A Fresh New Start

Photo taken from Meadowbrook

A fresh new start,
from a board of fresh new committee members,
in a fresh new world of hope.
However, the great spirit and strong spirit will still stay the same as before and will only be getting better and better!
Stay with us, to find out more and more updates from us!

Thanks for your support,
and only with your presence,
it makes us and the world more perfect!

CDP General Meeting (16 June 2010)

It's the time for the GM of the semester which was actually the one and only GM for the May-July semester. This was not an ordinary CDP GM as we had our first ever workshop-based GM where there was a 30 minutes workshop in between our routine 2 hours GM.

It all started with an ice-breaker where the participants were given a piece of paper to draw a picture of themselves. After that, the papers were collected and scrambled. Then, each of them will receive a paper and look out for the person who drew the picture on the paper they received. After that, they were given a few minutes to get to know their partner.

Next, it was the highlight of the GM, the workshop titled "Teaching children through play" conducted by Ms. Siew Ju Li where the main focus was on the hands-on approach of the workshop. It was an entirely different kind of workshop where the members got the opportunity to learn about the methods of teaching children effectively through play practically.

There were 3 sessions of the workshop where the 1st session consisted of getting the members gather around into an outer circle and inner circle. After that, they are required to name the fruits and vegetables. The aim of this session was to let the members to understand the challenge of naming the fruits and vegetables.

The 2nd session was about getting the nursery rhymes right. Before that, everyone was divided into groups based on the colours of the balls he/she obtained. After that, each group had to sing a nursery rhyme to ensure that we do not forget about the essential nursery rhymes that children love to hear. Ms. Siew Ju Li also explained that getting the groups based on the colours of the ball were very useful to get the children engage with the facilitators.

Finally, the members were taught about the "play" with children using fingers. In this session, the members were shown the various ways our fingers could use to represent certain characters in life such as father, mother, brother and etc. by getting the children to engage with the "play". There were a variety of rhymes to get the children to engage with the facilitators so they could play along and learn from it as well. It is important for us to know as children loves to play while learning at the same time.

Lastly, the members were treated with a lunch. Overall, it was a very interesting experience as the members were exposed to yet another method of teaching children.

We would also like to express our deepest gratitude to Ms. Siew Ju Li for conducting the workshop.

CDP Personal Development Camp!!

During the last semester break, our grand CDP Personal Development Camp was held on the 1st and 2nd of May 2010 at the Lutheran Center located in Port Dickson. It is arguably the biggest event from the CDP for the year as we plan to bring all our members into a meaningful and memorable journey!! Our theme for the camp is GROWTH which is in line with our name of the camp, "Personal Development Camp". In conjunction with the name, we had chosen Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" to represent the theme of the camp.

We departed from HELP in the early morning and we reached our destination within 2 hours. It all started with a very interesting ice-breaker called "sampan". It's basically having all the participants to listen and follow the gamemaster's instructions. The challenge was this game requires close contact between everyone where everyone need to sit on each other's lap (thigh). It definitely breaks the barrier well as the feedbacks from the participants were positive as most of them liked it^^

After that, we had a game of Bingo - OUR CDP style (where we use personality traits instead of numbers). We also had the 3 groups in total where the leaders were selected from the first 3 winners of the Bingo game. Each of them will lead their respective groups consisted of Group C, D and P and they created their own warcry and flag to represent the uniqueness of their group.

Next, the participants were required to create their own short workshop for children and they will conduct it the following day. After the briefing about the workshop, all the participants proceeded to the TREASURE HUNT event at the beach opposite the Lutheran Center. It was a very tiring and mind-boggling experience as our participants worked very hard from the start till the end striving to find the treasure. After the treasure hunt, they were rewarded with the banana boat experience.

At night, we had a very eye-opening experience on the workshop conducted by our beloved advisor, Ms. Yeo Pei Li. She taught everyone about the importance of identifying the types of children and teach them based on who they were. Besides, we also learn about the children's behaviours so we could gain a better understanding on the reasons behind the children's actions.

The next morning, Ms. Yeo Pei Li had another session of workshop to teach us about the play with the children and various activities to allow everyone to understand and think from the perspectives of the children.

And lastly, we had the groups conducting their respective workshops on the following morning and it had been a great session as there were lots of wonderful and creative ideas flowing out from the groups.

Overall, it was a great camp as both the participants and committees benefitted from it. There will be more events coming up and don't be disappointed if you had miss this camp ^^

For more pictures, you may refer to our facebook profile at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000948470565

Our video of the camp ^^

CDP 2nd GM (10 February 2010)

Sorry for the late post but this is how the second GM went on 10 February 2010!!

It is held few days before the Chinese New Year (CNY). In conjunction with the CNY, the GM was themed "CDP Woohoo!!" which means that we are anticipating for the CNY festival. Also, members and committees are dressed in Red, the auspicious colour for the CNY ^^

So, here's the flow of the GM~~

Ms. Siew Ju Li speech

Ice-Breaking game - everyone must take out a piece of item that have red colour on it and then it will be randomized...each person will get an item and locate for the owner ^^

And they will interact and introduce themselves with one another.

Here's the first game of the day ^^ (Passing mandarin oranges with arms)

The creativity of passing mandarin oranges with arms

For the second game, it's about decorating a person with mandarin oranges...the really fun and exciting moment where most of the members burst into laughters~~

Before

After

Another masterpiece

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Lastly, the promotion of Janda Baik Project 6 by the JBP 6 Committees

Overall, it was a warm welcome for the CNY and most members enjoyed as well as the committees ^^

CDP Personal Development Camp

The CDP's camp is finally here!!! Have a look on it ^^ It's the BIGGEST activity this semester..gotta be a great one!!

It surely going to be a very beneficial and fun camp as you get to learn facilitating skills from Ms. Yeo Pei Li herself. You will not regret signing up for this camp ^^

For those who are interested, wait no more..SMS your contact details and name to Jassic or Shean as seen in the poster.

*Only FIRST 15 members who signed up BEFORE 18th April 2010 will get the 10% discount

Cultural Night

On the 11^th November 2009, HELP Department of Student Affairs (DSA) held a Cultural Night where each club under the guidance of DSA was required to come out with a performance. As CDP is known for its goal and vision on empowering and improving the welfare of children, we came out with a singing ala choir style.

The backdrop

The cast

In addition, we collaborated with the HELP Circle K as both of us share the same vision and goal. Therefore, we decided to sing the late Michael Jackson’s evergreen song, ‘Heal The World’. It was a very meaningful song and it suits the goal of our club very well. We sought to improve the welfare of the children as much as we could while at the same time, we want to spread awareness to every individuals about the importance of the “CARE” for children. Children were largely molded by the society and without the awareness; any negative effects could happen to the children. This song was focused to HEAL the WORLD in order to improve the way we live our life as well as helping others to improve theirs. It may be hard but when there’s a will, there’s a way!!

It was a night filled with tons of cultural performances, singing performances and even taekwondo exhibition. Food was provided and the performances were worthwhile watching. Furthermore, we are grateful that our performance was given a round of applause and most of the people sang along with us. We believe this performance had helped to spread the awareness among the people who attended the gracious event.

Here are the pictures of other performances:

Sketch

Indonesian Dance

Piano + Singing

Latin Dance

Taekwondo Exhibition

GM 4th November 2009

On the 4^th November 2009, the 1^st General Meeting for the club was held. It was the second meeting of the semester conducted following the success of the Annual General Meeting held two months ago. The theme of this meeting focused mainly on the “Self” in the sense of self-clarification and self-exploration.

Firstly, the members were introduced to an ice-breaker conducted by Xin Rou. In the ice-breaker, both the members and committees worked together to form two circles (1 inner circle and 1 outer circle). Afterwards, the gamemaster gave instructions to move left or right and the number of steps. Once they stopped, the two individuals will face each other and given some time to communicate with one another. After that, both of them will write out the strength of one another on the piece of paper pasted at the back of each other.

Everyone having their share of fun in the ice-breaker

Next up, it was the main activity of the day, which was conducted by Xin Rou and Jassic. It was an activity designed to encourage learning experience among the members and committees. The activity was aimed to instill a positive thinking in them as they were told to write their weakness into a piece of paper which was then folded into a small piece and inserted into a balloon. After that, they blew up the balloon and then stepped on it as a means of accepting their weakness and not allowing the weakness to bother them. The process is repeated three times with a variation done on the second and the third time. Instead of stepping on their own balloons, each person was instructed to ask a person whom they trust to step on his/her balloon in the second round. As for the third round, they were told to find a close friend to step on their balloon. These variations were meant to prove that being able to trust one another was a crucial element in overcoming our weaknesses.

Thinking to write a specific weakness of theirs

Folded papers to be inserted into balloons

Folding the paper into small pieces

The balloons with papers inside

Before the GM ends, Boon Chin conducted the energizer to hype up the day filled with fun and laughter. The energizer was basically about following the actions of the left person. For example, if the left person claps, then he/she should clap as well. Then, others will follow the action until the initiator (the one who started the action) changes to another action.

Last but not least, food was prepared for everyone and we duly enjoyed the meal as we felt tired after the tiring activities. It was a great day as the members got to know more about the club and most importantly, themselves. Even the committees benefitted from the activities as well. It was essential to know and understand ourselves because by understanding ourselves, it will give us a major boost towards helping the children across Malaysia or across the borders of the world.