trip to chinatown heritage centre

I've the privilege to have a guided tour in Chinatown Heritage Centre. The building have a pair of red clogs located outside. To get there, simply walk straight upon exiting Exit A escalator and look left. In the 1950's the building is actually a 3 storey shop house. Now, on the first floor is actually the lobby and the admission processing; at the back is the replicate room of the olden days shop, the second floor is the replicate rooms of how the olden people lived (cramp and little space), the third floor is like a museum and collections and equipment of the olden days. Being in the building, one is able to imagine how olden people lived in real life where all the rooms are recreated by having people came forward to share their stories living there.

At the start of the tour on the first floor, as I mention early, this building is recreated from a shop house, so the starting is at the front of the shop, tailor shop to be exact, the owner is Mr. Chan. There will have the exact replica of the shop with counter, typical mannequin with standard shirt, measuring tape, color sample cloth etc. Whenever there are customers coming in, My. Chan would stand up from his chair behind the counter, greet the customer and let the customer chose the size, color, preferences and all, and sit back drink coffee. Behind the scenes, his worker of tailors do all the work. He have 2? apprentices that he paid 5$ for every month with free lodging and provide left-over food but actually signed a 2 year contract with them and the pay will be at the end of contract, so will be handed over 1 bunch because scare of running away with responsibilities and skills that is passed on.
The apprentices work include taking care of Mr. Chan baby and skill of tailor and other ad-hoc stuff.

Next part is the 2 rooms of Mr. Chan family and the apprentices. Mr Chan family actually have 7 members which have 5 young children. They squeezed in the space, and rented out the floors upstairs so that to earn extra money. Next the most behind part is the kitchen and toilet area. The apprentices cannot use the tap water because it will be chargeable every month to pay the government, so they use the collected rainwater which falls from the open window above. And there comes in the most olden days occupation, the night soil collector, whom collect the dump from the front because there is no backdoor.

Next up is the second floor, 40 people once lived there. Several family with young one or mates rent together. Ma jie whom take care of rich ang moh kids rent together but stay once in a while, because they stay with the family, when weekend or holiday they have their own room or scare of kicked out. Sam sui women aka hong tou jing work long hours and with their iconic red hat that identify them at night and as safety gear. and other families. Got one physician family stay in the master room, and have their work in the day time and night time sleep. one story is the father give away their eldest daughter away but his daughter came back because others thought she is jinx, bring bad luck. life is bad back in the days. The doctor is kind where he would give free treatment to those were poor, but everyone was poor, cannot afford medical treatment, he had less income.

Now everyone. Imagine more than 40 people goes in and out the floor walkway with customers coming in too. Had to share the toilet queue and showering too. Cannot imagine literally.

The third floor comes the interactive part, with guides of bright side, dark and hidden side of Chinatown. Yall should go and take a look. Free for Singaporeans.

volunteer

Hey there its been long.

All these while I've been hearing stuffs like this:

'CCE points already explode still go?'

'She lorh! Alot of CCE points one!'

'Collect so many got thing to take meh?'

Well all I can say is that I have completed the required CCE points needed to graduate in Year 1. It will be no meaning if I didn't participate in any activity in Year 2 and Year 3 right? The spaces will be blank and maybe people will kaypo see 'ey you didn't do anything this year ah?' It will be sort of like very active in the beginning then at the end inactive already.

So I go on and sign up for activities which can fit in to my schedule. 

In the process, I learn about NYAA which is National Youth Achievement Award. Straight away I signed up for the Gold Award which need to take part in activity in 4 categories before 25th birthday. It gave me lots of exposure, lots of activities that needed volunteers came to me but I only select that I can afford my time with.

I have done numerous volunteering. I can say that none of it is an easy-going event. Each and every event has its own easy and difficult part. Life is too. 

The events' name I've done is confidential though, but all I can say is I've done mostly running events. 

Some jobs scope that I have done: 

AWA Athlete's Welfare Area = which is mainly after the runners run finish, I have to distribute the medals and goodies. 

Water Point = which is situated in some parts of the whole run area, distribute water.

Start Point/End Point = which is to cheer the runners and guide them the way.

Route Marshal = which is situated in various parts of the whole run area, guide runners the lane.

Drink Counter = which is situated in the run festival, distribute cold drinks.

Baggage = which is mainly take care of runners' baggage

I have realized that I've used a lot of 'which is'

Through volunteering, I have seen good-side and bad-side of human nature. I could't say much of it but I think it is good. It is equivalent as travel the world seeing places and people. You get to go to different places volunteering doing stuff, getting entitlements, event t-shirt and meeting other volunteers. At the end, you got appreciation for helping out as well. 

So why not volunteer? If you like meeting people, travel around, but get to do work for others, volunteering suits you!

There is this uncle, first time volunteering in a sports event with me, ask me:

'Why do you volunteer?'

Well i answered:

'I like to. Meeting people and knowing them briefly. People come and go. You see me today but not anymore. Maybe in the future on the streets, maybe not at all.'

The best part of volunteering I guess is I can be more responsible on my job, what I do, finishing it, and that's good. It may be hard, but it will end. (that's what on my mind all the time, because i am a quitter, i quit easily, but not on volunteering, you can't just run away from your responsibility. if not it will jumble up the whole system.)

But on the side note! I GET TO MEET REAL FAMOUS PEOPLE THAT NORMALLY EXIST IN TV.

xo. 

 

burden done

Yep. The whole project has finally came to an end, today. Re-evaluation because the initial one didn't went well and hopefully I won't fail. That is the worst part of all of it. Spending the whole sem on this thing just to pass it all. Today five leaf clover talked about security project. Sounds just so attractive, school jacket, cert, competition chance, knowledge and all. Well, instead of this coding with no intensive only to get is 2 loaned devices and a grading part. Should have gone for it and oh well, the chance is not there for me I guess. Hopefully can successfully get into for the final year project hyeah.

been missing out the school jacket! gonna earn it! and some cert of course.
plenty of chance to get cert but i have none.

towards the end of the sem. Chocolate were given by five leaf clover and lovely cher. A generous bag of chocolate. Well, gave all of those to my boy, cos I don't wanna eat hahaha. The taste is sickening like garlic I ate too much. never ask me why, because is the natural hormones.
:o

All garlic course meal.

This sem I met wonderful cher ever.

Starting from lovely cher, I have to gratitude her the most, because she gave a lot to us the dangerous team. We are really dangerous on the edge because we are literally nothing without her. You have all my respect and salute.

Five leaf clover is next for her expandable and wide knowledge in security. Known her last time, and nicest cher ever to explain things in brief yet detailed version. Instead of normal presentation most cher made us do, she made us write on boards or papers what we have learn or solve the problem. Thumbs up.

Kiddo cher. Kinda look like Conan with the round glasses and small face but nah. Not that almost also. Taught me 1 by 1 on the 1st lesson. Awesome dude ever.
And the chipmunks assistant, swee la this dude. Taught me all the shortcut in lab.

Seller cher. Like this cher alot although most of the time, most of the class dislike ahahhahahaha. no earphone ! treat us twice time pizza omg. Such doting cher ever! And concern as well, but comes to commenting, whaaa simply one!

Stoner cher. Yep Hate him so do all of the new class. Drop in this class due to switch of class. But nice grading yet sometime is ridiculous. puncha.

k done.nice ah sem. Hopefully to get all A. cos don't wan one project grade pull down all. This core must go up. jia you!

hohoho happy cny

Sorry ppl, my rants again. Twitter is just not long enough for me.

And I just want to rant about this one particular thing which made me really stressed even before I can really celebrate CNY. I guess not, very hard for me to put up a smiling face... because I don't know how to smile anymore with this in mind.

To put up front, I am really really really terrible regret to join this project. Serious. To be honest, when the superior requested to see me face-to-face, he did say that this is a very time-straining project, very hard to juggle from normal studies and this project. I wish I could turn back time, just go for normal studies, grad and get a diploma without any failing. Instead of participating in competition, hoping to get a school jacket, with a chance of success or failing the mod. Which is I will fail in the end, because I don't have really talented in such skills. I am just a passerby with a skill of crtl c+v and an understanding knowledge.

Throughout the weeks honestly what happen. All to do was research on the web, on and on, on and on, on and on. Though timing is free time, but just have to stay in the class, research. Research is limited because the technology is kinda new, not many people write the articles. Even if got is those older version and need to research more to translate to newer version. And the thing is my pc sucks. Guess how much the RAM is?

Oh yeah, no one is there to guide on the technology. The whole project, work on our own. With no prior knowledge.

And of course, I am the weakest in the team. And of course as well, the teachers know the other team mates as well because they taught them before or con-currently. They have great reputation. For me? I have known no one, so I must depend on my later work to be recognized, and of course, not that easy.

I have been in bad or neutral or "not-existing" shape in this kind of class. My previous teachers doesn't give me great grades even though I scored pretty well in the examination. Partially because I didn't implement, and my evaluation wasn't that great, and was accuse of plagiarisms as I fault-fully, innocently, stupidly admit that I "reference" friends' work which was not given.

I was that bad. And to be in this team. To be in this project, it was regret. and no turning back.
finger-crossed for the next eval. really pissed on the previous one.

Well, most of it, is my fault. I didn't displayed team work with them although we really best friends. Can't work my project, and does some little work, and perceived I never done any by the judge. Really pissed because you can't expected us to give a fully-function project, we aren't really developers. We are students needed help but aren't given.
And I doesn't really code much. Compared to the others.

Deeply sorry. Real stress right now. Karma hits back.

Meanwhile

And for that one guy I have been all along hurting the most. Special mention to you because you did a lot for me, but didn't get what you wanted in return, a bf mention. Like can't even post our picture even you wanted to but gets deleted because I told ya so. Didn't have me telling you all the shits I have been through like right now. IDKY, but I all along is like that kind of person. Used to it. But I felt loved.

And I don't publicizes our relationship to anyone just for a sake of being mysterious. And what happen is you don't like it. Thinking I am finding fault or just an excuse

Everyone treats me well. But what they get in return. Disappointment. which I can't really never 补偿 compensate .Call me 无情无义吧， 也许我看不见也感受不到你们收到的对待， 但是我觉得是这样。

stay low babe. stay low. that's what you always do

People do make mistakes. Another time is not mistakes, it is called choice. Learn from mistakes.

Yep. I do too. The mistake that I have done is trying to make a name out of myself so that I could stand out more. But in the end, it is in the wrong way. I have not stand out more like others, excel in studies etc. Instead, I stand out to be a common topic among others. And that's is totally no good at all. To be discuss about.

I once had made friend with. The friend told me a lot about bullying. At first I am hard to believe there is such people nowadays especially this school. But now I realise yeah. Why not? Its everywhere. Out in the street, which countries, which area, province. Countless. Once you are out of the norm, bully.

Each semester change, people change, class change. When you have no one else to turn to, you turn to someone new. And that someone new is a stranger, to be friends, you have to trust them. Perhaps you trust too much ended up backstabbing, so now you need to be caution. Not to give all out, and when you do that you are deem too fake.

WHHHHHHAT?

Yep. Life. Third world problems.

And another mistake I did is I kinda laugh too much in serious conversation or situation. I tried to laugh or smile to lighten up the mood. But it doesn't seem to effect. All I get was 'stop playing a fool', 'don't joke around', 'do you think this is a joke?' when I am not. Well, so next time when I get in this situation , I have to NOT smile, or smirk or whatever face expressions..  I have to give a straight face with emotionless. And that give the impression of arrogant  or proud, well each have to see situation.

THEN HOWWWWWWW?

Act lorh. Learn expressioning from tv. And learn. This is skill. Not many people is as smooth as you.

Last thing is that when you get close to someone with no ill intentions, mainly just to be friends in school, but that is not THAT people thinking about. Some people think like WOAHHHHH not so simple arh.

This is see people one. Some people are very complex and complicated.

And that's why . STAY AWAY.

Why do I often get to know these people? Because this is society like. No one is same or perfect or fits your criteria or suits you anyway.

I believe there are people who are my beneficiary. I needed in life to guide me.

Rage mode

Hehe. Just need a space to rage on. And i have no where to write on. Twitter is too short, 140 characters is just not enough.

And what i want to rage about is why cant i just go anywhere. I know you guys concern about my safety and well being. But im grown up now. If you guys keep saying im immature and such, i will just never grow and keep on thinking that oh ya, i am that immature so why not i keep doing this. Instead of being mature, i dont follow my age.

And another i mention is that i cant stay overnight at other places than home. Stop putting me at home. What else can i do at home? I mean, people like my age needs to be expose and see the world. If not wait until when? Wait until i grad? That time i will be busy either finding jobs or uni. No friends are in same free time as me anymore. All gone to different ways or route. Wait until uni? Uni is hectic. Everyone knows that uni life is no life life. Lose life in campus. Most of them.

Well by all means. Cancel is cancel liao. Prepare to be a crouch potato me.

Yay. Rage finish le. Waiting for hair to dry.
And one more thing. I cant read books anymore. Unless its content has comics or story excites me. Or i just got bored. Yarr i know books has knowledge blah.

School opens tomorrow. Havent touch lappy for almost 2 weeks. Feel of lost touch.