Had the opportunity to see Mr. Lee Hsien Loong as he dropped by the Keppel Arts Centre in the evening while I was doing volunteer.
The kids from different schools that came over yesterday were amazing.
Art should really be nurtured from young. It is the age where children have the best imaginations and creations that we would not have thought of.
As I was helping out in the Children's Museum for a while, I had a small chat with a group of boys from Endeavour Primary. They were given a small kit that consist of 2 thick straws, some cotton strings and a thin strap to make their own creation. With these few materials, these boys made a timing bomb, a robot, a fish hook and a mini wrecking ball!
Not sure if these have to be paid when it is open to public, but I believe it would still be money well spent.
After the children were done with the activities, dinner was provided at the auditorium foyer.
It also means resting time and dinner time for the volunteers.
As we are mostly from different BUs, we seldom have the chance to meet or get to know one another. Dinner was amazing. Not because the packet food was great, but the companion was awesome. Although once in a while we have to attend to the children's needs, we had a great chat within ourselves.
Over a 30 minutes dinner break, we got to understand more about each other's job scope and environment. We even got to know each other on personal basis, and turns out that everyone is staying in the same area! After the students were dismissed and boarded their buses back to school, we are dismissed as well.
We were allowed to slowly explore the different areas in KAC. Of course, the 'children at heart' agreed to stay in the Treehouse area! I believe this is the last chance for us to explore freely and have the place to ourselves. We had fun taking pictures around the area!
Before we left the National Gallery, we dropped by the new room called 'Who's in the Woods?'. We created all sort of animals with different animal parts and coloured all sorts of colours we could and posted up to the screen.
That basically sums up our event this evening at the museum. After we left, we decided to head over to Starbucks for a cup of coffee before we call it a day.
Although this is only my first volunteer event in Keppel and I'm abit shy when I just joined, I am glad everyone enjoyed themselves during the interaction time.
We assumed the event on Monday was the last one before our standard volunteer routine starts, we were wrong!
Couple days later, we received an invitation to represent Keppel for the Meet & Greet session with our President, Dr. Tony Tan, at the National Gallery Museum. It would be on the night of the launch of carnival.
Not being unappreciative, but it would have been better if we were hosting children instead. The joy of communicating with different children in the arts centre.
Nonetheless, the few of us still enjoyed the night with our Volunteer President, our Chairman and one of the GMs. It was a night full of wefies and formal photos.
After the event, I keep annoying my friends how honoured my handphone is as it was used to capture the photos of our President, our ministers, Keppel Chairman, Mr. Milenko and some other more. Did I mention that our Chairman praised my phone cover? Hahahaha!
We had the chance to visit the galleries after the dinner reception as well. Of course, I jumped on the opportunity and visited the 'Wu Guan Zhong' gallery that I missed the previous visit as it was still not fully set up.
After the rush around the museum, we managed to catch the 10pm façade show outside the building. It was magnificent!
No coffee for that night as we were all very tired.
Looking forward to the next volunteer event!
