Prisons

Today was a very shag day, not becos of work, but becos of the volunteering work for PKS and Shan You.

Upon request by Peifen, I decided to make my trip down to Toa Payoh North to help transport 'some shoes' from a factory to another warehouse at Queenstown. I thought my van could be of some significant help, but upon reaching there, I realised they have at least 400 boxes (see above) of shoes to transport. In fact, there were already 3 big lorries awaiting to transport the shoes. Altogether there were around 7 of us doing the labour job.

The entire process of carrying the boxes down from the factory to the loading bay was shag enough, not mention loading them up to the lorries. Unfortunately, it rained heavily and the lorries were without shelthers. In the end, I have to drive my van to PKS to get some canvass sheets. And we ended up using my mini van to transport 3 boxes of shoes + 6 heavy metallic trolleys. My entire van was fully stuffed, and am glad the van was not 'wasted' afterall.

The unloading process was just as tiring, especially the building was an abandoned warehouse without electricty :s We have to use candlelights.

The helpers who were present were all middle aged guys. Its only after some chats that I realised they were from the Buddhist Lighthouse, which means most of them are ex-convicts. I really feel very happy for them, as they have made their life meaningful by doing volunteering work after their jail term, sadhu!

I always thot I have strong karmic links with the prisons, but touch woood, i dun mean i wanna be an immate, but I really hope I can work in the prisons one day. Too bad, the Singapore Prisons have rejected my application.... perhaps i shld wait for the next round.