games ended and we had to go back up to continue clearing up in the cooking area.
damn i hate clearing up.
but we managed to clear it rather quickly before heading down for debriefing
which took a much faster time than i expected.
the last time we took close to an hour,
this time it was just 20 mins.

cip at minds was really quite meaningful.
i never done this kinda stuff before, zero.
so its my first time interacting with the intellectually disabled people.
just makes you feel so lucky ur normal,
and able to function well.
beats comparing myself with people like... amanda bynes, jessica alba etc etc.
those are more like aliens sent from the planet of perfect-and-flawless-women.
i'm human from planet earth. =D

i wouldn't mind going to help out again during the holidays,
but i'd choose SPCA over MINDS.
i'm sorry but its just preferences i guess.
i know the MINDS residents probably needs more attention cos half the singapore population of youngsters are already willing to help out the little dogs and cats at SPCA,
but i'm one of the half who really would like to help out animals instead.
great, now i feel so guilty.

anyways, went for dinner later on at j8.
we had yoshinoya! salmon bowl rocks!~
after dinner we went to walk walk,
sy went to get her bday card for her fren at precious thots.
sorry for e wrong recommedation man,
that place was daylight robbery...
denn it was my turn to shop for nat's present,
but the bigbig tortoise was outta stock!
ohwells, in the end we ended up in action city
where she bought her mom's bdayy present,
andd i ended up buying some really cool chocolate-related accessories.
i now am the proud owner of an oreo-cookie-looking mirror!
(i wann the pencil case too. guess my intuition was wrong)
nvm i can always buy another one.

bleahhh, feeling so sleepy now.
drained off all my energy as well.. nitenites people.

[[ apple bottomed jeans, boots with the fur. ]]]