Life Skills Group

Kids Are Lovely

I found myself love kids. Some kids are extremely adorable. One extremely adorable kid is my JieJie A's second daughter. She is so lovely that one of my friends name her as "the adorable girl".

Last Sunday night, when BaBa, JieJie C, JieJie C's 10 years old daughter and I went to visit JieJie A's home, we brought six Jin Sha crabs to JieJie A. When I just handed the crabs to JieJie A, the adorable girl saw me. She ran to me, hug my leg, and said sweetly:"Hello, Guo Cheng Ge Ge!"(Actually I like her to call me GeGe than uncle, because it shows that I am not that old.) She is just so lovely that everybody want to hug her.

Later, when we were enjoying crabs, I said to JieJie A in Mandarin that my friends called her "the adorable girl". JieJie A felt very happy and told me everybody said she is adorable. To my surprise, although the adorable girl didn't speak Mandarin often, she understood what I said in Mandarin. When she learned that she was named "the adorable girl", her face was with happy smile and pride. JieJie A made fun on her by saying"Guo Cheng GeGe was not talking about you, he was talking about mummy. Because mummy is adorable, you are also adorable".

Meanwhile in the dinner, JieJie A told us that her daughter met JieJie T's husband Simon one day. When she saw him, she immediately went closer, hug his leg, and said with her sweet voice"Hello, uncle Simon." The funny thing is at that time, Simon were using both hands carrying food. He didn't know what to do, but he was enjoying the moment.

Kids are really lovely. When I saw kids, especially those extremely lovely kids, it reminds me my childhood: taking care by parents, feeling happy, and no worrying all the time. If time can fly back, I want to be a kid again.

The feeling of sorrow and pain

This was one of my painting during my first semester in NUS. At that period, I painted four black and white paintings. And I gave one of them to Dr Roy.

It is kind of simple but strange way to waste time. What I did was using pen and ruler, drawing meshes with different geometries, and painting them in black and white. It was not difficult to do my painting style. Plus all the lines in my paintings are straight lines draw with ruler.

This kind of paintings represented my feeling of sorrow and pain in that first semester of my NUS journey. I forgot how I get over that feeling. However, I still remember the smile of Dr Roy. Although she has left NUS, I still recognize her as one of the most helpful people in my life.

That was a dark and down period of me. I was over stressed by all the modules in the first semester of NUS. I told my friend A that I really can't take it. One day, she sent me an e-mail saying NUS offer free counseling service to students. She also provided me the -mail of counseling. I sent an e-mail to them. Later they called me back. They arranged a meeting with me.

For everyone who was first went for counseling, signing an agreement with counseling center was the first step. I signed an agreement that I need help from counseling. The counselor that they assigned to me was Dr Roy. She was a

(To be continued...............)