[8 Mar] Childhood Celebrations~!

"As people age, they become more like children." - By some-wise-guy-whose-name-doesn't-matter.

Maybe that was what inspired this celebration.

2.00 – 2.10: Interaction with Ls

2.10 – 2.20: Canto group performance

2.20 – 2.40: Game 1 – Bools (Throwing Of Hoops Into Stacked Cans)

2.40 – 2.50: Hokkien & Singlish group performance (The Moon Represents My Heart)

2.50 – 3.10: Game 2 – Songs Catching (Oldies)

3.10 – 3.40: Balloon Sculpturing (Poodles, X-bred dogs, Flowers)

3.40 – 3.50: Teochew group performance (Buns of Sin En & Jin Feng?!)

3.50 – 4.00: Prize giving / Lucky Draw (Lots Of Birds' Nest)

At the end of the celebrating, we moved the tables back into place & stacked up the chairs. And I witnessed a disturbing incident. Luke wanted to help an elderly man with something but the elderly man starkly rejected his help. I went forward to ask Luke whether he knew why was he rejected. He speculated that maybe some old people want to DIY to show that they are still useful. That is very true. On the other hand, we have elderly who are ever so thankful of any help rendered.

LB would like to express our gratitude to Weiching, Wilson, Jiayan, Jasmine, Geraldine & a certain elderly: Xiao Yun.

PS: If you were to ask me what buns do I like, I would say the bigger the better Da Bao (pork) & Char Siew Bao. =)



Suanzy
Pub IC

HOHOHO!

Merry Christmas!

I must say I enjoyed myself thoroughly for the X'mas gathering.
Special thanks to Weijian for giving me the chance to be Santa Claus.
Sorry if I hadn't been good enough - I am not professional ok. I will buck up no worries. :-p

This must be the umpteenth time I have seen the elderly play Bingo - they never seem to grow tired of the game! I recall that some time back I was kinda turned off by the whole idea of playing Bingo during such get-togethers for the elderly. In all honesty, I was on the verge of abolishing the game from the surface of the earth at that time (had I been granted Harry Potter's powers, I might have done that!).

However, upon reflection, I slowly came to realize that perhaps playing the same monotonous Bingo might not actually be that monotonous for the elderly. Through the lens of an undergraduate, all I could see was the monotony of the game. I failed to recognize that my life, or rather, our lives as undergraduates have been much more happening, to the extent that the little thrills that Bingo brings about are belittled. We terrorize KTV lounges, we colonize shopping malls, parks, restaurants and cinemas. Bingo, to us, is nothing more than childplay - the most boring way to spend an afternoon. Yet for the elderly, their lives might comprise of the routine watching of re-runs of Mediacorp, TCS or even SBC drama serials, going downstairs for a walk, a chat, a coffee and cleaning up the house (which might take an entire day, especially if they stay alone, or with just another person) - all relatively mundane tasks. The thrill of Bingo, might have a larger impact on them, as compared to us.

I guess this is the one good thing about volunteering - we learn to empathize with others, and we learn to realize how fortunate we, in fact, are. I hope I will never get sick of watching the elderly playing Bingo again. :-)

Sorry for the sombreness of the entry suddenly. Oops. It's my first time blogging here anyway. Let's give a big round of applause to the LB committee for a job well done, as well as the two emcees - the resident emcee for LB Xiaoyun and the apprentice emcee Geraldine! Let's look forward to 2008! :-)

Merry Christmas!

HOHOHO!

Cheerz
Fred :-)

LBFD 07~! (25 Aug)

Long Boring F Day? Nope~! Its LB Familiarisation Day~! (aka Let's Be Friends Day to me)

[1st contact made] "1:30pm at Commonwealth MRT station", the hand-made ticket to LBFD reads. We should have written the time in CAPS (somehow). Being nice people, Sin En, Swe Swe & I waited half an hour for the latecomers LB freshies. We had the perfect plan. The tall freshies could spot me, freshies with an average height could notice Sin En & the height-challenged freshies could see Swe Swe (name cancelled to protect the subject).

[Dispatching of Volunteers] We had so many volunteers & I am not exaggerating. The uncle in the MRT passenger service centre even publicly announced with conviction, "You people are blocking the passage of commuters! Please move away! People complained already!" That was the cue for our 1st wave of volunteers to set off.

[Set foot on objective] There were panda cakes, hot home-made barley & uncooked macaroni(?!). We played Bingo with the L-derly, weaved macaronis through strings for them (yes i saw it) & gave canned food & dried rations to them~! (Courtesy of the best Project C.A.N. committee ever) Personally, I found the weaving of macaronis through strings a brilliant activity for the L-derly. Maybe we can challenge them to weave strings through needles during Mid Autumn Festival celebration.. Hmm..

[Presentation of awards] "How to use this bottle? =)"

"Each time you come for an LB visit or special event, we will give you some pebbles in appreciation of your efforts. You can place them in this bottle. After a year with LB, you will have a bottle of colourful pebbles!!"

Sweeet! Be an LB volunteer & you become a Pokemon trainer too. Collect them all!

[Playing board games @ Settler's] I learnt what to name my pet sheep which is getting fatter by the day..

"Ba4 Baa3". d=_=b"



Suanzy Tan Suan Hong
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