TEMP - Christmas eve celebration at Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah (PPKKCTM)

On 24th of December, TEMP has organised a visitation to Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah (PPKKCTM). PPKKCTM  was founded by the LATE Mr.S.K.Manikumar A/L S.Kanan, himself physically handicapped. His vision is to provide a suitable environment for the "special abilities children". There are about 138 children of all races staying at PPKKCTM, ranging from 9 months up to 56 years old adults. and coming from all over peninsular Malaysia. About 100 children are disabled with various disabilities such as Down syndrome, autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, microcephalous, hydrocephalous, global delay, epilepsy, stroke, muscular dystrophy, intellectual disabilities as well as speech, audio and visual impairments while the rest are normal children who come from broken, abused or single-parent backgrounds. For more information about PPKKCTM, kindly refer to http://www.ppkkctm.info/

Organising chairperson of the event - Scarlett Lee

Look at our committees and volunteers! 

Focus!

The day started off with the speech from the organising chairperson - Scarlett Lee followed some ice breaking session with the children by our volunteers. Next, the first activity was conducted, which was the "Unwrapping game". This game involved the idea of unwrapping Christmas present, whoever who got the present when the music stops will need to unwrap one layer of the present, and there is a small note inside, a direction sort of "punishments" eg dance, sing a song, strike a pose .. etc. This game certainly caught the attention of the children, as they managed to feel the happiness of unwrapping the presents and some of them do really dance and sing very well!

Unwrapping game

The boy was given an instruction" show love to your friend"  

The second activity of the day was the "Painting Game". Basically required children to paste their hands and paint it onto a mahjong paper. The theme of the game was "Christmas Tree". Each group has shown their creativity in this game and the stronger bond between the children and our helpers have strengthened really well.

The Painting Game

The final activity was the "Sing-A-Long" session, which heated up the environment to the maximum especially when two Santa Claus appeared, dancing around with the children, which has successfully brought some joy to them. and perhaps satisfying some of the children's dream of meeting a real Santa. The session marked the end of our visitation, many volunteers have shown their unwillingness to leave the place, as the kids over there, were really friendly! They like to hug with each other, even with us! This shows how much love they are willing to give to others, and shows how "pure-hearted" they are, they do believe that a hug can always give warm to each other, which is definitely a lesson for the society nowadays, where everyone is slowly isolated away by the electronic devices.
Ask yourself, how long have you been not given a hug?

Are you sure we are not in a concert? Look at our professional team! Kar Weng and Joyce!

Real life Santa! 

Some hugs <3

They even offered free Henna for our volunteers! 

Token of appreciation presented to manager of PPKKCTM- Mr Baskin by our Dr.Jason

As per TEMP vision, "Empowering Communities, Changing Lives" we have never stop our way in trying to contribute to the community, PPKKCTM was just a first visitation, we do believe that there will be more chances in visiting the other places, not only PPKKCTM, do join us if you feel like giving out love and contributing to the community!! Last but not least, especially thanks to the TEMP committees, who worked so hard for the event. Thank you!

The ONE AND ONLY TEMP committees - Kar Weng, Sher Fern, Scarlett and Yi Pei 

TuPSS Sports Day 2016

The School of Pharmacy Annual Sports Day was held on 27th November 2015 at Sports Complex, Taylors University Lakeside Campus. Registration took place at 8.30a.m.  where the students were divided and arranged according to their respective teams. A welcome speech was given by the project management team, followed by our president Jason Lee, who gave a short introduction speech which marked the official opening of the event.

It was a drizzling morning, but luckily the rain stopped after the cheer performance done by the participants, it was believed that the performances have cheered the weather up. It was overall a very enjoyable performance and could not believe that our pharmacy students were so good in performing and they do put in a lot of effort in arranging the performance. It was nice to see how the solid teamwork had made the teams be even stronger and united.

Then, a warm-up session was conducted by Jason, just to prepare the participants for the next activity, which is the marathon run. The total distance for the run is 3 kilometres which are approximately equal to 2 rounds around the campus. Even though the marathon run was delayed due to rainy weather, but the weather did not prevent our passionate participants for the run. After that, our participants have a breakfast which consisted of Massimo bread, Milo drink and 100 plus was provided to the participants after they have completed the run and they were given 30 minutes of break as well. 

Next, a 3vs3 basketball match was carried out, each team has selected 3 members to complete the game, the game was certainly a thrilling session as our pharmacy girls are equally skilled with the guys. Although all the teams became competitive to get points for their own respective team but they had proven the true underlying sportsmanship as well after the game. After the exhausting session, lunch with chicken rice and sambal egg was provided to help our participants to regain their energy.

Another exciting game was carried out which was the dodgeball match, the match was equally exhilarating to the basketball match, which has brought up the atmosphere to the max, teamwork is observed during the event as they were required to protect their "queen" to receive any "damage" in the match. A rather chilling yet entertaining station games were conducted in three different fields (Indoor futsal court, outdoor futsal court and softball court). 3 different games were conducted which were the "longest game", "water balloon game" and "fill up the water bottle". The "Longest game" required participants to fully utilise their body advantage to make the longest line with other teammates, which theoretically genetics do play a role here ;P. Other than that, participants were required to use their object on their body, such as clothes, shoes, socks, to make the longest line among the other teams. The water balloon game require participants to use their shirt to pass the water balloon to the other teammates and the last person has to break the balloon as fast as possible, the team which used the least time will be the winner. Followed by the "fill up the water bottle“ game, our participants has to divide to two groups, one who is lying down while the other was the one who filling up the water, the standing person has to stand straight and try their best to pour the water into the water bottle held by the lying participants. This game required participants to have excellent eyesight as well as the estimation of wind flow to allow the maximum volume of the water is being filled into the water bottle. Both water games were absolutely fascinating and exciting. 

The last event of the day was the prize-giving session. After all the accumulation of points, Blue Team came up as champion. Black Team got second place followed by Green Team with third place. Purple got the fourth place. There were medals and prizes allocated for each team. Token of appreciations was given to the Dean of School of Pharmacy, Prof.Thomas and other lecturers who came for the event. Before ending the session, Prof. Thomas gave words of motivations to the participants which were indeed inspiring. 

The event was successful due to the overwhelming supports from the lecturers and students. It was honourable to see the lecturers who played along with the students despite their busy schedules. Besides, this event was a small collaboration with SBS and SOM as some helpers were being so helpful by assisting during the game. Last but not least, special thanks to our supportive seniors as they showed up to support our event, which indicating a strong junior-senior relationship. Overall, even though there were minor circumstances that happened during the event but those problems were solved perfectly. It was indeed a tiring day but everyone was happy and had fun. 

Helpers and committees! 

 Breakfie! 

 Aerobic performance by purple team

Warm up session

Everyone is ready for the run!

 Super chilled! still can do a "love" shape during run!

 Guess what? Mr Selva got the third place! 

 Say hi to our "lecturer looking" coursemate - Dr Jason! 

Dr Narendra! 

 Can you feel the intensity????!! Basketball session

 The photo says it all- do not mess with our girl #lessonlearnt

Dodgeball session

You jump I jump

Sorry, but now I have to run

 Station games- Water filling game

Station games- The longest game

Why this face senior?? ft-Shaun

Station games- Water balloon 

 Special thanks to our SBS and SOM helpers - Ze Zian and De Wei !

 Massage session specifically for the queen

Hi Billy, facial commercial huh?

 The medals!

First place- Blue Team

Second place- Black Team

 Third place- Purple Team

 Forth place- Green Team

 And finally... PHARMILY group photo!