ohana: noone gets left behind or forgotten

OhanaOhanaOhana... For a full week that have seen tremendous work being put in by the students of RJ, especially the crucial planning work by teh councillors, i'm quite happy that it's all over. I dont think our first major batch project got off to a bad start, i think it was quite alright! Yay! Not sure how the many Sec 4s enjoyed themselves here today, in the end, I don't think their choices will have so much to do with open houses as with reality, that is their O level results, their friends, their future prospects, their locales... So it was meant for them to have a lil breather, i suppose, from intensive and extensive revision for their O levels. It was also a good oppurtunity for us the J1s, to let our hair loose after promos. I'm sure we'll have more time for that in the very near future. Did befriender duty today, that is, to bring hordes of Sec 4s around the school to let them have a look and a feel of our software, that is, our people. We're not mechanical, and I really don't think anyone in Singapore even thinks that about us anymore these days. The mats had some fun wearing what we always wear, our mat bands, with a dog tag 'MLDCS..." attached. Simple advertisement, thanks to our ingenious matman, Iylia. Really had to thank the girls today, they stayed and put up really nice touch-ups to our booth at the entrance of the hall. They came real early too, and stayed til the end and put down all the decoration themselves. Most of the mats were doing befriender services, but still really must thank the girls. Cikgu was also always there too, i think she's closer to the girls, cos i heard them talk about some things that the girls were concerned about, something about their cca and future and things like that, but i really like that. U need to have someone who can listen to u and give u quality advice, and I think cikgu is one of them cos she's been here for so long, seen plenty of high-achievers, certainly she has some ideas of what to do. Spent the day shuffling back and forth from Rugby booth at the Specs Gal, where PS2 took centre stage, thanks to Khalrul...then will just wander around canteen and concourse before playing congkak back at out booth. then off to chit chat with iylia at front porch before finding more sec 4s to befriend. Saw some malay hopefuls, more guys than girls actually, but not surprisingly, and they all look keen on coming. So i really think the future malay batch will be more mixed than mine, but i sure hope it's all good. Saw Shaman, a SJI hurdler champ who's also looking forward to soccer, but i think it's best if he sticks to just track. He's sound academically, and I realised that I facilitated his group with Yusrina when he attended Mendaki Camp in sec1. Wahaha, nice guy, i think he'll choose RJ. Saw 3 VS malay guys too, one's a champ tracker, the other 2 are band ppl, and I think they are also academically sound. They're definitely considering RJ, then i think our track team will be quite solid next yr. Retain the title man! Played a lil bit of touch in the afternoon, cos sian la, cos it rained in the mid-afternoon during fri prayers, so it sort of dampened the spirit, then helped pull down the posters and re-arrange the canteen tables. After that, the Ohana comm gave out some real nice drinks and we kop like 14 packets la, for 5 ppl...Woohoo...So we went to shower, prayed asar, and siam to Al-Ameen. Reached there just nice the Azan, so we buka with super duper refreshing drinks. Ordered cheap and good food and ate all we could man... So shiok... then had to quickly take a bus ride to Ar-Raudhah where we did our tarawih too, and then walked the mats to bt batok mrt... Along the way, it was bliss. We saw a group of workers pausing work for a while, sitting at the slope to have their dinner in the dark, with only the street lamps to light the packet food for them. We felt bad looking. I said why not we give them the 3 remainder packets of drinks we have to them, let them share and have the drinks, after all, we took more than we should. Somehow that ties in with Ohana, noone gets left behind or forgotten. Ya, i think it does, God works these miracles, but humans just may not be able to see them. InsyaAllah, God will help these workers for working so hard and being so far away from home and from family. When i reached home finally, i took 1.5 bowls of fried beehoon noodles as i've promised my mother. That felt good, and i'm gonna have a go at the soya bean milk soon. Grow Grow Grow!!! Time to rest, bcoz its gonna be quite a day tomorrow. With a few things in store, let's just have a good night sleep.