WOO!!! The 100th POST!
To celebrate this in conjunction with my awesome '10 March, I'm going to blog about everything that happened in this 3rd month of the year, all in one post! This shall be a long marathon post :D
Ready?
Here...
We...
Gooooo~!
6th of March, 2010 - COP15 Talk at Annexe Gallery
Now this one was one special experience, because it is the first time I went to Central Market! :O
Went there by our very "reliable" train system, luckily reached the place at 11:30am, where the talk starts at 12:00pm. And so I explored what they so called the "heart" of KL city lor.
The place around there was jam packed, peoples and cars alike. And there are lots of foreigners too, but the hawkers there ah, memper"siasui"kan our image la =.=", kept shouting and bargain the price lol.
After a while of walking around I went on to search for this elusive "Annexe Gallery". I know it's somewhere in(or near) the Central Market, so I went in there, hoping to find a massive hall with chairs laid for the talk.
The art displays in the Market was just so-so only la, dunno why peoples from other countries like to buy those stuffs =.=". Anyway, as I was walking, I realized there is no way there would be a hall in this place, then I walked out, scanning the adjacent buildings for a sign of a possible seminar hall.
As I was walking, I saw another art gallery building just beside the Central Market, named "Annexe" something. Then I had my "eureka" moment :D
All the way in, there are tons of drawing arts being displayed by the street, and I must say they are brilliant stuff, though it's quite dumb the fact that there are at least 10 artists concentrated at that spot, how do you expect them to earn money? : /
Some of the drawings.
And so, I went in and went up the building, by stairs. And I went "huh?!" when I saw a small room with a "Annexe Gallery" label outside. @_@?Well nothing is wrong I suppose, when they named it Annexe Gallery, I guess they meant "gallery" literally lol.
The place was teeming with activities though, as there were an ongoing art exhibition over there. They were selling all sorts of stuff. Shirts, accessories, windchimes, miniature models, dolls, posters, paintings, books, CDs, you-name-its, EVEN RUBBISHES LOL! Yes I'm not lying but I forgot to take photo XD.
I don't know but I think they were selling bells here
Some of the cute paintings.
These miniature houses all looked very real :O
"Me don't know who's Charlie either : / "
The Chinese words read "Chiwawa"
One of the shop displays at the Central Annexe.
Then came the boring part - the talk itself, haha. The speaker was Dr.Myron Shekelle, a field biologist :O
Well, one would wonder why did a biologist speak to us, especially about US policies. Well, turns out he didn't, even though the title suggested so : /
To say that I was disappointed will then be an overstatement, instead he gave us some new insight in what's really happening, from the point of view of a biologist.
Dr. Shekelle was(is still) a tarsier biologist spending most of his time doing research in Borneo, some parts of Indonesia and the Philipines, observing tarsier behaviors. And to be honest, it's nice to hear what a scientist have to say for climate change once in a while, after loads of political bullshit we heard from world leaders. Their opinions mattered more, simply because they knew more about how the nature really works.
In the end it felt more like a biology class haha, but it kinda gave me some ideas on how can a biologist contribute to the environment, which is what I hope to do : /
After the talk, I met up with some of the peoples from Taylor's Environmental Club, or rather known as Minyi's Club lol. They were having a "field trip", kinda funny that it's not what they expected really lol. Ah well...The train back home, much worse than sardin can. Try boarding a Saturday afternoon train, if you haven't tried it, you've not been to Malaysia haha...
15th of March, 2010 - LEO Club Charity Night
This one came a long way, but describing every single detail will take a whole day lol.
For weeks we set up ticket booth to attract students to buy the ticket, well, the response was generally bad, at least most of the time. But we did not got discouraged, instead, we managed to get some local celebrities to help us raise fund with their "starpower".
And we're not even collecting RM10 like my high school used to do, for crummy concerts :(
One of our selling points, Shawn Lee, World's Top Beatboxer here in INTI-UC! *FACEPALM* :O
Anyway, let's take a look at the day by day picture of the "Heart" that we made.
4th of March
5th of March
9th of March (Don't ask why is it sideways)
10th of March
11th of March
12th of March
Morning, 15th of March
Night, 15th of March... TADAA~!
It's almost touching to see the heart shape grow day by day, where people would paste a jigsaw puzzle there everytime they donated money for the charity event. :')
Not to mention S6OS made a name there too!
:D
And without further delay here are some photos for the event.
Publicity Department preparing the stage backdrop.
The window at the backstage during rehearsal night.
The chaotic moments during rehearsal.
And on that day itself I was tasked to lead a bus to Loke Yew Road, to pick up some kids from an orphanage, more of a refugee home for some Myanmar kids. And this is all because I stay (relatively) nearer to KL than most of other students =.=". Went there with Khai, a Myanmar girl who was supposed to be the translator, and it was a total mess when I don't even know the roads in KL LOL! In the end she took charge and led us there. Haha, gotta be one of the stupidest moment in life.
Where we stopped while waiting for the kids. I remember having lunch with Wilson and "Sifu" here hmm...
And so I went back to work as soon as the bus came back to INTI-UC. I was in the backstage preparations department. Hall Masters, they called it.
My name tag, don't play play lol
They got the chairs laid out ready for the audience.
Then still got some impressive light shows some more!
The spotlights
Mic tests before the show.
And then the 8TV crew came and gave the programs department a lil' bit of headache. They were messing around a bit with the program flow and protocol =/ ... Managed to solve it peacefully in the end :D
The backstage getting ready for opening ceremony!
The kids from "I-forgot-which-orphanage" getting ready to perform.
I managed to slip into the second floor for a peek at the view, thanks to Sher Miin :D
Prior to the end, a group of helpers went to the third floor of the back stage to get ready to throw some balloons for the grand finale. It was... not that spectacular as we didn't really have enough balloons haha... But still we had fun throwing the balloons down to the stage
Phew, the whole process of managing the backstage was a tiresome job indeed. But in the end the event was a success! We managed to raise (I think) up to RM9,000 for the orphanages, divided to 4 houses of course.
And there was pandemonium, the organizing committees running around taking photos and celebrating :D
But I can understand la, they spent a large chunk of their time thinking and pondering and wondering what to do with this concert night, in the end it turned out perfect, well, at least we reacted to the problems spontaneously enough to make it perfect :)
I do wish I can be a part of this event again in the near future, hmm...
20th of March - Operation World Water Day!
Quoting Jin," World Water Day shall be 6SOS's debut event!"
Yea, this was 6SOS's first self-organized event, done mainly by Minyi and Jin Rui. This event was decided all too suddenly, and we only had about one week or so to prepare. And so we made the event page on Facebook, sent invitation by the thousands, collected cardboard boxes, used up litres of poster colors, asked almost everyone we know to help out with painting the cardboards, got rejected by KTM and LRT for proposing to have our event there, all within one week. :D
And so I went to Asas Cemerlang Tuition Center (Operation Headquarters XD) to help out with the preparation works for two days before the event.
Here we were painting the boards, creatively, sort of... Do this so rajin, study also not so rajin LOL!
Qin Xian working on the "Toilet Booth" for the planned "World's Longest Toilet Queue" event!
The place was littered with paints and cardboard boxes, messy dou...
On that day itself, which was a Saturday, I met up with Thomas Ng at Kajang KTM station and went on to Serdang station to wait for the others.
I was feeling the "kick" so much I decided to give the "person" a high-five lol.
Then we went on to KL Sentral before switching trains to Bangsar station.
That's where we began our operation.
Look at all the boards we made :D
A news reporter from Sin Chew was there to cover the event, which made the front page!!!
The news reporter interviewing the girls.
And so we had some photo session and meeting before departing officially, to God-knows-where, we did not really have a plan LOL!
Sin Chew getting some photo shots
A group photo of the "Aquarists" of the day.
We boarded the train, wanting to take a stop at every station. But the security guards stopped us from doing that, and so we had a change of plan.
We went down from Pasar Seni station and walked the city by foot!
We got lots of attention, and a mixed reaction LOL. Some people were smiling when they saw us, must've reminded them of their past rebelious childhood haha! Some approached us and praised us for our action. Some took photos of us. Some said some nasty stuffs, like "You go home and save water instead of walking around LAH!"
Well, what did we expect, this IS Malaysia afterall : /
But perhaps the funniest, lamest, oddest, whateverest reaction we've got was from the Petaling Street.
The people there were generally nasty and unpleasant LOL. But there were foreigners there too and they liked what they saw. Well at least we're doing our "Bolehland" a favor by being nature-loving freaks :D
Adrian joined us while we were there and we went on to huddle in the middle of the road there! We shouted and sang LOL! The passerby were having "wtf?!" moments haha... But really have to thank him for lifting the enthusiasm of the group.
Then we went to Central Market, before getting shooed out by the security guards again. It was somehow satisfying to bend(not break! :D ) the law once in a while.
We continued on to Klang River, where Adrian did some cheerleading magic ><" 
Of course, I did a propaganda picture of my own.
Well, the event ended there and then.
We regrouped and went to KLCC, wanting to use our "homemade" toilet booth to do the "World's Longest Toilet Queue" event. But ended up a failure when we only have like 8 participants lol, well most of the people went back after a whole morning of walk in KL city, we don't blame them : /
Anyway, our debut event made quite an impact, even though there were critics that said it was not practical. I must said I did agree that it wasn't that practical haha, but in the end it turned out alright. We had publicity, we had peoples who liked what we did, what more can we ask?
22nd of March - LEO Club Health Awareness Week
Health Awareness Week a.k.a. Suck-Your-Blood-Dry Week :P
LEO Club organized a whole week of events related to health care. We had blood donation, medical check-up, seminars and talks, vaccination(I think it was cervical cancer one), and distribution of condoms :O
Well actually there's not much to say about this event haha, as it was sort of normal.
On the first day I went to the counter for my duty and I was just in time for a Sexuality talk by Pink Triangle Foundation, which is an NGO that specializes in sexuality counseling.
It was, all those usual stuffs la LOL. They talked about HIV and AIDS and etc(you know what la...)
And there were quite a lot of people who signed up for blood donation too, too bad I didn't, I was too busy the whole week and had too little sleep. I didn't think I would qualify to donate (NOT AN EXCUSE OK! XD ).
24th of March - Last CHM151 Lab Experiment & Power of 10 Sen Piggybank Collection.
We had our last lab session for chemistry. It was on electrochemistry, and we did electrolysis, almost similar like what we did in high school.
Anyway, it was another fun session at the lab. And especially carefree since there was one set of experiment where we had to wait 15minutes for the result to show, it was on electroplating.
Xi Zhe even went on to electroplate a 20cents coin with copper LOL!
And we took a group photo just before the end of the class! :)
Yay! No more lab reports until the start of the next semester, which is at around the end of May :D
AND! Stact Club started collecting the piggybanks. They got quite a large sum from the donations :O . Take a look at this!
A jaw dropping RM4889.50, all made up of coins, and most of them 10cents. Ain't 10cents just powerful? :)
27th of March - Earth Hour at Sunway Pyramid
Phew! Managed to go to Sunway Pyramid to get a glimpse of the Earth Hour event there.
It was my first time driving there alone and I kinda took the long way there LOL. Anyhow, I reached there in the end, and after 20 minutes of grueling twists and turns in the parking lot, I went to the main entrance where the Earth Hour stage was set up.
The crowd there was quite big, and a lot of them held candles in preparation for the lights to turn off.
And they were throwing out free shirts, too bad I didn't manage to get one :(
Anyway, I made there just in time before they turn off the lights. Five minutes into my arrival, they did a countdown till the lights are off.
And the place turned from this...
To this... (Not much of a difference eh?)
And then a group of percussionists started a performance, which I didn't take photos of and didn't get their name. Ah well...
The little globe spinning there on the stage while the hostess narrates at the event.
And there were some games. The first one being "Dress me up" .
The game was about dressing up one member of the team with some recyclable items such as newspapers, plastic bags, etc...
And the little kid just charmed the crowd and blew the competition away LOL! Damn berpotensi menjadi model wei! XD
The other team, which got pwned by a kid. But they were a sporting bunch also la haha...
Then it was followed by a performance, by I-forgot-her-name from Sunway University College.
So-so la LOL! I've heard better performers : / .
But the audience were mesmerized though, hmm....
And then there was another game session, where Minyi just went up to the stage uninvited XD. Okay la to be fair they did ask for volunteers, that is a way of volunteering also LOL!
It was a game of stacking up Tupperware boxes, see who gets the highest.
There were three groups and they had 3 minutes to assemble the "inflatable" Tupperwares and stack them up.
Minyi's group started slow and ended up being the slowest stacker, but the other groups went so high and it became imbalanced and crumbled. And then they won even though they had only 3-4 stacks LOL!
And we took a photo with the lovely backdrop set up beside the stage.
Like so photogenic only haha!
Whoops, saving my one because I looked terrible with the camera flash on :X
Too bad I had to go back early and miss the Battle of the Bands performances : / . No big deal I guess, maybe they're not worth my time seeing haha.
21st and 28th of March - LEO Mission to House of Joy
This was one of the most tiresome job I had done =.="
LEO Club organized a tutoring mission to two orphanages in March, and I was tasked to go to House of Joy which is located in Puchong.
The first time I went there, it was total chaos. The kids were running everywhere, shouting, screaming, yelling at the top of their lungs. They were pretty much uncontrollable LOL!
And so we were each assigned a kid to teach. And my kid's name was Hew Yeen Chong, an eight-year-old.
To be honest I was glad I'm the luckiest one, because he's the most quiet boy in the whole house! XD
I taught him some peanut maths, I totally forgot what did I learned when I was standard two, so I kinda came up with spontaneous questions for him to solve. He used fingers to count for every question lol, I dunno la but I don't remember using fingers when I was in Standard One... Hmm...
The first session there was total mess, the program flow didn't work at all. I guess we did not expect them to be that "mature" because they kept complaining that the activities were boring/childish LOL!
While we were teaching there was a fire happening across the street. This was just the beginning the smoke went much thicker later on :O
Haha after losing the battle on the first session, we devised another plan to get a hold of them on the next session.
The second time around, we went there with some IQ questions, Mr.Bean videos, and voila~ Charmed and tamed like little babies they were :D
This was me giving them some IQ questions, and giving them candies for correct answers. It works miracles!
This kid was shooting up his arms for every question, and gave the most creative answers EVER!
Here they were, watching Mr.Bean. I planned to let them watch Spongebob initially but I figured out English without subtitles was a bit too hard for them :(
We had tons of fun, of course. (Photo: Jackson Ng)
And read Ultraman stories to kids :D (Photo: Mern Jie)
And drew some childish pictures. (Photo: Dodo Chow)
And some time to camwhore! (Photo: Shi Ning)
I have to admit they did enjoy our company, even though it's more like a babysitting session than tutoring session.
See? It's not everyday they get punching bags like us LOL!
And some more drawings
Well the second session there was much more carefree, as they spent most of the time drawing and watching videos and guessing IQ questions. But at least they were much more cooperative and... Obedient, I would put it :D
Then it was time to go :(
We took lots of group photos which I'm going to share a few.
Teng Heong and Wendy
Michelle
A whole bunch of people
Wendy
And of course a photo of my own with my kid :)
And we left... Aww... I do miss them a little, even though there were a naughty bunch. BUT, another LEO Mission is coming up and also there will be a Children Camp 6 where they will be invited to come. I'm sure I'll see them again very soon!
PHEW! DONE! Just one more day and March shall end. I must admit, I've never lived life this full before. I sure hope it continues to be that way, because it feels AWESOME!
Well, the downside is that I have less time for myself now, but who cares? I don't have much things to do personally anyway, besides playing my guitar of course. :P
That's it for today, looking forward for another great month ahead, just nine more months of awesome-ness to go and this shall be the most fulfilling year of my life :D .
Till next time, cheers~
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