Water Bottle Guardian
School has ended, and one semester of rabid studying is finally completed. While I wasn't very pleased with the last paper (Contracts, yuck), I am very glad it was over.
I was reading the posts, and I must say I really like 'butterface'. Such a seemingly innocuous word hides such a savage meaning. It's damn funny man, and I agree we must really appropriate it into our Ball-dictionary. And I can't wait for Borat to open in Singapore. Sacha Baron Cohen is so damn funny.
I spent Monday morning at the Singapore Zoological Gardens for the Law School Christmas Charity, where we hosted a day's worth of activities for children from Beyond Social Services. I must admit I signed up not out of pure altruism, but because I was just looking for something to do post-exams, but then I am pretty certain I would sign up again for next year's charity event.
It turned out that there were too many Year 1 volunteers, and too few little kids, so in the end I was thrown into a group of three, looking after one six-year-old girl called Phyllis. She was really cute, but really really shy, and my attempts to talk to her failed badly. All she would deign to do is get me to carry her waterbottle.
I became her official waterboy. Her water bottle guardian.
It's amazing how much energy the little kids had, because halfway through the excursion the volunteers were all ready to keel over and die, route-march training notwithstanding. Phyllis and Crystal (her sister) finally managed to warm up to me halfway through the zoo excursion, and then it became so much more interesting. Carried them to ride the cow outside the Ben & Jerry's outlet, played games with them on the bus, it was very heartening to see them have so much fun.
The kids were later transported back to NUS-BTC for some food, storytelling and sand-art. They were supposed to do a sand-art painting and give it to someone they liked. Well, it was a bit disappointing that Phyllis didn't dedicate it to me (she gave it to Desiree che che instead), but then it was still good to see them have so much fun.
Got home, and lao nua on the bus on my way home because I was so tired. I never knew taking kids out could be so tiring, but so much fun. I doubt this would be the catalyst to make me a pro bono, highly-altruistic volunteer, but it's gratifying to know how a little effort can change someone's life, or brighten their day for the better.
I was reading the posts, and I must say I really like 'butterface'. Such a seemingly innocuous word hides such a savage meaning. It's damn funny man, and I agree we must really appropriate it into our Ball-dictionary. And I can't wait for Borat to open in Singapore. Sacha Baron Cohen is so damn funny.
I spent Monday morning at the Singapore Zoological Gardens for the Law School Christmas Charity, where we hosted a day's worth of activities for children from Beyond Social Services. I must admit I signed up not out of pure altruism, but because I was just looking for something to do post-exams, but then I am pretty certain I would sign up again for next year's charity event.
It turned out that there were too many Year 1 volunteers, and too few little kids, so in the end I was thrown into a group of three, looking after one six-year-old girl called Phyllis. She was really cute, but really really shy, and my attempts to talk to her failed badly. All she would deign to do is get me to carry her waterbottle.
I became her official waterboy. Her water bottle guardian.
It's amazing how much energy the little kids had, because halfway through the excursion the volunteers were all ready to keel over and die, route-march training notwithstanding. Phyllis and Crystal (her sister) finally managed to warm up to me halfway through the zoo excursion, and then it became so much more interesting. Carried them to ride the cow outside the Ben & Jerry's outlet, played games with them on the bus, it was very heartening to see them have so much fun.
The kids were later transported back to NUS-BTC for some food, storytelling and sand-art. They were supposed to do a sand-art painting and give it to someone they liked. Well, it was a bit disappointing that Phyllis didn't dedicate it to me (she gave it to Desiree che che instead), but then it was still good to see them have so much fun.
Got home, and lao nua on the bus on my way home because I was so tired. I never knew taking kids out could be so tiring, but so much fun. I doubt this would be the catalyst to make me a pro bono, highly-altruistic volunteer, but it's gratifying to know how a little effort can change someone's life, or brighten their day for the better.
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