Sunday, August 9, 2009 - 6:09 AM
CIP...for once
I never knew that I would be enjoing my time two days before National Day in Taman Jurong. Doing CIP. I had always stereotyped people who did CIP as a goody-goody two shoes and I could never see through its importance. That's because I never tried.A quick rewinding of what happedned on Friday. After the usual precautionary temperature taking in the morning, my class left for the Taman Jurong area at 8. We arrived promptly and after a quick hassle set out to work. Caijie split us up into groups of two and I went with Mark to collect the old newspapers. After a while, we stopped work and brought the papers to the collection points. There, we had a short but fufilling experience playing "newspaper-discus". The old papers came pouring in but a lot of us kept on going(Our dearest chairman gave me a hard time).
What I enjoyed about this trip was talking with the neighbours. Many of them were friendly, opening the doors and responding to our calls. Even if we did not collect newspapers from everyone, at least they were friendly towards us. There was this lady who even volunteered to give us newspapers when we met her in the lift lobby. Those that did not even answer our ringings of the doorbells made us quite touchy though. I particularly remember one neighbour who set a dog on us. Luckily, there was a fence that stopped it from jumping at us. Oh, that was really surprising. There was also an old lady who was dressing her half-naked kid at the doorway. Well, I obviously did not dare to collect any papers from them.
This time's CIP activity gave me a feelings of frustration and happiness. I am happy that I had contributed to helping kids in Taman Jurong. I feel frustrated because I could no longer do any work for the rest of the day because my fingers had grown sore. Just joking! New experiences and opportunities appear as we grow up. Old impressions are repainted when we try something different. I find the CIP this time fun. Perhaps it is because I like interacting with friendly adults and helping children. Trying new things can also be a very exciting activity. You never know how fun or dull something is unless you give it a try.
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