My exams are around the corner. Four papers in total. Saturday (26 Feb) - Principles Of Marketing Wednesday (2 Mar) - Finance Of International Trade Thursday (3 Mar) - Accounting Applications and Analysis Friday (4 Mar) - Service Operations Management
After that is our vacation. As for me and my other course mates, we will be having internship for 6 weeks during the vacation. I am posted at British Council doing customer service, support event management, social media marketing, education marketing and data management.
So yeah. Wish me all the best and hope to update soon!
Look at my last post! June 18th 2010. That's like half a year ago. Sorry. Will try to update my blog more often.
Most recent update. I have been busy with projects, projects and projects! This whole week is project filled. Monday - Marketing project presentation Tuesday - Finance of International trade Q&A session Wednesday - E-portfolio presentation Thursday - Game video trailer presentation Friday - Integrated executive summary
God bless me.
Retreat.
Friday, June 18, 2010 10:25 PM
11th to 15th June 2010. New Life Baptist Church Retreat. Indonesia, Batam, Golden View Hotel. Nearly all the youth went. It was awesome. There were so many interesting things that happened. I would not write about each of the five days but I'll just write about what I remember.
I went there on the first night instead of the morning because I had exams in the afternoon. By the time I went there the first session had ended. I was surprised and disappointed that I was sharing room with my uncle. One of the reasons is that everyone else of the youth is sleeping with their friends except ME! Definitely it would be more fun sharing room with your friends rather than sleeping with your uncle right? I wonder how I ended up sharing the same room with him. There is another reason which I rather not talk about here. In the end, I just accepted the fact that I had to sleep with him and decided that this would not ruin the retreat even before it started!
The speaker, Dr Tan Soo Inn blessed everyone with his messages throughout the sessions. He is a speaker with a little humor and has very good insight of the Word. Most of his messages are simple to the ear but hard to apply in our lives. His messages about rest, money and roles challenged my role as a Christian greatly. I was inspired with his teaching and vowed to continue living right with God and meditating on his word more!
The most interesting part of the day for me personally was when night came. Although the day might be over for some of us, but for me, the fun has yet to begin. Every night, the youth would gather either in Hannah, Elaine, and Joanne's room or Kathy, Shaina, and Ruth's room. Good thing my room is just opposite theirs. The most common things we do would be, playing taboo, truth or dare or polar bear. Simple but fun. Taboo: I did not really join in this because I was either watching the World Cup, or jamming with Johann, Ryan, Elaine, Eugene, Carol, and the rest. All I know that is there would be shouting and screaming at each other, but the worse is yet to come. Truth or dare: "Truth or dare? Truth. Who do you like?" The typical question asked in this game. Be more creative larh people. Ask something more interesting. Like, who do you think is the most charming guy in the youth? Muahahaha. I would not comment on this one. Someone actually said my name, but I doubt if its true. Anyway, we had fun and it was interesting getting to know some stuff. Polar bear: This game is either interesting or boring. For me, it is interesting just to observe how people react and respond to the accusations and how they try to defend themselves and fight for their right. Haha. Its just so amusing. This is the most noisy games and everyone would be thrown into a big "riot". The whole room would be worse than a market!
Now, for what we did during the day. Swimming: Our youth love swimming I guess. Nearly everyday, we would just jump into the pool or get thrown into the pool. I was thrown twice into the pool by some "bullies". Tommy and David! David actually carried me and jumped into the pool with me! Kathy also struggled helplessly as Tommy literally threw her into the pool. One afternoon, I walked to the pool and saw our youth jumping and somersaulting into the pool. I have no idea how they stared it. But, as awesome as I am, I just joined in, and my somersault was just awesome! Paintball: Omg. This was one of the most fun things we did there. Nearly all the youths plus some adults went to play paintball. Despite all the bumps and bruises, everyone had lots of fun! I got shot two times, once by my own team mate and another one by I duno who. Both were headshots! Shopping: Well, we guys did not actually go shopping, but rather, we went to watch a movie, A-Team. Leon, Andrew, Eugene C, Eugene H, Johann and Ryan. Guess how much the ticket cost? 24,000 rupees! That is like $4! Super cheap. If we had the time, we would just have a movie marathon there.
Overall the trip was one that was full of fun, bonding and learning from one another.
Omg. What am I doing at this time? Blogging on the night just before my exams. I shouldn't be in the mood to blog right now. I should either be sleeping or worrying about my exams tomorrow. Anyway, I have studied enough for today and decided to write something since I won't be blogging for the next whole week.
Here is whats gonna happen during the next few days and weeks during my absence. Monday to Friday, I will be studying till I'm either crazy or suddenly decide to do something stupid (hopefully not).
Here's where the awesomeness begins..
After my exams on Friday, which ends at 3pm, I'll be heading straight home.
Sounds boring right? Nope! You're wrong. I'll be heading straight home.... and.... wait for it...... going for church retreat! I'll have to prepare to leave the house to the harbor and head to Batam. Yes, Batam, the one in Indonesia. I'll be going along with Tommy, Hannah, Ryan, and... that's all the youths I know who would be leaving at night. I'm not that excited yet, since my tests are still in the way. But I'm sure I'll be excited once all the tests are over. I hope to have a great time at the camp learning more about God's awesomeness and bonding more with all the youths who would be going.
After the camp, I would be preparing for the mission trip a few days later. Gonna do some shopping with Tommy and David. Last minute preparations and rehearsals. I'm not gonna say much about this mission trip for now. I'll be leaving for East Timor on the 19th June and coming back on the 28th June.
That's all that is happening in my awesome life for now. There would be more awesome and "awesome" stuff to come!
Before I update you on what is happening in my life, I would like to share two events that happened recently.
1st
I was on my way to Holland Village. So I took this bus No. 48. Everything seemed normal and went normal, until this bus driver did something stupid. Instead of turning in to Farrer Road and then Holland Road, it went straight on along Bukit Timah road. "What the heck is this bus driver doing? Was he sleeping? Did he drive the correct bus? Did I board the wrong bus?" All these thoughts flooded my mind. Then this elderly uncle said "You went the wrong way! Supposed to turn left!" Then the bus driver had to make a U-turn ahead and wasted 10 minutes of everybody's time. The people at the bus stop were staring at the bus as it passed by and laughing at it because it went the wrong way!
PS: Some of you may not know where or what I'm talking about. But to summarize it: The bus driver missed the turning it was supposed to turn into and wasted 10 minutes of my time.
2nd
Do anyone of you watch Singapore dramas? If you do, you'll know who I'm talking about here. I was eating dinner with my buddies on Thursday. Suddenly, I saw Adrian Pang with his family!! (I know its not the awesome Taylor Swift. But he's quite popular among Singaporeans. If it was Taylor, I definitely, 100 times 100% would go take pictures with her, get her signature, etc. That's the ultimate dream in my life!) Omg! I could not believe my eyes. I was wondering "Is it really him?" Everyone else around there took a glimpse of him. I immediately took out my phone ready to snap some shots of him. But I only got one shot. I wanted to approach him and ask if "he would like my picture", but I was shy and scared that if I did it, others would also follow, which would disrupt his dinner. Thinking of it now, I so regretted that I did not take a picture with him. I promise myself that next time I see another artist, I would go take pictures with him/her. Well, here's a shot i took of him. Sorry, its very blur, but he's still recognizable.
Prove that I saw him.
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Here are updates on what is gonna happen and what I have been doing lately.
The worse thing of the worst. Exams are around the corner. 7th to 11th June! I barely studied yet. I really have to start studying properly now, if not I'll screw up my common test, which I do not want to do so. There would be 4 papers this time round. So please pray for me that I would be able to concentrate and focus on my studies.
Church retreat and mission tripcoming up during the June holidays. Church retreat at Batam, Indonesia for 4 days from 11th to 14th June. Will be leaving only in the evening because I would be having exams in the afternoon. Mission trip will be from 19th to 28th June at East Timor. Looking forward to this new experience. I will talk more about it when its nearer.
That's all for now. To all my friends who are in other parts of the world and not in Singapore, continue to keep in touch and I miss you all a lot! Cheers!
Last Friday, I went with my friend to City Music to get my new electric guitar which I have been waiting so long for. The guitar was awesome! I love the color of the guitar. I think the color is called Canadian Apple Red of something like that, I forgot. But, I call it "sexy red". Yeah! Check out some shots I took.
Jun Arn
Waddup? Jun Arn here. Existed since 6th November 199*. I love my family, friends and most importantly, GOD. I love Taylor Swift, she's the best. I love to be around my friends because they make me happy. If you know me, you're considered blessed. I'm awesome!