DONE!!

Finally, I had done my 20 days of community services. It was really a very good experience for me to work together with my friends and work for the community. What I have done were volunteering at National Zoo, SPCA, IMU Chariofare, National Kidney Foundation, Ballet class and United Voice. It was fun to be a volunteer and helping people who needs us. "Nothing in life is FREE, but LOVE is!" ♥ 

Throughout this community services, I have getting closer to my classmates and knowing each other better than before. These 20 days have became an unforgettable memories in my life. Just like my blog title, these 20 days will be THE MOMENTS in my heart.  ♥ Appreciate all of you to be one part of the memories ♥

A helping hand for the United Voice

This is my last community service which was helping in a fund raising event by the United Voice (Self-Advocacy Society of Persons with Learning DIsabilities). It is a Christmas charity sales event: A Gift to One is a Blessing to Another, which held from 30th November 2012 to January 2013, at Subang Parade.

Hoon Mun, Su-Xian, Eugene and I were in a group for this volunteer work. I had volunteered at there for 5 days which are 30th of November, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th of December 2012. We worked in the morning shift from 9a.m. to 2p.m. while Yee Yein and Joe were the afternoon shift. We were helping to sell the handicrafts, cookies which made by the persons with learning disabilities and also the United voice T-shirts. Every morning when we reached our booth, we were assigned to check the sales track sheet before we started our selling. Some of us were arranging the stuffs, counting for stocks, checking stocks and recording the number of stocks.

Hoon Mun and I were counting the T-shirts.

Busy-ing in the morning. Arranging cookies (Eugene), Counting stocks (Me), Recording stocks (Hoon Mun) and Packaging the stocks (Su-Xian).

On the first day of the event, we were asked to set up a Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is for those who bought a gift pack to hang their messages on the tree. This is the first time I set up a Christmas tree and it is not an easy job to set up a nice Christmas tree. But finally we made it and took a photo with the nice Christmas tree.

Setting up the Christmas tree.

A nice Christmas tree is done!!!

After everything was settling up, then we start our selling. Su-Xian and Eugene were helping to give out the leaflets to the passer-by while Hoon Mun and I in-charged of the selling. We took turns to exchange our job.

Handicrafts: Cards, Bookmarks, Keychains, Gift tags, Saori Dolls, Magnets, Name cards boxes, Paintings, Handmade soaps, Gift packs and United Voice T-shirts. 

Cookies: Almond, Shortbread, Choc n nuts, Sesame. 

It was so impressive when I saw all the handicrafts that made by them. All the handicrafts were so nice and exquisite and I was admiring of their hard works. I was trying my best to sell their hard works and also bought some of the handicrafts as a supportive to them.

What I have learnt from there is that don't give up so easily anytime in our life. We have to think positively like what they are. They are so strong and even stronger than anyone of us. They are working hard to live a better tomorrow. How are us? We are too blessed compared with them so just cherish or treasure what we have now. Do lend your helping hand to those who needs your love!!

♥ Stay strong and happy to all of you with learning disabilities ♥

Ballet~ ♥

I had helped my friend, Ms. Sim You Wen to teach ballet on 28th November 2012 at Victoria Dance Art. Ballet is a type of performance dance and a basic for all kinds of dance. It requires years of training and master, and also much practice to retain proficiency. Ballet is not a sport, but a performance using our body language. It helps to build flexibility and agility, as well as the coordination of body movement with the music. Other than that, ballet also train the ballerina to be self-discipline by developing routines of steps and positions. Anyone can enjoy the beauty and grace of ballet dancing. 

                  

The class that I taught is a primary class for children who just started learning ballet. Once I reached there, I saw a few girls there and they are all so young and active. I started worry that how I should treat and control them during the class. Ms. Sim asked them to go into the dance class. First, she introduced me to them that I was a volunteer of the day and was responsible to correct them when they were doing wrongly. To be a good dancers, flexibility is very important so the class started with some stretching exercises.  

After some stretching exercises, then we started with the syllabus. There are divided into group of two, which are one group of 3 and another group of 4. They were all preparing for their dancing exam so Ms. Sim was so strict to them. They tried their best and listened to all the corrections from Ms. Sim and I. Although they were getting scolded by Ms. Sim but still they danced together happily. 

 I LOVE BALLET SO MUCH!! ♥

National Kidney Foundation (NKF)

This National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is a fund raising event organised by Asian Medical Students' Association - International Medical University (AMSA-IMU). 

This fund raising event held from 26th to 29th November 2012. I myself had contribute in this event on 26th and 27th November 2012. Here is some information from the AMSA-IMU:
NKF is a charitable organization where dialysis is provided. NKF’s patients are generally from the lower income group and these patients often could not afford dialysis treatments at private medical facilities which usually charge RM150 to RM250 for each dialysis sessions. NKF helps by subsidising the cost of the patients’ dialysis treatments, so that they are only required to pay a RM50 nominal fee per dialysis session.

A booth was set up for charity sales and I was involving in the charity selling as well. The things that they were selling were coin box, badges, landyards, magnets, food and other. There are also leaflets about kidney and health for the students and staffs. Besides that, there were 2 donation boxes for them to donate. EVERY SINGLE CENT SPENT WILL BE ENTIRELY DONATION!!

S*P*C*A

Continue of my community services...

We went to SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) at Ampang, Selangor. SPCA is an animal welfare organisation which helps to protect and take care of the animals. I had went there for 4 days which are 8th, 12th, 13th and 14th November 2012. We went there by taking LRT from Sri Petaling. It took about 45 minutes to reach the Ampang LRT station and we walked about 20-30 minutes to SPCA.

The first time I stepped into the SPCA, what I can hear is just the dogs' bark. I was thinking how many dogs will there?? When we went in, there are few dogs came around us. It was so scary and I was just stood straight there without moving. After some times, I tried to get myself near to them and they are not that scary like what I was thinking. During the four days, we were asked to do the same thing. What we had done there were cleaning the cage, changing newspaper and refilling their drinking water for each cage.

After changing and cleaning job, is the happy hour for the dogs which is their lunch!! The worker of SPCA prepared the food for dogs and we were helping her to distribute all the food for the dogs.

 

Took photo after we done all our job!!! Everyone looks so Happy!!

Seven days of Zoo volunteering

I have done my seven-day volunteering work at the National Zoo, Ampang. My friends and I, which are 10 of us had involved in this zoo volunteering. We took turns to be the driver and it took about 30 minutes to reach National Zoo from IMU. At the national zoo, we were asking to divide ourselves into three or four per group. Then each group was working in different departments. There are 10 departments that available and we are not allow to choose department to be worked in. I myself had worked in 5 different departments with 2 repetition along this seven days.

First day (17th August) - Bear Department

I was same group with Hoon Mun, Yoke Li and Sasi in this department. Then we were further divided and i was working with Yoke Li at the goat, pademelon and deer place. We are asked to collect the animal's food waste (branches) and sweep the dried leaves. Then the rubbish and branches were collected and thrown to the rubbish area. 

We worked from 8a.m. to 4p.m. with a lunch break at 12p.m. to 2p.m. We had built our arm muscle!! 

 

Second day (7th November) - Ape Department

This is the ape centre. Hoon Mun and I were working here for this day. First we were asked to collected the rubbish and dried leaves around the centre. Then we were asked to prepare the ape's food. Hoon Mun distributed the vegetables and breads to different buckets equally. While I was cutting the fruits (papaya, guava) into the buckets.

After preparing the food, we cleaned up the place. Then we were asked to duty at the entrance. Tourists are not allow to smoke and bring any food or drinks into the ape centre.



Third day (9th November) - Sarvana Department
Today is again me and Hoon Mun plus Lam which is in a group. We were asked to work at the sarvana department. Sarvana area is the area for giraffe, zebra, antelope, rhinoceros and so on. At the department, we were separated to work for different animals. I was working with the zoo keeper at the giraffe enclosure. I was asked to sweep the giraffes' faeces in their enclosure. After lunch, we were asked to feed the animals. Finally we took photo with the keepers in the sarvana department after all the things were done.

Fourth day (16th November) - Holding Area

Holding area is the area that holds the animal which is newly received or sick. All the animals have to be checked before they are ready to be showed to the tourists. There are cows, bears, leopards, goats and others in the holding area. Hoon Mun, Joe, Lam and I were working together to clean up the cages. Joe and Hoon Mun were helping to cut the papayas and fishes as the food while Lam and I were working in the cage to sweep the faeces, wash the floor and fill up the drinking water for animals. Then we were asked to sweep the dried leaves along the holding area. Before lunch, we were taking turns to feed the baby goat with a bottle of milk.

After lunch, we fed all the bears with some vegetables, friuts and breads. There are 2 soups that were prepared specially for 2 bears there which they named them 'boy boy' and 'girl girl'. Then we fed the leopards with a bowl of meats. The female leopard looked so lazy that she didn't want to walk back to its cage although everyone of us were calling her for so many times. We cleaned up all the things and took a photo with the keeper of the day.

Fifth day (19th November) - Ape Department

Again I was working at the ape department and doing the same things like what I had done before. The main different is that my partner was not Hoon Mun, but Eugene and Lam. First at the ape centre, we were asked to scrap the wall for painting. We sat there and scrapped, then I was so lucky to be asked to cut the fruits for apes as Eugene and Lam had to continue scrapping. Just after scrapping and cutting fruits, rain was coming. We had to stop our job since we were working outdoors. After the rain stopped, we then collected the rubbish and dried leaves around the ape centre. Then again we were asked to guard the entrance after lunch.


Sixth day (20th November) - Enrichment Centre

Coming to the sixth day of being zoo volunteer, I was feeling a bit tiring but still it was fun for me. Today I was working for half day from 8a.m. to 12p.m. with Lam, Hoon Mun and MK. I was working at the enrichment department with Hoon Mun where we were so excited that it is a different department from the others. Enrichment department is a department where they make the toy for animals to test their agility and cleverness. Those toys are used to train the animals' brain. They put the animals' food into the toy to test their intelligence and the animals have to try to get their food from the toys. We were asked to colour the boxes and balloons to make them more interesting for their looking.

This is my product!!
Is it looked like giraffe's skin??
(which I planned to draw)

But I failed...but luckily it does look like the skin of leopard!!!

and also the balloons that we had coloured....they are colourful and i am sure that the animals will like it so much!!! haha...


Seventh day (23rd November) - Bear Department
This is the last day as a zoo volunteer and it was the happiest day among the seven days. Only 5 of us were joining for the day which are Su-Xian, Yoke Li, Joe, Eugene and I. There were a lot of volunteers for the day so five of us requested to stay in a same group and we did! We were working at the bear department which I had done before. So I quite clear about what we should do at there but still there were a zoo keeper that leading us. Joe and I was in a group of two and working at the goat, pademelon and deer area. We were also going to the bat cage to change their water and hang their fruits up. The same things that I had done which are clean up the place, fed them and sweep the dried leaves.
After lunch, it was raining so we had nothing to do. We sat there and chit chat for an hour to wait for the rain to stop. Then we continue our cleaning up work after the rain stopped until 4p.m. We washed our boats and say 'GOODBYE' to national zoo. We got a certificate as we had done zoo volunteer for 40 hours.

Although it was tiring, but I had lots of memories and fun there. I got my experience to be a volunteer at the national zoo.

It was definitely a memorable seven-day of being zoo volunteer!!
(especially with all of you, my friends~)

First community service - Chariofare

On the 22nd September 2012, IMU had organized an IMU run and a chariofare. We PC1/11 students accompanying by several lecturers were represented PC department which took part in one of the booths. We were selling food and some recycled things. The food that we were selling on that day were hot dog buns, sweet corns, nasi briyani, indian pastry and so on. The recycled things that we had are the handmade soap, recycled bag and some different recycled crafts by PC1/11 students.

On that day, around 15 of us were volunteered to involve in this event, and thus we were divided into morning and afternoon shifts. Among the entire shift, we were further divided into selling group and preparation group. I was took part in the afternoon shift and was helping in the preparation group to prepare the hot dog buns and sweet corns for selling.

    We were preparing the sweet corns...

         

   and also.....the HOT DOG BUNS!!!

We kept on preparing the food until 4pm. Finally, we had sold out all our food and crafts. It was so happy that we had collected a total sale of around RM1500. We helped to clean up the booth and we took a photo with our PC booth.

This is my very first community service and it was FUN!! ^^