Graduation of the Community Leadership Program

Today I have graduated once again.

For the past 5 months, I have been involved in the Inner East Social Inclusion initiative - Community Leadership Program for Social Inclusion. This five-month program has been providing me the opportunity to learn more about community development, particularly the ABCD concept, and the forum to network as well as belong to a group of like-minded leaders, but today we marked an end to it.

The atmosphere was certainly filled with mixed feelings. Everyone was upset to let go the group environment, yet excited of the indefinite possibilities lying upon us. I am now trained community leader to stir the pot to bring out the flavour, but am I ready?

Today, at the last session, we ended with a saying... Success is not the destination but the journey.

Having done all these training, I hope i truly understand its meaning.

我改觀了。

最近我心情好了很多，對於自己的生活多了一種滿足，對工作也有了份新的衝勁。雖然的工作依然沉重，範圍無改變，但我學會了用透視鏡看世界。眼見幾位好同學因爲 PR 未批的問題一直找不到工作而選擇離開。一些搬到了無人煙、與世隔絕的郊區上班，有些就再一次大遷移到從未踏足的新加坡做營養師。看到她們一個個向現實低頭，失去控制自己將來的能力，回想自己既有份穩定的工作，又不用愁兩餐，已經是上天給我的一個恩賜了。

其實，四年寒窗，辛辛苦苦地熬過 Placement 才能畢業，我們盼的只是一個為社會服務的機會.... 我只能說當日的我真的很幸運啊....

變遷

十三年前的今天我離開了香港，移居新加坡；同時，我也離開了童年，開始長大。在這些年裏，甜酸苦辣都有。還記得起初移民不習慣新生活而暴瘦，直到慢慢改變思想，喜歡了新加坡。而在六年半前，我因學業再次移居，來到墨爾本。老實說，離家的滋味到現在我還不習慣，不過澳洲生活我倒是喜歡了。在這變遷的環境裏，我放下了孩子氣，學習了適應與面對。

回頭想想，到今天，我一半的人生都像遊牧民族，到處居住。我沒有一定的文化，固定的思想，半人半洋。不知道我下一個目的地是哪裏，不知我下十三年會是怎樣呢....

Cultural project

I look Chinese, I speak like a Chinese, because I am a Chinese. - Mr Fred Chuah

When integration is like dripping a droplet of ink into water, it is 2-way - both introducing & accepting. Maybe it is the same for culture.

Dream Big for the Better. For myself as well as my community.