Attachment to Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) was fantastic, really glad I signed up for it. Met lots of great people, and I learnt so much from them, not just what they do in SCS, their job scoops etc, but career guidance in general, and lots of interesting and funny stuff...in fact i' went to Jay's wedding yesterday (one of the staff at SCS)..it's great...will update again about the attachment and the wedding some time soon...
Birthdays are important. I know, I walked out of my last one and it never occurred to me that I wouldn't get another. She may not know it but she needs to celebrate her birthday, we all do. Don't take it for granted.
- Charmed
This is actually something I wanted to blog about since 7th June, but there's quite a lot of stuff going on in my mind, like the block test i have not yet started studying AT ALL, the call to National Heritage Board to request for interview for PW which I obviously haven't made, the empty survey forms that are not filled up, the meeting minutes for PW that are pilling up, the reflections for attachment that are not complete...whenever I sit down and try to write something, nothing comes out...this is the 3rd time I tried to write an entry on birthday...
See...I've already digressed so much from the topic itself, tell me how to pass GP like that? How to pass GP huh? But I'm starting to feel the stress...everyday, people would ask me questions on MSN, what is this, how to do this question..etc..and I try my best to answer them, but guilt hit me each time when they ask me any questions. I tried to use the attachment as an excuse for not studying, so that I feel less guilty, but still, I have time at night to study, I just choose to idle them away...
Ok, I really digress too much already...so birthdays...yea..they are special aren't they? That very day...you were born!! But I never really took it very seriously ever since I came to secondary sch, I would look forward to it yes, but most of the time, it just feels like a really normal day to me...for the past 4 years, my birthdays have been quite plain and normal (except sec 2), I was either at St John camp (sec 1), St John training (sec 4) or it was so so forgettable that I forgot what I did that day (sec 3)...*after writting the whole entry, I remembered what I did that day!!!!! 6th June was First Aid National Comp, 7th June I was too tired so I spent the whole day at home slacking! I think...but winning 2nd runner up is probably the best present all these years...
I don't usually get presents from anyone including family (other than once from my sis and once from yc, meng and terence), I don't usually get birthday smses (other than a few sjab squad mates..and zhiyong i think)...I do get birthday cakes, but I hate the sing song cut cake part, cause though I may appear a bit attention seeking at times, I hate the limelight...so people sining birthday songs for me...looking at me cut the cake...makes me feel awkward and uneasy, like I want to find a hole and and just hide myself inside..
I got used to it actually, it's nothing to get sad over really, since I never tell anyone about my birthdays anyway...(but who would go around advertising your own birthdays anyway?)..and there are people out there suffering a much worse fate than me...so I can't really complain..
So looking at the quote up there..."Birthdays are important, don't take them for granted", it didn't really feel much to me...maybe it did, but what can I do? My life is that boring, and not even a birthday will spice it up....
But working at SCS over the past 2 weeks, especially the first 3 days, where we met so many cancer patients, seeing how unpredictable life can be, how misfortune may just strike anytime, that quote meant so much more to me...
This year, things are a little different, I got a record breaking 19 smses!! Lol..a couple of MSN greetings, a E-card and a HAND MAKE CARD! Haha...got presents from my classmates too...like all of them...how can I not like them when most of the stuff they gave me are the stuff I wanted anyway...so I can say I'm a pretty happy man that day...
Let me recall how it started...I woke up...I saw 3 smses...I wash up and get ready, went Heartland Mall to get chocolates for the 3 of them cause Wendy bought chocolates and sweets on her birthday too, then went down to SCS. Spent the morning writing the article that Janice requested for...
Yes, that was me typing while Jing Juan was slacking and sleeping...see..her head so big it block me till I can't type lor...
Then in the afternoon after lunch, went over to the Public Education department, after some briefing, what was there for us to do?? SG!! SAIGANG!! Spent the rest of the time keying in feedback form results, and for some weird reason, we need to key in the name, address, emaill add, tel no...in addition to the results, I mean why bother? But nevermind, since we were told to do so, we did...till 6.20 pm before we left...
Met my classmates at Kovan MRT at 7 pm, I wanted to go home, bath then meet them, but too bad, the SG work ended so late...so I was feeling super tired...my energy level was really low at that point...
The time spent at my house...well, I guess my house is as boring as me and my life, it's all connected....so yar...you get the picture...some of us entertained ourselves by playing Mahjong and bridge...those who don't...well...I guess they died of boredom....haha...
The stayover...was HORRIBLE for me!! I can barely keep my eyes open at 11pm liaoz, can you imagine...I was literally playing mahjong with my eyes close...I only open my eyes when I hear the mahjong hit table sound...to check if i want that tile...but I managed to last till 5+...which is not bad...
So poof..my birthday's over...time really flies when you're enjoying yourself...well I guess not haha..since I spent most of the time that day doing SG work...but this year's birthday is quite different, and definitely a memorable one...at least I will never forget all the funny funny weird weird names I entered while keying in the feedback data....
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