Flag Day for Special Olympics Singapore

Hi people ...

We will be participating in the following event :

Event: Special Olympics Singapore Flag Day
Date: 05 May 2007
Time: 8.30am to 1.00pm

We will be bringing the following trainees along:
1. Ailing
2. Keng Yew
3. Siew Phang
4. Wei Xiong
5. Wu Lin
6. Timothy
7. Weizhi

Volunteers, please do let me know if you are interested in going for the flag day by 6 April 2007.
You can either email me or sms me.
Please provide me with your NRIC no. if you are going ! =)

-Fan Han

BKTG AGM & Annual Camp (16 to 18 Mar 2007)

BK camp has always been one that I enjoyed ...

With the previous night as the AGM, volunteers have the chance to gather and exchange thoughts ... There was food and games beside the AGM itself ... Dinner was cooked by Pat & Serene !! (Pat: Thanks for cooking the curry ! Yummy !) Games were ranging from Nintendo to Poker Cards to Mahjong !!! (Choon Seng: Thanks for bringing the Nintendo !)

This year ... we presented certificate of appreciation to the outgoing committee for their hard work over the past 1 year and also certificate of appointment to the incoming committee ... a big thank you to all the volunteers in the past 1 year !
Everyone was good on the friday night and slept early in 4 separate rooms ...
The next morning .. there were really a lot of "interesting" stories .... oops ! Can't share them with all of you here .... =)

There are also the healthier ones who woke up early for jogs & walk ... and the lazier ones like me ... who just sleep and sleep .. haha !

Programme for the camp was great ... the messy newspaper game was back with more MESS !!! There were simple station games (bowling, basketball etc ...) and the costume dress-up competition ....
I was glad to see that both the volunteers and trainees enjoy the programmes ...

The weather was good on the 2nd day to accommodate us at the swimming pool ! Volunteers played "Monkey", trainees played with the slide and this time round, Ban Lee enjoyed the slide very much ... Weizhi obviously enjoyed the pool as he could jump as much as he want !!! (Thanks to Timothy's swimming trunks .. if not ... )

Well ... at the end of swimming ... Daniel and the rest ganged up to start a new tradition of pouring coke on the incoming chairpersons .. Jiat Chow & I became literally "SWEET" !!! Oh my god !

Here, I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to the following people (pls do not faint at the long list but it was the teamwork tht made the camp successful):

• Camp committee, Soo Hui, Yi Ting, Hui Qi & Huimin .. thank you for organising the camp despite your exams on the following Monday ! I hope all of you did well for it ...
• Patricia for taking care of all our stomach !!!!
• Choon Seng for taking care of all the trainee and logistic issues.
• Wee Sing (Elder), Hwee Seng (Dusty) and all the other guys in BK for bathing our trainees .... =)
• JianYun, Gim Heng, Nian Jie & Daniel for staying up the whole night looking after our dear Boon Peng who finally went to sleep at 6am !
• Eng Eng for baking the nice nice cakes ! (YUM !)
• Andrea, my dear da jie for coming down ! =)
• And of coz ... all the volunteers who were present at the camp - Andy, Chay Lan, Little Xian Zheng, June, Jenny, Siok Cheng, Nian Jie, Choon Seng, Pat, Benjamin, Hwei Hwei, Wee Sing, Eng Eng, Andrea, Hwee Seng, Jian Yun, Gim Heng, Kah Mun, Kah Yee, Ser Peng, Jiat Chow, Wee Choo, Daniel, Kelvin & Simin

Anyone interested in organising the camp next year ??

- Fan Han

My new trainee...

He was onced considered difficult to handle (especially after what we witnessed during his time with EP) and there was extensive discussion, debate & assessment to decide whether to let him join us. Well that's history already...

During the camp, it was the first time I took him. He started making sound, jumping, rubbing his ears to create sensation, scratching his wound until it bleed, traits of a ASD person. But well, he understood ground rules once they were set!

No jumping indoor, he knew it although sometimes he would need reminder but who don't need reminder :) We could see him enjoying the jump... leaping so high reaching the sky! It is exhaustive jumping this way & by evening he was totally exhausted if not for some chocolate, he would have fallen flat. On ground rules, he was told him I would slap his hands when he was caught scratching. At the end of the camp, the frequency of him scratching reduced but when he did it, he would just put out his hands to be slapped :p That's what we call negative reinforcement.

We found that he like arcade very much. Twice, he sneaked into the arcade sitting in the Daytona machine. Maybe next time, we could have a competition.

Afterall, he is not that bad & I dare say he is improving. That's the challenge for me in the coming year! So what's yours?

-choon seng

PS: Fyi, throughout the camp, we are correcting his behavior of scratching his wound till it bleed. Also, do you know, he slept next to Phang Wei. Before he fell asleep, he was creating alot of noise & yet Phang Wei didn't react. Instead Phang Wei was laughing away... that's amazing.

Hottest Event !

BKTG Annual Camp is just around the corner !

Volunteers who are coming down for the event, please remember to bring swim wear & sleeping bag !!!!

For those who have not heard about it (very unlikely!), here goes:

Fri Night (16/03) - Volunteer's night cum AGM
Sat & Sun (17/03 & 18/03) - Annual Camp

Location : Aloha Loyang

For exact details ... do call us !!!!

=) Fan Han

CNY celebration 3 Mar 07

Hi there!


We definitely missed your presence for the event. Check out some of the photos : )

Siew Phang & Ban Lee arrived early to help decorate the place...

Thanks Daniel for being so spontanteous by leading the sing-a-long....

We done handicraft to decorate the place... its amazing to see Si Min so young handling a few trainees @ one go... Good work, Si Min!

The moment we have been waiting for.... Lo Hei

So don't miss our next major activity.... BK Camp on 17-18 Mar ; )

-choon seng