The most commonly heard and spoken phrases of stress:
1) "Damn stress today man!"
2) "Wah piang, stress leh deadline so near"
3) "Bo lui, sibei stress..."
Stress has become an aggravation of our daily lives that resulted from lack of time and self management. STRESS revolves regardless you are poor, rich, old, young, pretty, handsome, ugly, freeman or inmates and no matter where you are.
As usual, I was at KBC for this afternoon and the module mentioned above. We were all given a coloured ice-cream stick to write 1 thing that bothers us most. The common words that written by the students were; Bordem, Freedom, Money and Loved Onces. Don't these words looked familiar? The inmates are no different from anyone of us besides they lived behind bars and we are not. The only difference is that they do not hve an array of outlets. What would you do when you feel bored? Go movies, la kopi, clubbing, shopping, etc. What would you do if you want freedom? You just open your house door and out you go. Money: with our educational level and clean background most of us could earn a decent amount of salary. When people say that they bo lui (no money) or not earning enough is because they spent like either there's no tomorrow or high maintance life-style OR they meow (stingy). These boys are looking forward to get a reasonably paid job outside yet afraid that the employers would despise them. Last but not least, establishing and maintaining kinship / friendship / relationship is the toughest, at least to me. They had lost those quality time with their family and after their relased most of them had to adapt to environmental and social changes. To some, it's already a pressure and a challenge for them to cope.
1) "Damn stress today man!"
2) "Wah piang, stress leh deadline so near"
3) "Bo lui, sibei stress..."
Stress has become an aggravation of our daily lives that resulted from lack of time and self management. STRESS revolves regardless you are poor, rich, old, young, pretty, handsome, ugly, freeman or inmates and no matter where you are.
As usual, I was at KBC for this afternoon and the module mentioned above. We were all given a coloured ice-cream stick to write 1 thing that bothers us most. The common words that written by the students were; Bordem, Freedom, Money and Loved Onces. Don't these words looked familiar? The inmates are no different from anyone of us besides they lived behind bars and we are not. The only difference is that they do not hve an array of outlets. What would you do when you feel bored? Go movies, la kopi, clubbing, shopping, etc. What would you do if you want freedom? You just open your house door and out you go. Money: with our educational level and clean background most of us could earn a decent amount of salary. When people say that they bo lui (no money) or not earning enough is because they spent like either there's no tomorrow or high maintance life-style OR they meow (stingy). These boys are looking forward to get a reasonably paid job outside yet afraid that the employers would despise them. Last but not least, establishing and maintaining kinship / friendship / relationship is the toughest, at least to me. They had lost those quality time with their family and after their relased most of them had to adapt to environmental and social changes. To some, it's already a pressure and a challenge for them to cope.
All of us had fun at CRP today, the people were very responsive and spontenanous. Could see that both the volunteers and students had formed a friendship. The first time i met them, they were pretty clammed up and happily living in their own world. I observed there were several significant changes in some of the boys. Most of our lessons require group/personal sharing or roleplay, by encouragment and peer influence they DIE DIE had to stand in front to deliver what's needed. Majority of them faced difficulty in speaking the international language (English), they were either from the Hokkien, Teochew, Malayu or Hauyu clan. What impressed me was the effort that they put in, just to articulate that one sentence in English.
Today's CRP programme ended 45 mins earlier, we all sat in our groups and created free flow converstaions. Then 1 of our volunteer reqested for some 'entertainment'. Guess what, we had 3 songs sang by 2 boys and a 1 guitarist. The first song was written by 1 of the ex-boys, it's called Forgive. This song described the deep feelings of those incarcerated and they would like to be forgiven and accepted by the society after serving their sentence. We were all mesmerised by the lyrics and the charming voice of Hendra. It was a WOW day for us and listening to them sing and play the guitar warmed our heats.
Next week is the last module, at the debrief we had all agreed to make of a card for each boys. It's really to encourage them and hopfully not to go into bad habbits again.
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