mossadance

couldn't attend the christmas post-mortem at aunty clara's cos i had chingay practice at rj. i was dreading it at first, at the thought of having to use brain space to register move sequences and memorize steps, but it turned out to be not-that-bad, and quite good actually. i think i missed dance. it's been so long, since jianglaoshi's back to china and cca has ceased to be. saw xinying, my pri sch friend at practice, cos she was in the same chingay segment as me. wow. reunions. she appealed in from nanyang. such a small world, haha.

so we ended an hour early, and i went home. after a lil rest, the Li family went out to ikea, cos dad had 54 dollars of some coupon from refunds to spend. he bought a shelf for my bedroom. okay, on the way to ikea, i had a fabulous talk with daddyo. talked abt moderation in exposure, popularity and choices, reputations, economics, taiwan's junior baseball team of long ago, athletics, diving, erm, what else, can't remember now. i think my daddyo's very wise. ohyes, we talked abt uni, about faculties, about family, aboutt...his siblings - my uncles and aunties, about...favour with God and men. he has quite solid viewpoints. and we talked abt the cca debate in rgs forums too.

i think the peeps in my sis's batch quite poor thing. cos for the moe sch awards, rgs has to impose strict quotas on cca intake, so that uniform groups have enough people to meet enrollment minimal standard to qualify for those 'value added' or some cool award to add to sch credentials - since we dont have o-levels anymore. well, look at those who ends up in uniform groups cos they didn't get into more 'specialised' ccas. actually, not to offend anyone, but these people, will have a wider 'people' exposure in uniform groups. and they dont qualify into clubs and all that because SOME of them are simply not developed enough in those areas. and for those who are developed enough to get in, they do not just 'simply' get in. they have invested time and energy and money into that area of development in primary school and prior. so perhaps, it makes sense that pri sch kids who did nothing but study shld get into uniformed groups. to make up for that area of inadequacy, perhaps. in socialising, and specializing. nothing is fair. and in functional societies, we need manpower to play different functions. so, although we shouldn't be so 'award and recognition driven', such is the education system in Singapore, and if nothing can be done abt the school's vision, live with it and dont be too bitter.

ok. that was my dad's and my conclusion. not without flaws la.

so at ikea, we broke into two groups. haha. me and my sis shopped then my parents shopped then we met for food. then we came home. bought quite a lot of stuffs. THEN.

the nightmare begun. my dad said we had to pack. there was so much garbage. goodness. and my sister was quite unkind. so i was feeling so pissed.

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today. everything's packed and cleaned. im so glad. thank God for my mummy - who sorted out all the weird stuffs magically. thank God for my daddy who has a cool eye for design who gives gd advice. thank God again for daddy who ran errands and brought lunch back from all over - cos we had such different orders. thank God for my sister who is SO MUCH nicer today. and who is helping me repair my com.

a 'piggy' bank given when i was a year old - ?!?, my wonderful dried roses and flowers, photos, a rodeoradio...andd some hadley house sourvenir thing. the pig has on a chingay and a hadley mask. masqueradeee.it looks prettier now.

finally. there are no high piles of books/study material to falsely imply my studiousity. and finally, all my note/though/doodle-pads are not strewn all over...and finally...the stuffs on my table are lowlying again. not for long though.

kmli blogged at 12/27/2005 03:24:00 PM

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