Socks For Japan - A whopping 420 pairs!

Remember my post "Let's Do This - Socks For Japan Drive!"?  Mom did such an incredible job!  She somehow, within 2 days, managed to gather a total contribution of 360 pairs from herself and her fellow friends, the many good hearted people of Kluang!  Awesome isn't she?

Initial plan was to just courier the few pairs she have to KL before we despatch it off together with Evie's collection to Japan.  But since the number grew so tremendously, she decided to deliver them to KL herself instead.  Check out the big pile of socks!!  My house does momentarily feels like a socks factory for awhile (exactly what Evie commented after I deliver them over to her place for despatch)... hahaha...

Here, mom sticking these 'care notes' that I've printed onto each and every pair of the socks.  I could've made them nicer, but mind you, 420 pairs are no joke ok.  Lols...  It took us quite awhile to complete the task.  But we were having great fun along the way too.  

 These are the little notes that I've prepared.

The socks with the little notes.   Coincidentally, as we were packing them up, we realized the label of the socks were photo of our very own Twin Tower!  How significant!

Mom was lamenting that some people were commenting how she was wasting her time on the socks as they were not thermal.  To us is, we contribute whatever we could, in our little ways.  If one pair is not enough, they can  always wear another and another and another.  Afterall, winter doesn't last forever.  After winter, socks are still a necessity especially to the Japanese.  

Anyway, that's us, sticking the notes and packing them up.  We can't help but felt so good about the whole thing.  How it brings together people from all walks of life, irregardless of status, race & nation, contributing whatever they could whole heartedly, so that someone across the world (a total stranger to them) would feel comforted.  

What a drastic contrast to whatever that's happening in Libya.  If only it is Libya that experience the 3-in-1 disaster (earthquake + tsunami + nuclear meltdown), there would be no war but slightly more LOVE.