First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE FOR CHIPPING IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!
Secondly, THANK YOU ADELE AND HONG YU! for all the hard word, dedications and the meetings at the Land of Ideas.
I was honestly shocked when i saw the dark corridors and the railings at the side. Hong Yu told me about it but the shock only came when i saw it right before my eyes. Sort of opened my horizons on another aspect of Singapore.
On a lighter note, Hong Yu can carry very heavy stuff! (pun intended!)
I sort of realised how important it was to learn and use my dialect and malay. There will always be this fear that we are unable to answer their questions.
TO ALL: The folks really appreciate the goodies and it was heartening to know that our help together can bring a smile to their faces. Thank you all so much!
Seeing their faces and handling the food to them sort of enlightened me. There are people who need our help. We might falter when we are faced with challenges while trying to help them, but if we perservered. It is really all worth it.
CHHEERIOS!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
yijie's reflection for the home visit and yell2sell
The house visit was definitely an unforgettable experience for me. At first I was still quite excited about the home visits as it would allow us to mingle with the people there and get to know them better. However, when we reached the block, I was shocked. I did not know that such HDB flats actually existed with those dark and narrow corridors with railings on the side. It was just the same as it was on television.
Nonetheless, we started the challenge from the highest floor. For the very first household, we heard funny noise coming from the house before a man came to open the door. However, the woman that we were looking for was not in the house. So it was kind of scary and we came up with a “script” before moving on to other households. The rest was quite successful. All we need was more patience in knocking and waiting for them to open their doors. Most people were fine with anything that we were going to give them while the others just wanted more companionship.
And thanks to the MCS girls who helped us in approaching the Malay households.
Next, the fund raising project that we had in school was definitely a success. A big thank you to Adele, Hongyu and Sye Yuet in putting in so much time and effort in making this project a success.
All the fun raising went quite smoothly from Tuesday to Thursday. My most memorable part was on Friday, during the breaktime. I remembered there were still 3 hampers left and at first we didn’t thought we could complete all 3 hampers. Then, for some reasons, all our friends started coming by and the prices for the hampers started going down and wow, at the very last minute before the bell rang, we finished all the hampers. I really felt a sense of satisfaction and I am glad we did our part for the block 12 residents.
It was quite sad for me to miss out the buying of necessities for the households and delivering it them personally to the households that we actually visited at the very first. I think it would have been a totally different feeling and experience going back to block 12 for the second time.
I really enjoyed the whole cip. Thanks to Adele, Hongyu and Sye Yuet(:
Nonetheless, we started the challenge from the highest floor. For the very first household, we heard funny noise coming from the house before a man came to open the door. However, the woman that we were looking for was not in the house. So it was kind of scary and we came up with a “script” before moving on to other households. The rest was quite successful. All we need was more patience in knocking and waiting for them to open their doors. Most people were fine with anything that we were going to give them while the others just wanted more companionship.
And thanks to the MCS girls who helped us in approaching the Malay households.
Next, the fund raising project that we had in school was definitely a success. A big thank you to Adele, Hongyu and Sye Yuet in putting in so much time and effort in making this project a success.
All the fun raising went quite smoothly from Tuesday to Thursday. My most memorable part was on Friday, during the breaktime. I remembered there were still 3 hampers left and at first we didn’t thought we could complete all 3 hampers. Then, for some reasons, all our friends started coming by and the prices for the hampers started going down and wow, at the very last minute before the bell rang, we finished all the hampers. I really felt a sense of satisfaction and I am glad we did our part for the block 12 residents.
It was quite sad for me to miss out the buying of necessities for the households and delivering it them personally to the households that we actually visited at the very first. I think it would have been a totally different feeling and experience going back to block 12 for the second time.
I really enjoyed the whole cip. Thanks to Adele, Hongyu and Sye Yuet(:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
OCIP CIP Feel
Firstly, want to thank the 3 super girls namely adele, hong yu and sye yuet who have made this project possible and successful for all of us. I think they have been through a lot of hardwork to get everything laid out for all of us. So, thank you so much to adele, hong yu and sye yuet.
My thoughts... I feel that this ocip cip is a very different and wonderful experience for me. Personally, I have not done this type of cip before going house to house to conduct house visits before buying the necessities for the households. I feel that we were brought closer to the households when we exchanged conversations during the house visits. This has made me want to give my best to raise funds for them in order to buy the necessities asked by them.
The fundraising was a short one but all of us who have helped out have definitely put in their 100% throughout the 4 days. It was difficult to ask people for donations under LT1 because whenever people see "us" sitting under LT1, they knew that they have to dig their wallets for $$ if they were to walk pass. So a few make a detour when they saw us. Nevertheless, we did not give up. We went up to them with the slashboards and the money box and asked for their generous donations. I guessed many have no choice but to gave in to us eventually. I think that was the most fun part about fundraising and if we did not work together to spot potential donors, I think we would not be able to raise the funds within such a short period of time. so weel done guys!
The buying of items was long that day as we have to choose the many varity of brands of the same stuff from the shelf. we couldn't make up our mind what is the best for the households and even considered whether is is appropriate to place those items in the hamper. Although the process was very like "Arghhhh...!!!" But it was fun after all arguing with jia xiang and adele over the items we should puerchase. Remembered we walked into the office of NTUC twice before we got the deal. The 1st walk out was a bit "malu" cos we couldn't make up our mind what and how we wanted the goods to be collected or delivered. But before we walked the 2nd time, we ensured that all of us come to a consensus before walking in and talked to the person in-charge. Eventually, we managed to get NTUC to help us take out those items requested while we make another trip bakc to collect the items. Feel so WoW being able to step into the office dunno whether we'll get another of such chance... hahax!
My thoughts... I feel that this ocip cip is a very different and wonderful experience for me. Personally, I have not done this type of cip before going house to house to conduct house visits before buying the necessities for the households. I feel that we were brought closer to the households when we exchanged conversations during the house visits. This has made me want to give my best to raise funds for them in order to buy the necessities asked by them.
The fundraising was a short one but all of us who have helped out have definitely put in their 100% throughout the 4 days. It was difficult to ask people for donations under LT1 because whenever people see "us" sitting under LT1, they knew that they have to dig their wallets for $$ if they were to walk pass. So a few make a detour when they saw us. Nevertheless, we did not give up. We went up to them with the slashboards and the money box and asked for their generous donations. I guessed many have no choice but to gave in to us eventually. I think that was the most fun part about fundraising and if we did not work together to spot potential donors, I think we would not be able to raise the funds within such a short period of time. so weel done guys!
The buying of items was long that day as we have to choose the many varity of brands of the same stuff from the shelf. we couldn't make up our mind what is the best for the households and even considered whether is is appropriate to place those items in the hamper. Although the process was very like "Arghhhh...!!!" But it was fun after all arguing with jia xiang and adele over the items we should puerchase. Remembered we walked into the office of NTUC twice before we got the deal. The 1st walk out was a bit "malu" cos we couldn't make up our mind what and how we wanted the goods to be collected or delivered. But before we walked the 2nd time, we ensured that all of us come to a consensus before walking in and talked to the person in-charge. Eventually, we managed to get NTUC to help us take out those items requested while we make another trip bakc to collect the items. Feel so WoW being able to step into the office dunno whether we'll get another of such chance... hahax!
It's a pity that I been through the eentire process of the cip except for the last part where we are suppossed to deliver the hampers to the households. "sob sob" So sad that I have a ceremony to attend to that day and couldn'y join you guys for the giving our of hampers... It's really a pity thinking back. How I wished I could split myself and go for both events... So will have to hear from you guys what are the interesting things that took place during the giving out of the hampers...
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Signing off,
Jacquelyn
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