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.
Monday, 30 June 2008
Thursday, 26 June 2008
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)
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)
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
UNR IS OVER (:
THE CAMP IS OVER OVER OVER! (:
so now everyone can take a break and chill out and get back to studying.
somehow even though all the workload and stress was dropped, there is still that bit of sadness that UNR is over. maybe not for the J1s but i guess for all J2s?
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE.
every single one of you really meant so much, and contributed significantly.
thank you thank you thank you for all the stuff since months ago.
and millions of thanks for the actual days.
it was really a brilliant period of time, and you guys are the best people to work with (:
I LOVE GAMES COMM! (:
UNR WAS A SUCCESS, and WE'RE ALL PART OF THIS TOGETHER.
i dunno what is the exact criteria for rating the camp's success. but for me it was definitely good enough (:
J2s, this is the final closure for us already. time really just flew by, and our cic stuff are now totally done and all. it was a great year having you all around, and especially UNR was really touching. thank you so much for all and all. and lets always have a place for CIC and volunteering in our hearts and not let the fire die down ok! (: so now we can get all geared up for A LEVELS. haha. JIAYOU AND ALL THE BEST IN MUGGING! (:
J1s, this is it! its all up to you guys now. we're gone in a poof! but no frets, anytime you all need help just tell us. we'll try our best to help as much as we can, just dont call like the exam month that kinda thing you know. (:
but definitely next year for your UNR we would be very glad to help out if we can. (: JIAYOU AND ALL THE BEST! (:
LOVE!
some recaps of UNR, with credit to Jonathan (its on the UNR blog) while he did the saya tv thing.
Day 1
Under No Roof is placed in a setting of a Chinese village, called "Hope Village". Through ths 2D1N camp, they will experience hardship and hunger as we place the participants under simulated poor living condition, similar to that of areas struck by natural disaster (i.e. earthquake).
Registration was just completed and the participants have reported into their various groups (named by different surnames, since the setting of UNR camp is in a Chinese village which will be struck by an earthquake), head by their friendly facilitators.
Basically, right now, the facilitators who are wearing the yellow UNR t-shirts and having a team building session with the participants, wearing white UNR t-shirts. You can see some of them playing team-building games and having fun with each other. Beside learning more about poverty and poor living conditions in slums and therefore, learning to cherish the things around them, UNR also offers plentiful opportunities for youths to make new friends.
Reminder:
refresh the page when you see the message "the channel is offline". this is because the broadcast has been paused for replacement of batteries of equipment. if the channel is still offline, pls kindly refresh the page again after a while as the broadcaster may require more time to bring Under No Roof 2008 back LIVE on the screen.
Opening Ceremony:
We are priviledged to have distingushed guests and artistes, such as Marcus Chin, Olivia Ong and PRC Embassy to grace our opening ceremony.
First game of the day: Family March
This game is to determine the group/family status for the game, which would determine other segments of the coming activities, i.e. the breakfast on the end day of the camp and the region in which they build the actual house. The family (consisting of 10 people) will sit sideways behind the starting line with their feet tied together. ( i.e. the right foot of the person is tied to the left foot of the person standing right of him.) The whole group is to stand up and walk sideways from the starting line towards the squatting region line marked out on the lane. The whole team will need to move towards the ½ line in squatting position after the last person in the group crosses the squatting region line. Once the last person crosses the ½ line, the last person will become the first person and move backwards in the squatting position until the last person in the line crosses the walking region line. After which the whole team will stand up and walk towards the finishing line (originally the starting line). Once the last person crosses the starting point, the facilitators will stop their stopwatches and the timing would be noted. The aim of the game is to complete this task in the fastest time possible. The group will be awarded different family status according to the speed with which they complete the task.
This game will allow a lot of teams to showcase their family spirit and teamwork and how well their family can work together. In times of disasters, for example the most recent earthquake in China, everyone needs to work together in order to rebuild their homes. With more people working and thinking together, difficulties can be solved easily. It is also important that through this game they will learn that nothing comes free in this world. Their current living standard is due to the hard work and effort and they had put in beforehand. It is also especially important that the family works together with combine effort to achieve the ultimate goal.
They are having dinner now. Dinner is plain rice with baked beans and sardine with an apple. An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Disaster strikes!
We guided the participants to start playing a game.
During the game, we will blast the siren and play a recording live from China's earthquake scene, in order to simulate how it feels like to be caught by surprise in a disaster. The family members are separated by the facilitators into three stations. Family heads are gathered and instructed to reunite the family by looking through a very long name list, in search of their family members' names. Those who were not found by their heads within the time limit will be transported to West Coast Park (evacuation centre), separated from their families. The purpose of this activity is to allow the participants to feel how it is like to be separated from their groups/families all of a sudden.
In reality, things are worse. Unlike this simulated disaster, there is no gurantee that the family will be reunited once again and sometimes, there is no news of their members after the disaster. Family members also do not know where exactly to go to find their loved ones.
West Coast Park("temporary shelter")
Participants will be back in their families and they will start building their slums using pieces of cardboard on the wet muddy field. After constructing their temporary homes, they will play "water challenge".
Water Challenge
This game aim to teach participants that in times of disaster, water is scarce as water supplies are usually cut off and because it is an essential necessity, one must be prepared to endure the arduous task of transporting water, especially in remote villages, from a water source back to their own people. Along the way, one might meet with obstacles or setbacks such as accidental spillage of water or drying up of a water source e.g wells due to incompetent water management and in this game, this is accounted for by the fact that how much water one can collect is actually determined by the numbers on the pingpong balls that one picked.
For us, we take water for granted because it flows freely and conveniently at the turn of a tap. But when water supplies are cut off, that’s when one realize that how much work is actually needed to get water be it for drinking or for washing up. However one has no choice as forced by circumstances. Therefore, we must treasure and appreciate the simplest thing now: that we have clean potable water.
Debrief.
Sharing session and reflection time with facilitators.
Lights off! See you tmr morning!
Day 2
The participants have arrived at Vivocity after their morning breakfast. Most of them reflected that they did not get to sleep well. The slum fails to protect them from the chill in the middle of the night.
Nevertheless, the participants are still very enthusiastic, especially in playing the various station games and building their very own home for their family!
Games played and significance:
so now everyone can take a break and chill out and get back to studying.
somehow even though all the workload and stress was dropped, there is still that bit of sadness that UNR is over. maybe not for the J1s but i guess for all J2s?
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE.
every single one of you really meant so much, and contributed significantly.
thank you thank you thank you for all the stuff since months ago.
and millions of thanks for the actual days.
it was really a brilliant period of time, and you guys are the best people to work with (:
I LOVE GAMES COMM! (:
UNR WAS A SUCCESS, and WE'RE ALL PART OF THIS TOGETHER.
i dunno what is the exact criteria for rating the camp's success. but for me it was definitely good enough (:
J2s, this is the final closure for us already. time really just flew by, and our cic stuff are now totally done and all. it was a great year having you all around, and especially UNR was really touching. thank you so much for all and all. and lets always have a place for CIC and volunteering in our hearts and not let the fire die down ok! (: so now we can get all geared up for A LEVELS. haha. JIAYOU AND ALL THE BEST IN MUGGING! (:
J1s, this is it! its all up to you guys now. we're gone in a poof! but no frets, anytime you all need help just tell us. we'll try our best to help as much as we can, just dont call like the exam month that kinda thing you know. (:
but definitely next year for your UNR we would be very glad to help out if we can. (: JIAYOU AND ALL THE BEST! (:
LOVE!
some recaps of UNR, with credit to Jonathan (its on the UNR blog) while he did the saya tv thing.
Day 1
Under No Roof is placed in a setting of a Chinese village, called "Hope Village". Through ths 2D1N camp, they will experience hardship and hunger as we place the participants under simulated poor living condition, similar to that of areas struck by natural disaster (i.e. earthquake).
Registration was just completed and the participants have reported into their various groups (named by different surnames, since the setting of UNR camp is in a Chinese village which will be struck by an earthquake), head by their friendly facilitators.
Basically, right now, the facilitators who are wearing the yellow UNR t-shirts and having a team building session with the participants, wearing white UNR t-shirts. You can see some of them playing team-building games and having fun with each other. Beside learning more about poverty and poor living conditions in slums and therefore, learning to cherish the things around them, UNR also offers plentiful opportunities for youths to make new friends.
Reminder:
refresh the page when you see the message "the channel is offline". this is because the broadcast has been paused for replacement of batteries of equipment. if the channel is still offline, pls kindly refresh the page again after a while as the broadcaster may require more time to bring Under No Roof 2008 back LIVE on the screen.
Opening Ceremony:
We are priviledged to have distingushed guests and artistes, such as Marcus Chin, Olivia Ong and PRC Embassy to grace our opening ceremony.
First game of the day: Family March
This game is to determine the group/family status for the game, which would determine other segments of the coming activities, i.e. the breakfast on the end day of the camp and the region in which they build the actual house. The family (consisting of 10 people) will sit sideways behind the starting line with their feet tied together. ( i.e. the right foot of the person is tied to the left foot of the person standing right of him.) The whole group is to stand up and walk sideways from the starting line towards the squatting region line marked out on the lane. The whole team will need to move towards the ½ line in squatting position after the last person in the group crosses the squatting region line. Once the last person crosses the ½ line, the last person will become the first person and move backwards in the squatting position until the last person in the line crosses the walking region line. After which the whole team will stand up and walk towards the finishing line (originally the starting line). Once the last person crosses the starting point, the facilitators will stop their stopwatches and the timing would be noted. The aim of the game is to complete this task in the fastest time possible. The group will be awarded different family status according to the speed with which they complete the task.
This game will allow a lot of teams to showcase their family spirit and teamwork and how well their family can work together. In times of disasters, for example the most recent earthquake in China, everyone needs to work together in order to rebuild their homes. With more people working and thinking together, difficulties can be solved easily. It is also important that through this game they will learn that nothing comes free in this world. Their current living standard is due to the hard work and effort and they had put in beforehand. It is also especially important that the family works together with combine effort to achieve the ultimate goal.
They are having dinner now. Dinner is plain rice with baked beans and sardine with an apple. An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Disaster strikes!
We guided the participants to start playing a game.
During the game, we will blast the siren and play a recording live from China's earthquake scene, in order to simulate how it feels like to be caught by surprise in a disaster. The family members are separated by the facilitators into three stations. Family heads are gathered and instructed to reunite the family by looking through a very long name list, in search of their family members' names. Those who were not found by their heads within the time limit will be transported to West Coast Park (evacuation centre), separated from their families. The purpose of this activity is to allow the participants to feel how it is like to be separated from their groups/families all of a sudden.
In reality, things are worse. Unlike this simulated disaster, there is no gurantee that the family will be reunited once again and sometimes, there is no news of their members after the disaster. Family members also do not know where exactly to go to find their loved ones.
West Coast Park("temporary shelter")
Participants will be back in their families and they will start building their slums using pieces of cardboard on the wet muddy field. After constructing their temporary homes, they will play "water challenge".
Water Challenge
This game aim to teach participants that in times of disaster, water is scarce as water supplies are usually cut off and because it is an essential necessity, one must be prepared to endure the arduous task of transporting water, especially in remote villages, from a water source back to their own people. Along the way, one might meet with obstacles or setbacks such as accidental spillage of water or drying up of a water source e.g wells due to incompetent water management and in this game, this is accounted for by the fact that how much water one can collect is actually determined by the numbers on the pingpong balls that one picked.
For us, we take water for granted because it flows freely and conveniently at the turn of a tap. But when water supplies are cut off, that’s when one realize that how much work is actually needed to get water be it for drinking or for washing up. However one has no choice as forced by circumstances. Therefore, we must treasure and appreciate the simplest thing now: that we have clean potable water.
Debrief.
Sharing session and reflection time with facilitators.
Lights off! See you tmr morning!
Day 2
The participants have arrived at Vivocity after their morning breakfast. Most of them reflected that they did not get to sleep well. The slum fails to protect them from the chill in the middle of the night.
Nevertheless, the participants are still very enthusiastic, especially in playing the various station games and building their very own home for their family!
Games played and significance:
- Soccer and Captain's Sponge: Even in times of hardship and uncertainties, life still has to go on. The children use whatever little they have and improvise common games to play.
- Workstation: the participants need to learn to make use of scrap materials to make things that are sold to earn an income to support the family. In real-life slum areas, people make whatever they could find into items that they could sell to tourist. Adults bear the responsibility to make the best toy to earn as much money as possible so that their family can have a better life. Persuasive skills needed to convince people to buy your product. Making alone is not enough.
- Lost: There is no exit at all. This game simulates conditions in an earthquake where families lose their love ones and many people find themselves lost. In many cases, the lost victim would often try to find his/her own way out, without a clue that his family is looking for him. He often has to think very carefully about how he intends to move around as the debris may cause injuries while bare electrical wires may be hazardous. Survival skills are also important and this will allow the lost victim to decide where to move as the presence of coconut trees will provide source of water. In addition, the way the team members tried to find their member is similar to a situation whereby they have to guess where their family member is with no clues given to them at all. It is hoped that the groups will learn that this situation is actually very real and it is what the people are actually experiencing over in china.
- Trashures: This game simulates the conditions after earthquakes where by families would have to salvage for their belongings among the ruins. All their valuables are hidden under the debris and the only way of finding them is by your own effort as no other person will be there to help you find it. By only allowing them to move from hoop to hoop, it is an example of the obstacles they might face along the way for example a sudden collapse of a tree etc which hinders their movement. The obstacle course shows how difficult it is to move in the quake-hit region. At the end of the game, the participants will have to complete a jigsaw puzzle. Facilitators will ask members to reflect and ask what they think about the picture of the jigsaw puzzle.
- Blind logic: This game will allow participants to experience how it feels to be handicap (inconvenience) and blind (vulnerability) because of snowstorms and the earthquake. To communicate effectively with each other e.g. the handicap shouting out clear instructors to the blind to avoid obstacles (in real life: rocks, broken roads, etc resulting in certain areas being cut off). As a family, we should make up for each other’s disabilities and remain united, not leaving anyone behind, despite being separated at the start of the disaster. Team mates should cheer each other on throughout the game, which is an important source of encouragement when everyone is feeling down and out in a crisis. The temporary separation when they bump into other people or obstacles is to signify the mad rush during a disaster, which would result in some people getting injured or trumped upon, hence, unable to move until help is received or being delayed due to diseases like malaria for awhile before reaching the safety zone. Distraction by facilitators is to simulate the chaotic situation during the disaster, as everyone would be agitated and panicky. The moving of obstacles signifies the changing circumstances after a disaster, such as landslides or droughts and hence, people have no choice but to adapt to the situation and work around it to deal with the crisis. The facilitators taking away the passports while separating participants during the game signifies looting during a disaster.
House-building
Participants will be given mainly PVC tubes and paper bricks for structural support. Partcipants are to consider the architecture, interior design and stability of the houses. Some fortunate families actually get to build ther house with celebrities and Miss Earth. After the houses are constructed, they will be sent for judging and the family with the best house will win a trip to China to participate in the rebuilding efforts over there.
Our participants are indeed very creative and innovative, coming up with unique designs for the various parts of the houses, such as the windows, roof and even a chimney!
Meanwhile, VJCIC members are asking passer-bys to make donations towards rebuilding fund of Habitat for Humanity.
To conclude, this event won't be successful without the enthusiasm of the participants! Thank you!
Friday, 6 June 2008
Saya TV, an online streaming broadcast video website, would be broadcasting Under No Roof 2008 live.
So you can actually get your family and friends to watch and find out more about the camp and maybe catch you in the action (:
The video can only be viewed using Internet Explorer browser. Download it here.
This broadcast is LIVE. However, there will be a lag time of less than 5 minutes.
Refresh the page if the channel is offline or check the channel later. We will have to pause the broadcast to replace the battery of the filming equipment and the broadcast will resume shortly.
The programme schedule acts as a guide to allow you to know what exactly is happening on site. However, due to unforseen circumstances, the events may delay or be brought forward. Keep your ears open for the narration by our reporter. (turn on your speakers)
Click to enlarge the image below to view the programme schedule.
So you can actually get your family and friends to watch and find out more about the camp and maybe catch you in the action (:
The video can only be viewed using Internet Explorer browser. Download it here.
This broadcast is LIVE. However, there will be a lag time of less than 5 minutes.
Refresh the page if the channel is offline or check the channel later. We will have to pause the broadcast to replace the battery of the filming equipment and the broadcast will resume shortly.
The programme schedule acts as a guide to allow you to know what exactly is happening on site. However, due to unforseen circumstances, the events may delay or be brought forward. Keep your ears open for the narration by our reporter. (turn on your speakers)
Click to enlarge the image below to view the programme schedule.
COUNTDOWN
1 MORE DAY to UNDERNOROOF2008! (:
everyone! lets do this!!! (:
JIAYOU JIAYOU!
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everyone! lets do this!!! (:
JIAYOU JIAYOU!
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