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The first 2 hours of doing community service has humbled me. Wearing my usual singlet,shorts and slippers is the perfect attire for attracting mosquitos, as comparing to wearing that to do some farming at Blk 96 of Aljunied Crescent.

I saw the amount of vegetables they grew in this garden and definely a lot effort was spent maintaining it. The main farmer head of the garden shared with me that the key reason of growing vegetables is to ensure the elderly of the home get to eat original home grown vegetables that are free from pesticides.

For caring enough, the daily effort is indeed commerable. The next thing he shared was that as a volunteer, it’s not just about doing mudane labor daily. It’s all about how to make the garden better off each time you are there. It’s about doing research then doing recommendations to improve or understand how certain plants to need be grown.

So many learing opportunities created in the short 2 hrs at GEHA. It’s a good start to community service committment and look forward to make the farm a better one in days to come.

HM

Today, I got the most powerful feedback to date. Parents both calling me to ask me go home. The recent 3 days had been packed with work, community work and own goal chasing work….blah…blah..blah…However, the responses from dad and mum gave me the opportunity to explore of how I got the results of dad slamming the door full swing when I was telling him,"What’s wrong with taking time off for a meeting on community serivce, then rushing back to work at 10pm?" over the phone at 2130hrs.

I understand that being committed to all the things I’m chasing have to include taking care of myself and spending time with family even it’s just sitting there with them w/o talking. So,I went home after re-arranging my work to take a good rest now.

Yes,I am really thankful that they care enough to make noise and thankful to get a reminder so early that there are 101 ways to do things without harming myself,my family and my loved ones.

Love is caring enough to be frank.

From my opinion,Family is the closest people we got in our lives.The people I said I cared about most are usually the hardest to be true and frank. I opened up and these are indeed very testing times for me. Communciating effectively with my mum with her ever toggling mind is still frustrating at times for myself. It will work as through creative tension then creation of a loving trusting relationship is possible. Now it’s just how to do it. Tonite, certain methods didn’t work, so I will use some others the next time. Of course, rejection doesn’t feel good. However,Whatever it takes, I will make it work for the both of us. Because I love my family.

"We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way."-John Holt

Quite interesting after my AW course, I’m starting to learn a bit of questioning to my loved ones using the methodology of "If you give the fish to a man, he lives for a day.If you teach a man to fish, he lives forever". The key lesson I picked up was if A don’t work, do B. If B dun work, do C…There will be a way that will work on as long we don’t give up. My own attempt at swimming isn’t working last sun..it doesn’t mean I won’t be able to swim in the future. I will do things differently the next attempt. So friends, winners don’t quit and quitters don’t win!!!!