130607 – 150607 Days 11,12 & 13
Lectures ended quite early for these 3 days. YAY! Got a lot of spare time to do other stuff. After lesson today, me, Zi Liang and Bao Chern went to walk around the streets and the Bao Chern damn greedy. She wanna try every kind of food so we stopped over to try breads, rice dumpling, visited a small bookshop which sells only Vietnamese books, and I bought bubble tea again. It’s nice walking and eating when we got free time. Anw once I got back to dorm, I went to play bridge with the others till lunch time. Bridge is so fun to play during spare time.
We have been visiting this orphanage called Friendship Village these 3 days. Unlike the name, it’s not literally a village place, nor does it look like the typical village image we have. It’s nicely constructed place I would say, and the director said we are not the first Singaporean batch to visit the place. The kids there are mentally challenged, some physically disabled also. We have been helping out with the embroidery, some of them played with them, and the gals are really good in chatting with them. I feel that social work makes me feel very helpless. Im around yet I dunno what I can really do. Though people often say its meaningful, but really, what have we really done? I really did not do much at all to help.
Friendship Village
On Wednesday evening, me, Jasmine, Siya and Pei Shan decided to take their bus the first time to a street to walk around cos we did not want to stay in dorm. It’s so exciting to try taking the bus cos we gotta find out where the bus stop is, where to alight etc. And their bus system is damn antique. U have to pay a guy on the bus the bus fare, someone like a conductor. And Im surprised that the ride was quite comfortable as it’s an air con bus also. It’s a nice shopping experience with them though it’s just the 4 of us. And we only bought groceries from the super mart.Since we are free after dinner time, I actually went to this pub called Lipton Café yesterday nite and just now to chill out and drink. Yesterday we had 6 people who went, and we had a good time eating their ice-cream, drinking and gossiping. Today we had 8 people. We went for dessert first nearby, it’s a coconut jelly thingy which is great. Then we went to Lipton to drink and thanks to Kai Xiang who bought 2 packets of French fries for us to munch also. Then some of us went to play pool. The pool tables are within the pub so it’s very convenient and it’s dirt cheap. Our pool skills damn rusty manz, but I managed to do a few beautiful shots. Haha. I also managed to have a nice chat with some of them. Actually it’s more like a gossiping session again. I get to know every one better each time after such chats, and the impression they gave me since day one had changed 180 degrees for some people, mostly for the better. So never judge a person by his looks!
