Programme Experiments Try-out

Greetings from the dedicated Prog Comm!

We did our Experiments try-outs yesterday. This is to ensure that we are well-prepared to conduct the experiments and allow the audiences to see the desired results.

And yes, we were working on CNY eve, because we want to make sure that we only offer the best educational activities to the children for our Local and Overseas Project.

Here's some highlights from today...

Aftermath of the Pressure-Crusher Experiment

DIY Water Rocket Launcher

Credits to Lionel for loaning us his equipments, the try out wouldn't have been possible without his inputs.

Lastly ....

Programmes has grown from being a committee of 10 individuals into a FAMILY of 10 members, which constantly looks out for each other. We will continue to work hard in order to bring joy to our targeted community.

Till next time...

嘻唰唰 嘻唰唰!

We had a really exhausting week! 嘻唰唰ing for everyone! Thank you everyone who contributed to the success of the FUNdraising week! Be it for the Carwash, Perler, Polaroids and covers, or even just donation to us. We sincerely thank everyone of you:)

A shoutout to our amazing FR comm once again, it would not have been so successful and enjoyable without all of you! Kudos to everyone in Cheway! who make it for your shifts and even stayed longer for all of them :) Your PDs are really motivated by all you guys. We can feel the love tonight!

Have a 嘻唰唰 CNY HOLIDAYS! Everyone!!!!

Good To Go:)

Thank you everyone for your help thus far! Keep our fingers crossed!

1st Fund Raising Preparations!

Hi guys, been busy these few days but just a short update. Our FUNdraising comm has been planning for our first canvassing effort on 27th January, a.k.a. Engin Day:) We have not only these pretty Perler Beads, but also mascot stickers and brownies for sale! 

We are also selling coupons that lead to our second initiative in NUS: VALENTINE'S CARWASHING. Watch our handsome and pretty cheway members wash your precious cars on the 11th to 13th Feb! Buy the coupons from us, only at $10!!

And lastly, our FR comm came up with some whacky ideas to create a photobooth that suits the Engin Day theme:) Look at this cool frame with our FR head inside ^^

Well, we just hope everyone will be able to support our booth on your free day! See the details below:

Project Cheway! booth

Sales of Brownies: $4

Perler Beads: $3-10 per pax

Car Wash Coupons: $10 per car

Mascot stickers: 2 for $1

Polaroid plus Clear Phone Cover: $5 only!!

SO CHEAPPPP! In addition, we will have a small surprise for you who liked our page! Do stay tune and show us the liked page of Cheway! again!

See yall folks in 2 days!!

Third Team Meeting!/060115

Happy (belated) New Year!!!! :) We had our third meeting during the first week of 2015 and it was a good time of updates & catching up.

Of course, what's a Cheway! team meeting without a game? This time, we played a game called "Spaghetti Eiffel" whereby teams RANDOMLY grouped together were required to work together to build a tallest structure - with pasta! - that would stand. It was quite QEWL to see how the team members worked with one another and the kinds of wacky ideas they had. Based on the height, number of marshmallows used as well as a team-voted creativity segment, we had group 3 as the winning group:)) And theirs lasted the longest without falling haha!

OUR WINNING GROUP, GROUP 3!

After the games segment, the meeting started proper with the appointment of our team's 3rd leader - Gordon! Here's a portrait of him to satisfy your curiosity ;)

Our Project Director & Assistant Project Director then shared with us about the recent recce trip they made to Tacloban City. As mentioned in the previous post, we will be working with Barangay 89, a community of 37 families who are ex-home sharers, made up mainly of young couples and toddlers who did not know one another beforehand.

Also highlighted earlier, we are looking at setting up a store whereby the villagers can sell water that will be dispensed from the water tank built by Mercy Relief, hence diversifying their means of livelihood (since too many of them are counting on fishing to earn a living!). Hopefully, too, through this, the villagers will learn about small-scale business management!

We then had Qing Wei, head of Ops, to explain to us how the reed bed system would work.

We also decided on the accommodation that we'll be living in! It's a townhouse with a common laundry and kitchen area. It will be fun to live together XD

Moving on to fundraising updates, here're several of the confirmed designs that will be making their heroic appearances on our merchandises really soon! From the geeky-looking Superman to the badass Batman and other cheeky emojis that are not featured here (support our fundraisers to find out what they are!), we're sure you'll find something you'll like! Our first fundraising event will be held in conjunction with Engin Day, 27 January 2015. Please do come down to take a look!

Also part of our fundraising efforts is us providing carwash services! This will be conducted from 11 to 13 February 2015 (yes, your car needs a sparkle that comes just in time for Valentines' Day & Chinese New Year!) for a mere $10, which goes towards funding our project. Killing several birds with one stone, eh?

As you can see, we've got many activities lined up in the coming weeks, and so do stay tuned to this page for more updates! And remember to visit our booth on Engin Day! :) There are surprises waiting for you:)

Farewell, 2014!

 2014 will not have been so fun without all of you. Your PD and VPDs love each and everyone of you :) Thank you for being so spontaneous and responsible! 

Cheers to a wonderful 2015 ahead! *BEAMS*

Trip up Barangay 89

Recce concluded a week ago but we only have time to write about it now. However, I must say that overall, it's a superb experience:) Choosing Tacloban City and Mercy Relief was the best decision ever!

Thank you to everyone who came and send the four of us off, really appreciated your effort (esp Joseth and Xinglai's Donuts) Lol and we got photobombed (see QW's face XD)

So after our international flight to Cebu Airport, Murphy decided to play a prank on us. We missed our domestic flight to Tacloban and the next flight is on 24th -.- P.S Please note to book connecting flights or do web check in if transit time is short.

Fortunately, Carol has once informed us of an alternate route to Tacloban and we decided to travel by the longer 7 hours ride. Even though the journey was tiring, we managed to reach Tacloban at 1pm, to be greeted by the heavy rain...

 Us waiting for the ferry to Ormoc

Us on the van ride to Taclo

As you can see, what didn't kill us made us stronger cockroaches, resilient against challenges. After meeting Carol, Sister Lala and Brother Jerry, we headed for lunch at Jollibee before we visited 3 communities to find out more about them. We are really blessed to be able to hear the first hand experiences from the Haiyan survivors and we can't help but applaud their strong survival instincts; all of them picked themselves up to rebuild their communities. If there is one thing we want our team to take away, it will be love. Love for their communities and families kept them going against harsh times as they rebuilt their hometown together bits by bits. We are very fortunate to witness one of the Barangays building back their community houses together.

 The women from Barangay 56A

The meeting at Barangay 89

So after talking to the three Barangays, we have decided on Barangay 89. With 89, we intend to build a reed bed system that collects used bathwater for input and treat to give clean water output for irrigation purposes for their urban gardening. Specific details are been worked out by our Ops team, sincerely thanks to QW and Gordon for joining us in this trip:)

In addition to the Reed Bed System, we intend to build a stall, tended by the local community themselves to diversify the livelihood of the villagers. We will be getting our marketing and Log&Pub subcomm to work on the details. Keep watch:)

All in all, the trip has been a really fulfilling one and the four of us definitely have our own takeaway from this trip. Thank you to everyone who made this trip possible and anticipate a even fun trip in July 2015!

Some pictures to hype:

The setting: May not be the perfect ideal holiday kind of beauty but definitely Tacloban City defines beauty on her own. The coasts are really beautiful and you can see the stars at night quite well:)

The people: As mentioned, they are really optimistic and they love singing. What more can I say?

And here's Michelle favourite boy

The food: Well, you may be surprised but yes, Filipinos love Hong Kong Food alot. And they like meat (Hooray to all the carnivorous like me HAHA)

And lastly, my team and Mercy Relief. Thanks for being so understanding and spontaneous. It's not easy to be travelling in a new place with zero expectations. Quoting Carol:"The best form of travelling is backpacking because you will only get surprises, not shock."

Happy 2015, everyone:)