1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
Bachelor of Quantity Surveying (Honours)
CSI JOURNAL
STUDENT NAME : Loo Siah Mong
STUDENT ID NO. : 0321995
LECTURER : MsTay Shir Men
DATE OF SUBMISSION : 23th November 2018 (Week 13)
3. 1
1.1 Introduction
Community service is work
done by a person or group of people that
benefits others. It is often done near the
area where you live, so your own
community reaps the benefits of your
work. It helps any group of people in
need such as children, senior citizens,
and people with disabilities and many
more. There are hundreds of ways to
participate in community service including working with schoolchildren, senior citizens,
helping out in improving the environment, helping low-income people, visiting
orphanages and so on.
As part of our assignment, we were decided to visit and teach the children from
orphanage at Rumah Kebajikan Karunai Illam located at Kepong. For this assignment, we
were to educate and teach them about life and making them happy and through the fun
activities we conducted on that day.
First of all, to understand the kids in the foster home, it is essential to know the
needs and what had they been though in their lives. Most of the children are placed
in foster care typically because they have been removed from their homes by the state
due to lack of proper care, the parents or guardians are unable to care for their children
for various reasons. Hence, it was not easy for the children to growing up without the
love and care of a family.
Therefore, throughout this assignment enable us to connect and understand them
more to let them know that they are not alone as there is always people out there who still
cares for them. To let them feel loved and wanted is our main goals. Not only that,
throughout this visit, it makes me feels more appreciated on what we have and learn to
spread love and happiness to the people around us.
5. 3
1.3 Minutes of Meetings
Date Event Activity conducted
7th
September
2018
1st
Meeting -Decide on event whether to visit orphanage or go for street
feeding.
-Allocate task, make research on each event, find organization
or center.
14th
September
2018
2nd
Meeting -Confirm with the event which is street feeding.
-List with few organization.
- Allocation of roles.
21th
September
2018
3rd
Meeting -Confirm with one organization which is Pertiwi.
-Discuss on task to meet the organization requirement.
24th
September
2018
4th
Meeting -Problem arises in liaising with the organization.
-Decide whether to change event.
-Comes out with idea for “Replacement event” to visit
orphanage instead.
-Decides on a few centers and liaise with the center.
29th
September
2018
Meet up with
person in
charge
-To find out their needs on food, requirement and so on.
-Discuss the games and event to be carrying out on that day.
5th
October
2018
5th
Meeting -Deciding on the gift for the orphans.
-Confirm on games to be carry out during the day.
-Decide on food and snacks for the orphans.
-Decide with the budget list.
6th
October
2018
Buy Material -Buy foods and staffs for games to be conducted.
12th
October
2018
6th
Meeting -Checklist (things to do and things to be done).
6. 4
1.4 Project Timeline
2nd
meeting on was conducted on 14th
September 2018
1st
meeting on was conducted on
7th
September 2018
Went IKEA to buy shelf on 21th
September 20184th
meeting on was conducted on 24th
September 2018
7. 5
1.4 Project Timeline
5th meeting on was conducted on
5th
October 2018
Buying material on 6th
October
2018
Actual Day of activity to the
orphanage on 20th
October 2018
Reflection video shooting day on
26th
October 2018
8. 6
1.5 Individual Journal
As a part of the financial controller team, my role was to manage the project
everything runs smoothly, Ashley, my partner and me were to submit their receipts and
claim form as well as the expenditures in order for them to claim the money as well as
controlling to make sure it is not over budget.
During the event, Ashley, Zhao Wei, Chloe and I also happen to be the facilitator
during the event day. We were to help up the commander and the HR team in managing
the activities conducted as well as making sure all the members in the team are joined and
participated.
9. 7
1.6 Event Day
8.30 am -Everyone gathers at Bloc E basement carpark for final briefing.
9.00 am -Left Taylor to the orphanage. With the arrangement of the transportation team,
we drove 3 cars to go to the orphanage.
9.45 am -Reached the orphanage and unloaded all the gifts, food & beverages, media’s
equipment and so on.
10. 8
1.6 Event Day
10.00 am -Entered the orphanage with a big welcome from them. Once we reached, we
unload all the stuffs and introduce about our initiative with a short background about us.
10.30am – Ice breaking session was conducted by Ranee from Human Resource Team. She did a
short briefing with the kids and distributed them into groups of 4.
11. 9
1.6 Event Day
10.45am- After the ice breaking session and formed the group. We divided ourselves
with the kids into 4 groups which each group consist of 7 members. Each group was
given a piece of A3 paper and design to come up with a team name and describe about
themselves (name, hobby, ambition and etc).
11.15 am - Started with the first station game of the day. Activity 1: “Seconds to draw it”
consist of round 1 and round 2. Each group consist of 7 members will be able to guess
and game for each session. Everyone given a word to draw within 10 seconds and passing
to the next person to draw till the last person who must guess what was drawn. The motive of
this activity is to test out their creativity as well as the teamwork.
12. 10
1.6 Event Day
12.00 pm- Second station game was conducted is called “Tower”. Each group was given
25 sticks and 2 piece of plasticines to build a structure as high as possible. In 15 minutes,
they are to use the given item to create a tall tower with it and it must be standing till the
end. The purpose of this activity conducted was to let them understand and realize life is
full of hurdles that they have to learn to overcome the obstacles and to work as a team in
order to produce a better outcome.
12.15 pm- Final game was introduced. It’s called the “Newspaper game” where all the
members will have to try their best to stay in a piece of newspaper as every round the
newspaper gets smaller and smaller. At the end of this activity, it is expected and
hopefully they get the lessons regarding the importance to promote the working together
as a group is important. “Never leave anyone behind” as we will never know when do we
need them in future. Treat everyone as how you wish people to treat you.
13. 11
1.6 Event Day
12.30 pm- Lunch Time!!
1.30 pm - After the lunch, The HR team introduce an meaningful hand painting where
everyone gets to paste their palm on a manila card as a footage of everyone has visited
and kept it as a memories.
2.00 pm - Last 2 group activities, the first is “blow wind blow “.This game is to help the kids
enjoy their last game with us. During the same time, few members were assigned to fixing our
appreciation shell for the caretaker (Madam Meshimi).
14. 12
1.6 Event Day
2.30pm – Last activity was conducted which is card making. Each kid gets a piece of card. They
can write and decorate however they like it. These cards are dedicated to their favorite’s
caretaker.
15. 13
1.6 Event Day
2.40 pm -After every activities and everything. The visit has comes to an end where last
activities will be the price and gift giving ceremony. Prizes for the team who score the
most during all the activities. And finally the surprise gift for the caretaker (Madam
Meshimi).
My team members from Riyaa, Divya, Tulasi, Malini, Tayama, Yon Li, Adele ,Wong
Jing and me who won the second price of the day!!
16. 14
1.6 Event Day
3.00 pm- we left the orphanage and head back to our campus. Our Last picture together
before we depart back to Taylor.
Picture of us heading back to Campus!!
17. 15
1.7 Reflection
To conclude, I would like to express my utmost gratitude to Ms Tay Shir Men for giving
us the chance to participate in such meaningful charity work. It enables us to be united as
a team in working out something memorable and bringing out happiness to the orphans
Apart from that, as a member in finance team, it gives me the obligation to control and
manage the money allocation on each of the expenditure spent all along this assignment.
Besides, as a facilitator also gives me the opportunity to get to know the children
more as well as understand them through the activities conducted on the event day. It
make me realized that they are actually friendly and really grateful that they enjoyed.
Able to put a smile on their face was our greatest achievement on that day. It makes us
feels even happier to see them actually laughed and even cherish each other throughout
the activities. Hope to see them understand the meaning of teamwork and learn to share
and helping friends in any situation as that was one of our objectives of the day.
Moreover, I would like to thank all my groupmates and not to forget our
commander and deputy commander with the helps and cooperating to make this event
successful. Without them, this event wouldn’t be as successful. Not only to let the kids
understand the importance of teamwork. Along the way in planning all these activities
also let us understand the importance of team work and also learning to manage our time
properly in order to making sure all the events are under control. Last but not least, we
only live one (YOLO), let’s make our lives as shine as we can!
18. 16
Dry running the activities during our semi
last meeting!!
Wrapping the gift and
snacks for the prices!!
Teammates discussing
before the actual activities
started!!
1.8 Progress Photos
19. 17
The Financial Team!!
Media Team setting up
for recording!!
A group picture of us after
having lunch with the kids!!
One of our mmate
Interviewing the
kids!!
Cheese!!
1.8 Progress Photos
