Community Service

Sori for this late post but my old monitor was dying. Last Saturday,my year-mates were involved in a community service project which was a free health check. We just check for BMI,blood glucose,blood type and blood pressure. Sori to say,I wasn't involved in the planning process,just went there and do it.

On that morning,we gathered at the Shah Alam Library at around 8 am,fooled around and prepared the stations. We were supposed to have a senamrobik with kids but there were not kids around so we did it ourselves.

At 10 am,we went hunting for ppl to do the health check. So my frens and I went around the library,asking ppl to visit our booth. Surprisingly,ppl were eager to let us prick their fingers or give advice on how to improve their health.Just imagine if we prick wrongly or those innocent ppl got septicemia or all the antigens for the blood typing were negative. "Sir,ur blood is an unknown type cos it didn't show any reactions to our chemicals or Sir",U have blue blood,are u sure ur not an alien" or worst," Sir,it seems that we can't prick ur finger with our lancets,could we cut ur finger with this scalpel instead?. Sure they would never trust these free,public health checks anymore.

So while some of us were doing the health check for the parents, the rest were organising games for the kids.We had a colouring competition and some minor games like Follow the Leader,Ball in a Basket and Pin the Clown's Eye. Almost all of the kids got prizes for just participating while those kids that shown determination or complete the objective of the game got Special Prizes like Drawing block,Watercolour and etc.

Surprising facts that we found out were:

1) There were a lot of type O blood group in the crowd.
2) Ppl would do anything as long as its free.
3) Teens aren't bothered about their health.
4) Kids are wonderful creatures,even if they didn't win,a few words of praises would make them happy.
5) Limiting the lancets to a hundred was a gd idea.
6) There were more than 10 ppl with negative rhesus.
7) The chicken dance is a good way to wake up.
8) Doing the chicken dance in the public is the best way to get attention.

Some random pics of that day