Monday, November 15, 2010

Experience in Singapore

The hostel turns out to be very tranquil and calm. One can even assume that the third floor of CJC Hostel has turned into a dilapidated corridor of a house in a ghost town. Few days ago I sat, in this room, watching people went off from the hostel, straight to Changi Airport, heading back to Indonesia. Well, some of you might be wondering as to why I am here, trapped in this very corner of my room, typing this random post to kill my time, instead of going back to my beloved country.

Yeah, I am incarcerated in this country because of my CCA, scout. I need to come for 2 more trainings. I will go back at 27th, after all of these things finished. Listening to the song "I Wanna Be Free" by The Monkees adds up the mellow mood of my heart; of course, I want to be free, back to my own country.

However, as my monotonous days passed, I begin to muse through everything. I think about a lot of things that happened here along the course of my study in Singapore for this year. Then, I found my self quite surprised by the sand of time that has almost filled all the bottom part of the hour glass. I thought, at first, I had the luxury of time, everything will run out slowly and one year will be quite a lot of time for me to savour every moment.

Conversely, one year is relatively quick for me. The time we savoured together, now, seems like a distant memory stored within my jumbled mind. All of them happened and ended leaving a scar of yearning in my heart. Honestly, I really want to have a time alone in my room to muse about it and cry to my heart content for missing it.

Well, obviously, I appreciate every moment I have spent in this country. Should I have the power to go rewind my one year and make up for the mistakes I have made, I certainly will refuse to it. I have no regret over the things I have done in this one year. The bridging course with Ma'am Hamid, first day of school, Scholars Orientation, New Students Orientation, Class Bonding, and many other things I cannot mention right now, felt like it happened yesterday.

Then there were a lot of hostel events that made my stay in Singapore really worth the sacrifices I made to come here. Apart from the hostel events, my interaction with new friends, people with a whole gamut of exciting as well as enriching experience make my stay in Singapore to be quite pleasing if not blissful.

Like today, I've just came back after a trip with my tutor, Agung, and my fellow scouts, Max and Naufal. We went to karaoke at Cineleisure, Orchard for 4 hours. After we dried up our throat, and feeling enervated, we continued our trip to the eastern part of Singapore, where we ate steak at a restaurant there. Then Agung took us to a nearby restaurant to savour an extremely palatable Laksa I have ever experienced in my life. While, he told us the story of his life in Singapore, we ate the spicy Laksa. Then, he told us about another place where we can savour a delicious Nuttela Cake (I'm not sure about the spelling, but it's like a chocolate cake) which, he claimed, can make the person eating it feels a sense of happiness and pleasantness.

To be continued to the next post :p