Sharing session

I have always encountered difficulty in saying experiences that i have been through, but somehow it feels a wee bit better when it's posted here.

mystery friend
- mission trip @ YunNan

i am ALWAYS in awed by the stories that she has to share. it's not only interesting but captivating that it sends you into a spiral of thoughts, and as always i thanked her for the insightful conversation just now over a platter of fish n chips.
but afterwards she said: ( something like this )
I was awarded with such opportunities that i hope through sharing these experiences, messages will then be spread or awareness formed about these not so fortunate communities.

Mission trip in YunNan (writing from a first person's POV)
We were housed in a 'hotel' without any heater and the toilet facilities there gave out a stench.
YunNan being only 14 Degree Celsius at that point of time, some of us were disgruntle at the condition of the 'hotel'.
This changed a few days later...
Could you imagine having to use water from villagers that had their supplies cut off for a week?
In order for the hotel to have sufficient water supply for 32 of us, 3 villages actually had their water supply cut off for a week.
How could your conscience live with that?

How would you feel if people gave you their year supply of protein?
yes, 32 eggs, 1 for each volunteer. To add on to the guilt, these eggs were red eggs (specially for newborns). The villagers were severely malnourished and, how could we live with it if we took away their scarcity supply of vitamins.
We gave them X34567 eggs back the very next day.
Fyi, their normal diet only consist of vegetables and staple food.

Having visited the local school, we intended to cook a feast for 300.
Some children asked for 2 servings, some asked for more to give it to their families.
But there was 1 particular who was worried,
worried that we didnt had food for ourselves...
at the end of the day, we had ongoing servings from 9am to 6pm.
and yes, we didnt get a single bite the entire day because we were bursting with satisfaction and fulfillment that the kids had eaten to their contentment. ;)
The very next day, parents, families came down personally (5hrs walk) to thank us for the meal that we cooked.
It wasnt particularly tasty, just luncheon meat, broccoli, beans and rice.
but they said: Thank you, I have never been so full in my entire life.
Hearing that, we know we just had to keep on with this initiative. ( did it for the next 3 days )

* Jess: I was thinking about how often i gorged myself with green bean soup and junk *

Apart from food, we prepared toothbrushes and toothpastes.
This necessity that we prepared, was their first prized possession.
In fact, it could be their first property that they have ever owned.
You should have seen their faces when we were teaching them the techniques of brushing their teeth.
Their gums were bleeding but yet they were beaming at us. It pained us to see such a scene, to witness how bad the conditions of their gums were :(

-the end-

the difference of this post is about the focus on this post on mission trip.
( instead of the usual macro view that was often talked about, i hope this post has conveyed a message )
depending on individual, the message would be viewed positively different from others.
:)

my helmet is back (:

i have acknowledged the fact that i look a lot younger than my actual age with the short hairdo.

in fact, the hairdo that i carry now is the exact same replica of the one i had when i'm 11.

HAHA.

so why did i cut my hair like a primary sch kid?

reasons:

1) hot girls have short hair

i worked as as retail assistant during the holidays and i was astonished at the fact that so many gorgeous women had short hair

short pixie hair to be exact.

and i love their personality * being a 3 in 1- polite, funloving and outgoing * so it kind of inspired me to have my hair chopped off so as to serve as a reminder to have both inner and outer beauty.

2) my friends said i couldnt carry a short hairdo. LOL

when i head back to school and mentioned about my hectic holiday life and my latest bruno mars eyecandy. they laughed. * ok, it was embarrassing because bruno mars isnt an eyecnady material *

that's besides the point

i mentioned about wanting to cut my hair short.

and i just want to prove them wrong.

ilurbbmiieepreeetayehaaaairr. * i cant tweet properly *

to animal kingdom: #jealous? HAHAHAHHA. pretty pretty jesslyn.

3) one last chance.

on friday i went out with the entree ( poly forum )

and we talked about about internship and graduation

where i suddenly switched to the career -women-mode/ looking-forward-mode.

this actually, was the very last chance that i could get a short hairdo because i am already 18 and i need to stop being a kid. * short hairdo=kid *

after year2 would be my internship and then graduation

i do not want to be taken as a child, i want to be looked upon as an capable adult

* first impression counts *

Hopefully, when i have my lushes long hair back, i could finally grow up, stop being a princess

and be a QUEEN.

fyi: this post pretty sums up what i have been doing these past few days. LOL.

poly forum 2011 - reflections 3 stepping out of your comfort zone

there was a point of time where i regretted enrolling into the polytechnic

i really did.

because if i had not done so, i would still be making merry with the gang on the PJ ship.

in other words, i would still be stuck in my comfort zone

however, reality sets in. as a result, i am forced to expand my area of comfort

which made me:

1) more empathetic

understanding of other feelings (:

2) thirst for knowledge

school is for learning, not for merry making (:

3) a thinker

still working on this area because it is still kinda slow (:

4) more selective

in terms of everything and everyone.

5) more bitchy

cheers to bitching sessions!

5) cherishing the good old friends than i ever ever did :D

i wouldnt be here if it wasnt for their continuous support

and yes.

it might seem a little brief, but i have changed a lot in 2 years.

i feel that i might have become a better person ready to face the many obstacles that i could encounter.

but i am not too sure if i could like myself if i were to meet another jesslyn yim :/

neverthless, poly is definitely the right-est choice i have made so far.

poly forum 2011 - reflections 2 dataplan

the thing about my pathetic phone and i is that we cant log onto to the WWW

yes. no wifi and no dataplan -.-

during these 2 weeks, i had to struggle to be the ignorant sp girl who has to listen and digest everything that was said

having said that,

1) i had to write information down on a piece of paper.

which is simply pathetic, because people just fished out their iphones to take down key notes of the interesting dialogue session that we were having.

some might argue that notebooks are still the safest choice when your phone gets kuku butttt....

2) there are information that i need instantaneously. there is the WWW and i do not have access to it. hence whenever, i had things that i couldnt comprehend a.k.a have yet heard of it in my entire life. i couldnt google it. which sucks, simply said that i have to ask for SOS. which is highly regarded as helpless, ignorant and simply kampong.

i remember there was this incident where they were talking about USA. the ulu parts to be specific where gunshots are heard every night. but i was just sitting there being the ignorant one digesting what they said. which is simply, SAD to realise that i have vast improvement to make in the areas of general knowledge.

disappointed to admit that i do not have ample opportunities to travel due to reasons such as MY PARENTS ARE TOO BUSY TO GO.

oh well, i guess i have to refer to lonelyplanet.com to gain more insights then.

my point is, i if i had access to the WWW i could easily obtain information that i wanted instead of stone-ing without any form of contribution.

-perks of having an iphone

* just for educational purposes*

poly forum 2011 - reflections

it was a memorable trip where u get to meet all sorts of intelligent, fun loving and vocal people from the various polytechnics. *networking*

new friendships were forged.

as usual, i was listening to most of their stories because my life is still as mundane and uninteresting as ever. -.-

so there we were THE ENTREE!

students with burning passion of what they are currently doing and already know what they wanted with their life ( career )

and there was me; listening attentively without a clue in which which direction i want to head to.

nonetheless, it dawned upon me that it doesn't matter whether i have found my passion yet because i still have another 1.5 years to find it. * before UNI comes in *

but for now, i'll just have to jump onto every learning opportunity presented to me. hoping that through all those various experiences that i can finally find my my area of interest.

:D

...

will be able to see entree pretty soon

* every 3rd friday of the month *

awesome much.

poly forum 2011

definitely enjoying myself at the forum :)

#inspired

#exposed

#heartening

#gleeful

#WOW