Last day at 4th NSAC

As alwiz… woke up and felt tht time passes too quick. Barely had time to get to know all the other SA and the supporting frens then we have to go back to KL oledi.

Fui Kion was up & ready and left to go over Mrs Haw’s room (her supporting fren from PKIK). Hidayah went to sleep with her PDK frens the nite b4 so I had the whole double bed to myself! wahahahahahahaahhahaha

After breakfast, I went to get ready the session for supporting frens at another room and the rest of them went to the hall and they were dancing to some european language music…

After tht they “chased” all the supporting frens out to the conference room where I was waiting to torture them! hahahaha

Pastor Karthik asked me to do a session on “How to be a supporting fren”. Luckily no one was snoring too loud! LOL

There were about 20 supporting frens…..

I also asked Zipsy to share her experience…as alwiz she gave a very good & inspiring sharing. After that we had a couple of Q&As and some sharing among the supporting frens. I thot 1 1/2 hour was too long for the session but in the end we took 2 hours!

And what were all the other SA doing during this time? They had a discussion within their groups on How to manage their salary/allowance.

After all of us came back frm teatime they had evaluation form to fill in and then…. time to choose the next group to host the 5th NSAC. There were 3 suggestions….Sibu, Kelantan and KL (Friendship Club! Thank goodness UV is located in Selangor!! hehe) No decision were made as all of them says they have to go back and check with the rest of their members and supporting frens. I personally prefer Sibu not becoz of the distance but I chatted with the president of the Sibu Agape Club and she is very, very capable & very motivated.

After that they had the closing ceremony and presenting of certs…Jayasingh gave a closing speech (which I think a SA should do it lah)

Jayasingh, Aoi, Bi Chu & Ayako… forgot the other 2 person’s name ;P

Dragon Club

Mutiara Voice Club

With our certs…….I also got one! yeah!!

Group photo… the serious one….

Crazy group photo! LOL

Yeah…. conference is over!!!! hahahahaha

All the Self-Advocates from Kelantan

My roommate for 1 nite...Hidayah! LOL

After lunch it is farewell time….. I know all of them will miss me a lot!! hahahahaha Until the next time…bye! bye!

Cynthia snoring loudly in the car!! 

More picts for Day 2…..

Nareah was supporting this group and they got 1st place…She was so proud! well done!

Cynthia, Ruby, Zipsy & Felicia

Nazmi doing his solo performance

The boys collecting their 2nd place prize..

Cynthia and her new frens

Er…. I was only pretending to sleep…seriously

Dinner & Performance

Sorry for the delay in the update….was dead tired after the dinner on the 2nd day and after driving back to KL on 3rd day I went straight to sleep after dinner….;P

After all the sessions on 2nd Day….. all of them went back to the hotel to change for the dinner & performances. I had to stay back for a while to talk to Shahell & Aoi about the Persidangan Advokasi Diri PDK.

After dinner all of us gathered at the hall to watch the performances. Of course Nazmi & Shahir was going to give a performance..a dance. Nazmi was so excited that he had to ”ordered” me a few days b4 to remember to bring my video cam!

Nazmi & Shahir’s dance…Sharir can really dance!! Not bad they got 2nd place. 1st place went to a member of Bethany Home who did an amazing dance to Micheal Jackson’s “Beat it”…sorry it was to dark to film any video…..Nazmi also did a solo performance singing one of those Korean songs in Malay…Will upload the video later…

After the performances (a lot of dancing & a few singing) and the supporting frens doing the poco poco dance…. we all went back to the hotel…exhausted…as usual! hahaha

2nd Day at 4th NSAC

2nd day of NSAC… Yippee. Woke up early and and then Fui Kion (Dragon Club) told me she has oledi shower and changed. But have to asked Hidayah(PDK Temenggong) to quickly go shower & change. Of course since it’s Saturday I was excited to be wearing my YELLOW t-shirt! ;P

Breakfast and saw the Leaderonomics team coming in. Torturing session has begun! hahahaha

Icebreaker….they played the trees & squirrel game. It’s so, fun…(Felicia wrote this…)

Husband & wife team (Luke & Hui Ming) facilitating 1 of the group

Nazmi’s group presenting thier group’s name and cheer…..

Our 3 girls (Felicia, Cynthia & Pavala…yes somehow they ended up in the same group!) group name & cheer…….

Another group photo…. this time with the Leaderonomics team

    

Outdoor activities…..learning about Teamwork!

After lunch…. learning how to “Manage Your Finances”. Each group were given a sack of newspaper and then they hv to built stuff with it…. The paper represents money so the group that uses the least paper will hv more points

      

Hui MIng the “MAD Hatter!”         Building mega towers….

     

More mega towers….

     

“Building Self Confidence” session. Each participant are asked to draw something makes them happy and then share with their group members.

The whole Leaderonomics gang! Good job guys & gals!…  think they were even more tired than the participants! hahahahah

Nazmi wrote:

the conference quit ok lah but some game we play fill like child game, not fun like Penang’s conference. The tour was good & fun. Tht’s all…..

4th NSAC @ Bethany Home, Teluk Intan

Hello….. this is a once every 2 years update on this Blog.

This year the NSAC is held at Teluk Intan and organised by 2 SA groups, Bethany Self-advocacy group & Divine Voice (from Ipoh).

Today morning, 8 of us, Felicia, Cynthia, Nazmi, Lit Whei, Pavala, Sharir, Pn Nareah & I met at Tmn Jaya LRT. Yeah manage to squeeze all 8 of us plus the lug gages into the Avanza…..great car!  We drove UV’s van up to Teluk Intan. Reached Bethany Home around 2pm, just in time b4 the session started.

Met a lot of SA frm other groups and the supporting frens. There were the usual clubs that came, even Sibu Agape Club came all the way from Sarawak (unfortunately Kangaroo Club were not able to come) and 20 SA & supporting frens came frm Kelantan

Pastor Karthik (supporting fren for organisers) welcoming the participants

Chairman, Varaprasad frm Bethany SAG giving a welcoming speech

There are 65 participants and 40 over supporting frens! That is a lot of supporting frens… most of them are volunteers of Bethany Home

Yoshie came back all the way frm Japan to attend this conference….

Ice-breaking games…… participants were divide into different groups

After tea time we went to visit the Caely’s factory where they hired about 20 PWDs to work there.

Some of the Bethany Home’s members working there doing packaging. The CEO also donated RM3000 to this conference.

Of course must have a visit to the Teluk Intan Clock Tower.

Makan time…. I told Urai san abt the conference and since she is not involved in any SA grps….she came as a volunteer for Bethany Home…. sugoiiii….

After dinner we were are assigned to our rooms to a hotel nearby. I was not very happy with the room arrangement. I ended up in a room with 2 SA frm other grps. I told Jayasingh our grp frm UV is ok…most of them r independant.. but what about those who needs support frm thier own supporting fren? Felicia ended up staying in another hotel but she was with Aoi (JOCV, Kelantan) so it was ok. Anyway….. after all the “organised” chaos we were all settled down in our rooms. Dead tired…driving almost 3 hrs to TI…..went to sleep at 11:30pm….tomolo a long day…..with the Leaderonomics team coming to torture us….hahahahahahahahaha