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See Not A Piece Of Me, View Me As A Whole

30 July 2006, SUNDAY

The ID awareness project @ IMM

OK...I'm part of this community service cca, in NTU..WSC (Welfare Service Club), RSPID (Regular Service Project for Intellectually Disabled)...
WE had our 1st ID awareness project @ IMM that sunday...it was seriously damn interesting...WE had alot of performances lined up to attract the public and to allow our ID trainees to perform for the public(build up their self-confidence)..

1st performance was this jam band, King Kong and Jane, formed by our very own NTU, CS students...They are good...and they offered their services to us for free...They helped to attract attention from the public...but pple weren't sure what was our objective, and they thought we were asking for $$ (which is the truth) and rejected our friendly and nice volunteers who approached them...but i dun blame them...however, i felt kinda dejected when 8 out of 10 pple kept rejecting me b4 i can finish saying wut i wanna say...

I mean, who isn't guilty of rejecting pple who asks for charity...i noe i'm...cos i will siam those kids in uniforms with their donation cans, standing along the alighting berth in bus interchanges and outside mrt entrances...sometimes, i'm just too lazy to reach out for my purse and put some coins inside...sometimes, i'm just in a hurry and too busy to take out my purse to donate some coins...SO I always try to walk my way out of their sight...

Sometimes, i see those old aunties who try to sell their 3 pckts of tissue paper to you in the hawker centres and i begin to doubt about their "plight"...i wonder if they are really that pitiful and are forced to sell 3 pckts of tissue paper for $1 everyday or are they part of a syndicate that wants to sponge $$ off us by misleading us into believing tt these old aunties are REALLY really pitiful and need our support in the form of $..

Our theme was "See not a piece of me, view me as a whole" and the main reason behind this slogan was that we wanted the public to donate $10 for every single piece of our gigantic jigsaw (think got 100 over pieces), while they get a free ID awareness project t-shirt and get the opportunity to leave a msg behind the jigsaw tt they donated... The completed jigsaw will be glued together and put on display @ Toa Payoh Hub for 1 week..think is during the mid aug..



ID PROJECT JIGSAW COMPLETE



But when the IDs came to perform and with the emcee trying her best to "educate n plead" with the public...pple bcame more open and were more willing to donate $10 to buy a piece of a 100-piece-jigsaw for our event..After every performance, the v enthu volunteers tried to get the aunties and uncles to donate $10...and i was very enthu when i saw my face on one of the pieces of the jigsaw and tried to ask 1 auntie to help me buy "face" and she was really nice to listen to what i had to say and agreed to donate to the-got-my-pic-jigsaw-piece...hahaha...(seems like i can't load the pic with my face!)
Click here to see my pic-jigsaw-piece



Trainees: Chen Sze, Fu Yan, Joanne, Gaya


Slowly,as more people saw our IDs prancing abt and beating drums on the stage...the jigsaw puzzled became more and more visible and i cldn't wait to see the entire jigsaw puzzle come out...There was one part when a drama team acted and told a simple and touching story about caring for those not-so-privileged pple...and many pple from the public came up without any persuasion to help us...was surprised and touched...well, singaporeans aren't that stingy la...got soft side one...must learn how to press the correct button lah..and viola!

In the end, we managed to get 80% of the jigsaw out...the response was seriously quite good...when u take into account of the lousy location of our stage, it was some ulu corner of IMM level 3...and we didn't get to have the stage the entire day for some reason.....It was a super euphoria moment, when we got to see the completed puzzle, with the aid of the Senior volunteers, we managed to do our ID cheers out there @ IMM and it was funny cos dun think we get to do "3 cheers for ID" in public that often...esp when u have to tahan weird stares from the pple ard u...
den i chao keng...went to giordano to shop straight after the event ended..mayb tt's why i'm not in any of the group pics..sniff

Had a fun time with aveline during the entire day, her dad was really nice..cos he offered to send the both of us to IMM in the morning..and i was late, as usual, but turned out that her dad was later than me...hoho...talked alot to aveline tt sunday...and found her to be one of those nice pple to talk to, very amiable and nice..she quite pretty oso..nice complexion and big big eyes and carries herself well..

ltr on, we went to giordano and shopped for clothes...i bought a sleeveless top and a pair of short pants...it was the last piece available for my size...but the buttons were coming out...so i asked one of the staff to sew the buttons properly for me...We waited for 15mins and rested our feet..cos we stood most of the time during the ID project...when the lady came out, i was shocked by her handicraft...she tied the knots in front of the button...revealing all the knots and ugly looking threads for all to see...aiyo...dunno why lidat...

aveline was saying...this is the kind of service u get, when they are being paid $5/hour..hahaha...i cldn't care less...cos i was damn tired...i will have to redo the stitching myself or ask my maid to help me...haha...

I'm currently addicted to animes...i quite amazed @ the number of animes that i'm currently watching...(bleach, naruto [when will the stupid fillers end], samurai 7, samurai champloo) my mum & dad will scold me for watching anime once i get back from work...sit in front of the computer, eyes glued to the screen, and they will hear some occassional gasps when the scenes get too exciting...and quackie just said,"can you go learn more stuff other than watch anime during ur free time?" aye aye sir...when i'm in the mood!

I just finished watching PRIDE...the j-drama that stars the ever-yandao-forever-attractive, wan ren mi, takuya kimura...it is a damn nice j-drama...i love this quote from the main character, Halu Satonaka..."Love to women is like water to flowers... and his perpetual usage of "maybe" and "must be"...kakkoi!! Don't you love it when Halu kissed Aki's eyelid?


Takuya Kimura


Halu grins


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