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Volunteer for Salvation Army’s Flag Day

Last Saturday’s afternoon, I and a few of my school’s Leo Club members offered some help to The Salvation Army on helping them to do some collection on their Flag Day. I did join something like this before two years ago, and now I got a chance to help out again. The day turns out that only of our few members came by to help out, I got no idea where were the other members.

Anyway, I’ll take it as a exercising, charity, fun work and in the mean time, doing some window shopping as well taking some photograph on the go.

We were the volunteer of the 2nd session of the flag day. Earlier in the morning, there’s volunteers already did the same thing we did. There’s a few from our school and a few from some other school. It started off dropping us at 2 of us at KOMTAR, then a few at the other side of the town. When I heard KOMTAR, Prangin Mall came across my mind, how can we not get into the mall when it’s so hot outside. Haha.

Long time ago, my friend had told me before that you can collect donations in the mall unless you get the permission from the authority and when we were in the mall, the can would be seen no where because I kept it in the mall. It’s in and out, after collecting donation for half an hour on the street, we went back to the mall to cool down and back to the street again and to the mall. Haha.

Best place to ask for donations is at the KOMTAR bus terminal where there’s a lot of people waiting for bus. We went like this, first round at bus terminal and we went for an interval break for some times, we went back to the bus terminal again.

During our own break, we went to the camera shop. MX was looking for camera lenses and since I loves camera, I went along too to check out on what he was looking for. We stucked in there for like 45 minutes, MX was actually looking for Nikon lens, the 70-300 VR and a flash, Nikon SB-600. Though, in the end he bought nothing because it was just a “test drive”.

Later at 4pm, the van came to KOMTAR and took us back to Salvation Army and there’s where we return the coin-filled can.

(Kenny, Yong Seng and MX, bloggers on board.)

Back at the Salvation Army Children’s House, we returned the can, and see kids playing basketball, I also went in to join the fun. Took a group photos of us and then I went to Gurney to meet Miss Clown!

Visit to Penang Home

Last weekend, I went to visit Penang Home, an old folks home in Penang. It’s a project organized by the Leo Club. We had a little breakfast with the oldies and there’s free eyes and ears check at the home. I brought food too, it was just some 100 of cream puffs.

At about 9 in the morning, mom drove me there with those puff. When I arrived, all the olds were gathered at the canteen. There were like approximately 200 old men and ladies. My task to help out by distributing foods and also to take photograph.

After having their meal, we arranged those who want to conduct a free eyes and ear check. At some times, there were no people checking, I might as well just get myself checked. I got a real good eyesight by the way.

Ears check was just for fun when there was no one was checking. The girl put an instrument on my ears and ask me to hear if there was any sound. 4 tones were played and I only heard two. She said it was normal and I got a good hearing. Haha.

Frankly speaking, it was quite boring, we were just chatting around with other members. However, it was nice to see the olds smiled when we gave them food. They happy then I happy. Yo! I just did 3 hours of community service. =D

Black and White Banquet Dinner

It’s a night where all the Leo members that attended the Leo Forum gather around and had a former banquet dinner. They themed it the Black and White. Everyone has to be in either black or white or the combination of black and white.

(La Salle Leo if I am not mistaken, with us, me and Tee Jin)

As for myself, I get out of the theme a little bit as I don’t have a white shirt for that night, I only got a maroon purplish one and I got a black tuxedo on. Looking a little bit big on me because I am a tiny person, though, I still looked smart. Haha.

It’s the 2nd dinner of the Leo Forum. The first one was the Starlight Night which include the finale of the Leo Idol competition and mini concert.

This banquet night was more likely on awards presentation and food. It has better food because it was a Chinese course dinner which we don’t need to walk, queue and get our own food ala buffet.

This dinner was held at Florex Chinese Restaurant in Ipoh. Before going to Ipoh, I made some research on the net and I got to know that the restaurant premise was not actually a restaurant but it was a cinema. Won’t be surprise that there’s pest that run through your legs, so I can conclude that it’s not a very well-maintained and hygienic place.

(Me and KOKahKOK)

Besides award presentation, there’s a interesting auction went on. We used artificial printed money to bid for prize, it’s just same as gambling because all of those prize were mystery gift and we didn’t know which was a good investment and which was not. You may sometimes, losses all your “money” to the mystery gift for just a pretty girl smile or a hug.

After so many rounds of auction, the most valuable prize was the RM210 DiGi Prepaid reload coupon that not our club won. We did actually have the most money but we did the wrong investment.

We at first don’t have that much money for the auction game, we then combined our “money” with other Leo club from the same states and then we started doing our “investing”. Unfortunately, we auctioned a balloon for high prize and in the end the best we got was a food basket and afterall we still got money left.

Kuala Lumpur Leos can be said that win and lose out in that auction. What they win was that the donation of RM10k to Sichuan Earthquake Victims was on behalf of their names, and what they lose was, they got nothing except names.

Party came after the dinner. Half of the group that were not party/clubbing gang went back the hotel. I was there to join the fun, I always like party, dancing and sort of stuff. It’s like interacting, expressing yourself. Though this doesn’t last long as the restaurant was closing the door. I could see that most of the chicks were quite good in dancing, clubbing chicks perhaps.

Well, it’s a very fun night to us. It’s another reason for high school student to join Leo Club. =D

Opening Ceremony of 08′ Leo Forum

Just sharing around some photos on the opening ceremony which happens on the last last Saturday during the holiday in Ipoh in the Leo Forum that I’ve attended.

It’s boring, we were like just sitting there to hear speeches, souvenir presentation a lot of boring stuff on stage. Since I got a camera, it gave me advantage to walk around as a non-official photographer for the event, though I didn’t really take a lot of photos.

This was where all the VIPs seated at. The ballroom for the event is quite small at the Heritage Hotel but it’s still able to accommodate all of us.

Leo Club of Penang (City) which is the Leo Club where KOKahKOK in and it’s the club for people who are above 18 years old. Zhang Hao who is on the left has a weird expression. Haha.

Few members of Leo Club of Ave Maria Convent, Ipoh. =)

Here’s a big shot of my Leo Club of Chung Ling High School. Damn cool lah.

This was what people do when something is boring.

Being in the ballroom for 2 hours, it’s not fun and I was just roaming around with the camera. Yo!

Fashion Show of Recycled Material at Leo Forum 08′

There’s a session where several teams’ model were selected to be present on the stage to showcase their masterpiece which was those wearable items that made from recycled material etc. newspaper, broken clothing. Funny to see most of the models were male and they were like gaying around. Unfortunately, my team, team L or what we called it the MaKenzzi didn’t get it through the judge so you can’t see my team model on the stage.

There’s 2 men with boobs. Peoples were like laughing when they were going up the stage and so do. Pretty creative with that. As for little girl, it’s the only girl among all the boys.

The given materials were mainly newspaper and pretty hard to make something that can wear out of newspaper because it can be torn easily. And then, you still have to keep it well and make sure it still can be worn the next day because all of these were made the day before during the team building session.

By the way, you guys are polluting the environment with newspapers. Just kidding.

Starlight Night and Leo Idol of Ipoh’s Leo Forum 2008

The Starlight Night was actually one of the recent Leo Forum that I’ve attended few days ago. Team building was not that important, but the most exciting one is the Starlight Night dinner, the awards presentation and the banquet night dinner. It’s just something like dinner cum concert cum performace and social interation where you makes friends.

A pretty formal group shot of the Leo members of Leo Club of Chung Ling High School at the hotel before ferrying us to the Red Creasent Hall where the Starlight Nights dinner happened at. It was a theme dinner where everyone have to be in blink blink, shiny, glowing as a popstar.

I was actually making money at that night by selling glowing sticks. You need some blink, you need some sticks then. Besides that, it’s dark and there’s a singing competition going on or so called Leo Idol, so maybe sticks can light up the atmosphere. Yes and I have decided to donate some of my earning to the Si Chuan Earthquake Fund at that night.

The dinner was a buffet one with a lot of foods to choose from, but the food was not that important. The best part of the night was the Leo Idol final and the performance by some local artistes.

There’s actually 6 finalist in the Leo Idol. This year got big as the champion gets a sponsor from local recording company for a producing a record album. Damn cool man. Selangor has 2 finalist, Penang has 2 too, while Kedah and Perak has one. Chris (above) from USJ8 was good in singing Angels by Robbie Williams. Chinese can’t really sings English song, I am one of them, but then those with no Chinese Ed background can sings well.

There’s 2 from Penang. 1 is the champion of the Penang Leo Idol while the other one is get lucky with the wildcards which allows him to get in the final. Too bad, there can’t be 2 champion. Of course I was standing on my school side where Alvin (the one with wildcard). The other one was Jason who is currently in college right now. Too bad he did not get anything.

Why I/They didn’t think of making something out to support our school team? It’s so unsupportive man, other states were like shouting and waving banner and poster like crazy as we were just sitting there and just shout. It’s not enough man. Nevertheless, the judge won’t goes to how powerful is the supporter.

(Samuel from SMJK Sam Tet, Ipoh / Biliana from SMK Assunta, Selangor)

The final 2 goes to Alvin from my school and Samuel from Sam Tet High School, Ipoh. It’s where the competition goes one on one and 50% goes to the vote from us and 50% was from the judges who were also the judges for Digi Celebriteen. I was like going around asking people to vote for Alvin and grateful, he is the champion!

Penang Chung Ling High School just rocks the house!

There’s also performance by our local artistes like Danny One and Dave Chai from the local group Quan Nan Ban which I didn’t really know about them until now.

There’s a small dance party after the dinner, but it’s like half the group went back to the hotel and left half of the people who were pretty chun/great in dancing. Perhaps there are those club kaki (recent visitor). I am not, I can’t dance, though I still stayed and join the fun.

Overall, it’s a pretty fun night as I made money, made friends, made enjoyment too.

From Penang to Ipoh’s Leo Forum

Early in the morning or what the Hokkiens say 7 early 8 early (7早8早), mom fetch me up to Sg Nibong Bus Terminal. It was far as I took us like about 20 minutes to get there. Wonder why my friend the big one or senior asked us to wait there by 7 and when we were there, he was not there.

Craps, we waited like 45 minutes there until the bus came. I even have time for toilet business before the bus started moving. After getting on the bus, we waited like another 30 minutes inside.

[Kenneth, Andy, Kel, CK, Jerry, Kenny]

Tell you what, I just couldn’t get any sleep on the bus. The bus ride was bumpy and even though I slept for like a few hours the previous night, I just can’t go asleep. Staying awake with my music playing, talking away and also taking photos of people sleeping. So sorry that I was being bad. Haha, you guys just look so (fill in the blank) when sleeping.

Maybe a little of card games can cure my boredness. A few rounds of money less Big D game were played. Luck wasn’t as I did not win any rounds. Oh my god!

Ha! I was just playing around with my friend’s sunglasses. Looks cool but it doesn’t really seems my type to wear something like this and moreover why would I need a sunglasses?

A 15 minutes toilet and whatever break at the highway rest house before continuing the journey to Ipoh. I bought just chewing gum there and went to clear my urine at the bowl. XD

Not really hungry at all at that time so I didn’t really bought anything to eat. From Penang to Ipoh is actually 2 hours, but the bus was driving slow and so it had became 3 hours.

Arrived at the Heritage Hotel at about 11am and straight away we did our registration. Getting all the freebies and we were actually in rush that time. The team building activity was suppose to be start later but then we had to get ready earlier to go to the site.

So I think it was fun? Yes it was. About 470 something people attended the Leo Forum. So what we did at the Leo Forum is coming up next and soon. Don’t go away. Yay!

New Leo Club Namecards

Ha! My new card is here in conjunction with my new term in the Leo Club of Chung Ling High School. Every new term or new year, the key officers or Board of Directors of the club get their own name card. These cards are for exchanging during some social event and gathering with other club members to exchange contacts and makes new friends.

You know lah, you don’t always got a pen and paper with you to write down your contact one mah. Card can do wonders. But then the best thing on earth to make friends is still the handphone. XD But then again, I don’t really dare to use the phone, I’m shy what, so it’s better for me to do the cards. Hehe. I can promote my blog offline somemore.

This was last year design. I was a Assistant Treasurer and I am now a Vice President. =) And, what do you think about the design of the black and white one? I did that myself. Will it be too simple or not?