the movement you need is on your shoulders

note to self: no matter how tempting, coffee after 8pm is not good for you.

in a very odd and roundabout manner, today was about celebrating lim swee say's birthday. MPS session ended with the grassroot leaders celebrating minister's birthday with a durian cake, by which i mean a stack of durians piled high with candles stick out on top. i remarked that it was probably the most singaporean moment i've witnessed in a very long time, and it truly was. and as amusing as it was, i realised that things like this (well not exactly this) i'm going to miss for the next 4 years.

my mom thought that it was a good idea to point out that in exactly 2 months, i'll be flying off to america. 2 months. that's like 60 days. which makes for not that many hours and if we start delving into how many seconds that represents, i'm going to freak out. urgh. so many things left to do (like pack up EVERYTHING!) and so many things i want to do.

oh, a sidenote. video project might be more difficult than i thought, because legal issues might prevent me from filming at MINDS. well, i'll still ask aaron about it tomorrow (well today actually), but i do still feel that it's something i can and should do, even after sleeping on it (figuratively) over 2 days. and also, i started to script the thing, just as a guide to shape my vision, backwards. which i think is awfully ingenious, but which everyone else must think is typical of a pretentious jackass.

in an odd sense, i'm relieved that CIP will be over tomorrow, because the whole MINDS experience is just filling me with guilt. there is only so much you can see without doing anything, and i think i've really crossed that point. today was somewhat more fulfilling, because oddly enough, the interaction with the lower-functioning clients of MINDS is just more enriching. maybe cos they aren't aware enough to really be frustrating. that's a rather nasty way of putting it, but i think is unfortunately true. special school is supposedly the highlight of the programme, and in a way i'm looking forward to it. oh, and after talking to so many of the workers at MINDS, i think my entire group agrees that we would make rather excellent spokespersons for the organisation. haha. how very shallow.

now all that's left of the PDC are the odds and ends. the lessons that are to come appear rather promising. i have met people in the course which i can see myself being friends with, which leaves me slightly less than 2 weeks to make sure they do become more than just someone i met at a random course sometime in my history. and there's the video, which, to all PDC participants reading, will be so utterly magic that you would show it to your parents. oh wait, we kinda are doing that already aren't we?