It's blogging time again.!!!

i dunno y pc's face like tt. but it's quite entertaining.. hahaha..

Cleaning Mdm Lim Chuay's fan... can tell she's worried tt we might spoil her fan..

After the number of tries by jerome n peeps, all done well n nice.

her toilet flush is spoilt.. water keep dripping. shall help her by informing the touch centre :D

Upon reaching mdm ho's place, we c her lying on bed. draggin herself out of bed with her aching legs.. feel pain upon cing her walking with difficulties. anyway,,, Mdm Ho is v excited to c quite a number of new faces.. She's v chatty that dae, keep disturbing the japanese TF volunteer.... :D

everyone looks tired, bet it's the cause of schoollllll.. but keep the spirit on ya. cya all on the next visit.!!! (:

a karma positive afternoon~

hi beloved fans, here i am again. donning my usual selfless and chivalrous character i volunteered myself to do this blogpost just so i can relieve yingcong the dilemma of deciding who to pick for this visitation's blog post.

i strongly believe kindness pays so i urge you kids to volunteer and blog the next visit! =)

back to the my main topic: the karma positive afternoon

karma=+1

mr tan's place!

as usual, we scrubbed the stained floor!

before:

after:

super ups and zai right?

so when we're done mr tan went to inspect if everything is up to his standard.

btw, there were a lot of moth balls in mr tan's flat placed by some other volunteers according to him. and according to sheng xian and gang, mothballs are bad for health so they managed to persuade mr tan to throw them away after quite some effort.

**sheng xian's house was out of water so she tried to take a bath at mr tan's place. haha.

karma=+2

so the next pitstop was mr chiu's house. hmmm, rather clean la so we merely swept and mopped his place. oh ya! i single handedly cleaned his window grilles and windows okay! although still got the dust stain cause i didn't use newspaper, fairly clean i'd say. haha.

also, mr chiu complained to us that his akira radio wasnt working. no problem mr chiu! we have the quick witted joanne who managed to fixed it in no time so you can sing along with your favorite tunes!

proof that singing makes one happy!:

karma=+3

then we went to the super ultimate uber clean apartment that belongs to mdm tan. i think her eyesight not really good so maybe we can get her a pair of specs or something like that. yeah. she only cleaned her place yesterday so we just sat down and and talk cock with her.

actually its was more than just talk cock cause she was explaining to the girls that it is more important to find someone with brains than someone loaded but without brains. from her point of view, a person with brains can slowly work his way up and earn lots of money in the future. so do take note of this girls, HAHA.

a group photo of the discussion:

conclusion!:

i am 3 karma points closer to nirvana!

yi an signing off!

i am positive karma-ed, are you?

My 2nd or 3rd time blogging? :o

hello fellow volunteers of T.H.E.Seniors!ahh im finally back here to blog again haha!!!

first of all,shoutout to forthewynne ng: i feel so bad tt i couldnt make it to the cny celebration and forgot to bid you farewell!!!aye.请你原谅我！shall email your or smth soon =) enjoy the xlbs there and take care!

okay lets talk about the visit on 5th march!haha wanjun told me to join their group cuz jerome and shitien will be leaving early,so i was in the canto group as usual! went to mdm lim,mdm cheong and mdm chua's place. it was hilarious at mdm lim's house when we wanted to help her clean her fan but couldnt 'dismantle' it and mdm lim seemed rather worried that we will spoil her fan!pictures w jerome! :)

nxt up was mdm cheong! really miss her loads! first thing when i went to her house she will shout "梁美女!" at the door haha! after forcing her to call me that i guess shes used to it alrdy hehe. and we helped her to mop the floor, wipe the chairs, clean the windows as usual. this time round she treated us to her cny goodies! and packet drinks! learned that she just came a few months back from her intestine operation, and glad to know that she's feeling fine! although she said that she can't really carry heavy stuffs though. and made me think of kampor. shall we go visit her again sometime?

last visit was at mdm chua's place! cleaned her house and realized that her light was flickering. and gotta rush off since it was time.

yup so that basically summarizes my previous visit. honestly sometimes i'll ask myself why am i still going back to t.h.e. seniors? (even though i admit that i cant/dont go for every single session) but i'm sure for each and every one of us, there's a reason why we're back every fortnight, and why we're here to stay :)

My first visit (5/3/11) ^^

Hello, I am Nicole! Am exchange student and also my first visit to Mdm Tang!! Just one word to describe 'T.H.E seniors' - Love !! This is my first experience in joining service in Singapore. I am excited and glad for the visiting to help the elderly doing chores, chatting and concern them. It is a fantastic job and full of love !! Hehe ^^ As i know from Mdm Tang, she is a cheerful, strong and healthy person. Although already aged 70++, but she is still able to do exercise, up and down, and do the things she wants to. It has really impressed me and feel touched. Thanks T.H.E seniors, giving me this pleasure chance to join you guys. You guys are so awesome! All the best!! See you guys around! =)

CNY Celebration 2011

Here are some photos and a video of CNY Celebration. I will upload the rest to Facebook. Pls help to tag. Enjoy!


















The Hosts

















Prizes for the elderly


































Lovely Smiles






















Bingo!

















"Queen of Dealer" Mdm Tan and "Queen of Gambler" Mdm Tan

Huat ar!!

















The joy of sharing

















Mdm Tang's contagious smile

















Happy Chinese New Year!!!



Ying Cong

CNY celebrations (12th Feb)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE! (and happy valentine's day! haha see we love THE SENIORS so much that on valentine's day we show our <3 by telling the whole world what a great time the volunteers, and definitely the elderly, had last sat)

We started off with around 15 rather bored looking elderly. But as the celebrations progressed, they were definitely getting more enthusiastic, and by the time we had the lo-hei, it was in fact their high-ness which infected the volunteers instead! first we had the elderly's all-time favourite BINGO!! everyone got the hang of it real quickly, and soon even the volunteers wanted to play the game themselves. lots of prizes were given out. yay!

Next off was a new game called "the price is right" modeled after the popular TV show. we packaged common ntuc items such as milo, chicken essence, braised sharkfin into hampers and asked each elderly to guess the actual price. whoever was the closest would win the hamper. this game clearly showed that the elderly were quite good at mental calculation, with each determined to bring home the big hamper.

Finally we came to another new game, one that the elderly seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed: Hi-Low. to cut things to the chase, the elderly had to guess whether the next card was to be a bigger or smaller number, quite easy, and it kept them in suspense. you could see the exhilaration on their faces when they got the right guess, and a mild disappointment when they didn't. but at the end of the day everyone was a winner, each of them lugging home loads of presents. oh yes must mention that we also had a very nice company sponsoring rice, biscuits, chicken essence for the elderly, so it was definitely a "windfall" for all the participants, not forgetting the many cans of abalone/clam/chicken essence/mushrooms distributed too:)

And how could one possibly end a CNY celebration without lo-hei?

There you have it - another memorable event for the elderly to look back and laugh to themselves :)

- Pris

Spring Cleaning and House Deco

The Canto group visited two elderly on the last visit where we helped to spring clean and decorate their houses.

First up was Mdm Chua's house. Initially, we were unsure of how to make decorations using angbao. Fortunately, there were examples to follow and we soon came up with two 福balls, one angbao fish series and the classic springy chain to replace the dusty old decorations. It was nice to see that Mdm Chua was delighted.

Next up was Mdm Cheong's house. After completing the tasks she assigned, we stick to our experience of making fishballs. The next time you feel a wee bit unhappy when Mdm Cheong reminds you yet again to keep the chairs away from the bedframe, look up to the exquisite arrays of fishes and balls and you'll feel much better. All thanks to the Canto group!





































































Whose mouth is bigger?









Jerome fixing the 福ball



























Ying Cong