I'm back, like after nearly a month. A big apology to all my avid readers out there, but yours truly was simply too busy with life to bother about this empty toiletbowl, hence this will be a rather short post. Stuff like studying. Studies are actually one of the most intriguing aspects of my life, I mean, how often have you seen teachers giving comments like "Good job Ernest, that's a very large improvement! Keep it up!" or "Way to go, good improvement!" when I only scored 19.5/40 for a test. Maybe that's what makes me special, because when others attain the same score, the comments say "You need to improve" instead.

Just recently on Thursday, we had to submit our writeup for our 3 best achievements in RJC, which I didn't know about until the day before. Talk about being shameless, but in all seriousness, I never realised that I was that perfect a person until I started to do my writeup. Here are 2 out of the 3 best achievements, with the last one omitted due to, well, being too screwed up.

CIP (Hospice Care Association)

Ernest was a dedicated member in a class-based CIP last year, held in collaboration with the Hospice Care Association. In this programme, Ernest went down to homes of people stricken with terminal illnesses, and together with a couple of his peers, helped to clean up the houses of these unfortunate people regularly. In doing so, he has shown the soft and caring side within him, and exudes compassion with every breath as he is a very active volunteer despite it being optional. He has also shown that great responsibility by turning up in all the sessions he has signed up for, without failing to turn up for any. This CIP was organized entirely on the class’ accord, and every single member of the class is receptive to this meaningful activity since it involves helping terminally-ill patients by doing whatever possible to improve their lives. At the end of each session, faint smiles of joy could be seen on the faces of the patients, which lights up the flame of compassion within him and pushes him to improve on every subsequent visit. Selflessness is an understatement to descrive Ernest, because he even sacrifices time during his holidays to attend the sessions, because he knows that the well-being of the patients is of utmost importance, even at his own expense. Though this programme has ceased with effect from the start of 2007, which is of much disappointment to Ernest since he finds pride and joy in engaging in this programme, but nevertheless, he has gained maturity from the processes, by understanding that the lives of some are not beds of roses, and through coming into close contact with these people, he has learnt to value life even more than before and will live life to its fullest.


CIP (Care to Dance)

In the June holidays last year, Ernest signed up for CIP entitled “Care To Dance”, which was jointly organized by the YMCA and Lindy Hop Ensemble, a local dance organization. In this programme, volunteers are first required to learn dances thought by the dance instructors from the Lindy Hop Ensemble, and then proceed to pass on these dance moves to the less fortunate children. By participating in this programme, he has shown that he is multitalented, excelling even in dance, something which he has never taken part in before, and he also possesses boundless levels of patience, tender-loving care, and determination, as his charge was able to master the dance moves in a very short amount of time. Ernest also possesses great interpersonal relational skills, because he managed to communicate extremely well with his charge, who is 10 years younger, as compared to the other volunteers in the programme. This programme was well-received by Ernest’s peers, who participated amidst much relentless persuasions, and none of them have regretted their decisions at the end of the day. Through this, it shows that Ernest is very compassionate, a trait rarely seen in teenagers these days and by persuading his fellow peers to take part in this programme, he has allowed his friends to bask in the joy of helping others, and this large radius of compassion is very much impossible to ignore. Ernest has reached unprecedented levels of maturity after taking part in this programme, and has shown qualities of being a fatherly-figure, a role model for everyone of his age or older.




And yes, I submitted it to my CT, every single word of it.