Pop Tab Project

     On the 14th of November 2013, the Leo Club of SMK Assunta sent three representatives to attend the closing ceremony of ‘The Pop Tab Project’, organized by a group of Mass Communications students of IACT College as part of one of their final projects. The closing ceremony was held in the Gallery of IACT College.

     The objective of ‘The Pop Tab Project’ was to raise awareness amongst students on how pop tabs can be recycled to build prosthetic limbs for those in need. The goal of the campaign was to collect at least 10 000 pop tabs. However, with the undying support from everyone, ‘The Pop Tab Project’ managed to exceed their goal and collected more than 30 000 pop tabs. The pop tabs will be donated to the Prostheses Foundation, a non-governmental organisation in Thailand that will then produce affordable and eco-friendly limbs for those in need. The campaign was a joint effort between this enthusiastic group of Mass Communications students and the Leo Club of SMK Assunta.

     At about 2.00 p.m. guests started arriving and taking their places. The event officially commenced at 2.15 p.m. A few guests of honour including our very own Leo Daphne Cheryl Tan, gave brief speeches on behalf of their own societies and committee. Mr Vincent Wong Wai Sang, Political Secretary, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, officiated the prestigious event by placing the final pop tab on the sculpture of the PETRONAS Twin Towers which was purely made of aluminium pop tabs and cans.

     Leo Daphne had the honour of unveiling the final count of pop tabs collected which came up to about more than 30 000 pop tabs! A mock ‘pop tab cheque’ representing the 30 000 pop tabs was presented to the Leo Club of SMK Assunta . The event ended at about 3.00 p.m. Light refreshments were served at the back of the Gallery. It was a very meaningful event especially for the students who put in a lot of effort to make this campaign a success. Everyone had a great time.

Report by,
Leo Sandra Boey

photos taken for this project:

The Leos and the representatives of IACT College

Leo Daphne receiving the pop tabs collected

Leos of SMK Assunta at the event

Report on Leollowine

On the 26th of October 2013, the Leo Club of Taman Petaling organized a fellowship event which comprised of a unique combination of two celebrations, Halloween and Valentine’s Day which brought upon the event of the night, “Leollowine Celebration”. The event was participated by the Leo Club of Assunta, Leo Club of Petaling Jaya Integrity, Leo Club of Taman SEA, Leo Club of La Salle PJ and of course, the Leo Club of Taman Petaling.

The event was held in the function room of Frasers Tower. At about 4.00p.m, all the Leos started arriving and the event officially commenced at 4.30 p.m. Every one arrived in various interesting, scary & even pretty costumes.

For the first activity, the male Leos were given a list of all the contact numbers of the female Leos present that day. They had to quickly make their mark to find their partner for the night. The female Leos were scattered around the whole building which consisted of 26 floors. The male Leos had to make their way and search for their partner. After that, all the newly-formed couples had to compete in a game which features its chili rice balls as punishment for the losing couples.

Dinner was served at about 7.30p.m. Everyone took their time to enjoy the food while socializing with others. After dinner, there was a game which challenged all the couples to perform a cat-walk together and strut two poses while they were at it. There were some romantic and hilarious stunts pulled off by our fellow Leos.

The next game required all the couples to tie their hands to their respective partner of the night. The challenge was to search for as many candies as possible around the area while being tied to their partner.

The event finally ended at 9.30p.m. A small prize-giving ceremony was held to acknowledge the Leos with the best costume and the winners of the games. The Leos ended the night with some group photos before bidding goodbye. It was an enjoyable night indeed.

Report by,
Leo Sandra Boey

photos taken for this project:

Leos looking pretty scary

Assuntarian Leos taking a group picture with the banner

Report on Movie Marathon

              On the 18th of October 2013, the Leo club organised a Movie Marathon Project. This project was carried out for all Form 3’s to enjoy movies that they were unable to watch before their major examinations. The project was also aimed to raise funds for the Leo club.

             The Movie Marathon started at 10.50 am, which was after the Form 3’s recess. Students started entering the venue after their recess. All 21 students enjoyed the first movie, The Croods. They paid RM 2 for the movie and the Leo’s sold drinks for RM 1.20. The movie ended at 12.30p.m.

             At 12.40 p.m. on the same day, the Leo’s played the second movie The Odd Life of Timothy Green. Although only 3 students came for the movie, the show still went on. After the movie ended, the Leo’s helped to clean up the place and left for home at 3.00p.m.

            Overall it was a good experience for the Leo’s who helped out in this project. They learned a great deal when organizing this project.

Report by,
Leo Sharon Lee

photos taken during the project:

the movie being played

students engrossed in watching

Report on Recruitment Drive

            On the 14th to 18th of October 2013, 7 Leo’s carried out the Leo Recruitment Drive Project. This project was carried out to promote our Leo club to all Assuntarians, mainly the Form 2’s.

            On the first day of the project, the Leo’s adjourned class by class as they promoted the Leo club to the students. Some of the Leo’s wore sandwich boards to promote the club. They talked about the past projects the Leo’s have carried out and the future projects planned for the fiscal year. They also gave a brief insight on the Leo club’s motto, vision and mission.

            On the second day, the Leo’s put up posters all around the school. The posters were designed by Leo Chloe Ann Narcis. They helped spread the message to all students, hoping it will attract their attention, leading them to join the club next year.

            The Leo’s had a great time promoting the club and gained many valuable experiences during those two days. They hope the students will make a wise choice and join Leo.

Report by,
Leo Sharon Lee

Report on Buttons for All!

       

              From the 1st of October till the 4th of October 2013, the Leo Club of SMK Assunta sold badges to the students of SMK Assunta. The Leos took a few weeks to design the badges and to send the designs to the printer and get them printed. There were 3 designs that were printed which were all designed by Leo Melissa Cheng.

             All the Board Members took at least 20 badges to sell. Then, as the form 4 Leo members were having their finals, the form 3 Leos helped to sell the badges and there was a profit that was made. The Leos even stayed back on some days to sell the badges to the afternoon session students.

            Overall, the project was quite a big success and everyone loved the badges. Not only students of Assunta bought them but the teachers as well as Leos from other schools.

Report by,
Leo Vinosha Areni

Report on PMR & SPM Good Luck Gifts

On the 26th of September 2013, we gave out gifts to the Leos will be taking the PMR and SPM examination this year. This was to motivate them to strive for the A’s in their upcoming examinations.

Leo Iswarya, being the Organizing Chairperson of this project, printed out motivational phrases & quotes, then laminated and cut them out into small bookmarks.

We also gave them a black pen each together with the bookmark to encourage them. The Leos who received these gifts were very happy and glad that we acknowledged them. Our Leos are sure to pass with flying colours because we have trust in them. All the best to all of them!

Reported by,
Leo Lakshmi

Report on Leo Taman Petaling's Running Leo

On the 21st of September , 13 Leos from SMK Assunta participated in the Running Leo event . This invigorate event was organized by Leo Club of SMK (P) Taman Petaling . At 8:00 a.m all the Leos from different schools reached SMK (P) Taman Petaling.

The Leos had registered and taken their shirts and name tag before the event started . The event started at 9:30 a.m. The Leos are separated into 5 groups , which is Pink , Green , Blue , Red , Yellow and Red. Each group consists of 9 members . We started with the station games . There were 5 station games which are Strike Yakult , T.H.I.N.K ! , Turn "N" Solve , Poker run and "Awesome" Shower.

After the station games , we had one more game to go before we had our breaktime , we were given a food basket filled with fruits and snacks .The aim was to finish all the food by the group members the fastest , Yellow Team became the champion in this game . At around 1 p.m., we finally have our break time. Around 2:30 p.m after our lunch , the Leos had to find the Form 1 Leos from SMK La Salle that were hiding in the school compound and also they have a group fight by tearing other groups’ member's name tag . There's an advantage for the group that got 1st , 2nd and 3rd in the station games . They were given two small papers written "BANG!" to hide it in the name tag of two members . If the Leo's name tag was torn by other group member , both of them will be out of the game.

At 4:30 p.m, the Vice President of Leo SMK (P) Taman Petaling , Leo Suezann from SMK (P) Taman Petaling gave out all the medals to the winners , Pink team got first followed by Yellow Team while Blue Team became Second Runner-Up . Other than that , there were two trophies for the male and female MVP respectively . The male and the female MVP were chosen by the Leos .The male MVP was given to the Leo Andrew Yeong from PJI and the female MVP was given to Leo Sandra Boey from SMK Assunta. It was a really fun and great experience for the Leos who attended the Running Leo event . They also learnt a few moral values , such as good teamwork , better communication , synchronization and many more .This is also created a good bond among our sister clubs and SMK La-Salle PJ.

Report by,
Leo Teo Shin Li

Report on Malaysia Day Video

             On the 16th of September, a Malaysia Day video was posted by the Leo Club of SMK Assunta . The videos were filmed by four of our Leo members, Leo Shangeetha, Leo Sharon, Leo Kashmeera and Leo Chloe. They filmed many students as well as the teachers and staff from SMK Assunta to talk about the topic ‘Why Malaysians love Malaysia’ , ‘What makes you Malaysian’ and ‘What do you think of Malaysia’. They were also able to get a few people from overseas to help film for the video to say the line, “Excuse me Sir/Miss, you Malaysian is showing”, as well as one of the guest performers from the Leo Club of SMK Assunta’s 42nd Installation to share why he loves Malaysia .

            These Leo members were able to put in their hard work to finish filming in one week. The editing, translating, designs and putting the video together were done by Leo Lakshmi, Leo Melissa, Leo Renugaa and Leo Daphne. It was a good experience in the process of doing this video and also nice to see the positive views of the people who were filmed to talk about our home, Malaysia.

            We appreciate those who cooperated with us in doing this video. The video was posted on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook with the title “Leo SMK Assunta's Malaysia Day Special: We Malaysian Loh!”. A good job done to these Leos for working together to put up this video.

Report by,
Leo Daphne Tan

Link to the video made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=106m3h6SMIo

Report on Lend an Eye Project

         On the 14th of September, a few kids from the Agathians Shelter were brought for an eye check-up at E’Image, an optical shop nearby, for an eye check-up. The reason this project was organized was to sponsor spectacles for the children. The reason being, vision deficiency is one of the world’s cruelest disability that can lead to blindness.

         4 Leos volunteered for this project, with the Organizing Chairperson being Leo Renugaa. We fetched the kids from the home at around 10 am. To prevent chaos at the optical shop, we brought the kids 5 at a time. This was convenient as Leo Renugaa’s dad offered the transport.

         We managed to get all the kids checked by 12 noon. At the end of the day only 2 kids needed spectacles. We let the kids pick their favourite frames for the glasses. We sent the kids back to the shelter at 12.30pm. The caretaker from the shelter thanked us for our help. We are hoping to continue this project again next month.

Reported by,
Leo Lakshmi

Photos taken during this project:

Leos with the orphanages at the optic shop

getting his eyes to be checked as sharp as hawks

picking his style of frame!

Report on Bake My Heart Out IV

The bake my heart out project is back again and it's better than ever! On 29th August 2013, a bake my heart out project was organised yet again to raise funds for the club. Around 15 Leos volunteered to help out. This activity was carried out at the SMK Assunta cooking room at approximately 10.30a.m until 1.05p.m. The project was fun and educational without a doubt. It also gave us some time to strengthen our bond amongst each other. This project was successful but trials and errors had to be endured. The project started with the O.C, Leo Wan Khadijah, gathering the volunteers and after explaining to us what we would have to do in order to bake the turnovers, everyone was ready to do their part. Everyone was assigned to their own station to maximize space and save time. Little obstacles such as limited supply of pastry sheets, minimal capacity of the ovens and even the shortage of apple filling were dealt with superb diligence. As the delectable pastries were put into the over to bake, the O.C along with her team, discussed on the price and packaging of the turnovers. After that was settled, it was time to cool and pack the apple turnovers so that it would be ready to be sold to hungry students and teachers. It was impressive how fast those little pastries sold out. Moreover, considering how well the turnovers did on the first day, the project was extended and was carried out on 30th August too. Of course, everyone also lent a hand into cleaning the cooking room. We made about RM 250 in profit. All in all, it was a good experience especially for those who have never done this before. Hopefully, more Leos would be keen on participating in this project in the near future.

Reported by,
Leo Margaret Lee

Photos taken during the project:

exchange students helping out in baking and selling

popping it into the oven!

packing the pullovers for sale