Therapeutic Literature?

I've been very busy the previous week. I complained a lot of being tired (kesian orang yang asik kena dengar tu..hehe) but somehow, I enjoyed the busy-ness. hehe. I just love to keep myself busy lepas tu bila dah penat, complain. hehe. Saje tu nak attention. Menyampah pulak :p

What had kept me busy?

1. An assigment that is soon to due
2. A presentation for the weekend which has not been fully-prepared yet
3. Volunteering for StarKidz program at Telok Kurau Pri Sch
4. Tutoring
5. Classes to attend over the weekend (plus tutoring..macam nak pengsan!)
6. Taking care of baby Darwish
7. Window shopping
8. Late dinners with you-know-who
9. Finishing up reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (nowadays, it takes me weeks to complete a book :I )
10. Freelance caseworks that I have to bring over to this new week. hehe.

But the weekends were the worst.

Sat: attend class from 9pm - 3pm; tutoring form 4pm - 6pm; presentation discussion from 7pm to 9pm.

Sun: tutoring from 9am- 1030am; attend class from 12pm - 6:30pm; tutoring from 8pm to 10pm.

And luckily today I've no tutoring but still have to go for my counselling session in the evening. Kat Bukit Batok pulak tu. hehe. BUT I'm still enjoying it :p cuma penat lah...there I go whining again.

My counselling course is getting tougher. I am quite pressurized with the fact that most of my coursemates have had some background in counselling (at least they are social work-trained). Some are inexperience and I try to find comfort in that. At least ada yang senasib. hehe. But all of us are working very hard and determined to go through this whole thing.

What I am taking now is a post-graduate diploma in Counselling. If I'm eligible, I will be offered a place to continue my Masters studies for another year. But I'm not sure. Even if I'm eligible for it, I was thinking that it would be essential if I have a certain amount of experience in this field to compliment my Masters studies and enable me to apply the skills in my work.

Last weekend, I have to go through intensive learning on Theories in Counselling. And when it comes to theories, some of you out there might know how memenatkan otak it is. I felt my otak jamming. I can't absorb everything; it was just too much. Luckily, the theories were presented by groups (including mine), so the transition from one group to another with different people presenting somehow kept me awake. It wasn't static with only the same lecturer talking. Nasib baik. Or else, I'm afraid I might be bored to death. Literally. hehe.

But then again, group presentations have it setbacks too. Especially with people who are so unanimated that you are wondering whether they realized that there were a whole bunch of people yawning all the way through his/her reading/mumbling in front of him/her. Or with the over-animated ones that you hoped that it might as well have been a clown engaged to entertain in birthday parties. hehe. At least dapat tengak clown. Tak pernah nampak clown in real life. :P

Ok, I think I'm being over-exaggerating here. It wasn't that bad, actually. Most of them were very good. I really admire people who can talk confidently in public. Mine was quite disappointing because I think I sounded very nervous. There wasn't much eye-contact with the audience. Luckily my partner saved the day when she cracked some jokes which interestingly didn't come out corny and fake. It was so natural and I love it. Thanks, Ariel!

For you out there who wants to know what counselling & therapy is all about, I recommend you to watch a movie starring Matt Damon & Robin Williams. It was a terrific movie which I think I can watch over and over again. I even went to the extent of printing out the transcript so I can memorize the dialogues. hehe. It's titled "Good Will Hunting". It won the Academy Awards and it was Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's first attempt at movie script-writing. They started writing it when they were in Harvard. I didn't know they were from Harvard! Oh by the way, I kinda find Matt Damon cute..*drool*

~to cross the line might be the way across~