IT’S BEEN A YEAR! W-O-W can.

This time last year, I would have been frantically packing my bag to report to school at 6:30am. I shall say this for the next 2 weeks, till the 17th of June 2008-which is next Thursday.

This time last year, I would be in Pulau Belakang Padang, slogging my life out and having fun with those 18 other amazing people, not knowing that these mere 9 days could change my life forever. This time last year, I would have been learning the basics of construction, teaching and cooking-hands on. This time last year, so many things would have been happening that I just couldn’t cherish them fast enough. This time last year, I had the greatest time of my life which so far, nothing and no one had surpass them- yet. This time last year, had made last year worth it(who cares about what other people thinks).

I miss…
Lester
Alan
Kin Peng
Yew Choon
Fred
Lion-el
Andreas(okay, just saw her today so not that bad)
Miaomiao
Gatsby Boy
Addie
Yingjie
Dennis
Lianyi
Sionghui
Chinhow
Emo kid
Mingxuan
Wilfred

And everything about my dear pulau belakang padang, you won’t believe how lucky we are(in this service learning trip). I miss the solitude of the island, getting an empty road in Singapore for moment is super rare can, and when you do, the calmness from that silence evoke a wave of peace from you.bliss.

I haven’t talked to miaomiao(wait, I did, but it was for work so not counted) for a super long time. Then we talked today, he was complaining about his supposedly service learning trip to Vietnam. Show you an extract of it.

[ yi kai ] says:
the vietnam is terrible man
[ yi kai ] says:
shop and eat all day
PUTRI says:
really?didnt do any work?
[ yi kai ] says:
everyday just lecture by the tourist at the museum
PUTRI says:
i though is humans trip?suppose to be SL(service-learning) trip?
PUTRI says:
woah
PUTRI says:
soo sian
[ yi kai ] says:
thats the learning part but i guess nobody care
[ yi kai ] says:
then after that go another museum
[ yi kai ] says:
after that again temple
[ yi kai ] says:
then eat
[ yi kai ] says:
shop
[ yi kai ] says:
boring
[ yi kai ] says:
dreams 5 is the best


See! LOL.DREAMS 5 is the best! Even miaomiao said so. That’s why he’s such an awesome guy (haha. okay,not just because he agrees with me that he is an awesome guy)! And he has a blog! XD I didn't know that!And the address is darn cute too.

Been talking to Cheryl(Chung) about it for the past 2 days, seems like OBS and DREAMS 5 have the same effect on us so we totally understand how each other feels. And we got pretty philosophical. But the jest of it all is even if we pay for us to suffer/do service, ultimately, what we get back is priceless and as Cheryl sums it all up, it follows you for a lifetime.