Cats who teach me to fly…

I went for training yesterday from 9am to 1pm for a volunteer session today. We, volunteers, were trained what to do today. e.g. What kind of information we should get from the elderly. The purpose of this volunteer was to improve the environment for the elderly in a local area. We asked questions such as whether the floor is slippery for them, whether there are obstructions along the corridors which may block their way, whether they have fallen before etc…

I felt that our government really cares about the people. I was at the “not so” elderly place at 9.30am today. I partnered with another volunteer. I was in charge of taking down questions while my partner, Guo Hao, was in charge of making “everyone” feel comfortable. I mean, I am not good at conversing with people, therefore, my partner helped a lot. From the minute when we were out from the “elderly” home, I kept asking questions. First the flooring, next the lift, next the pathway, the bus-stop, the seats and so on… I was required to take photos too. If the floor is slippery, a picture has to be taken. I did miss out a few pictures cos I was engrossed with writing down the  questions. :p

Our destination was from the senior’s home to NTUC, which is three bus-stops away. We took bus there and returned by foot. The “elderly” was cooperative. She told me the problems that she encountered and I simply wrote down everything she said. Even the impossibilities. Well, who knows. It took us an hour to complete. Once I was at the elderly center, I had to load up the pictures and name them carefully. The elderly center was comfortable with several expensive massage chairs. I told myself that I would have to use them it after I uploading the pictures. I did not do so as I had forgotten about it.

I felt great after the session and went home happily. I received a call from the center in the afternoon asking me to help them again tomorrow. However, I have work to do. The volunteers range from as young as 16-years-old to 65-years-old I think. We worked together and I just like that feeling. 

Mel and I will have another volunteer session this Sunday, i.e. to patrol the Macritchie forest for obstacles and damaged facilities. 🙂 Sounds very interesting to me and I am looking forward to it.

Mel and I went to watch the The Lion King Musical at Marina Bay Sands on Saturday. Gosh! The exterior design of the concert hall at MBS looks like a HDB flat. Zero class!!! The exterior was completely plain. A lot of our HDB flats actually look nicer. Really don’t know what is wrong with MBS…

The musical was nice after all. I like the part when the animals were out on stage at the beginning. The animals were created creatively. I especially like the giraffe.

We had wine tasting later in that evening. I haven’t been drinking wine for the past two to three months. I was thirsty then. Well, I did not gulp down a bottle of wine of course. The amount I drank was as per normal. We had five types of wine – two white, one sparkling, one red and a late harvest. They just tasted good except for the last one. The wine looked brownish. It was a late harvest wine. It was a great Saturday.

Today, we went to the Art and Science Museum. The exterior of the ArtScience museum was shaped like a lotus. It was painted in plain white too. The colour doesn’t evoke the feeling of purity at all. The colour is the same as the exterior of MBS’ musical concert hall. Honestly, it gives me a cheap feeling… Hope the colour is only temporary.

I am halfway done with my website and I should be able to finish by this Friday. I have a lot to do ahead and I am both excited and happy. Life has never been that challenging… Simply love it!

I have been trying to revamp my website these few days. Playing around with Flash and Photoshop was fun. I love it a lot. I love challenges. I am the type of person who “never say die” easily.  Well,  a lot to read up too. Somehow, I find myself  impatient as I want to get my website done as soon as possible. I have to keep reminding myself to be patient and calm. The only way to do so is to meditate and I meditate everyday before lunch. It helps me and I am better now. Always feel happy and contented after meditating.

I have borrowed quite a number of dvds from the library. Wanna make sure that I return them before due date.  The dvds and dvd-roms are useful to me. I especially love watching  and reading 庄子，孔子，老子and 孟子philosophies. I make sure I watch or read their book before I go to bed. I not only read their philosophies, I studied them intensely too. I often share with Mel their philosophies. It is useful. Sometimes, Mel listens and sometimes, she doesn’t. She says I talk a lot :p. I always tell her that I am living alone and has no one to talk to, so when I meet her, I’ll tend to talk a lot. No, it should be ‘say’ a lot. Say is always better than talk cos I don’t want to be someone who talks a lot but says nothing :).  See, already talking a lot.

It is a brand new beginning after Valentine’s Day. Mel and I are going to spend this March creating Mother’s Day flower arrangements. Mother’s Day falls on the 8th of May and it’s a Sunday. I believe the sales should be good. I remembered working at Far East Flora on Mother’s Day last year. It was the happiest working moment in my life. I love flowers so much that I nearly forgot about myself. I worked between 9 to 14 hours everyday. The co-workers were fun. I missed them so much. It was an unforgettable experience to me. Even when I got back home from work, I still smelt the scent of flowers surrounding me. That freaked Mel out haha… I miss and love the scent. It was so strong.

On Valentine’s Day this year, I was so happy that I was surrounded by the same scent again. I embraced the scent – “an imaginary embrace”. The scent  did linger that day. Looking at the beautiful roses around me, the foliage, the babies’ breath… and beautiful bouquets which I made :p. I felt so fortunate – the luckiest woman in the universe. Looking forward to another day of fun on Mother’s Day. 🙂 World Peace!

I went to help out at the Family Centre to look after the kids. There was this little malay girl whom I think was only 6-years-old. She was carrying an elephant doll which I like too. My favourite animal is the elephant cos they are herbivores and huge in size. The name of this little girl was, Asura, if I spelt correctly. She was a responsive girl, not that shy, loved to talk and laugh, and was very loving towards her mum and grandparents.

I didn’t notice anything wrong about her until she got up and went for a game of table tennis. I saw patches of  hair missing when I was standing behind her and I was shocked. At that moment, I thought to myself something must be horribly wrong and immediately my heart went out to her. Out of concern, I asked if someone had pulled her hair. She said yes. Her stepfather had pulled her hair very hard and it was very painful. I wished that there was something I could do for her but I knew I couldn’t. The only thing I could do was to inform the person who was in charge of her case and pray for her. It was only that short one hour of  love that I could give her. I wish to see her again next month and every month until I see her hair grow healthily again.

What is wrong with people nowadays? Feeling unhappy and vent their anger towards a child?  Asura said that she loves to have long hair and loves to dye her hair too. What a vain girl she is! I didn’t tell her about the missing patches of hair behind her head. Hope she doesn’t know about it and pray that her hair grows fast and her stepfather stops his “animal” behavior.

I look forward to see her next month…

I had a wonderful Valentine’s Day with my relatives  in the day and spent a tiring evening with my loved one. It was the best Valentine’s Day that I have ever had. There were plenty of orders for flowers that day and I prepared them with all my heart.

On the eve of Valentine’s Day, I slept at 3am cos I had flowers to deliver the next morning and I had to stay up to finish all the morning deliveries. I got up at 6am and continued doing what I had left. I rushed to purchase a few more bundle of red roses as orders were still coming in. It was all about having an affair with the roses that day.

I wonder if all women love flowers. Not all, I guessed. I have come across many women who prefer something that is practical. Well, for me, I think one should never never stop your loved ones from sending flowers to you. Allow your loved ones to keep sending you flowers and never say that it is expensive or worthless or pointless cos one day if he/she stops, something is going to be missing in your life… That’s at least what I think…