NUS-CSC HCA Volunteers

Hi guys, I haven’t been blogging for a long time over here. Hope the seniors are enjoying themselves in Vietnam Anyway, yesterday we went to visit the Balestier auntie. When we went there she was accompanied by her friend, and after a while her son and daughter in law. Housework was as per [...]

The last time I visited Bedok, it was in Dec when the old committee were doing the publicity video. So I was away for 8 long months…Today I came with Jasmine, Zhuren (an exchange student from China), Lionel, Andrew and Enghui. When we entered the door I thought that Uncle looked a bit more haggard, [...]

After a few weeks off HCA activities, I went for my first visit in a long time with the year ones. There was Shelley and Siew Fong from arts and a bunch of my medicine juniors- Lionel, Andrew, Eng Hui and also Yi En who is my classmate. Not to forget, there was also Rowina [...]

On Tuesday we had more patients than on Sunday so Tuesday, I suppose, was more bustling with activity and energy. Here are some pictures:

Today our visit was slightly delayed because Uncle went out to get his medicine, so we waited for around twenty minutes outside his door. Nevertheless we chit chatted a little and go to know lelian’s friend, who’s studying in the USA.
Later when we entered Uncle’s house we realised that some parts of the home were [...]

Before visiting Mr Kng on Saturday we went off to see our new patient Mr Heng. He and his wife talked quite a lot to us about their travels, their children and other volunteers. They speak decent Mandarin but they are more conversant in Hokkien. We managed quite a decent conversation but with Max, who’s [...]

For people like James and me it was the first time in a long while we stepped into Jalan Kukok. I noticed that instead of paper, the floor was now laden with tiles. The cement around the toilet was also coated with a new layer but still no tiles Anyway it means that [...]