orientation picnic~

small note: priates or ninjas, which is better?

wohoo~ the 1st activity report in rushi blogspot! we have move to the technology era with the rest of the world! isn't it great! haha.

last saturday, 13/3/10 march, was the 2nd orientation picnic organised by me (and few other committee members as well). It was held at the botanic gardens along north terrace, and it began at 9.20 in the morning with the arrival of activities coordinators to prepare the activities for the morning. as other committee members, members and friends arrive, the morning kicked off with a welcoming speech from our dear president, HY. and also the introduction of all committee members. with all introduction done, its time for the 1st activity~

the 1st activity's purpose is to blind, dumb and paralysed split everyone into groups and get everyone to work together. groups are named after sunflower, rose, orchid and lily. all group members performed beyond the expectation of all activity coordinators and they manage to group up very fast, although there is a poor blinded person being 'adopted' into other groups as group of their own had forgotten about them. anyway, all's well at the end and all members ended up with their own group.

while waiting for the 2nd activity, all members got to introduce themselves in their groups and the some promotion from our sponsors (rushi youth group). after lots of activities and events being explained, and also the promotion of the blogspot, 'colors of vesak', friday dharma classes, moon cake festival and all, the guy talking in front(me) received a phone call which tells him that the 2nd activity ready to go!!! isn't it exciting??

the 2nd activity covers about 50% of the botanic gardens where it involves all group members to look for playing cards which are scattered all over the designated area. the key point is, only the group leader can pick the cards up and other group members can only point and show where the cards are. after 20 minutes of card collecting, all members are being scored on types of cards being collected and also have to performed a few task designated by us the activity coordinators =) scores are given base on how successful the task are completed. i was pretty surprised that we have manage to collect back 144 cards out of 168.

the 2nd activity ended with a few comical acts from a few talented people, with some laughs and some brain twisting questions, and the winner was announce!! while other committee members were preparing lunch, our venerable master gave a short speech which has everyone there enlighten (dharma point +1 =P). everyone then had fried rice, sour & spicy vegetable salad (i made the name up) and sandwiches for lunch. all these are being prepared by committee members. i personally like the egg sandwiches the most!

the whole event ended at approximately 1 p.m. i like to personally thank everyone for your presence on the saturday morning. i had lots of fun talking to you guys and hope you guys had fun as much as i do =) i hope we had not frightened anyone with our crazy out going personality, and i (and all other committee members) will love to see everyone on the coming friday dharma classes! like i said, we are a youth group organised by youths for youths =P (and yes, sumin, you are still a youth!). special thanks to other committee members that help to make this event a success! =)

cheers
wenqi~~