SMU CSP Red Cross Project “I Can!” (Camp Day 3): Distribution

(This is Part 4 of a series of blog entries regarding the SMU CSP Red Cross Project “I Can!” Journey camp which I attended. As the blog entries were stitched together from bits and pieces I had written during the camp on my iPod Touch, and I had to rush the entries out before going for the next camp tomorrow, I had to be straight to the point. Hence these blog entries will not be as interesting as intended, and served only to remind myself of the events during the camp.

To visit the other entries, check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 5.)

I was pretty shag througout much of today and was unable to enjoy it as thoughouly as I had hoped.

All the groups were intially supposed to set out to our assigned blocks for distribution of all the canned food and rice which we had created yesterday. However there was a last miniute change of plan which meant my group would only set off later in the day at 12pm as compared to other groups which had to set off much earlier. A slightly contradictory consequence of this was that while we get to slack hard before setting out to do the food distribution, we were also expected to help out in the loading of the food items.

After a rather interesting breakfast with huge thanks from the girls, we proceed to slack in our “bunk”. There was a full menu of things which I could make use of the available time to execute, but I ultimately decided to use it to address my body’s more pressing needs, which was to take a quick nap. However, after accidentally squashing my spectacles I still couldn’t get to sleEp so I joined in the very fun card game of ass hole daidi. After awhile I felt sleep coming and exited the game to give sleeping another try.

It was then at this precise moment that a request for help was issued and i decided to to help out along withgary and the others. Helping was fun but also tiring, and I was particularly impressed by Linda who came alone to offer us her help and also by my group faci Jie yin who was inside the van looking all the heavy lifting and stacking. This is an incredible feat if u take into her small size. Fatigue work was never interesting, so I’ll just end this part with a mention that I did nearly 2 full hours of it.

We set off after lunch and arrived at the HDB block containing residents who are recipients of our food. While unloading the food items near the lift lobby, a crowd of old people living nearby had gathered. While some of them does really get on our nerves by repeating the same request for those items when they are obviously not the intended recipients, i realized the harsh reality of helping people in a systematic manner; it can never be fair. How would we know that those old folks bugging us at the void deck were more needy than our intended recipients? Things are never fair as after the whole distribution those old folks who were not intended recipients of our help had to watch us transport the remaining canned food and rice away…

At night, went on a ghost trail. Nothing much to blog about, just walk and walk only. My Ultrafire and green laser came in handy.