I remember taking Ms Tan's car along with a whole bunch of girls to Joanne's. It was a noisy ride (but not as noisy as when Leonard etc took her car haha).

Anyway, there were loads of people making the cornflakes. I remember reaching and not knowing what to help with first (cos there were just too many people around doing different things). But somehow, we kinda got organized (a little) as we sort of realized that we have to find something to do. Thank goodness for people who knew how to make the cornflakes (Yvonne and Jia Yi).

Since I knew nothing about cooking (refer to my previous post regarding the pre-trip cooking session), I decided to help out with things which didn't require a flair in cooking i.e. melting the chocolate and "frying" the cornflakes in it. Actually, it was Vanessa and I - melting chocolate and frying cornflakes. It was tiring!! Imagine stirring forever just waiting for the chocolate to melt and experiencing the heat and perspiring. And then there was the cornflakes part, being super careful, for fear of wasting them cornflakes/chocolate (even though we did waste some).

After what seemed like forever (batches of chocolates to melt), we decided to find something else to do and pass the job to someone else lol. Since we weren't exactly good at making the cornflake thing itself, we decided to go to the "packing section". Cos the packing section is like in the dining area, out of the kitchen, it was less cramped. It was very noisy cos we were talking and joking and laughing while Ms Tan was just sitting down marking her papers, occassionally shaking her head at the group of us and our conversation.

I can't remember how many cornflakes we made but it was quite a lot, and ultimately, we had to thank Joanne's mum for lending us the kitchen to make the cornflakes at such a late notice. We took forever to write the card lol cos we didn't know how to start, how formal it should be, what to write, just like how we took forever to come up with the team name.

Even though it was really tiring cos we spent an entire afternoon till late evening making the cornflakes, it was quite satisfying to realized the first cornflakes making session was quite successful. I think the result is often what pushes us on. Like how we knew we had to make loads of cornflakes right from the start - and it seemed pretty impossible since the day before we were just brainstorming where to make, how to make and all. Team effort was what made the impossible task possible I guess. It's like how we know we have to get to the finishing line, whatever it takes (time, effort and manpower). Setting a goal is what spurs us to carry out the task no matter how tiring it may be - just like how tiring it was for Vanessa and I to keep "frying" the cornflakes (arms will ache okay!), but we knew we had to keep doing to finish what we started cos the cornflakes making people will need to make the cornflakes and the packing people will have to pack what the cornflakes making people made (get it?). I guess that's the major reflection point from this session I learnt - to set a goal and work towards it, however tough the process may be. As cliche as it may sound - "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going". And that, is how we'll reach the finishing line.

(Oops, didn't expect this reflection to be that long but ya, hope it doesn't bore anyone.)

- Kah Hui:D