Walk and Wheel Walk and Wheel Walk and Wheel Walk and Wheel Walk and Wheel!!!

Can you say the line above in one second?

No?

Then come join Awam's Walk and Wheel Campaign !

(Haha, the nonsense above is just to capture your attention)

Click on the link to know more. Psst, if you click on it, there's a video of Jackyln Victor singing for AWAM! (Or if it's not Jacklyn, it's a freaky Jacklyn look-a-like O.o) And she sings really, really well. It's kind of worth a click just to hear her melifluous voice.

Wow, if she's not Jacklyn Victor, she ought to be.

Anyway! Back to the project!

We finally COMPLETED the presentation!

Alright that's a lie. We've completed 95% of it. Now we're just adding things to enhance it. =) We are very particular about perfection. The report is done and we're going to submit it tomorrow. And no, my fingers didn't catch fire. Thank God, is all I can say.

Kim Fay and I are set to practise the presentation along with the rest of the team tomorrow! Haha, kind of excited about it actually. Of course lar! It's our blood, sweat and tears.

Or maybe just our sweat and tears.

Photos of yesterday's activities + today's meeting

Interviewing KTM Station master


Interviewing students

Posting our project stickers in school compound

Thanks a lot, Lydia, who promoted this blog on her blog. Will blog more about this later. It deserves a special blog post. Boy are there many 'blog's in this sentence.

Today's Meeting

We are getting nearer and nearer to our presentation's date, hence we shared our opinions on how to not make the judges fall asleep.

Obviously if the judges fall asleep we're not going to get very good marks.

There are actually loads of other photos, but we decided not to post them on the blog and submit them to the judges as part of our reports.

So what you see on this blog is actually a summary of everything we did. We don't want to ruin the element of surprise for the judges. =) And then, of course, there's also the fact that we are afraid our ideas might leak.

I guess that's all for today. Thanks for the support! Keep it coming! This project's diet is support!

Kicking their sorry butts

Me, and Kim Fay, working on the slideshow today in the computer lab.

Today's meeting was a brainstorming session. We had to crack open our brains with mental hammers and put forward creative yet practical suggestions.

Now, that was the hard part. Practical suggestions.

Anyone can sprout ideas from the tip of their tongues, but when it comes to practicality, how many of these ideas can actually be applied? For example, the problem with buses is that its shape deters the driver from seeing if anyone is being sexually harassed, especially if it's a crowded bus.

One of the solutions?

A miniature, round-shaped bus.

A miniature, round-shaped bus where everyone sits in the view of everyone. Sounds like a solution...in cartoons.

But if there's one incontrovertible thing, the round-shaped bus is a creative idea. Just minus the practicality. Hence, minus the mark. =( Which is not good at all.

So no, a round-shaped bus is not our solution.

I really hope to hear some of your ideas. It doesn't matter if it's boring and mediocre or just plain ridiculous, please do voice them out here! Every comment counts. =)

Day Three: Slideshow almost completed

Team members and their attractive pencil cases in a meeting

Me and our slideshow plan written in paper.

Kim Fay and I have done everything in our power to make this slideshow a success.

We cut, we draw, we shout, we beg, we cry...and it's finally 70% done.

Shin Tiong is going to help us complete the final stage and if it doesn't turn out well, Kim Fay and I are going to cry. We really did spend a lot of time on it, you know! It's like our baby now!

Shieh Ying actually suggested that we hand it over, since our job only covers designing(KF) and writing (me) but it's our baby! You cannot expect us to part with our baby!

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Just so we're clear, sexual harassment covers EVERYTHING and ANYTHING sexual that makes you uncomfortable. If someone tells you a lewd joke and you are displeased with that, and then you go confront him about it, yet he still continues bugging you with that then, WHAM, it's a sexual harassment case. You have every right to report him.

And then you can come to our blog and tell the world what a scum of the society he is. ;) Good luck.

Day Three: Slideshow progress

Our theme is Sexual Harassment on Public Transport. Our slogan is My Body Belongs To Me (otherwise who else it belongs to, right?).




Erroneous! The above should be 'What are we up to?' Sorry sorry sorry!



As the title suggests, we have already started working on our first slideshow. This blog will be revealed tomorrow night to the world! Exciting!

I need to clear something here. Some of you might think that using phrases like ‘he grabbed my breast’ or ‘masturbating in front of me’ a little too harsh/explicit. I also fear that the teachers might find them reprehensible, but before you unleash your liberal theories on us, hear us out.

We are using the phrase ‘breast’ and ‘masturbating’ not as something dirty, but as something immoral that is truly happening among us. If we choose to keep quiet about these just because we are too shy to say it out aloud, we are giving the molesters a chance to take advantage of our lack of knowledge. How old are we? Form Four and Form Five this year! There is only so long that you can pretend to be ignorant. One day we must all wake up and face the real world, which, whether you like it or not, is inundated with debaucheries.

If you’re too afraid to even talk about it, what would you do if you come face to face with a flasher?

I only learnt last year that there are actually people disgusting enough to look at you while touching their genitals in public. What would happen if I never found out about this misdemeanor and proceeded to go near that person?

It’s time to discard conservative mindsets for a while, and think about this as a step to curbing sexual harassment in public transport.

By the way, many thanks to Kim Fay the designer, Sheng Giap, Yvonne, U Zhing, Kathy, Suba and Puan Sellie the models. (You guys get to be models for a day hor!) This is only half of the project so there are still many more people to thank. ;)

Day Two : Talk big

It's hard to blog about our meetings because we want to keep track of our reports, yet we don't want our ideas to bocor like tangki air.

Yes, you better get used to our streak of kiasu-ness.

Anyway, we are currently in our 'Talk Big' stage. We sprouted spectacular ideas and somehow, all seven of the team members managed to agree on the same things without scratching, punching and/or tearing each other's hair. It's nothing short of a miracle, honestly.

By the way, Talk Big is good! Talk Big leads to big ambitions, leading to big effort to achieve big things!

I haven't advertise this blog on my own blog because I feel this blog is still inadequate. If I promote it now, readers will come, but then they will run away! Screaming! Better to introduce to the public when everything is done and pretty, right?

I need more things to put in this blog, so please be patient! And help me scour the web for things to put!


Credits to Stickgal.