YAY A BLOGGING ASSIGNMENT. I SO TOTALLY DIDN'T EXPECT THIS. :D
*takes a deep breath*
hope i don't bore you with this long post.
i'm o level cert holder, matthew han. (matt/matty)
they call me matty from st patty. i infested planet earth on the 31st of july, 1991 and i share that same birthday with harry potter.
16 turning 17 this year, i hail from st patrick's school, a lasallian instituion some of you may know it from the slacker school opposite chij kc.
i came from three secondary schools before that, jumping schools has a changed streams from normal technical to express by the time i came to st pats in secondary two. :)
since then, adapting to changes was part and parcel of life.
president of photography club, and vice president of my very own peer support board. i LOVE taking photos,
especially during camps. (so bear with my photos. xD) it is during times like these in school where i would allow both my passions to drive me to advocate my services to my ex-school so strongly. as vice president of the peer support board, i heavily instill servant leadership into my juniors. that they are more of GUIDES leaders than LEADING leaders.
a strong believer in the lasallian spirit- to help the last, the lost, and the least, i have participated/facilitated in many lasallian camps around singapore for youth leaders in other lasallian schools like sji, st pats, and even sji international. our mission, is to include rather than to exclude. just like how the founder of lasallian schools, st john baptist de lasalle, also the patron saint of teachers, was.
the statue of the founder, with my friends and i trying to pose their stances.
through it all, i have also learnt that there is such thing as the poor and marginalised in singapore by volunteering my free time along with my friends to help poverty become a thing of the past.
okay enough of lasalle, and more about me!
as you already know, i LOVEEEEE taking photos!
(don't find me weird, its just ME.)
my two dearest things in the world,
coke lime and rubik's cubes. :D
i've been playing the rubik's cube since i was a kid when my mum bought it from some pasar malam. learnt how to solve it only recently, and still learning faster ways of solving it. XD
i have an older sister who is currently studying in australia,
her eyes simply refuse to show on this image, but that's precisely why i uploaded this photo. :D
we skype every sunday to keep telling/reminding/convincing ourselves we're the best handidjaja kids our parents could have.
(p.s. yes, my surname in indonesian is handidjaja. if you were asking. my dad's indonesian.)
(p.s.s. and for people who think she's hot, i'll tell you a secret, its just the make-up. xD)
i used to help out in st anthony's primary school,
especially for those with special needs as they are left behind in school for various purposes like camps where they are not allowed to go just because of their conditions.
i'm not a sports person but,
i do enjoy music. a lot.
i play the piano, guitar, drums, bass, ukelele and the... SOUND RECORDER.
lol. ANYONE INTERESTED IN STARTING A BAND? (i play badly! LOL.)
never been to music lessons, nor have i been graded in anyway.
to me i believe that music is something that should be opened for appreciation to all. not just the rich who can enjoy such privillages.
self-taught, self-learnt, self-expressed.
okay, now for the hard part.
why did i join BZSE?
hm... whenever i go out with my friends during the holidays after we got our posting results, they would ask me,
"EH MATTHEW, WHAT'S YOUR COURSE ON AH. BUSINESS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ON WHAT ONE."
i would just answer,
"aiya, its just another high class name for those nkf people lah. I FUTURE GOLDEN TAP OWNER LEH."
then when the holidays slowly inched to its end, it slowly began to hit me. why did i choose business and social enterprise in the first place? why am i so calm about going to ngee ann poly everyday when it takes me almost two hours to travel from home? (yes i live in pasir ris. bless me.) why didn't i desperately appeal for the psychology courses i want?
those questions kept ringing in my mind, louder and louder, with each passing day.
i love helping people. its sort of a calling. business and social enterprise was my third choice. my first and second, psychology from both ngee ann and temesak respectively. but my grades didn't qualify, and i ended up with you people! for me, i firmly believe that helping to bring joy to others brings about joy in yourself too. and this joy of helping from me was bred only when i exprienced by people not only poor of material needs, but also the rejected and the lonely.
so why do i want to make my best out of these three years in ngee ann poly?
its about the september trip to yunan that a handful lucky of us would go to.
its about witnessing people in need to help us see.
its about being so inspired to do god's work.
its about helping people that seems so real.
its about real poverty. its about its about real people. its about real human lives.
surely something this real cannot be felt through imagination or thoughts, right?
it must be exprienced.
and such expriences are abundant here in this school in forms of opporunities.
okay i think i have gone far enough. a little carried away from what i think. :D
just couldn't sleep and wait for school tomorrow, with the knowledge that i have to wake up early to come to school on time.
OH AND ONE MORE THING, i'm highly nocturnal too. which makes me very very very energetic at night, and hyperactive during the day. just bear with my overzealous attitude for these few days, i'll try to change this bad habit of mine! >.<
(this is life management skills afterall!)
to life management skills,
CHEERS. :D
