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. =)
