I was at home till eight plus... den hurried out to get a card before i went airport... too lazy to take train so i took bus 27... it feels especially heavy to send hatori sensei off... dunno why?! think i am gonna miss her lessons a lot... when i reached there, i hurriedly wrote what i wanna write on the card... tried my best to write in full japanese... though there are some english words here and there... den met sylvia and pauline... saw jackwee and stanley after that when we were checking the flight time... jackwee?? why was he there? everyone kena shocked... thought he said he will in camp? den how come can just come out liddat? it turned out that he goes home everyday wan lar... just that he scared tt he has night duty den cannot come... chey~ after that, juleana also came... when we went there, she was alone... her friends are all too busy to come and send her off... luckily we went... it is super lonely to travel alone i feel... so we presented a mango bag and cards for her... haha she was saying that mango stuffs are for young gals... not very suitable for her... but i must admit juleana has very good taste lor... that bag was very cool and nice... the other card that we gave only consisted of signatures and english words... sensei asked us to write some japanese words in it... and i kena *sabo*... heehee also dunno wat to write... den i wrote: ki o tsukete... gomen ne, nihongo wa muzukashii desu kara, nani o kaite iika wakaranai... (take care... sorry, because japanese is difficult, i dunno wat to write...) den we took photos... sensei was very cute lor... we wanted to ask someone to help us take a group photo den she asked me to ask a japanese lady to help us using japanese... haiz~ so nice... she still want us to practise our conversation... i said once to sensei, making sure that i do not speak the wrong thing... hahaha and erm of cuz i succeeded... :p during our conversation with sensei, she kept saying 'sabishii no' to us... haiz~ she must have felt very lonely to go back... and she said she will miss singapore and hope that we will go japan to play... (it's mostly in japanese lar~) but no money to go japan... too ex le lar~ =p she would have reached japan now... most probably at her hometown le... it's 11.16am in japan... hope that sensei will be able to come back to singapore~ \(^_^)/

First visit to CCF
Today was my first visit to CCF... remember wat CCF stands for? Children cancer foundation... I was pretty worried cuz i din really know the way to the hospital... :p so i went out earlier just in case i get lost or something... hmm took the train to bugis den walk all the way to simlim... den i realised something... where's the bus stop?? hahaha i really thought i went the wrong direction lor~ cuz i am supposed to walk straight all the way from bugis to simlim... but i really dun see the bus stop leh... sianz~ but as i turn right, i saw one bus stop in front of me, just beside simlim... that should be the bus stop i guess... i happily walked there and checked the bus numbers over there... 66, 67 and 170... hmm it is that one lar~ but i still msged yingjing to make sure that i got the right one... =p so, i took the correct bus, alighted at the correct stop den cross the overhead bridge... i hate crossing overhead bridge... so tiring, i preferred jaywalking better... hahaha suddenly i thought of qianqi who is afraid to cross the overhead bridges but not the KK one... she said the KK one is fully covered, so she felt very safe... hahaha anyway, i managed to find the children tower and got to the CCF room... thanks to yingjing who gave rather clear instructions and i copied it down... heehee at first, i reached the seventh level but cannot find the room lor~ den i went around and found the room by accident... but i reached there too early lar~ people still having lunch in the foodcourt i think... so i went down to have lunch also... hahaha almost forgot to have lunch... recently my mum always nag me cuz i only wake up in the afternoon, not eating breakfast or lunch... she is damn scared that i kena gastric again... den i will dead dead... haha is 'kayu' the correct word to describe?? =p anyway, even if i dun kena gastric, i also slack in front of tv or laptop whole day... not much of a diff lar~ hahaha so after lunch around two plus, i went up again... before i entered the room, i remembered to switch off my hp, just in case lar~ there was a lady in there... oops! i forgot her name le... me short term memory... =p if i am not familiar with the person, i will just forget the name... hahaha so she invited me in... i was there looking for my volunteer name card... eh, cannot find leh... waiting for chengwan to come den can ask her mar~ i was reading the instructions on the volunteer notice board den put my bag in the volunteer's locker... chengwan came and help me with my name card... *yeah* so happy that i have a CCF name card... she showed me around the ward 76, the only children ward in KK that admits only children stricken with cancer... there were lotsa things to remember and i tried very hard to memorise all of them... after the short orientation, i went to clean the toys with ying... the toys need to be clean properly so that the children can play with them... me and ying sitting outside the room, chatting and cleaning the toys... ying is also a volunteer and she's been there for one month plus... haahaa unlike me, who had just been there for a few hours... through talking, i learnt that she teaching the intellectually disabled kids at MINDS... i forgot what it stands for le... she joking said that at school, she had volunteers who go and help her with her work and she is now also doing volunteer work at CCF... her mother's been persuading her to go mainstream teaching... but i can feel the love she has for her job and that she is really enjoying what she is doing... =p gam batte ne~, ying... i really admire you!! i dun think much people in singapore will be ever so willing to give up a high salary job in exchange for joy~ (^_^)

After cleaning the toys, i was brought to a special room where the kids warded are down with infections... you may think that having a flu or fever is nothing but it can lead to serious consequences for them... in the room, only one volunteer is allowed at one time and usually the patient is accompanied by one or two relatives only... they have to stay in the room with the IV drip hanging there... one thing i cannot get used to, wearing mask is compulsory in the room... but i got used to it later... the volunteer is only assigned with one kid only... today, i was in charged of playing with a malay girl, aisha... she is eight years old... she had leukemia one or two years ago and this time she is admitted cuz of fever... heard from chengwan that she is a quiet girl... hmm no worries~! with such a talkative person like me, no problem lar~ hahaha so i was introduced as xiujuan kaka... (kaka is the malay word for sister) we played checkers at first... she taught me how to play cuz i din know... heehee we chatted as we played... i was very happy that she was laughing and enjoying herself... den we played jenga, uno and other games... i was very lousy in the games lar~ kept losing... sad... =p but i was really enjoying myself too... btw i was so clumsy and blur, i tell her i very sotong wan den can call me sotong kaka... hahaha sound funny hor~ me also laughing... her parents were very nice to me and the parents from the neighbouring toddler also joked with me... the time passes by very fast... i was supposed to play with her for two hours only but ended up playing for three hours... actually i am not supposed to play with her for so long but i forgot about the time... heehee next time must remember to stop promptly... cuz i was LOCKED out from the CCF room... blur blur me actually forgot that the room is locked at 5pm... and i played till 5.30pm lor... oh no~!! i was walking around with the toys frantically looking for chengwan... cannot find her, i was feeling a bit scared... argh~ dun tell me i cannot go home tonight ... went down to the third level, asking the nice admin lady where's the CCF office... she told me there's a children cancer registry on sixth level but she dunno about the office... decided to try my luck, i went sixth level... heehee to my surprise, the office is beside the registry... heng ar~ i saw chengwan inside and i told her i was being locked out... =p hahaha so she brought me to the seventh level and i got my stuffs... =) i managed to walk correctly to the bus stop and took bus 67... eh, den i realised that it is not going back to simlim and is turning into little india... ?_? quickly msged yingjing and she told me this 67 is going tampines... glad... but the bad thing is it is gonna take hundred of years to reach tampines... so i slept on the bus... next time, i shall take 66 or 170... it's faster cuz it goes back to simlim den i can take bus 23... (^_^) that's my first day doing volunteer work at CCF!

Very happy and i wanna keep myself healthy from now on... heehee so that i can visit the kids every week to play with them~!! \(^_^)/