Our last Wednesday session of 2011

Pardon me for having no pictures in this blog post, but I guess words are still gonna make it interesting!

Our day started earlier than usual sessions as we met up in school to play Munchkin. Big thanks to Kai Xiang for organizing! Since it's my first time playing it, I feel that it is a really really complicated game as we have to kill monsters to level up, and try to saboh those who are winning. But it's really a great game! I know it sounds interesting to you, so do come for our next Boardgame session okay? :D
So we had our first round of 'trying-out', and when everyone was more familiar with the game, one round actually lasted for two hours! Yes, you didn't read wrongly. TWO HOURS. And so, it was time for dinnerrrrrr!


Over at the home, we played a game called Charaboo (Charades + Taboo) with them. It was really fun playing with them, especially when they guessed it wrongly. For the first question, the answer was model, and initially my group members thought their friend acted out a prostitute! O.O
And of course, it's always more relaxing to be an audience than a performer. So it was time for us volunteers to act out, and the question we had was Kung Fu Panda. Don't say it's easy! Because it's really quite hard to act it out T.T Despite our lousy acting, they still managed to guess it right! :D
At the end of the game, the winning group had a packet of cookies, followed by sweets and biscuits. It's really nice to see that no matter which group won, everything will be shared among everyone. ((:

Lastly, since it was the last Wednesday session of 2011, Kelvin wanted them to write down what they wanted to be in 2012. A better person? Or a handsome and rich man? And they had to fold it into a heart and exchange with their friends. Some wrote they wanted to be superman, while others wanted to be more gangster and so on.
But I guess although that's what they wrote, deep inside they knew what they really wanted to be in 2012.


To end this post, I wish that all boys and volunteers will have an awesome 2012! :D

Lots of love,
Carmen.

Hohoho... It's the christmas week! (≧∇≦)ノ

And so...... we freshies had our first christmas with Blk D on the 20th! Now, here's a group photo of all those who attended!

Photo credits to Li Lin, our newest Blk D member and our beloved Kai Xiang!

Many thanks to Ping Lon for organising! Too bad our afternoon picnic session at marina barrage failed! Awww, didn't manage to fly the kite. But.... it got changed to a slacking and makan session at the Esplanade's outdoor theatre!

So, everyone brought food! For the share of 20 people! But there was only a handful there for the afternoon session. We had too much food available! Damn, i'm starting to feel guilty now since I was the one that didn't bring anything!

Cookies from Eugenia and Carmen, Cake pudding from Kelvin, French Toast from Kai Xiang and lots of titbits from everyone else available in the afternoon! Too bad, don't think there were pictures of them!

After the "picnic" session, we slowly wriggled... to Bugis MRT to meet those that were joining us for steamboat buffet! Of course, we had to make our $20 bucks worthwhile! So we stuffed ourselves with food, food and MORE FOOD! But my table was.. like the vegetarian table...! Hahahaha, we probably had more mushrooms than meat! Alamakz, like that how to eat our money worth!

After ensuring our stomach was at the brim of exploding, we then crawled over to the national library open space to do our gift exchange! The original plan was to have guys exchange with the ladies! But.... we had too many guys and so our poor Yen Lin & Kai Xiang had to do a mutual swapping. 四脚兽！

As for our weekly sessions, we were only able to attend for thursday on 22th since the boys had their own block celebration for christmas! For the first time, the number of boys up for session were more than the number of volunteers! （　．．）where did everyone else go!!

Supposed to have christmas celebration for the boys but we decided to just play board games (But actually what I really meant was just chinese chess and monopoly deal! We need more fun games! Hahaha!) So I set up the chinese chess set, but no one wanted to play with me...

（；へ：）at least till ZX helped me ask around! I guess the boys still aren't very familiar with me! Gotta to talk to them more!

P.S. Happy belated birthday to our birthday boy this week, Ping Lon! And thank you, Mei Xiu for the wonderful chocolates you gave for gift exchange! It's my first time writing here, hope I didn't make it too personal! =X

Chill out~

Wish you all a merry christmas... and a happy new year!

Chee Wei (Hijacking ZX's account *-*)

It's Thursday!

Firstly, I would like to say that I am very blessed to be a part of Block D because all the nicest people I've met in NTU are mainly congregated in here :) Today's session had been a rather meaningful one. Unlike the usual 'mass session' where everyone sits in a circle and engage in a particular activity planned, we had the opportunity to know and understand the boys better as we were split into smaller groups to interact with them.

During briefing, we were told by Kelvin that today's activity was mainly to play card games and then maybe chat with the boys after the games. I was assigned to teach the angry bird card game and the boys that were in my group were very fascinated by the cute graphics on the card. Although the game was a little childish as it was designed for kids, they did not complain and tried their best to play it well. I had an enjoyable time teaching them as they were intent on learning the rules and strategies well in order to win their friends.

After the games, I had a chat with one of the boys and found out that they actually really look forward to such sessions with the volunteers as life in boys' home is routine and boring for them. I also realised that they do look upon us as role models and would take our words seriously. This made me feel that we can really make a difference to their life and we should grasp the little time we have with them to offer them good advice and encourage them to excel in their studies or life. This has strengthened my resolution to attend more sessions so as to get to know the boys better and perhaps make an impact on their life :))

Swing!

December Session details!

Hello! Let's welcome the December planning commers who will be doing the shit for this month!! They are experienced campaigners Jingyi, Yating, Sohwoon, HuiXian and new volunteers Nicholas, Rishi, QiuJu, Ping Lon and Jeslyn!! *Claps*

Sessions will be on every wednesday and thurs, both days will be the same except the grp of boys will be different. Meet 7.30pm at the MCYS lobby, come in yourself! ...we will go in at abt 7.45pm. The 15 minutes will allow the planning commers to brief a bit on the session.

Week 1 (Dec 7,8)

Soh Woon, Jing Yi and Yating

Taboo- Split to 2 or 3 grps. One person will guess the word on the board and the rest will describe it without saying the word.

Charades plus taboo, grp will line up in a line. 1st person will act and 2nd person guess, then the 2nd person will describe based on his guessed answer and 3rd guess....

Week 2 (Dec 14,15)

Ping lon, Hui Xian

Hangman and Balloon captains ball

Week 3 (Dec 21,22)

Nicholas, Rishi

Musical Chairs Scissors Paper Stone- A line of chairs(bridge) will be formed. one grp line at one end of the chairs, the other at the other end. The loser will have to fall off the bridge while the winner moves forward. A person clearing the bridge is one point.

Singing of xmas songs

Week 4 (Dec 28,29)

QiuJu, Jeslyn

Exchanging of new years' msg- The boys would be asked to pen down their new yr msg to a person on a piece of coloured paper, then the volunteers would guide them to fold a heart shape. All msgs will be collected and redistributed randomly to the boys.

Small grp sharing.

That's all for December! Of cos we might be preparing for the home wall painting on 7 Jan and one bonding session with xmas xchange somewhere after xmas! Pls put attending on the excel sheet for 7 JAN!! Can sabo ur friends too by putting down their names!! Cheers and happy holidays!!