Today I went to Community Singing with Robert Fernando. He has an awesome voice, really deep and clear, very suitable for oldies. I think such events are  really awesome, to bond the community with music. Looking deeper into it, the songs he arranged are sooooo suited. He started off the song with "I believe in music", and got the atmosphere up with the exercises and ice breaking. Then, in the middle, the transition to the other singer was good, with the bridge song being "Release Me" and such.

The audience are all so supportive, standing up to join in the singing, and even stood up to groove. At his part, he frequently engaged audience participation by splitting us half or by gender, or to call up audiences on stage. There was the kids, soooo cute! especially the sisters! When singing "Rasa Sayang" one of them actually turned towards her sis and gave her a shhhh sign hahahs. Really cute! And there's the guy who took the whole balloon sculpture nearly his size and asked whether he can have it. Anyway, back to Robert, I loved the part of Quando Quando where he started a train chain with the audience, and all of us was involved in the train ahah! And at Blue Suede Shoes he encouraged us to dance.

One of the best community singing I've been to! I hope this type of event would reach out not only for the senior community to bond and have fun, but also the youths to rekindle the flames of oldies up, and we can have a n intergenerational community of love and joy, where people greet each other on streets and have compassion towards one another.

We were approached by a lady that sells some trivial thing that I did not need, so I said sorry no, she went on talking with anger, that she's from some organisation I couldnt recall, and that they are not as fortunate as us having meals, and then continued to "scold" us for being ungrateful and she also mentioned about pursuit of religious faith that she thinks do not benefit herself.

I just felt pitiful for her as I know there are less well off people in the society, but in every society, for every rich there would be poor, cant help it, and for every poor there would be a rich to reach out to them, and thats how society functions. I mean, at least in Singapore, the statistics of absolute poverty are really really small, there are a great pillar of support from religious groups and non profit organisations for them. I always stereotyped the poor to have more understanding and wisdom towards life and hardships, but looks like im really wrong. To an extend, she's really myopic and full of self resentment.

Besides, wont they think of some other ways other than begging for money? No free lunches in the world okay! Gotta earn the effort to at least please Heaven to give you a way out, and in the first place are you even sensitive to the medium or forms of help Heaven sent?

Oh anyway my dad sent in a resume for the RC manager position, hopefully he gets in, then it is really the right platform to actually make a difference, towards a more united and happier community!