We Are Team 1!

2007-04-04T23:20:00.000+08:00

2007-03-25T20:18:00.000+08:00

looks like its time to revive this blog...even tho i seem to have problem loading the actualy blog on my IE...
anyway wed was our talk at njc!!! went quite well i suppose .. loved the demonstrations haha

nows its 7th april to sell those handicrafts plus display our posters!!!

baorong``

B1: Archery!

2007-02-11T20:46:00.000+08:00

Archery Session 3rd Feb 9am to 11am

Talk to the Hands!!

and the Elbow

B1 on ZEST: Photos shall do the talking

2007-02-10T21:13:00.000+08:00

Zest Party 2007 20th Jan 6.30pm - 9pm

2nd SMU session

2007-01-26T20:57:00.000+08:00

lol. i think we forgot to blog last week. oh well.

today went down again to SMU. was late cos I got stuck in school with some admin for teachers. grr. anyway stupid traffic was real bad. took 171 all the way down to SMU. how convenient lol. then after that went in and took a seat. was the usual fare, the presentation on leadership traits and all.

was feeling quite blur today lah. lol anyway after that thing ended we had a short meeting.

we talked about the posters, how kelvin kept going on MC and after some sidelining and going back on track, we decided to do the stuff first before visiting the agencies. ie whatever we can do we do first.

yea and then we meeting again at 11 tmrw. haha when i put it into words seems like we didn't do a lot O_O

HWA Zest Party

2007-01-21T03:56:00.000+08:00

Hello!

Today I went to HWA in the evening for their ZEST party with the 3 "Bs" - Boey Yang, Ben, Bao Rong. I ~~demanded~~ requested that they do some reflection post-party, since I'm supposed to "ensure students keep learning logs frequently" as written in my job responsibilities haha. So since I was there too, I shall start first, fair right? NO COPYING OR PARAPHRASING HOR!!

So the guys said I'm so talkative.. and how come I can so easily chat up the people there, both handicapped and not. Truth to be told, this was actually the first time I've actually spoken to the clients at HWA... I've never really dealt with people in wheelchairs before... except sometimes in school there's this guy in a wheelchair and I'll help him move out of the classroom or into the study room, that's all.

So anyway, I was probably as apprehensive, or more, than you guys in approaching them! [Did you know that people with high "I" personality (DISC profiling I'm sure you've done before) are also not good in taking rejection?] Yeah, but you see, since I'm your mentor, I could not show it and had to force myself to adjust to the situation, hoping you will then feel a bit more at ease and follow suit! haha. I guess it didn't work much huh. But it's ok, still more sessions to go right. Doesn't mean that the project is "3rd party" then you shy away.. if even I try when I'm also afraid and technically the project is you guys', then you all should also lah, ok?

Hmm so what else.. oh I met some new people of course, both clients and other volunteers... don't you feel that the people there are all like.. different kind of character from general public and similar in character to each other? In terms of you know their mannerism and attitudes... all like no airs and friendly. Quite nice huh.

So I met Divya... who's 19 and her bday is coming soon on 24th Jan! She likes flowers. She speaks very slowly too. She said she is currently working at SPD tagging things and likes working better than studying haha. And Jason, 23, who is hearing impaired... we communicated thru sms. So interesting. Got the sign language card and I'll try to learn but I really have psycho-motor-problems!! Hai.

Eh Boey Yang, what prize did you win? share leh!! How was the programme after I left? And I really admire the guy who could play well even after his accident. They really have like the drive to get on with life and stop moping around. Makes people who whine about breakups and studies or pimples (ha, like me) sound so blah in comparison.

Hope you got some good pictures. maybe you could get a recording of the guy's piano playing and use it in your final presentation ;)

Alright who's got my brolly please return it on fri! 3Bs please post soon hor.

Nightt

yesterday: proposal presentation

2007-01-13T21:41:00.000+08:00

haha this is for the benefit of boey yang.

yesterday we chionged down to SMU amidst rain, rain and more rain!

ben was there the earliest, having escaped the rain, he was quite dry. marianne, samantha and i were not so fortunate. we met and headed down, and was promptly drenched by the sky and drowned by the puddles.

we went in for the lecture, and after a while baorong came crashing in. (ok not crashing. just strolling) then lots of slides and talk later, we split up for proposal presentation. it was quite a long and dreary affair, if not for the constructive feedback we got. actually thinking about it our project has quite good potential. and the assembly talks were a very good idea.

then it just dragged on and on forever while my stomach growled, ben kept writing, and natalie just zoned out.

everyone was stoning and spacing out when it came to the later parts and no one really paid attention. hmm. and ben kept calling marianne marianna. =s

we had a short meeting then we all went off. and it was still raining. bleh. i returned home drenched and my shoes were literally flooded. bleh.

oh well. haha. i guess that's all? lazy to update lah lol. lots of documents flying around in the inboxes suddenly.

and i dun have the whole set of documents on what i am supposed to do...

could some kind soul enlighten me on how to enter the portal. =.=

"informal" meeting

2006-12-15T23:45:00.000+08:00

hey guys. haha i haven't posted here for very long, but since no one updated today, I shall!

Haha there was an "informal and impromptu" meeting today that comprised of me (Howard), Boey Yang and Baorong. Apparently we met at J8 at 10am, which was horrendously early. Not many shops were open, so we ended up stoning at Coffee Bean. (ok I'm not a good narrator)

We discussed about Marianne's edited proposal and changed some stuff. Boey Yang is currently in the process of doing it up and will be forwarding it to us and Kelvin asap.

Hmm. After that we finished in one hour since there were no distractions (the whole place was quiet and apparently the absence of a laptop helped(!?)) lol. then we went to watch PotC: DMC outside a DVD shop for like 40 minutes, then went to Yoshinoya for lunch x)

Poor Baorong was left with practically nothing to do with a few hours to spare before having to arrive in school. lol.

Oh well. =) Signing out!

3rd Visit to HWA to re-do proposal

2006-12-08T20:13:00.000+08:00

hmmm...today we went to hwa again...at first thought got full strength...then ben didnt come i called him and i think he said hes in bangkok or sth...omg waste my phone $$$

okayyy so we went to hwa to meet kelvin...basically our whole previous ideas abt the carnival got scrapped off...prolly coz too massive?? haha got new dieas to work on....
oh well but nevermind probably this new project would be more beneficiary to hwa since they can use it for dunno how many years instead of a one-off event....

anyway after tt we went to boon keng coz their kfc bigger...haha... somehow took the wrong bus or sth ended up walking a longer way...

then ate and discusses...haha damn fun....

boey yang commenting about sam's mini mouses (& huge wallets)...haha
"what is supposed to be big is small, what is supposed to be small is big"
then me n howard felt that sounded wrong.... ;)

okayyy some photos (marianne and sam are officially declared to have gotten infected with Cam-Phobia)

Nice quotes that i juz saw while surfing the net (really tooooo bored) .....

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

Whatever life throws at you, just roll with it. ~Author Unknown

(tis one is quite funnie) When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown

bye...
~boydog``

2006-12-01T10:56:00.000+08:00

hmmm so between hwa n beyond, we got hwa....
even tho we prolly were more into little childrens at first, i suppose both projects will benefit ppl out there, so we can still rock the project...haha....
so we have to edit some parts of the prposal...so tt means more apptmts with kelvin!!!haha...

ok..gtg go school liao...byebye...
~boydog``

2006-11-27T23:05:00.000+08:00

hmmm so after a few days of like TRYING to upload the proposals into the ldp website which hates us and another group..... its fianlly sent to Dr. Lim and she replied...
okayyy....hopefully things will go well now....haha...

~boydog``

2006-11-24T16:10:00.000+08:00

hi ppl
after some snooping around my frens blog i found this:
Team 8's blog

haha wnyway our prposals due today sia....more or less done i wud say? haha still havent come up with project titles...lol...

2nd followup visit to HWA

2006-11-15T20:59:00.000+08:00

hi everyone...
a we went to HWa for the 2nd visit and discussed more ideas with kelvin......so fun tml i have to go again for my own library cip.....

at united square macs screwing around with the mini mouse & expensive laptops....

at hwa office waiting for kelvin....
waiting for the bus....

soooo fun.....bye everyone i going for camp tml liao :(
~boydog``

From my camera....

2006-11-02T22:28:00.000+08:00

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2006-11-02T19:12:00.000+08:00

lets see...yesterday we had appointments with 3 service agencies...hwa, care & Beyond...today reall tired out form yest sia...wanted to pon schl today...ha but decided not to...n it was quite...coz quite a lot of teachers didnt bother abt us and we were like playing cards....haha.,..pokemon cards...damn childish rite..its a new trend in my class =)

Firstly, the day started off with me not being able to find da ldp teacher in charge to sign the approval form to leave schl early...it was all thanks to my super nice relief form teacher who signed a form for me...then i thought that i was super duper late...so ben n me took a cab n arrived BEFORE sam at novena mrt!!!

haha then our group was damn lucky the whole day....kept getting lost at every single appointment...firstly we couldnt find the correct bust stop number at novena and walked back down to the mrt to look at map only to find that we actually left by the correct exit...>.<...but we had to walk like damn far to the correct bus stop...then we missed our alighting bus stop n had to walk a looooog way back... so at hwa we went on sort of a tour....with the nice guy kelvin....haha...hwa definitely looks much better than the last time i visited it...haha with all the new painted walls... =)then we had some discussion (conference style?...haha)... and so here we have...the photo at hwa with the hwa guy in front of the hwa bus -_-"

then we walked all the way to find the bus stop...lol...damn far off again... took bus to boon keng mrt where we stopped for a quick bite at kfc...yup it was a rather "quick" bite for around 1 hour...eating & chatting ...

then we took mrt n changed at outram park where we walked damn far again...and took a damn long ride to tampines....to go to CARE...and there we couldnt find that bus at the bus interchagne after much running around n asking around we finally found the bus at a bus stop realli far away...then we were lucky enough to get off at the wrong stop like 2 stops b4....then after taking another bus to the correct stop...we like couldnt find CARE at all coz the housing estate like maze like tt....oh wait we actually walked til some condo...haha...so we called CARE & the woman told us to go to blk 446 and cross the road...so we walk walk walk but cudnt find 446 but found 443...it was next to a road so we decided to cross it and there it was...CARE...so our feelings were cheated by the CARE woman ... >.<
then we took a bus to pasir ris interchange and ate at white sands shopping centre...then coz some went toilet some didnt some went toilet slightly after we sort of lost each other...hahaha

then took a realllli long ride to queenstown...where once again we couldnt decide on which side of the bridge to go coz queenstown like got 2 exits...so we went down one side and hou its the wrong bus stop...so we had to cross back n go down the other one....finally it was the correct one....only to realise that the 1 bus stop is actually damn near...but after alighting still need to walk one big round to get to the church where Beyond is at...when i first entered i was overwhelemd by the kids running around..started to wonder how we are gonna pull off a proj with these kids...but then later got some discussion iwth the Beyond woman then we had some short time to interact with the kids..most of them are actually quite cute & smart..haha wah their p2 ws is damn difficult i dun even remembering learning those words in pri 2...hahaya then fianlly we left at around 9.30pm...n i took a lonely mrt ride home... :(
haha no one noticed this...
dun hide (i alr caught u juz now liao...)

updates

2006-10-30T13:41:00.000+08:00

HWA
after much transferring of calls to the correct "authority", i finally maned to confirm apptmt at aound 12nn on 1st nov. (btwthey close at around 3pm on wed)
address: 16 whampoa drive

CARE
after telling me that they will have to ask volunteers but nvr call back, i called again only to find out that their volunteer in charge i on MC, nd they can only tell me by tomorrow.
so, i iwll try to fit thi in btw the other two apptmts...

Beyond
7pm-9pm 1st Nov
350 Alexandra R Level 2

2006-10-29T20:46:00.001+08:00

hey. just wanted to tell yall that many groups are choosing beyond and care so i think we better contact care asap. (:

<3 marianne.

2006-10-28T22:06:00.000+08:00

heres to let everyone knows that neither agencies have replied my email nor are them icking up my calls.... dun think they wil be open tml but i will try...most prolly our only chance would be monday...
k tts all or now good night!

~boydog``

untitled

2006-10-28T09:07:00.000+08:00

wow hello guys. i'd never think i could post again.

anyway i am now at the airport feeling sian. lol good luck for ur agency visits. 11:09 more to signing out of the airport computer hahahaha.

bye!

howard

2006-10-27T23:54:00.000+08:00

hello all!
that was really quick samantha. (: anyway howard have fun in china. i realized you know my brother cos he plays chess too.

fyi, got a personal blog if you all happen to be really bored. http://xanga.com/dontstoplovin

jiayou for ldp! (ps. good job baorong! haha.)

<3 marianne.

hi guys

2006-10-27T22:04:00.000+08:00

lol seems like only the three of us are here now. actually i used to use blogger until last year, but i forgotten my password liao haha. anyway now i am using livejournal, so. x)

lol hope you guys can work together while i'm away (i'm sure you can), and pleasepleaseplease update me after i come back lol =)

yay. ok seems like i got nothing more to say. needa sleep early. morning flight tmrw. gd luck guys!

signing off,
howard

2006-10-27T21:40:00.000+08:00

woooahh....must have more colours...haha btw i emailed CARE & HWA liao...see if they replies...

~boydog``

2006-10-27T19:58:00.000+08:00

HELLO TEAM 1!

I know we're gonna make LDP 06-07 a big success!
& we'll have a rockin' good time as a team ;D

sam