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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 - 23:46 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Live And Learn

It's been a pretty busy weekend as far as I'm concerned. Here goes:

Saturday

Participated in Paint A Home 2007 at the Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled, thanks to some prodding during the data entry project. Turned out that a sec sch pal had crashed the event without warning, though we ended up in different groups. Didn't see too much of the residents after arrival, but they seemed friendly and harmless enough.

Lesson #1: The differently-abled sure like to shake hands - human contact, I guess.

Sat through a short briefing, then my group started whitewashing the walls at about 11 a.m., breaking for a savory catered lunch on a plastic tray, no less, at one-something.

Lesson #2: Try not to paint walls with a brush - a dedicated roller is far better.

One of the other volunteers remarked that the person who invented the roller was pretty smart, and indeed the invention appears fairly recent despite the wheel it was likely inspired from being around for thousands of years; Credit goes to one Norman Breakey, who thought the tool up in 1940.

Whitewashing an average-sized room didn't take long with roughly ten pairs of hands, and after that some of us stayed behind to chalk out the mural outlines on the walls while others went to interact with the residents. Well, being sort of an old hand at reproducing images, I completed the F(rog), G(oat) and J(am) portions, and even managed some plaudits for rendering a "cute frog". Haha.

Got a random bookmark done by one of the residents as a keepsake at the end, which turned out to be reasonably appropriate - the kind soul who did it almost got my name right :P


Sun/San

If you feel very gian now, have no fear - Project C.A.N is still open for registration (I think).

Sunday

JC class outing at Sentosa. Turnout at 11 a.m. wasn't that great however. My first ride on the new tram, which cuts straight across to the beaches - the island sure seemed larger with the old monorail.

Alvin brought his new volleyball, which was impressively soft (insert inappropriate joke here). Peter brought a netball that really looked like a volleyball, and had all of us fooled for a long time. It was also much, much harder.

Lesson #3: If you value your radius bone, do not attempt to play volleyball with a netball.

The beaches were crowded with SMRT employees due to SMRT Day, but we got an invitation from a bunch of self-professed 40-somethings who had their own US$500 net and stands - they looked suspiciously in their thirties. They weren't half bad either (but hey, they were serious enough to have their own equipment), and ended up winning all but one of our games.

Lesson #4: Extremely hot sand can be countered either by continually sweeping the surface sand apart with feet, or just wearing shoes.

Lesson #5: Ask for help in applying suntan lotion to your back, if you don't want interesting patterns on it the next day.

Broke for lunch, then joined up with the juniors and grand-grand juniors (the guys among them have already completed their NS! Darn, I'm old). A bit of soccer, some frisbee.

Lesson #6: Don't drink carbonated drinks on an empty stomach.

Ended up with dinner and some chit-chatting at VivoCity.

Monday

Sec sch class outing at Marina Square, 7 p.m. Perhaps not so much outing as freeloading, but hey, that's us :) Well, the story behind it was that csq bet smk four Earthquakes that he would get his first non-A grade this semester, which just goes to show that intelligence is no guarantee of savvy investing; As any sane person might have expected, csq lost the bet, and what use would a single person have for 32 scoops of sinful delight? Hence, the call to arms. And mouths.

So, technically speaking it was smk's treat, but it wouldn't be nice not to give credit to the poor guy who footed the bill for four Giant Earthquakes, right?


A Word From Our "Sponsor" - Photo credits: Law

Lesson #7: Baked rice is deceptively hot.

Lesson #8: Do not order "Yummy Raisin" flavoured ice-cream.

Nice to see some of them, after such a long time. Four of us headed to the bowling alley after the obligatory class photo, where I discovered just how out of touch I was - average score hovering around 100. Interestingly, it appears that my "natural" shot (straight from edge of gutter) is supposedly the ideal method to strike, if I could just get it to the 1-2 pocket consistently. A very big if.



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