GUESSING TIME!

HELLO ALL,

Sorry for the late post! this post shall be interesting!

So ... on 17th march, we visited the elderly as usual. since the elderly assigned to our group seem happy happy, and we have nothing much to do, we decided to .. TAKE PHOTOS!

GUESS WHO THEY ARE! FIRST TO GUESS ALL CORRECTLY SHALL WIN A LOLLIPOP FROM WYNNE! :)

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d)

POST YOUR ANSWERS ON FACEBOOK NOW!

*people who were in my group are not allowed to participate.

Regards,

Wynne

17 March Visit=)

Mdm Chow's biscuits

I am so sorry because I was supposed to log for the previous time but I totally forgot what happened for the last visit I went for. So i tried to made it up by volunteering to blog this time:p There were relatively few volunteers for visit. There were only 8 volunteers for this visit. My group consisted of Swee Fen, Chen zhang(I am sorry if I got the spelling wrong), Yi An and Yin Min.

We visited Mdm Tan first and made the momento for her. She was very unhappy and stressed because it seems that her elder son was hospitalised and was going to be discharged soon. But the elder son's wife is a Malaysian and was not in Singapore to take care of the elder son. The elder son bought a flat together with his brother, but the brother seems unwilling to let the elder brother stay in his house, so they suggested to let the elder son stay in Mdm Tan's house. But Mdm Tan was worried that she could not even see properly and could not even take care of herself, how can she take care of the son. Furthermore, the son seem to have kidney problem and have to undergo dialysis. She is very worried about the hospital bill as well. When we are making the momento for her, she said actually we no need to do this for her becasue she cant even see. She said it is hard for her to feel truly happy nowadays=( Feels really sad to hear her saying that. She said she is already living on her own so that she wouldnt be a burden to her family but now her elder son has to contract such an illness. So if we do visit her in future visit we should try to talk to her more, encourage her to face life more positively. Also she has been coughing for almost a month already. If we do visit her in the future, do make sure she takes her medication. Because she said before due to her vision problem, she will accidentally pour her medication away, causing her to be afraid to take the medicine because she is scared that she will waste the mediaction. (my English sucks, please pardon me=x)

Next my group split up. Yi an, swee fen and chen zhang visited Mr Chiu while Yin Min and I visited Mdm Chow Moi. Mdm Chow Moi told us her house is always very clean because there is a female volunteer who will clean her house almost daily. But she doesnt know where the volunteer was from. She say she is happy enough that people are willing to help her so she doesnt ask much. Always feel very happy when I see her. She is always so positive with life. She says she like to watch tv show with little kids/youngsters fighting. Haha. She also say when seh feels hungry at night she will just wake up to eat some biscuits. And we realised her house really have alot of biscuits. We also played with a torch-light thing in her house. We were rather fascinated at how the lighting will change everytime we pressed the button.

Last but not least, we visited Mr Lin! His house was not very clean but still better than the first time we visited him. There were rice grains all around his house. Yinmin realised he has the (do u call it special?) ability to spit rice out even though he ate kway teow for luch@.@ There was a stove on his ktchen floor and when Yi an asked him about it, he said it was bigger than what he preferred. So he didnt use it. We also threw some spoilt brinjal and biscuit away. He keeps alot of drinks in his fridge. So when we visit him in the future, we should check whether the drinks has expired already or not since he could not see clearly. I invented a way to mop his floor which is rather effective in removing the stains on his floor. (right yinmin?=p)

Yup that's all for the visit yesterday=)

Sheng Xian

Our lovely Saturday Affair :DD

Sorry everyone for my late post! Finally ended my mid terms today! :DD WEEEEE.

Last last Saturday my group visited Mr Tan and Mdm Ho’s house. We
did the usual cleaning for Mr Tan’s house and we realized that Mr Tan
has been facing the problem of being bitten by bed bites. He has
difficulties sleeping at night as that would be the time when the bed
bugs are out and active. He has highlighted this problem to the people
from touch and they have helped him purchased a bottle of chemical for
his bed bug problems. As such, we might want to check with him during
the next visit to see whether the problem is still persisting. Also, Mr
Tan has been coughing during our last visit. We may want to check
whether he is feeling better during our next visit.

After which, we visited Mdm Ho’s house. She wasn’t really feeling well during our
last visit and she was taking Panadol to relieve her pain. Thus, I think we should
check whether she is feeling better during our next visit. Nonetheless, Mdm Ho seem bubbly and cheery on that day. We did our usual cleaning as well during our stay at Mdm Ho’s house and we took pictures with her to conclude our trip! Here are the pictures as
promised:

I will get these pictures printed out
really soon as Mdm Ho wants the pictures. Yuppp. Seee everyone during
the next visit! <3

Carline

Back-dated posts.

'Finally' visited Mr Lim on an unofficial visit a couple of weeks ago..Been hearing from others that his house really needed much of our help..Guess the previous groups did pretty good jobs over the past months..So it wasn't that bad when I finally have a chance to visit him.. He is rather amicable but I haven't have a chance to talk to him cause been busy cleaning his house..He did mention about some health issues and require some outpatient follow-up check-ups...Was observing him while cleaning and found that his hands were trembling most of the time while eating (well that explains the food particles all over the place)...Well..I strongly encourage all to visit him whenever we can (be it official and unofficial)..just to help keep check on his overall well-being and housing environment.

Visited Mdm Chua on the most recent visitation..She kept commenting that she is really happy and fortunate that we guys are helping to clean her house, talk to her, and the affect that people from the centre has shown to her everyday..Well it warms my heart to know I can help such elderly in some little yet meaningful ways..=)..Decided to do a spot check on her fridge (which i admit that i seldom do it these days during visitation) and found that several food items had gone bad...and she kept her medication in her fridge..saying that 'the pills wont go bad easily'...Pretty surprised by her reasoning but I m more worried that she would forget to take her medication...So just keep check on her medication and food stuff during future visitations peeps!

Visited Mr Chiu as well...Haha...he is such a loveable guy la...(though sounds a bit wrong to hear from a guy)...Personally, I like to crack jokes with him and he is totally fine with it...He mentioned about going Hawaii with Ah Li and had his air tickets booked..And I admit I did fall for it..I mean What!!!I haven't been to Batam and he is going Hawaii!!..haha..kept insisiting to see his ticket (wanna catch him red-handed in his Batam ferry ticket)... But it turn out to be a 'boarding pass' / ticket to this coming sat volunteer appreciation lunch...Pretty cool!..He is really excited for it...I hope he is singing for the volunteers on that day though...haha...he was like singing the 'Wai po de peng hu wan' and we suggest that it suits the theme of the appreciation lunch..so if the rest of you are there for it..do 'sabo' haha i mean encourage him to sing for u all...

Yup..That's all from me..Sorry! No nice pictures...But hope this post is not to wordy for u all to read though....

Ken