Mid Autumn Celebration (MAC)

Hey everyone, thanks for turning up for today's MAC! I hope everyone had an enjoyable day with the elderly today.

See you all again 2 weeks later :)

MUST FEEL GLAD THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD DEED AFTER EACH SESSION! THAT'S THE DRIVE TO ATTENDING THE NEXT VISIT! =)

Regular Visit - 11th September 2010

Volunteers who turned up for yesterday's session certainly have a meaningful day!

We have some volunteers engaging in hands-on activity with Kuan Por Por.

We also have another group of volunteers who helped to clean up Uncle Liu's house, transforming it into a place fit for entrance without having to not remove your shoes and sitting on newspaper.

GOOD JOB, BEFRIENDERS!

MUST FEEL GLAD THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD DEED AFTER EACH SESSION! THAT'S THE DRIVE TO ATTENDING THE NEXT VISIT! =)

Regular Visit - 28th August 2010

Something new was tried out on our regular visit today!

In addition to chatting with the L-DERLY and doing household chores for them, we also played games with them. Not only does this add colours to our usual mundane visits, it also served as a warm welcome to freshies who attended our session today, their first visit to the L-DERLY's homes.

However, as many L-DERLY were going on an outing, not all L-DERLY under us were able to enjoy the game with us. Nevertheless, it was a different experience for all of us, BEFRIENDERS.

MUST FEEL GLAD THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD DEED AFTER EACH SESSION! THAT'S THE DRIVE TO ATTENDING THE NEXT VISIT! =)

Familiarization Day

Familiarization Day, which we have been preparing for the past one month, has fianally come to end! Thank you everyone for all the hard work and effort put in, both existing members and freshies' volunteers!

Especially to HUIJIE, our Pragramme IC, for organizing the activities and games for today's Familizarization Day! A BIG THANK YOU for preparing the materials needed for memory game, Bingo, Lucky Draw . . . We all know you spent a lot of time and effort in this :) Even though, we might not have the chance to utilize everything that was prepared today, I'm sure the volunteers and elderly had an enjoyable day!

Even though is didn't turn out to be as successful as we thought it would be, with unexpected issues and problems, it is still a meaningful event!

Light refreshments

CLASSIC BINGO!

Winners for CLASSIC BINGO

Memory Game

Lucky Draw

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Goodie Bags

MUST FEEL GLAD THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD DEED AFTER EACH SESSION! THAT'S THE DRIVE TO ATTENDING THE NEXT VISIT! =)

Outreach Programme

A big THANK YOU to all for helping out during the CSC Outreach Programme and making it a successful one! TAION, WEILING, ERIC, GHIMHONG, JIEYING, GUANWEI, GUANZHI & HUIJIE. And also to those who visited our booth during this period of time (17-19 August). And also, not forgetting those who help, encourage and support us in one way or another. THANKS!!

Hopefully through this, we're able to recruit more volunteers and expand our manpower :)

See you guy on Familiarization Day !!

MUST FEEL GLAD THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD DEED AFTER EACH SESSION! THAT'S THE DRIVE TO ATTENDING THE NEXT VISIT! =)

Familiarization Day

The FIRST special event for LB this new semester would be our FAMILIARIZATION DAY!

This year's Familiarization Day would be held on 21st August, on a Saturday from 1.30pm to 4pm. Venue will be at Blk 3 Jalan Bukit Merah, as usual. Exciting games and programmes are put in place for the L-DERLYS, as well as for the FRESHIES, for them to enjoy themselves on this meaningful day. We will be playing our CLASSIC BINGO! together with other hands-on activities to make the day a fun-filled one.

Do find time to visit the website link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsIiYXMEYOg&feature=related) so that you can be involved in the Folding of Box Origami activity.

Programme outline and details are as follows:

Take this opportunity to interact with the L-DERLYS as well as with our fellow BEFRIENDERS!

We welcome all to take part in this special event!

COME FOR FAMILIARIZATION DAY :)

MUST FEEL GLAD THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD DEED AFTER EACH SESSION! THAT'S THE DRIVE TO ATTENDING THE NEXT VISIT! =)

LB Chinese New Year Celebration 2010

Hey all,
well this is an extremely late blog entry (sorry been busy, forgetful, and probably procrastinating...)

this is probably my first proper blog entry since accepting the post of pub in LB
(lol sorry wei ling, been slacking like crazy)

Hope you guys, and girls, have been enjoying visiting at LB so far.

For Chinese New Year (CNY), LB celebrated it at the void deck as usual. However, this time we used the area with the metal grills, which is considered the KTV room.

This is the link for the photos taken on the day (if they are not good, dont complain to me = =". I supposedly specialise in taking unglam photos, or so im told)
http://picasaweb.google.com/rvp.pub05

The space was relatively smaller then the usual placed used, but we made do with what we had, and proceeded.

To make the prizes a bit more interesting (hopefully), hampers were made (items taken from everywhere and bought, but wrapped by tai on and wei ling).

Initially, even thou it was time to start the event, few elderly were around. I was a bit puzzled and thought something was wrong, but I was reminded by the person from the centre that the elderly were taking their ang bao money from the temple, and that it would take them time to get it and come back.

So we waited patiently for a while, and true enough, the elderly started streaming back soon. Gradually the place filled up. We had no time to waste.

First, we busied ourselves with preparing the food and drink. Basically we served hot milo and pandan cake, which arent exactly new year goodies, but the elderly were quite happy eating and drinking them. As such, we were rushing around trying to top up their food and drinks. It was messy, but at the same time touching to see the elderly all sitting together and talking happily. The place was very roudy for once, something that I think is rare for the void deck at Blk 3 Jalan Bukit Merah.

At the same time, our MC's (the ppl talking in front) busied themselves with talking to the crowd and getting them involved in the activities.

We did a list of interesting activities this time.

To begin, we had simple charades, with the LB volunteers doing simple actions and let the elderly guess what it is. I still remember one specific one, where the volunteer went down on all fours and mimicked the action of a lion roaring to represent a tiger! His enthusiasm caught most of the elderly off guard.

Next, we had the traditional Bingo that the elderly love. We knew it would get them excited, and it did. Everyone was eager to get a card and were straining to hear the numbers being called out, hoping that they would get the luck card that won the prizes.

Following that, we had a simple pass the balloon game, similar to musical chairs. We played music while the elderly passed the balloon around. The place was a bit too big for one balloon thou, but they had fun and were unwilling to let go of the balloon, no thanks to the fact that the person who had the balloon at the end of the music would win a prize.

After that, we did the lucky draw after the balloon game. Some lucky elderly won prizes after their number cards were called.

It was then back to more exciting activities! The elderly were asked to blow ping pong balls from one cup to another. The cups were filled to the brim with water, so all that was needed would be a slight blow, but the catch is that if they failed, water would be blown out instead and it would be harder to move the ping pong ball from one to another. Water was flowing around the tables, but the elderly were enjoying it a lot. All one needed to do was look at the smiles on their faces, and one realised that it was fun.

The last activity was a simple one, where the elderly were asked to do simple chinese caligraphy, writing auspicious words such as 'fu' and 'chun' on pieces of red paper, something that is usually done during CNY to bring in good luck.

The elderly all left for home after the activities ended, but none of them left empty handed. We distributed goodie bags to everyone at the end of the event, as well as a pair of oranges.

It was a simple event to celebrate, one that has happened many times before and will happen many times in the future. However, what counts most is that we made them happy before, we made them happy this time, and we will make them happy in the future as well.

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!
(although a bit belated, but oh well, i got scolded for not putting it up already)

yours auspiciously,
the lazy pub person