Bandaged Soul...so I can open my heart to you again.

I wanted to write about today this morning. It was pouring heavily till about 11am. I was in my bed the whole morning. In my half-awake state, I contemplated about not going to work today because my right foot has not been recovering much. I concluded that I did not let it rest fully enough. For the past 4 days, the accumulated exertion has caused much pain by the time I set foot at home. The decision was realised at about 8.40am as I sms to my colleagues that I'm taking urgent leave. So, instead of blogging, I was busy emailing, sms-ing, and msn-ing to settle some outstanding stuff at work, mostly for a performance assignment by one of my group this coming Sunday, which my colleague will be covering because one of her groups is also performing for the same event. On my way to get my foot wrapped at the Chinese Physio, I drove my car for inspection at VICOM. That didn't take much walking, thank God. Today's the only day I can do it before the end-of-June deadline. Went stra...

So it was not really a sprain. I didn't remember any of such episode anyway. That's why I was waiting for it to get better over the last week, thinking that I wouldn't be walking a lot during Church Camp. In fact I slept quite a lot during the 4-day stay at Thistle, JB. :D The Sinseh said it was because I walked too much before the period my right foot started feeling the effect, accumulated as the day goes by as long as I never fully rested. Come to think of it, it could even be from Graduation week. The long walks between SAA and TCC, literally the east and west of campus, more than twice a day for 4 days. Then without resting enough, we came to the week with all the rehearsals, stayover and the actual performances for the International Conference on Learning & Teaching at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. It wasn't a sprain, but it was equally painful. More so by the day. The more I don't let it rest and even a small amount of walking could have aggravated it...

It seems like I've been looking forward to a moving target and never reaching there. Working towards event after event, never really settling down. It sends a small shiver down my spine thinking, what if this is going to be how it's gonna be for a longer while than I expected. For now, just this week, it's one stayover for the last camp of this short 2-week vacation, which, for the record, admin staff in IHLs operate the same as any company (i.e. we don't have automatic vacation with the students). In fact, we're busier this season. Tomorrow, TP Chorale is hosting 5 Choirs from 4 Secondary Schools and 1 JC to have a half-day exchange on campus. All thanks for our Conductor, this would be the first time the Chorale (actually any of my groups) is doing something like that. It would be quite exciting. Just hope that the members behave themselves like how young adults supposed to behave. You know, at this age, they are 'not here not there'. Well, some adults don...

It's been camp after camp, back to back, for the past week. 11 to 12 June - TP Chorale Induction Camp (in school) 14 to 17 June - Cornerstone Family Camp at Thistle, JB (apparently it's former Hyatt) 17 to 18 June - TP Band and Artistic Collaboration Induction Camp (collaboration between the 2 Dikir Barat Teams and Malay Dance Group, in school) 18 to 19 June - TP Fusion Percussion Induction Camp Wah, I miss my bed! The bed at Thistle was super comfortable though. The room is really nice, too. I slept a lot during the camp. Almost all the free time, when others are out shopping, suppering... I just slept. The bed became my comfort for my constant headache. My right face has been getting this constant irritating pain throughout the whole time, even now. Wonder if it's a result of some gum problem. The pain kinda started there, connecting the nerves around the area. So, it's back to sleeping in school today. Either sitting on my chair or sleeping on a few conference table ...

Was almost bed bound on Thursday. Had a fever from the night before with flu and the works. Friday was in a groggy state because of the medicine so it was a rather difficult day to go through the day and to stay over night in school for student camp. Didn't sleep much. Yes, it's that time of the year again. 3 more to go next week. Thank God the CCA Awards Ceremony has been postponed 2 weeks. So the first camp went quite well. Even though the camp debrief with the committee ended a little after 3pm, there were so much to take care of before I can shut down my computer. By the time I reach home, it's after midnight. It felt like a Saturday but it was already Sunday. So tired out I didn't make it to Church in the morning. Still sick. Prior to this Fri-Sat overnight camp was another last minute arranged Tue-Wed overnight with the Choir members because of an early-morning performance at an International Conference. I didn't sleep much at all. Remind myself not to so read...

Our Dikir Barat Men’s Team came in 1st Runner-up at last Saturday’s (5 Jun 10) Inter-Polytechnic Competition – Piala Suara Serumpun 3! From an arts group that was nearly disbanded 2 months ago to what they have achieved just 3 days ago, it was pure hard work of committed and intensive training over 6 weeks. To know that 80% of the 20 participating members only joined from late April’s CCA Recruitment Drive and most of them have never competed before. Except for RP which does not have a Men’s Team, all Polytechnics sent in both their Men and Women’s teams to compete in this event – 9 teams in total. Along with the top 3 team awards, the competition gave out awards for Best Lyricist, Best Juara (lead vocalist), Best Karut (secondary vocalist), Best Awok Awok (group of singers with synchronized movements), and Best Percussion Team . TP clinched 3 out of the 5 awards (highlighted above), leaving the other 2 to NYP. Our Women’s Team performed well and showed team spirit with their loud ch...

Ooooohhhhh...it feels so good to lie on the floor of my room doing this. The floor has been cooled by the air con and really inviting considering the humid warmth everywhere else. So much has happened since I last wrote that I really don't know where to start. Blame it on the macbook power adaptor that has been faulty for the past few weeks. It took me a while to finally decide to get a replacement. $128 eh. But I thought, it would be an investment even if I decided to upgrade. So before this, I had been minimizing the use of my macbook in case the batt runs dry. When it was getting low, I would bring it to the office to get it charged with someone else's power adaptor. Anyway, so I haven't gone online with the macbook for a long enough session to blog. I kinda lost momentum and got lazy. And if I ever go online, I would use my tiny ASUS EeePc. It has served me well for the past few months, just that it hasn't been for social reasons. Work has also been really busy and ...