Weekend of apple green nails, sore legs with messed up ligaments and home parties
Think that pretty much sum it all up, starting with me now constantly "staring" at my nails now, still getting a hang of it, to see them coloured....how it contrasts with my keyboard, my skin, reflects under the light and everything else. Its vastly entertaining :)))...
Had a girls' sleepover at my place on fri, where we experimented with fruit masks, ( very yum, almost tempted to eat it off), nail painting, ripping music from my cds, red wine and trying out the new epilator that i bought. It was suprisingly fun!!! We are not very girlie girls, and have never done this before ever, one of my friends is a physical eduacation (sports) teacher, so what you think? We took photos of us in masks, (which reminds me of Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs), eye firming stickers and when we found a cockroach in one of my unsused portable bed, we exercised our lungs by screaming quite a bit :)
On Sat, after changing the course of our cab journey twice becoz of road blocks for the National Day rehearsal, me, tee and pili made it for the Hungarian movie, Kontroll, late by walking/running all the way from beach road through suntec to marina square. Was an interesting movie, seems that more movies nowadays are using the subway system as themes of movies, like Spring Subway from China. Determined to make the most of the California Fitness membership, went to the gym after and ran for 1 hr NONSTOP! Was proud of myself, i like to give credit to the television whom distracted me successully from my lazy self and I actually watched a really good documentary Invisible People, by ChannelNewsAsia hosted by Diana Ser about the public's attitudes towards cleaners. But running an hr was no joke, now my legs feel messed up, its not even like cramps, i am sure my veins/ligaments are somewhat tangled in there.
We had a party party Sat, as there were 3 parties at the same time ( Chau's, Tee's and Yam's), but i only managed to attend Chau's housewarming party and Tee's Blackout Farewell party, just wished the nights are longer. Guess if you have been in AIESEC long enough, you would probably be used to people coming and leaving, someone's welcome is also someone's farewell, sounds like the cycle of life perhaps. Still affects me in a way, afterall I am supposed to be an veteran to all these ( being an ex memeber, ex trainee and back) , that meeting these international friends of ours, could be a few years from now, and its not as easy as taking the mrt train to the next.
Makes it more apparent for international friends, though the theory applies for your local friends as well, that what we have at this moment, the companionship, the dialogue, and those little moments are no longer going to be the same as things are going to be different when we meet again ( be it months or years). Afterall being on a traineeship with other trainees, you undergo the same external experiences, phases of culture shock, the bitching about the surroundings, you share travels, lunches, stories about these funny native people :P, the feeling of shared experience is what fuels growth and bonding among the "outsiders". I remember one of my ex trainee said, " Well what we have is each other" and another returned singaporean trainee recounted what her flatmate said jokingly as she shared her experience in the US , " We are friends, .... by default". But saying all that, doesnt mean that the friends you make during your traineeship mean anything less, in fact we always think they are more interesting that the local friends we have, the diversity of conversations stretches from how you cook beans in your country to the evolution of your country. In fact, because of how fleetingly short the time span you have together, which the cap is usually 1 year for AIESEC trainees, you treasure them more.
Anyways, friendship, or in any relationship, it all boils down to chemistry in the end, regardless of what kind of people you meet, and even in the most random circumstances, like the perfect stranger in a cafe or the person you are standing next to in a lift:)
Had a girls' sleepover at my place on fri, where we experimented with fruit masks, ( very yum, almost tempted to eat it off), nail painting, ripping music from my cds, red wine and trying out the new epilator that i bought. It was suprisingly fun!!! We are not very girlie girls, and have never done this before ever, one of my friends is a physical eduacation (sports) teacher, so what you think? We took photos of us in masks, (which reminds me of Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs), eye firming stickers and when we found a cockroach in one of my unsused portable bed, we exercised our lungs by screaming quite a bit :)
On Sat, after changing the course of our cab journey twice becoz of road blocks for the National Day rehearsal, me, tee and pili made it for the Hungarian movie, Kontroll, late by walking/running all the way from beach road through suntec to marina square. Was an interesting movie, seems that more movies nowadays are using the subway system as themes of movies, like Spring Subway from China. Determined to make the most of the California Fitness membership, went to the gym after and ran for 1 hr NONSTOP! Was proud of myself, i like to give credit to the television whom distracted me successully from my lazy self and I actually watched a really good documentary Invisible People, by ChannelNewsAsia hosted by Diana Ser about the public's attitudes towards cleaners. But running an hr was no joke, now my legs feel messed up, its not even like cramps, i am sure my veins/ligaments are somewhat tangled in there.
We had a party party Sat, as there were 3 parties at the same time ( Chau's, Tee's and Yam's), but i only managed to attend Chau's housewarming party and Tee's Blackout Farewell party, just wished the nights are longer. Guess if you have been in AIESEC long enough, you would probably be used to people coming and leaving, someone's welcome is also someone's farewell, sounds like the cycle of life perhaps. Still affects me in a way, afterall I am supposed to be an veteran to all these ( being an ex memeber, ex trainee and back) , that meeting these international friends of ours, could be a few years from now, and its not as easy as taking the mrt train to the next.
Makes it more apparent for international friends, though the theory applies for your local friends as well, that what we have at this moment, the companionship, the dialogue, and those little moments are no longer going to be the same as things are going to be different when we meet again ( be it months or years). Afterall being on a traineeship with other trainees, you undergo the same external experiences, phases of culture shock, the bitching about the surroundings, you share travels, lunches, stories about these funny native people :P, the feeling of shared experience is what fuels growth and bonding among the "outsiders". I remember one of my ex trainee said, " Well what we have is each other" and another returned singaporean trainee recounted what her flatmate said jokingly as she shared her experience in the US , " We are friends, .... by default". But saying all that, doesnt mean that the friends you make during your traineeship mean anything less, in fact we always think they are more interesting that the local friends we have, the diversity of conversations stretches from how you cook beans in your country to the evolution of your country. In fact, because of how fleetingly short the time span you have together, which the cap is usually 1 year for AIESEC trainees, you treasure them more.
Anyways, friendship, or in any relationship, it all boils down to chemistry in the end, regardless of what kind of people you meet, and even in the most random circumstances, like the perfect stranger in a cafe or the person you are standing next to in a lift:)
2 Comments:
So sad. I live in the second floor. Never got time to talk if there is anyone next to me. :P
By Vega, At 12:12 PM
Cool
is another GIrl thingy
By DARLing, At 5:18 PM
Post a Comment
<< Home