It's Time to Move On

Everyone will be busy celebrating the coming new year ~ Lots of them will be excited, happy, overjoy that 2015 is finally coming to an end soon. 
To be honest, I don't feel happy ending the year of 2015. There are a lot of ups and downs that happen to me this year. I have a lot of regrets on the things that I did not accomplished and at the same time I know I have to move forward and continuously to improve myself in the coming year. 

There are few things that I promise myself to do in the year of 2016:

1) Spend more quality time with my family. 
I know I have not been really spending time with my beloved family especially that I am now in Semenyih studying and my house is not really far (an hour and 30 min ride will do). I promised that I will fork out some time no matter what because I know all of you are really worry and care for me. 
I love you all mum, dad, grandparents and cousins. 

2) Spending time with my beloved. 
Same time goes to my beloved. We rarely see each other and things won't be good without your full support to me all the time until now. The journey is hard but let's do this together. 

3) Have a healthy lifestyle. 
I am starting to get use to the lifestyle without junk food and fast food. Things are going slow but it's not bad for me. I will take in more vegetables, fruits and exercise more to live longer for myself and people around me. 

Life is short and we are always thinking on how can we earn more money or gain more happiness? I realise something today. To me the warmth from the people I love and care are really important to me and I will always remember that I am full time human and a part time student. Studying in university will not be a reason that I am going to use to avoid meaningful conversation with my beloved and of course spending more quality time with them. I cried and cried if I were to think about someday the people that I care the most are going to leave me but I know this is life and I have to deal with it. Nevertheless, I am going to appreciate what I have now and be a better version of myself and not the perfect me which are not going to exist in this world. 

It has been a memorable one and yet a lot of lesson learnt as a human. 
Thank you for giving me this opportunities to learn and be a better version of myself. 

Signing off for the year of 2015. 

See yea in 2016. 
Lots of love, 
Peg. 

An Unforgettable Journey to India 2015

In this post, I am going to take this opportunity to blog about my experiences and journey in India 2015. I tried to search for more information about Malaysian travelling to India few months back and to my surprise it is very hard for me to find any blog entry or post about India on the net. Hence, I made a promise to myself that I am going to blog about it once I am back to my nation, Malaysia. 

It's really fortunate that I am able to flew to India this year to participate in AIESEC Global Citizen Programme. I flew to New Delhi, India on the 12th July 2015 via Malaysia Airlines. The flight to Delhi from Kuala Lumpur International Airport takes about 5 hour and 30 minutes. Basically I slept all the time in the flight as it's a morning flight and I did not manage to get a a lot of rest on the night before. As soon as I landed at Delhi airport, I gotten myself a sim card at the airport. It is very sad that they charge a lot for the foreigner >.< I have to pay about 2200 Rupees (~ to 33 USD) for a local sim card with 2 GB of internet data. I insisted to get a local sim card to ease my communication purpose in India and instant internet access in India. I went out from airport and I am happy to meet another of my friend from Brazil Luísa Fancelli.  She is one of the wonderful friend and partner that I made throughout my journey in India. We took a taxi from the airport to our accommodation in Kishangarh. I had a culture shock on the way to the accommodation looking at the street. I am surprised that Indian drove without following the rules and there is a honking culture all the time on the street. I could not get use to it at first but after that it seems pretty normal to me (although I still find it annoying some time). The honking culture does not apply in Delhi. It is pretty much the same everywhere around India to see this honking culture and you just have to get use to it.

Throughout this journey, I made a lot of new friends from different country, regions and parts of the world. Throughout this journey, I met amazing people from Egypt, Brazil, Mainland of China, Taiwan, Portugal, Mexico, Vietnam, Indonesia, Latvia, Pakistan and many more. I feel amazed that all of us can interact with each another although there is a huge gap of cultural difference. Arguments and conflicts happen sometimes but I believe all of this can be resolve as long we understand each another.

Throughout this summer, I had chosen to work in a local NGO called CanKids KidsCan. CanKids KidsCan is a registered charitable National Society working to make a change for Childhood Cancer in India. It aims to identify and bridge the gaps to ensure best treatment, care and support to children with cancer, provide economic support to children who are lack of money, provide emotional and psychological support from diagnosis, and giving informal education to keep children in the habit of learning.

In a team of 4-5 people, we carried out the annual summer camp at the NGO. The summer camp was successful despite facing numerous challenges as the kids need to be at the hospital for treatment according to their schedule. However, this does not stop us from proceeding with the summer camp with the rest of the children who are in the shelter house or NGO.

The activities carried out during the summer camp at CanKids were :

1) Craft activities with the children 

- We made decoration items such as fishes, birds, fans and decoration items from recycled materials. These items are now been used as decoration in CanKids Shelter House (Home Away From Home)

2) Games activities with the children at the shelter house and hospital while waiting for treatment.

   

3) Sandwich Day.

4) Fundraising by making Diwali cards for charity purposes in CanKids.

5) Outing at Deer Park by playing some outdoor games and simple exercises.

 

6) An educational visit with the children to The National Railway Museum.

7) Dessert day. We made one famous Brazilian Sweet named Brigadeiro.

8) Poem day.

9) English learning activities.

10) Fund Raising - Fund raising was done among the project mates. We wanted to donate some of the educational toys & books to the children the shelter house before the project ends.

(The books & toys purchased for the shelter house!)

(Me and the rest of the team mates who are volunteering in CanKids as well)

Throughout this summer camp, my biggest key learning is I learned to be more responsible. Me and my team have to discuss everyday during the weekday to come out with a proper planning on what activities to be carry out so that it will not a mess by the day. 

I also learned to be more independent while volunteering in CanKids as we have to travel on our own by public transport and not relying on others. I am also more appreciative to people around me. 

I learned the values of community service and the social impact created during the summer camp. Although the kids are diagnosed with cancer, the kids and their parents are strong and does not gives up in their life. I will continue to join volunteering program in the near future again.

Besides doing the work, I also took some day off to explore some beautiful places in India such as Manali, Agra and Varanasi and the main tourist attraction in Delhi~ We mainly went travelling during the weekend which project is not carried out at that time.

(Me and my team mates at Manali)

 (It's really nice to be able to travel to Varanasi and witness the Ganges River in front of you, Definitely worth going while you are in India!)

(Me and the rest of the exchange participants at Taj Mahal, Agra one of the 7 wonders of the world~)

It's really worthwhile to visit India at least once in your life and I am sure you will not regret it. There might be a huge culture shock when you visit India but this experience is definitely worth trying for! I did not regret to visit India this year and it had been the best memory for me so far. If you have the chance, take a brave step to go out from your comfort zone and experience the journey that you will not regret in your life! All the best :)

I managed to create a short summary of my journey in India. You can have a look at it~ :)

♥ July ♥

It's already July in a blink of eyes. I am done with summer community placement classes and volunteered in the respective places as well. I will be planning for my trip to India next week and Japan on the August. 
I will be busy packing my stuffs this few days as NatCon 2015 will be starting next week Wednesday onwards. 
I will be blogging about my exchange in India soon! 
Stay tune for more updates. 
That's all from me now.
- Peggy-

Prom Night 2015

I am experiencing a very hectic and busy week for the past few weeks. 

Community pharmacy placement, hospital placement, AIESEC Global Citizen Program recruitment, OCR, revisions, exams, elections, BFI modules and now the preparation for the upcoming PharmNotts Prom Night 2015 which will be held on the 11 April 2015 at Impiana Hotel KLCC. 

We are carrying out the fundraising at the moment and hopefully everything will be smooth in the end. A lot of challenges and obstacles happen during the process - securing the venue for the prom, food budget, transportation, performances, emcees. I feel really happy that I still have my beloved organising committee team with me to carry out all the important task. 

Lets make this happen and all the best everyone! 

Will be uploading the outcome of the prom night soon. 

PS: Earth Hour is coming soon! Please do remember to support the Earth hour and conserve energy more ! This is our beloved earth. 

Lots of love, 

Peggy xoxo. 

Random Updates in 2015 + AIESEC MyLDS 2015

Times flies so fast. With a blink of eye it's already the second month of the year. I have been attending class for about a week now and it's already pack with lab reports, events, upcoming test right after Chinese New Year break, and club activities. I always wish I have more time hahahahahahaha.... 

I did not go out and purchase any new year clothes this year. Am just going to wear back some of the clothing that I bought few years back. I still have some new clothes that had not been wore even once. 

I am planning my upcoming summer break now. I want to have a meaningful summer this year. And of course, I want to join AIESEC Global Citizen Program to complete part of my AIESEC journey. I must join this program in order to understand what does AIESEC hope to deliver to the youth out there. This is part of my wish to understand the world more too. 

I will not be able to spend new year holiday with my brother this year since he's still in UK right now. 

Besides AIESEC Global Citizen Program, I also want to plan the rest of my summer break. I want to go for a month placement to increase my experience in Pharmacy field. I will try my best to secure at least one month summer placement. I also plan to go to the States for about 2-3 weeks to explore the other side of the world. Let's see how is everything goes on for now. 

I also wish to purchase a new laptop. My old PC spoiled :( It's been 5 years old. I still find it usable but the motherboard spoiled and it simply require at least RM 600 to repair it. I will try to send it to other shop to replace the motherboard or wait for a more suitable time to purchase a new laptop. 

Everything is about MONEY. I need MORE MONEY. If I have more time, I do really want to get a part time job :( 

Please do help me hahahahaha... 

Just to update here, I had completed my first facilitating experience in AIESEC MYLDS 2015 as Facilitator for EP Track. It is indeed challenging at the same time rewarding since I gained so much experience and knowledge from the delegates, chair and the rest of the facilitators. It is really nice to share knowledge and opinions with other people. I am glad to be part of the team. It's really nice to be able to my weakness and leverage on my strength more now. Thank you my team for everything (you know who you are). I will remember everything that we had shared during the conference! :) 

I also get to learned a lot of new people. It is really nice to see how people changed to continue developing themselves. It's just simply amazing. 

The 2 picture above is the official photo that we took from the conference. Thank you for this great and amazing experience :) 

(My F1 Team members - Kristy, Elwin, Rami, Anngie, Szyuin and Alaa (the chair), unfortunately he is not in this picture hahahaha :D *** I shall crop his picture inside someday***

I think's for now. I am going to sleep soon! 

Good Night. Lots of love XOXO. 

World Peace. 

~Peggy Chai~