little eagle
Female, age unknown, loves BLUE
Plays piano, played bass clarinet
in school band
Loves Snoopy, Chip & Dale,
Bugs Bunny, Seven Dwarfs,
Forever Friends Bear,
Doggies and Piggies
Eats when stressed.
Loves chocolates and icecream
Gets paranoid easily.
Prone to clumsiness and getting
frantic
1. Go Tasmania
2. Go New Zealand
3. Have a dog
4. Learn driving (eventually)
5. Save more money (on-going)
6. Be Healthy (trying very hard)
7. Find someone and have a family
(trying :D)
♥HOLIDAY PLANS
1. Malacca with J21
2. Taipei!
3. Holiday lessons for Sec 5
4. Long overdue Clarinets outing!
Finally back from Cambodia... Totally exhausted... Slept the whole afternoon and went to bed early yesterday... Missed my mum's cooking, miss singapore's air, water and food... gobble down wanton mee and fried carrot cake tis morning... shiok...
Not that food there was bad... It was not bad actually, we were quite well fed... Not talking about those guys who dislike vegetables (cos we had a lot of veges). But got a little sick of eating bread and bread every morning... cos personally I don't like eating bread... And the rice there is like FOC cos they give us one whole big styrofoam box of rice, and I can eat like only 1/3 of it. And the water also... We can't drink from tap water, so we either had to boil or drink bottled water. The boiled water is fine when it's hot, but tastes very weird when it's cooled. Then the bottled water tastes different too. When I came back to drink the water at home, I felt like my entire digestive track cleared...
As I expected, the trip this year was so much different from last year. What's most different is our programme, and our 'boldness' to ask for changes. I daringly brought just two boys and walk out of the school to buy stuff... which is something that the teacher in charge would never let me do last year. And I brought them out more than once some more. My colleague managed to find an orphanage to bring some of the students there in the morning, and they totally enjoyed it. Wished I was there. I was told it was a totally different experience as compared to the school we were in. The orphanage was made from attap houses, basically just 'spaces' for different activities and not rooms.
We saw so much more of Cambodia this time. The contrast between the forsaken capital city Phnom Penh and the vibrant tourist hotspot Siem Reap. Along the roads of the capital city, we see abandoned shop houses. On the outskirts, we see golden rice fields, and slumps and villages, where families live in houses made from attap and twigs which are barely bigger than our toilets. Everything that we do seem to bring them so much hope, every little thing that we do made a big difference to them. People come and go in their lives everyday... but when will their lives be really changed for the better. The children pose willingly at every picture that you take of them. They wave at anyone who walks by, whether or not you wave back at them. They look so happy and contented... yet most of them will stay in poverty for life.
However, are we always able to stop and think of these people, who have barely 10% of everything that we possess. Who are we to complain, who are we to be uncontented, when we know that there are people who have nothing at all.
