30 Hour Famine Camp Day 2 @ Association of Churches in Sarawak

I didn’t sleep well last night, It was like a nightmare. The floor is clod, and not as soft as my mattress :(


I wake up at 5:50am, and so as some of the campers. They all have to wake up before 6:30am, the activities for this morning are yoga exercise. Some kids refuse to wake up, and their mom keep on nagging them :D maybe there are too hungry.

But I did saw some kids came to the first-aid room to get some “relief item” to continue on with the camp. The “relief item” are for kids, and those who have gastric, or any other sickness.


That’s it, stress your hand high as if you can tough the sky, and left….


After the morning yoga exercise, is Sunday prayer time. So for us who are not Christian, we can choose to watch a one hour documentary clip. The title of the clip called “Living with Hunger” (click link here) is about a black man who is from England, he went to live in a very rural village at Ethiopia for 3 month, and document down his everyday life.

How he’s been rejected by the people there, on how the people fight hunger there, how he walks 30-50KM by foot to get to one place, how the children suffer for not having enough to eat, and more.


After finish watching this movie, I’m very thankful that I get to eat everyday. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, sometime even supper, how easy it is for us to get all this food. While for them at the 3rd world county with not enough food to eat, government corruption, disease slowly killing them, OMG! I’m grateful on what I have now, and I love my life.


We the volunteers are free today, so we get to join in with the campers. After the documentary, there’s a sharing seassion with the local NGO’s on how they had contribute to the society, and how can we involve with their activities.
After that is movie time again, this time is a movie made by an Iranian. The title of the movie is called "Turtles Can Fly" (click link here)

The film is set in a Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq. Thirteen-year-old Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) is known for his installation of dishes and antennae for local villages who are looking for news of Saddam Hussein and for his limited knowledge of English. He is the dynamic, but manipulative leader of the children, organizing the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of the minefields.

The industrious Satellite arranges trade-ins for unexploded mines. He falls for an orphan named Agrin (Avaz Latif), a sad-faced girl traveling with her disabled, but smart brother Henkov, who appears to have the gift of clairvoyance. The siblings care for a toddler, whose connection to the pair is discovered as harsh truths are revealed.


The movie run for 95 minutes. After the movie, we get to enjoy performance by the local group. Not much of entertaining seeing them perform, I keep on thinking the potato chips in my fridge. I miss that package of chip very much, how I wish I can eat it now :[


Oh please can somebody tell them to hurry on with the show!!! I can’t stand it anymore.


3 hours till we finish fasting, and now is cleaning time.


World Vision had invited some of their worker to came and share their lifetime stories. Some of them had stay in that specific country for twenty over year, scarify their time and energy, but with just one goal, “Reach Out and Help” I salute this people, they are all warriors.


The countdown is on, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…. bye bye fasting…


We’re not encourage to have heavy meal, so this is what we had. How delicious my butter bun is, I love the soy bean milk. You guys rocks.


When tomorrow come, we spread our love and make it a better day. After the countdown, we sang the famine camp song together.


I’m happy to be able to participate in this camp. It now gave me a clearer picture on how the children and people are like at the other side of the world. While I’m eating my breakfast here, there will be hundred maybe millions of children die because of hunger.


We get to keep one t-shirt, one plastic fan.


A bookmark, and my certificate of appreciation.
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Thanks for reading my dear readers, I’m hungry now, I’m going for breakfast. See ya ;)

30 Hour Famine Day 1

30 Hour Famine Camp Day 1 @ Christian Ecumenical Worship Center, Kuching, Sarawak

For the first time in Kuching, Word Vision had organize this 30 Famine program. Their objective is to let us have a glimpse of the conditions that impoverished children and families endure everyday. After I was introduce this program from my friend, I told them that I can’t fast myself for 30 hours. I’ve never try this before, but I would really like to participate, so maybe I can become a volunteer :) yeah, I flip through the information leaflet it says nothing about volunteer fasting, or mush overnight at the camp side. So immediately I sign up to become a volunteer for this 30 hours famine challenge.


One week before the camp start, all the volunteers need to go for training at the Christian ecumenical worship center. I signup and was in the programme team. Then on the first day (21st March), volunteers have to be there around 8am.
The girls in the orange t-shirt are staff from WorldVision, and they brief us on what to do for these two days. I like the way they give training, fun, creative, and casual.


The volunteer had divided into 4 team, which is Logistics, Registration, Programme (facilitating activities), and Enquiry (manning booths). After briefing, I felt a bit regret to participate!!!! WHY, I just found out that Volunteer NEED to fast and overnight here, and need to work somemore. OMG~~~ 30 hours no food X_X


This is the main hall of the worship center. People in green t-shirt is the campers, to enroll one must pay RM120 for non-students, and RM80 for students or senior citizens. Whereas volunteers are free. This camp there are around 500 campers, is not bad for the first camp held at Kuching. They told me that the very first east Malaysia 30 hours famine camp is at Miri.


The youngest is 5 years old, and the oldest is 67 years old.


I had my lunch at 11am, and after that is no more food. The curtain goes up at 12pm sharp, and the 1st programme is the Ice Breaking, so volunteers will go on stage and assist the emcees. The emcees will tell the volunteers to do a specific action, like being a spiderman, superman, and then they need to act. So they campers will have to follow what the emcees instruct and act.
Then is the bubble gum game, where the emcees will tell the campers to look for a group of people and like stick all their hands together or 10 heads together, and so on.


After sticking with each others, the emcees then give a camp briefing to all the campers


So who is this World Vision?
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. They serve alongside the poor and oppressed as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people.
World Vision is a global organization with offices in approximately 100 countries. These interdependent national offices are bound together by a Covenant of Partnership, a biblically based agreement that enables us to work together in a unified and complementary way as we walk alongside those we serve.


The opening ceremony, this is the Dr. George Chan Hong Nam, Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, state Minister of Industrial Development and Minister of Modenisation of Agriculture.


I went to 1st floor to get my stuff, all of the volunteers will be sleeping in the 1st floor tonight.


The time now are 3pm, and is time for the Famine Challenge No.1, this is a refugee race game. A scenario will be given to the campers, and each group will be divided to family units, and they have to get vaccination, get food, get register, rebuild their home, and get their survival kits.
I played a gangsters role where I will recruit people to do illegal work to get fast money. Basically they can pack drugs, drug trafficking, child prostitution, and child labor.
These jobs are very common in the third world country, where the children for survival they have no choice but to follow orders. SAVE THE CHILDREN


After the emcees brief the game rules, the campers then starts to get their “family” to go enroll and get vaccination. The “Father” in the group need to bring the entire family to report to the emergency center to collect family survival kit, and all of the families must register latest by 4pm, so time is precious for them. Each campers need to do a role play as per their fake identity card throughout the game.
This game can give the campers feel what is like when a place struck by nature disaster. People will just do anything to get money and to protect their family members. While seeing the campers, myself feels that we are all very lucky at Malaysia that no major natural disaster strike here. Phew~~thank you god.


The family will have to build a temporary shelter which can fit in 4 persons for their family. And the government has the right to demolish any shelter which had no person inside, so throughout the game, one of their group member has to stay in the shelter.


The long queue is the campers need their vaccination to prevent against any diseases, but they have to pay USD40, that’s why the family have to look for a way to earn money. So they can come and look for me (gangster) for illegal work (fast money) or can work in legal way (slow money), is up to them.
The game starts at 3pm and ends at 5pm. Among 20 over groups, there are only one group successful get all the vaccination, and all the require food. It is not easy to survive in a refugee camp.


Around 8pm, the famine showcase starts. The programs flows are well planned so I felt the time was fully pack and organize. I don’t feel hungry at the moment…yet ….


The performers are Francissca Peter, Danell Lee, and other local performing groups which I had forgot the name.


The show ends at 11pm, and I’m a bit tired that time. We all sang the theme song ….if not mistaken the song name was called “Tomorrow” :P


11:35pm, is time to zzzzz….


3:57am, why am I still awake. 1st I missed my bed, 2nd I’m not use to sleep on the flat floor. So a small group of us went down to the hall and play cards game, chit chatting, until the security uncle came and scold us that we’re too noisy. Then we all just went back and sleep…
Did I successfully go through the 30 hours famine, answer in next post.
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My Friend and I

Went to Matang Family Park to swim few days ago, it was a public holiday and the place was pack with people.

Woodcraft Puzzle Dog

My friend gave me a puzzle, is a set of woodcraft which produce from China. I had one few years back, is a rooster or something, can’t remember. Anyway, so my friend ask me to help her puzzle up this woodcraft dog.


There’s a usermanual, on each of the piece, there’s number on each edge. All I need to do is to match the two numbers together and stick it together.


This is the end results. I must admit that these china people they are really amazing, they can think of anything to sell to earn $$$


Have to be extra careful when taking out the wood piece, the usermanual didn’t specify clearly which piece goes first. Which I had to reverse back some assemble piece out, and put the correct woodpiece in correct order.


After 20 minutes, this is what I get.


Hm~~there’s still some part missing, but what it is????


Ah! Now is 100% complete. You like my dog?

Brown Dog

I went to my friend house, while waiting in the car a new friend came and willing to be my model of the month :P


She is gorgeous.


perfect timing and perfect post.