Rotaract Club of Kota Melaka: April 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009

reported by Rtr Fue Yin

Thumbs up to Rotaract Club of Kota Melaka for organizing a smooth sailing RDC that carries Discover, Fun & Fellowship as the theme!

Double thumbs up to all rotaractors that came, participated and rocked the event!

Thank you all for without your participations RDC 0809, held at Orkid Hotel 17th-19th April, would not be a success.

Discover, Fun and Fellowship in Melaka started with ice breaking
on the 17th (guess who's back is this?)

All rotaractors geared up to search for their soulmate
during the ice breaking. Some clues given were hard such as:
"I am having sex this morning."

p/s: this was not made up, it was taken from a real clue...^^

Joint opening ceremony with Rotary District Assembly on the 18th.

Thank you sponsoring club, Rotary Club of Kota Melaka, for making it happen

Right after the opening, the rotaractors adjourned to Orkid Hotel to have our own plenary sessions.

Plenary sessions presented by Dr Yee Kok Wah
(talk on depression)and Rtn John Tan (talk on avoidable blindness)

After the plenary sessions, its time to test the cooperations among team members...

1st game: The BIG R. Heard of Taboo, that's the concept.
I think DRRE Michael was just getting over excited!

2nd game: The Whisper, a game to relay messages among team members to produce drawings as close possible to the actual drawings.

emm... from a rabbit to human. That's 'close'... kekeke

3rd game: STEP UP. Teams to challenge one another with dance moves and judged by Randy Cho, Paula Yin, Simon Sim...

The sun set and rotaractors were brought to sightseeing along Melaka river on our very own Titanic.

Marvellous view!

This cruise dropped us off at Jonker street where rotaractors were given 20 things-to-be-completed in the next game called Amazing Hunt!

Killing a member with a sword, male wearing clogs, drinking bitter tea and performing magic tricks were among the tasks given

Little did they know, the pictures taken were to be transformed into a story and to be presented the next day, the 19th.

Times flies and conference came to an end. *sob, sob**

Rtn Jimmy Ooi (left) and Rtn Leslie Sim (right) attended the closing ceremony

Last but not least, prizes were given to the winning teams

2nd Runner up goes to Lekir team

1st Runner up goes to Lekiu team

1st prize up goes to Tuah team. Congratulations!!

The organizing committee members

Thank you for coming. See you next year!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

President Elect Sreedaran

reported by Rtr Fue Yin

PE Sree

Thursday, 9th April 2009 marked the day Rotaract Club of Kota Melaka chose its president elect (PE). Due to personal reason, Rtr Susan took a step back. Hence Rtr Sree won the PE post uncontested. Congratulations PE Sree! The club is looking forward for a sky flying year under your leadership.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

HunT 4 Fun+D in STARdom

reported by Rtr Fue Yin

Article on HunT 4 Fun+D published in Star newspaper on Wednesday, 8th April 2009
The hunt was very succesful. Congratulations RACKM!

Friday, April 3, 2009

A bag of blood can save three lives!

reported by Rtr Fue Yin

Rotaract Club of Kota Melaka organizes a blood donation drive every year, to help the blood bank replenishes their collection. However this year, to embrace the Rotary effort in reducing child mortality, the blood donation drive was held together with child mortality awareness campaign in conjunction with World Rotaract Week. This project was organized together with sponsoring club Rotary Club of Kota Melaka

On 15^th March 2009, headed by our organizing chairperson DRR Wee Yik Chuang, we gathered at the top floor of Mahkota Parade at about 12.30pm. Our blood donation campaign was conducted at a vacant space next to the cinema. The management of Mahkota Parade was kind enough to let us use the place free of charge. The blood bank personnel from the Melaka General Hospital, headed by Madam Annie, arrived soon after and we helped her and her staffs to set up the chairs and tables. Posters on child mortality were put up all around the pillars surrounding the blood donation drive. We started registering donors at 1pm. Our duty was to convince potential donors, register them and to educate about child mortality. After that, the rest of blood donation procedure will be taken care of by the hospital staffs.

Registration was handled by two members of our club, while the rest of us armed with flyers went around trying to convince the public to donate. On the other hand, two more members are armed with flyers to explain to the public concerning child mortality and the importance of vaccination.

We set out to get 50 bags of blood. At the end of the day, at 5pm, we managed to collect 53 bags of blood with a few Rh negative blood bags. Thank you everyone, the donors, the hospitals staffs, rotarians and rotaractors.

Hospital staffs busy preparing the station for donation

All set for donation!

Tubes and syringes

Registration counter looking busy

First donor: Rtn Stefan

Don't worry, this didn't hurt one bit

RACKM 20th Anniversary

reported by Rtr Fue Yin

18th February 2009 marked the 20th year of RAC Kota Melaka's existance.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOTA MELAKA!!

Post celebration party was held on 21st February 2009, whereby Rotarians, Rotaractors, past presidents of RACKM and friends gathered at Tanjung Puteri, Klebang. Thanks to PP Anthony from RC Kota Melaka for allowing the event to be held at his condominium.

The event started with FOOD. Barbequed chicken wing, home cooked curry and salad! After filling the empty tummies, we waltzed through memory lane by presenting montages about past club activities.

On this memorable day, 2 members were inducted: Rtr Lim Su Ann and Rtr Jeffrey Cho.

Thanks to PP Greg, everyone was entertained with brain-teasers and charades.

Hail Rotaract Club of Kota Melaka!