played the piano for half a day today....i wanted to dedicate the song endless love to my family, my friends, and my buddies in Medan. Though most of them may not be able to hear it, i just hoped they could feel how appreciative i was towards them.
The medan was very meaningful. Made many new friends, had lots of exciting and fun experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 我真的开阔视野了。Through the trip we really learn to appreciate the people and things around us. We discovered how fortunate we were in Singapore, we manage to experience how life is like in some of the poorest districts in Indonesia.
I felt that the trip was very well organised, i really want to thank the teachers Mr liu, Mr Imran, Mr Oh, Mr Yeo, Ms Choo, and Ms Lee. They made the trip very enjoyable and special for us. I love how the reflections were carried out for us. It really benefited us helping us to learn a lot of things.
I also would like to thank the Singapore Piaget Academy students who 招待 us. They were very very friendly, helpful and respectful. Throughout the journeys they were our translators helping us to solve the problem with our language barrier. I really admire them, they can speak malay, english, chinese and hokkien VERY fluently. DAM PRO right? Habert, Andrew, Kenny, Nadia, Nathania, Sherlyn, Griselda, THANKS for helping us and spending so much time with us these few days. Cya in Singapore!
During this trip the cip experience really left a deep impression in me. The environment the orphans were living in, the way they treasured what they get ( clappers from big walk which we throw away.), the way the treasured pepsi like holy water. I was really touched and shameful. All these just left me with a lot of things to ponder with.
This trip to medan, i witness the low standard of living that many indonesians are experiencing. The frequent blackouts at our resort, the dirty streets of Medan that are covered with litter, the polluted rivers, our bus that was polluting the air with the huge amount of carbon monoxide it was excreting, and the list goes on.
I also visited a museum containing more than a thousand species of animals. Take note not living animals ah all dead ones. Though the exhibits look real, only the skins are real. The skins are taken from dead animals or those killed by hunters. I saw the many pictures of the owner of the museum with the dead bodies of many animals that were killed by him. I do not know why he find killing them such a glory. In fact i find it pathetic that nowadays we have to go to the museum to look at all these non-living animal exhibits as the number of living animal species in the world is decreasing fast due to the non-stop killing of wild life by humans.
Then in the newspapers i read back in singapore, the news i watched on tv, reports of oil spills, explosions, volcano erruptions, floods, kids under age of 3 smoking, the non-stop killing of whales happening in Japan. AND THE LIST GOES ON TOO!
I really feel that the world is seriously screwed up now. If we do not start to seriously protect wild life, protect our environment, we will get our retribution and that is end of the world!
really want to discuss more issues and reveal more of my thoughts but its late now i gtg le so i shall end my post here gd nitez and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to myself! :D
once again thanks to all for the happy memories you all gave me in medan i miss you guys :D:D
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