Dover Park Hospice fund raising project proves a hit for wrong reasons

SINGAPORE: Charity fundraisers are common in Singapore. But an initiative to raise money to help care for the dying has highlighted a less charitable side of the nation.

The sunflower is a symbol of palliative care and Dover Park Hospice began selling them at Raffles Place on Monday to raise funds.

Those who donate S$5 can either plant a flower nearby or take it away.

But on Tuesday morning, volunteers arrived to find empty grass patches as all the 1,000 sunflowers planted the day before had been taken away.

Stefanie Yuen—Thio, chairperson, Dover Park Hospice, Fund Raising Committee, said: "Singaporeans may not have known what this was about, they may have thought it was the gerberas from the kindness movement."

There were no signs to indicate the sunflowers are part of a fundraiser, creating a moral dilemma for some.

Said one woman in the street: "If everybody is taking it, people will think that it’s free."

But discreet tags on the flowers pricked the conscience of some who had taken them.

Ms Yuen—Thio added: "When some people who had taken it and read the little tag on the card, they found that the flowers were part of a fundraising effort. They felt really bad. A lovely lady who had taken it by mistake came back and she apologised, and she made a S$40 donation."

To prevent the sunflowers from being taken again, they will be put up in the morning and removed in the evening, everyday, until the Dover Park Hospice walk on Sunday. — CNA/vm



This is an even greater issue on this day's society. What's with people getting their every chance on 'free things' even before the Singapore Kindness Movement implemented a project about giving away sunflowers to people who want to give them to people they want to thank?

After that project, there comes another one. Dover Park Hospice Care's fund-raising. But most Singaporeans are dreadfully and awfully mistaken about it. It was meant to be SOLD and NOT FREE. And people just had to take them.

It's like saying, I go to your house when you're out and nick off something just because I think is free. Isn't it outright STEALING?

I sympathise with the efforts of Dover Park Hospice Care. And I utterly HATE ugly Singaporeans. Loathe them. The failures of society. In fact, I do not think it's plain ugly. It's disgusting attitude.

I hope that for those with conscience, they could come back and make a donation. At least pay for the $5 price tag that was set for those sunflowers.

For those who have no conscience, you can go to hell and rot. End of story.


Now, things are getting about just fine. No more studies, making me aimless. All those playing making me sick too.

And I tried Left 4 Dead with Janus and Kin Tuck. I was an utter disaster. Couldn't see the gun's aim and had a hard time trying to figure out how to get along properly.
(Sorry lah, I just started mah, a beginner leh! =P)

But Left 4 Dead wasn't as creepy as I thought. Until Kin Tuck said, "Don't shoot anything lying on the floor and has red eyes. It's a Witch."

Sounded very ominous. Indeed.

Zombies. And more zombies. Argh.

Brandon invited me to watch Paranormal Activity with others, but I didn't enjoy ghost or horror movies, so sadly, I declined. But I really hoped to watch some comedy. =P

Anyway, I still feel bored. Too much free time. Maybe I could find some free time to lelong my old school stuff....