11th March 2009

During the discussion with Mr.Yeow, he came up with this idea of synergizing the strength of all the groups who are doing the project and we were to be specializing on certain sectors. We discussed for awhile with Mr. Yeow and we decided that we will be specializing on the creating awareness scetor. Thus, we will be advocating the importance of vegetariansim to the students of RI. This includes infusing vegetarianism into the curriculam, distributing flyers, and giving talks during assembly. All of thess will need permission from the principal of the school.

Meeting with Mr. Yeow

For the past few weeks we had met up with the representitive of our community partner VSS, Mr. Yeow. He gave us some talks about vegetarianism and we had discussed about some of the proejct proposals and he gave us a lot of ideas in doing the project. He always emphasize on the importance of infusing vegetarianism into the curriculam and all other methods in raising awareness were not as effective as this one. We could never agree more about this and with his advice, we decided to include this element into our project. With the green light from him, we had finalized the proposal of our project which is creating awareness among the students about the importance of vegetarianism. In addition, we will try to infuse vegerarianism into the curriculam as far as possible.
With Mr. Yeow's guidance, I personally felt that the project will be succesful as he is very experienced in this sector.

I personaly felt that the progress of this project was rather at a slow pace. For instance, when we have to come out with a project proposal, we spent a couple of weeks to come out with a finalized project proposal and that was beyond the date line given. Everytime we were required to do the proposal, our team does not respond to it immediately and we dragged it along until before the day we have to pass up the proposal. This happened because all of us were busy revising for our tests and were busy with CCA and some school activities. We could have done better in this if we manage our time properly to avoid doing things in the last minute.
Besides that, the difficulty in accessing to the computer further slows down our progress of the project. As all of us are staying in the boarding, we are not allowed to bring a laptop and we can only use the computer at the com lab situated in the boarding. The com lab operates daily from 7.45pm to 9.30pm which is during the prep time. Everytime we wanted to do a research, send emails, do proposals etc, we can only use the computer around that time. This is rather inconvenient to us as we need to do revisions during prep time and we don't have time for the com lab.
Lastly, the lack of experience in doing projects is the MAIN factor that causes the progress of our project to run slow. In Malaysia, all of us were not exposed to doing projects like RE-SL projects. Hence, we do absolutely NO IDEA about what is the correct way of doing it. For instance the format of a formal invitation through emails, the correct way of doing researchs, the correct way of doing the proposals etc. Everytime we tried and gave our best in doing the project but somehow we did not get it right in the end. This always frustrates us A LOT!!!! But no matter what we will still put in the effort that we had always been putting in and thats the MALAYSIAN spirit =)

I think that the meeting with Mr. Yeow was quite a good one because we manage to find out much more about vvegeterism and the ways to encounter this problem. Even though we did not get to express our original idea or plan, as Mr. Yeow had told us that his previous teams had did some reach outs that were quite similar to ours but did not get satisfactory results.

I think that this project is a difficult and challenging one because it is almost impossible to convince people to eat more vegetables as meat is so much more tasty and delicious to eat. However, I hope that my team mates and I will try our very best to convince the people around us that eating vegetables and less meat is a good thing.

Concerning our progress of this project, I think that we are going at a very slow pace. This is because of our own individual busy schedule every day but this cannot be helped. Hopefully, everything will settle down quickly and the real thing can really start as we start the momentum on this project.

Kern Hong

During the meeting with Mr Yeow, we didn’t share more with him about our original proposal which we think it is quite good. He gave us a lot of suggestions like infusing the idea of vegetarianism into the CLE lesson. He also told us that we have to be very clear about the pressing issues about what happen to the world by consumption of meat. Besides, he wanted us to think of ways to raise awareness.

I think the progress of this project is quite slow as two of the group members always have tournament and cannot make it to the meeting. Besides, we always have a lot of arguments and disagreements in a discussion.

To make the group and project successful, I think we must first respect others and express our thoughts in a more polite way. It is because we always disagree with others' suggestions but we cannot give a useful ones.

Cheng Yuen

I think that the meetings with Mr. Yeow were not quite what I had expected. We planned so hard on that proposal but we still can’t present our proposal well during our meetings. So, I think that Mr. Yeow still can’t really know what we are planning to do. Besides that, I think that what Mr. Yeow said is quite useful for us because we are not quite familiar with all those vegetarianism stuff and all the questions that he has encountered. So, I think his advice is quite useful for us. But on the other hand, I think that all those questions that were brought out needed research about it. But now we are still struggling to suit our life here. So I think that we needed more time. But as we are progressing, I think we can do better and faster because our pace is quite slow.

I think that the group should be more cooperative and respect other people’s idea and listen to it till he finishes his ideas because people’s ideas are always interrupted by other people’s disagreement. So I think that the first thing to do is to respect our own member of the group.

Wei Herr