Festive Cheers

This year, Festive Cheers was decided to be held at Royal Klang Club on Sunday, the 27th of September. The main purpose of organising this annual event was to provide assistance to the less fortunate and underprivileged families and homes in celebrating both Hari Raya and Deepavali since they were unable to do so due to certain reasons.

Fellow interactors who attended the event pitched in to help make final preparations before the event, which began at 3.00p.m., as well as entertaining the children. There were also interactors who volunteered to perform for the guests by singing.

Rotarians helped to present the collection of hampers including cash to the families, homes and individuals as gifts after giving their respective speeches. The event ended with a group photo session of the guests, Rotarians and hard-working interactors.

"to provide assistance to the less fortunate and underprivileged families and homes in" celebrating both Hari Raya and Deepavali…

Talentime

Interactors in formal attire gathered at the HICT Auditorium on the morning of Saturday, the 26th of September 2009, either as part of the event’s entertainment, or just to witness the participants share their unique and special talents on stage. Talentime was organised as a tribute to the late Yasmin Ahmad, who was a critically-acclaimed multi-award winning film director, writer, and script writer from Malaysia.

The talent competition was named after one of her recent movies. It started at about 9.00a.m. after all the guests had registered upon arrival and took their seats. Soon after the introductions and speeches at the beginning of the event, the performances commenced, either individually or in groups. Several talented performers from their respective schools courageously took turns to shine on stage in the auditorium with an array of impressive performances which included singing, dancing, magic tricks and what not.

Each fine display of talent was being judged by a panel of three who were brought in to narrow it down to five finalists. They were incredibly experienced in the arts, particularly dancing. The crowd of spectators which filled the spacious auditorium was not much of a large one that day.

Nevertheless, the audience was required to take part in deciding who deserved to be the winner of the talent competition by voting for one of the five finalists as soon as they were revealed. Interactors marked their choice on the piece of paper given before the show and inserted them in the provided ballot box before going for break and refreshments.

It was not long until the official counting of the votes was finished and the interactors were called back into the auditorium where the positions of the five finalists were announced. The five finalists were given cash and consolation prizes depending on the number of votes each of them acquired from the audience.

Next, souvenirs were too presented to each of the three judges for their assistance in the competition. Talentime came to an end after the winning group gave an encore performance. Fellow interactors and Rotarians, who undoubtedly enjoyed the wonderful show, left the auditorium accordingly knowing that attending the event was indeed well worth their time.

Repainting School Basketball Court

On the morning of Tuesday, the 22nd of September 2009, our fellow interactors gathered at the school basketball court at about half past eight to get started on repainting the area, unselfishly putting aside their holiday plans to participate in the project.

Our Interact Club decided to work together with the Basketball Club of High School Klang in order to increase productivity and complete the task in a shorter time period. After acquiring the necessary painting supplies for the job, interactors and Basketball Club members began dipping their brushes in the red and yellow paint and worked on renewing the faded paint of the court with as much detail as possible.

Each and every one of them endured the scorching heat of the Sun while slowly painting the lines which run through the place. Some of them took turns continuing from where the previous person left off, since there was a slight shortage of brushes.

While waiting, they held umbrellas to shade the hard workers from the extreme heat. Everybody chatted with one another as they painted. It definitely was not long before the basketball court had a brand new coat of paint.