Friday, June 11, 2004 , 10:29 PM
><))o> Home alone, day 2,3 and 4
#Day 2
It was the first day of service learning...
Here are 2 kids smiling for the camera...very adorable..=)
As the hall starts to fill with children, jacintha and ganison got really for their item. Ganison calls himself Ganison Potter while jacintha goes by the name of "witch".
Simon and shuxin looking very cheerful although the girl beside him, cynthia, looked all grumpy...
Jacintha and ganison got on with their item. .In the picture, jacintha was challenging ganison to poke the balloon without bursting it and of course, without the tape on the balloon, ganison failed.
The first day of service learning was for the children to learn about science so there was a few stations set up to allow the children to learn about various aspect of science...the picture above is yong zhi hao and boon kiat's station, The Cartesian Diver. THe purpose of the station is to allow the kids to learn about how upon applying pressure, air is compressed and becomes denser than water, causing the dropper in the bottle to sink to the bottom of the bottle.
Karboon: "09/03 rocks!"
The next station which my group moved to was KarBoon's chromatography where she demonstrated how solvent can separate a soluble ink into its consituent colours...
The children were then given a chance to try out the experiment...
The above pic shows some of the "chromatogram"...the one with the pink dragonfly is mine!!
The next station is Wenxian's station where he demonstrated the principles of reflection..
Followed on is Lishi's station where she shows how it is possible to create different pitch by having a varied amount of water in the glass bottle...lishi, like an expert, played "Mary had a little lamb" and a few other songs, impressing the children!
The last station, also the station which the children has the most fun was Tan Zhi Hao's station, where the children were made to challenge each other by using the princple of magnetic repulsion to get the car to move...kavi won during the first round while cynthia won the last round (becos she cheated!)
At the end of one hour and a half, the children were gathered back into the hall for battle between the witch and harry potter part2.
At the end of the battle, both jacintha and ganison had tied, with each of them winning 2 challenges...so they turned to the "magical" paper to see who wins the battle (the paper actually has words written on it using lemon juice). Ganison was suppose to use a lighter to heat the paper to reveal the words on the paper...but he screwed up and the paper caught fire instead....so who won? Well...of course the heroic harry potter (this is starting to get abit cliche isin't it?)
The day ended with loads of laughter...
#Day3
Today is the second day of service learning and we are supposed to conduct art lessons for different groups of kids...there is vegetable chopping and paperbag making for the youngest group, face making for the intermediate group and photoframe making for the oldest group.
The picture above shows Joe and Zaki getting along extremly well...i was told by my gang that zaki looked like my bf...after looking at the boy for a few times, i concluded that they are right.
leena, intan, me and jacintha feeling great at the beginning of the day...
The girl is Meizhen...a very bubbly and cheerful girl...
Some of the kids from the intermediate group, posing for the camera.
The children and work and charles at the far end slacking!!
The day ended with KianWei giving out balloons to every kid and that marks the end of our service learning...i was extremly exhausted at the end of the whole thing because the kids proved to be more active for me...!
#On the same day, i went to Singapore Conference Hall for a choral performance, Jubilate. It is a choral festival sort of event so there were many choirs which performed.
Before the concert started, i saw qiuqun, qiujie, songnian and peixin on my way to the concert hall so i gave qiuqun a rose which i have specially bought for her and took a picture with her.
As i have mentioned earlier, many choirs were invited to perform and i was most impressed by Novo Concertenta Manila. I was blown away by their energetic singing and their synergy...i especially love the acapella version of "Dont say you love me" originally sang by m2m.
The finale item for the day was the festival chamber choir formed with members from Victora Chorale, Vocal Consort and NUS' Varsity Voices. I couldn't understand the artistic vaule of the first two songs but the last song, "I'll Be There" ended the night on a high note with peixin doing a superb job as a soloist for the song.
Above is my bf with the conductor of Novo Concertenta Manila, Mr Arwin Tan.
#After the concert, my bf and i went to Lau Pat Sat for dinner and met Evelyn and Weiwei who joined us for dinner..it was already midnight by the time i reached home...*yawN*
#Day 4
Today is pretty much a boring day for me...did nothing much...except going out with bf in the morning to Bras Basah and Bugis, doing gp and arguing over differing intepretations of the GP comprehansion passage at Yoshinoya, Bugis. After that, i met up with mei mei and we went shopping at orchard...somehow, nothing much caught our eyes except for a bag and a t-shit with strawberry prints which meimei was interested but did not buy eventually and a pair of butterfly earrings which i bought=)
#Yippie...mummy coming back tomorrow..cnt wait to see her...today is the end of my home alone ordeal...my brother is back from camp...he was tortured and describe the Alpha Bravo Camp as being similar to America's Celebrity Boot Camp...they were pumped, punished, not given any cold water, sweet food until today...an enjoyable camp? I would hardly say so!
