8th Jan 2006. Sunday. It has been raining for the whole day today with no end in sight. Sigh… What a boring day. Cannot do anything much and the internet is not working yet. Not much computer games to play and I finished reading online stories that I downloaded. I am starting to feel lonely. I guess this always happens when I went back home for few weeks. Started to get use to home then have to come out and get use to another place. Sometimes, I really admire human’s ability to adapt to the surroundings. Haha…
Anyway, I went to an elderly home yesterday. (that is part of the reason why I didn’t go back to my house. Well, I knew about the home because I joined the group concerning elderly which is under Welfare Service club (nvm if you don’t understand,haha..) Well, only 3 people went to the home as other members went for a trip to Malaysia. Kind of weird to have just 3 persons going there when there are more then 40 elderly.. cos we only interacted with 2 elderly from one room… (all the other a gong a ma, sorry!!!!). Well, I was there for like 3 hours and we just chit chat with the elderly ( 2 a ma). They were so happy that we came and talk to them…haha… as we were happily chatting away… suddenly I noticed sth moving on the floor, so I picked it up. It appears to be an insect that live in the wooden frame of the bed and live of the elderly. Meaning, they actually sucked blood.. Then the elderly showed us to another bed where there are lots of dried blood and said those are caused by the insect. After that, I caught 4 more of them (one is full of blood).
The topics that we talked about ranged from Japanese war times to farming to rearing pigs, chicken, duck, how vegetables nowadays not so tasty, about fish that eats food completely processed by humans, the spirit of banana plant, dogs, egg, rain, the 4 seasons,…………………………………………………….. (now you have an idea of why we can talk for 3 hours… haha…)
One thing worth mentioning is that they laughed happily when we interact with them.. which is a good thing because they seldom have chance to go out. This is because elderly have some difficulties in movement and certainly all the stairs in Singapore is not helping. By interacting with them every week, I hope that they will be less bored. One other guy brought along some biscuits and gave them too. The smile on their face is well worth it.
However, I didn’t visit them during the holidays because I decided that I should visit my own parents and grandparents too. No point in being nice to other elderly while neglecting own grandparents and parents.
