Happy Chinese New Year!

This was 2 days before the actual Chinese NewYear date, the sub-committee actually brought forward this event to celebrate with the residents at Bishan Home!

Volunteers came mostly in RED outfit, in tie with our CNY theme of this week.

The planning of this event took about 2 weeks, with special thanks to Kaixin, Ayden, Harold, Russell, Guocong, Wynne, Jiamin and Kelly for this, as well as Weiting and Zi En for helping to play as villagers for the skit!

Arts and crafts included calligraphy, decorative firecracker making, and colouring!

Residents learn to write the word “春” and decorate it with a colouring of thedragon pasted on the other side, as well as a decorative firecracker attachedto the bottom.

Games included pass the parcel, poison ball(suggested by Xiaofang for the previous outing), throwing rings into cones toearn candies, stack the oranges, fishing and hopscotch!

Pass the parcel game: Featuring a very cute lion dance costume made by Kaixin! The forfeit of the game is to dance around in the costume.

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Poison ball: Residents and volunteers have to stand within the marked boundaries and balls will be rolled across that zone. They will have to run to avoid being hit by the fast moving balls.


Residents are to throw rings into cones in order to win candies.


Stack the orange: Residents are to stack oranges and to compete for the fastest orange-stacker title.


Fishing for numbers

We ended the visit with a skit (written by Guo Cong), the story of Nian, and hongbao giving session by Cai-shen-ye, the God ofWealth, played by Harold! Residents received a red packet each, and were quick to discover a chocolate coin inside!

This is definitely one of the most enjoyable visit, with residents wishing us “gong xi gong xi” and singing the good old CNY songs.

Here, we thank all of you volunteers for helping to make this visit a success. If you had not make it for this CNY visit,we still hope to see you soon!. Do drop by, and see ya!

Merry Christmas!! :DD

I’m sure this is one memorable visit, made possible by great planning of the Christmas sub-comm - Kaxin, Peiling, Michelle, Agnes and Harold. { ^-o-^} Committee members from our main CSC body came down to participate too! :)

Firstly, the arts and craft for last week was to make a Santa Claus hat! Using cotton balls, coloured paper and markers, residents made their own personalized hat to complement the occasion!

We had a sports station too where the residents had to use balloons to aim into hand-held hula hoops:D Different heights of hula hoops were used to increase difficulty of the game. There was also the usual popular bowling station.

There was a special group bonding activity which was to transfer wrapped presents using garbage bags, by flipping them over to the person sitting right beside, all the way to the end of the chain. This station helps the residents and volunteers to build up teamwork.

Last but not least, let’s not forget the gifts wrapping station! Many residents were thrilled by the presence of marshmallows, enticing them to participate even more! Residents were told to scoop up candies and marshmallows and lead to a gift wrapping corner to wrap their own presents. (We spotted many residents heading back wanting to play the game once more!)

Hwai Kit as Santa Claus! Thank you! :D

 We ended the day with a mass sing and dance session, and a group photo! 

Thank you volunteers! <3!

This coming Saturday, there won’t be any visit. However, there will be an outing on the 7th! Stay on for more updates then! Cheers!

**Currently we are in need of volunteers to help out in planning of the upcoming 7 January BH outing for the residents.:( If you are interested or have any interesting ideas etc, do feel free to contact Ayden! Thanks!! :D

MOST of us have finished our exams, and it’s now the HOLIDAYS!

Last Saturday was an outing to Woodlands library for an Arts and Disability Showcase. We were presented with a song and dance done by a few children with learning difficulties, speeches made by the guest -of-honor,Mr Arthur Fong, and then a skit titled “Elephant with Small Ears” by a few primary school children.

After we had lunch (provided by the National Library), the residents headed over to the hands-on stations to try out activities such as painting and dough sculpturing.

Overall, this was a nice experience, and we gained some new ideas for our handicraft sessions in future.

Below are some of the shots of the event. Enjoy! :D

Visit resumes this 17^th of December,Saturday, 10-12pm as usual at BHID. :)
We are currently recruiting members to help organize the activities of our following event:

2)      BHID Outing (WE ARE STILL RECRUITING!)

• 7^th of January

• Venue: Undecided, open for suggestions

Anyone interested to help on as a sub-committee member for the above activity, do contact Kaixin (pamelalkx@gmail.com)!

Thank you!