--- title: President Halimah Quizzed by Residents! description: "Our Home welcomes visitors and volunteers daily throughout the week. However, on the 27th September, we received a special guest. President Halimah Yacob visited our residents after our seniors’ self-produced fundraising video caught her attention. The President toured our Home and viewed the plan" image: https://www.stjohneldershome.org.sg/hubfs/President1.jpg --- # Single Blog Page ## A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul. ## [President Halimah Quizzed by Residents!](https://www.stjohneldershome.org.sg/blog/president-halimah-quizzed-by-residents) Date: 18-Jun-2020 Category: # President Halimah Quizzed by Residents! Posted by [Monica Chia](https://www.stjohneldershome.org.sg/blog/author/monica-chia) on 26-Oct-2018 13:19:14 ![Monica Chia](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) Our Home welcomes visitors and volunteers daily throughout the week.  However, on the 27th September, we received a special guest.  President Halimah Yacob visited our residents after our [seniors’ self-produced fundraising video](https://www.giving.sg/stjohnshomesg/seniorsonline2018) caught her attention. [*Watch self-produced video here.*](https://www.giving.sg/stjohnshomesg/seniorsonline2018) ![President joins in birthday celebration](https://www.stjohneldershome.org.sg/hs-fs/hubfs/President1.jpg?width=600&name=President1.jpg) The President toured our Home and viewed the plans of our new building.  She interacted with our seniors and also joined in a birthday celebration for residents born in the month of September.  The President even accepted an “interview” from our 8 seniors involved in the fundraising video.  She fielded questions like what her meals in Istana are and whether she likes to sing, for which she replied that she liked to hear people sing instead of singing herself.  To everyone’s delight, our resident, [Uncle Tan spontaneously sang](https://www.facebook.com/StJohnsHomeSg/videos/1098705280296569/) his favourite Hokkien number when the President invited him to sing a tune. *[Watch Uncle Tan singing here (filmed by our senior resident).](https://www.facebook.com/StJohnsHomeSg/videos/1098705280296569/)* Quoting from the Channel 5 news interview, President Halimah Yacob said “because they don’t want to be just recipients, they also want to contribute (to the building fund), and social media has allowed them to do that.” Her visit was not only an encouragement to our seniors that they can learn to be tech-savvy and continue to be socially active but also an affirmation to our Home’s work, that is to care and provide for the needy elderly in Singapore. 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