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Thursday, May 14, 2009

SFA Harvest Festival Day & Night


In the morning was the breakfast sale, we were there at around 8.30am. I was in-charge of the Guess the Doll's Name stall, my mom was doing the food sales while my dad chipped in and out between stalls. Auntie Susan was helping out my mom when my mom took rest while Uncle Richard as usual got into this mode which is annoys people in a good way.



Auntie Susan so cheery with Mom
(Happy Mother's Day)


Dad brought his camera long and didn't snap any pics



Uncle Richard and Dad sorting the "ubi's"


Aaaa Uncle Christopher loves being spoon-fed



The stage during the day



After we sold out all the food; including the 423 muffins me and my mom made which I got a bad migraine the day after, we went home and zzzzzz... That night itself was the Charity Dinner in Aid of The SFA Church Building Fund in collaboration with the Harvest Festival @ Hari Gawai. All 60 tables were sold before we could choose out seats. But thankfully we got Table 52 which was right under the booming fan. Yeap it was hot! So hot that I sweat through whatever I wore that eveing.



The stage at night time



Ooo the crowd



Mom and Dad
(Mom wasn't well.. she was stoning the whole day because she didn't sleep the night before)



Uncle Richard which was my bodyguard for the night



Patrick and Annie



Auntie Catherine with her son and Auntie Alice 



That's Father Michael.. shhh. He was the one that rectify my marriage in church



That's Father Andrew



There were cultural performances from the Sabah group, the African Americans and the Indonesians. Special performance were delivered by Francisca Peter and 2 young Latin dancers who stole the night away. 






Francisca Peter entertaining the crowd



A fine piece of duet with Father Valentine



She sang and sang... I think she hogged the stage a little too much



OMG one more song? No.. 2 more songs.. no it was actually 3 more songs. Too many songs, so many seats went empty.



And finally, some eye-popping entertainment. This really got the crowd wild which I've never seen before. Men were doing those whistle thingy and I was practically screaming my heart out from the side plus asking others to follow me. You actually have to howl to keep the dancers going and even the crowd burning. (Thanks to CC for their contacts)







Vernon and Yen Thing




He insist on having his photo taken.. I think his name was 'Tung-ga" or something like that.



Oh what a day.. we were practically drained out. Mom couldn't wake up the next day for market and breakfast. I nearly couldn't wake Joe up for his school. Mom slept the whole day and the day after. She was really really tired the day before in getting the preparations done and the many dishes she cooked to sell. But we were really happy that all our muffins were sold out. Fret not, tomorrow Mom and I are going to make Chocolate Mud Cupcakes and they're all mine!!! Hehe!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

HELP's Help in Awareness

A week ago on this very same day, I went to HELP University College @ Damansara with Nancy and her cousins. We attended the "Cervical Cancer Prevention Awareness Programme" at the college. Coincidentally, Cecilia was the emcee of the programme. So, we went there to support her and also to get the vaccine ourselves.

I googled and found out that some people are against this vaccination. HPV stands for human papillomavirus. This particular vaccine helps to protect against 4 types of HPV. I don't know why but they claimed that it doesn't work. Hmm.. I mean it's no harm in getting vaccine and if it does saves you in the future then why not? Get more info @ GARDASIL


T-Shirts were selling at RM25 each and all proceeds goes to charity


Goody bag... inside was filled with informative sheets of in information... :p
Notebook = pre-jab
Wet Tissues = post-jab



Beautifying the stage as well as preventing the sun blaze upon our eyes


Nancy and Me waiting for the talk to begin...


Cc ready to tackle the impatient crowd = US


Action time!!!


Jovita popped by


That's Dr. Alan Teh giving out information on Why, What, When, Where, and How. He also added some sex education during his lecture which wowed some of the younger audiences like little Chloe, my cousin-in-law.


Billy the photographer, the emcee's partner on and off the stage


Cc questioning Billy about his plans for their future.. Billy is indeed in deep thought.. hmm


A representative from Maybank delivering his speech on the benefits of MB Women Insurance


Guess who was sitting in front of ME?


Yup it was Sazzy Falak and Aishah Sinclair. They made a special Celeb appearance.. they talked about the importance of getting vaccine and also create awareness on Earth Hour.


Hip-Hop performance by HELP students


Cheque presentation to WAO (Women's Aid Organization)


Rendezvous for Aishah and Cc since SoYouThinkYouCanDance 2


Sazzy and Aishah


ME and Cc


Chloe getting her vaccine first in line


-i have yet to receive the picture from the photographer of myself getting vaccine-
BUT I'LL POST IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

We 5 are aware.. well, only 4 of us here.. the +1 is Cc and she is somewhere..


I took the vaccine.. had a little bruising at the area which is common and I have been informed during Dr. Alan's lecture, it might caused some swelling and redness as well. It's no biggy. I'll have to go for the 2nd dose next month and the 3rd which will be the last dose in August. This means, this vaccine contains 3 jabs taken in a period of 6 months. This programme was held to create awareness among girls as young as age 9 to young adults.

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Famous celeb like Anita Mui died from cervical cancer years ago when cervical cancer was still invisible to the world and just recently Jade Goody lost her battle against it too. Her effort in creating awareness by living her life in the media even when she was dying was dubbed heroic in the UK. You may not know this but cervical cancer is the 2nd deadliest among women.


In memory of
Jade Goody

Before she was diagnosed

She remained calm throughout her ordeal..

One of her final days...

more info @ WalesOnline

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