JCCM 2004 Archives

John Curtin Charity Month 2004 Archives
By Zack Tiang

Friday, October 29

Before noon, we did some more CV! stuff at the cafeteria... did some more promo for the Charity Happy Hour that was to happen that night at Ciao Mien & Hot Beans Cafe...
Then comes afternoon already... Went to Ciao Mien & Hot Beans cafe to take care of the venue set-up for the event....

at first no idea how the table arrangement was going to be! but good thing had a rough idea of the arrangements...

sigh.. so much trouble... we were supposed to be done with the venue set-up at 5pm and then after that we were to dress up for the night...

but then.. with help coming late, the extra tables and chairs late, required items not yet there, it was so troublesome!!

but eventually... although we passed the time limit with the venue set-up... we did a good job of the place... it was GREAT!!

Night,
the Starlets (Azie and her family members) were still setting up their musical instruments and equipments on the red-carpet 'stage' for the night....
I got something to eat (with RM10) and just enjoyed the music... taken care of by the Village...
soon, the Starlets began to play their live band music... and they are DEFINITELY good!!Our special charity auction went fairly well in my view.... especially the girls that were auctioned.... heheeh!

Third highest bid... Giegel with RM35, bought by Abel...
Second highest bid... Bella with RM37, bought by Andy and his friends...
Highest bid for the night... Listiari (Liz) with RM40, bought by Lenny, her boyfriend...

the auction was quite fun... especially when you knew that some people really wants to buy a particular person....
unfortunately... we couldn't do the third set of the auction.. with Serena, Jack and Nicholas... and unfortunately also, Raymond Ting could not make it for the night.... for HIS auction....
overall.. the event was all right.. but the audience was not great.... turning the whole event to a dissappointing result of all of our HARD work to promote this....
sigh.. what happened to everyone!? sigh....

Photo taken from Gretchel's Blogspot --> http://gretchel.blogspot.com

From left to right,
[Back row] Joana, {ME} & Ehon.
[Front row] Bella, Gretchel, Snow Jae & Shenton.

Charity Happy Hour over.... the audience are gone... leaving only the CV! members eventually at cafe... boy... we re-arranged the tables and chairs back to the way they were originally... or at least... as close to the original positions as we could.

Saturday, October 23

Morning was the Maths Workshop for some Form 4 students from SMK Dato Permaisuri (I think....) who were identified as poor in Maths...

CV! members involved were Abel, Daryll How (Person-in-charge), Seryna, Snow Jae, Liz, Nadia, Jessie, Jenny, Iqbal, VJ, Edmund, Amos, Ehon, Navodi & me..

there were 36 of them that came... and one teacher of theirs....

at first, we had actually predicted VERY naughty and 'sam seng' students... the ones that are usually going against the rules and being rude and all...

but it turned out to be otherwise! they were great 'kids'! better behavior than I myself had prepared myself for...

we had quite some fun... they were very sporting teenagers...the supposed reasons for their poor performance in Maths was their lack of the basics.... either from the fault of the teachers.. or their own... or both....

Anyway, many of us, the CV! members & the Form 4 students had fun... we WERE successful in making some of them start to enjoy Maths, which was a really happy triumph for us CV! members...

Most of the students wish for a longer workshop, which I felt like a really admirable compliment for us and our work...

they even wanted to spend more time with us.... two/three days and one/two nights!!

Friday, October 22

This afternoon was the CV! visit to the Sunflower Center for Special Children....

and I was given the task of organising it....

There were eight of us that went... Iqbal, Zahoor, Jenny, Nadia, Ehon, Edmund, VJ, me and plus one, Abel...

[MORE INFO ON THIS VISIT WILL BE POSTED]

we had a lot of fun with the children there... the children loved the gifts we had for them...

it was a great experience.... (plus, we got to know how good Iqbal, VJ & Edmund were at making cookies!)

Tuesday, October 19

The day fo the official launching of JCCM.... the MCs for the event were Bay & Renee...

while waiting for the hour of the launching, Jack had bought a container of biscuits from the Sunflower Center booth (RM10) and let everyone have some.

I had quite a lot, to be honest, but it was only because I hadn't had much to eat before this and the biscuits were REALLY GOOD!! (You guys should try some, really they are GOOD!)

Before the actual launching of JCCM... there had been a few speeches made... I can't remember all of those who made the speeches.. but I do remember two of them... the Dean of CSM and Raymond Ting, President of the Student Counsel...

I can still remember Raymond praising CV! for all of its great achievements and high reputation... Hehe! ^_^

Eventually, the last speech was over... then came our turn to dance.... and dance we did!

We sure livened up the place and to be honest, I think the audience were only interested to watch our dance, than the speeches....

Despite the tension and pressure I had to endure, I forced a smile on my face during the dancing....

Hahaha! It was for the sake of leaving a good image for the CV! members as that we are having fun and enjoy doing what we do, despite the fact of hardship, pressure and etc behind what we do...

But, hey! It doesn't mean that I don't enjoy doing this, cause.. I DO!!

always playing and being with friends.. why wouldn't anyone?

anyway... the second the dance was done with... I had to go and do some of my own work... course related...

So.. for information on the rest of the CV! event for this day, maybe Iqbal can fill in on that?

Monday, October 18

It was afternoon.. and we had to take care of the CV booth at the cafeteria and also do the promo of the JCCM... and at the same time rounding up some charity donation...

The promo cheerleaders doing the promo were Gretchel, Bella, Joana, Liz, Snow J, and Ehon!

VJ, Nadia, Iqbal and some others were to help around at the booth....

Me? I was to walk around as the 'sandwich box man/boy'.... What's that?

well.... putting it plainly... I was to wear some signs on my body at the front and back and walk around, promoting JCCM....

I had a better audience than I had thought I would...

then, soon, my work added to distributing fliers of JCCM and then collecting donations for charity...

Hehe! I had to say, I collect quite a load.... but it's the first day of JCCM.. so I'm afraid I'm expecting a lesser haul as time goes by... which I truly hope won't be the case....

THIS IS CHARITY, PEOPLE!!

don't be so selfish not to continue donating after the first one in a short time...

Evening, worked some more at the LT Foyer (Lecture Theatre Foyer)....

arranged the tables... the chairs... help decorate the CV! board... before all of this, practised for the dance for a while....

BOY, were those mosquitoes kind enough to stick around all the while when we were there... so kind that we were getting SO ANNOYED by their company....

anyway... after we were done at the LT Foyer.. we went to the Library Foyer.. and counted the amount of charity donation we've rounded up for the day... and the number of CV! T-shirts...

the ones that were there were Abel, Iqbal, Krishna, Serena and Amos... including myself of course...

boy.. counting the coins were such a bother... Iqbal had miscounted them twice... and I made a BIG (troublesome) mistake when counting them all for the last time...

it wasn't long before Krishna and Amos had to go home... then later, Lis and Nadia joined us....

hahaa... then we went to the topic of the Ms. Curtin Top TEN candidates....

Nadia was SO OVERJOYED when Lis got a call that night that confirms her to be one of the TOP TEN!

Hahaha! Laughed til my abdomen was aching!

We got to find out that most of the candidates for Ms. Curtin were members of CV!; Lis, Nadia, Gretchel, Snow J, Giegel and Renee!

Saturday, October 16

Morning, went on a visit to the Kidney Dialysis Centre with a group of friends... which included Abel, Serena, Snow J, Ehon, Fera, Jenny, Edmund, Wang Gek, and some others who I didn't know their names...

Boy, was the visit quite informative and as Abel commented, "An eye-opener!"...

We got to learn a lot about the kidney dialysizing process and the many causes of kidney failure that results to one needing this dialysis...

Did you know that they are NO synctoms of kidney failure and if you do see them, it is already TOO LATE!?

The only way to be sure if you have a sign of kidney failure is that you do a blood test at least once a year.

Morgan, who took us around the center, said, "Go to take a blood test during your birthday, as a present to yourself."

If you have kidney failure, you can live for like five years more or so, and with this dialysis, you can only PROLONG it to another fifteen or twenty years more.

that means having to do the dialysis process four hours each three times a week.. EVERY WEEK for the rest of your LIFE!!

if you go to the one that I visited, it costs RM120 per dialysis!! You do the math!!

Afternoon, after the visit, returned to campus... had lunch and then helped Seryna do some work at the LT Foyer...

Sara, Jenny, Lis and Nadia were there too, joined for a while by Benet, one of the student council (He's a nice guy)...

Sara didn't get to spend long with us there... and some time later, Jenny too had to go...

leaving only me, Serena, Lis and Nadia.... then Abel came back from a meeting and joined us....

It was great just to keep talking about... 'things' with one another.