Leo Club of SMK Damansara Jaya: May 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

2013 Blind Leading the Blind

The 2013 Blind Leading the Blind walk is back ! For more details please click the following link :
http://lionspj.org/blind-leading-the-blind-2013/

If you would like to donate , please look for Tee Ke Ran , 3 Angsana, Ng Coshyn , 4 Cengal or Solomon Tneo ( 4 Belian )

2013 MD 308 Forum ( list of awards )

The Leo club of SMK Damansara Jaya would like to thank the members, the board of director, Puan Ng , Puan Wong and Lion Clarence for their hard work and supports. Without them , the Leo club of SMK Damansara Jaya wouldn't be able to win a total of 22 awards. The following is the list of award that we received :

District Special Appreciation Award ( lion leo advisor )

- Lion Clarence Koh Heok Huat

District Special Appreciation Award (Faculty Advisor Award)

- Puan Ng Yoke Chan

- Puan Wong Siew Khee

Outstanding Leo President

- Leo Lor Jia Yang

Outstanding Leo Vice President

- Leo Syafinas Ibrahim

Outstanding Leo Secretary

- Leo Chan Pei Ling

Outstanding Leo Treasurer

- Leo Khoo Hsiu Fen

Outstanding Leo Director

- Leo Solomon Tneo

- Leo Tee Ke Hui

- Leo Raushen Singh

- Leo Foo Sher Ming

Outstanding Leo Member

- Leo Cheryl Gan Shu Wern

Leo Club Of SMK Damansara Jaya :

100% Adminstrative Award

Top Joint Projects Award

Outstanding Environmental Services

Outstanding School Services

Outstanding leo-Lion Serving Together (Joint Projects)

Outstanding Community Service

Outstanding Health Services

Outstanding leo Day Program

Outstanding Leadership Development

Outstanding Leo Club Award

Thank you everyone once again for your time and support !

Saturday, May 11, 2013

iHeal Health Screening

1^st AOC: Tee Ke Ran

2^nd AOC: Leo Syafinas Ibrahim

Secretary: Leo Chan Pei Ling

Photography: Leo Chong Jia Sheng

Date : 27/4/2013
Venue : School Hall, SMK Damansara Jaya
Time : 8.30am to 2.00pm

The Health Services Project entitled ‘iHeal Health Screening’ was held simultaneously with the Gift of Blood Campaign. The events shared an opening ceremony where Guests of Honour and Special Guests are invited to witness and initiate the event. At 8.30 am, the meeting was called to order by Leo Syafinas Ibrahim. Following that, the flag salutation and Leo Pledge are read by the emcee. The Guests of Honour are then invited onto stage to deliver their opening addresses. Souvenirs are then presented to the Guests of Honour, Special Guests, representatives from iHeal Medical Centre and representatives from The National Blood Bank. Finally, the Guests of Honour are invited onto stage again to initiate the event through an interesting act of defibrillating a volunteer.

The health screening commenced at 9.00 am where a crowd of teachers, parents and Damansara Jaya residents enter the venue to sign up for a free health screening package. iHeal Medical Centre also offered 80% discount off an echocardiography package for the course of charity and agreed to channel 30% of the proceeds to our Leo Club in support of other service projects. The staff from the medical centre erected a tent for the echocardiography and handled the free health screening tests while Leo members and prefects from the afternoon session helped with the registration and preparation of beverages for other participants. Leo members and prefects also prepared beverages for the staffs who so kindly volunteered their services at our humble event.

At 11.00 am, the staffs are invited to have their lunch at the hall foyer ordered from a caterer who gave us amazing discounts on account that the food is prepared for charity. Subsequently, the prefects, who willingly contributed their entire morning volunteering with the Leo members albeit needing to proceed immediately with their duty shifts, were invited to have their lunch at the foyer as well. At 11.15 am, we went on with the health screening event up to around 1.30 pm. During that duration of time, many teachers flocked to the hall for the attractive discount on echocardiography provided by a private medical centre. The teachers forwarded their appreciation to the Leo Club for establishing the convenience of providing echocardiography in school, with 80% discount of the original price of the package. Finally, with the help of the prefects, Leo members and the staffs from the Medical Centre, we prepared for the cleaning up of the venue and by 2.00 pm, everything was put back in order and cleaned. We bid the staff from iHeal Medical Centre farewell and thanked them profusely for making this event a success.

Health Talk : Why I Gave my Liver to a Stranger

Date : 26 / 4 / 2013
Time : 10.00am - 12.00pm
Venue : School Hall, SMK Damansara Jaya

The Leo Club of SMK Damansara Jaya invited Ex-Malaysian Youth Icon, Miss Chew Hoong Ling to give a talk themed in Organ Donation Awareness entitled ‘Why I Gave my Liver to a Stranger’. The target audience of this talk encompasses students from class 4 Angsana, 4 Balau and 4 Batai. They were ushered to the School hall at 10.45 am after their recess time to attend this meaningful and empowering talk.

Once they arrive at the hall and settle down in their respective seats, emcee and organizing chairperson Leo Tee Ke Hui began with welcoming the teachers and students. A brief profile of Miss Chew’s rich and astounding experiences and achievements as an avid volunteer in humanitarian work especially as an advocate of organ donation was read out to the audience. The emcee then hand over the floor to the speaker. The speaker, Miss Chew Hoong Ling shared her experiences and journey as a humanitarian and a liver donor with spectacular charisma as she is also an international emcee who travelled abroad often to give inspirational talks and workshops.

After one hour of sharing, she then showed the audience several public announcements and inspirational videos to create an everlasting impact on the gist of her talk which is to advocate for organ donation and organ donation pledge. The crowd was very moved by her inspirational talk which reflected professionalism and sincerity in her advocacy. Following that, students and teacher engaged in a Q&A session with our distinguished speaker who has a very intriguing background and she is also one who has attained utmost achievement in her career and volunteer works. After that, we thanked Miss Hoong Ling tremendously for sharing her remarkable journey with us.

A photography session commenced where inspired faces and those timeless moments were captured on camera. Our teacher advisor, Pn Ng and Pn Wong were then invited to present a souvenir to Miss Chew Hoong Ling as a token of appreciation for her kindness to dedicate her busy Friday morning for this school services activity. The session ended at 12.00 pm and the supportive students helped the Leo Members to stack up the chairs. After that, they proceeded back to their classes while the Leo members ushered Miss Chew from the hall mirthfully.

The Gift of Blood Campaign

1^st AOC: Tee Ke Ran

2^nd AOC: Leo Syafinas Ibrahim

Secretary: Leo Chan Pei Ling

Photography: Leo Chong Jia Sheng

Date : 27/4/2013
Time : 8.30am to 2.00pm
Venue : School Hall , SMK Damansara Jaya

The Health Services Project entitled ‘A Gift of Blood Campaign’ started with an opening ceremony where Guests of Honour and Special Guests are invited to witness and initiate the event. At 8.30 am, the meeting was called to order by Leo Syafinas Ibrahim. Following that, the flag salutation and Leo Pledge are read by the emcee. The Guests of Honour are then invited onto stage to deliver their opening addresses. Souvenirs are then presented to the Guests of Honour, Special Guests, representatives from iHeal Medical Centre and representatives from The National Blood Bank. Finally, the Guests of Honour are invited onto stage again to initiate the event through an interesting act of defibrillating a volunteer.

The blood drive commences at 9.00 am where a crowd of teachers, parents and Damansara Jaya residents enter the venue to give the gift of their blood as their social responsibility. The staff from the National Blood Bank took care of the blood transfusion and refreshments while Leo members and prefects from the afternoon session helped with the registration and presentation of incentives. 50 units of Zenne gas cookers are presented to the first 50 blood donors as an incentive to encourage more people to donate blood. Pictures are taken and forms for the gas cookers are filled out for documentation purposes by the sponsoring company. Leo members and prefects also prepared beverages for the blood donors and staffs who so kindly volunteered their services at our humble event.

Training and Leadership Programme On Board Star Cruise Libra , Penang

On the 13^th of April , Leo Club of SMK Damansara Jaya have organized a project called Training and Leadership Programme On Board Star Cruise Libra , Penang. At 7.00am, all the participants have arrived in the school canteen. A total of 22 members had attended this project. After a short briefing by our teacher advisor, Puan Ng Yoke Chan, our Leo advisor , Lion Clarence Koh and our organizing chairperson and assistant organizing chairperson Leo Foo Sher Ming and Leo Solomon Tneo, we departed from SMK Damansara Jaya at 9.00am.

           Along the way, all the members introduced themselves one by one. At about 12.00pm, we dropped by a rest station to have our lunch. After we had our lunch, we played a game called ‘Bus Criminal’ on the bus. This game aimed to let the members to learn how to solve a problem in a short period of time with the help of their partners. All of us had fun and the members find it interesting and exciting to play the game.

             We arrived at the Persatuan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Yee Ran Jing Sheh at 2.00pm. The moment we reached there, we had our group photo with the home’s president. After handling our check, all of us went inside to know more about the home. The members enjoyed interacting with the disabled people. The members shook hands and even did a “gwiyomi” dance with one of the disabled. We departed from the home after one hour to continue our journey to Penang.

             We arrived at the ferry port at 3.15pm. We took the ferry across over to Pulau Pinang to board our cruise ship ‘Star Cruise Libra’ at the Star Cruise Terminal located about 1.5km away from the port. It was tiring but it will be worth it. When we arrived at the terminal, Lion Clarence took our ICs to get our boarding tickets. Some of us rested in order to regain our energy after a long day in the bus and can’t wait to relax in our cabin rooms. Around 4.30pm we showed our tickets and boarded the ship.

We have already planned the room pairs the day before, so we got into our cabin rooms and memorize each member’s room location. We rested for about an hour. Some of us took a shower to freshen up ourselves before we went to dinner. The toilet is quite cramp and tight but it was bearable. Around 7, all of us made our way to the Four Season’s restaurant, which is a luxurious western buffet restaurant. The food was delicious, especially the roast turkey. This roast turkey is unlike any other roasted turkey we have ever tasted before because this turkey is tasty and moist at the same time, while the turkey we ate before is dry as a dessert. After dinner we explored the ship by going into some retail shops that were available on the ship, but the items sold were to expensive.

Around 8.15pm, the captain made an announcement over the PA saying there will be a safety drill in 15 minutes, and we were instructed to go back to our cabins and get our lifejackets. After hearing the main fire bell, we went to our designated safety zones. The crew made an excellent briefing on what we have to do when the real emergency occurs. We went to see our respective lifeboats outside the ship. The lifeboat, nicknamed Nassau could accommodate over 100 people and we are supposed to memorize the number of our lifeboat. Our lifeboat’s number is number 12, which is a pretty huge lifeboat. The cruise ship departed Penang afterwards and we were on the front of the ship so we can see it leaving the port. However it was dark so there wasn’t much to see. We made our way to the Stardust lounge after that to watch a magic performance.

The magician, Darcy Oake, made a breathtaking and spectacular performance. One of our Leo, Leo Selina Jia, had her iPhone stomped to the ground only to be found later back in a iPhone case, perfectly sealed in its original packaging. We were astounded how funny it was. After the show, we went outside to take pictures with Darcy Oake and we gathered all the Leos to begin our game “Running Leo” which is a spin-off of the famous Korean game show “Running Man”.

Running Leo is about to train the participants interactions with strangers and also among each other. To win this game, the participants have to find the mysterious killer among them. The clues can be obtained from the staff on the cruise ship. In order to make things more challenging, one of the participant legs has to be tied to their partner, this will allow them to walk systematically and also to train their working together spirit. Leo Heng Wei Lynn won the game.

After all the games, around 11.45pm, some of us decided to enjoy the swimming pool while the rest went to the karaoke bar. All the festivities ended around 2 in the morning, because all the shops are closed then. We went to bed then. Some of the Leos decided not to sleep in the cabin but instead they slept on the Skydeck, which they enjoyed a lot because of the cooling sea breeze that was happening at the time.

The next day, we woke up around 8 am and most of us are really tired. We went to the Mariners Restaurant to have our breakfast. The breakfast consist of a wide range of food choices, all the way from Asian breakfast to the European breakfast. We enjoyed our cold cuts along with a nice cup of joe. Around 9.15am we went back to our rooms to pack our clothes and essentials because 10 o’clock in the official disembarking time. We got back our ICs and payed our expenses over at the Collection zone. We disembarked the ship around 10.15am and went on board our bus. We headed over to the famous Penang icon, the Kek Lok Si temple. The temple was huge. Some of us decided not to climb but some of us had the curiosity to find out how the view at the top looks like. So we went climbed to the top of the temple. It was a lot of steps to climb, something like Batu Caves, but not as many steps.

When we arrived at the top, we had to take a new thing they had at Kek Lok Si, which is a inclined lift, which basically is a life that goes at a inclined angle. The top of the temple had a huge statue and we took pictures of it. We also prayed to the gods for good fortune in our studies and life. When we went back down, we stopped by a Chinese restaurant to have our lunch, which is a vegetarian meal. They did a good job making the curry taste like meat, but it is not. After lunch we gathered around 2pm at the bus stop to head back to Petaling Jaya. The bus journey was a long and tiring one, with most of us sound asleep throughout the journey. We stopped by at Tanjung Malim around 5.45pm to have our dinner and we had a good meal. We arrived back in school at 8.15pm with most our the Leo’s parents already waiting there to pick up their children.