it ends tonight, it ends tonight

today, 25 of august, is where my YOG journey as a volunteer would end

i would declare that it was a fruitful and purposeful journey

fruitful; as i have taken photos with tom daley and megan sylvester

purposeful; as i have spend my free time volunteering and i have learnt many skills

like from guiding of groups to taking care of kids

it will be difficult for me to not wake up tomorrow and head for the village

and once again my life will be back to slacking and working

i had really really enjoyed the company of my fellow volunteers and it had been an enjoyable 10++ days

rather than making this post sounds gloomy

China boys will be back soon!

they're coming back on the 27th, 5am or so

the train doesn't even operate that early

but once they're back i have new company, hopefully

Have a safe trip back home!

i'll be waiting,haha

Kenn

The 5th Day at YOV

i was lazy to blog on what happened from the first to the fourth day

basically i'm working as a tour guide in the Youth Olympic Village

i bring S'pore Primary and Secondary student around the village

to experience and learn about YOG and most of all, have FUN

Today i was facilitating Monfort Junior School

i had enjoyed the interaction again, they were a bunch of cooperative kids

they were a little talkative, they liked to be heard and i just can't get them to get into two neat lines while touring the village

the reason might be that they're really excited

throughout the last half of the tour, they were really hungry

some of them kept bugging me about hunger

with their young hungry faces, i feel for them, but i can't do much

how can i forget about the kid whom have a strong passion for softball,

i felt it

he told me his story about how he got into the school's softball team

very exciting story he told

i was motivated by him, not very much, but he did attract my attention for one.

Before he left, he asked if i had facebook, he was the only one that i was willing to say "yes, i have"

i can't image if all of them adds me, Haha, disastrous

also while i was briefing the school for one of the station,

this old guy came up to me and took a friendship-band-looking-bracelet and shoved it near my hand but not on my hand

and then it dropped onto the ground

to think about it, i then realised he was trying to wear the friendship-band-looking-bracelet on me

but it dropped

i picked it up

and he was pushing it to me

in his foreign language

he said stuff, stuff that i can't decipher till now

i bet he said he's giving me the friendship-band-looking-bracelet

i guess that from his body language

i thanked him with my best body language thanking

it all happened super fast

i guess he is a colombia's NOC

cos the friendship-band-looking-bracelet says colombia

The receiving of the bracelet makes me feel happy and special

i guess it was lucky

if i could meet him again, i would show him the the bracelet fits well and properly thank him again.

Okay i have to prepare for day 6, take care and goodnight

Kenn

New Found Friend (talking bout' friendship, relationship's overrated)

let me pour out my thoughts on what would happen when my friend (anyone of them) gets a GF.

what you'll be losing is the

together time (you used to have)

no more talks on how good it feels to be single

lesser activity which will cost more bucks (cos money goes to GF)

and when you meet up, it's all about his GF this, or his GF that

okay, okay i'm just being a pessimist

this time when i'm put to the test, it's different

i know what would eventually become and decided to move on with my life

so get another friend, but it ain't so easy

it takes with a huge scoop of affinity

but what happens when you befriend your friend's brother?

i'm in a good position to explain this

I had experience the almost exact feelings I felt (when the friendship had just started out my your friend) from the brother

well, people do change through time, you'll be experiencing them differently, at different phase

but the surprising thing is that the lost feeling does still exist and could be retrieved

little things, like hanging out with the brother triggers memories or sometimes when stronger, déjà vu

it was like time travelling back in time to my friend

and I would reflect on how that time was simple and blissful

at the same time, realisation would make me feel that I should treasure the current time I am existing in

therefore, i strongly think that i should embrace the present

to me, this experience was interesting and fascinating

thus i wanted to share about it

but i took a long ass time to type it out

to explain it the way i thought was most appropriate

Kenn

not posting enough

let me start with what i did today:

Nationals (LifeSavingCompetition)

this year, i'm one of those who comes late, sits and watching the com.

i wasn't much into the whole com.

except when it comes to our own competitors, i would shout, cheer them on

indeed, the club has improved this year!

we bagged a sliver medal

we only won a bronze last year, so it's considered as an improvement

so i guess our competitors are now celebrating or sleeping at the loft

And what i have been doing lately:

YOG (Volunteer)

i've joined YOG as a volunteer

thanks to my friends, they got me in

okay, back to my role in YOG

i'm ushering students ( from S'pore primary and secondary schools ) around the Olympic Village Square

although i'm not enlisted early ( yup, i'm still pissed about it ), but at least i'm doing something that's worth my time

to me it will be one of the events that the country would remember long enough till i die

so i''m officially commencing my duty on 16th August ( haha, that would be the day when the brothers unite )

i went to the YOG opening rehearsal last friday

and it was freaking awesome, that's what i think tho

it's better than this year's NDP, haha, it's my opinion

Anyway, i'm happy to be involved in YOG

Kenn