Saturday, July 23, 2005
At the Chinese Heritage Center and beyond
Just came back from being an usher cum concierge (not sure if this is an appropriate term) at the opening ceremony of an exhibition at the Chinese Heritage Center. 1st of all I wanna thank God for His generous provision, becos I came rather unprepared haha. I din study my script for the exhibition in detail as much as I shd but I was not even panicking hahaha. But I came to realize that whenever I surrender anything I do to God, He is always faithful. I did manage to help out as much as I could and that made me very happy. I oso realized that my strength lies a lot in being an executor rather than a planner...I am my element at improvisation and trying loose ends on the grounds. Perhaps it came from my training as a 1st aider for many years.
Anyway, we literally rubbed shoulders with a lot of who's who at the ceremony. In person, most of them were humble but certain qualities set them apart immediately from us ordinary mortals hahaha. I was nervous at 1st cos I dun recognise some of the who's who, but went along fine. Of course, a small glitch occurred nevertheless at a point in time, and the person involved seemed rather miffed, according to Sarah. I have always been a bit blur when it comes to reading facial expression, but oh well, there will always be ppl who believe they shd be treated specially and I am afraid I shd have taken better care of that, but wat's over is over. Overall, I must give kudos to the planning committee, which included our own Cherky, Sarah and Hong Xian. Bravo guys! As long as u've tried ur bests, dun worry abt anything else.
My group in the tour of the exhibition I had to undertake had none other than our own A/P Huang Jianli and A/P Teow! Hahahah I admitted to them immediately that I felt self-conscious talking to them abt overseas Chinese when they must have known so much more! They reassured me that I was doing fine..very kind of them indeed. But the other members of my grp were oso very, very intelligent ppl who asked intelligent questions which I answered to the best of my limited knowledge :p They were well-read and their brains work so quickly! But they were nice and humble ppl, very educated indeed. Unfortunately, I din know exactly who they were, but I am glad to help facilitate them...they were such a pleasure to engage in conversations with, though I think I could have rushed thru less. Just that they were so interested that they stopped by every exhibit to read and ask. They wondered if there was a possibility of making the exhibition permanent, which I agree with wholeheartedly becos I do think it's a very good one indeed.
Let go and let God...how true indeed...need all my strength and courage and faith...press on as the true soldier of God!
Anyway, I am beginning to think my infant cousin a joy, at times. I dun generally pay a lot of attention to children cos I am naturally clueless as to how to deal with them. I am not like the Witches that Roald Dahl wrote abt and hate them...I am simply clueless! Last nite at dinner, she pranced around and called my name a lot. She's been singing "Lao Shu Ai Da Mi" a great deal..very funny esp since I always wonder if it's appropriate if kids sing love songs meant in the adult sense, since they don't understand it. According to her kindergarten, this song is suitable for everyone from e age 4 to 80! Hmm...
Anyway, we literally rubbed shoulders with a lot of who's who at the ceremony. In person, most of them were humble but certain qualities set them apart immediately from us ordinary mortals hahaha. I was nervous at 1st cos I dun recognise some of the who's who, but went along fine. Of course, a small glitch occurred nevertheless at a point in time, and the person involved seemed rather miffed, according to Sarah. I have always been a bit blur when it comes to reading facial expression, but oh well, there will always be ppl who believe they shd be treated specially and I am afraid I shd have taken better care of that, but wat's over is over. Overall, I must give kudos to the planning committee, which included our own Cherky, Sarah and Hong Xian. Bravo guys! As long as u've tried ur bests, dun worry abt anything else.
My group in the tour of the exhibition I had to undertake had none other than our own A/P Huang Jianli and A/P Teow! Hahahah I admitted to them immediately that I felt self-conscious talking to them abt overseas Chinese when they must have known so much more! They reassured me that I was doing fine..very kind of them indeed. But the other members of my grp were oso very, very intelligent ppl who asked intelligent questions which I answered to the best of my limited knowledge :p They were well-read and their brains work so quickly! But they were nice and humble ppl, very educated indeed. Unfortunately, I din know exactly who they were, but I am glad to help facilitate them...they were such a pleasure to engage in conversations with, though I think I could have rushed thru less. Just that they were so interested that they stopped by every exhibit to read and ask. They wondered if there was a possibility of making the exhibition permanent, which I agree with wholeheartedly becos I do think it's a very good one indeed.
Let go and let God...how true indeed...need all my strength and courage and faith...press on as the true soldier of God!
Anyway, I am beginning to think my infant cousin a joy, at times. I dun generally pay a lot of attention to children cos I am naturally clueless as to how to deal with them. I am not like the Witches that Roald Dahl wrote abt and hate them...I am simply clueless! Last nite at dinner, she pranced around and called my name a lot. She's been singing "Lao Shu Ai Da Mi" a great deal..very funny esp since I always wonder if it's appropriate if kids sing love songs meant in the adult sense, since they don't understand it. According to her kindergarten, this song is suitable for everyone from e age 4 to 80! Hmm...
// posted by Jenn @ 10:03 AM 
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