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i woke up today (mon) fully intending to slack e day away.
within e first hr of waking up..i got like 30 smses??? gosh...i feel as if i have many creditors..felt extremely tempted to sms back: Out-of-Office reply - the party you have contacted is out of office on 03/06/2007. he/she will get back to you when possible.
but no lahz..i'm softhearted..LOL. so i replied everyone and effected the neccessary...and subconsciously while replying to S...i formulated my to-do list for today. argh. damn workaholic nature. anyway i tot that i wldn't be tired and expend all my energy ever...but really yest i was absolutely dead. in face...i was so dead tt when my head hit e pillow i drifted off to sleep str away and when i woke up...i cldn't even rem having lain down my bed. LOL. but oh well..i still had tt bit of energy left yest to do crazy things and to do special things..here a summary of my 2 days of pah
DAY 1:
i woke up, had breakfast then had even more breakfast coz ritch bought toast for me him ed and hm. we got to e home, started work. glad tt my volunteers were reacting to my hyperness and we were all really happy walking ard barefooted. LOL. painting wasn't too bad..smooth-going. later in e day...our activities for e residents was chaotic on e side of my xiao meis..but smooth for mine since i only did art and craft anyway...while they had to conduct games. and i was happy interacting with e residents...it felt like i was talking to myself most of e time since they remind me of e crazier and more fun-loving side of me. i taught a resident how to draw a bird (e simplest version) and surprisingly most of them wanted to learn art and craft from me. for someone who has always struggled to pass art...it's gd to feel like ur lack of skill is not seen as 9/10 empty but 1/10 full. LOL. so i taught them and guided them..and i promised to teach them how to draw a gal e next day. and indeed on sun..when they saw me they all came over to bug me..LOL. i thought that they wld forget...some stereotyping of me...and i was proven gravely wrong.
anyway i had great fun and my volunteers were great too. responsive to my instructions and hyper enuf. however!! guys can be so useless..LOL. there was a lizard in e rm, a gal screamed and although e guys offered to help..they cldn't/dared not pick e lizard up....so in e end, as grp leader...i did. first time in my life!!! i removed a lizard. gosh! =D. cldn't call my PD to come and remove it rite?? LOL. have to settle my probs myself! lalalala...strong gal! mentally strong too! yea! anyway...there were really interesting residents really...later then i talk abt them..=D
DAY 2:
this is e day when i made mistakes. LOL. but well...mistakes are part of learning. =). i'm really not sure if ritch gave my volunteers e wrong instructions or if i did..but prob me. coz i'm e one in e rm most of e time mahz. but i agree tt ritch is a super nice director who comes into e rooms very often. but they didn't tape quite abit of a masking tape correctly resulting in e blur line of paint left at e bottom. i have e feeling tt i gave e wrong instructions instead of ritch coz i was prob paranoid from e day before when e tiles dropped out coz we pasted on them...-_-. not sure if they were already dropped out or if we tugged e newspaper by stepping on it. anyway...yepz. but ritch 'tar' e blame so fast before i said anything. anyway...e grp on sun was alot milder...non-crazy ppl..which killed off like 60% of my energy lvl. gosh. and i found a horrid guy!!
tt horrid guy was supposed to scrap paint off but he was carving his initials on e wall lahz. which stunned me when i was walking pass. so i stoppped and e following transpired:
me (firm tone): what are u doing?
horrid guy: e guy told me to do it (guy prob refered to J)
me (disbelievingly): J told you to carve your name on the wall?
horrid guy (attitud-ing): sian mah...trying to make it more fun. he say remove the cement part if i can
me (touching his initials and e other strokes of carving): isn't this abit deep?
horrid guy: sian mah.
--ritch walks pass--
me (motions for ritch to come over)
ritch: yah?
me (points to wall)
horrid guy looks positively guilty
ritch: what are you doing?
[conversation repeats itself as above]
i finally walked back into e dorms area coz i forgot y i had to exit e area nor cld i rem what i wanted to get from outside e area. and i was still seething and i told his OC grp leader to get someone to replace him and i went out again and told him 'ok..since you are so bored, you can go back in' and he just looked at me with a dropped jaw. not bad..i think i can indeed be a teacher. =D. in fact...i think it's true tt weird, irritating guys like to talk to me coz at e end of e day...he came and asked me abt wat i'm studying, y i want to teach, whether i want to go to his sch and teach him. -_-. and i told him no coz i dun want students like him. LOL!!!!
anyway e interaction with residents was fun once again. we felt abit lost at e beginning coz they were all engrossed in their own worlds..but still all of them and all of us had fun in e end playing london bridge is falling down..and e most amazing thing was tt me and my xiao meis started singing it and a resident came over and grabbed my hands and did e bridge thing with raised clasped hands...and e other residents started running beneath it...super amazing. LOL...and they refused to stop running and soon more and more residents were running and we had to sing/do the bridge thing for like more than 5 mins?!! LOL. and i invented a cool new game which they loved. it's e throwing newspaper game. they love throwing e newspaper balls at each other. LOL...toss! totally pointless but endless hrs of fun. reminds me of myself. okie...now for specifics:
me and residents!! YEA!!
1. as continuation of just now...i played e garang guni game. very simple game..a resident shouts e garang guni lines (garang guni...siew gu poi zhuar gu sa ko....' then i will pass him some newspapers and he will give me fake money..then we will be happy and clap...LOL. oh well..it's a life skill and an occupation. can sustain himself. maybe we can practise more on sun. sad tt i can't go on sat. =(. in fact i forgot on sunday and promised most of them to teach them new games and drawing on sat..=( =(.
2. e fortune-telling chi ko pei. LOL!!
a very interesting character. i'm like super lucky coz he only has a few intepretations:
(A) you will die either by a gun shot or ur throat will be slitted. he will do interesting mimes of ur death. LOL!!
(B) you will get married!!
(C) a bad life (usually coupled with e A intepretation...and to solve A and C...u need to do B.)
(D) a good life (very rare interpretation. he tends to favour C...but intepretation depends on his mood. happy=more ppl get D)
anyway i was really lucky coz i got D for 2 days!!! in a row. LOL. however, many ppl have 'died'...LOL. and he's really super cute. on day 1, he kept pushing me and WC tgt coz tt volunteer has a bad life and needs to get married (chua bor)...and i was supposedly e bride. -_-. luckily there was a more prominent couple and i instigated e residents to cheer for them to get married. LOL. and they started chanting 'zheng ay hao' and i tried to convince they to fake a marriage given e festivities...more happening than CNY at chinatown manz. but e volunteers didn't want to. LOL
i got my retribution for tt on DAY 2 coz i was told to get married 3 times. by diff resids to e same guy ie WC. -_-. he must have a really bad life to need e good life me to chong chong xi. LOL. anyway it was super funny coz e fortune telling uncle kept trying to make us hold hands. -_-. while e other aunties believed tt me hanging a hp ard my neck means tt i have a bf. totally weird logic but they insisted and i said tt my bf is puppy (e cutest, prettiest dog in e world who lives at e home) but they insisted tt it must be WC coz suay suay he was standing nearby once again. LOL. and they started singing wedding march for us. like...nice. LOL. it made me glad tt SR decided not to come for e interaction after e briefing or i will die from increased scandalization during eth. but anyway i got a cool reading on day 2. i will get married to WC, get rich (my fav intepretation for a reason) by getting alot of money, and give birth to a baby gal tt goes 'gwa gwa gwa' which of coz is my least fav interpretation. coz i wldn't want a baby tt sounds exactly like a frog. -_-. my xiao meis were super amused by my readings
anyway i think tt resid must like me coz i have a gd life everyday even after i scolded him for trying to scrap my xiaomeis' legs with his plastic hands thing (e party ones tt clap).i had to grab his hands to stop him somemore while i scold him. but still..i have a gd life. LOL. and i supposedly bring luck to my husband.
touching moment:
felt like tearing when this resid who's always telling me stuff abt her sister which i dun always u/s told this volunteer abt her wishing tt her sis will visit her at e home/bring her home...e volunteer took e resident's hand in hers and asked God to protect her and help her. *tears*. really a very magical moment for me...coz in that simple prayer...their differences were overcome and they had a common agenda. and we cld feel the resident's loneliness and sadness and the common hope that all of us share for her. it's really super sad to live in a home w/o those you are familiar with and not having e freedom to choose to see those whom u love. maybe xq can stay there with her..she called xq 'romeo'. LOL...i dunno y. absolutely puzzling.
really glad tt i got to noe so many residents so well..like i noe who has a toothache, who has a long tongue, who cannot swallow food properly, who has e imaginary dog, who has e softtoy dog, who thinks tt she owns e dog at e home, who can read fortunes, who hates music, who loves dancing but wld fall down coz she's too enthuiastic, who loves fishes, who likes to say hi to me like at least 5time every half an hr. i'll miss e home at e end of e project really. and i feel like volunteering with e ID/ feel like retiring with a bang. pretend i'm ID so tt i can do watever i want/shout as loud as i want...they may be restricted in so many things..but their perception of their own world is borderless...