Origamii ~ ~ After Social Engagement

During Social Engagement, I could notice that a lot of people including children, their parents as well as us are quite interest in making origami. By using some folding techniques only, papers can be change into anythings that exist in the world.

Today, I would like to share what origami we had done during the SE.

(Pictures adapted from Internet)

1.FRog

2.RAbbit

3.BUtterfly

4.FLower

5.SAmpan

6.HEart

7.HOuse

All in all, I think I will link it to my Social Engagement time once I see whatever type of origami. We learn how to do origami together, then we teach the children... I hope this kind of art not only trigger my childhood memory, at the same that it had also create childhood memory for the children who join our programme at TTDI library.

Last, I would like to thank all the people that help us directly or indirectly to make our Social engagement a success. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

with gratitude, Chan Sok Teng

Last Day of our Memorable Social Engagement

              Its 10th of May today and its Mother's Day today ! However , its our last social engagement session in TTDI Library.

Everything we do today is all according to the theme Mother's Day ! ( I LOVE MUM )

             As usual ,we touched down in the library for the last time today early in morning again . However , we're somehow early today since its our last time we would like to do a more and longer time for preparation. We are having a specialhandicraft session today which was the mat webbing session .

             Once again  , we started of with the origami session . From my observations , kids really like origami session a lot. Seeing a lot of kids joining the session already makes me over the moon . However what makes me more overjoy each time was the participations of parents in our session . Today , with the theme Mothers Day , we teached the kids to fold a heart and also a house . A heart symbolized love and a house symbolized a home . We all love our home because love is everywhere in a home from father , mother  , brothers and sisters <3

               In the evening , we conducted our special handicraft session which was the mat webbing session . Was very excited because the last time I did this handicraft was during my primary school days . Haha...

While we were webbing the handicraft , our piccaso Thomas drew a picture on the whiteboard . Everytime he start drawing , you can hear alot of "woah woah woah" scream from the kids ! Haha

Time passed in a blink of eye , without realizing its already 5pm and here comes to the end our 32 hours of social engagement . Before we left , we decorated the exhibition corner with the artwork of the children and also we took a picture with the person in charge of the library .

Well , its time to say goodbye now .It was kinda sad feeling for all of us as departure hurts . Sincerely from my heart , after engaging with these kids every weekend , it really brings me back a lot of my childhood memories . Especially what I used to use in the past , my parents reading story books , having colouring session and guiding beside me whatever i do . I'm missing home than never especially my beloved parents who showered infinite amount of love on me. 

With that , here marks the ending of our social engagement of 32 hours with the community :)

with love , Tan Li Pin

A memorable day that I spent in TTIS Library..

It was a Saturday morning, a great day to kick start our new day with Social Engagement ! Woohoo…We arrived at 9.45am ,when we can see the crowd of excited kids waiting for the operation hour for the library at 10am. Their burning spirit made us felt welcome and we were ready for the day.

At 10am , we start our cleaning up session in the library . We help to clean the library in and out , clearing the rubbish and pack it to be throw, and clearing the dust in the store.We manage to settle it real fast due to our cooperation from my lovely teammates. We are just too busy clearing out the rubbish without taking photo.

At 12 pm, Finally! Our crazy time with the kids! 1st is the Origami session. Due to new target of kids , we taught them how to fold "sampan" and crane due to its creativeness and the kids just simply love it! As usual , the kids like our brother Lee CL for his funny appearance and the way he approach them. Ella and Tiera were so excited when they spent their time with the kids. They were really into it until we almost forgot the lunch break.

At 2 pm , is another session which has not been held before. We decided to decorate the table and sign board showing the masterpiece of children. Therefore the old ones could be replaced by the masterpieces produced by the children during our program. Between, it can be the memory we left to the library.

We found out all the things insides the box stored the masterpieces of children

Taking off the old ones...

Pasting the new ones

That’s all for today…can’t wait for the tomorrow Social engagement to come.

               

                                                                                                                     By : Thomas Hoi

Creating Our Masterpiece

Hello everyone..

Today, 19th of April 2015 is officially our fourth day having fun with these bunch of kids at Library of Taman Tun Dr. Ismail.

I was so excited because as was told by our leader a day before, the first activity that we will do today is COLOURING TIME. wehuuuuuu~~~ I really can't recall when was the last time I participated in any colouring contest or having fun colouring some pictures. For sure, colouring with these adorable kids really brought back such a wonderful childhood memories of mine and not to forget my fellow teammates.

We provided them with the colouring sheets, a picture of three major races in Malaysia standing proudly with a background of KLCC tower. We purposely picked these picture to enhance a very strong bond and 1 Malaysia spirit to these children. They really enjoyed themselves. We also took these opportunity to do some colouring too and walahhhh, the result was so incredible haha. We called it as our masterpiece. Proudest moment I must say haha.

Our masterpiece

In the evening, we conducted a puzzle session with the children. The puzzle is a quite simple one and very suitable for the children below 10 years old. We guided the children and taught them happily some of the tricks to finish up the puzzle in a very fast and quick way. Sometimes, we also have a very hard time to figure out which is which and the kids were the one who help us haha. I really had a very fun and refreshing time with these children.

After a very exciting puzzle session, it was a time to do some cleaning. Later at 5, we all packed our belongings and head back to UM. Safe and sound.

Another tiring day I must say, but I was so grateful to gain this privileged to enjoy and doing some fun and knowledgeable activities with these cute, energetic and adorable children. I was really glad and happy as everything run smoothly as we planned and all the kids had a very good and quality time with all of us. =) Really looking forward for another day with these children.

with love, Nurul Syahiela binti Abd Malek

A Day Of Laughter And Fun

And so today is 18^th April (Saturday), the third day of our social engagement at Library of Taman TunDr. Ismail. It is a special day because for the very first time we started our story telling today.

Although we are quite lack of confidence at the beginning, but throughout the process, many parents joined us and gave us support. Anyway, we actually learnt many from them because they are the one that have more experience in telling stories to children. It is truly a great time for us and the children sharing opinion about the stories.

Right after the story telling session, here comes the dancing session. We taught the children two simple dance, Gummy Bear and Chicken Dance. I have to admit I’m really not good in dancing, those kids dance better than me, haha~

In the origami session today, we taught them flower and butterfly. As usual, parents join us to learn origami together with their children. Looking at them learning new things together harmoniously, I always have a special feeling in my heart that we are now doing exactly the right thing.

And so we ended our meaningful day at 5pm. Sometimes, looking at those energetic kids, I feel like I’m not that young anymore cause it is quite tiring spending whole day with them. Although it is tiring but I really enjoy these days doing meaningful activities with children. Looking forward for tomorrow’s activity ~

S Mun Chuan

Time Machine ~ Back to Childhood @ Library Taman Tun Dr Ismail

12th April 2015 (Sunday) - Library Taman Tun Dr Ismail

It was a great Sunday morning which was different from the other Sunday. Usually Sunday gives people a lazy feel that we all prefer to lay on our bed and enjoy the rest of our day with a slow pace. But today, it was different because we were going to meet a bunch of active children in the library. ((feeling excited!!! XD

After we reached the library at around 10am, we started to clean up our work place and prepare the materials that we needed for our origami session. After awhile, story telling session by another instructor has started and we also joined the session to bring ourselves back to child hood time. Surprisingly, those kids were awesome. They were very active and the story telling session was wonderful. They were out of our expectation, at first we thought that they will be like very quite and not responsive. BUT we were totally wrong!!

After the story telling session, they came over and joined us with our origami session. In this session, we taught them 'RABBIT' and 'FROG'. They were really enjoy in this session and their parents were joining us also. 

Origami is always the best way to being the family together as it is suitable from children and even adults and old people.

Sweet sweet family time (Awwww~ lovely moment <3)

The feeling was really awesome when you were doing something which can bring the family members together. That harmony feeling was really great. <3

Origami done by the children~~ (Look!!! It's WABBIT) ^^

WOW!!! You're really professional in drawing~

There was a lunch break after the origami session. Right after the lunch, there came our 'Drawing Master' to give a drawing lesson to the children. The children were taught how to draw RABBIT, FROG and BUTTERFLY. The children learnt how to draw those animals step by step and finally following by colouring session.

Meet this girl named AMY~ Cute girl XD

Ha!!! See what were you guys doing~ Curi tulang ke??
No lah~ They were learning how to draw also. ^^

Hmmmm~~~ Wondering what is this? An evil potato monster? @_@

Presenting to you!!! My master piece XD
Why the butterfly so huge arh? Genetic transformation?

This one only MASTER PIECE, okay??
(Credit to Thomas Hoi)

Finally, it came to the end of the wonderful day. It was really a great day to spend with those kids. I sure will miss those kids. They really brought a lot of joy to us instead of us bringing the joy to them. The experience was AWESOME! That's what I can say to the kids. I sure will remember them, especially Javier, the cute kid, and also Amy, a brilliant, pretty girl. Hope to meet you again.

This picture is in my mind all the time after the social engagement session with those children. Actually the main purpose of social engagement is to let us engage with the society and bring joy to them. However, those kids in the library had bring us back to our childhood time. It was just like riding on the time machine.

When we were still a child, we always think to grow up faster so that we can do something that we cannot do when we are still underage. But when we grow up, we will always thinking to go back to our childhood time because those moment is the happiest moment in our lifetime. Sometimes, human is always contradiction. Why can't our life be easier?

Come on, peeps! Enjoy your life to the max. 

Do everything without any regret. Less stress and you will be happier. ^^

with love, JuN_YuNG <3