The Extra Mile Program (TEMP) Christmas Visitation

Here comes the last event of 2017 which was the The Extra Mile Program (TEMP) Christmas visitation on the 23rd of December 2017. It was held at the Good Samaritan Home in Klang and the reason TEMP organized this event towards the end of December was so that they could bring the joy of Christmas to the children of Good Samaritan Home. 20 kind-hearted students and 1 teacher advisor from Taylor's University School of Pharmacy volunteered themselves for this visitation to spend meaningful time with the children.

It is without doubt that Christmas is the warmest time of the year. Hence, TEMP decided to make this event resembled a pre-Christmas celebration for the children as TEMP's aim was to provide love and companionship to the children and make them feel belonged, cared and loved for the upcoming festive day.

The volunteers arrived at the destination around 2pm and the event started off with all the volunteers identifying their group members. They did this by distributing respective stickers with the children's name to the children. After that, everyone was required to introduce themselves and it was during this time that our volunteers took the opportunity to know more about the children as well as to break the ice between our volunteers and the children. 

Ice-breaking session with the children :)

Introduce yourself so that we can know you better!

The ice breaking session was followed by a very interesting game where each group had to dress up a team member to become Santa Claus with newspapers! This was definitely a great and interesting session for the children as most of them were between the age of 5-17 years old. In this session, the biggest challenge for the volunteers was teamwork as most of the children are of very young age and they were often very playful.Therefore, patience and communication skills were of utmost importance to create a stronger bond with the children and our volunteers definitely did not disappoint. Not forgetting to mention, the children showed their creativeness throughout this session and most of them did exceptionally well!

Next, all the Santas were required to do a catwalk session and present their outfit. After that, the Organizing Chairperson of this event, Shannon Lip gave away a small gift to the most creative Santa.

Be creative so that we can win!

Santa Claus need moustache but you don't have 

so I've to add it manually

The winner of the day- Most creative Santa Claus

Busy busy

The climax of the event was the Christmas songs sing-a-long session lead by Joyce and Yi Xian with a ukulele and a guitar respectively. The Christmas songs sung were Feliz Navidad, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. Our caring volunteers prepared the lyrics beforehand for the children so that they were able to follow the songs more easily. Meanwhile, as the children were happily singing, the volunteers distributed a variety of sweets and wished the children 'Merry Christmas' with the hope that their world will be filled with warmth and good cheer during this Holy season.

The organizing chairperson, Shannon was leading 

everyone to sing the Christmas songs

Yi Xian was playing guitar to make the atmosphere merrier

Feliz Navidad lyrics done by the volunteers

Lastly, Shannon distributed some inexpensive but precious gift to all the children and the visitation ended with a group photo of everyone including the founder of the Good Samaritan Home and warm hugs from the children.

Cheese :D

Thank you so much to the founder, Shannon, Yixian and 

Michelle for giving us a memorable Christmas 

In line with TEMP's vision, "Empowering Communities, Changing Lives", we will always try our best to contribute to the community. This visitation definitely amazed the students and made them more grateful and appreciative of life. It has successfully spread the support of love and affection to all the children. All of us sincerely hope that they will achieve great milestones in their life with the plentiful talent that they have. As for the students, they promised to continue to get themselves involved in more social activities in the future to help and spread love to those who are in need!

Written By

Ivy Jhing Ee

Editorial Board 2017/2018

Serve, Smash and Win x Sweat and Shake o' Sunday 2017

Only one way to find out, who is the strongest, fittest in the School of Pharmacy. TuPSS, annually will organize a few sports event, to let the students vent out their stress in studies. Furthermore, the event not just serves as a platform to sweat, but to increase communication and interaction between the students from each year.

Posters for the events (from the left: Serve Smash and Win; Sweat, Shake O’ Sunday)

We often neglected our own health just to care for others health. We live in a world of irony where healthcare professions are not profession in their own health. TuPSS held our annual Badminton day and Sports carnival at 11th November and 19th November respectively.

Serve, Smash and Win 2017 held on the 11^th of November at South Quay Badminton court, the OCs have dedicated their time to make this event a successful one. Participants starts to gather around 12pm in the afternoon, warming up for their matches. On the other hand, OCs prepares refreshments for the participants and the OCs themselves so that they can stay on their top notch.

Here are some photos from the events itself

Ong Wei Qiao & You Xiao Quan mixed doubles

Michelle Ting & Chan Zhuo En mixed doubles

Senior Supporters

: ( someone call the first aider please

Power doubles strikes again from 2016

Pretty supporters

Men’s Doubles (Isaac Lee & Jezreel Francis vs Tan Chun Kit & Theam Jia Hui)

Isaac: “NO! It’s short!!”

Cheong Kah Ming serves for his opponent.

Let me see got handsome guy or not

 

Group Photo. Good Job to the OCs and the participants!

WINNERS:

Men Single

Cheong Kah Ming

Men’s Doubles

Tan Chun Kit

Theam Jia Hui

Woman Single

Au Yong Yee Leng

Women Double

Teng Jia Hui

Au Yong Yee Leng

Mix Doubles

Tan Chun Kit

Chua Sher Fern

On the 19^th November 2017, Our School annual sports carnival has been held at the sports complex in Taylor’s Lakeside sports complex. Registration opens early in the morning, led by the year 1 organizing team, led by the Project Director, Ong Yi Xian. After the registration, the participants are being gathered into the basketball court to startup with some warmup dance.

After warmup and loosen their muscles, the participants have been assigned to their own respecting team. There are 4 teams in total, the Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphin, and Adrenaline.

       

      

Each group started up by self-introduction, a little background on their own and then proceeds with group cheers.

                The next activity on the list is station games. They are required to go around the campus and find clues for their next station. Each station will give them the next clue to the next station. Although it was hectic and tiring, they seems to enjoy the activities the OCs has put up with.

Clues

Lunch, the most time where participants sit down and have their meals with each other. Although it was only packed lunch, but with everyone around, it still feels like we are having a banquet at the sports complex.

After Lunch, the activities proceed with captain ball. The objectives is to pass the ball to the keeper at the end of the field. When the person at the far end of the field gets the ball, the team gets one point. Everyone had fun with it. They give in their 101% just to earn the glory to their house.

I Pass !!

Score !!

DAB !!

Carry on with basketball, a more common sports that we used to play, basically just pass the ball, into the hoop, then you score points. This is when things got competitive where everyone wants to be the very best. Some of the participants who are not able to join in the morning has arrived. Without any trouble fitting into the teams, all of them performed terrifically well. This shows how closely the relationship between each badge is.

I jump!

Quick get the ball !!

A little off time for the participants and the OCs

Why not?

I see ya !!

This is where we parts, the closing ceremony. They are all tried, exhausted and just wanted to go home and bath. It’s time to announce the winner! Along with the prices for badminton day on the 11^th of November, Dr Jason, who willingly sacrifices his weekend for the even are being invited to give out the medals and prizes to the winner.

Congratulations !!

Congratulations !! x2

Wei Qiao and the prizes

Group Photo :D

Organising Committee

Congratulations!!

Basketball

Serotonin - Daphne Chen, Reynard Aw, Chan Jing Er, Lam Jing Kai, Joyce Tan

Captain ball

Adrenaline - Yong Yen Nee, Scarlett Lee, Jodi Lee, Jason Lee, Lee Zheng Yang

Winning house

Serotonin (Daphne, Reynard, Janice, Aaron, Joyce Tan, Teoh Jia Ying, Chan Jing Er)

Hands up to Ong Yi Xian and his organizing team. They did an amazing job!

Written By

Christopher Wong

Editorial Board 2017