The National Day-Themed Visit

First, this post goes out to Shawn (hahaha), who erm... encouraged a prompt update. :P But yea, it's definitely time for an update...

Well, sadly, I attended project on Saturday without testing my camera's rechargeable batteries first, only to find, when I got to MV, that they'd gone flat while I was in Malaysia. =.= Grr... the little tabloid photographer in me was practically screaming to get out after a three-month hiatus, only to be thwarted by flat camera batteries... alas, the frustration!

Anyway, luckily, other people were busy snapping away, so I reckon there are pictures somewhere... just... not here right now... *sniff*. Sorry... looks like this will be a rather wordy post, then.

Hmm... Since it was the National Day weekend, project on Saturday had none other than a National Day theme. For the first half, the Yellow and Green groups made national flag collages, while the Red and Blue groups sponge-painted National Day-inspired drawings on mahjong paper.

Despite a few hiccups (which were pointed out during the debrief later), these activities went fairly smoothly (though it seemed that the flag collage-making somehow siphoned off most of the volunteers, leaving only a handful of volunteers to help with the sponge-painting), the end results were fairly good, and in any case, the residents had an avenue for creative expression.

After washing their hands under the watchful eyes of volunteers, the residents had a tea break, during which they enjoyed cream puffs and bananas. Yum!

This was followed by a round of games in the hall. We played musical chairs with the residents to the tune of National Day songs, and many benevolent volunteers gave up their seats to the residents, inadvertently leaving fewer volunteers in the game to prompt the residents... erm... best to save such gestures, commendable though they may be, for use on public transportation? ;)

Besides that, we played 'Freeze' (where we walked around pretending to be various animals, and stopped moving when the music stopped) and we also stood in a circle with the residents to do the Kallang Wave. As Huiqi explained during the debrief, 'Freeze' was a useful game to teach residents to listen to the 'stop' command, which can come in handy in daily life, such as to prevent them from doing things that are dangerous or detrimental.

After the fun and patriotism-inspiring project that day came the customary debrief, followed by a dinner/short outing for volunteers. A few erm... interesting facts gathered during the debrief and dinner:

• Wei Chung really likes those fuzzy biscuits (you know? the kind with furry chicken floss all over them?), 'cause he smuggled out a whole pack in his bag.
• Yong Cheng secretly fantasises about eating cigars. o.O
• Ye Hui thought I was from China. =.=
• Hui Ting doesn't eat vegetable stalks.
• Yong Cheng is apparently naturally good at Tekken. (He says he had never played or heard of Tekken before last Saturday, but my conspiracy theory is that he had played it before, but was pretending that he hadn't... In any case, he's violent!)
• Wei Chung noticed my newest 'bathroom slippers', and happily pointed them out to everyone (thanks ar). (They're not bathroom slippers, okay? Sure, I wear them to the bathroom, but I also wear them everywhere else! *sniff*) In any case, Bai Wei said that my slippers are good for hitting people... hmm... *has funny ideas*

Hahaha...

~lm