Salam.
As a committee of ChildPro2010, everyone of us will be going to do community service at least once each person. Supposed, I should go last week but due to the holiday, mine was postponed to this week and so I did went yesterday. I went to Rumah Wawasan in Manjung. The night before, I went to Pizza Hut with Aizat, Farid and Fathi (as Fathi was craving for pizza~~) and there, I met 3 cute girls~~ Cute cute little girls, but I just can play/disturb them from far, everytime the mothers look at me, I acted as if nothing happened. Hahaha. Why your little daughters so cute laa?~~ So I got quite excited thinking that I’m going to meet some kids the next day~ Weee~~
That night I stayed up quite late. I was afraid that I wouldn’t make it to wake up and be at V2 Cafe at 7.30 AM, but ended up, I was the first to be there! With a pail in my hand. Hahaha. It was not “janji Melayu”, it was “janji 1Malaysia” - everyone was late. Haha.
There were two groups; my group who would go to Rumah Wawasan, and another one who would go to Pertubuhan Kebajikan Anak-anak Yatim Aitam Busarah. At about 9, we started our journey and reached the destination almost an hour later.
At Rumah Wawasan, there are about 20 something kids, most of them are Indians/Tamils. 4 of them if I’m not mistaken are Chinese but they can talk Tamil also. I was amazed, honestly. Hehe. So first we divided them into 4 groups for ice-breaking session. CFC and me took care of the first group. In my group, there were Melvin (9), Jasmin (18), Li Ping (21), Rogan (10), and Narshini (11). Li Ping can’t really speak, even if she speaks, we can’t understand her, only a few of the kids can. Luckily, Jasmin can, and Li Ping understands Tamil~ That was the first time I was amazed~ Hehe. Jasmin wanted to know our family background, so we talked about it. Then when it came to her turn, I lost my words. She told that her mom died and only during her Form 3, she was told that the man she was living with is not her real father, and due to I don’t know what faults, the man is now jailed. She was separated from her two step-siblings who she really misses. The last time they met was last Christmas, and sadly she said, they didn’t really talk to her. Her eyes was start to be watery. I just don’t know what to say, I kept saying “It’s okay, it’s okay, Jas. You know they love you“. Aish. Before that, she told that she loves singing so I just asked her to sing one song for me and CFC. She seemed excited. Huhu. So she sang “My Love“, together with us. ^^
Then we did some origami. We did penguins, whales, fishes and cats. The kids enjoyed themselves, and I too was became excited doing the origami with them as I was too just learned how to. Hahaha. One of the kids; Jennifer was just got through an appendix operation so she can’t really move, she stayed by me all along the session, kept asking me to draw the eyes for her origami and asked me to put my signature on them - she loves my drawing and signature, she said. Hehe. Thanks, Jennifer, and get well soon! ^^
Two Chinese siblings; Mae Mae and Hyat also stayed by me during the origami session. Mae Mae is very brave and active girl. Haha. I kept fighting with her. I kept lying to her that I’m younger than her and so on. Hahaha. They can talk Tamil fluently also. They learned themselves they told me. Wow~~ I brought my pen along and it became a tool that made it easier for me to get along with the kids as they kept asking to borrow it to write their names, or even write my name for me. Hoho.
Then it was coloring session. It suddenly became silent in the house as the kids was focusing to color the pictures given. Huhu. Some of them asked me to help them to color the pictures along with them, afraid they wouldn’t finish it by time. Haha. It was enjoyable; followed them to use their preferred colors to use for grass, face and so on - I colored grass blue and people green. Hahaha.
Next we had our lunch. We went out and packed some for the committees while the kids would be having their own prepared lunch. Still, we ate our lunch together at the kitchen with the kids. Hoho.
The last activity was hand-stamping session. We painted their hands and asked them to do hand-stamps on our banner. I was in charge to paint their hands and they kept laughing, saying it’s ticklish. Haha. Steven and Edison was the youngest, 4 years old. They were so cute, trying to get their hands off the paint. Hahaha. While waiting for the paint to dry, we spent some time with the kids at the living room, just chatting with them. For me, I took the chance to learn Tamil from them. It became so joyful, especially for them as they kept laughing everytime I followed them saying the Tamil words. Hahaha. Ohya, they kept calling us “Uncle” and so I needed to kept repeating “Not uncle; brother, aney aney“. Haha. I did really learned some Tamil words at the end. Haha.
After that we took some pictures with the kids. Some of them even asked us to take pictures with them, pulling any committee with cameras to come and take pictures for them. Haha. So then we had to go back; some of the kids asked me before that when would we be going back to UTP, they said please leave at night. Huhu. Clearly, they wanted someone to visit and play with them. So people, please pay a visit there and cheer them up~~ They need us more than you ever thought of. Please please please.
Finally, we departed at about 4 something and arrived safely later after an hour.
p/s: Waiting for the pictures~~ Long text post is boring, huh? Hehe.