Moral Angels

Volunteers of Moral Home

CNY celebration 2019 16 Feb 2019

Organiser: Hui Kiat and Hui Quan
Emcees: Stuart and Jin Xiong
Photographer: Poh Yan
Games: Uncle Sam and Uncle Song
Food & Snacks: Rico, Yen and Doris
CNY Singing Performance: Jojo + Auntie Susan + Emcees
God of Fortune: Lucas
Lion Dance: Hui Kiat
Event Programme:
1445hrs Arrival and standby elderly at Dining Hall
1500hrs Celebration Start (Arrival of MH God of Fortune + Angbao Distribution +
CNY Songs Karaoke Session)
1505hrs Snacks Serving (Ah Ma’s Cake – Original + Pandan)
1515hrs Game 1 (Guessing Game)
1530hrs Lion Dance Performance + God of Fortune
1545hrs Lao Yu Sheng
1600hrs CNY Medley
1615hrs Dinner (Braised Pork Belly, Chicken Wing, Egg, Black Fungus and Tau
Pok)
Event Details:At 3.00pm, all of the elderly were gathered at the dining hall. The event started by the arrival of the
God of Fortune greeting every elderly as well as giving away the mandarin oranges, ang baos and
serving of snacks. While the elderly was enjoying their snacks, the God of Fortune proceeded to
level 2 and 3 accompanied by the Singing Group.
It was then followed by the guessing game conducted by Uncle Sam. The prizes were wrapped as
present and the elderly who had guessed correctly, received the items in the wrapped present.
The Lion Dance troop arrived at about 3.30pm with two lions and a God of Fortune (with the face of a
pig). The lion dance troop were superb and performed a number of acrobatics stunts. Best of all, they
generously donated their ang bao to the home.
Due to time constraint, we were unable to proceed with the 2 nd game (Bingo).
Lao Yu Sheng started at about 3.45pm. The elderly together with the volunteers were happily
shouting out their best wishes to everyone. The celebrations ended with a finale of CNY medley by
Jojo, Auntie Susan, Stuart, Doris and Joyce at 4pm.

The Moral Angels took up the roles of serving the food of braised pork belly, chicken wing, egg, black
fungus and tau pok from the stall of Mr. Lobak which is pretty popular and well known for its braised
pork belly in social media. The sumptuous dinner end at about 5pm.
Would like to take this opportunity to thank all volunteers for the time and effort to make the event a
success!

Written by Huiquan and Huikiat

CNY in house shopping 19 Jan 2019

This is an event in collaboration with Ngee Ann Poly and YJC students.
Leo club(Ngee Ann Poly) will be recruiting volunteers to help out in the event. The event will be at the dining hall of Moral
home. Volunteers will be separated into two main groups. The first group (BEFRIENDERS) of volunteers will be pushing elderly with the wheelchair around during the event and assist them throughout the event. The second group of volunteers will be taking care of the different stores.
Moral Angels will be purchasing all the items for the elderly to ‘purchase’ and all food and drinks for the folks to consume.

Objective and outcome of participating

For volunteers to create the festive joy of Chinese New Year to the elderly through this event.
To enable volunteers to develop a sense of belonging in giving back to the community.
For elderly to be actively involved while participating in games.
For volunteers to interact and build relationships with seniors.
To understand the challenges our seniors are facing today.

Description of Proposed Activity
Rules of the carnival:
There will be a ‘purchase card’ given to the elderlies at the start of the carnival, the incharge of the store will tick the items after they have purchased from the store. Furthermore, there will be 2 game booths for elderly to play and win small prizes.

STORES
Volunteers will ensure the elderlies have a good time buying things from the different stores. *Note: Only elderlies with swallowing issues are not allowed to purchase food stuffs.

GAMES (2 game booths)
Purpose of the games: allow participants to win small prizes when they accomplish one game.

Game 1: Guess where?
There will be some 3 paper cups face downwards on the table, one ping pong ball will be placed under one of the cups, then we change the sequence of the cups and let the participants  to guess which cup has the ball.
Winning criteria: When the participant guess correctly, he/she can claim a small prize from game ICs.

Game 2:Ring Toss Games
Participant will be using the plastic rings to throw on the cone.
Winning condition: When the participant successfully throws 1 ring into the cone, he/she can claim a small prize from game ICs.
**small prizes will be prepared by Moral Angels.

Areas for improvement
1) The spacing of stores need to be widened.
2) Purchase more slippers especially.

Expenses
1) Pajamas ($700)
2) Clothings and slippers ($600 sponsored by Mona)
3) Snacks ($50 sponsored by aunt Vivien)
4) CNY food snacks ($400 sponsored by Yen)
5) Soya Milk ($36)
6) Chicken rice dinner ($250 sponsored by uncle song)

Written by Ah Yen and Rico

Xmas Celebrations 2018

For this Xmas Celebration, Moral Angels collaborated with Leo Club from Ngee Ann Polytechnic on 22 Dec.
In preparation for this celebration, I met up with Harry (Leo Club chairman) on 2 occasions. The first was to explain to Harry and to aid him in coming up with the proposal. The second was a site recce for the poly students.
Leo Club was tasked to :
a. Prepare two games for the elderlies to play ;
b. Prepare photobooth;
c. Perform 3 xmas songs;
d. Act as Santa Claus and Santa Rina
We were impressed with the dedication, capability and passion of the Leo Club members. They accomplished the tasks with ease and they were exemplary in mingling with the elderlies and guiding them to play the games.
While the rest of the Leo Club members played games, Santa Claus and Santa Rina went upstairs to visit those bedridden residents and sang Xmas Carol.
Thanks to Leo Club, the Xmas Celebration was a great success. We look forward to collaborate with Leo Club for future events.
Thanks to those Moral Angels who turned up to help too.
After the Xmas celebrations we had a lucky draw (proudly sponsored by you-know-who). One lucky Leo club member walked away with a PS4 console! Congratulations !
Stuart & Doris

Ge Tai 2018

Once again, Getai 2018 has made it to become the event of the year! Why do we say so? The event was a successful one! Everyone thinkable, contributed to this event either by singing or dancing.

This year, Moral Angels did a change. There is no celebration of the Nation’s birthday with ah gongs and ah mas this time, no, not because we are non-patriotic but because we have decided to do an event which would be a lot more times hyped up and that is a Ge Tai!

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The date of the event was 25 August 2018. Most of the angels reported at 12.30pm to get everything ready. The most important system that day was the audio system and the TV! There were hiccups along the way and we thought we were about to compromise on the standards of the event until our Ying Xiong- Jin Xiong came to our rescue! He handled the many many wirings to help us connect things right and finally the system was up and ready!

We had our emcees starting off the event by saying greetings to the ah gongs and ah mas and we had Patrick who was the OIC of the event to explain the significance of serving a huat kueh and bao as snacks. It simply means bao huat!

After eating, we had our powerhouse singer, Jojo, to start off the Ge Tai with 潇洒走一回!Thereafter the White-Red PK began! First category was English singing! We have our all-time favourite- Uncle Song singing against Sam! We can see the effort and time spent over a few weeks practising the songs! These two dedicated men had been a good role model that practice makes perfect!

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Next category was Cantonese singing! We have Rico singing against Susan! Oh my god!! Again, if you think your eyes are deceiving you, let us assure you that it is working alright! We have Rico together with her pop-up band Stuart and Lucas put up her very first performance at moral home! It was mesmerising! And of course, Susan did not disappoint anyone with her singing as well.

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Then the Hokkien category came…with our VL-Stuart and Ai Hua (Sam’s sister) vying for a vote. They both did a great job in engaging everyone below stage!

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Well, of course the best was yet to be, we have the Chinese category! It was a PK between Patrick and Jinxiong!

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We even have Desment who wished to put up a song for our ah gongs and ah mas too and our Ping Sing got so mesmerised! These 3 men had certainly brought the roof down with their emotive singing!

If you think we have come to an end to this report, you are not quite there yet… we have our mass dance led by Christina! Her leadership in leading the dance really made dancing seaweed so much easier and our moral ah gongs and ah mas were so happy!

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No no…that’s not all, this is the event of the year you are talking about, we had one more part to the event! And that was the lucky draw! We managed to put together 7 chances of prizes for ah gongs and ah mas to win! Uncle James certainly made this part of the event a vibrant one! You should see the joy in their eyes when their numbers were being called! They were thrilled when they received the prize! How nice it was to end the event with a high like that!

Weren’t we glad to have the long-time-no-see Xing Jian to join us and helped us with the photography and the cousins of Stuart with the videography! Did you see the backdrop? It was done by lovely Doris! Elderly had a sweet snacking time because Jennifer arranged for sweet potato soup to be done!

Ge Tai 2018 is truly the event of the year with many unthinkable happening and all the volunteers who came! If your names are not mentioned here, pardon me, you are still important! 😊

 

Written by Jojo

Moral Angels with the kind support from the shooting academy of the Singapore Sports School went out on our first outing of 2017. It was a record breaking event for us as we brought a total of 28 beneficiaries to Zhong Shan Mall for some midyear shopping.

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We gathered at 1215pm on Saturday 01/07/2017, as students were introduced to their various group leaders. Rico and Christina were the HR manager as 38 student volunteers were painstakingly sorted and paired with a beneficiary.

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These students were then put through a rigorous session of wheelchair handling workshops conducted by their various group leaders to make sure that they are well prepared for the arduous journey ahead. A big thank you to all our volunteers who stepped up as group leaders, taking care of both our elderlies as well as our young volunteers.

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We went to the NTUC at Zhong Shan Mall and the beneficiaries were given the VIP treatment. they each had a “personal butler” to bring them around, helping them with their purchases. NTUC was also kind enough to open a dedicated lane for us to make payment.

We spent as if NTUC also took part in our nationwide GSS campaign, spending close to $500 in total in our shopping spree.

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Tea break was held at Zhong Shan Park, a beautiful open area right outside Zhong Shan Mall. Just one hour into the outing, and our young volunteers had absolutely no issues handling the wheelchair, expertly manoeuvring and marshalling our beneficiaries in this tight space. Sports School also sponsored the tea break for our beneficiaries, buying buns and drinks for all involved, old folks, students and volunteers alike.

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Our final stop was at Sun Yat Sen Nanyang memorial hall. The aircon inside provided a brief respite from the sweltering heat. Special thanks to Susan mama, who despite the various protests, insisted that we had to take a photo here. If not for her persistence, we would not be able to capture this beautiful moment.

Thank you, all young and old volunteers, for a meaningful Saturday spent together.

Epilogue

I would also like to make use of this avenue to address our young volunteers, as we never had a chance to talk to them and to thank them properly after the event.

What to have for meals, what time to shower, what to splurge your pocket money on, what to do and where to go in your free time; this are simple decisions that we are all free to make. An independent choice is however oftentimes a luxury to our beneficiaries instead.

So, I want to thank you, not just because you made their day by bringing them out, not because you kindly spent your prize money on them, but because you empowered them, to a little extent, to your best abilities, enabled them to make a conscious choice. You allowed them to choose something they want, to buy something that they like.

On the grander scale of things, Freedom of choice is a precious gift and something I hope you will cherish and be grateful for.

Lastly, I would like to do some advertising for ourselves, we are volunteering every Saturday from 230 to 530 and all are free to join us. Of course, do not expect our normal routine to be as intensive and high octane as the outings we’ve been on. The activities might be banal, but the company is fun and entertaining, and we all can’t wait to see you again.

This is Raymond. Peace out.

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Kopi Roti Session 22 Apr 2017

Moral Angels Volunteers held their first “Kopi Roti Session 2017” on 22-04-2017 (Saturday).

On this bright and lovely “Spring” afternoon Brother Song met up with Christina, Rico, Susan and Alice (Susan’s friend) to collect the chwee kueh at Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 hawker centre. We next proceed to collect the siew mai at “Tanjong Rhu Pau” and reach  “Moral Home for The Aged Sick” at about 1.45pm.

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When the event started at 3pm, the canteen area were packed with our Ah Gong & Ah Mah. As usual, our all hardworking F&B team, Rico, Christina, Susan, Vivian, Doris, Ping Sing, Joyce, the young volunteer kakis all spring up to help to prepare the snacks. At 3.15pm, we begin with serving MH residences, Chwee kueh, siew mai and soya bean drink. The snack were the right choice, Ah Gong & Ah Mah just finished the snack in no time. There was a residence who had requested for 3 serving of soya bean drinks, till the nurse had to refrain him from over drinking.

After the snacks being served, Stuart, Hui Quan & YiQi warm up with singing. Next we invited Mr Cheong to perform the Cantonese karaoke, followed Mr Lee who picked his all time favourite Hokkien songs and Mdm Lee the mandarin songs. The 3 singers seems to be well prepared and chosen as each had selected Mandarin, Hokkien & Cantonese to entertain the residences. Next in the number was Alice who sang modern, cha cha piece. Our dear Susan was so sporting, where she dance cha cha on stage.

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On the audience side, our dear Robert and aunty Angel had “CHOPE the circles seat” to watch attentively to the performers. The audience love the singing group, as many times, we can see Ah Ma humming along, aunty Angel and Robert gave few thumbs up to encourage the singers. Also can hear from the background shouting “ encore, encore”…I am one of them….

Aunty Angel is a big fan of YiQi, she will always listen attentively to YiQi’s singing. Once, I tried to sing, Aunty Angel gave me a thumb down…….sigh…

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One of Moral Home residence Mr Sim also performed 2 songs that had rocked the hall with his strong vocal tune.

At 4.15pm, YiQi, Hui Quan, including Rico who sang and dance to our residences upstairs. I greatly appreciate YiQi who informed me her intention to bring cheers to our less mobile and bedridden residences too.

Time really flies, its almost 4.45pm and time for dinner. Hui Quan started the game session; Name the songs or Singers. As usual, the objectives of games is to bring cheers to the residences with special gifts contributed by our Brother Song. This time, Brother Song had contributed more than 30 bottles of Bird Nest to reward our lovely Ah Gong & Mah. The grand finale came a surprise to Ah Kiat, where we celebrated his Birthday with song and cake.

This Kopi Roti session was blessed with support from The Ngee Ann Polytehnic students who help to take our video, photos. Mr Lee, Cheong, Mdm Lim, Alice, Mr Sim …. and Susan who sang and perform to us. Many many thanks to our own team Stuart/Doris & family, YiQi, Hui Quan, Ah Kiat, Lucas & Kayden– the drummer, Giselle-the pretty girl. Our Joy team, James, Meng Huat, Rico, Christina, Aunty Vivian, Raymond, Ping Sing/ Desmond & family, Stella, Jin Xiong–the Master of Ceremony, Willit-where we missed her laughter, Joyce & Kayden (Joyce’s son) kind boy who help to massage my back, Brother Song-all time generous man.

Kudos must also go to Sam for inviting and engaging the 3 elderly singers from Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities who came and brighten the day for the elderlies of Moral Home for The Aged Sick.

The event end with briefing by Raymond on our next outing on 27 May 2017 with students from Singapore Sports School.

 

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Written by Sam (Assistant Volunteer Leader)