In the end, it was considered a great success for Magical Christmas. Yesterday at the last day for the event, i was again doing flyer distribution. Being the last day, i did my best to give out all our flyers since after the event, they are considered waste.
The number of bags collected in the earlier part of the day was slow. As reported by Serene Tan, she was worried that we may not reach our target.
Just for info, our initial target was 600 over 3 days... but after the first two days, as according to Slyester, the manpower allocated by Red Cross is supposed to be for 250 bags per day. After 2 days of collection, we had around 480-490. Thus for the last day, they were aiming for a total of 750 bags.
By 2pm, the number was still around 580 bags. A little surprise by the number, i went down to check the situation myself. What i saw was instead full house at every station. It was crowded, but why the number was low was puzzling. So i tried to give assurance to Serene Tan, even if we do not hit the 750 target, we would definitely be close. I was confident of that.
In the later part, i was standing near the PS gantry giving out the flyers. There, i spent a lot more effort giving out, as time was ticking by. It was about an hour plus left before the end of the registration. There, also had a Prudential booth where the agents are doing their usual survey thingy. Luckily, they did not bother us.. keke.. one of them even went to donate blood. Kudos to them...
i managed to hand out all the flyers in the end. So for me, it was a personal mission accomplished. at 5pm, i simply walked around with Serene Toh, chit chatting. It was till then, we saw Karin! She really did come for the donation. We also get to see her bf.. haha... indeed a good body for a commando...
After seeing the doctor, luckily Karin could donate. When she was at the last station, i cheekily went into store and change into the blood buddy mascot. haha.. wanted to scare Karin...
Anyway, I was in it for a while... but managed to catch some ppl's attention while they are waiting for their turn. Some took the chance to take pictures with me..got one cute kid still came and kiss "me"... wahahaha... so Happy! When i went to Karin there... so easily, she guess it that it was me... so fast... No fun....
When i changed back, it was about her turn for the bleeding bed. I managed to get them both to sit together. Throughout the donation, she was nervous about it though it was her 2nd time. anyway... luckily, it was still considered smooth in the end, though the nurse had some trouble finding her vein intially. I managed to bandage her arm at the end too... Yeah!
Oh ya.. back to the number of bags... in the end, guess what... the final figure was 755 bags... well over our target... everyone was so happy especially Serene Tan... We then took our group picture... and began to clear out the area.
to me, beside the blood donation target, i hope this event have managed to spread the message around the importance of blood donation. I hope it is a platform to create awareness to the public...and to me, that's what the whole Magical Christmas is about...
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