E-BULLETIN

LEO CLUB OF TCSH

GREATER HEIGHTS
ISSUE 1 OF FISCAL YEAR 2016-17

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The Haunted
House was a fundraiser event
for the Malaysian Association for
the Blind (MAB) in conjunction
with the Lions Centennial Service
Challenge for this month which is
“Sharing the Vision”. The Haunt-
ed House idea was based on the
Halloween month of October as
a fun and exciting way to attract
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Date: November 1, 2016
Time: 4:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 1.10, Taylor's
college sri hartamas
Beneficiary: Malaysian
Association for the blind

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students to celebrate the night
of horror with the club and at the
Amount Raised: RM500
same time contribute to charity.
 There were 28 committee members
excluding the organising chairpersons
who contributed their time, energy, effort
and dedication to make this event as suc-
cessful as possible. A huge amount of grat-
itude also to the supervising teachers Mr
Haizam, Mr Lee Chee Wei, Ms Roha and
Ms Sujata who were the main reason that
this event got the green light from ECA.
Words will never be able to describe how
thankful we are also to our Sponsoring
Lions Club for the sponsorship of RM150
which motivated us to make this event a
success.
Ghost Tamer Leo Nicole, organising chairperson and
person-in-charge of training and co-ordinating the ghosts.
To ensure the event is carried out
smoothly, the work load was shared among
committee members by dividing every-
one into different departments includ-
ing ghosts crew, decorations and props
crew, extra sales crew (food and games),
person-in-charge of ticket booth, logis-
tics crew, safety crew, music and lighting
crew, make-up crew and photographers.
The creative directors did an amazing job
designing the poster and tickets for the
event. The ghosts crew trained with Nicole
to prep themselves to give the participants
who supported us a “good” time in the
haunted house. Besides, the decorations
and props crew went shopping for the nec-
essary props and were largely involved in
setting up the haunted house maze, for
example, attaching the black plastic bags
together and taping it to the ceiling to cre-
ate an artificial wall in order to create a
maze in which people should follow the
path built. They were also involved in dec-
orating the entrance and signage through-
out the haunted house maze. Extra sales
crew played an important role in boost-
ing our Leo Club funds by selling food and
hosting a mini ‘blindfold maze’ game out-
side the classroom where the haunted
house was being held. They did a great job
Tangled and Lost Blinded participants navigate through
a maze with instructions from their sighted partners
as our finger food catered by Mercato, the
supermarket in Hartamas Shopping Cen-
tre, was selling like hot cakes. Although
the mini game didn’t receive much atten-
tion, it was a great chance for the Leos
to raise awareness about vision to those
who played the game. Logistics crew kept
the situation inside and outside the haunt-
ed house in control and they ensured that
everything ran smoothly. Safety crew
made sure no one gets injured, be it com-
mittee members or participants, make-
up crew looked up scary make-up ideas
and did a total horrifying make-over for
the ghosts and last but not least, music
and lighting crew were successful in their
attempt of scaring the participants by their
creepy film and the eerie music that was
playing throughout the haunted house.
Early bird tickets were priced at
RM10 per person and RM50 for a group
of 5. Normal tickets were priced at RM15
per person and RM60 for a group of 5. All
committee members were flexibly sched-
uled to duty at least once at the tick- Survivors Participants who passed the challenges posing
et booth every week for 3 weeks before for a photo at the photo booth.
the event. Our target was 50 participants
and we only had 41 people who paid for
their tickets before the event. However,
after putting up the props and designing
the entrance of the haunted house, we
received a surprising increase up to 61
participants going to our haunted house.
Profit from the ticket sales was RM500
which will be donated to charity whereas
profit from the extra sales will go to the
Leo Club funds for future projects.
Overall, the event was a success Snacks Some of the finger food sold to the school com-
munity who supported the event.
as we received many good reviews from
the participants, we hit more than our
target participants, those who played the
‘blindfold maze’ game realized the impor-
tance of vision and the planning process-
es and distributing the task were fairly
easy as everyone was fully cooperative
and committed to the project. Howev-
er, there were a few challenges such as
last minute change of classroom (from
1.17 to 1.10) caused a hurry to come up
with a new route design for the haunted
house, sound system difficulties, difficulty
Aftermath Organising committee removing the plastic
in finding cheap cloth to make the “walls”
sheets from the ceiling.
of the haunted house, limited space due
to small classroom size, difficulty in find-
ing asylum-themed outfits for the ghosts
and slow ticket sales. Nevertheless, with
the help from all the committee members,
all the problems were overcome.
By: Leo Tarane Subramaniam, OC
SMILING TUMMIES OC: LEO TENG CHENG FATT Cooking together
Smiling Tummies is a project that was resurrected in July 2015 after months of inactivity
due to lack of participation. It is a collaborative project between LEO Club TCSH and volunteers
at the Buddhist Maha Vihara Temple in Brickfields. This project originated from “Cooking for The
Needy”, which is a soup kitchen project held on Sundays in the temple. The Leo Club of TCSH has
agreed to collaborate and send a consistent amount of 12-15 volunteers to help out on the first
week’s Sunday of every month.
The objective of this project is to cater a simple meal of 3 dishes and rice to approximately
250 needy individuals. They includ e orphans and old folks from Trinity Home and Charis Home,
as well as the homeless in Kota Raya. We wish to provide them a warm and hearty meal for the
night, which befits the name of our project, “Smiling Tummies”, that aims to satiate their hungers
and to hopefully brighten their nights.
In every Smiling Tummies’ session, we will divide ourselves into 3 groups that handle the
washing, cutting and cooking respectively. The dishes vary from session to session, but we usu-
ally prepare eggs and vegetables. We will gather at the kitchen in the afternoon. After acquiring
the utensils, we’ll start by first cooking the rice and washing the vegetables. When cooking, we
are required to follow the instructions given by the “chef of the day” who will be appointed by the
organisation. After we have washed the utensils and cleaned the kitchen, we will queue up in two
rows to pack the food in plastic containers and bags to be transported by the organisations to their
respective locations. However, due to security concerns our volunteers are not involved in the
process of distributing the food.
So far, we have managed to volunteer every month owing to our members’ endless support
and enthusiasm and we hope to maintain this spirit in the future. Despite being a simple activity, it
is also a different kind of exposure to us, who are fortunate enough to have food on the table ev-
ery night. Through this project, we are made aware of the societal issues and inequalities present
as a team!
today. More importantly, it reminds us to treasure every meal, to be appreciative and grateful for
what we have in life without taking things for granted.
Volunteers engaging in an interactive tutoring session

Cheng Fatt, a volunteer, engaging

in basic conversation with his tutee.

AGATHIANS TUTORING
OC: LEO NICOLE TAN ZHIQING
This is an on-going project organized by the LEO Club of Taylor’s College Sri Hartamas, assisting 4
kids from the Agathians Home in their studies, specifically in English and Mathematics. This project
has helped to improve the tutees’ attitudes towards studying by instilling positive-thinking and a
growth mindset. For the 1st half of the 2016-2017 fiscal year, this project has been supported by
volunteers from the IBDP and CAL programmes. We have been trying to arrange weekly visits to
the home to guide them in their studies.

Our illustrious achievements this year have been making the kids becoming more focused in class,
developing their interest in arts and craft, and shaping their character towards a positive direction.
The volunteers had put in great amount of effort, applying and sharing their knowledge that they
had acquired to the kids.

“The kids are great and cheerful once you get to know them. They open up to you once they trust
you. They can be really funny and playful at times. They are the nicest kids with great personality.
They are eager to learn when we make the teaching more interactive,” said the project manager
of the previous fiscal year.

Activities we carried out in the class includes teaching the kids spelling, pronunciation and basic
mathematical concepts. Also, during tutoring sessions, our tutors try to incorporate interactive
games such as crossword puzzles, origami and drawing sessions for the kids to keep them engaged.

As the project manager myself, I have personally observed the progress of the kids since the
first time we met in July. Visagan, a considerably smart boy who is also cheeky and playful, was
able to sit still in class patiently learning by the end of September. On the other hand, Thavinesh,
a quiet boy at first, showed impressive courage in class by speaking up among his study mates
after a while. Seeing their excellent progression in this short amount of time had definitely been a Nicole, Organising Chairperson of this event, A tutee solving problems on the board
heartwarming and rewarding moment to me. demonstrating drawing techniques.
 SECRET SANTA OC: LEO EMELYN TAN SHU FANG
The Secret Santa project was organized by the Leo Club of TCSH and carried
out throughout the month of November. 60 wish lists were obtained from YMCA, in
which orphans and children with special needs had written their Christmas wishes.
Most wish lists contained requests that were easier to fulfill such as beads and dolls,
but some ventured into pricier items such as Nike shoes. Either way, generous stu-
dents and lecturers pooled their resources, managing to fulfill all 60 of the wish lists.
The Secret Santa project has been a tradition of sorts for the Leo Club of
TCSH. The seniors of previous years have carried out successful Secret Santa proj-
ects in years past as well, bringing joy, laughter and spreading goodwill to the com-
munity. The entire purpose of the project is to spread the joy of giving, with the
tremendous benefit of making a child’s Christmas wish come true. Christmas is,
after all, truly about spreading the joy of giving. The heartfelt values of Christmas
were truly demonstrated by the lecturers, students, and all participants of the proj-
ect. They selflessly gave up time and money in the hopes of bringing smiles onto the
children’s faces.
The project this year varied slightly compared to previous years. Essential-
ly, approval for the event was only able to be obtained in late November or early
December. As the collection of the wish lists needed to be wrapped up (no pun
intended) by the end of November, we were unable to set up a large Christmas tree
attached with the wish lists on the first floor of the college campus as per tradition.
Instead, the wish lists were handed out and distributed to the public through word
of mouth. Even with less publicity surrounding the event compared with previous
years, the wish lists were handed out with almost no trouble at all.
Despite the minor setbacks, the Leo Club of TCSH managed to pull through.
YMCA received 60 wish cards attached to all sorts of gifts ranging from badminton
racquets to fridge magnets. I’m proud to say the Secret Santa project of 2016 was
an enormous success, made evident by the beaming smiles of the cards’ recipi-
ents!
 Recycle for a BIG Change!
"It was not until we saw the picture of the earth,
from the moon, that we realized how small and
how helpless this planet is, something that we
must hold in our arms and care for."- Margaret
Mead, Famous anthropologist, also an advocate
of environmental conservation.
The preservation and the conservation of the
environment for a sustainable lifestyle is so often
discussed at length, but yet so seldom practiced.
The need for protecting the environment is evi-
dent, but we seemed to have never learnt from
the devastating ramifications of our mistakes.
The sudden extinction of the enigmatic Costa
Rican Golden toad, which is cherished for its strik-
ing appearance and unique behaviour, was due
to habitat loss caused by rise of global sea tem-
perature. This seemingly imperceptible change,
in addition to ocean acidification, has also eroded
coral reefs around the world, even the Great Bar-
rier Reef faster than they could recover. Further-
more, we are ripping the world bare of its origi-
A plea to protect the environment
nal forest landscape as we chop down 15 billion
trees each year, causing the global tree count to
fall by 46% since the dawn of human civilization.
All these and much more we have took from the
defenceless nature, yet why we have given back
so little?
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief
that someone else will save it", said Robert Swan,
an adventurer and environmentalist who has
dedicated his life to preserve Antarctica. Indeed,
nothing will change if it's always someone else’s
responsibility. One individual's participation, one
plastic bottle, one good deed at a time, if it's done
persistently, that's what works magic.
The greatest threat to our
planet is the belief that
someone else will save it.
Robert Swan, Enviromentalist
Our ignorance has blinded us from the destruc-
tion we are causing to the environment. Try asking
yourself, how often do you actually did something
concerning the environment? When's the last
time you gave a thought about climate change?
When's the last time you recycled? Or when the
last time you payed attention to environment re-
lated news? And you might realize it's not so often
that we care about the environment than we ac-
tually should. If we take into view the big picture,
it will be clear that environmental conservation is
a necessary effort. There's more reason to con-
serve the environment than there's to justify our
destructive development, but we have chosen to
ignore and not to care about. The nature is in ur-
gent need of conservation. We are close to total-
ly wrecking the nature's very few left wilderness.
And we have to realize that the nature is truly at
our mercy. We tend to take all we want from the
nature and throw all that we don't need back to
it. That itself is irresponsible and immature when
we are capable of building skyscrapers and send
man to the moon. The act of disposing responsi-
bly we should be more than able to manage well.
We should remorse, rethink and change our indif-
ferent behavior.
We have to stop looking at waste as rubbish
nor a burden. It only make us ignorant and dis-
pose them just to get rid of it. It should be seen
as commodity that we have responsibility on, as
it can have significant impact on environment.
Moreover, it should be seen as a post-consumer
byproduct as valuable as new material, it was nev-
er a rubbish. To throw away all these materials,
it’s simply a waste. An idea fully embraced by Tom
Szaky, the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a com-
pany that makes consumer products from waste,
also a leader in eco-capitalism and upcycling.
Next time before you throw away any recyclables,
for example, a plastic bottle, remember you are
not throwing away a rubbish, but something else
entirely new and usable, in the case of plastic bot-
tles, a cool new T-shirt. Yup, it takes only about
10 plastic bottles to provide enough plastic fiber
to make a football jersey! In fact, all Nike jerseys
worn during the 2010 Fifa World Cup were made
this way, which diverted nearly 13 million plastic
bottles from the landfills - enough to cover more
than 29 football pitches! Recycling is the way to
go!
Recycling is no doubt the simplest and most
practiced way to conserve the environment, and
it is truly ingenious in a sense that it's simple
but the impact it has is overall and tremendous.
Managing our waste effectively contributes to a
cleaner but also a healthier environment as it re-
duces garbage and the production of greenhouse
gases like methane from waste decomposition.
Ever heard of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
It is a collection of marine debris, mainly plastic,
in the North Pacific Ocean stretching miles after
miles into the horizon, Floating like flecks of pep-
per floating throughout a bowl of soup. Debris
that damages local marine ecosystem and easily
ingested by marine species causing choking, star-
vation, and other impairments. And that is just
one of many garbage patches. Think twice before
throwing that piece of plastic in your hand into the
rubbish bins next time, make a difference, recycle
it. Recycling also reduces the pollution of nasty
chemicals from production using virgin resourc-
es. In the case of the production of plastic, which
is a process that releases toxic waste such as the
carcinogen vinyl chloride and Bisphenol A(BPA),
which is linked to birth defects in infants In fact,
more than 90% of human population worldwide,
potentially you and me, have BPA in their bodies
right now, as result of BPA present in our food
chain. Plastic is not natural, it’s designed to be
convenient but destined to be toxic from produc-
tion to post-consumption. We must seek to refuse
plastic consumption whenever possible and make
it a 4R practice, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Re-
cycle. Recycling helps, but only by eschewing it
that can we totally avoid these ill-effects. Don’t
request for a plastic bag, but only to carry a hand-
ful of things and dispose of it shortly, remember,
it might end up sitting in the ocean forever. Most
commonly used plastic never degrade, they just
gets break down physically into smaller and small-
er pieces, called microplastic, still there in the
ocean, just not visible. Adding to that, recycling
reduces energy consumptions and carbon emis-
sions as compared to manufacture using raw ma-
terial as well as reducing the exploitation of earth
resources. For example, the strip-mining process
of Aluminum excavation removes all native vege-
tation in the mining region, resulting in a loss of
habitat and food for local wildlife as well as sig-
nificant soil erosion, which could lead to desert-
ification. The entire process of transforming raw
bauxite into aluminum is also incredibly energy in-
tensive, that’s the main reason why power plants
are built solely to support the aluminum industry.
Compared to producing virgin aluminum from raw
bauxite, recycling old aluminum consumes just
5% of the energy and releases a mere 5% of the
greenhouse gases. In fact, recycling just 1 Alu-
minum can, would save enough energy to power
a television for 3 hours. 1 recycled glass bottle
will save enough energy to power a computer for
25 minutes. 1 recycled plastic bottle would save
enough energy to power a light bulb for 3 hours.
Each ton or one thousand kilograms of recycled
paper can save 17 trees, 1400 liters of oil, 2.3 cu-
bic meters of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of en-
ergy, and 26500 liters of water. This represents
a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and
27 kilograms less of air pollution! Honestly, where
else could you hit so many birds with only just one
stone?
And remember, "Waste not the smallest thing
created, for grains of sands make mountains."-E.
Knight. The key to recycling is every single recy-
clable counts just as everyone's effort counts.
Again its only secret lies within the power of ac-
cumulation, collectivity. The grand power of all
great things, as the infinite universe is built from
minute atoms, great achievements are the result
of countless small efforts.
Waste not the smallest thing
created, for grains of
sands make mountains
E. Knight, Actor
The revival of The Recycling Brigade is initiated
to serve a few purposes. Firstly to let us all do
our rightful part as responsible consumer and du-
tiful earthlings, to dispose the waste we created
responsibly. So they don't end up as sitting un-
derneath our soil or floating on our ocean. Our
Brigade also helps to ensure our environment is
clear of "valuable waste". What's more importantly
it’s an education in action. Hands on environment
conservation is a good way to help us realize the
need to conserve the environment, develop com-
passion for nature, provoke thoughts and curios-
ity to care for the environment. Volunteers also
learn to be compassionate through this activity
as they actively engage with pressing issues of
the 21st century. Compassion is also as essential
as any soft skill in the modern society. The world
nowadays needs compassionate people as much
as it does knowledgeable individuals. People who
care for and protect the helpless and fragile are
whom who make the world a better place.
The Recycling Brigade is a volunteer program
open for anyone who have the heart and passion
to care for the environment by recycling. The Bri-
gade was initiated by our former vice principal,
Ms. Lauren at year 2014. After she left her posi-
tion the Brigade became more and more inactive
as time pass. It's finally revived on August of 2016
and it's currently under the Environment Branch
of Taylor's LEO club, to ensure its longevity and
let us have the chance to serve the environment
on a day to day basis.
Since its reestablishment, Recycling brigade
has successfully recycled hundreds of bottles,
cans and pop tabs as well as paper products with
the help of fellow passionate volunteers. We go
around the campus to look for recyclables sitting
around, not disposed responsibly, in the trash, on
the table or in the classrooms. We hunt for these
valuable recyclables every school day. It's not a
lonely duty as volunteers are accompanied by
friends, the more the merrier! With 3 volunteers,
we can salvage recyclable waste from all three
floors within 30 to 45 minutes. They are then sent
to collection centres to be recycled. Gloves and
collection bags are provided to the volunteers. It's
truly so convenient, just bring a passionate heart,
30 minutes a day and you can save the environ-
ment too!
Sorting The trash is sorted before placed into their
respective boxes to be sent for collection.
It's also a volunteer program that require no
commitment or forced work, because we believe
if we truly have the heart to care for environment
no effort need to be forced. And that only willing
volunteer have the commitment to do a good job.
So it's all up to you when you feel like doing our
Mother Nature some good! During our volunteer
we try to save as many recyclable as we possibly
can. We believe in the power of accumulation, we
do our best to collect as many as we can so that
no bottles or cans is to be left behind.
Harvest A typical day's collection on one of the 3 floors
of the school.
Many would think that the Brigade is a boring
and dirty job that doesn't benefits oneself. That it-
self is just an indifferent and narrow-minded point
of view of our motion. It's definitely not a boring
duty if your intention is to help to conserve the na-
ture neither is it dirty as proper gloves is always
provided. We are one of the very few environmen-
tal conservation volunteer activity you can partic-
ipate in. And it's one of the very few meaningful
things you can do at our campus, an opportunity
we should take pride to participate!
It's been some great effort done this past few
months, our volunteers have recycled every
school day without fail. On average everyday we
manage to recycle about 15 to 20 cans and 25 bot-
tles, as we search through the floors, the class-
rooms, the library and the rubbish bins.
Throughout this project, we have found blank
sheets of paper, unfinished bottles of water and
other rubbish in the recycling bins and class-
rooms. There are also instances of recyclables
being placed in the wrong bins. This indicates that
some students still lack the awareness of the need
to dispose waste wisely, responsibly and correct-
ly. The indifferent attitude is to be addressed and
improved.
A big thank you to all the volunteers who chipped
in to protect our environment. Rest assured that
the world is a few hundred cans and bottles less
dirty thanks to your tireless effort. Keep up the
good work! However, volunteers should be more
dedicated and more enthusiastic instead of view-
ing it as a burdensome chore. It only counts if you
accept this mantle in earnest. Remember that the
gloves you strap on every activity represents your
acceptance of the oft-forgotten responsibility to
be a guardian of our fragile world. Treat it with
dignity.

The activity itself could also be improved. For

example, awarding certificates to volunteers who
served with passion and made contribution, im-
prove awareness among students and getting
more volunteers to keep recycling a persistent ef-
fort. Any improvement and constructive sugges-
tions are also welcomed to improve the Brigade.

We are the generation to soon lead the world,

and we have to be the generation to start caring Salvage Volunteers Jason and Natalie hard at work
for the environment or we might be the last gen- sorting through recyclables that were careless thrown into
eration to witness the beauty of unpolluted ocean rubbish bins for non-recyclable waste.
and clear blue sky. Let there not be one day, in
the face of a polluted ocean, a murky sky and bar-
ren, sterile lands that were once forests teeming
with life, that we regret, because we know we
were given a chance, that we could have saved
the earth, but we value our convenience and our
greed above anything and finally we quench the
last drop of life out of our planet, our home…. Stop
being the majority of our kind that made our plan-
et into a wasteland full of chemicals and rubbish!
Be instead the part that sees the beauty in our na-
ture, help preserve this privilege we were given,
Nature belongs to everyone, we are all responsi-
ble. Nature is a gift, don't make it an expense for
our desire and convenience. We have to be the
change we hope to see. It starts with everyone, be
it big or small, every effort counts, an act of good
deed done persistently, it’s what works the magic.
Recycling has always been a progressive and col-
lective effort of everyone. Having known all this,
given a thought, it would be a shame if we don't do
our part in this earth conserving motion. We can't
sit this one out, we have to do something!
Cleaning up the world Plastic bags full of recyclables
As our only forces are volunteers, it's always to be delivered to the collection centre by Jun Hao, the
great to have one more pair of hands and a pas- organising chairperson himself.
sionate heart to care for our environment. We are
always in need of volunteers, anyone who would
be willing to spend just 30 minutes a day to give
back to the nature, we would gratefully appreci-
ate! For more information please contact me, Jun
Hao at 012-5519540. Please care for our fragilely
beautiful planet, this is your chance. Come join us.

Written by: Wong Jun Hao