Pioneer Generation

Last Tuesday, started my first duty as Pioneer Generation Ambassador.
Went to meet the coordinators at 6.30pm.
First time doing it, so it's on-the-job-training with the experienced cordinators.

So after a short briefing, we started to go the the selected Pioneer Generation folks' home to do house visit.
My coordinator that day was Kelly. She's was doing full day that day for this PG work. She's very involved in all sorts of community work.
The other PGA was Jarel. He's doing his NS now, but also very involved with many volunteer work.

Anyway, we visited 4 houses that day, interviewed 5 PGs. One of the houses had 2 PGs. Husband and wife.
In a way, we were sort of lucky. All the PGs allowed us to entertain them. Hehe

Basically, it is a way to reach out to the Pioneer Generation group, and let them be aware of the benefits of the PG package.
Explain to them the 5 benefits of the package, and how it can be utilised.

At the end of it, pass the information back to the government agency, so that certain feedback may be used to help fine tune the policy, which is good.
Example, osteoporosis was not covered as part of the chronic ailment in the PG package initially. After the various feedback, it is now included. That's the way!

Anyone wants to join as Pioneer Generation Ambassador will need to go through 2-half-days course. Then only can be arranged to do house visits to the PGs around your own estate.
Can check out with various CC I guess.
If anyone interested but not sure who to reach out to, ask me. :P

Actually, the song has all the basic essential points of the benefits.

N-Flag 2015

National Day is just around the corner.
SG50, big celebration for the nation.

Since it is the time of the year, putting up the flags around the estate is back again.
Remembering from last year, it was quite a daunting task, as we only had 2-3 persons doing all of it. Probably a good 60% was done by Mr Koh.

This year, the commander is back. Mr Koh of course.
Bought new flag poles, and also some SG50 flags.

We had a meeting on Wednesday evening. Halfway from the meeting, few of us adjourned out to prepare the flags.
Mr Koh, Jason, 2 Erics, and myself.
Due to larger manpower, we prepared the 40 flags pretty fast. Impressive. Mainly near the Eunos MRT side alone Eunosville.

When the committee meeting ended, Sunny joined us to go around the estate to put the flags up.
6 guys putting up the 40 flags. Finished around 10pm. Pretty good I must say.

 

Then Thursday evening, we continued. Because less people this time round (only Mr Koh, Jason and myself), it was a long and tiring task.

Putting the flags along Changi Road towards Geylang.
Walked back and forth quite a few times from Kampong Ubi CC, as most of our old flags were pulled out from the store room.
There were about 80 flags from last year!

Can't believe it, we were doing from 7pm to 12midnight.
Si beh jialat.
And guess what? Not finished yet. LOL
Tying the flags to the railings can take quite some time. These were the ones without the poles. We had a lot! :P

Some more important sites, we had to put up the flag poles first also.
There were a couple of things to do.
See the men at work!

The only good thing was, we were doing it in the evening this time round.
No scorching sun. No sunburn.
Just aches. :)

Today is holiday. CC not opened, so cannot continue as we cannot get the flags out.
Tomorrow is another day. if not, will be Sunday.

Wow! Tomorrow quite a lot of activities.

Punctured Tyre

Since yesterday (could be Saturday even), kept hearing some bumpy noise when driving.
Suspected it is the tyre.
Didn't really have a chance to go to check it out. I think most of the petrol kiosks near my place do not have such service. Come to think of it, there might be one. Anyway.

Thus, this morning, before heading to office, I went to a petrol kiosk to try and pump up the air first, before checking out the service centre.
Went to this Esso station, and when I tried to pump my right-hand-front tyre, I can hear 'hissssssy' sounds from the tyre.
Ooops! Doesn't sound good.
Nevertheless, took out the cap and tried to pump.
Usually, in bad cases, I would see the tyre pressure maybe at 180-190 range.
This time, it showed 23!!!!
Terok!!
Tried to pump, doesn't go up much.

Jialat, quickly terminated the task, and drove off, to the service centre.

On the way there, my car dashboard shows a big red warning.
TYRE PRESSURE LOW!

Alamak!
Managed to call the service centre hotline (hands-free of course), and the customer service officer told me it's best to stop driving, and wait for help.

Stress!!!
Hasn't felt so stressed driving. LOL
The last time I was so stressed, was probably when I was working as a medical coordinator, arranging private jet to bring patient from elsewhere to Singapore for treatment.
For a period of about 2 hours, I had no news of the jet.
It was some big case, and my big boss actually went back to office to check things out.
I was a night shift worker. It's like 2/3am kind of timing.

Anyway, life has its different problems at different phases. So be it.

Along Eunos Road in the morning is not exactly a smooth ride. Traffic is still pretty heavy.
Anyway, managed to drive into an open carpark near Eunos Primary School.

Towing service was arranged, and I was told have to have for about 1.5hrs!
Alamak!

What can I do right?
So in the meantime, take picture lor.

 

A little hard to see from here, but the front tyre is a little flattened at the bottom.

At first I thought the towing vehicle would be something commonly seen when something happen on the road.
But no. it came a big truck.
Then my car was moved up for delivery. :P

Oh well, it's been an interesting experience. Not that I looking forward to it though.

At the end of it, it's just a hole that needs patching.

So the morale of the story is: Don't wait. Just get it done. :P

Little Volunteer

This afternoon, was supposed to help out my Neighbourhood Committee to prepare Funpack letters to be sent to residents at 2pm.

I actually forgot about it, until about 3pm.

So I drove down once I was reminded, and brought Zyan along.

It's basically quite simple.
Just take those printed letters, slot into the envelope, seal it up. That's it.

So I showed Zyan how to do it, and to make sure the address can be seen from the envelope.

He's a little slow, but still manageable to do it himself.
Only sometimes didn't seal the envelope properly. Actually just about 2-3 times lah. Not so bad.

I said I wanted to take a picture of him 'working' to show his mommy. He got his post ready and here it is:

With the strength of  the other members, this task was done very quickly. Cool.
So the letters should be out to the residents of Kembangan Chai Chee under Eunosville NC by mid-week.

After task is done, I let him play at the community centre area for a while. There's a small playground near, and some small excersise corner.
Both areas he also want to enjoy a little.

There's this little corner, I will cringe all over when stepping on them.
Here's Zyan enjoying the experience.

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Tak boleh tahan!

Maybe I will bring him to try 20 years later, then see if he ouch or not. :P

After the short enjoyment, it's time to go fetch his mommy home else.
Mommy was attending some course.

Next grassroot activity: Put up N-Day flags. *scared*
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