Sunday, July 15, 2007

CIP at Toa Payoh

Today's a fine bright sunny Sunday
Yeah alright..
Not when i'm going around doing street sales... Sweltering hot!!! What's more, we were wearing FULL sch uniform. HOT hot HOT! I usually wear full uniform to sch only like once a week on Weds cos we've to wear a tie from 730-930am. Keke~ i only wear for show de~

Anyway, it's for a good cause. To help intellectually disabled children from MINDS -movement for the intellectually disabled Singapore. I hope i've got the full name right =p
We were selling papermen at $2 each near the Toa Payoh HDB hub for the public to write their well wishes on & they will be eventually put up in Vivocity in mid Aug.
So the caring tee jay cee Chinese Calligraphy Society volunteered to sacrifice our Sunday for a good cause.

Sounds cool?
Yeah was pretty enthusiastic at the start but it slowly weans off as repeated rejections -waving me off, one auntie even ran off before i could say anything...(-_-''') But the worse ones are those who listened to your lengthy explanations then they said 'We'll think about it' or 'Sorry' Well... wasted my breath & energy as i had walked more than a few metres together with them. You know, even in the heartlands, people are always in a rush.
The most absurb rejection i heard was from an uncle, when approached by Qi en, he said 'You are not wearing your sch badge, you are not even in sch uniform!' Hurhur... QE stood there -stunned. Darren & i went dots.. when we overheard him as that uncle was NOT loud at all. Wah liao eh... Our dirty green uniforms arent green enough to be seen as a uniform???!!!
Uncle arh... Next time find better '台词' to say when you dont want to donate or go wear specs okay?

Got more and more 'pek siek' as time goes by~
So i took breaks, need REST, if not i gotta lose my voice soon... throat's cracking up from all those talking...
Maybe i'm more suay.. Some other cca mates sold all 40 papermen that each of us were allocated within a couple of hours. They received donations like $10, $20 a time... ^^
N jaycee people were also there to sell badges or bands or whatever. 'Fight for business' haha

In conclusion, i think it's easier to do Flag Days than Street Sales, at least kind people will come forward to donate when they see you holding that can/bag from a recognized charity organisation. But street sales... Talk and talk yet people still dont want to make donations.

Surprised to meet Hui xuan there~ Havent seen her for quite awhile. And of course, she's kind enough to donate & drew cute tiny figures on the green papermen. Green for tee jay! Lols
JY met Mdm Peng -Chinese tutor from teejay but she didnt recognise her initially =p
She wrote 人间处处有温情 on the paperman. Wow... 不愧是 Chinese teacher haha

Thank you all those kind souls!

yunn. at 6:27 PM