I CAN LIVE GREEN Opening Day

Yesterday (25th April 2010) we have 126 people registered not inclusive of late comers, Council Staffs & organizers & St. Nicholas Home. The wonderful thing was that they went home interested & happy.

The event was simple with little formality & protocols (only the opening & speeches were formal).

Guest of Honor plants the first tree. Many kids & participants get to plan trees as well. After tree planting was talk on EM.

The talk was suppose to be by Jon Su the expert, in the last minute he wanted me to do it. The audience was very interested banding their heads forward to see the slides & movie clip better. A lot of the adults came asking questions. They were very interested about EM (Effective Microbe) , whether it is usable at home (A:Yes) & the side effects of Mud Balls (A: None, they are just mud & natural bacterias).

The talk is followed by mud balls making session. St. Nicholas blind boys demonstrate to the public. Then the kids get to do it. They really enjoyed making mud balls & did a great job too. Many adults can't resist the fun & also join in making mud balls. Some people even took home.

St. Nicholas brought boxes of mud ball with them, all actually not fully covered with mold yet. But the children sooooo wanted to throw them that I had to let them do it. I ask every kids to bring as many as their hands can hold. They were really happy seeing the mud balls flying into the black river. Then one JCI member happily came with a whole box and the kids started throwing like mad. Watching adults started stretching their hands for the balls and trowing happily too. One box follow by many more boxes. Even the blind came to throw. Everyone had fun. I threw a few too : )

After mud balls throwing was drawing competition. The children had lots of fun drawing & colouring. After that they had to tell what they are trying to say in their drawing. I was fun for me & them too. Here are some photos that I have in my camera.

The interest of the residents to setup a recycle-collection system & food waste-collection system were high. YB Phee Boon Poh said he will get the MPPP to provide bins & man power to run the system that we intend to help setup. There will be a meeting with the residents on Thursday 8:30PM to take this further.

Everyone went home happy. : )