Wow, the remaining three weeks of the holidays (since my previous recount-type post) are over. I'm pretty excited for school, looking forward to FYP, and I'm sick of the holidays. No need for me to elaborate why.

A day in the holiday of me
Not so much happened these few weeks. My grandma came over more often and stayed over for 2 weekends in a row. Her presence kind of added live to my life, since I hardly met anyone this holiday. I'm pretty ashamed of myself, so I secretly hope that no one will ask me how my holiday was.

So my parents treated my grandma and us to Ding Tai Fung. I like these luxurious restaurant times. Good food and atmosphere.

Met up with Guang Yi, Jasmine, Wei Jian, and Joshua for badminton. Once.

Buddhist ceremony
Had some praying sessions the past weekend. I don't know what it's called in English, but it's fa hui in Chinese. These usually run for three days under huge tentages. At particular timings, people from my branch of Buddhism (mi jiao) who are interested will sign up, pray together, and receive the deities' blessings. As they are pretty rare, my parents usually sign up for them.

Since it's religious stuff, I shall not elaborate, but I do feel so much better after this whole thing.

Tuition
I guess I haven't been doing a good job for tuition, so the tutee's mum went heavy on implying it and said that if I could not discipline the tutee well, she would have no choice but to change the tutor. Throughout the week, I had indeed felt that I could not discipline the tutee. There were days when I was being so strict to him till he almost cry due to his attitude. There were also days when I couldn't be bothered as much. Gone are those days. I shall unleash my 'shut up and obey me' mode from now on.

Freshmen Orientation Programme
So I agreed to help Afiq to take photos for this year's CASS orientation programme. Honestly, I'll prefer not to elaborate on it because it was really boring for me, and I'm gaining nothing much out of it. This doesn't mean that the programme was boring. I think the organising committee did a good job. I felt bored because I wasn't a participant, and walking around and taking photos of people and their unwelcoming eyes isn't my idea of fun.

But on the good side, I get to meet my relatively warm juniors. Didn't talk much to them (it's hard for me and you'll never understand, okay.), but I guess I built a mild foundation with them. Shall get to know them better.

Just to mention, I was touched when Afiq and I were taking photos of the year 1 DTVM batch and Ms Gamar invited me into the photo as part of the "DTVM family". And some of the juniors reacted warmly. I mean, these are simple things. But these are exactly the kind of simple things that get to me.

So today, we got free entries to Gardens by the Bay's Flower Dome and Cloud Forest. The freshmen were suppose to just go there, enjoy themselves, and then spend some time painting a picture representing themselves and CASS.

The places were spectacular. Although we went there for work (kind of), at least we got to enjoy the scenery and stuff.

Last bits
Got our pretty hectic-looking timetable in which Monday was 9am-9.30pm for me, due to DTVM modules + my dip-plus. But Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays were pretty okay. We were told to form our FYP groups, so we did. I'm really satisfied with my group: Zhao Yi, Zi Wei, Wai Meng, Yvette, and me.

With that, we shall embark on another new semester. It's been quite long since I met my classmates. Let's hope this semester is a good one.

Labels: dtvm, family, things that happened