maybe this shall be an emo post. yup, but before that would like to blog how I've benefitted from the SNF forum. haha, i've forgotten what it stood for but it's a forum to address about social entrepreneurship. was quite unsure and disinterested in this forum initially cos i dun even noe what's social entrepreneur. and today's forum gave me quite a clear definition of it--- starting up a business that benefits the marginalised and being self sustainable at the same time.

And it's quite difficult to sustain a business that has the marginalized lot as the workforce cos discrimination in today's society is still an inevitable flaw. it was quite boring initially but it got really engaging at the final segment when ppl on the floor get to throw questions at the panelists (which has Dr Vivian as one of them). and there was this lady, who's also a social entrepreneur who narrated her own experience and how hard it was for her to seek fundings for her business startup. cos initially, ppl were talking about how meaningful social entrepreneurship is, and how 'glamorous' to be able to help those marginalised. basically, it just felt that this is a noble and new notion that we should try to support in whatever ways we can and it felt like a preaching session. but this lady stood up and pointed out that the singapore culture isn't really receptive to this idea cos banks are skeptical about how sustainable this can be and thus are less willing to fund them. and i really feel for her, cos she managed to capture the essence of the problems faced by many entrepreneurs and this is so true which wasn't initially raised or dealt with or perhaps was conveniently ignored cos it wasn't an easy problem either. and from what i gathered from the panelists, there wasn't a concrete solution to this problem and perhaps this is something we should solve first be4 we can encourage social entrepreneurship? haha, well i dun have solutions myself either cos i'm really not into this line. But just really wanted to laud this lady who had the courage to pin point a ground problem which really set every1 thinking, if not it would have been another 'preaching' session.

oh well, then we we met the other nehru ppl for dinner at subway then settlers cafe at clarke quay. found the 2nd game really fun only, the last game was fun too only if we had more time to play. and i was a little sad today, cos i felt that i love nehru less than i used to love 'it'. bla, as time goes by, i began to realise the ppl whom i can really connect with and i find it quite sad when some seem to be a little left out when we were together as a grp. and it's harder to get 'high' when we're in a grp with diff frequencies. perhaps i'm 1 who prefers to be in a grp whereby everybody is comfortable with each other. yeah but then again, who doesn't?

anyway, some photos


our noses were itchy!


and the 10 of us doing 1-10 signs.