Reflections of the art therapy class & me starting working at The Caterpillar's Cove

This 2 days i had started work at The Caterpillar's Cove...It's really fulfilling that i interact with the children, It's a 'previlage' from God to be given the opportunity to work there. I love the children, the children never fail to express their affection for you. The challenge is to perform as a teacher, as in, you just completed Field Practicum(FP), so i think I should be more alert as a teacher to inspire the children.....

Am having Art therapy workshop, I think it's titled "The Art of Being", Being in the sense of coming to terms with who you really are, weaknesses, strengths.....i love the paints, i usually use crayons, soft pastels which are chalk material in a square rod.

Today, Joanna the instructor let us draw a 'MADANLA', mapping about the centre of your life, your joy, your greatest disappointment, your motivation, your epitagh, which meant how would you want people to remember you after you die? The founder of psychology, Karl Young i think, that's the name did 1 of these everyday...which was very meaningful, you think through what are you going through, what have you done,what do you intend to do after this....

So i was drawing....My friends that i made there are like so profoundly wise....the pictures, meaning....I'm very amazed at the way we used different things to symbolise the things....want to learn more and express how we feel with the group, trusting one another with secrets or weaknesses that we will portray in the paintings.

ThenAfter, we were asked to look at out MANDALA, choose something form there &use clay, air-dry clay i think, to make something which symbolises that thing i identified fomr the MANDALA...i made many things...Wonder should I take pictures...Maybe i should...

AT this point when M(coded to protect the person's interest), my another friend shared in class, -"the greatest joy is also greatest disappointment."-
quite true...
the concluding phrase was -"with the disappointment, the joy is much greater"-

When my friend, Farhana ask me what i learnt from class today, it's like i have some difficulty to retell her what learnt, every session i discover something, it's like finding treasure..I should write out more explicitly what are the significant things that happen on my notebook, so i can reflect on it and learn more so I can benefit others too.

Today's main tagline was, "1 Thing that i learnt from today's session is __________", give a 1 word answer. i shared honesty. I went on to explaining. I felt that in a group, you shre weaknesses, you want people to know who you are, you wnat yourself to come to terms with what you are facing....then we can do somethiinga bout it, overcome it, rather then put a facade on and you just wasted your time at the art-therapy session....There's a journal that i need to write too...i shall go write it now, a little late...so i will write after class& talk with Joanna more!

At the end of the day, i left the Cove (worked there after my art-thearpy class) to make my way home....walked to the bus stop, and i met Natasha & Uncle Wee, Tasha's Daddy...such a heart warming sight to see them together...Natasha's smile really makes you want to smile too?haha, Wonder if i could take a picture of them...

-perhaps i should be more alert about these things-(:

Greetings to my Dear Adminstrator

I shall add this in for my administrator...Thank God for the administrator for this blog (:

Congrats you, who finally blogged! (: so I shall too.

Well, I must say, it was a hella-of a bad hair day (: most of our hairstyles are just.. weird right?

hehehe, but 3e's still having fun being mad scientists.

My DIm Sum Lunch with my cousins, Ah Ma, Da Yi, Big Uncle & Big Uncle's wife and my MUM!

These are some of the things that i ate at the Dim Sum Buffet on Satruday @

Tung Lok Resturant at East Coast Park...

Thank God for my aunty who generously made this thing possible by paying the bill!(:

This is what happens when you get too excited ordering, the waitress will get confused. I think we came in a throng, so the resturant had a board meeting to make sure that they blacklist my cousins and I who are famous for making buffet places lose money! haha

Hmmm....1 set = 3 egg tarts so if you tell the lady,"Hi Miss, ke yi gei wo shi long dan tar ma?" which directly means 10 sets of egg tarts, that gives you 30 egg tarts!
15 people at the table, 1 GuilingGao(powder from the turtle's shell) for a person plus additional servings for exciting people like myself....makes about 18 bowls! these are just some of the bowls

Hello (:
September Holidays are just around.
& the President came to our school on Teacher's Day.
And HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY to you :D
you're a great kids' teacher!
thanks for doing all the stuffs for children's worship and all,
cos it was really bad of us that we didn't.
:D:D
don't be angry cos you'll get wrinkles and all.
alrite alrite?

okayy,
it's late.
I haven't been sleeping alot for this whole weeeek,
falling asleep now :(
seeya in a few weeks then!
have fun teaching
:p


SINCERELY,
you-know-who-i-am-rite-?-cos-it's-way-too-obvious-because-i'm-the-only-one-who-knows-your-password-cos-i-made-this-acc-for-you-yet-you-aren't-using-it-!

Church Camp :D

Our speaker was really good, so i'll share some of what he shared to us at the camp (:
actually i didnt really take notes, the ones i wrote got lost along the way and so i'll try my best to recall! He has this ability to capture peoples' attentions for a long while with his speech and includes people of all ages.. quite cool :p

first lesson; at the ballroom (nite)

main thing he was talking about was CHILDREN.
the example he used was that if 30,000 people were killed every hour, in america or britain or wherever, everyone would do everything to try to stop the killings. BUT, what about if 30,000 children were dying of starvation every hour, would EVERYONE try their best to stop it?
its happening right now, but has this starvation among african children or poverty-stricken countries stopped? there are people who are helping, but how many actually are doing something about it?

the answer, although people will not like it, is that we aren't INTERESTED.
there's no interest, why?
a few points he said was that children aren't adults
they cant vote yet, they are not the ones who maintain the economic status of the countries..
stuff like that..

i think im forgetting what he said already :/

and he brought up this time when he asked the church(i think) a trick question.
in the bible, where was the only time where it was mentioned Jesus was irate?
it was actually the time when he saw his disciples were pushing away the children.

Don also said that you cant be like ' I don't do children'
because it would indirectly mean you don't do God.
he mentioned it was kinda like a package deal.

so, the lesson ended by thinking of ways where u could encourage or take time to get to know the children in church or wherever. Then, they would know that you care.

i think thats about it, cos thats all i remember :p


I'm trying to recall the rest..
just wait and see :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPNPZ5u7WHQ&NR=1

this is so deaddd.
tsktsk

hahahaha
anyway i think tab's song on her blog's really nice

What if I took my time to love you?
What if I put no one above you?
What if I did the things
That really mattered?
What if I ran throughHoops of disaster?
No one would care if
We never made it
We're in this alone
So why don't we face it
There is no room to
Blame one another
We just need time toForgive each other
[Chorus:]
What about love?
What about feeling?
What about all the things that make life worth living?
What about faith?
What about trust?
And tell me baby...what about us?
How can I give this
Love a new beginning?
How can I stop the rain?
It's never ending
How do I keep my soul believing?
Memories of how we
Should be keep calling
[Chorus]
I'll take the rivers rise
I'll take the happy times
I'll take the moments of disaster
[Chorus]

the lyrics are amazing(:
but i keep wondering if its a love song or christian song :/
www.overdramatised.blogspot.com
go listen :D