My Sponsor Child

It was a year ago when I made my commitment to sponsor her. Initially I wished to be in touch with her but after thinking twice, I wished not to be very much involved with her emotionally. So I kept the first letter I wrote for her. Anyway, she was too young to understand my lengthy words and our letters exchange would be a burden to her family. The past letters and cards were written by her father. I would rather he spent more time with her.

Today I have received an email from WVM on Sponsor's Visit to Singkawang, Indonesia. Shall I go? Shall I meet her in person? Shall I be there to witness what my little contribution mean to them?

To go or not...I pray for her health and well being!

My World, My Future

After 3 weeks in Intel, I am convinced that I have made the correct choice. I love my job. I am now in the ideal environment to work in and I am happy with my task.

To many, the impression that they have on Intel is a pressure cooker like place to work in. But if you would ask me, well it is indeed very stressful but it is this stress that put us forward in front of our competitor. Healthy internal stress made me grow.

'Great Place to Work', that is one of our six Intel's core value. Just by this, it shows how much effort we have placed just for our comfort. Practicing flexi-hour and allowing work from home are great news for me and many other mainlander. We need not have to rush our way through that 2 narrowed lanes on Penang Bridge.

As an MNC, we have people working here from all different background...race, age, nationality and etc. Hence the oneness is a very important factor here. English is our key to unity. All official documents and meetings are conducted in English.

But sometimes, we just got drifted away. As most of us are of 1 race, we tend to speak in our own dialect. So recently we have launched another interesting campaign pertaining to this. It is called 'Stop Kilikulu'. Posters can be seen everywhere...even in the toilet.

our 'Stop Kilikulu' poster

Just got my pay this week...and I did a wonderful thing. It is my pledge and commitment to the community. Something which I have in my mind since last year after the Famine-30 program. I have signed up to sponsor a child...RM50 per month to feed and provide the necessities to him/her. Really hope these children would get all they need.

For more details, please visit World Vision

And of course....I have to reward myself for the hard work...so on Friday night, I have Japanese buffet in Tao...was too hungry for photographs...yummy! The best dishes there are the grilled salmon, scallop and butterfish, chawan mushi, lamb shoulder steak, sashimi, handrolls and many more.

this is our first round serving

And bought my family a lunch in Swensen on Sunday...my pepperoni and cheese pizza was excellent...surely better than Pizza Hut's....

My pepperoni and cheese pizza

5 scoops of ice-cream...my sis can't even wait for another 1 minute for my photo

salmon steak

What an excellent week!

World Vision clip

I just got to know recently that my big bro has been sponsoring a child from Lebanon. Never thought he will do so. So if an apathy guy like him would sponsor why not others?

Tomorrow : 30 hour Famine Camp 2007 Theme Song

This is a nice song that I wanted to share with you all. Hope you will like it.

Lyrics
小小的眼光
失去了光芒
即使小小的手掌
也有权飞翔

大大的梦想
失去了力量
哪儿有大大的肩膀
温暖他心房

明天孩子们会有希望
会长出耀眼的翅膀
朝着那温暖的风和光
轻轻地飞扬

The world we live in
Can do with giving
A child today
Is a child of our tomorrow

I’ve seen the children
Who have been broken
By wars and hunger and natural disaster
So broken

When tomorrow comes
We must have hope
We must reach out
To every single child

When Tomorrow comes
We spread our love
And make it a better day

生活会有悲和喜
We’ve gotta pray and do our best
只要伸出我们的手
To bring you a better tomorrow

明天孩子们会有希望
会长出耀眼的翅膀
When Tomorrow comes
We spread our love
And make it a better day/让你我都飞扬

明天孩子们会有希望
会长出耀眼的翅膀
When Tomorrow comes
We spread our love
And make it a better day

Hunger for more

After my last post on 30 hour Famine, many of my friends were very curious on what we have done in that 30 hours.

So this will be a more detailed write up on it.

It started on 12 noon on 15th Sept and ended at 6pm on 16th Sept. As my last meal before the fast was at 10 am...So I have fasted for 32 hours in a whole.

During these long winding hours, there were not much that could be done. There were some famine games, sharing talk by Dr Wong Chow, Movie Time, Ai Xing Concert and of course many leisure time till I din't knew what to do besides sitting down at one corner and talked. As there were approximately 5500 faminer, the whole stadium was very crowded and noisy. Those school students seemed to be more excited for escaping home rather than feeling hungry like us.

To our surprise, the Ai Xing Concert on the 1st night was really a blast. There were many celebrities. Fish Leong, Nicholas Teo and Daniel Lee have managed to win the crowd. We could not believe that the crowd there have already fasted for 8 hours and still were very energetic and able to shout and call out their idols name.

By 9pm, I have a very bad stomach reflux. It was due to the stomach gastric asid. I started to burp. It was really bad for me as I used to have gastric pain. But anyway I hanged on to it. Only drink a lot a lot of water hopping that it would go off.

The concert ended at 10.40pm. I was pretty tired by then but I went for the screening of Turtles Can Fly as my sis wished to watch. The movie was set at the war zone of Iraq. It showed how the children there suffered and how they survived earning food from the mine land. It was really sad to see that and it was a very good movie but I dozed of for a few moment. My body could not take it any more. I was really very tired.

The movie ended at 12.30 midnight. We left the movie room and headed back to the arena, our sleeping zone. We laid our sleeping bags on the floor. I was really tired and my head was spinning off but those children seemed to be extra energetic. They could still go for the stargazing. For those who know me well, will surely realized that I am one who is very concious about personal hygiene. Normally or even in a camp, I could not sleep until I got my shower, but here I was too tired even to think about that. Not allowed to take shower was not a problem for me then. My hands and legs were very cold...signed of lacked of food...

Finally I fall asleep at about 1am. Even then I was awaken from time to time by other energetic campers. Everytime some one walked pass me, I would be awake. And finally I woke up at 5am. It was too early for any activity other than sitting up quietly.

We had a religious talk in the morning followed by a sharing session by Dr Wong Chow and a famine game. At 10am, I got another reflux. My stomach was alarming me on time to eat. Yet I got only water to spare.

By noon, we have another great performance by the beneficiary of the World Vision Fund. I could not recall which 2 NGO were them but they really proved themselves good up on the stage. I sincerely thank them for having the courage and for being so optimistic.

At about 2pm, I got the 3rd reflux. I felt bad...really bad. My hands and legs were cold and numbed. I have the crave for food. My team mates and I were talking about food....what we wished to have on my next meal.

Thank god for we have finally ended our 30 hour famine. It was really tough. It has made me realized how lucky I am. Really hope everyone reading this post would felt the same and start to practise moderately. Do not waste any food and appreciate what you have now!...The small little piece of banana cake and soy milk are great enough for me after these 30 hours. I believe the children out there felt the same as well. So let us play a role in making this world a better place for every each of us.

Thank you World Vision for such a miracle mission and all 30 hour famine campers and not to forget all my supportive teammates! Bravo!

What does hunger means to u and me?

These children deserve more!


We asked for too much and we could not finish it yet they were left with tree bark and etc....
 


30 hour Famine...another challenging event and meaning days.

I have always wanted to join this event since I learned about it in my early uni year. Finally I managed to attend it in my final uni year.

Well after the 30 hours what have I got?

I can only say how bad hunger is...hunger = restless = weak = everything = nothing. Everything coz our dailyhood revolves around food. We talked about food all day long. Nothing coz we were left with nothing.

All this while, I have been telling myself and especially my fellow girl guides not to waste food. Being brought up in a humble but strict ruling family, I did not have the habit of wasting food but well normal for me and all other Malaysians to be choosy as we all life in a country with a lot of food resources.

This camp has really enlighten me about how life should be lead to be and how every each of us can play our role in making this world a better place for all.

These are my resolutions and great thought:

1. Appreciate food and no wastage regardless of what resources...water, food, money n etc.
   
2. Educate the young ones...planning to have a mini famine in my next camp.
   
3. Adopt a child...RM50 per month = RM1.++ a day is not that a burden for me. will start this when I started working as I am now still my parents liabilities....:-)
   

Hope that all others out there can do the same. Trust me the feeling of hunger is really bad. I really can't take it to see anymore child in hunger. Please do something. If you can't afford to  support them, at least don't waste.

God bless!

Who say they can't dance?



Soy milk has never taste better than this


30 Hour Famine, a way to show we care!

Famine 30

I am going to join the Famine 30. It will be from 12pm on the 15 Sept to 6pm 16 Sept in Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. No solid food for 30 hours...how can I do that?

 

Here is my receipt to join in the Famine30 camp.

Well if my action can help others, then I will try my very best. No eating for 30 hours may be well aligned to my diet plan. So it is good in some way.

To all my dear friend, please show your support. If you can't join us for this 30 hours, you can do your part in help. You can donate to the world vision fund at http://www.worldvision.com.my

And if you are interested in funding to feed a child and think that RM50 per month may be too much, then give me a call. I wanna find some1 to share with as well....

So lets play your role to make this world a better place!