An eventful day, with its goods and bads

At the end of the day, I'm feeling exhausted, both physically and mentally.

It does not necessarily mean it has been a bad day though. I spent very meaningful times with firstly, kids from MINDS (Movement of the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore), then with my parents and brother. I got to drive around too, but only a bit too excessively coz I had to travel all the way to NTU and back under the stuffy hot weather. (Doesn't matter that I was in the car with full air-con; the sunlight and weather affected me still.)

Was at Road Safety Park @ ECP with some of my colleagues, helping out kids from MINDS in knowing the rules of the road. However, as most of the kids have lower levels of awareness and understanding, we bent the rules to mingle with them and let them have fun on their go-karts and on legs instead. I was with this sweet little girl, Andrea, walking around the Road Safety Park. She was largely oblivious to the happenings around her and most of the time was walking around on her own, venturing onto the grass and heading towards the fences to be nearer to the sea. It took a while to know her style, like how she preferred you slinging an arm over her shoulder to grabbing her hand, and to know what she wanted. Often, she was so happy that she would start grinning and shaking her head and even hugged me once. A pity she could not think beyond her current level. Hope she grows up to be stronger and better.

Afternoon I drove my Papa Mama to NTU, first to have lunch with Shou Bi (dear Bro) and taking the chance to tour NTU, then to Nanyang Business School for an interview for MFE course. Ended up I was upset and worried about my future once again. My mathematics background was deemed not strong enough (compared to those 1st-class honours engineering students?) and the professors thought I might have to struggle in the course which is full of complex mathematics. Such a headache. Although I wanted the course quite badly, I wouldn't want to have perpetual headaches and stress on catching up on my maths with the other course mates too. Damn. Everything is so competitive. That's the result of 300+ people fighting hard for 40 available seats. And I thought my maths was solid. :(

The interview filled me with gloom for the rest of the day. After it, I didn't want to talk much. But still, we treasured the precious times together - Papa, Mama, me - with tea time at Serangoon Gardens food centre and more 兜风 along KJE and PIE. Driving can be quite tiring! By 5 pm I was half-dead physically and was dragging my feet.

So for now, I'll just keep my fingers crossed. There has been much uncertainties since the start of this year. I hope things turn out fine in the end.

And WW agrees we should start dinner-location-sourcing this weekend! Yippie! Again, keeping my fingers crossed on another uncertainty.