Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

last thurs to sat was area retreat.
didn't want to stay out too long so i only joined them for the nights and only stayed over on friday.
i'm glad i went for the nights.
am also glad that i went for the rest of the program too.
continued to learn more about other people in the area during this retreat.
here's some of the things that happened in the retreat...

the girls all scared cockroach.
haha. there was one mando kachua that terrorised them it seems.
ms lee tried to kill it but all that resulted from that was a bunch of screaming girls that flinched at every sign of the slightest movement.
this led to yvonne telling her cockroach story for the nth time liao.
her very-exaggerated-but-never-loses-its-vigour-despite-its-numerous-re-tellings accounts of how insects all over the world are out to get her.
the kachua is still alive right now i believe. heh.

and! in this retreat i realise that alot of people DON'T CLOSE DOORS.
everytime someone walks in or out of the white room, they forget to CLOSE THE DOOR.
even if the air-con on also they STILL FORGET.
waaaahhhh. drove me nuts. had to keep telling people to CLOSE THE DOOR.
sheesh. YALL TRYING TO AIRCON THE WHOLE SINGAPORE ISSIT?!
i dun get it loh. what's so hard about just turning around to close the door?
is it some habit thing that they all lack? like i've been brought up to have doors closed when air con is on lidat.
at least they have the habit of closing toilet doors tho. :X
haiii. next time my kids also better learn to close doors when the air con is on.
chi.

the night i stayed over, i stayed up to do chem work.
ms lee stayed up for quite a bit too to mark exam scripts.
heh. had a good laugh at some of the students' answers. really ridiculous loh...
e.g. plants convert WATER energy into WIND energy. wah seh. more than 10 people gave this answer...
their english also terrible. haii. makes me wonder about the effectiveness of singapore's english education system.(and the quality of it also..)
basic grammar and spelling cannot make it loh. even interpretation of questions also jialat...
makes me wanna go improve my english and do something about it..
but alas...still must get over this alevel thing first.

had a terribly unhealthy diet when i was there too.
thurs night, i only joined them for supper: fish ball mee pok dry + hokkien mee + cheng tng.
fri was dinner and supper: steam boat dinner with lotsa tom yam soup(flows through my veins along with ribena) followed by bubble tea and supper was roti prata teloh and kosong from simpang.
sat morning was basically deep fried stuff for breakfast: hum jin beng(no fight with maxwell of course) and you char kueh and chee kueh and some healthy soya bean drink.
lunch was kallang bbq! woohoo.
good thing i had to go church after that. if not i would've stayed for the bbq in the evening... but not much diff hor? i still went church and stuffed my face with pizza...
sat night my chest hurt a bit whenever i inhaled. somehow, i think it may be related to my diet.

then there was that afternoon that was a major downloading session on sat.
download stuff from mr lim's brain into our's. he was right though, some things we already knew(or at least i already knew), but still the session was there to speak to our heart...
he tried to answer 8 questions in 2 hours. modified abit in the end and stopped at question 6 which was fine too.
used lotsa videos to bring the point across. some were funny, some were rather emo.
but i think all in all they were clear in their message. some leave quite a deep impression.
like the video that talked about actually sincerely wanting to know a person.
that one quite emo.
it basically showed a couple of emo youths firing rapid questions at the camera as the camera moved from youth to youth. questions that made it seem as though these youths were completely dis-interested in talking, or held a very cynical view towards conversations. felt very teenage angsty with them saying how people didn't really know what they were going through.
they talked about some of the feelings they got when people asked them questions. how they didn't like it when people asked questions they already knew the answer to.
or how people asked questions they didn't realy want to know the answer to. or how people accepted answers at face value without "listening with their eyes"...and so on and so forth.
heh.
the punch came at the last bit.
camera went through the entire group of youths once more with them saying something along the lines of

"once you've gotten over that..."
(referring to all that was mentioned previously)

*youths smile*

"i'll talk your ear off"

wah! power. i think is true loh. gotta be real to a person to really get to know him and he you. that means asking questions you really want to know the answer to and not just superficial questions...something i am guilty of i think.
gotta ask real questions! and can't be so "interrogative"?
hehe. very cool videos.

ok. just now talk about food i hungry liao.
time to eat!
:)
retreat was good.