recovering fr the past.
i was digging thru my shelves for traces of old handouts on social studies... have volunteered to play tutor for my cousins. the sight of my good old friend the Source-based Question brought back lots of... thoughts lol.. it looks like the agony of the past is back to haunt me. :Shaha i need help my frens! if u have anything on In-Fer-Ence (lim SHHHHH's voice crept back the moment the questions hit me hehehe) skills and source-based answering techniques for ss and elective history... pls grant me ur wisdom and resources.
on the way to thomson plaza yest evening, after a whole aftn of staring after episodes and episodes of 刑事侦缉档案III (my all-time fave hk series!) and feeling my bum start to burn on the sofa, my parents took an unexpected turn into lower pierce reservior.
it was unexpectedly refreshing. the water and the trees and the little boardwalk. and a glimpse of the sun setting. produced nice colours over the water surface and across the skyline. peach-orange and a nice warm purplish-blue.. the thing about these colours in nature is that i can never find the correct words to describe or label them.. such are the wonders of our dynamic world.
made me wanna come home to these photos and memories.
cotton woolly clouds on the flight to chiangmai. all the girls esp hehe were ooh-ing and aah-ing at the gorgeous sight of these giant cotton clouds! makes u wanna reach out and touch them...around 7 am in the morning.
it was mainly about the skies on this trip it seems..
fell in love with the gorgeous skies above huay khao lip village. when the weather was kind to us that is hehe. it keep raining every day! sunny one moment, rainy and gloomy the next.. esp during the first week. so i guess it made us cherish moments of lovely clear blue skies more when they did appear.. even if they were meant to be short-lived.
shot of the village and the bootiful sky.
look what the sky brought us one evening! -
i think.. it was the most gigantic rainbow i'd ever seen in my 19 years of living..
it was really thick, bright.. all the colours were there and it really drew ACROSS the sky. for a short while there were TWO of them! (beautiful things come in pairs?) no skyscrapers to block them off midway.. felt like we could almost see the ends.. cept that the mysteries of the heavens need to be protected to some extent. they eventually disappeared into the lush forests. so i guess thats where we might need to go to uncover those pots of gold. :)
one of the huts we slept in :) our clothes were starting to stink indoors when finally some sun came out and we cld put up wires to hang our smelly laundry. haha it was quite an experience sleeping in these huts. when the rain came in the middle of the night it felt like the entire house wld collapse any moment. the raindrops came in a thunderous downpour upon the house...a sound so sonorous and overwhelming u wouldnt be able to hear anything else.. not even talk to the person next to u. haha was really quite scary.
of course, the ones we'd miss the most when we left-
lovely baby boy of mr. muscle man of the village. he got his wish for a son in the form of this adorable little baby who kept running around the place with rather loose pants. hehehe.
every evening without fail, by ard the 4/5th day of our trip, the kids would gather to the space in front of the church beside our huts, waiting eagerly for a good game of frisbee/soccer/volleyball with us. :) it was greeeattt fun. language was no barrier.. with bamboo poles and slippers we made our own soccer court, volleyball net, frisbee field....(:
one of the things that really awed me was how the kids were pretty much left to be independent from as young as 4.. the villagers werent afraid of letting them roam all over the hills and village on their own.. far out of sight. there was this unspoken kind of trust and faith in the community. the kids themselves were brave and adventurous. climbing trees.. running around smacking us strangers haha..
running around the muddy rocky ground in their slippers all day, a fall or two was commonplace.. but the smallest girl i saw merely picked herself up from the hard solid earth n continued dashing ahead..twds the little group of children n their new found friends who had gathered to start a strange new game.... their shirts and little sleeping pants were dusty and had trails of sand and mud all over..yet their every move speaks of a desire to play, to engage their hearts and minds in any activity placed before them, and be happy. they were really, an innocent, happy lot. :) they brought us much joy too.
I havent really been myself since the trip started. think i'm trying to recover from the past... i have a rough idea of what caused this state of mind and body to set in. it made me quite unable to give my all for the trip..i felt quite bogged down by a lot of things. i just couldnt get myself to live for the moment and make the best of time there.. it's a huge regret of mine. been back in one of my more silent modes again..and this time i'm taking my own sweet time to snap out of it. its quite sad to admit too.. that i dont have the confidence to tell myself how i wld have lived my time there differently if i had the second chance.
but at least i hope that collectively, the team did make that small bit of difference.
praying for the best always for all at huay khao lip.
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to freshie: hey.. wow i'm amazed that u'd find my blog..thank u so much. :) really hope u had a great time at the camp!!
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