YEP Briefing!

Recently, i am addicted to a apps called DAYRE!
it was first introduced by my apartment mate, SHUQING
ever since that i am really addicted!
mainly because of that i don't really post on Blogger so frequent.
yet, i will try to cut and paste from DAYRE!

anyway, this is my DAYRE URL: http://dayre.me/gine95

so i start my day with a briefing!
as i am going to OCIP i need to go to a YEP briefing.
9am at YIP!

This is how my Saturday spend!
YEP briefing for my ocip love export. Cambodia
#Ocip #Cambodia #loveexport

I want to sleep!
I Slept very long last night but still.....
I feel a bit waste of time.
Haiz....
Discussion, reflections.....
Bored

This is what. Are we doing now!!

Brunch @ JamicaBlue!

Family came over to visit me  + sign MOE tuition Grant
they came pretty early so we went starVista for brunch!

Family came to visit me!
Actually to sign the Moe tuition grant

 Jamaica Blue

Brunch with my family. Have a Jamaica brunch.
This place is cosy and comfortable. A bit like Australian brunch feel.
Coffee, cakes and pastry!

Steak sandwich
Served with salad. Rocket salad!
This is what my brunch in Melbourne
Kinda in Melbourne feel

Steak sandwich: steak, beetroot,tomatos, onions on bread.
The steak is quite good.
Filling brunch
I shared with mummy!

Mocha
A bit too sweet for me

Cappuccino in nice cup

Mini breakfast frittata
The frittata is nice!
Served with salad too
Fritta contained ham and cheese!
One of the cheapest items in the menu.
Cost around 7.90
Worth it!

Pasta!
With mushroom and feta cheese and sundries tomatoes
Delicious

Even the tissue is so cool!
Great visit to this place.
Will come again next time!

a visit to Changkat!

The elderly is very friendly. The main purpose for them to go to Tampines Changkat Community Centre is to feel up their time. They are usually alone at home in the day and they have nobody to talk to. In other words, they are bored and lonely. However, at first, they are not willing to go to the Community Centre because they claimed that they don’t have friends and will feel awkward to be surrounded my strangers. I chatted with them about how they discover the community center. I got a same reply from the aunties that I talked to : they were arrangement to a buddy that will visit them almost every week and chat with them. As time goes, they are literally friends and when they are invited to join the CC program, they accepted it and ended up be a frequent visitor of the CC.

The CC has a lot of facilities. There is activity room or called “lao di fang” in Chinese which means “the usual place” that also bring the meaning that the place that we usually meet up with our friends, something like your secret place. In this activity room, the elderly play board games, cards, majong as well as doing handicraft together. I realized that although they are from different races and may speak different languages, they can get along well. Everyone there is happy with each other’s accompaniment. There are volunteers as well to talk and help them. The environment is friendly and it is air-con so that the elderly will feel comfortable.

I was helping a group of Malay aunties to make lantern. They are decorating the lanterns and my job is to cut the flowers and patterns that they want. It is basically an easy task! Throughout the session, I chat with them, a Malay auntie tell me that she comes here every Wednesday and Friday. Usually, Wednesday is the handicraft day where they are gathered to do some crafts. She even showed me what they did in the past. I was amazed to see, the bags, key chains, clips and other decorative things they did. She also mentioned that on Friday, they will have potluck party. Everyone will cook their favorite dish and bring it to the centre to share. They will talk and have fun together, it is just like a party.  

On the other hand, there is also a karaoke room so let the elderly enjoy themselves. According to my friend, they usually sing songs in dialect and they don’t really care weather do they sing in tune. They just want to have fun. Some of us also sing along with them. Surprising, most of them can sing pretty well!

The community centre also provide food for them. Hot food such as fried meesiam , fishball nuggets and spring rolls are served. According to the person-in-charge, the main purpose of this CC is to take care of the elderly, give them a place to hang out and mix friends instead of staying at home alone while their children are working. In my opinion, it is very important for us to take good care of the elderly, they are the one that take care of us and brought us to this wonderful world. Without them, who me are? Now, they are old and some even sick, it is our turn to take good care of them!

Open croissant

Sriously I am sick of wholemeal plain bread
Yeah, the brown and think toast
So let's make a twist

Instead  I used Croissant !
Bought a few days ago! Haha

Today's breakfast served sandwich!
3 choices : egg sardine.ham & cheese
Since I wanna stay healthy (although I still love junk food), I decided.SARDINE.
I even told the auntie that I don't want bread

As my croissant is in the fridge for a few days, I toasted it in my pantry
To be honest, ever since I tried open sandwich, I am in love with it
Now I have OPEN CROISSANT
transfer everything on the croissant and I am done!

Yeah! Tasty !

A day with Thai !!!

Don't ask me why

Maybe out of curiosity, maybe because nothing to do

Anyway, I went for a friendship day with the Thai workers in singapore 

To be frank, I don't even know there is Thai workers in singapore

I thought singapore only has Bangladesh and Indonesian workers

So I am surprised that the amount of Thai people in singapore

That's why I signed up for the event

A little more about me: I can speak mandarin, Malay, English and Cantonese

But NOT THAI

although there is a handout given, I didn't really read through it

In other words, I cannot speak Thai at all

Hmm... Maybe I can say HELLO in Thai 

The event venue is  near lavender, in a basketball court near north bridge food court 

As I am not really familiar to singapore, I took some time to fingered it out the location

Anyway, after asking and searching plus getting lost, I manage to get to the venue although I am 30 minutes late! Haha

Blur queen!

Let's talk about what I have heard and seen there

Actually the Thai men usually work in construction sector

Most if them are dealing with electrical and supervised the construction projects

Their pay is not very high but it is enough for them

Oh, I also noticed that most of the workers are at their middle age 

they have been in sinagpore for about ten year 

Many of them can speak pretty good English and mandarin

I talked to them and asking them about singapore

To them sinagpore is nearer to Thai and that's the main reason they come over

Usually they stay at dorm that provided by the boss

Yet, it is all in the rural area like woodlands

I spoke to a worker and he mentioned that he has been here for 13 years

His children already 23 and 27

He is now 50+ yet still working

His daughter is a teacher and the son is also working in Thai

Yet he still need to work so that the family can have a better life

On the other hand, for the Thai women, they usually work as domestic helpers 

But nowadays they usually come over for marriage 

Many of them married Singaporean 

There are still some women doing Thai massage yet fewer

The younger generation doesn't want to come singapore anymore

Because the pay is lower

They prefer to go Europe or Israel

For agriculture sector, usually they will go Israel for mass production using high technology 

Thai is very good at agriculture especially in rice sector

I realized that Thai are very friendly and cheerful 

They usually gather together for events 

Although the pay is not high, they treasure what they have

They are creative as well 

A great example is the games we played!

Can u imagine what we are playing?

Yup, I think u get it right

We need to use eggplant to "kick" the ball into the goal

I participate the game as well

It is quite fun!

Perhaps next year o camp should include this game

It is a great experience for me

First time get in touch with Thai 

I realized that actually a lot of Singaporean is interested in Thai language and took up Thai in university

Some even when Thailand for exchange

 a little small boy named Tim

3 year old boy that claimed himself as 5!

mixed blood Thai! 

so cute!

LITTLE LITTLE INDIA

Starts my singapore adventure!

FIRST STOP : Little India

why? because my new friend, Nicole suggested to go there

she wanted to try indian food

together with sharon and another hong kong exchange student

to be frank, this is my first time to little india

it is full of indian obviously 

when we reached there, it is already lunch time

so, guess what? i brought them to try MAMAK

indian temple in little india

we didn't manage to go in

but busy taking photo! =)

yeah

i ordered a dosai masala

in fact i dont  know what is masala at first 

it is actually potato

this cost me 2.80

which is a bit pricy according to the others

not really special, just normal

nicole has a cheese prata 

sharon has a onion prata

i realised that in singapore they don't called it ROTI CANAI but PRATA

anyway it is the same thing

then we pay a visit to the LITTLE INDIA ARCADE

there are many shops

selling all sorts of things : food, snacks, clothes, bags...

Nicole did a tattoo with henna that costs her $3

a nice tattoo

there is a shop selling many snacks

super cheap

i bought choco drink and biscuit plus a umbrella! 

it is a nice trip!

good experience! 

maybe next time should go chinatown! =)

CAPT Popstar O CAMP

my first ever O camp in my life!
O CAMP? orientation camp
camp for freshie to know each other!

SP games!

a bit like mix-matching

i heard that this game is very common in singapore 

we are blind folded and required to hold each other's hands (girl & boy)

then like speed dating

play games and know each other more

the way i was welcome to the neighbourhood of Garuda

so cute!!

too quite a long time to clean it!

a day in Sentosa!

FIRST time go to Palawan Beach of Sentosa!

have a fun day of Beach day!

sunny day

in return, i got sun burnt badly!

but no regrets!

a pic with the magnificent grass! (actually it is just normal grass)

amazing race !

we are the last group!

because we are too chill

have too many breaks (starbucks, food, toilet///)

yet, we enjoyed ourselves very much! 

photo with my awesome GROUP MATE!

we are WASEH!

really WAseh !!

cool man with cool people!

i really appreate