as a jct'o6 failure, i had the privilege to attend a subsidised, where 'i-still-needed-to-pay-ten-bucks' resilience workshop! those people earn good money.
let's calculate - for 2.5hrs, around 16 attendees, no refreshments provided. based on ten bucks a student(since i don't know how much the school paid),
gross salary per hour per speaker : 16 X $10 / 2.5 / 2 = $32
ha ha ha.
sometimes, it's not all about money. if i were to always think 'money money money', then life is totally boring. ok, what was that resilience workshop all about... all in all, we watched a cartoon clip by pixar(i've seen it before -_-), listened to never-ending army stories on how the first speaker dropped out of ocs cos of bone injury, and how the second speaker became a 'traffic police' on ndp night. after which there was a life demonstration of four guys sitting on the chairs, then the chairs were removed, but the guys were still in their positions! WOW. so common can. always do that stunt during orientations...
though i didn't take away much from the workshop, but it definitely gave me an idea of what is the key to success in life. now i can only remember them saying: accurate thinking is the key to success. other than that i could hardly recall what they(he) said. oh. one speaker spoke 95% of the time, the other guy clicked on the mouse 98% of the time. then they gave us this quiz to do, which was on the seven components that made up resilience. the sector that i scored the lowest was: reaching out. oh God, make me a better evangelist please.
ice-cream for ten cents..cheap cheap oi... this is what you get on the last day of fund raising. how does it benefit the students?
i had this conversation with the ice-cream man, who is my friend. oh wells.
friend: buy ice-cream! cheap cheap. ten cents for one scoop only.
me: huh. don't want lah... don't feel like eating it.
friend: ten cents for two scoops, ok?! ok?!!!
me: don't want lah... later then find you.
***after my lunch***
me: what flavours are there?
friend: we only have vanilla. this guy, XX, bought a tub for $1!! it has the durian taste also!
me: (gives the -_- face). ok, how come there's only vanilla? anything...give me one scoop then...
friend: (hands over a spoon with a scoop of ice-cream), exclaiming, "sorry, we JUST ran out of cups!"
me: (gives another -_- face). err. ooookk....
now, take a look at my ice-cream:
it's always good to give to the student welfare fund, but it's always good to go somewhere else for ice-cream. tsk tsk.
my white adidas bag has arrived!! mq, see you on mon, hug hug!