RAC SW Chinese New Year Celebration

This year's CNY Celebration is held at my house. This time round, everyone brought a food item along. As always, the food was in abundance. It was certainly a day of enjoying one's company.


Had fun cutting the chicken?


Food Galore


2 boxes of pizza sponsored by Rotarian Tay


Lo Hei! Singapore West, Huat AH~!

After feasting on the food, Rotarian Tay gave a presentation on his recent Polio Walk Hike. It was certainly interesting to hear about his adventures and learn some safety tips on how to protect your feet if you want to climb a mountain or walk long distances.

Then, we had our club meeting as usual. We ended off the session by celebrating the Jan. & Feb. babies' birthday:)


Celebrating the Jan & Feb Babies' Birthday!


Group Picture. Forgot to ask the Rotarians to take with us:(

It was certainly a fun session bonding with everyone. Hope that we have more of such sessions!!!

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Jerlyn, Benedict, Evelyn, Suk Kwan, Wendy, Graduated member - Ke Yuan, Guest - President Pek, Rotarian Chew, Rotarian Tay & Mrs Tay

NEXT UP:
Bowling Bonding Session (17th February 2012)

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

Blood Donation Drive

After helping the visually handicapped, it's time to donate some blood to the Singapore's Blood Bank! On 15th January 2012 (Sunday), RAC Singapore West made a trip down to the Health Sciences Authority at Outram Park.

Below are some pictures taken during the visit:




Filling up some forms




Waiting to be called




Still have the energy to Facebook




CHEESE! :D




All Done 4 a Good Deed

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Jerlyn and Aini

NEXT UP:
CNY Celebration @ MY House! (5th February 2012)

Happy Chinese New Year everyone and enjoy the long weekend ahead! :D

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

SAVH CNY Bazaar

On a beautiful Saturday morning, RAC Singapore West decided to help the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) with their Chinese New Year Bazaar to raise funds for the association. Each of us was assigned a stall to man together with a SAVH staff. Some of the SAVH staff is visually handicapped and it was a good opportunity for us to get to know more about how the visually handicapped people manage their everyday lifes.

The SAVH staff that I was assigned with was visually handicapped (able to see partially) and he taught me how to use the iPhone screen reader function. I didn't know that the iPhone has such a function! The screen reader function will read whatever that was tapped on and if you want to select the button, you have to double-tap the icon. Moreover, instead of using a finger to swipe through the pages, they use 4 fingers to swipe through the pages. I guess this is to prevent them from accidentally swiping through the pages. Apple products are really helpful, don't you think? :D

In general, the SAVH people are extremely friendly and easy to mingle with. Even though the crowd is not so ideal, my Bak Kwa booth still managed to sell 37 boxes of Bak Kwa and 4 packets of pork floss (Sales: $1000+). I guess with better advertisement, they might be able to draw in a larger crowd and achieve better sales.


Big Abalone & Bak Kwa Group: Ibrahim, Me & Yancy


Costume jewlry & miscellaneous Group: Jerlyn & Shirlynn


Dried seafood: Hooi Ying


Touch Art: Wahid


CNY Decorations: Aini

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Wendy, Jerlyn, Aini, Yancy, Guest - Shirlynn and Ibrahim

Stay tuned to our Blood Donation Drive and Board Meeting next Sunday!!!

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2012 has finally arrived!!!


Wishing everyone a Happy Dragon 2012 Year!!!

Have you made your new year resolutions yet?

Crazy Time @ Universal Studios Singapore

After a morning of "darkness", it's time to get wild and high at USS!!!

Although there aren't many attractions, it's still fun as what matters is the company, right?



Wonder when will be our next event??? Stay tuned!!!

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Wendy, Graduated member - Zack and Dawn

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

Dialogue in the Dark: Journey through the Darkness

Finally a Professional Development session AT.... DIALOGUE IN THE DARK @ Ngee Ann Polytechnic!!! Woohoo!!!

On 17th December 2011, a group of us spent an amazing morning feeling our way through the darkness with the help of Kelvin Tan!


Before starting our darkness journey

Since it's near Christmas, the DiD peeps had some Christmas elements during the journey which made it even more fun and interesting. I didn't know that this is how it feels like to be a visually impaired person. Just basing on the other senses to help me along the way. Luckily, with friends beside me, I guess the journey wasn't scary but extremely fun:)

Along the way, we had to feel the words on the statue, sit on a boat along the Singapore River, hang Christmas decorations on the "invisible" Christmas tree, feel for items in the room, ordering drinks at the cafe and writing Christmas wishes on the card. Time really flies and the whole journey didn't seem like 1 hour!

If you haven't been to Dialogue in the Dark, better book an appointment NOW!!! It's definitely a worth-while one hour journey through the darkness. :)

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Jerlyn, Wendy, Aini, Mervy, Yan Xing

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

"East" and West Christmas BBQ Session

On 16th December 2011, we had a Christmas BBQ Session with Rotaract Club of Singapore East at CK's house. Even though it was raining throughout the day, Heaven still pity us and stopped raining in the evening. Thank God!

Although the place was wet, it still did not damper our feelings for the festive Christmas. In fact, doesn't it seem to be like Christmas with the cool weather and gloomy sky?


The guys setting up the fire


Meat Galore


Isn't it supposed to be LOG cake? Why did it become a BLOCK cake?


Pictures of the Christmas Gift Xchange below:





















Merry Christmas, everyone!

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Jerlyn, Wendy, Mervy, Yan Xing, Graduated member - Zack and Dawn, Honorary member - CK, Guest - Erna

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

Birthday Surprise at Vivo City

On 14 November, we had a birthday surpise for Hooi Ying at Vivo City. We bought the cake from Awfully Chocolate and had them to do the wordings on the cake.

After which, we met up at Golden Village to watch "You are the apple of my eye" and finally setting down at Long John Silvers to celebrate her birthday.


Photographer: CK

It was so nice of the fast food restaurant to give us free ice-cream as well upon knowing that we are celebrating someone's birthday.

Hope that Hooi Ying liked the surprise and stay cheerful and pretty;)

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Evelyn, Jerlyn, Wendy, Graduated member - Keyuan and Zack

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

Zonal BBQ

This year's Zonal BBQ is organized by Rotaract Club of Singapore Polytechnic, Rotaract Club of Nanyang Polytechnic and Rotaract Club of Queenstown. It was held at East Coast Park on 5 November 2011.

The game session started at 3pm while the BBQ session started from 6pm. After being "cooked" the whole afternoon, everyone is certainly looking forward to cooking the food!



Taking a picture before the sun sets!!!

It was certainly a fun day interacting with other Rotaractors in District 3310 as well as DRR Sorensen who joined us while on her District Tour.

Wonder when will our next zonal event be? Stay tuned!!!

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Wendy

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

RAC SW 4th BOD Meeting & Fellowship!

On 26th October, RAC Singapore West had its 4th BOD Meeting at Marina Square Food Court. After the meeting, we went to watch "In Time" which was an awesome movie about treasuring the time that you have. Then we had dinner at Seoul Garden and Xin Wang.

It was a day of fun, laughter and FOOD!!! Not forgetting forging closer bonds with one another;)

Photographs taken:


Round 1: Board Meeting @ Marina Square Food Court


Round 2: Movie Fellowship - "In Time"


Round 3: Dinner Part 1 @ Marina Square Seoul Garden


Round 4: Dinner Part 2 @ Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe

Certainly looking forward to our next fellowship outing!!!

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Evelyn, Jerlyn, Wendy, Graduated member - Keyuan

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy

Bowling Fellowship @ Bukit Batok CSC

To train for the Zonal Bowling this Rotaract Year, RAC SW had its Bowling Fellowship on 6th October at Bukit Batok CSC. We are delighted to have a guest Rotaractor who is previously from Rotaract Club of Advance Tertiary College(ATC) Kuala Lumpur.

Look at our scores!!!





Looks like we need to train harder if we are aiming to win the Zonal Bowling this Rotaract Year!


Group Photo @ Bukit Batok CSC

When will our next training be? Will we be able to train till all of us are over the hundred? Stay tuned...

Members attended:
Wahid, Hooi Ying, Benedict, Wendy, Graduated member - Dawn and Zack, Guest - Erna

Reported by:
Rtr Wendy