went christmas kettling with evelyn today! it's for the salvation army, and we volunteered to help out on one day, for two shifts, and that is TODAY! lol. the location chosen was causeway point (which both of us rarely go heh)
anw, reached woodlands a little late, only to realise with much frustration that the person-in-charge was later! -.- lol. was like waiting with evelyn at metro, then outside delifrance, then at metro again, due to confusions that arose as we desperately tried to make the pot and bells appear. haha so we only started at bout 12; and because we were doing the first shift from 11 to 1, we had help transporting and setting up the erm pot too. it's the stand which holds the pot actually. after setting up, we wore our aprons! which reads: i am a bell-ringer! woots! haha, and ring the bell we did! not as irritating as i thought it would be thankfully :)
heh. yup, then we awaited for kind passer-bys to donate, which was not as frequent as the ringing of the bells of course. you get what i mean yea x) so we thanked and wished every kind soul merry christmas, and gave them a artistic calender in return :) anw, our shortened 1 hour shift still felt quite long. lol! and not long after, yuanqing came to join us! kind her just returned from ocip not long ago. someday, i shall partake in 1 too! :) then, evelyn's friend came to join. haha, one weird and funny guy. after handing over to the lady for the next shift, went for lunch at mos burger. rice burger ftw! haha. ok most part of the lunch break, yuanqing and i were basically listening to evelyn and friend talking and criticising. LOL. but some stuff were quite interesting to know la :P haha.
ok then went back to relieve the lady for our next shift from 3 to 5. time passed faster this time, as we entertained ourselves with silly word games, and number games that we could not think of. lol. anw, the person was late again! so we ended our shift at bout 530. but then again, not really angry la. especially after the lady brought 2 kids to take over us. guess they are really short of volunteers for kettling =/ quite sad la. hmm, overall, today's kettling experience was great! fun actually! :) time well spent no doubt as well! :)
oh, as we were kettling, there was this old lady on wheelchair selling tissue papers nearby us. hmm, how should i phrase this.. i could empathise with her, and her plight. but the compassion was not there; like i did not purchase tissue paper from her. as compared to the other volunteer, who bought the tissue packets, in addition to buying bread from breadtalk for her! quite a few others bought tissue from her as well. oh man, i hope i am not heartless :( it just didn't feel
right to help her, somehow. hmm..
so it's ring, ring, ring! :D
(pictures soon!)
ahh twilight, twilight, twilight! may the movie be even better than the book man!
reading the 3rd book eclipse now. trying to slowly savour it so that the fantasy won't end too soon x) lol. and my sis bought all four books. hah, saving me money and hassle :P
and no, it's not just any romance, fantasy story ;) it's so. much. more. yea. haha.
twilight!
and it's dec 18th btw! it got postponed a few mths back. bleagh. well, at least it's showing! :)