First off: getting an internship @ Project Moolah, Silicon Valley U.S. :) It's going to be tons and tons of fun over there, every single day at work! I was so afraid that i'd end up doing a mundane office-job internship in SG again... it just felt like i'd never be able to explore what i truly wanted to do. But I'd bet that just getting overseas will really throw me out of my comfort zone and force me to search for directions in life again :)
What i'd be doing there isn't kinda fixed, but it mostly revolves around customer development (on e ground with the kids and parents!), as well as some fascinatin projects here and there. I cannot begin to describe how much more interesting this is compared to a typical 'high-flying' internship in a bank or MNC... which will be mostly abt churning out metrics, hanging out at pubs, and dabbling in things full-timers do. Still pretty interesting, but i'll pass this second time round, for the wild unknown world of the Valley!
Anyway, probably flying at the start of the year :) Looking forward to visit some friends like Alvin, Gaoshan, Zhiyang along the way.
Next up, i did some cool photoshoots for the school! Reminds me of the JCRC photoshoot a couple of years back.. but this time i wasn't in the limelight! Ended up as those in the 'background' picture..haha. It was pretty fun tho, we even did some external shoot and went all the way to SRC! Anyway i'm going for another one tomo, will see what this one is like.
And over the past weekend, i mourned for the passing away of my great-grandmother, aged 97. The wake was probably the most extensive i'll ever see, with me among the 170+ descendants that she had, and the high-budget stuff that went on. A whopping 6 or 7 buses were catered to bring us to Choa Chu Kang.
It's amazing how one life can lead to so many. And yet i'd think it was never her intention to pass her genes down, as a sort of immortality. But among all these lives she'd impacted so deeply, how many have actually spent a thought or two thinking about filial piety, familial ties to her? It seems as though where the heart cannot pay back, the wallet serves just as well. And hence the origin of ceremonial burial, lavish, elaborate and ultimately, redeeming for the living. As below, so above; as above, so below.
Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius.It wasn't of course this moody at... my most fun project presentation till date, BC214!! Check out the videos @ facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=477238146704&ref=mf
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=477250986704&ref=mf
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=477261261704&ref=mf
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=477295916704&ref=mf
I scripted it from an idea out of the blue in twenty minutes :) Plus directed the whole thing in an hour with all the born actor guys, and Zhi jie did the great video editing. It got the entire class laughing, including the prof. I'm definitely proud that we satisfied the entire audience, instead of just presenting boring, factual stuff that looked aimed at the prof only! (counts for 50% of the grps.. sad).
It's already the third year and i'm pretty much synced in with what the profs want from us, and what they want us to pick up from the course. That's why i took the initiative to lead two project groups this semester (stepping down from CCAs helped too), and i'm pretty comfortable with the results for both! I maintained a leisurely pace throughout, and learned to show more empathy and understanding, something i had as a terrible fault while being FOC Chair.
Come to think of it, despite my FOC journey being much less intensive than JCRC in year one, it taught me so much more than i ever learned as a block manager. I'd say Year one was about losing the naivety about people and things, Year two was understanding my strengths and weaknesses, and Year three was... well, being in the know and getting comfortable :)
I truly felt at ease this entire semester, knowing when to "let go" and when to "reel it in". (Anglers' Club taught me new lingo eh, haha) I just felt more acutely aware of the situation, the paths of action open to me, and their consequences. There was little doubt in my mind as to what i needed to do, and when. All i needed was a desire, and the discipline and will to fulfill it :p but these're my biggest weaknesses after all.
In short, Life has never felt more carefree and yet empowered in the comfort zone i've built over these past years ...
...and that's why i have to get outta here :)
