Stand down at CMH on 29/6/2013‏

We will be standing down this weekend at CMH as some of us will be at a meeting to prepare for the upcoming Henderson CC goodies bag distribution event. Breakfast will be carried out by another volunteer group as it is the last week of the month.

Thanks to all who have responded thus far for the outing to Gardens by the Bay. Please do let us know if you have any restriction to the type of food, or we will assume that you can take the food we catered for. In case you are wondering, there will not be any beef.

Upcoming Events:
13 July - CMH Outing to Gardens By The Bay - Organised by David and Team  
You can find details of the outing plan @ https://www.box.com/s/v7w6t8te6fvzjj787342 - 5 more volunteer slots to fill
20 July - Henderson Goodies Bag Packing and Distribution
31 Aug - Hungry Ghost Festival Celebration (7th Month) - Looking for volunteers to organise
21 Sep - Mid Autumn Festival Celebration - Looking for volunteers to organise

Feel free to contact us if you need more details for any upcoming events or you would like to volunteer your service to help organise for any upcoming events.

Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing.

"One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None
are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act." ~ Hannah More

[IMPORTANT] Volunteering Activity CANCELLED on 22/6/13‏

Due to the bad weather out there, we have decided to stand down for this weekend activity at CMH. All activities this Saturday will be cancelled.

Please drink more water and take your vitamins to build up your immunity to battle against the Haze condition and Dengue.

Stay safe and healthy. Have a good rest over the weekend!! Pray that we will be able to see a clear sky soon.

Volunteering Activity on 22/6/13‏ and Updates for Upcoming Events

Just a brief updates on the major activities lining up for the coming months.

13 July - CMH Outing to Gardens By The Bay - Organised by David and Team
You can find details of the outing plan @ https://www.box.com/s/v7w6t8te6fvzjj787342
Thanks to all who have responded and will be coming down to help out at the event, for those who have not responded, do make it fast as we are nearing full capacity =)
20 July - Henderson Goodies Bag Packing and Distribution
31 Aug - Hungry Ghost Festival Celebration (7th Month) - Looking for volunteers to organise
21 Sep - Mid Autumn Festival Celebration - Looking for volunteers to organise

If you are free and you would like to help to organise any of the above events, do drop me an email. We will be very glad to have your service, and you do not have to worry if you have no idea how to start, we will guide you with organising the event as well.

==============================================

29 June - As some of us will be having a briefing in preparation of the Henderson Goodies Bag Event, we may stand down for the week, look out for further information.

Also do note that there will be a long long weekend coming up in August, 8/8 - Hari Raya Puasa, 9/8 - National Day follow by the weekend, we will be standing down on this weekend, however, we may be organising a gathering or sort for this week. Do look out for further information as the date draw nearer.

==============================================

Alright, for this coming weekend, we will have our usual breakfast service, followed by playing Bingo with the beneficiaries. If time and weather permits, we will bring some of the residents out for lunch at the nearby market.

First Service
Breakfast
Time: 0700 - 0800
Food: Fried Mee Tai Mak

Activities Session
Time: 0930hrs - 1200hrs
Activities: Bingo Session and Hawker outing

Feel free to contact me if you need more details for any events.
Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing. See you on Saturday!!

"We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Winston Churchill

Dumpling Festival and Casino Games Celebration

First and foremost, I would like to thank those who had sacrificed their Saturday morning and turned up to help out. I believe you have made the day of many residents. We could not have made it through without all your support and effort!

Check out some photos of the event taken by Chee Wei below!

Thank you for the morning and see you next week!

Best Regards,

Tan Chin Lee

Volunteering Activity on 15/6/13 (DragonBoat Festival / 端午节)

For this coming weekend, we will have our usual breakfast service, followed by Dragonboat Festival Celebration with the serving of chinese dumplings. If time and weather permits, we will bring some of the residents out for lunch at the nearby market.

For those who have yet to revert on their availability on the 13/7 Outing, please do let us know soon. Thanks.

First Service
Breakfast
Time: 0700 - 0800
Food: Curry Chicken Noodles

Activities Session
Time: 0930hrs - 1200hrs
Activities: Games Session for Dragonboat Festival  (端午节) and Hawker outing
Teabreak: Chinese Dumpling

Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing. See you on Saturday!!

"VOLUNTEERISM proves that - In every straining, there is a training; in every training, there is a learning; and in every learning, there is an earning." - Chris Ebenezer

Volunteering Activity on 1/6/13

I believe most of you would have known that we will be having an outing to Garden by the Bay on 13th July (8am - 3pm). I would really appreciate it if you could let us know if you would be able to make it on that day by 15th June. (This will facilitate volunteers-elderly pairing as well as allows us time to call for backup volunteers from other places if we do not have enough volunteers). 

For this coming weekend, we will have our usual breakfast service, followed by games with the beneficiaries. If time and weather permits, we will bring some of the residents out for lunch at the nearby market.

First Service
Breakfast
Time: 0700 - 0800
Food: Otah With Bread 

Activities Session
Time: 0900hrs - 1200hrs
Activities: Birthday Celebration, Games and Hawker outing

Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing.

“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” ~ Edward "Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009); Us Senator

Volunteering Activity on 25/5/13 (Food Festival - Roti Prata)‏

Well well well, its finally our once a month Food Festival again~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hope you are as excited as I am. =)

Before I start with the details for this week activities, let me update you with some of our upcoming major activities.

15/6/13
- Games Carnival in celebration of Chinese Dumpling Festival (We will be serving chinese dumplings on this day)
~ Many THANKS to Chin Lee and his Father for sponsoring the Chinese Dumplings once again
~ Also not forgetting Ronald, Minxuan, Chee Wei and Chin Lee for organising the Games Carnival. So lets all look forward to it.

13/7/13
- Outing to Garden by the Bay, Planning is still in process.
~ Many THANKS to David for volunteering his time to do all the planning and preparation ahead of the outing. Also thanks to all who have provided your inputs.

FOOD FESTIVAL

Ok, so for this week, we will be preparing Roti Prata for our beneficiaries topped with CURRY CHICKEN and/or BROWN SUGAR.

Second Service
Food Festival
Time: 0815 - 1300 (Please help keep to the timing so that we can start on time and be in time for teabreak)
Food: Roti Prata topped with Curry Chicken and/or Brown Sugar and hawker outing

Many THANKS to
~ Shermin, who have kindly volunteered to assist with the purchase of Frozen Roti Prata.
~ Anthony, who have without fail provided his own personal stove and frying pan and gas for our monthly Food Festival.
~ Nimmi, who have kindly volunteered to purchase some brown sugar to be serve with the Prata.

Finally, I have managed to purchase another 3 more Non-stick induction frying pan, this will allows us to have more station to fry the roti prata this week.

A brief note on the process this weekend:
1) We will setup 3 stoves and 3 induction cookers to fry the Roti Prata (we will rotate volunteers to do the cooking to give everyone a chance to do it)
    Concurrently, we will have volunteers to help prepare drinks to go with the Roti Prata.
2) All the cooked Prata will then be placed in trays and cover up to keep warm
3) Once we have prepared a sufficient quantity of Prata, we will start to place them in plates topped with curry and/or brown sugar.
4) If we have enough volunteers to go around, we will serve the prata and drinks to the beneficiaries.

Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing. See you on Saturday!!

"The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.” ~ Pablo Casals

Blog Maintenance [Update]

Heartwarmers blog will be down for maintenance tonight, 19/05/2013 around 11:00 pm +8 GMT. Blog will be available around 12:00 am. Meanwhile, why not take a consideration in volunteering?

We apoloigse for the inconvenience caused.
 

----------

Update: The maintenance has been completed successfully. Thank you for your patience.

• Hyperlink has been updated to fix a bug where certain layout were not loading. If the layout still unavailable, please clear your internet cache and refresh the blog to resolve this issue.

• Numerous of previous post with white text background has been fixed.

Thanks for reporting the bug!

----------

Volunteering Activity on Saturday 18/5/2013

Please take note that we will have our monthly Food Festival next week, 25th May, as there will be a group coming in this Saturday. We will take the time to discuss more about the food festival next week instead :)

For this coming weekend, we will have our usual breakfast service only.

First Service
Breakfast
Time: 0700 - 0800
Food: Otah with Bread
Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing.
"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! "~George Elliston

Volunteering Activity on Saturday 16/3/13 - Open House (Food Festival + Games Session)‏

For this coming weekend, we will have our usual breakfast service, followed by Food Festival and Games with the residents.

We will be having our first open house (recruitment). Please reached by 8.15am for the Food Festival so that we could have enough time to brief you all on what individual jobs you have and also to set up the cooking equipments be prepared for the open house.

*First Service*

Breakfast
Time: 0700 - 0800
Food: Penang Fried Kway Teow

*Activities Session (Recruitment)*
*Time: 0815hrs - 1200hrs*

Activities: Food Festival + Games
*Food Festival Notes:*

This time, we will be making Luncheon Meat Burger for our beneficiaries. Ingredients includes: Burger Bread, Luncheon Meat, Hard Boiled Egg, Mayonnaise, ....

If you have portable gas stove and pan and would like to loan it to us for this event, please kindly bring along on Saturday =)

A rough plan has been drawn up below. Plan may change with situation.

*Station 1: Cutting Station 1: Hard-boiled egg*
Number of Volunteers: 4-5
Job 1: De-shelling the egg
Job 2: Cutting the egg into small pieces to be mixed with mayonnaise later.

*Station 2: Cutting Station 2: Luncheon Meat*
Number of Volunteers: 4-5
Job: Cutting the Luncheon Meat into 6 round pieces per can.
 Job 2: Deep/Pan Fried the Luncheon Meat (TBC)

*Station 3: Cutting Station 3: Burger Bread*
Number of Volunteers: 3-4
Job 1: Cutting the Burger bread into 2
Job 2: Toasting the bread (TBC)

*Station 4: Mixing Station: Mixing*
Number of Volunteers: 3-4
Job: Mixed the cut up eggs with mayonnaise


*Station 5: Final Station*
Number of Volunteers: 3-4
Job: Putting the Bread, Luncheon Meat, Mixed Eggs + Mayonnaise together

*Station 6: Drinks Station*
Number of Volunteers: 3-4
Job: Making drinks and served them in cups

*Games Notes*
We will be setting up Games stall at 2 different location
1) Foyer
2) Stage and by the side corridor

Proposed Games: (Subject to Changes)

1) Golf (1)
2) Bowling (2)
3) Water Gun (2)

If there are too many volunteers, I would encourage volunteers to head the therapy room to play table soccer or table tennis with the residents.

Have a lovely week and may your days be filled with overflowing blessing. See you on Saturday!!

"If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that."

By Frances Burnett