19 June 2008

After receiving the rather threatening email from our new centrehead, we couldn't possibly miss our first WSC session after the exams. (If i remembered correctly, I wrote the entry for the first WSC session after 1st sem exams.)

Knowing that we were 10mins late, Daisy, Celine, Seow Hong and I were practically running to the boys' home from the 157 bus stop which we alighted at. Chin Han, Rabin and Khalisah were already waiting there for us with the rest of the volunteers from other blocks. Apparently, Chin Han wasn't angry or unhappy, so that email was written in a way too misleading.

Anyway, basically the whole idea of the session was to get to know the boys more (again!). The volunteers and boys interacted for what seemed like forever. Even so, we enjoyed it. We sat in a circle with volunteers and boys seated in alternate seats. We posed questions to the boys and vice versa.

This time round, the volunteers felt a little (in fact VERY) guilty for not being able to do our part in asking questions as well as the boys did. "What is the most disgraceful thing you've ever done?"."What inspired you to further your studies?". Questions like these were raised by them and all we volunteers could think of were mundane stuff like "What's your favourite movie?", "Where do you usually hang out?", etc.

This session lasted 2hrs until 9.30pm. We left after the last person was "interrogated". We'll do a better job for the next session! Till then.










SIDE NOTE ONE: Seow Hong hasn't written any blog entries yet.
SIDE NOTE TWO: Chin Han told me that.

(F)ather (A)nd (M)other (I) (L)ove (Y)ou Day!

Once upon a time, in the western province of Singapore, there lived four wsc volunteers - Jiayin, Jianwen, Junhan and Huiwen. On a bright half-sunny-half-cloudy day, they went for the annual boys' home family day. Apparently this year the home was able to hold the function in the hall (instead of last yr's tentage) and make a tag for everyone!

The theme was: Making Singapore a Great Place for Families and Children.

Three of them arrived too early, so they started playing the fringe activities. They also helped themselves to finger food, like hotdog bread, popcorn and ice cream! (guess who was late?) Some of the boys also volunteered to help out at the event. They were dressed as clowns, giving out balloons to the kids and one of them was even on stilts! They also had their portraits drawn by some expert artists! First up! There was a magic show by this guy who had a super enthu stage face. Then modern dance (with shuffling and break dancing etc) by the boys. To get the crowd involved, we had to participate in this game where guys = $1 and girls = $0.50 (why the inequality!), and three families were called onto the stage and they had to find as many pple as the dollar amount given by the emcee. After which there were games like "stuffing the most grapes into your mouth", where the winner was the one who could fit the most number of grapes into their mouths and "taste me", where the boys had to guess 10 different sauces.

The boys were also given chances to show off their talent with band and song performances. Some of them formed groups called "4 gigabytes", who sang Apologize and Jenny; and the "Powerpuff Boys" who sang Donna. An external band "Cape of Good Hope" also belted out songs like I Hate Myself For Loving You. There was this inter-racial duo who sang the famous meteor garden song "Qing2 Fei1 De2 Yi4", and the malay boy ingeniously changed part of the chinese lyrics into malay ones!

The finale: most of the boys were pretty high then. They kept jumping to the beat of the music.

All in all, it was a fun-filled day! or at least, much better than expected. We did not become professional clappers or experts in sleeping with our eyes open. I was glad most of the boys' families came and we got to see them! Definitely wouldnt mind going for the next one! :)

PS: ECP + Picnic post can be found here. Click here. :) :)