LHE Fund Raising With Stormtroopers!

Shortly after the LB fund raising, there was another fund raising flag day.

Since me and Ace had nothing on, I decided to bring him out again to take part. As Max returned to Dubai by then, we went by ourselves lah.. and I also had a chance to take a look at his fund raising prowess...

When we arrived, Ace told me things like, "The young people won't donate one.. must ask the older people..."

So I thought like he is very expert like that.

But leh, when I followed him out, I noticed that he is quite shy.. he does not dare to walk up to people.. and even if he did, he did not dare to hold out his tin to other people.

He will keep walking round and round and then look like an aimless lost soul like that.

Got one aunty see he so poor thing, came up to him to donate and told him to walk up to people to ask them..

And then leh, I realized for him, as he is a kid and he is shy. It is best that he just stand in ONE PLACE and hold his tin out and SMILE.

And true enough, that is a good strategy.. wahahaha..

On that day, one of my friends also brought another friend along to help volunteer together with us. They belong to the local Stormtroopers group and are going to dress up as a storm trooper (white) and the other one dressed as shadow stormtrooper.

When my friend A started dressing up, the very curious Ace went up to KPO.. hahahaa. A gor gor asked Ace to help him and the very cute Ace instead of helping just wanted to try out the mask and find out if all the weapons A is carrying are real.. ahahaha..

He says they are way cool and that he wants to become part of their team and have his own outfit too:) wahahaha

We were tasked to be escorts of A and all Ace wanted to do.. instead of getting donations is talk to A gor gor! Wahaahaha... wah lau, boh zoh gang!

Really thankful for their help!

Cos usually when we do flag day, people just donate 20 cents or what. But hor, with the Stormtroopers around, many people will want to take photo and if they take photo, instead of 20 cents, they will donate 2 dollars!

And it is really not easy cos there are many layers in the outfit and it is not very breathable and it is also not very light! Really salute our two stormtrooper volunteers lor!:)

And I am very heartened to see that there are many many kind, generous souls around. Many aunties also donated because they say, "It must be tough to be in this outfit.." and they donating for A's effort.

Once person even came up and told A that she is donating to A because he brought a smile to her face:)

But hor, with my own personal experience, the people who are least well dressed, will be most generous. And this time, we met many like this.. like this aunty.. moment she heard for old folks home.. she dig out all the coins and spare change in her wallet and donated everything!

There was another wierd wierd uncle in shabby clothing. but he donated $50.. and on top of that, he walked around and kept donating to our various volunteers and I think he donated a few hundred dollars in total:) See, cannot judge a book by its cover!

Ace is happiest that he met his kindergarten classmate, D, there! So we promptly took a photo together!:)

There was this other little boy who volunteered with his dad. He was more outgoing and will shout out loud, "Please donate to the LIons HOme For the Elders!" Well done!:)

One of our senior Lions asked Ace to put on his vest and encouraged him to become a lion when he grows up:) Hahaha..

But for now, he is our club's youngest lion:) wahahaha...

Godma and Godpa also brought P along to volunteer.. but they were at another location. It was about lunch time and they came to jio us for lunch together..

The god brother and sister are very happy to see each other again:)

Ace was also restless and hungry..so I very paiseh, tell A we go for lunch first as he said he wanted to continue all the way till 1pm..

When we were walking to the foodcourt.. we saw these little furry animals.. you can ride if you pay. Ace wanted to ride but I wouldn't hear of it. He so big liao.. plus.. so ex leh.. $5 for only one ride. Lasts only about a few minutes.. not very wu hua...

But leh, our good friend go and incite his god sister to say, "We want to ride, we want to ride!" after having lunch and the two of them cheered at the top of their voice.

As P's grandparents were with us.. in the end, Ah gong soft hearted and gave in and paid for one ride and we told them to share... So Ace helped P control the elephant and they went two rounds around the place..

Anyway, it was a great experience for me as well:)

Once and again, many many thanks to my friend and his kaki for volunteering and helping out!:)

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