My 1st bLogGing experieNce

hi aLL!

newbiE here.. Hope my enTry wuN boRe aLL of u.. i'LL just b shariNg some stuffs i encouNtered during the visiT on 18/10/08..

iT was tHe first time i visiTed mr. tan.. finaLLy got 2 witness tHe legendary 'black' track in his hm.. no worRies! it was goNe b4 we left his pLace.. it was a realli nice experience theRe as he had a Lot of stoRies to share.. :) i realli 'pei fu' the volunteers who were involved in the cleaNing.. there was tis drain in the kitchen and i needed to open its cover to rinse the floor.. it was so full of unidentified 'black' particles and i wasn'T intenDing 2 open it wiTh my bare haNds.. wHiLe i was Lookin 4 soMe papEr to opeN it witH.. maGaret was aLrdy down tHere opEning it w/o any hesitatioN.. i was in aWe for abt a second but yep.. i reaLLi haF 2 learN alot frOm her! everYone diD a SuperB job cLeaninG up Mr. Tan's hs.. i literally felt like rolling on the floor..

nxT stop.. ouR fav. mdm tan's place! we just sat on the floor n chat w her as usuaL.. when we visited her previously, she talked abt her eyesighT n heaRing n it's realli sad to hear her say that her eyes n ears r no goOd n taT she's of no use.. duNno how 2 talk her ouT of thiNkin like tat.. as the visitation report mentioned.. we were helping her go thru some freebies.. it was only then i realised wat a hazarD her eyes were.. she almost mistook the bottle of yellow dishwashing liquid to be coOking oiL! tHankfuLLy we poinTed it out 2 her b4 she aTtempted to use it.. thEre was a littLe leg-numbing experience as we weRe abt to leave her pLc.. she is really really really very nice.. she heLped 2 suppoRt me n was v coNcerned.. i was reaLLi touched but also a little embarrassed.. for making her woRry abT me.. THANK U MDM. TAN!

tHe highLight? other thaN e long treacherous jouRney on pin chuan's car, it wLd b going to east coast medicare centre to visit mr. hui.. mdm chua was realli upset initially, 2 c mr. hui's hands tied to e sides of the bed.. so we immediately helped to release him n brought him ard on e wheelchair.. mdm chua was realli happy 2 c n be w mr hui.. she was feeding him fruits n constantly talking n reminding him of things (i heard her mention the names of their children).. their interaction realli moved me.. it was e first time visiting elderlys who are a couple.. one can realli observe how loving they r.. making fact of the phrase 'bai tou dao lao'.. but it's really sad that circumstances haf forced them apart at old age..

that's all for my eventful saturday! i juz wanna add taT i've mEt reaLLi greaT ppLe thru T.H.E seniors.. the volunteers n elderly have definitely adDed alot of coLour to my finaL year in NUS! :)

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1st visit after the term break , 10th Oct

This was the saturday right after the term break. As a committee member, it was my turn to reach there early and check out who was at home and who was not. I kind of worried about how to do it as some of the elderlies could not speak mandarin and I was completely unable to speak in Hokkein. Haha..But it turned out that day , most of the cmmittee members reached there quite early. It was such a relief. We split up the number of people on the list into two groups. It took around half an hour for us to knocked on all the doors of all the elderlies on the list. As we walked around , some of the elderlies chatted with us and told us that the mid autumn celebration was fun especially the singing. What a pity. I did not make it to the mid autumn celebration. But I could feel how much the elderlies had enjoyed from their short conversation with us. =)

As not many people turned up for visit today, we decided to visit the elderlies as a whole group. Our first visit was to Gong Po's home. Haha. I am not sure how to spell the name. Pardon me if there is any spelling errors. Gong Po looked as good as always. She spoke us in Cantonees mixed with Hokkein. I was half followed and half lost. When she spoke in Cantonees , I could follow. When I could not understand , I knew that she had switched to Hokkein. Haha. Then I would have to ask people around me to translate. We requested to help her to clean the floors, but she refused to let us clean it. It could be due to the reaon we had too many people inside her house so she felt that the cleaning would be quite inefficient. Haha..I forgot to mention something. I was quite impressed by Gong Po because all her meals were cooked by herself. For me , cooking is quite something. Haha. It takes time and patience to cook a meal that is delicious.

The next visit is to Mr Ong's house. As more people turned up for the visit, we decided to split into two groups. 1 group continued the visit to Mr Ong and the rest went to another senior's house. I stayed at Mr Ong's house. It was my first time to visit Mr Ong. He spoke us in mandarin. He could not hear us very clearly so sometimes we had to raise our voices. He is very friendly. From the conversation, he told us his relative would come from China to visit him next month. He had never married so his relative would come to Singapore once in a while to take care of him. We helped him to do the clearning. Some of us cleaned windows and some of us mopped the floor. Haha. The house looked brighter and clearner after we finished the cleaning. Hopefully, it would bring him a good mood.The last thing we did before we left house was to help him to top up his phone. We experienced some problems but managed to solve it in the end.

Time passed quickly and the visit came to the end. It was a nice day as you brought smile to others and the happiness would also stay with you. Looking forward to next visit. =)