in thoughts...
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
went to Road Safety Park yesterday with the children from APSN (association for persons with special needs, i think). YL informed me about it, think Jn was in charge of it. YL was my chairperson from CIC, and Jn was our senior (chairperson for prev batch of CIC). glad they still keep in touch, otherwise i wouldn't have known about this.
we were walking from kembangan mrt to APSN, i was walking with YL, and she was just commenting that some people just don't change, and she said Jn's one of them. and she's right. he's still so involved in volunteer work that i really kowtow to him. all thru jc, army, and now in nus but still with RDA and organizing other stuff, like yesterday's rd safety park trip. he was the one getting all the volunteers.
YL's still somewhat involved - she's doing fundraising for a overseas volunteer programme. more of the background work for now, but will probably be doing frontline volunteer work (as in face to face with other people) when she goes on the trip.
me? stopped almost any kinda involvement. we reached rd safety park and we were just waiting for further instructions when Jn walked over to me and YL saying, "hey, ex-CIC leaders, two of you standing here and modelling ah? can go mingle with the kids mah.."
yeah, really lost touch liao. needed some warmup. but after that was okie lah. was in charge of bringing a girl, P, around the park and i hope she remembers her kerb drill (look right, look left, look right). it's just the thing about me and volunteer work - sometimes i wonder if i really contributed anything. you wonder how much you can do, and for how long.
on the bus back to APSN Jn asked if i was working this hols. told him nope, just giving tuition. he asked if interested to go help in RDA. hmm. always wanted to go try it out there, didn't get to do any contact with them during my term in CIC though. the horses are really nice, but think it's quite far away. but since my internship's blown, and i'm still figuring out how i can get a stint at one of the hospitals, it's an idea. oh well. see how things go for tomorrow - will be going for an observation session at AH, to see how the speech therapist work. ;)
we were walking from kembangan mrt to APSN, i was walking with YL, and she was just commenting that some people just don't change, and she said Jn's one of them. and she's right. he's still so involved in volunteer work that i really kowtow to him. all thru jc, army, and now in nus but still with RDA and organizing other stuff, like yesterday's rd safety park trip. he was the one getting all the volunteers.
YL's still somewhat involved - she's doing fundraising for a overseas volunteer programme. more of the background work for now, but will probably be doing frontline volunteer work (as in face to face with other people) when she goes on the trip.
me? stopped almost any kinda involvement. we reached rd safety park and we were just waiting for further instructions when Jn walked over to me and YL saying, "hey, ex-CIC leaders, two of you standing here and modelling ah? can go mingle with the kids mah.."
yeah, really lost touch liao. needed some warmup. but after that was okie lah. was in charge of bringing a girl, P, around the park and i hope she remembers her kerb drill (look right, look left, look right). it's just the thing about me and volunteer work - sometimes i wonder if i really contributed anything. you wonder how much you can do, and for how long.
on the bus back to APSN Jn asked if i was working this hols. told him nope, just giving tuition. he asked if interested to go help in RDA. hmm. always wanted to go try it out there, didn't get to do any contact with them during my term in CIC though. the horses are really nice, but think it's quite far away. but since my internship's blown, and i'm still figuring out how i can get a stint at one of the hospitals, it's an idea. oh well. see how things go for tomorrow - will be going for an observation session at AH, to see how the speech therapist work. ;)
posted by Sodium-squared at 5/18/2004 12:45:00 PM
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