Mr T C.C, Official visit 24 May

     Today my group consisting of Shuangshuang, Edwin, Junda and me went to visit Mr T C.C. When we arrived at his doorstep, the front door was slightly opened and Mr T was sitting at the sofa. He was obviously waiting for us. We called out his name, he stood up quickly and approached the door. Being aware of his wounded leg, we reminded him to take his time and don't rush. The wound at his left shin had more or less healed but the lower half of the leg is swollen and Mr T remarked that it still hurts. Mr T had visited the doctor thrice and finished the prescribed medicine so he was worried that his leg may be amputated. Perhaps, because of his eyesight Mr T tends to be pessimistic every now and then. Now that he is injured and he can't attend to his own wound or at least see how his wound is like, this feeling of helplessness hit him even harder. We comforted him, patted his shoulder and told him to cheer up so that his wound may recover quicker.

     We were reminded to take photo of photos, this is for the scrap book THES will be making for each elderly to help them encapsulate their memories. We asked Mr Tay if he have any photos, without any hesitation he took out 3 albums from his drawer to show us. Flipping through the albums, we were quite surprised that there wasn't many photos of Mr T. Instead, there were many pictures of his female friends and perhaps his sister. As Mr T enjoy his butter coffee, we asked him who were those ladies. Mr T said they were his friends whom he used to go out with. We teased Mr T and asked him for the secret of going out with 3 ladies at once. Mr T told us that it was easy because he used to own a car and every time they eat out he would always treat them. Edwin was a little skeptical that Mr T had a car even though we saw photos of a car in the album. Shuangshuang clarified with Mr T and he said out his car plate number as proof. We checked the photo and sure enough the car plate number tallied. Shuangshuang was very impressed and the guys teased her by "judging" her. We asked Mr T what kind of girl he like. He admitted that he was quite picky, he doesn't like girls who are too "big" or too "small" and ideally she should look like Lin Dai, a famous actress-singer in the 50s and early 60s. He quickly added that, we should not be too particular about the appearance and what matters more is compatibility. His advice felt like a personal experience sort of advice and true indeed.

Ah Hai