YAH Batch 3 Anniversary

April 14, Saturday was a busy day. Today was the opening day of YAH Community College Batch 6 at Center for Seniors in Bishan Junction 8. Started from 8am, volunteers and facilitators had started to prepare and welcome students.


Reception


Student coming.

12 April 2006 was the day all the Batch 3 facilitators got together. So we decided to have an anniversary gathering on same day 14 April 2007. After lunch in Junction 8 food court, Bao Xuan drove May Ying and me together to East Coast Park Island Resort.


Inside chalet

While we were waiting for the rest to arrive in the evening, we have an informative chat. I learned 2 tips to become good boyfriend/husband from Bao Xuan, haha...

Around 6:30pm, more people and food arrived. The buffet was ordered by May Ying. The presentation looked good and the food was tasty. Yue Feng had also prepared Mo Mo Cha Cha dessert.



This was a rare gathering. We had some new friends, husband and wife coming. Everybody ate ate and chat chat. Then, it was ice-breaking cum team-building game time. Soon prepared 3 games, they were (1) Guess who am I? (2) Phoenix Hall of Fame and (3) Memorized Puzzle.


Game1: Guess who am I?


Game2: Phoenix Hall of Fame


Game3: Memorized Puzzle

Aiyo... it was not easy to control the crowd. Players started to act before Soon finished explaining. They argued with the rules or they refused to accept the “prizes”. Haha... quite messy.



Refuse to accept the Prize

As we were facilitators, we had the debrief session after the activities. Somehow somebody had opinions and somehow ended up Soon went on stage to sing. Bee Yew the potential future facilitator was involved also.


After game debrief


Bee Yew and Soon sang on the stage

Finally, the event was ended. Hopefully everybody had a happy and memorable night.

For the complete photo album, visit here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/yangchengsoon/070414YAHBatch3Anniversary

年长者的失眠症

有一位年长者缺席了一堂课。我打电话去慰问她什么原因没来。她提到她有失眠问题，星期六早上觉得头晕，怕走路跌到，又不想麻烦女儿早起载她上学，所以便没来了。

我和她聊了很久，针对她的问题我给了我的意见。最后她反应道，“你的意见很新奇，我没有想过。”

因为聊了很多，她大概也记不了。所以我把重点写出来，印在纸上给她看。

问题: 白天不敢午睡，怕晚上会睡不着。常常小睡十五分钟就起身。
建议: 如果白天能够入睡，就应该敢敢睡久久。如果晚上睡不着了，就起身做事。反正都已经退休了，时间都是自己的，不用怕白天和晚上的生理时钟颠倒了。最重要的是睡的足够，睡到自然醒，睡足比药补好。

问题: 可是白天忙於做家务，不能午睡太久。
建议: 把家务事分开来。累时睡觉休息，醒了之后，就算在晚上也可以继续做家务。

问题: 晚上失眠，想看书看杂志，可是又不敢开灯，怕打扰到家人。
建议: 可以去客厅，去厨房，去厕所看书。

问题: 早上调闹钟，准时起来为家人准备早餐。
建议: 老娘今天不想早起做家务，你们自己吃面包。你不是女佣嘛，不需要做家务24小时。

问题: 已经习惯坐在书桌上看书，坐久会腰痛。躺下就会舒缓舒服。
建议: 做人不要让自己的习惯绑死，可以尝试洒脱的躺在床上看书。如果累了，书一丢，可以马上在床上睡着。

22 Dec 2006 Christmas for Folks的活动报告

(懒了很久。今天心情好，赶快写一个活动报告…)

上次我自告奋勇说要加入策划服务中心的活动，22 Dec的 Christmas for Folks就是第一个。

不过后来也没有什么策划到。活动的大概一个星期前，我去服务中心找 Seow Hong 开会，Seow Hong 已经把流程都安排好了。11am布置，12 - 2pm活动。

Seow Hong说，我负责游戏就可以了。惨，我要想给年长者的游戏。年长者的行动迟缓，游戏要慢，不用移动，大家都能玩的。难过，怎样想? 而且我最怕用脑想了。幸好 Seow Hong 提议了传东西的概念，我们激荡讨论了之后，出了两个游戏。

所以活动的细节如下:
5-10分钟  牧师讲圣诞节的故事
15分钟   传气球游戏 (1)
1小时   吃午饭
15分钟   唱圣诞歌
15分钟   用吸水管传胶圈游戏 (2) (Optional)
10分钟   交换礼物

(1) 年长者随着音乐传气球。音乐停止，谁手上有气球，牧师就发问。问题来自之前讲的圣诞节故事。

(2) 分组竞争用吸水管传胶圈。(后来发现，给年长者分组其实很麻烦。不过我已经设计出一个适合团体围圆圈玩游戏的阵法。改天才写。)

过了一个平静的礼拜，活动当天，刚好也是冬至。那天风很大，布置圣诞节的饰物有点麻烦。当年长者和食物(很多食物，包括汤圆) 陆陆续续到达之后，活动开始。Seow Hong 直接把麦克风交给我，说你去主持吧。我傻眼，我几时是主持人了? 还有，牧师勒? Seow Hong 说没有牧师，直接玩传气球游戏。

要命，我没有主持经验。但说什么我都是受过 YAH 培训的催化员，所以我二话不说，就跳出去假装一下。所以之后讲话含糊不清，没有条理，中英并用，到底合不合格? 我不知道，只有 Tricia 知道。

没有牧师讲故事在先，我不知道要如何处罚年长者，要罚他们讲圣诞节故事吗? 幸好这些年长者有些是 K 歌和舞蹈高手，请他们上来唱歌跳舞，还行。主持过程中，脑里面我回忆陈树承如何主持普威之夜，所以后来我第一个问题就问他们的名字，那里来，怎样来。不然，空空洞洞的，冷场，我不知道要和年长者讲什么。

除了开头的这个意外，其他的吃午饭，唱圣诞歌，传胶圈游戏，交换礼物的流程就如计划进行。当然，进程颠簸，不过还可以。

照片:
http://picasaweb.google.com/yangchengsoon

回馈:
1. 饭，应该不要淋太多汤汁，因为纸盘都软了。
2. 如果有行动不便或记忆力不好的年长者，我们可以请义工特别盯住他们。