iDepart

Tomorrow, i'm leaving my country of birth to the land full of bio-diversity in the south namely Australia. A departure at 11.30pm is not exactly my favourite timing. I don know about anyone of u but everytime, yes everytime i fly a plane and touch down, i feel sickish or rather full of fatigue and just want to sleep. A night flight really results in me having a dark cramped up place with people snoring around me, and screen shining out so brightly and a full encounter of a day's work as soon as i arrive. This means i don get to sleep (well i can if i want) but if i reach at night it'll be different, day times means work thus i don really get to sleep sigh...

well life is not fair, what can i say?

So i'll be back in Melbourne and i'm going to miss Singapore seriously. I feel that this holiday of mine was really great, not that i did what i wanted to do but i filled it with meaningful objectives and activites.

i reached back in Singapore on the 23rd of November. Within roughly a week (2nd of Dec to 14th of Dec) i went to Israel. Christmas came really quickly with an enjoyable dinner with my family, my friends and my sister's friends. I with the help of Joel (who was in NS) planned the activities for the chalet retreat in Pasir Ris and it was really a great success. Then came the ushering of a New Year with my church friends, working in Touch Youth a wonderful organisation that reaches out and helps students that are re-doing (private candidates) O'lvls because they either did badly for it or got into trouble with the law and was kicked out of school. Jaclyn my secondary school friend helped for a short while (thanks) but resulted in me waiting for her at her bus stop for more than 30mins all the time (sigh) and thus paying an extra bus fare (double sigh) but regardless she was a help. Working there (free mind you since its helping out, my bus/train price killed me seriously) really taught me alot of valuable lessons that one cannot learn in a class room alone and i really thank God for this experience. It was tiring but it was worth it and was fun to a certain extent. I also helped out in a charity organisation (BMDP - Bone Marrow Donor Program) where i helped the organisation sell teddy bears and raise funds on some scottish event. The person in charge i have to admit with no diffculty lack accountability and fore-sight, its a success because of the people there (i slacked abit so not all the credit should go to me) really did a fantastic job. So i did tuition and later teaching (to cover the chemistry teacher who went overseas) and stopped 2 weeks before i left for Melbourne (which is tomorrow). Also there was Chinese New Year where i went up to Malaysia for 2 days and had lots of fun. Visiting of other relatives also happened.

So there we are, this is what i did throughout my stay in Singapore. Seriously busy, didn't get to visit the zoo, science centre, Jurong bird park, wild wild wet etc as i planned to do.

Time passes so fast,
Its like a silver arrow,
To the distant it flies,
The infinate space
Where have i reached?

Jeremy