Pyjamas Fun Party

21 December 2008

Sunday makes a good day to sleep or go out shopping, but for committed volunteers such as Hock Rong, Wei Kiat, Chee Lee and Ming Choo, they sacrificed their break from work/school to sell tickets for the Eunos Healthy Lifestyle Day.

Walking around your estate can be interesting. A lot of people just walk the same route to work and back to home for decades and miss all the nice sceneries around their neighbourhood. I particularly enjoy the birds' eye view from high storeys when we are doing the door-to-door ticket selling. There was a Malay wedding and it was coincidental that we happened to see the bride and groom being ushered in.

I am still learning from Hock Rong regarding ticket selling. I admire and respect his commitment to talking to all the residents, whose doors are open, before handing over a flyer. We managed to sell about 30 tickets in 3 hours and to 5 blocks of flats.

We saw a cat which we initally thought was dead. When we approached it, we realised that it was still breathing. A resident informed us that the cat had been abused by children. The legs of the cat were beaten, causing reduced mobility of the cat and poor appetite. The cat was likely to be pregnant. As the ears were not clipped, the cat was an unsterilised stray cat. We made a call to SPCA and they picked up the cat within 15 minutes. We both thought it was a very inhumane act by the culprits.

In the evening, Hock Rong, Jialing, Wei Kiat and I attended the Pyjamas Fun Party organised by the Eunos CC Women's Executive Committee. We are honoured to be invited by the WEC. I brought the pyjamas along but was hesitant to wear it. When I reached the CC, I bumped into the pyjamas-cladded Rosalind and decided to show support by donning the pyjamas.

Carin was also wearing a pyjamas and emceeing the event. It was a great experience wearing something that I normally wouldn't wear outside my house. Jialing was so "on" to wear hers when Hock Rong and I wore ours. I can see a camaraderie in the making.


Jialing walked home in her pyjamas and the group of us later went to MacDonald's for some snacks. We all ordered Chocolate Fudge Sundae!