The Warriors Bazaar

24th of November as of yesterday has officially marked the end of the biggest event of the year for Sakura College, Metamour4sis in conjunction with its 10th year anniversary. With that, various activities which Sakura has in its bucket for everyone as to enjoy and cheers for the celebration has also came to an end. One of the most attractions of Metamour4sis was of course—The Warriors Bazaar.

As ‘bazaar’ generally brings up the sense of a large place provided for a various selling of goods, so as it was during the four days (21-24 November 2015) of the Sakura in remembering the 10 years of its successes. Such goods were foods, drinks, clothes and even cosmetics. There were 14 camps altogether which placed along the driveway in front of the main stairs (pink stairs) of Sakura College all along until before the Block C Car Park site provided as for the stallers to carry on with their selling.

About 45 stallers/booths were participating in during the bazaar. Due to the quite a lot of numbers of not only foods and beverages sells were going on, plus with its strategic venue and had quite a big place as to fit many peoples to squeeze in, The Warriors Bazaar has indeed attracted many peoples even the outsiders. At even earlier around 10 in the morning peoples were pushing their trolleys heading toward the bazaar site could be heard as to prepare for their respective stalls.

The bazaar had Nasi Ayam Thai/Percik, KFC, Pizza, Kafella, Ice Cream, Bakso, Soto, Cheezy Wedges, Coconut Shake and many more on its popular list. This time on, there were about 31 stalls which were selling out foods, while 5 stalls were on for beverages. Perfume, clothes and cosmetic as the minority of the big numbers of sellers were reserved for 2, 6 and 1 stalls respectively.

Prepared by: Dg Nadila

One Student One Plant (OSOP)

Of about two times the date of conducting a programme which was aimed to instil the love of students towards planting as well as appreciating the mother nature, One Student One Plant (OSOP) has been postponed, and it has finally came to a halt when it has been successfully held last Saturday on November 21, 2015. 

Participants of at least six peoples from each apartment were required to prepare a 5L of bottle or standard-sized biscuit tin per person. It was meant for placing the nutritious soils as well as the plants. Here’s the best part—you might wonder what plants. To satisfy your curiosity, the organizer has decided to use plants that could be consumed—foods. Such plant was spinach.

The tentative of the programme has been arranged and organized systematically as to avoid the long waits of the queue. There were three sessions as according to the levels of the block of the college. Level 1 of Block A, B & C was on for 2:00 PM. On the other hand, 2:45 PM and 3:30PM were for Level 2 and Level 3 of the three blocks respectively.

Prepared by: Dg nadila

Mercy Talk : Student and Volunteering

23 November 2015: Mercy Malaysia is one of the Non-government Organization that provide medical and humanitarian aid. From the name itself, Mercy means; M: Motivation, E: Excellence, R: Respect, C: Collaboration, Y: Yearn to serve.

Mercy’s head quarter office is in Kuala Lumpur. In Sarawak, the first office was located in Miri, brought by Mr Benjamin with his own funding. Current new office is located in Kuching which was launched in this October. Mr. Temenggong is the one and only staff of Mercy Malaysia in Sarawak Chapter.

Mercy Malaysia was established in 1999. The main funding for Mercy Malaysia are from public donations including huge companies. Mercy Malaysia have providing their teams to response for volunteering nationally and globally. These teams include all professionals around Malaysia including doctors, nurses, clerks, government servants and many more. Everyone can be a volunteer. Mercy Malaysia have contributed in many part of the country such as massive flood in Kelantan and Sarawak. In global state, Mercy Malaysia have already contributed in 10 country for instance Afganistan, Nepal, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Iraq, India and many more. 4 main concern of Mercy Malaysia are Wash, Shelter, Nutrition and Health.

The peak event that involved volunteers from Mercy Malaysia was in Indian Ocean Tsunami. Since then, Mercy Malaysia get more recognition from the government nationally and globally. The teams is now well-known around the world.

With 4 panels invited to the talk, they shared about their experiences throughout their journey as a volunteer with the organization. The panels includes a doctors, two nurses and a staff from Mercy Malaysia Sarawak Chapter. Dr Suzi, one of the panels, shared her experience regarding her mission to Nepal after the massive earthquake there. The earthquake killed 8000 of people. The teams was called when the second earthquake happened.

“Never expect something in return. But from volunteering you will get your own satisfaction. Have you ever heard, the more you give, the more you’ll get back”, said Dr Suzi.

After listening to all panels’ story, the audiences became emotionally unstable. Somehow there was a feeling of proud, happy, sad and touched. The volunteering works is a very noble works that not everyone can do it. It needs passionate, patient, and the most important element is sincere.

For those who interested in becoming a volunteer can simply log in to the Mercy Malaysia website, print the application form and send it to the office in Kuching, Sarawak or Kuala Lumpur. 

Prepared by: Marjana Darus 

Noh Salleh Live @ Sakura College

22 November 2015: Regarding Metamor4sis event, Sakura College had conducted a mini concert showcased by Noh Salleh, the singer of the boyband Hujan. The tickets sold which include the Normal Tickets which cost only RM15 for two tickets and Gold Ticket for RM50 including meet and greet special session with Noh Salleh.

Noh Salleh arrived about 7.45 pm with his crews. The event continued with the special Meet and Greet session with all the Gold Tickets holder. All of them were located in the recreational room of Sakura College. The meet and greet session started with the photography session of Noh Salleh with the fans. All fans seemed to be very excited as they stunned to see Noh Salleh in front of them. The session then continued with the signature session by Noh Salleh. The Gold Tickets holder used up the whole few times to greet their favourite singer by asking him some questions. They were also did some chatting about his life and his new development in his career.

The meet and greet session ended at 8.30 pm. All the special tickets holder were assist to have their seats at the main stage of Metamor4sis event. The performance at that night started with the duo performance. After that, a representative student from Bunga Raya College performed with two songs, Imagination and All of Me.

The performance was continued with the dance performance by two superb dancing groups. These dancing group managed to capture many eyes and attentions from the audience as their performance were so amazing and stunning.

The mini concert then allowing our main guest to the stage. All of Noh Salleh’s fans seemed so excited and happy to see him on stage. As Noh Salleh is also a Sarawakian, it was not a big deal to greet the crowd. Noh Salleh performed a few new singles including ‘Angin Kencang’ and ‘Bunga di Telinga’. Not forgetting all famous Hujan band song including ‘Pagi yang Gelap’, ‘Dugaannya’, ‘Kotak Hati’ and many more. He was also invited all the audience to sing-along with him throughout the performance.

Prepared by: Marjana Darus

Zumba

In conjunction with the 10th year anniversary of Sakura College, Metamour4sis as cool has the event has been appointed to bring out the best meaning of the dubbed name as to celebrate the years of rising and shining of the college, a Zumba; which was branching from the lots of activities held for all the residents of Sakura College and nevertheless residents from other colleges as well, has been successfully sweated out on November 21, 2015 of last Saturday.

Attracted quite a big number of residents from other colleges, the dance fitness by means of working-out, has opened the counters for registration at the early of 7:00 AM with RM 1 of fee per person since each participant would be supplied with a bottle of mineral water. Metamour4sis Main Stage which was near to the Sakura College’s Block C Car Park has been chosen as the venue to carry on with the activity.

Residents of Sakura College could be clearly spotted by the fact that the girls were sporting pink and black outfits as according to the theme. Residents from other colleges on the other hand were having the privilege to be on the very front lines of the formation. 

Lead by one instructor, there were five all together of the aiders in order to the help in showing the motions of the Zumba to all the participants. To spice the Zumba up, of about seven catchy and nice beats songs were played for the movements to coordinate with. The instructor was first showing the step-by-step without the help from the song for the participants to follow, and then resumed to rock the moves with the beats when everyone seemed to finally comfortable with the aerobic fitness dance.

It was started off first with warming up the body with the general steps and also ended with the steps of reversing the warming up’s by means of cooling down.

Prepared by: Dg Nadila

Colour Run

    On the 22^nd of November 2015, Sakura College held an event dubbed as Colour Run in conjunction of the college’s biggest event of the year, Metamour4sis. Registration of the participants began from 7.30 a.m. up till 8.30 a.m. The participants gathered at the compound of the Students’ Affairs building (BHep), decked in matching white shirts. The flag-off began at 8.45 a.m.

    The participants were required to follow a route which had four total checkpoints. The order of the checkpoints were as followed;

Cempaka College bus stop ---> Bunga Raya College (BRC) roundabout  --->    

Tunku Abdul Zaidi (TAZ) College --->  UNIMAS stadium ---> CTF2

   Waiting at each checkpoints were the program’s committee members, each of them ready to ‘attack’ the participants with various colour powders. This was considered the main part of the event as most of the participants looked forward to it. Not only shirts were stained with red, green, yellow, pink and purple. Some of the participants even had their faces and hair stained with colour powder, though to them, it only added more to the fun.

    After the final checkpoint, the participants ran and gathered at Sakura College’s parking lot C. The whole run took about 2 hours, with the last of participants reaching the parking lot at around 10.45 a.m. A closing ceremony was held at 11.30 a.m. Top five runners from both the men and women’s categories were awarded medals. The ceremony ended at 12 noon with the participants then collecting their certificates of participations at the checkout counter. This marked the end of the Colour Run program.

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar 

Drama Acoustical Night

   On the 21^st of November 2015, Sakura College held a Drama Acoustical Night in conjunction with the college’s biggest event of the year, Metamour4sis. Drama Acoustical Night is an event where the residents of the different colleges in UNIMAS were given the chance to show off their acting and singing skills as well as compete with other colleges for the title of the best acting or singing act of the night. The colleges that took part were Sakura, Tunku Abdul Zaidi (TAZ), Allamanda, Cempaka and Bunga Raya. Each college also sent a representative to act as the panel of judges of the event. The representatives were Nur Fazila from Sakura college, Mohamad Hafizzudin from Tunku Abdul Zaidi (TAZ) college, Mohamad Shahril from Bunga Raya college, Mohamad Afifi from Allamanda college and  Abang Mohamad Ariff from Cempaka.

    The event began at 8.15 p.m. with drama performances. Most of the dramas performed revolved around the theme of love and friendship. The first to perform was the team from BRC, whose drama, entitled ‘Kasih Nur Suzuki’, was about two friends from different villages who fought over a girl, only to be revealed at the end of the story that the girl already had a partner of her own. TAZ College sent two teams for the drama performances. The first team performed a drama entitled ‘Jodoh dan Takdir’ which was about the funny love triangle between Puteri Santubong, Puteri Sejinjang and Putera Serapi. The second team’s drama, ‘Sehati Sejiwa’ was about the two friends, who would do anything for each other, had their friendship tested in the most unexpected ways.

    Sakura College’s team performed a drama entitled ‘Snow Black’, a parody of the famous fairy tale ‘Snow White’. The final drama performance was from Cempaka College’s team, which told the story of a married couple, whose happy relationship turned sour when the husband began to grow tired of the wife. Despite the sad plot, the drama was hilariously delivered which caused loud laughter from most of the audience. Allamanda College sent no representatives for the drama performances.

    The second part of the event consisted of acoustic performances. First up were the representatives from TAZ College, Kuzika, who performed ‘Pelesit Kota’. Their rock star attitude on stage gave an awesome start to the acoustic part of the event as it raised again the spark of interest of the crowd. Sakura College’s first representatives, who dubbed themselves as Reflection, performed a Paramore medley, with ‘Ignorance’ as its main highlight. The main singer impressed the audience with her amazing vocals and her ability to reach the high notes of the song. The college’s second representatives gave an impressive performance consisting of  Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’, Megan Trainor’s ‘Lips are Moving’ and lastly, Wonder Girls’ ‘Nobody’, which earned a loud roar of approval from the audience.

    BRC’s first representatives gave it their all in their top-notch performance of Kembara’s ‘Gerhana dalam Jiwaku’, ‘Pelesit Kota’ and Awie’s ‘Ratuku’. Their second representative gave a soulful and passionate performance of Awie’s ‘Tragedi’. TAZ College’s team, Fantastika, performed an old favourite; Click 5’s ‘Jenny’, local band Bunkface’s ‘Through My Window’, One Direction’s current hit ‘Drag Me Down’ and Panic! At The Disco’s ‘Mona Lisa’. The last performance was from Allamanda College’s only representative team, with their own take on Chemical Romance’s ‘I Don’t Love You Like I Did Yesterday’, Taylor Swift’s ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ and Radja’s ‘Jujur’.

    The night came to a near close around 11 p.m. Souvenirs were given to the panel of judges as an appreciative gesture. With that, the Drama Acoustical Night came to an end.

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar

     

Sakura Proposal Pitch

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Sakura Proposal Pitch

24 Oktober 2015: Program anjuran Exco Keusahawanan ini bertujuan untuk mengetengahkan bakat-bakat pelajar Kolej Sakura yang mempunyai potensi dalam mengendalikan program untuk pelajar Kolej Sakura sepanjang semester. Terdapat 6 kumpulan yang mengambil bahagian dalam program ini. Setiap kumpulan diminta untuk membentangkan idea dan maklumat terperinci mengenai program yang bakal dianjurkan oleh mereka.

Semua kumpulan mempamerkan potensi yang sangat tinggi dalam pembentangan yang dilaksanakan. Pelbagai jenis program dibentangkan oleh kumpulan yang berbeza. Semua kumpulan diadili oleh beberapa juri untuk mengenalpasti kumpulan yang terbaik di antara mereka.

Pemenang menerima wang tunai sebanyak RM50 beserta cenderahati. Pemenang terdiri daripada 4 orang pelajar Kolej Sakura iaitu Chua Vicky, Angela Phong Kai Xue, Edwina Kong Yan Ying dan Ton Mak Sin-Yi dengan program yang diberi nama “Make-up Class with Mary Care”.

Tahniah diucapkan kepada pemenang. Semoga program seperti ini dapat membuka mata dan memberi peluang kepada pelajar untuk menyertai program seperti ini dengan pelbagai cadangan program yang pelbagai konsep.

 Oleh: Marjana Darus

Festival Interkolej Sukan Sakura (Hari Ke-2)

Festival Interkolej Sukan Sakura

1 November 2015: Festival Interkolej Sukan Sakura telah memasuki hari kedua pelaksanaanya. Hari ini para peserta akan bertanding untuk tempat johan dan naib johan. Acara yang dipertandingkan pada hari kedua termasuklah pertandingan bola jaring, futsal kategori lelaki dan bola tampar kategori perempuan.

Walaupun keadaan pada hari tersebut hujan, festival sukan ini tetap dijalankan. Semua peserta beraksi dengan hebat sekali tanpa menghiraukan hujan yang menimpa. Semua ahli jawatankuasa yang terdiri daripada kelab Sukan Sakura turut bersungguh-sungguh dalam menjalankan tanggungjawab tanpa lelah demi memastikan festival ini berjalan lancar.

Penyampaian hadiah diteruskan pada jam 11.00 pagi. Semua peserta dari pelbagai kolej berkumpul dalam acara penutup ini. Majlis diteruskan oleh pengerusi majlis, saudari Norliza binti Marusman Majlis penutup dihadiri oleh wakil Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar (MPP), saudari Nur Nabihah  binti Shaharudin, Presiden Kolej Sakura, Wan Azliza dan barisan jawatankuasa perwakilan kolej yang lain. Hadiah disampaikan oleh saudari Nabihah dan saudari Wan Azliza.

Keputusan untuk acara yang dipertandingkan adalah seperti berikut;

Bola Jaring

Johan: Allamanda

Naib Johan: Cempaka A

Ketiga: Cempaka 3

Bola Keranjang (L)

Johan: Dahlia

Naib Johan: Bunga Raya

Ketiga: Cempaka

Bola Keranjang (P)

Johan: Bunga Raya

Naib Johan: Allamanda

Ketiga: Sakura

Bola Tampar (L)

Johan: Kenanga

Naib Johan: Cempaka

Ketiga: Allamanda

Bola Tampar (P)

Johan: Allamanda

Naib Johan: Cempaka

Ketiga: Bunga Raya

Futsal (P)

Johan: Kenanga

Naib Johan: Bunga Raya

Ketiga: Sakura

Futsal (L)

Johan: Cempaka B

Naib Johan: Bunga Raya A

Ketiga: Sakura

Oleh; Marjana Darus

Sakura Inter-College Sport Festival First Day

The  festival received  a  participation of  55  groups from  all residential  college 

icluding  Kenanga, Rafflesia  and  Dahlia. There  were  4 sports  to  compete in;  

basketball, volleyball and futsal with men and women category as well as netball, 

with 168 medals to be given away. 

The festival started on 31 October. Unfortunately, all sport event had to be postponed due to the heavy rain, early that morning. The rain eventually stopped and the event can go on.  The  festival started  around  10 in the  morning  and ended  around inthe  evening to accommodate the earlier delay.

The festival was held at the outdoor Sports Complex with the exception of futsal forthe men category held at Cempaka College. The entire day was dedicated to the completion of   all  preliminary   rounds. However, certain sport events due to smaller

group size participating completing all rounds including the finals. The sports were basketball for both category and women’s futsal. 

           The results of the sports mentioned in the previous line are as follows: 

Men’s Basketball

1. Dahlia

2. BRC

3. Cempaka B

Women’s Basketball

1. BRC

2. Allamanda

3. Sakura

Women’s Futsal

1. Kenanga

2. Red Dragon Women from BRC

3. Warriors FC from Sakura

The prize-giving ceremony is held on the next day, 1 November 2015.

By:

Pliny

Keep Fit 2.0

Keep Fit

Oleh: Marjana Darus

18 OKTOBER 2015: Program “Keep Fit” anjuran Exco Sukan dan Rekreasi Kolej Sakura telah berjaya diadakan untuk kali kedua pada semester ini. Pelajar kolej Sakura yang berkelapangan menyertai program yang bersifat larian ini. Trek larian adalah bermula dari tempat letak kereta, 

Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi Sumber. Kesemua pelajar yang menyertai larian ini dikehendaki berkumpul untuk makluman laluan untuk larian pada hari tersebut.

Pelajar melalui Kolej Dahlia, Kolej Allamanda, PITAS, Kolej Bunga Raya, Kolej Cempaka dan Jambatan UNIMAS sebelum melalui Student Pavilion dan kembali ke Kolej Sakura.

Program seperti ini diharap dapat menarik lebih ramai penyertaan dalam kalangan pelajar kolej Sakura demi melahirkan pelajar yang bukan sahaja bijak dalam akademik tetapi cergas dan sihat tubuh badannya.

Water Sports Festival between Inter-College Hostels & IPT Borneo Regatta 2015

Friday, 16th October 2015, at UNIMAS Lake, a Water Sports Festival (Festival Sukan Air) was conducted. The day’s condition was slightly windy and cool. The first day consists of qualifying rounds of the kayak sports in several categories: men single, women single, men doubles, women doubles and mixed doubles. The event started at 3.15pm and ended around 5pm. The results of the qualifying rounds was released around 5.30pm.

Women doubles team consisting of Lee Li Yen and Tim Hui Shen, Ivan Isaac Thomas and Agie Alfie Amir for the men doubles as well as Adeline Tham Kah Yen in women single category represented Sakura College to the finals. The entire event went smoothly on Friday with little to no delay. Safety was prioritised as all participants are required to wear lifejackets.

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The 17th of October 2015 marked the 2nd day of the very much anticipated “Festival Sukan Air” organized by UNIMAS. 

The day began with the participants doing some light warm up exercises before being briefed on the event by their respective coaches. Sakura College representatives can be seen sporting light or dark pink shirts with one of the sleeves being black in colour to set them apart from the rest. 

Sakura College representatives did fairly well in the events they took part in. They scored a very close second next to Cempaka’s representatives for the second round ‘Perahu Kenyalang Campuran’ event, with the third place going to Allamanda’s representatives. The first round of the event was won by the BRC representatives. 

Sakura’s representatives got fourth for the first round of ‘Perahu Kenyalang Lelaki’ event, with the second round won by the representatives from Rafflesia College. The representative for the solo female event, Adeline Tham, managed to snag fifth out of seven places. Meanwhile, for the ‘Bergu Lelaki’ event, Sakura College got third place.

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Just after the clock struck 2:00 P.M. on October 17th, 2015, the IPT (institutions of higher learning) Borneo Regatta 2015 Tournament in conjunction with the Sports Water Festival 2015 between Inter-College Hostels of UNIMAS has brought peoples to crowd around the UNIMAS lake. Together with the Ministry of Education, UNIMAS Sports Centre honourably organized the event as to instil the spirit in students to participate actively in healthy activities such as water sports, apart from developing the teamwork vibes among students.

Being one of the popular activities in UNIMAS, this time’s Sports Water Festival exhibited some exceptional to the previous’ that IPT all around Borneo were invited. Of about 23 invited teams from various IPT in Borneo, however, only 4 managed to participate in in the regatta tournament which was Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Bintulu, Swinburne University of Technology, Institut Kemahiran MARA (IKM) Kuching and Universitas Tanjungpura (UNTAN) Indonesia.

Covered a distance of 500M, there were five categories to be conquered by the participants in order to grab the “Raja Tasik” (“The King of Lake”) title:

Hornbill Boat (Men) – Mix (Guest IPT)

Hornbill Boat (Mix) – Men (Guest IPT)

Hornbill Boat (Men) – Men (Faculty/Institutes/ Department/Division)

Hornbill Boat (Mix) – Mix (Colleges)

Hornbill Boat (Men) – Men (College)

The supports that the inaugural IPT Borneo Regatta received were very much ecstatically happening. Aided with some upbeat songs and professional emcees, the flow of the event managed to be handled efficiently. With the presence of UNIMAS Vice Chancellor, YBhg Prof Dato' Dr Mohamad Kadim bin Suaidi, the atmosphere around the lake during the tournament became even more vibrant and encouraging.

Competitions and the presentation of prizes to the winners were conducted alternatingly. From far they've came, Univesitas Tanjungpura (UNTAN) of Pontianak (Indonesia) whole-heartedly accepted the challenge that they managed to secure the first place for Hornbill Boat (Men) – Mix (Guest IPT) and Hornbill Boat (Mix) – Men (Guest IPT) of which making UNTAN to seize the most wanted title from the IPT Borneo Regatta 2015, “The King of Lake”.

UNIMAS on the other hand has let Swinburne, IKM and UPM to surrender to its position as the runner-up with the time taken of 2.22.15 behind UNTAN (2.20.64) for the Hornbill Boat (Mix) – Men (Guest IPT). Development Office and Bunga Raya College could be seen to have won the Hornbill Boat (Men) – Men (Faculty/Institutes/ Department/Division) and Hornbill Boat (Men) – Men (College) respectively. 

Being the only all-girls residential college in UNIMAS, Sakura College did not let the fact to burn down their intention to grab the chance to participate in the event. Set aside the “all-girls”, Sakura College has even sent representatives for the men categories by guest rowers. During the Hornbill Boat (Mix) – Mix (Colleges), Sakura College of which consisted of Sakura College staffs, residents and guest rowers could be seen rowing consistently across the lake to the finish line, leaving other competitors to be left very far behind. This has marked the winning of Sakura College on the category.

With the participation from other institutions of higher learning and the massive supports received from UNIMAS students, it has proved that Water Sports Festival between Inter-College Hostels of UNIMAS as well as the IPT Borneo Regatta 2015 has been a very successful event of the year. With the hope that sports water can be popularized to another level, such activities undoubtedly could trigger the eagerness in oneself to live a healthy lifestyle besides strengthening the bonds between the participants.

Not to forget about the vast amount of efforts that the organizers acted in in order for the event to be successfully held. Massive congratulations to all the participants and most importantly, congratulation to Sakura College of which with the winning on Hornbill Boat (Mix) – Mix (Colleges), it has indirectly brought up Sakura College name to another level.

For more pictures, kindly direct to Sakura College Official

Prepared by: Pliny Neilson, Imelia Kyra & Dg Nadila

Spread the Love Program

     On the 18^th of October 2015, Sakura College organized a community service which had been dubbed as the “Spread the Love” program. This program took place at the Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching. The aim of this program was to instil the sense of selflessness within the participants as well as to provide cheer and encouragement to the sick or injured children in the pediatric ward.

     At 7.30 a.m, the participants gathered at the FSTS bus stop and they departed for the hospital at 8.00 a.m. The whole journey took about half an hour and by 8.30 a.m, the participants were already at the hospital lobby, ready to be briefed on the program.

     The participants are divided into certain groups, in which certain groups entered certain parts of the paediatric ward. They spend a couple of hours entertaining the sick or injured children inside the ward. Some spent time colouring with the children, some did story-telling. Some participants talked to the children’s parents, eventually prompting the children, who were initially shy, to talk to the participants as well.

     Meanwhile, some members of the Sakura Editorial Board did their part in the community program by painting a mural of underwater creatures outside the pediatric ward, in hopes to create a more cheerful and fun atmosphere to the ward, which would hopefully bring up the mood of the patients inside it. The end result was a beautiful picture of a cartoon whale and dolphins jumping out of waves, all of which were painted in different shades of blue.

     After spending time with the children, the participants then showed off their talents in origami by creating a few paper creations like cranes, hearts and animal faces before proceeding to write encouraging messages on the origami creations. They then went around the hospital area, giving out their origami creations to random people whom they thought needed a bit of cheer in their lives. Some handed theirs to tired nurses walking in the hallways, which managed to bring a small smile to their faces. Some even handed lollipops to random children in the hospital, who accepted them very gratefully.

     Around noon, the participants had their lunch and Muslims were given time to carry out their daily prayer before all of the participants departed for UNIMAS at 2.30 pm, thus marking the end of the “Spread the Love” program. Overall, the program was considered as ‘eye-opening’ to the participants after they witnessed the courage and resilience displayed by the children despite their hardships.

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar