When

When you miss somebody for no reason
When you change your favor on picking food
When you need think for a reason for back late
When you reserve your time just hope for a meet
When your mind always tight with a same face
When you set special ring tone for somebody
When you willing spend time on action movie
When you start trying to like sport on TV
When you smile silly of mentioning of a name
When you tender your voices on certain phone
When you frequently check phone SMS and calls
When you care whether you looks good for somebody
When you rethink what is your priority
When you scaring the feeling of lost somebody
When you meet up somebody’s friend frequent that yours own
When you happy that you pleased somebody
When you brave to do somethings which previously you don’t
When you have a dream which you hope complete together with somebody
When you drop tears of listening some words from somebody
When you feel nothings more important than what you having now
When you appreciate shoulder that accompany you walk with
When you wish the time halt of spending with somebody
When you now practice somebody’s habit and interest
When you melt with a familiar and tender voices
When you proud listening your name been mentioned
When you shy to get close to
When you pretend you could stay good alone
When you hide off you emotion afraid upsetting somebody
When your mood go down and up according with
When you like to describe terms of `we` instead of `I`
When you proud to present that somethings which is `my`
When you smile all along by reading what I wrote

When, you are, be with.

Visit to TRH

What a great Sunday, while rare have chances to sleep until noon, but I still wake up at 6am and go for LRT on 7am… What’s for? Today is Sunday… And I am no longer
work day and night, one to seven a week!

Ok, there’s a reason. I am going back to my company… to gather with others
for our visit to Rumah Tunas Harapan, Kuala Selangor. As common, Kuala Selangor
is famous with delicious cheap (?) seafood and firefly (kelip-kelip in B.M.).
We not go for this both reason today. We are going for the kids!

Rumah Tunas Harapan has six houses, combines Malays, Chinese and Indians kids
under families with general facilities. What makes it different to the others
orphanage, is they try to put children under a family, each family have a pair
of volunteer parents to take care of the children. The orphans live with these
volunteer parents and their own kids, as a real family.

We gather 8.00-8.30am at office, bringing up all the gift, hampers, food,
clothes and stuff; getting all ready we start move on the journey. We drive
cars in convoy, one follow by one and there are nine cars, about 25-30 of us
are joining this event. I am in the same cars with Lily (our dearest driver),
Foong Yen, and Linda (lovely TSS manager).

Along the way every way is green with palm trees, coconut trees and bananas
trees; "Kampung" feel house; lesser vehicles;

9.45am we reach the RTH in Kuala Selangor. Start up with a
short speech, and then we divide the children into 4 groups: green, blue, red
and yellow. I am one of the sister (Team leader or mentor a.k.a kakak) of the
blue team.

1st we start with the bookmarks making sessions: we teach the kids how to make
a simple bookmark, and then place some stickers on, stick little white card
with cops, tie up with ribbon and decorate with any materials that we have. The
kids have fun with this session, proudly watching the bookmarks that making and
designed by themselves.

Then we have the "sorakan semangat" session where we need to think of
a slogan/shoutout and team name of each groups. My team named themselves as
"hero", and we having slogan: "Superman, batman, cicakman,
ketepi-tepi; Kumpulan biru, semuanya hero!" Sounds great with hand motion
together. Thank you for Foong Yen’s idea dedication. God knows I never be any
innovative or creative person :-p

Then, we start on the tele-matches "sukaneka" where 1st game is
bringing the ping pong with spoon, 2nd game is water balloons. The 2nd game is
children’s famous… sawing them so happy throwing the water balloons… ya as
expected… some getting wet and the fine balloons which successfully been
delivered is less. But we all have fun!

The schedules is simple… but then in between there is some minor things going
on, so I just shorten all things here. Coming up we have another game sessions
involving all kids: music box (kotak beracun in B.M.) There are little piece of
papers writing several of action or commands in the box. The kids sit in a
round and need to pass the box to the next. If the music stop and the box are
on whose hands, he/she may need to take out a paper from the box and follow the
command written. What’s good is the kid which completes the simple command is
given a special gift.

It’s another guessing contest where open opportunity to the kids to guess how
many candies is there in the bottle. Who have the nearest number can win the
bottle with candies!

Come to the last, we announced who is the winner of the game by groups: 4th
place is yellow, 3rd is red, 2nd is green and my BLUE team won the 1st place!
Yahoo! Each group gets a hamper that we dedicate.

Finally we end up with lunch session. We have KFC Kentucky fried chicken for
kids; Thank you for our lovely manager Linda Chew to buy us lunch for KFC as
well (because we do not want to use the $ collected for kids to buy our lunch).
Everyone is happy and enjoying their meals. While eating, Lily showing photo
slide show at the projectors screening on the walls. Kids are so enjoy and
excited to watching they appear on these entire photo gallery.

End up we take a photo together with the kids combining all our TSS
participants.
Spending about 3 hours+ there, we leaving about 1.30pm. I think this event is so success and everyone of us including the kids is
having a good time spending together. When leaving, all those lovely child come
and say goodbye and "salam" with me. So touchy… I wish I will have
a chance again to come back and visit them

Ok, we do not go for any seafood or fireflies… All the way forward back
Damansara KL and leaving Kuala Selangor. Still 4 same of us in the car. While
arrived Sg Bulor, we decide to get some drinks. We saw there is a stall selling
cendol beside roads. So we stop and have a break there. Beside cendol, we
having rojak (kind of mixing stuff together), fried bananas (pisang goreng),
fish cakes and snack (in Malay called keropok, lekor, losong etc). The cendol
is nice! And it is out of expected cheap, $1 for each… good taste!

Then we continue the journey back… while sending Linda back to her home,
someone suggest to have coconut drink after we have those fried snacks. Yup,
why not? So we go for it. It’s at the Taman Manjarela,
Damansara. Linda highly recommended us a food stall there which sells Java Mee
(mi jawa). Sound good, I would like to have a try, take away as my dinner.

After send back Linda to home and Foong Yen go back with husband waiting at
Linda house. Lily is going back to her Bangsar home and drops me at Bangsar
LRT. Easy I take again LRT to going back my KL home.

Conclude all, today is a great day that I could have so much of events on. I
really enjoy and appreciate all. Anyway be very honest I might not a very
sympathetic person or very pro-active person on any helping events. My concept
is always helping others where I have resources. I am not able to dedicate much
on $, so I dedicate energy and my lazy rest Sunday to spending time with the
kids.

As frankly, these orphans been taking good care, and there is frequent have
peoples or organization come doing donations or visit for them. Anyway,
sympathy on these little children with not with their own parents, even they
have an average good environment to stay for. Sincerely I hope all they is
growing up with joyful and happiness and may all of them is able to be
independent in future and build up to have their real and own family, living
with brightly vision.