Yesterday was my last offical day as a young change maker. Today I am an alumini member. It has been two years since I first started of in NYC by joining NYF 04. It was a wise decision and I never regretted a moment doing so. I have USP to thank for that. People like Hui Yi, Imran, Alex, Larrisa, Penelope and Stephaine are friends that are hard to come by. It is hard especially to forget people like Hui Yi ,Imran, joyce and alan who were also working with me in NYF 06 research team. Those wonderful time spend at City hall burger king... SIGH....
But that is just one group of special people, throughout NFY 06 I also got to know a huge range of people whom if I have to list down will take two whole posts. Its just amazing how they have made my life so interested and loveable over the past two years. I felt so touched when last night martino shook my hand and asked me to keep in touch. The three martino- martina and denise gang are just one of those I am going to miss. I also have the NYC staff whom I am going to miss... esp Shawn's lame (yet intellectual... yeah right) jokes.
I had always assumed that retirement was a loss of identity because of the fact that we have always been taught indirectly all our lives that what we are studying and doing right now is to ensure that we get a a good job to support ourselves in the future. This form of ideology embeddenss have crafted our identity so far. But now to think of of it the embeddeness is not just the ideology of work but also the relationships that we foster through that work.
I suppose maybe that is why when people retire they feel upset not just because they feel less productive but because they are leaving a social network behind. Whether you like it your lives are intertwined with each other and retirement cuts the strings to these bonds even though people says its not the end of relationships.
Nevertheless a new path has opened up for me and Indiana Jones is on another adverture of her life.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Love from Time to Time
Love from Time to Time
Dedicated to Anna Sophia Lockwood who is a romantic at heart
and yet knows the constrains of time and space
Three men, three hearts, one girl
One that is destined for her
Another who showed her peace
And one which her body aches in lust
Three men, three hearts, one girl
The first whom she gave her heart to
The second whose exoticism gave her thrills
The last whose gave his heart to others but never to her
Three men, three hearts, one girl
He broke her heart and made her miserable
He broke her heart in the fear for commitment
He broke her heart by loving others who don't love him
Three men, three hearts, one girl
She is destined to him and will learn to love him again
She still loves him and hopes to love him till death comes
She still lust for him though it's wrong and hopes that lust will die one day
Three men, three hearts, one girl
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Feeling the love
It is very rare to find oneself on cloud nine since we are all so busy running our lives. Right now as far as I know most of my peers in school are busy rushing their term papers which is due either tomorrow or tueday. I, myself will be meeting my group to put my sexuality module term paper tomorrow and knowing my professor there is no extension for this paper.
Despite the busy schedule I had my cloud nine experinece when I met my favorite collegue(hint: my fly boy) in the NUS open house whom I have not met since term started and he gave me a great big hug, lifting me off the floor. I felt I was begin hugged by a big grizzly bear though he is only my size. I just felt a nice warm fizzy feeling in me even till now. It was so nice to get a welcome back hug. We used to have lunches ( more like arguments) but we don't specially hang out together in school and now that we are busy with our lives we hardly see each other but even till now I know that I have a friend in him. Not always do we meet such people in our lives. I am blessed however to have many of such friends around in every stage of life.
I have a friend called Deniece in my secondary school. I have known her for 7 years and till now she is someone I can turn to when I am in trouble. I still remember what she did for me when I was 16. I had a rift with my biology teacher on the last day of school before the break for my O- levels. I came to her very much upset and told her how rude he was and how he had hurt my feelings. She being a true good comrade, went straight to him and gave him a piece of her mind. I have no idea what she told him but he had spend a full hour searching for me. And when he found me, he kind of 'apologise' for what he did. Boy! That made my day and till today I would never forget that day. In fact when I went to receive my award for being the President of ELDDS on that day, I gave a curtis and hopped down stage.
She is just one of the faithful friends I have. There is also others like Elvina lee who taught me that sometimes life is too short so live your life as if you have no tmr. In any case we both decide we would go to Poland and grow potatos if we cannot find a job after graduation (the next potato famine coming up!) I cannot forget my great Dark Master, Kenny Pooh ( he is no way related to Winnie pooh) who has taught me the ways of the dark side- hai-arigato gozaimas master! There is also my friends Karthi and Nasirah whom I have known since I was seven (its amazing how they are still sane after all this years growing up with me) These two girls share a special friendship with me because its not just us who have such a long term friendship through us our mothers have been friends for such a long time. I guess this is what you call the mother daughter bonding.
Nevertheless looking back I am glad that our paths cross and that I had such a wonderful time getting to know them. As far as I know I am still making more new friends. People like Lifang (princess) and Jian How (takewando expert..haha..) who I have grown close to and who are members of the gossip club. For those who cannot image just image seeing a cute white bunny (lifang), a black belt ox (jian how) and a black handed spider monkey (that's me) sitting on a hot air balloon looking through a binoculars. The NYF research team(esp huyi and Imran who are the life of the team).There is also the critical MAy-Ann who I had the longest night call and the brother and sister team I work with who share the same family name- twohill. I am still meeting so many of these people and every day I thank God for such an opportunity.
Despite the busy schedule I had my cloud nine experinece when I met my favorite collegue(hint: my fly boy) in the NUS open house whom I have not met since term started and he gave me a great big hug, lifting me off the floor. I felt I was begin hugged by a big grizzly bear though he is only my size. I just felt a nice warm fizzy feeling in me even till now. It was so nice to get a welcome back hug. We used to have lunches ( more like arguments) but we don't specially hang out together in school and now that we are busy with our lives we hardly see each other but even till now I know that I have a friend in him. Not always do we meet such people in our lives. I am blessed however to have many of such friends around in every stage of life.
I have a friend called Deniece in my secondary school. I have known her for 7 years and till now she is someone I can turn to when I am in trouble. I still remember what she did for me when I was 16. I had a rift with my biology teacher on the last day of school before the break for my O- levels. I came to her very much upset and told her how rude he was and how he had hurt my feelings. She being a true good comrade, went straight to him and gave him a piece of her mind. I have no idea what she told him but he had spend a full hour searching for me. And when he found me, he kind of 'apologise' for what he did. Boy! That made my day and till today I would never forget that day. In fact when I went to receive my award for being the President of ELDDS on that day, I gave a curtis and hopped down stage.
She is just one of the faithful friends I have. There is also others like Elvina lee who taught me that sometimes life is too short so live your life as if you have no tmr. In any case we both decide we would go to Poland and grow potatos if we cannot find a job after graduation (the next potato famine coming up!) I cannot forget my great Dark Master, Kenny Pooh ( he is no way related to Winnie pooh) who has taught me the ways of the dark side- hai-arigato gozaimas master! There is also my friends Karthi and Nasirah whom I have known since I was seven (its amazing how they are still sane after all this years growing up with me) These two girls share a special friendship with me because its not just us who have such a long term friendship through us our mothers have been friends for such a long time. I guess this is what you call the mother daughter bonding.
Nevertheless looking back I am glad that our paths cross and that I had such a wonderful time getting to know them. As far as I know I am still making more new friends. People like Lifang (princess) and Jian How (takewando expert..haha..) who I have grown close to and who are members of the gossip club. For those who cannot image just image seeing a cute white bunny (lifang), a black belt ox (jian how) and a black handed spider monkey (that's me) sitting on a hot air balloon looking through a binoculars. The NYF research team(esp huyi and Imran who are the life of the team).There is also the critical MAy-Ann who I had the longest night call and the brother and sister team I work with who share the same family name- twohill. I am still meeting so many of these people and every day I thank God for such an opportunity.
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