First local community service
First local community service
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Value in action (Ler Ping), a term used to depict giving, volunteering where the giver is also the benefactor. The latter more likely than not, does not know what to expect, except to make someone's day (Xin Yi). Mmm...Who are the ones? Good or bad day? At the start, everything seemed to be beyond our control, and for some, it was their 'maiden voyage' (Chun Xiong), feeling so redundant, short of falling seasick due worse sensation from vaccinated soaring arms. Persevere (Yi Hui), unconscionable self directed-ness kept the team awake (Aizaac). The whole works still leveraged on technology, thank-
fully and comparatively not disruptive like the smart-this, smart-that, AI, aeiou, big-data small-data, internet of thing, but, yes, we did have a lot of thongs, etc (Kwee Thiam). There was the beauty of several human chain groups surrounding rectangular tables conveying staples before boxing, storing and heading toward designated locations for onward distributions. Food packing is simple, but, even simple thing requires learning (Zhi Kai). Albeit in a Singaporeans environment, communication breakdown was inevitable (Faith). Nonetheless, it was possibly solved and hey presto, we were able to achieve the objective of this setup (Syafiqah, Callista, Celine and Amanda)!
Food delivery was executed by several abler volunteers (Wee Liang) and imagine those afford to eat-in and eat-out, obliging them to muse (Weiqi).
The exposition by own peers in this activity, for the first time, enlightened one and all of individual traits with at times, surprises (Brian, Indah and Amar-Raj).
Be flexible and not to assume is the way to go (Bryanna). As the late Dr Victor Tai foreboded in the latter - AssUMe. As for flexibility, it is more of adaptability. Nothing will change to suit us but us, them. You can gripe and even defy it, the show still goes on.
To learn, is to serve and there are more to come. More so, when they are coming not from Singapore, where the team might not have a tabula rasa on which and from where to start and stop ...
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