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I'm so backlogged with my entries but there's one particular event happened last Friday that I have to bring up.

Fireworks often hold lots of memories for me, and I am always very captivated by the splendour of the illuminance against the dark casted night.

Coincidentally, this email appeared in my school account some weeks before the annual fireworks celebrations at Marina Bay. So, I conveniently sign up as a usher volunteer for the event.

I have to admit while other people paid to get seated at the Marina Bay Floating Platform to watch the fireworks, I choose to take a cheapskate way to watch by volunteering.

Frankly speaking, I really have no qualms about volunteering,because volunteerism is always a meaningful activity BUT I was really quite pissed with the team that took charge of the volunteers that day.

Instead of being usher volunteers, we were asked to sell items to the public for some unknown merchandisers, which turned up to be this glowing mouthpiece at $6 each.

If I have known this will be my work for the event, I wouldn't have turned up at all. Coz, it was not volunteering for a good cause anymore, it was more of volunteering to help generate some revenue for some unknown companies. Even after we probed further for the merchandiser's names, no one could answer us at all. I was feeling quite cheated for the use of my manpower. It was like they packaged cheap labour as volunteers

This is the signup email I received.... It said USHERS.
Please click to read so that you can understand what I say !




The whole process was rather disorganized and we spent long waiting times for those I.C to give us instructions. I mean, I can understand as these usually happen during events where it becomes chaotic and messy.

What upsets me and my friends was the glowing mouthpiece we had to sell looks abit unsafe, especially we need to sell it to kids.

The video shows the mouthpiece we had to sell. There are two batteries in the mouthpiece and when you press the middle, they will light up. And you put it into your mouth so that they glow in the dark.



Well it definitely looks cool! But I seriously think they are meant for secondary school kids and above. Even the instructions on the packaging stated it was not meant for kids under 12.

So we felt unethical selling them to young children and I am not even sure that if children could accidentally get choked by it although the mouthpiece looks too big to be choked. And won't the batteries give out radiation?

Generally, I was quite doubtful of this mouthpiece I have to sell.
And we did encounter several parents or adults who were quite disturbed by the idea that they have to put the item into their mouths.

And Jen got scolded by the IC at the booth when she was trying to be a responsible seller by reminding that the mouthpiece was not suitable for kids under 12.

What comforts us is perhaps the fireworks at the end of the day. The fireworks were good, and for the first time I managed to get a full view of it. Sitting on the floor and gazing up into the sky, and those lights appear like rain showering from the sky.

I think next time perhaps they need to specify the jobscope of their volunteers clearly so that it's not so misleading and upsets volunteers.

But at least they took care of our dinner and there was a thank good dinner at the end of the day which I think it's quite applaudable.

Nevertheless, it's the ethics of the organization that bothers and upsets us.


These are the pictures we took during our waiting time.










I took a video of the fireworks too, but it is like 18 mins long and I dunno how to post a video in mp4 format to the blog. Anyone can help?