In remembrance of Uncle Choo

Uncle Choo will be missed for

his stories of the Three Kingdom period.

his insights on great Chinese politicians.

his gratitude towards the Prime Ministers and his MPs.

his generosity. I always get lemon barley and snacks from him.

Despite his dependency on wheelchair, he turned up to support our Christmas celebration.

- Tai On

CNY/ Valentine's Day Celebration

heys!

it's been some time since i last came here. and now is indeed the time of assignments and midterms and projects! -woes-

anyway, LB celebrated a late chinese new year and a on-the-dot valentine's day with the elderly on 14th February (: the event was also kindly sponsored by the Singapore Refinery Centre and their volunteers came down to spread the love and joy around as well.

the event was well-received i suppose, with a whopping of more than 90 elderly? heh cant rmb the exact number but the whole place was filled. we played some games to start it off, such as charades, the jigsaw puzzles, and using angpow paper to form auspiscious or romantic chinese characters like 福 or 爱. the elderly also got to prepare a mini gift bag for themselves with the colourful papers, soapbars and salonpas. haha. jian cong from CSC came armed with a harmonica and three beautiful songs to memerise the elderly. =p

but the best part was the buffet lunch (sponsored by SRC), and i guess it really blessed the elderly. and of course, we also had a cai shen ye to literally bless them with angpows.

so that day marked a joyous celebration for the elderly, and do hope they enjoyed it!

`eunice

gong xi fa cai! (:

hey guys, have a blessed chinese new year yeah? =)

`eunice

Christmas/ dong zhi celebration on 20 Dec 2008

"Oh... You are from NUS. Thank you for holding this party for us," some of the elderly expressed their appreciation of our efforts even before we started the x'mas celebration. To kick-start the day, we have a new combi of MC for the day. They are Eunice and Tai On.



The first item of the celebration is to make tang yuan.




Followed by scavenger hunt...





Christmas hat making...










Bingo...




And not forgetting to eat tang yuan.



That ends the celebration. This is also the last visit of 2008, and let's take a group photo to mark the end of 2008.




After you have enjoyed your holidays, dont forget to join us again for the next visit on 3 Jan 2009. :)

More photos are available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LB_subcomm/photos/album/1106146330/pic/list?mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&&count=20&dir=asc

Chia Leng

Canto Group visit to Auntie Fong on 25 Oct 2008

While many of the volunteers were doing painting at Uncle Yeo’s house, the rest of Canto group had not been exactly idling. We did cleaning at Auntie Fong’s place. Auntie Fong is better known as the High Level Canto Auntie.

Check out these polished tiles.

As some of the volunteers in Canto Group could not understand Auntie Fong, I would like to make use of this blog to tell you that Auntie Fong really appreciated our work. She actually said the floors looked white. You girls are fantastic!

Cheers!

Painting at Uncle Yeo's house on 25 Oct 2008

"Uncle Yeo!" called the volunteers as we were approahing his house, and were greeted by his friendly smile and warm welcome. After some chit-chatting, we got into some serious work... that is... to paint his house. Haha...



The house is divided into two halves. As can be seen on the right picture, we have painted one half, and the other half (left picture) will be painted on the next visit, on 8 Nov.

I understand that there were some interested volunteers who did not have the chance to involve in the painting today. To avoid disappointment, do contact your group leader or Jia Yan if you are interested.

Lastly, let's thanks everyone who have contributed to the success of today's painting, volunteers from Canto group, Terence and many more... And let's hope that a brand new coat of paint on the walls of Uncle Yeo's house will be ready at the end of next visit! :)

Chia Leng

Visit on 13 Sep 2008

Since our new volunteers have not post any entry, I shall have the honor of blogging on LB On The Blog. The visit on 13 Sep is the second regular visit of this sem. We gathered at our favorite void deck corner before separating into the respective dialect groups.

Canto Group had made plan to paint High Level Canto Auntie’s home, but she was not in again. Sin en if you are reading this, I am sorry I failed you.

Many of the Cantonese speaking elderly is not at home. Hopefully it’s because Mid Autumn Festival is round the corner and our elderly is spending time with their love ones.

Nevertheless, we found our refuge at Chong Por Por’s home. Her friend, the ever smiling Kuan Por Por was also there. We did some cleaning, ate some food, watched blurred telly and talked about a lot of things. The swelling in Chong Por Por’s legs have returned. She taught us to eat healthily. She talked about her mother. She still encouraged us to study hard. Perhaps this is moving towards the Next Level that some of us are striving for.

On a different note, LB is having the Post-MAF celebration on 27 Sep. Im sure it will be great fun!

Cheers!