KEWOC Warriors!!!

Just realized that I didn’t even blogged about myself coming back on this lonely island. Yea, I returned on this island weeks ago to start my life as the royal ambassador of King Edward VII Hall Welcoming & Orientation Committee. What we had done so far were not much but yet, not little. We, the publicity, managed to come out with our own logo after votes and modification according to needs, set up websites and profiles, halfway through the booklets, completing the big big banner, come up with ideas for T-shirt design and loads loads more. Here, is the website we had for this year KEWOC, do enter to know more about us!

Besides that we had a day or two with some facilitators for some games… We had dry runs, which means, we get to play the whole set of game. We had a couple of meetings everyday, where we sat in that faithful room and have loads of discussion. We had certain outings where we had enjoyed. We had meals together, in which some were actually packed foods.

So, not much can be revealed at the moment, because we don’t want to break the surprise!

The Tale of Despereaux

Watch The Tale of Despereaux that day and wanted to say how much I loved the soundtracks. They are not those active, action soundtracks just like Pirates of the Caribbean, but they are those nice country, town, sail feeling soundtracks that fits right into place into the animation. Besides that of course is the cute characters, particularly the mouse. you can see how cute the main character was drawn here:

 

The story is a very simple story which ends with forgiveness. Not much point pointed out but definitely enough to touch your heart, in terms of feeling what each of them feel. In here, they talked about difference of rats and mouse. Seriously, I never thought of how to differentiate rats and mouse. And there’s this soup, that really can ‘reach’ the spectator’s nostrils… And I admire the grief the movie maker successfully presented on the screen. It is overall-y well done. Looks like typical fairy tales, but yet, not that fairy.

When Room Becomes Store Room

Just as I mentioned earlier that my room is used as a ‘collection point’ for several people. To date, it had been around 8 people putting in this single room that is even smaller than my own room at home. What’s more is Wen Qing is actually staying in it and now is resided by three of us: Wen Qing, yunlan and me. It is not what is planned but Wen Qing registration to residence is suddenly cancelled/postponed and we have to stay harmonically together here… Now, the situation is better as in some stuff had been removed since their owner went back to take them to their own room.

    

Notice that the table is still empty but now it was full with our stuff since we were putting things we use frequently there so that it is easily accessed. And the walkway now is filled with boxes and baskets. Now it is filled with a mattress which extend to under the table.

Now, there were 3 sets of pillows used by each of us. But when Wen Qing stayed here initially, the pillows and blankets were just so many that she described the bed and her sleep as ‘feel so comfortable to sleep with so many pillows surrounding you’.

 

The space between my shelf and my wardrobe is a place where we ‘throw’ uncategorized things and laundry baskets and brooms and etc. You can see what printer box was used for when you shift room. In side the wardrobe will have clothes and books. Yes, we are too desperate until we squeezed books into the wardrobe and small spaces at the top. For the right wardrobe, we store around 5 huge luggage and some plastic bags plus a bit of scattered around ‘junks’.

Just a reminder for freshies that this shelf is not provided in usual single room. This is a special shelf that you only can obtain when you asked for it and you joined hallplay last annual year. And we are now making full use of it by putting all out things on it such as food, most of my textbooks, a volleyball, water bottles and iron.

 

When it comes to storing things, this 6-square is also a good spot. I moved all my paper stacks into the top middle square – including my first-aid box. The top right remained to have some tea leaves while the other space were given to storage. It is filled in with other people’s books and printers. Just look at the picture and you can count at least how many printers were there, and that’s when there is still mine down there on the table. Some printers were stacked on top of the squares and there’s Reuben’s humungous plastic bag which I suspected him to squeeze every single thing he had in without arranging them. That plastic bag looked scary since it seemed to fall any moment. However, until it is taken down, there is no injury and no falling record yet.

This is what you call a room? I am quite proud to know how much my room can do and I dare say, I love this room! G307, Yay!!!

Back To Mustard Seed

Yesterday marked one of the best days I had over the vacation. Inside the car, Shiny, me, Coleitt and Aina woke up early in the morning just because we wanted to give the centre’s kids a surprise. We had Hokkien Mee breakfast near my house where I saw one of my ex-colleague working there, selling Nasi Lemak. No wonder she looked so tired when she worked in the same place as me, I thought. Then, we headed towards the centre at Inderawaseh. When we reach there, some parents were sending their kids in.

Coleitt and Shiny wished to see their 爱徒 but it seemed that those two had finally successfully graduated from the centre and had entered normal kindergartens. So, there goes Chong Kai (Coleitt’s 爱徒 ) and Nicholas (Shiny’s 爱徒). It is sad to think that we can’t meet them but it is a good news that they can live with independence now. My so-called ‘爱徒’, however, failed to grow up. Sigh, he still can’t concentrate during the lessons over the year after I entered university. His name is Ernie. His first impression to me is he looked like someone I knew when I was very very very young. Yup, next year he will be in Year 1 but he is as tall as Year 4/5. However, his hyperactiveness causes him to lack in concentration, resulting in slow in learning progress. I still remember when I had hyperactive tendencies back when I was his age. Anyway, he can speak now, but still not concentrate enough. He looked happy when he saw me though. The whole centre had a few of other student graduated and at the same day we went back, one of the ex-student, Qi Zheng, came back from normal kindergarten. It is quite sad to hear that normal teachers can’t accept him but too see him back here in the centre, I wish he will learn fast enough to be accepted again. (This include learning not to run from school, which is the reason he was kicked out).

In Mustard Seed, children with learning disabilities, mostly autisme, were given lessons and trainings to improve their general knowledge and to enable them to learn to be independent. Inside the centre there were many kinds of children with different kind of autisme. Such as one I met today, who wore a Harry Potter glasses, he’s not showing much of autisme but due to high degree of eye-problem, he developed some need-to-be corrected behaviours. For the whole morning, we helped in the morning singing session, lessons and breaktime and until assembly, which we had to leave to send Aina back to UM. One task that we met is to handle their lessons, we need to understand what they need and to understand their behaviour. They don’t know how to tell you about something, but their actions will give you hint about it. By facing a whole new class, we can’t use back our old interpretation just like how we interpret the last class, but to take in new ones…

Anyway, I’m very happy we went back to see all the children learning, inching towards their independence. May them be blessed all the time.

BLOOD: The Last Vampire

Shiny spent hours at my dining table, having her ‘burning disc’ meal and succeed in the end. The movie watching group grow from the planned 2 into a 5 people group which fill the car legally. Sorry, Shiny, but we watched 17 again… So, we watched one that is not watched before by any of us – BLOOD: The Last Vampire.

Another horror movie?! Anyway, this is not a horror movie… just a movie with some blood. The story started off well, with some typical opening. However, too bad is the story sent itself into its grave as the story went along to its end. The ending seems to be too rush, not clear and gives people a feeling of ‘huh?’. So, I agree with pH about the ending 草草了事. I am greatly disappointed with this point. Another thing about this movie is the technology. The computer generated scene looked too ‘computer generated’ and make it very very ‘fake’. This happens not only at one scene but a lot. Maybe it is a difficult task but for that aspect, this movie failed to do the best. About characters, I have to say the main actress, which is the last vampire, suits well into her character. Très bien for her! She has the suitable expression for scene and he can fit into the dress of navy to become a school girl character well too. Plot for the movie is not good, counting in the last sentence Onigen said, it is actually a bit meaningful if you look it another way. When she says ‘…be me…’, I sort of feel the other meaning – the replacement. That one is quite classical. Light and Dark never ends. None will win – they must be kept in equilibrium, to ensure the world is safe.

This movie reminds me of another movie I watched one more time that day over the TV – The Seeker: The Dark is Rising… well, I’m not going to talk about another movie in this movie post… that’s all!