comparison

usually, when im in 3rd week of semester, i'll feel so lazy to study, telling myself i have plenty of time left before i need to start revising, using the excuse that semester just started to allow myself to laze. but now, i've been busy with work every single day, group discussion, group proposal, community service, revision, reading journals...

and the best part is...im happily busy...

gosh, working experience really is so priceless. it made me appreciate studying life so much more. it makes me savor the stress of studying, bcos doing assignments and research on topics that im passionate about is so much more interesting than researching a field i have zero knowledge and interest

and im soaking myself in the company of my friends, bcos i felt so deprived of human contact for those 2 working months. i am absolutely so happy to be around friends, people im close with, people im comfortable being myself. its true...u never know what u're missing til u lose them..

well, this past monday Alex and I went to Prudential Welfare Home in SS3 for our voluntary placement project. its a shelter home for children aged 5 to 17. i really didnt know what to expect, but when we got there, it was a bungalow turned shelter home. there are altogether 22 children with 2 helpers. it is totally funded by Prudential, so i assume they're financially stable. the children are either orphans or neglected children or their parents are incapable of taking care of them. all of them live in this home, going back to their families only on long school break.

our duty is to mentor and tutor them in school work. hmmm...i've been thinking of providing tuition since foundation days, so now i really can do so! but of cos, this time i wont be paid...my main motivation to provide tuition is no longer available...*sob sob* but then again, those children are really adorable. they got my full sympathy bcos they're so innocent yet facing such a broken life, so providing some free tutoring is the least i can help ease their pain....

all i gotta do is put myself in their shoes, and i feel so blessed living in this house i can call my home. compared to me, the injustice they face is God knows how much worse. things may not be as great as i expect, but at least i have something...

time to get busy again! cheerios ppl!!!