VAD-57 - New board of committees 2011

It is very proud to getting the new committees for the coming 2011. Thank you for your willingness and voluntarism for being part of the hand to raising VAD-57 in coming future. The election process went smoothly.Hereby, I would like to Congratulations also to the newly elected committees board and wish you all the best. Together we unite to make every events successful and be proud of Malaysian Red Crescent VAD 57.

On behalf of VAD-57. I would like to officially to announce the new committees board 2011 for Malaysian Red Crescent VAD- 57. Very specially to:

Commandant: Phang Kip Loong
Vice Commandant: Yvette Eng
Quatermaster: Alex Teng
Secretary: Amita Lim
Vice Secretary: Melvim
Treasurer: Tew Xue Shan
Vice Treasurer: Tan Ke Xin
Director: Marco Tie
Assistant Director: Wong Tze Jia
Administration: Lee Hui Ven & Teo Ling Ling
First Aid Duty Officer: Tsen Siaw Tshin & James Lee
IT: Ho Yu Kui and Darrold Lim
Training Officer: Pheobe Renny & Arivendran


Congratulations once again and have a nice day!

Without left, also very thanks to previous board of Committees who contribute a lot. Without each of them, VAD-57 would not develop in such unbelievable efficient. As new committees, please always promise yourself that you will not bring any disappointed and shame on next year 2011 and forever.

Thank you.

"We Serve Voluntarily"


Post By Sam.

Dear all members,

Hows your semester going so far? I believe everyone had been working really hard for assignments, mid terms, reports, and so on. As the fiscal year of 2010 had goes into the corner, VAD-57 would like to hold an election for the new board committee.

The Election is on

• DATE : 22 October 2010 (Friday)
• Time : 12 noon until 2pm
• Venue: G2105, Curtin University Sarawak Campus

Below are the list of the positions of the VAD-57

1. Commandant
2. Vice Commandant
3. Quartermaster
4. Secretary
5. Vice Secretary
6. Treasurer
7. Vice Treasurer
8. Director [Head Section Leader]
9. Assistant Director [Assistant Head Section Leader]
10. Section Manager (Administration)
11. Assistant Section Manager (Administration)
12. Section Manager (First Aid Duty)
13. Assistant Section Manager (First Aid Duty)
14. Section Manager (Information Technology)
15. Assistant Section Manager (Information Technology)
16. Section Manager (Training)
17. Assistant Section Manager (Training)

For your information, we are using democracy system in the election, therefore the election will be fair. Meanwhile for Commandant and Vice Commandant position, I have selected 3 candidates as the person who hold these 2 positions are crucial and need to have certain level of knowledge about Red Crescent. So, your vote will decide who is the future Commandant and Vice Commandant of VAD-57! Let me announce their name to you guys

1. Sham Zhen Dong @ Sam
2. Phang Kip Loong
3. Eng Shi Ying @Yvette

And please do give you yourself a chance to run for the other positions, too. It is a good opportunity to learn and contribute more to the society voluntarily, as we always said "we serve voluntarily"! Trust me, if you are active in Red Crescent, you can gain unforgettable experience in your life!

For any inquiries, do feel free to contact me (016-840 6140) or emailed to curtinrc@gmail.com

Regards,

Chin Pin Rui

Commandant

Upcoming Activities. We NEED you!

You. Yes you. We need you.

Come come come!

Anyways, as of now, we have two upcoming activities for you.

• Mock Exercise 2010
• Water Safety and Boat Handling
  

The two events above are our annual events, so, you guessed it! It is that time of the year again when we need your participation.

Please refer to the notices below for more information.

Water Safety and Boat Handling

Date: 26 September 2010

Time : 9 am till 5 pm

Please bring proper attires (swimming attires or short pants)

Mock Exercise 2010 (FIRE!)

Date: 24 September 2010

Time : 12 noon till 2 pm

Proposed emergency: Explosion @ School of Business

Need: Victims, Casualties, Transporters, First Aiders

So the question is,

are you in?

FIREEEEE! Frankly speaking, I am excited over the mock exercise :)

Till next time,

Melvin Lim

IT Officer

Curtin Open Day Updates + Past Activities

Hello and greetings dear blog readers,

I hope we can still rake in some decent readership responses. Hello all, and how has your week been? You might have heard of our unit, MRC VAD 57 has been teeming with activities lately. It is all in conjunction with the FAS (First Aid and Safety) Month 2010. Hence, indeed, we have had few things going on, but if in case you have missed any, fear not, we still have a few activities up before the semester ends.

Let's view through the check list of what has happened.

• FAS Month Opening Ceremony
• FAS Month Talk
• FAS Exhibition
• Open Day Booth Sale
• FAS Month Competition and Quiz
• MRC Flag Day Sale - the day where we carry around tins and request for donations
• Fun (yeap, and lots of it)
  

Yeap... that's about it.

Our Curtin Open Day Booth Sale was a huge success. It turned out better than expected and we sold everyhing! Hope all you readers bought something and contributed to our funds ;) Joking. On that day, we sold:

• Lychee Shake (it's lychee in the form of milkshake)
• Plum juice
• Lychee with lime
• Homemade cornflake cookies
• Gulingao (neh the black black one)
• ...and of course, our kick ass Curry Fish/Chicken ball (damn kick ass wei, no joke)
  

There's always more next year. Do not worry, I think our signature, curry fish and meatballs is slowly becoming a Red Crescent must sell item every Open Day. It's going to be a tradition :)

Some pictures from our past event.

FAS Month Opening Ceremony and Talk

Cutting of the ribbons to officiate the ceremony

Our OC speaking

The arrival of our VVIP, Datuk Lee

Our attendee. Thanks a lot guys!

Our awesome banner for the event

Group picture with the VVIPs

Not to forget, our wonderful speakers who came and gave their Safety talk

Dr Halim Mohamed

Mr Lai Nyong Kheng

Thanks a lot for all of your support that day. Open Day pictures are coming soon.

Have a nice week ahead, and tuition free week is next week! Finally, some time off :) Enjoy

This is Melvin, signing off.

Cheers,

Melvin Lim

IT Officer

General Meeting

Hey all,

Here are the finalised updates on the General Meeting this Saturday. old Current and new students are widely welcome with open arms!

Date: Saturday 7th August 2010
Time: 9.30am
Venue: G2101

There would be tons of fun and you'll get to know more about VAD-57, the people and commitee behind it, and most of all make new friends.

See Ya all there!


Blogged By,
Anders Cheng
IT officer

Introducing the FAS Month. Read on to find out what's FAS

Hey there fellow readers,

Our highly anticipated event of the semester is finally going to start. All the committee members have almost work their buttocks off to make this event memorable, worth your time and definitely to impress both new and old members alike.


FAS means First Aid and Safety. And we are allocating a month in year just to teach and spread
first aid knowledge, making good sure that the public and students (means you!) knows how to respond in a case of an emergancy, no need to worry, it involves only simple procedures!
Our theme for the upcoming FAS Month is S.A.F.E. which is an acronym for the words Safety Awareness For Everyone. It might sound cliche but it resonates with the direction of our event.


So, we have provided activities for all the participants throughout the whole month. Yes, it is a one month long event. Below you can find a table that enlists all the activities throughout the whole FAS month. Click to enlarge.

I hope to see all of you there. Do come and support us.

Blogged by,

Melvin Lim

IT Officer

-We serve voluntarily

Semester 2 2010 Updates

Hi everyone,

I hope you have a great time enjoying your holidays or catching up with your well deserved sleep! First and foremost, i would like to welcome the new batch of students, foundation or degree to Curtin University Miri . May you have a fun time here making new friends and memories.

With that aside i would like to bring you to the attention of four important matters this semester.

1. Registration Booth

For those interested to join VAD-57 , there would be a booth at the cafeteria to register from this week till end of next week(6th August 2010).

If the booth is unavailable, feel free to check out the Red Crescent VAD-57 office next to the GK mini supermarket. Feel free to find out more of our activities from our friendly commitee and volunteers.

2. General Meeting

Call all members , old and new, or even aspiring ones to come next week , Saturday, 7th August 2010 for the General Meeting .

Time and Venue will be announced soon. But just mark your calendars!


3. FAS month

First Aid Safety(FAS) month is coming your way this September. We have activities line up for whole of Curtin and we need volunteers and participants. Do check out this event and help us out! It's a huge event!

4. Basic First Aid Course

The knowledge of First Aid is very important especially for critical moments. If you're interested to learn and be tested on First Aid, here are the details.

Date: 28 August 2010, Saturday (Course)

29 August 2010, Sunday (Exam)

Time: 8.00am-6.00pm

Venue: Malaysians Red Crescent Miri Chapter – Training Room

Instructor: Mr. Vincent Sim

For this course , a deposit of RM 10 is needed to ensure that all participants fully attend it. Absentees on either day or both would not be refunded at all cost. The course is free but the deposit is required so that full attendance is achievable.

- You will also need 2 passport sized photos

- Fill up a registration form either from the booth or the office

-Whether transportation is needed to the MRC Miri Training Room

Do come and join us in our activities ! Have a great semester and watch out for updates.

Posted by,

Anders Cheng

IT Officer

SO here are the long awaited photo vomit. Not much, but most of it are already on Facebook. Here are a sneak peak of the photos during the LEAD The S.H.I.P camp. More photos may be uploaded later if i can source more



The stage where participants have to gather daily in front of it



Participants doing some work





Some Activities in the hall








More group activities. Everyone were hardworking!




Mock Exercise in wee early hours of morn.




Closing Ceremony



Group Photo. AWWWWWWWW




Prize Giving







Farewell


That's all updates for now. Anyway, if you are a participant of this camp, you have Facebook
, and you have plenty of photos to share. Feel free to share it on our Facebook group, Malaysian Red Crescent VAD-57. Who knows, we may even publish your photos in this blog.

Kudos to everyone for the ending of this semester and hope to see you all again in next year's camp.

Signing off~
Anders Cheng
IT Officer

What has been going on with MRC?

Hello there members and readers. First and foremost, sorry for the lack of updates. Assignments, mid term examinations and sleepless nights seem to be catching up on each and every one of us. Everyone is running around mad but nevertheless, we still manage to find time to have fellowship with each other in our VAD office. Keep up the good spirit guys!

Anyways, we have just completed our this year's very nautical-themed VAD and Youth Camp, last last weekend. The theme this year is : Lead the S.H.I.P.. Pretty catchy huh? It was a blast and a success. Participants have had fun with the activities organised for them, and this year they were quite sporting. The committees also have had as much fun, although all of us lack sleep. There are the dreaded mornings of the camp where we hated getting up early, but we did. Everyone was dead tired after the camp. For me, I hit the pillows once I reached home and slept till the next morning.

Special Mention: Kudos to MARCO for not sleeping at all for the two whole nights! I do not know how he manages to do that, but he did! He was our alarm clock and our security guard for the two nights.

Special thanks to all the committees, fascilitators and helpers for their hard work before, after and during the camp. Without you all, this camp will definitely be a flop.


Picture vomit will be soon, once I get the photos ready. This is just a short update for the mean time.

Oh ya, just a short look on the upcoming programmes.

Site Visit to the Bomba
FAS Month
Boat Handling
In House Gathering


As this semester is slowly coming to an end, I hope everyone has their eyes glued onto their books for the finals.

Members, hope to see more of you at our next activity.

Good luck studying everyone. And also, visit our office if you have the time. Even it is just to say hi. :)


Regards,

Melvin Lim
IT Officer
MRC VAD#57

Lokking for Ship, Lets Lead the S.H.I.P

VAD & Youth Camp 2010

Below are the details of the event:

Date : 30 April 2010(Friday-7pm) – 2 May 2010(Sunday)
Venue : MRC Miri Chapter, Lot 312, Lorong 1, Jalan Bulan Sabit, Miri, Sarawak
Theme: Lead the S.H.I.P (Strength, Humanity, Independence & Passion)
Participants:Curtin Students, VAD units and Youth

      The goals of VAD & Youth Camp 2010 are to train participants to be independent and able to work as a team to face any obstacles in their future. Through the camp we hope to help the participants to enhance their first aid knowledge, leadership and problem solving skills. In addition to that, this camp will stress the 7 Principles of Red Cross & Red Crescent and complement training program organised by Malaysian Red Crescent Miri Chapter Training Sub-committee.

Any inquiry, free to contact Mr. Chin Pin Rui (016-840 6140) or Mr. Sham Zhen Dong (0169872692). or emailed to red.crescent@curtin.edu.my / curtinrc@gmail.com.

 

So why wait? Register NOW!

[Registration is CLOSED at 16 April 2010 (coming Friday)]

"We serve voluntarily"

Posted By

Sam Sham

Vice Commandant

General Meeting and First aider in every home

Pictures speaks louder than words. Here are the pictures of the fun activities done during the past month.












We celebrated Debbie's Birthday during the general meeting!

























The Food
























CPR demonstrating Look, Listen, and Feel. Am i right?









Teaching in progress. Everyone was attentive
















Group pic!


















Residence Assistances. Fear not for those staying in Curtin Accomodations. You have help!






























Practising CPR

















The kiss of life
























































































Even lecturers are willing to learn!