Wertytrew's Life

Thursday, 16 July 2008
Doing community service......
I went on a school trip to the Penang Home, housed to around 285 old people. The trip was organised in conjunction with the Moral Language Week in my school. There were about 50-60 students following the trip there. This is also the first time I go to an old folk's home...officially...Once I went there just to visit around the Penang Home without spending time with the old citizen there. Besides that, I need this community service to complete my Moral course work. Having fun with the old people is too another reason.

Beginning.....
Before we started boarding our buses(2), our teachers gave us some taklimat( a set of brief guide) of our trip. Actually, the way to the Penang Home from our school is just like 15 minutes of driving. So, approximately we reached there at about 8.15am. Though, I had wished to sleep a little longer in the bus....In fact, we have been told that we had reached there a little earlier. The people in charged there had planned for us an activitiy to do Xiang Gong with the old people. So, practically we had a nice half an hour of Xiang Gong with them.

The tour.......
One of the person in charged in that home is Mr. Chandran. He gave us a tour of the home and there were plenty of facilities for the oldies. I am happy for them...Among the facilities provided are Dewan Rekreasi(Recreational Hall), Klinik(Clinic)-24 hours of medical care, Karaoke, pebble pathway, television, Bingo playing area and a lot more. Overall, the place is very clean and ideal as the home is very near to the Lam Wah Ee Hospital. During our tour, we had a chance to talk together with the old folks there. They were happy to share their experiences of staying at the home with us.

Performance time....
After that, it was performance time. The first performance was performed by a group of old people. They sang a chinese song(not sure the title). One of the lead singer even sang us a MALAY SONG! She was energetic while singing the song solo. Then, it was our turn to perform. My class was the first group to perform. We sang Do-Re-Mi as we have thought that they might like it. At first, we had planned to sing both Do-Re-Mi and "Mua Li Hua" songs. But then, think again the MuaLiHua song was too hard for us. There were quite a number of performances that were planned for the old folks, including feshion shows(I don't really agree with that either), more singing, and group singing with the old folks(One of the songs were The Sha-La-La song).

Nearing the end....
Before we ended the trip, we had a birthday party for the old people there who had their birthdates in the month of July. We gave them some gifts before we left the Penang Home. They thanked us for coming to entertain all those old folks. I am glad that we did something for them. Good efforts come from the hearts, not just assets.

*I hope I am able to upload some pictures on this trip*

Update: I have finished uploading all the pictures for viewing.

This is Penang Home, located somewhere in Green Lane, beside Lam Wah Ee Hospital.


Group picture


The old folks people are doing Xiang Gong. They do this every single morning.


Form 4 students can be seen doing Xiang Gong with the old people there. The crews from TV9 are there too(at the center of the pic).


One of the "Ah Gong" there, saying Hi to everyone or maybe he does not want to be in the picture...


The hall is fulled of spectators, waiting to watch performances.


Performance by the old folks people


Me and classmates singing "DoReMi" (simple enough for the old people to listen, isn't it??)


An Indian dance


Everyone dancing while the old man is singing "Sha-La-La"


Mr. Chandran is singing "Ai Pia Jia Eh Yia"(a hokkien song) and he is an Indian. Cool.....


Fashion show


Sort of "The Finale"


Looking at their mouth and they said "Sleup, hor liau lor(Yummy)".


My school teachers are presenting hampers to their people.

Going back to school....sob