Beacon of Hope

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Fruitful Visit to Volunteers
Woke up early today (despite being an off-day) and had wanted to go and visit my volunteers at work... these volunteers are real dedicated, coming in every Saturday to help out. I just feel that I should at least go down, to show support and at least maintain the rapport between these nice people and myself. I just want to show support and remind them that they are not forgotten and that we are always here to support them if necessary. Wonderfully cheerful bunch of volunteers.

Had a good chat with one of my volunteers on ideas for bringing the team forward as well as shared some ideas on volunteer management. Also had a new volunteer returning to help out, despite disappearing a couple of times. Towards the end of the morning, I tried to talk to him and he shared that he quite enjoyed volunteering in December last year. This frankly made me feel good because I was still afraid he would not find joy in volunteering, because he seemed to show some reluctance and was very quiet to begin with.

Beacon of Hope
Went cycling today with my sister in East Coast Park. We were still worried that bad weather would come along again and spoil our cycling plans but God has blessed us with fair weather... in fact, am so happy that the weather is back to normal again since it has been raining non-stop over the last few days...

In fact, as we were cycling back to return our bikes, we caught glimpse of a, well, unique sight... As we looked out to the sea... we could no longer see the ships and saw this blanket of grey; it looked like someone has draped a grey cloth over the sky and the whole sky was overcast in "smooth" grey (frightening yet amazing sight). Apparently, it seemed like storm clouds were approaching in our direction. But the funny thing is that, it never did rained a single drop.

Looming Storm Clouds

As we cycled on towards the bicycle rental kiosk, I caught hold of yet another beautiful sight of sun-rays shining through thick dark clouds; beacons of hope. A picturesque view.

Beacon of hope
Surfers and sailors coming on shore, just in case

People who live dangerously
By the way, I am not sure why I am so easily irritated by inconsiderate people recently. Saw a few today in East Coast. Sometimes, peoples' inconsiderate behaviours not only spoil your day but also endanger others' lives... For example:

• People who just don't keep into their lanes and like to cycle or roller-blade into your lane despite being in the wrong direction.
  
• People who try to act cool and roller-blade backwards in the wrong lane, towards you!
  
• Group of friends who ever so like to stop their bikes in the middle of nowhere, taking up a big section of the pathway, gather together and chit chat, causing others to have no choice but to take the opposite lane to avoid them
• People who suddenly stop or cut into your lane without warning
• Peopl who stop their bikes and park it in such a way that the bike is jutting into other's way

Oooooo bother!

Quiet Evening
Met up a social work friend for dinner in city hall area. Took a stroll to Esplanade and Clifford Pier and eventually settled down at Pacific Coffee near Marina Square for a cuppa.

Clifford Pier

We chit-chatted and both of us miss the days studying in university, when all we did was just focus on studying and had little troubles to handle. It seemed that after everyone graduated and started working, everyone seems to have drifted far apart from one another and gatherings turned into a time of gripeing about work, relationships etc... Guess everyone have more troubles nowadays.

All these talk reminded me how I am smiling lesser nowadays and heaved a sigh a couple of soured relationships. Everything really seemed OK in the past but things are just different now.

Real regretful.