Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 7:02 PM * 100th Post
I find it amusing that it actually takes 2 years to have my blog reach its 100th post. Back then when I was in Form 4, I updated my blog almost every single day, only to have my few awesome friends enjoy reading them as much as I do writing them. :] But as the days passed, I found that there are lesser things to share/recall in my blog, and thus my blogging streak somehow ended. It was a sad thing, really. In all honesty, blogging has been an awesome experience in my life. I have already more than 5 blogs, and none of them were a success. There was almost no hit, not to mention that the stuffs I wrote in all those blogs were nonsense. But this time popped out one day like how the rest did, but it was different. It had readers. And it had managed to put smiles and laughter on my readers' faces. :] I even managed to make a new friend out of this blog! [Cheery~ ;D] Maybe because this blog was just too awesome that I feel reluctant to start a new blog right now. Yes, I usually start a new blog whenever I feel like going back to blogging after a long hiatus. A new blog allows me to have a new and fresh start. It always makes me feel refreshing and more enthusiastic to return for more posts. :] But no, I am not going to give this blog up.Having said that, I'm pretty glad to announce that this blog[hopefully] is finally back to life again! I know there won't be as many readers as before anymore, and I know that most readers right now would be new faces. But lets make this blog a fun blog to read again, alright? :D
Okay, so on to real blogging. Went to SPCA today. Well, before I was deciding to choose SPCA as our group's Moral Project destination, I had good impressions of the place. However, right after when everything was set and ready to go, I started hearing awful stuffs about this place. Really kills the mood, and makes me feel as if it's my fault that everyone might have to go through that because of me.
In the end when we're there, well, it's not as bad as I thought it would be. The place is pretty alright. At least it's not too packed [but it might be too squeezy for the dogs =(] and we have spaces to move about. But it's pretty sad that we weren't really given much attention. We weren't provided with guidance, or at least even a litte tour around SPCA. Instead, when we first asked someone for a work to do, we were brought to the Charity Shop to clean up. Well, alright then! So we buckled up and started arranging everything in there, especially folding the clothes donated by all sorts of people.
Halfway through tidying up the clothes, we started talking about how people are sometimes very selfish. Even if they were all donated stuffs, it was pretty obvious that people only donated them because they couldn't use it anymore. Some of them were torn, some of them were stained pretty badly, and all that. It was a pretty sad thing, especially if you consider that SPCA is a pretty rundown place. One sad fact is that, if this SPCA were to be in some other countries, it would probably be more well-equipped, and the donated stuffs would be in better conditions. It feels as if the Charity Shop is the Junkyard.
However, when we're done with tidying, we went back to the kennels and spent more than an hour standing there, doing nothing. No one cared about our presence, except of course, the dogs. Around 12.30 to 1pm, finally someone asked for us to do something. A volunteer approached us and asked if we're here for voluntary work. I said yes and guess what? We were pretty much scolded. She said we were there doing nothing, except for standing around looking everywhere blankly. Well, that was pretty offending. But anyways, she gave us a job, calling Jinq Yee and Er Whey and myself to clean some of the puppies' kennel, change the newspaper that was stained with their faeces and urination. Halfway after we did that, another woman came by and yelled at us.
Wow.
So we tried to defend ourselves by saying that it was someone else who called us to do it, and that woman said, "Oh, it's that volunteer again! She always asks other people to do that! You can't do that! Gosh!" Etc. So, we were once again left with nothing to do. But then the woman asked us to refill all of the puppies' water supply, and after we did that, she said we were to wait for the puppies to finish their food and clean their bowls.
Great. The puppies were all sleeping.
So we asked for anything else to do that, and she shook her head.
More waiting. Great.
But it was already 1.45pm and we couldn't stand waiting there for someone to yell an order at us, only to have another person come by and yell at us for carrying out that order. So we left. As bad as it may seem, we did. But at least, a couple of dogs were being adopted in front of our eyes. So it was all pretty worth it if you ask me. At least we managed to come and meet some awesomes dogs.
Blargh. My post must be boring. So sorry. -___- It's been so long since I last blogged, so yeah. Lets hope I'll still return tomorrow.