WML reunion with old folks!

It saturday!! :)

I went out at 12pm plus to meet my 2 darlings!! Wendy and Liling!! haha we're to go to old folks home to help out with the rest, like kelly, jo etc. When we went there, we were given an overview by the volunteer leaders,Sing Ping and Christina, they showed us around the home. It's situated at Tanah Merah, it's quite ulu tho haha. However, the Home is very clean, tidy and fully facilitated :) Normally on sat, many volunteers will come and play games, talk and just to spend time with them. On weekdays, the old folks will just be with the nurses and it can be quite mundane for them. Those more mobile elderlys were already at the ground floor, gathering to have a game of mahjong, karaoke session and other games while the not-so-mobile elderlys will be in their rooms resting.

Around 4pm, the Karaoke session started and the volunteer leader was like, "can you sing?" I was like, "YAH YAH! WENDY can sing very well!" Wendy was like, "Myrna u better sing with me!" Okies, so end up Wendy, Liling and I sang together, we sang "tong hua" as there aren't much choices to choose. I was like -_-" Helps, i can't sing at all and was obviously off-tuned but the 3 of us were like holding our own WML concert and try to lighten the atmosphere. Our mentality was --> We 豁出去 already LOL. it's very duilian now that i think back!! roars!! We were like, waving our hands in the air, "Come on everybody, sing with me..." Lol. Thankfully, the rest of the volunteers are very supportive so i think it's worth it! haha and the climax was Wendy who sang a hokkien song. It's very very nice! Everyone of us was very surprised!!

I get to see how the other volunteers interact with the elderlys, they are really a bunch of amazing people :) They're the permanent volunteers who has been with the Home for years. They faithfully devote themselves to the Home for the whole weekend, just by taking care, spending time and interacting with the elderlys. And on monday to friday, they have to go back to their respectively workplaces! This is what i really called sacrifical love :) Love, not only for our own friends, family members, but for all people.

Sing Ping told us that many people choose not to come to old folks home to help out as they find it very "depressing" to see the elderlys like that. But what i really think is, precisely, the atmosphere is depressing, that's why the more we should be the light that shines and bring joy to the elderlys. Many of us are so busy with our own stuffs, including me myself =/ and this community work has really let me see that everyone of us can really help out in one way or another to the less fortunate. We are so blessed. Really blessed with our family and friends, material goods and in our education,social acceptance and recognition etc..We gotta let this blessing flow through us to the rest of the people out there. Maybe as students, we don't have much money to give, but we have the time, joy, youth to contribute. Never say we have nothing to contribute :)

Because we really have.

I feel for the elderlys. My heart aches for them. I feel very xin1 suan1 when i see them. However, when i saw the long-term volunteers there, i just feel so comforted. This bunch of people, sharing their lives with the other lives.

Amazing :)

Really glad to have this chance to see, to observe, to feel, to be thankful that we can bless others in ways, be it big or small ways, we all all can do so. To Love is to give, yet in the end we receive more than we give. The joy and satisfaction that we receive in return can never be measured by words.

:)