It’s the 41st National Day for Singapore!!!
‘Our Global City Our Home’
and I’m away from home AGAIN….no parades, no fireworks, no rally by the PM…. no family here beside me..except for the Singaporeans here in IIUM, we celebrated together last night, with songs and a cake, tazkirah by Haron and an applaudable sketch performance by the brothers. That more or less lightened the heart, being with Singaporeans on National Day at a place we call Home away from Home.

Honestly, last year’s celebration was much better and I’m rather disappointed that we couldn’t live up to the expectations of last year’s celebration. Now I’m pointing out the downsides, and the one that most broke my heart was the Multimedia Part II…it was very nicely done, very nice indeed, only the pictures spoilt the beauty and what’s making me IRRITATED, couldn’t they have the mind to think that some of the pictures are just POINTLESS to be added in the clip!!! Does everything HAVE TO BE TOLD?? I really am pissed off and why wasn’t I there to guide them???? Must I be there to guide? For a Uni student, I thought one would have the mind to be LOGICAL and RATIONAL and SENSITIVE enough to think what’s suitable and what’s not.. I’m just..what the…???!! Ok, I’m really getting angry. It does not only embarrassed the people featured in the pictures, but it actually brought shame to the exco-s! Meaning, now people really do think ASSIIUM excos are a bunch of unprogressive, too much fun lot! Can’t they think about all these?? It’s just pointless. the multimedia brought all the fun down!!! And I heard one or two excos actually cried because of this, and others just don’t seem to care. I couldn’t sleep last night myself thinking about the whole event, how am I going to talk about this during the post mortem, to talk with wisdom and diplomacy, how am I going to face the comments thrown at us?? I’m just torn… being the vice president, I hold ASSIIUM with ALL my heart, and it hurts that maybe some just don’t have the same sentiment as me. It hurts.

and I sacrificed MRC’s meeting with the SRC, [read: SRC’s PRESIDENT] 😉 for the sake of my countrymates, I actually wished I had gone to the meeting rather than watch all those hurting unnecessary mistake!!! But NO that would be escapism, and I’m not that kind of person.

Still, HAPPY NATIONAL DAY, SINGAPORE.