Nehemiah Award

"21 August 06
2006 Nehemiah Award
Community Involvement Council of VJC achieves the 2006 Nehemiah Award - Honorable Mention for Distinguished Volunteer Service. CIC organised Under No Roof 2004, 2005 and 2006 and reached out to hundreds of students each year to raise their awareness on the plight of the homeless and the house-building projects they can do with Habitat for Humanity Singapore."

(VJC website -- http://www.vjc.moe.edu.sg/02_archives06.shtml)

Once again, WE HAVE ACHIEVED 2008 NEHEMIAH AWARD from Habitat for Humanity International!

Thanks to HFH for giving this the opportunity to contribute by co-organising Under No Roof.

Thanks to volunteers, photographers and all participants who have made this possible.

This is the legacy that have been left behind by our '07 batch!! We are so proud of you guys!

Mug hard people:)

Hello all J1s and J2 seniors:),

Work hard, mug hard and all the best for your respective prelims and promos respectively:)

JIAYOU people:)

Yo:)

Today finally concludes the end of Project Hearts and it has ended on a rather happy note despite much confusion and abit of disorganisation for the shifts today. A big thankyou to everyone who has helped out by cutting hearts, manning the booth etc (including your friends/classmates who helped to cut the hearts during college day). Special thanks to Kelly who took the effort to transport all those stuff to and fro and for printing out the permits and helping to settle much of the efforts together with me:) yays.

Well, there were indeed much hiccups along the way as this isnt exactly our project. Thus, lesson learnt is we should organise our own stuff and make use of the cic funds from the school. yays.

So, good job people:)

Let's work even harder for OCIP:)

CIC Chalet Series: (2) How to get there..?

Hey peeps!
I've realised that quite alota ppl donno how to get to the Costa Sands (Pasir Ris).
[Note, Pasir Ris, not Downtown East]

In short, the chalet is in Pasir Ris, which is near Downtown East but not in Downtown East.
It is slightly northeast from the centre of Downtown East.

To simplify matters, meet up at EW1 Pasir Ris control station at 3pm.

If you are going there yourself, check out the above info.
Still confused? Some maps to guide you there...

FIGURE 1: How to get there - by feet

1. Stop at EW1 Pasir Ris/Pasir Ris Interchange.
2. Make your way to Pasir Ris Dr 1 and walk in the east direction.
3. When you reach the first junction (between Dr 1, Dr 6 and Pasir Ris Circle), turn into Pasir Ris Circle (to your left or to the north). E! Hub should now be on your LHS.
4. Walk straight along the road, until there's a small turn at the end. Turn into it.
5. Walk along Jln Loyang Besar, turning left (north) at the first junction. DONT GET INTO LOYANG BESAR CIRCLE. IT'S A DEAD END. Walk along the other road.
6. You will walk past 2 churches before seeing 'COSTA SANDS RESORT (PASIR RIS)'.
7. Turn into it.
8. Look for B-11.

FIGURE 2: How to get there - by bus (1)

1. Take either 5, 6, 12, 17 or 21 from Pasir Ris interchange.
2. Alight ONE stop after, at Downtown East, along Pasir Ris Dr 3.
3. Walk in the direction of the bus after alighting (east) and turn into Pasir Ris Circle (north) at the first junction.
4. Follow instructions 4 - 8 above.

NOTE: If you feel like taking 354, please refer to instruction set #2 below.

** DO NOT TAKE 358 from Pasir Ris Interchange (unless you want it to go one whole loop before you can end up at the destination) **

FIGURE 3: How to get there - by bus (2)

#1
1. Alight at 405/467 (depending on which direction you come from).
2. Walk east along Dr 6, and subsequently, into Pasir Ris Circle.
3. Follow instructions 4-8 above.


#2
1. Take 354 from Pasir Ris Interchange.
2. Alight at the 2nd stop, at Pasir Ris Circle.
3. Follow instructions 4-8 above.




FIGURE 4: How to get there - by boat

1. Stop at the place illustrated above.
2. Park your boat properly and remember to remove all your personal belongings before leaving.
3. Walk south towards Costa Sands Resort (Pasir Ris).
4. The gate should be somewhere along the fence.

For people coming for the BBQ, you can put go straight to our BBQ pit.
Sad to say, there's no BBQ pit in Costa Sands (Pasir Ris) at all, so we have to make our way to the Pasir Ris Park BBQ Pits. Isn't it better..? We can enjoy the sun, sea and shuai-ges (look no further..).

So for those who want to know, it's BBQ Pit #5.
It should be directly outside the chalet..



Any questions, you can call me, jon or other peeps who know more abt the east.
So, lastly a repeated announcement:

Date: 6 - 7 July 08
Venue: Costa Sands, Pasir Ris (near downtown east but not in it)

For those westerners (ie not living in the east), it's located near EW1 Pasir Ris MRT.
So we'll meet at the MRT control station first at about 3.15pm.

All seniors are invited to stay over!
Pls bring games, such as monopoly, RISK, mahjoong sets and card games(UNO, poker) etc.
Pls bring some chips over to last us through the night as well!

Alright, see ya at chalet :)

CIC Chalet Series: (1) When, Where, How, What, Who [No why]

VJCIC CHALET!

Date: 6 - 7 July 08
Venue: Costa Sands, Pasir Ris (near downtown east but not in it)

For those westerners (ie not living in the east), it's located near EW1 Pasir Ris MRT.
So we'll meet at the MRT control station first at about 3.15pm.

All seniors are invited to stay over!
Pls bring games, such as monopoly, RISK, mahjoong sets and card games (UNO, poker) etc.
Pls bring some chips over to last us through the night as well!
Alright, see ya at chalet :)

CIC on 31/6

We're finally having a Tuesday meeting again after who knows how long. Aren't you people just brimming with anticipation? Anyway tomorrow would be super hectic.

Details for tomorrow's meeting( if you havn't recieved the SMS yet):

-5.30-7 @ T13
-Probably discussing about the design of the revamped CIC board. Ciyi already have a rough draft.
-Project Hearts Comm (Huiyi, Stephanie, Kelly, Ciyi and I)to be briefed on everything since I havnt really had the time to meet up with you all. Alot of info. Anyway we may need more people to join the comm theres alot of things to do.
-All to help cut hearts. 5 people to cut 1000++++ hearts= heart attack.
-BRING COLOURED PAPER (THOSE VANGUARD SHEET TYPE),SCISSORS AND MASKING TAPE. Just bring those lying around at home doing nothing constructive one.



And finally, please remember to do your booth duty tomorrow to help sell the stuff. I will be putting the info of what you all are selling and for whom and stuff here. I will also print a hardcopy of the info for all the people doing the booth tomorrow.




IDEALISE 2008 | DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR HIGH
IDealise 2008 is a fund raising carnival for MINDS(Movement of the Intellectually Disabled for Singapore).It will be held on the 5th of July, from 10am to 1pm, at Bedok Community Centre. There will be stalls selling food, drinks, ice-cream and MINDS handicraft/merchandise. There will also be game stalls whereby exclusive prizes can be won. There will be a SUDOKU competition starting at 11 am and there will be 3 rounds for this competition- preliminary round(min.30 pple), semi-final round (10 pple), final round(5 pple). The final round will only take place after the arrival of the Guest of Honour- CEO of MINDS-Mr Keh Eng Song, at 11.30am.While the final round of the SUDOKU competition is going on, there will be performances by Dunman High (Senior High) Guitar Ensemble. After the performance and the final round of the SUDOKU competition, the judges will be calculating scores to decide on the eventual winner. Meanwhile, there will be an interactive audience round whereby the puzzles are open to any person and prizes will be given out too. The Guest of Honour will be the one giving out the grand prize of the SUDOKU competition on that day itself.The grand prize of this SUDOKU competition would be $100 cash/cheque while the other prizes are McDonald vouchers.
The admission ticket for this carnival is $2. However, that is only just the entrance fee for the carnival. People are expected to bring more money to exchange their money for coupons at the counter. Each coupon is worth 50cents. After they buy the coupons, they just need to use their coupons to buy things and play games.




Save The Greenback Turtle Campaign | St Pat

1. St Patrick's School has produced 10,000 Shamrock Turtle Floats (without numbers) for sale as keepsake/souvenir. I hope we can sell these to the students of our E7 Cluster School. It is priced at $10 each. We hope each school can take a consignment of 500 turtle floats to sell to their students. We will deliver these floats to your school by next week and I hope that you can lend support by publicising the turtle floats for sale.
2. We have also produced another 10,000 Shamrock Turtle Floats with numbers for adoption. Adoption Certificates have been printed and these will be sold to the secondary schools and JC only (unless the Primary schools do not mind selling the Adoption Certificates to the young). Each adoption Cert cost $10 and the certificate number corressponds to a Turtle Float which will be raced down the section of St Patrick's Canal. The numbered turtle float remains the property of St Patrick's School after the race.
3. There are 2 ways of selling the Adoption Certificates - either my students sell the tickets to your pupils during recess or I will pass you 200 Adoption Certificates to be sold by your school.
4. During the carnival, we do not propose selling coupons to students as it would entail more work. Hence, the medium of transaction is cash and we recommend that you appoint a parent or teacher be in charge of the cash transactions.

Date of Carnival and Shamrock Turtle Race:
Date: Saturday 5 July 2008
Time: 10am to 3pm
Venue: Section of Siglap Park Connector and Canal from St Patrick's School to Victoria JC
Guest of Honour : Mr Charles Chong, MP for Ponggol and Pasir Ris GRC and Chairman of Devt and Environment C'tee.

Attachments
Each school is entitled to one stall free to be set up on 5 July in the morning and ready for operation by 10am to 3pm. Drink stalls are monopolised by St Pats.

Post Mid-years

Ok the hellish week finally draws close to end, at least for most of us:)

And it's time to revive this blog and get things ahead. Yes, there are alot of CIC things to settle and the influx of emails are probably spoiling your appetites. So, I'll try to list out everything so that everyone will have a clearer picture of what's going on and which direction we're heading towards. Anyway get your cokes and popcorns ready because this is going to be LOOOOOONNGGG:

Current projects

OCIP
Ok, this one like not much news and based on Lixuan's last email I think it's mostly waiting. Therefore i think the OCIP comm should be quite free now so you all try to help out with the rest like PROJECT HEARTS comm:)

Operation Home Works
Ok, this one also quite seasonal one and if I am not wrong the comm should have gone through at least one time of the actual thing already. OHW comm maybe you can update the rest of us on what's going on since most if not all of us are going to undertake it somehow some day. So if you all need to change your members please give early notice and stuff.

Project Hearts
Since I am in this comm might as well take the time now to tell you all what's going on (You can choose to skip or don't skip this part. Of course I hope you won't since you all are nice people and appreciate my effort:) ).

It started out out as this "Inspire" thing by YMCA-CitiBank undertaken by this group of RJC J3s. SO they are given $5K and have to invest this cash to raise $50K for this charity called Very Special Arts(VSA) which helps disabled people by teaching them some basic art skills. So they are using a series of different mediums to raise to get the donations. So we are sort of liasing with them to sell pledges. We sell hearts at $2 so people can write a message on the hearts for these people(mainly children i think) and stick it on a big board. It's sort of like the brick wall thing we did for UNR. Anyway what we have to do is to prepare all the necessary things like cutting of the hearts and getting volunteers and stuff. Basically it's like what we did for UNR pre-events sale. And on the day we would be manning the booths.(Just like UNR style again:) ).
Pertaining to this, please DO NOT skip the following message:

IMPORTANT: Anyone wants to do Project Hearts this Saturday and next as volunteers? It's 28June & 5 July. Kelly, Stephanie and I did it and it was FUN:) Cause mainly they short of people lah. You can get your friends along to do too. 1 more thing. Next Tuesday, please bring as many coloured papers as you can find, just get those lying around your house that are not being constructive. No need to be so fancy or as good as new and also don't bring too thin the pieces. Because we need to cut the hearts out for Project Hearts. Everyone, please do your part:)



Announcements On Monday

That's all for the things we are organising. Next is a list of things we have to publicise on Monday.For details please refer to your emails.

-Charity Mass Skipping 5th July South East Community Sports Festival
-Recruitment of Volunteers for a newspaper collection 5July NUS
-Save the Greenback Turtle Campaign 5 July St Pat (This one super important because Mrs Ang specify must do be cause it affects diplomacy between neighbours)
-Thank the VJC UNR participants & facilitators for their support in making UNR a success.

Ya, that's alot of announcements to make and Ciyi suggested live ad or something and Ciyi will be booking the assembly slot tomorrow. And I just realised everything's on the 5th.LoL


Misc

- 1st, Lixuan suggested doing a thankyou card to HFH (specifically HweeKiang &gang and Ivy & gang). Ya, so I think we'll just go ahead with it, get a thankyou card then sign it off as VJCIC 0708 & 0809 batch.

- 2nd, we need to reestablish the good ties we have with mercy relief. So maybe the OCIP comm if you all are free can you all get the cool dude's contact from the seniors then contact him to see whether we all can do a project with them in lieu of National Day or something.

- 3rd, I SMSed YongFeng after we did PAH to thank him and I have also asked him for the photos already. I will send to the rest of you including the participants once he does so cause I think he's still quite busy sorting the things out? As for CIP hours ( I know we do not do CIP just for the hours:) ), I will try to confirm with him as other VJ people also did the CIP so must account for it.

-4th, we'll need people to help out with the CIC board and I don't want just a few people to be doing it as ALL should be involved so MAYBE we will do it next meeting depending whether we have time or not since we are all SUPER BUSY people now.

-5th, as you all know, the plans for next week remains a mystery as people are speculating feeling fab or e-learning day to be next week and stuff like that. In the event that we can't meet on Tue, we will still meet someday.

-6th, we need people to sell turtles on Tuesday. Please tell me the times you all can do, you all can do in pairs or triplets or quads if you all like. So please tag the times you want to do on the tagboard over to your left of the screen. somewhere around ...
<-There
So, TAG TAG TAG TAG TAG. What's a tagboard for mann.

-7th, and MOST IMPORTANT. Keep 5th-7th July free because you know why. All AWOL will be severely dealt with by... erm ... you will find out when I think of someone.


Next Tuesday's Meeting
TENTATIVELY, we won't be breaking up into our comms to discuss maybe except for Project Hearts people. So what we should be doing could be the notice board( If the design is out by then) and helping to cut out paper hearts so please contribute coloured paper generously ( not so thin ones) or live ad or whatever. But please check the blog on MONDAY 30/6 for updates.


Man this post just claimed 1hour of my life. Anyway, to all the H1 Chinese people, all the best for your last paper and for Oral:)
To everyone, all the best on your results:)

NSL:)

( To Ciyi: NSL for Nil Sine Labore NOT North South Line)