The pretty pink wine was however not taken in the picture.
After ending a short
shopping cum temple trip with net on Wednesday at Bugis area, Thursday was yet another busy day.
Initially there was only tuition followed by a baking class in the late afternoon however, Elaine & Alan wanted to meet for lunch and hence I tagged along and joined them at
Barista Express, a cafe in Clifford Center at Raffles Place for lunch.
'The Barista Express (BE) café, a ‘first-of-its-kind’ cafe in Singapore, where people with psychiatric disabilities are provided supportive employment in a business enterprise operating in a commercial district.' [IMH media release] Having heard so much of it, we finally got a chance to visit it!Over all, the
fares are simple and
reasonably priced and we are
satisfied with the service of the cafe:) If you have chance, do drop by for a coffee and
lend your support for them!
Apart from that, Elaine also went for a
scrap booking class earlier and she was really keen to show me what she has done (i was equally excited as well:P). Eventually, she kindly invited me over to her house on Friday for a scrap booking session as i was planning to do a card for the sister's wedding!
*Elated! So nice of Elaine!*After our short lunch, we were all actually heading to different places but since Elaine had nothing on and was about to go home, Alan jio her to accompany him for
a visit to the SAVH (Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped) so we took the North-South Line together and travel down to our respective destinations.
On our way.... my tuition kid's mum called to say that he has got remedial till late so I decided to
cancel the class since there's no way I could go at a later time with my baking class at 7.30pm in Amk. So i was more happy to
go to SAVH with them then going to see the kid, who
blown my top off earlier in the week, and i was not prepared to be nice to him for the class:P
After meeting Xinyi, the four of us make our way down to SAVH for the
orientation undertaken by a staff there.
It's definitely a
eye-opening experience!Braille, those embossed dots you always seen in the lift are done using a special type-writter when it is printed on papers.
Books have to be fed into a reading programme (created by Microsoft) so that the two visually-handicapped translators employed at SAVH can hear the sentences and typed them into Braille using the machine. These dots requires a lot of spacing (in order for people to feel them comfortably), thus books of about
30 pages can come up to 4 times aka 120 pages in the Braille language.
Apart from this, many many
diagrams in school textbooks like mathematics graphs, topo maps, the body anatomy etc too, need to be translated into
embossing texture so that it can be felt by people who are visually handicapped. It's really a taxing and uphill task since all of which are done manually by one of the staff at SAVH and she receive occasional help from school students who go there for weekly volunteering. It's such a
chim process which I'm at a lost for description. Guess u would only understand if you get to see what they actually do:)
After a short orientation and small chit-chats with various staffs there, we ended our short trip while i took bus with Xinyi to my baking class;D
Button Bear was so nice to pick me up from the CC after my baking class and drove me home!;)
Friday Friday!
Scrap booking @ Elaine's was ON! The always patient and encouraging Button Bear tagged along and we run some errand to get GuanXi's Bday Prezzie from
Toy'R'Us @ Tampines Mall before going to Elaine's Place.
At 9pm, we started the scraping session while BB tried finding stuff to
entertain himself and finally decided to read a book from Elaine's collection.
So 1hr passed... 2nd hr passed... 3rd, 4th too!We were finally done at
1.30am! *GOSH*[my commencement is just next day & BB got get home to prepare for the sis's chinese wedding]
BB was
so tired that we was already sleeping on the floor at the corner of Elaine's room while we were doing up the card.
Finally, it was done;D
N73's resolution is pretty bad at night or dim places.
But nonetheless, here's the
painstaking product that Elaine has helped me with and it's hanginf nicely on Elaine's room door knob. There's also a nice pull-out card in the pocket at the right bottom corner of the card.
Since it was not getting any early and by the time we both go home respectively, it would have been very 'early', Elaine
took us in for the night and we bunked in her room for several hours before
leaving at 7am in the morning.
Saturday 07.07.07
Commencement & Wedding Bliss
Coincidentally,
BB's cousin aka
'meng', who has to go to his house to welcome the arrival of the groom's car, lived just below Elaine and he
got a lucky ride from us in the morning else he would have to travel alone to Seng Kang on a very early Saturday morning under the heavy downpour.
After the morning ceremony, BB quickly changed into a smart outfit for my
commencement later and we traveled back to CCK at 10am and I got myself a little rest (super tired cos only slept 3hrs) while he again, hurried off to get some stuff before coming back to fetch my family and I to UCC for the ceremony.
Got a nice surprise, BB went to City Hall to get a Single Stalk Rose Bouquet from
Secret Garden!*So sweet* of him to travel the distance;)
Was a bit kan jiong before the ceremony.. partly there was lot of traveling & was suffering from fatigue from the
lack of sleep but it all turned out well.
Straight after, the whole of UCC was so packed and after meeting Suyi, I hurried to leave the place since we have all went earlier to took pictures already. We send mama-lemon home and then went back to Seng Kang/Punggol for the
wedding reception at the newly-wed's home and then finally home sweet home!
(Left) Nicely wrapped pink prezzie & card for the newly-wed!
Our Amazing Race on 7.7.07!
Look!
Tampines(7am)-> SengKang(10am)-> CCK(10.30am)-> CityHall(11.50pm)->
CCK(1.00pm)-> Clementi(4.50pm)-> CCK(5.30pm)-> SengKang(6.00pm)->
Punggol(6.15pm)-> SengKang(6.15pm)-> Punggol(8.45pm)-> SengKang->
CCK(9pm)-> SengKang(Home Sweet Home 10.30pm)
SundayDinner treat by Da-Jie!
The basket, glasses and candles look good too but this would badly exceed my budget:P
The pretty pink wine was however not taken in the picture.
N73's resolution is pretty bad at night or dim places.
Was a bit kan jiong before the ceremony.. partly there was lot of traveling & was suffering from fatigue from the lack of sleep but it all turned out well.
