I forgot what I wanted to blog on Sunday, blah !! Anyways I went for a CSR session today, also known as Corporate Social Responsibility. It's a huge deal for big Corporate in Singapore as they try to repay back to society yet in the nutshell, it's just branded.
Food from the Heart is the Charity organization DB is associated with and earlier this year, there was another event collecting food with the tag line
"Who can survive on the diet of hope"
Fairly eye-catching and meaningful so I decided to sign up. We were tasked to pack and deliver food stuff to the less fortunate who are living in 1 BR apartment. One can never realize how bad living conditions can be, pee stench floating around the void deck, stall air without ventilation on the narrow walk way. As we knocked we managed to meet some of the elderly and then, 2 kids opened up their doors....
A girl barely 10 and a boy younger came to meet us.
Oh... my god..
I couldn't believe how kids can live under such under-privileged conditions in our 1st world country. If I'm talking about how costly Singapore is, what about them?
If I'm hating eating preserved canned food what about them
If I'm complaining about Fast Food like Macs... what about them
If I'm suffering from eating so much junk, what about them?
I had a choice, I chose my diet, but they don't. Human beings should not and never be deprived of fresh food, not in Singapore definitely.
But of course, I barely spent an hour there and I do not know what's going on.
Most of the time i refuse to volunteer because I get so depressed. The last time I could remember was with Singapore Polytechnic, the granny spent so much time talking to me and refusing to let me go home was when I started to really dislike volunteering and just merely started doing labor work like packing or cooking or just donating.
Truth is we all can't fight this alone, only together we can help the less fortunate.
I'm still feeling quite torn apart, a part of me know it's good to help, a part of me just feel so helpless to know, powerless to change... so i donate quite a fair bit yet I know $$ doesn't solve many things..
Ignorance is bliss - godsend?
Where's god.
Not mocking god or any religion but seriously???
To me... the biggest bull...
Just not a very good day...
"Who can survive on the diet of hope"
Fairly eye-catching and meaningful so I decided to sign up. We were tasked to pack and deliver food stuff to the less fortunate who are living in 1 BR apartment. One can never realize how bad living conditions can be, pee stench floating around the void deck, stall air without ventilation on the narrow walk way. As we knocked we managed to meet some of the elderly and then, 2 kids opened up their doors....
A girl barely 10 and a boy younger came to meet us.
Oh... my god..
I couldn't believe how kids can live under such under-privileged conditions in our 1st world country. If I'm talking about how costly Singapore is, what about them?
If I'm hating eating preserved canned food what about them
If I'm complaining about Fast Food like Macs... what about them
If I'm suffering from eating so much junk, what about them?
I had a choice, I chose my diet, but they don't. Human beings should not and never be deprived of fresh food, not in Singapore definitely.
But of course, I barely spent an hour there and I do not know what's going on.
Most of the time i refuse to volunteer because I get so depressed. The last time I could remember was with Singapore Polytechnic, the granny spent so much time talking to me and refusing to let me go home was when I started to really dislike volunteering and just merely started doing labor work like packing or cooking or just donating.
Truth is we all can't fight this alone, only together we can help the less fortunate.
I'm still feeling quite torn apart, a part of me know it's good to help, a part of me just feel so helpless to know, powerless to change... so i donate quite a fair bit yet I know $$ doesn't solve many things..
Ignorance is bliss - godsend?
Where's god.
To me... the biggest bull...
Just not a very good day...
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