After finishing work on Friday, I drove down to Fox to buy a season pass to their broadway series. Took the average seating. $258 for 6 musicals. That's my first pay-check from my work at Parkway after 2 weeks of work. I think it's really worth as I won't be able to get that price on Broadway itself!
I think I must start to keep track of all the musicals I've watched here in the US! Look out for it in my future posting.I believe I'll enjoy all the musicals. ¶ 9/08/2007 11:40:00 PM 0 Comments
Faith - thank you! And I hope you too will grow up to be an adult that will impact someone's life.
An adult who has left an impact on my life
An adult who left a great impact on my life is my second elder brother. He is a social worker and just recently last year he left for the United States of America, St Louis to further his studies. He is currently taking his Masters in Social Work and from here he plans to take his PhD in Chicago.
One thing that I admire about him is his dedication to what he has taken up, he studied for honors in Singapore and his job as a social work pays him enough to get him by, however the determination to expand his knowledge and experience gave him the strength to bravely request to my parents to support him in this venture. In USA the weather over there has been terrible when it is winter it is very cold and when it is summer the temperature is much higher than Singapore but he bears with it just so he can study and he does not want to waste this chance to study.
I think that choosing social work as a job is a way which one can give back to society efficiently; also I like the idea of helping others to put their mind at rest. From his work that I have seen, it is a very tough and challenging job, some of the people he counsels are those who like to rebel or have been exposed to a very depressing situation are very uncontrollable and unpredictable, but he does his best in what he can, and that touches me.
He did not only leave an impact on me just because he is good at what he does he is also a good brother to me. There is a huge age gap between me and my brothers and my eldest brother is busy taking care of his own family, my second brother is just as busy but he does make time to bring me out once in awhile, he brings me to watch movies or play soccer and more. I am touched that he does try to spend time with me; I do get very lonely because I am the youngest and I have no one in my family around my age that I can play with, even in USA he keeps in contact with me by MSN and he sends things that he believe I would like I like having him as an elder brother because I like that I have someone to debate with on the current issues that happen around the world and what their views are like. He is more open minded compared to other adults that I have met, one example is when the Da Vinci Code Movie came to Singapore, with the uproar it was causing the Catholics and my curiosity, he thought that it would be good to bring me to watch the movie so as to understand more on what people believe around the world. Another example is cosplay, he supported this idea even though my parents disagreed because he though it would not only teach me the value of money but also the value of time management, because of his support I have the chance to put this dream into reality.
In conclusion, my brother would be the person that motivates me towards to road which I have chosen to walk, and the one who will support me all the way through, a person whom I can rely on in bad times as well as good times. His generosity towards me has made me learn how to appreciate him more.
Faith Tan (29)
Secondary 2/7 ¶ 9/08/2007 01:01:00 AM 0 Comments
Anyway, that weekend was still memorable with a Saturday Night party at Michal and Amy's place and a Sunday Night party at Sara Ward's place.
And the other interesting thing I did was to visit the St. Louis County Air Show in Chesterfield. I found it interesting to be visiting a fair here in the US. It's a completely different experience and culture from Singapore. When we have a fair in Singapore, what do we have? Pasar Malam... Here's what they have in the US:
Venue: The Historic Spirit of St. Louis Airport, ChesterfieldEarly in the morning on May 20, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh took off in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field near New York City. Flying northeast along the coast, he was sighted later in the day flying over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. From St. Johns, Newfoundland, he headed out over the Atlantic, using only a magnetic compass, his airspeed indicator, and luck to navigate toward Ireland. The flight had captured the imagination of the American public like few events in history. Citizens waited nervously by their radios, listening for news of the flight. When Lindbergh was seen crossing the Irish coast, the world cheered and eagerly anticipated his arrival in Paris. A frenzied crowd of more than 100,000 people gathered at Le Bourget Field to greet him. When he landed, less than 34 hours after his departure from New York, Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Paid 8 bucks just for admission!
Beautiful Candy Land!
You scream, I scream, We all scream for Ice Cream!
Pizza anyone?
Wheeeee ....
This was really intersting to watch... They were having a competition to see which dog could "fly" the furthest! Better not stand too near! It's a big splash!
My lunch! It's called Funnel Cake. I remember Liz (a social worker at MPC) was telling me that she always enjoyed having Funnel Cakes at such fairs. Decided to try one. Not too bad... it's basically some deep fried flour with coated with custard sugar.
My STL Fighter planes ...
Anyway, one reason why I was there (and paid 8bucks!) was also because the Blue Angels were there. I've heard of the Blue Angels on many occasions and I thought I wanted to see how they were. Anyway, it also seemed that most of the crowds were there to see the Blue Angels. Clearly the crowds loved the Blue Angels with their cheering and ughs and ahs...
The Blue Angels
The Blue Angels’ mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting efforts and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill ambassadors for the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps.
A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits choreographed refinements of skills possessed by all naval aviators. It includes the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-plane Diamond Formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two Solo Pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the renowned, six-jet Delta Formation.
The team is stationed at Forrest Sherman Field, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, during the show season. However, the squadron spends January through March training pilots and new team members at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California.
The Blue Angels are scheduled to fly 66 air shows at 35 air show sites in the United States during the 2007 season, as the team celebrates 20 years of flying the F/A-18 Hornet. Last season, more than 15 million spectators watched the Blue Angels perform.
They were really good. They put up a display for nearly 45 mins and I was just so amazed at their capabilities, speed and stunts. I remember there was this time during the show when we were all trying to spot where the Blue Angels were, when they suddenly zoomed out of nowhere, with their loud turbo engines just above our heads. The crowd just when wowowowow ...
I tried to catch a shot of the Blue Angels. Can you spot them?
Nope.
They were just too damn fast (or ... I was just too darn slow)
Another loser shot of the Blue Angels.
Finally. My best shot.
¶ 9/01/2007 11:04:00 PM 0 Comments
The 40th Annual Midwest School Social Work Council Conference
Cleveland, Ohio
Orchestrating Harmony
School, Home and Community
October 4, 5, 6, 2007
Nonetheless, I share in the grief of his parents, teachers and friends. Life is simply so fragile. A young innocent and bright life just gone at a spur of the moment. I've been flowing up on some blogs by HIHS students. Somehow, he has touched the lives of many...
There were students who posted pictures of him in their blogs and blogging about memories of him; for those who don't know him personally, they blogged about how the news was broken to them and their reactions (I thot one of them wrote so nicely of how the Principal broke the news to them by explaining that God always picks the most beautiful flower to plant in his garden, and Gabriel was that beautiful flower); while there were those who called on their friends to put a flower at the front of their msn nick as a mark of respect.
Gabriel has indeed impacted many in his own ways. His life was indeed well lived.
I hope that we can all live meaningful and fulfilling lives. ¶ 8/27/2007 09:20:00 PM 0 Comments
