Durian Makan Makan Trip @ Balik Pulau

It’s time of the year for the King of fruits and for this year, JH help us to organize a durian outing to Mr. Liew’s farm in Sungai Pinang for all the volunteers in the blood donation group.

We had our usual blood donation campaign in the morning, which happens to coincide with the 2009 World Blood Donation Day too. All the volunteers worked very hard and some even donated blood to make this 159th Campaign a success. Durian has always been a love/hate affair depending on which camp you are on. For the lovers, they were salivating just by thinking of durians; for the haters, they just wanna avoid this and run home!

We set off around 3pm to balik pulau after clearing up. JH, JW, HS and WR drove about 20 of us to the farm at Sungai Pinang. We met Mr. Liew near the MCA center there and he showed us the way to his farm. It was on those obscure road, off the main thoroughfare, along a river where you can see lots of people having their picnics and just having fun by the water. It was just a short drive and we arrive at his farm. When we arrived, there were already 3 groups there savouring their durians. Mr. Liew and wife, invited us for special homemade ice-cold nutmeg drink first! Wow. It was very refreshing! Fresh with no added preservative and sugar. Then They took us on a tour of their farm, showing us all types of plants and trees which (we are “sua pa kao”(jungle monkey in hokkien), to be exact , city “kao”), never seen before. We saw nutmeg tree, mango tree, pepper plant, lots of herbs, pomelo tree! I used to think it’s a creepy crawly like the watermelon, just indeed surprised to see that this heavy juicy fruit grow on trees! And finally, the highlight, Mrs Liew bought us to the nice cooling refreshing waterfall. Definitely didn’t expect that! There was a swing there too. Everyone just took off their shoes and dip in and just play with water.

After we had enough and our tummy grumbling, we headed back to his shed for our durians. Mr. Liew has reserved some of the best from his trees for us! We were indeed very lucky to taste all the yummy “branded” durians, like “ xiao hung, horlor, ang hey, lao chang” etc. Just to name a few. WR Just fell inlove with “xiao hung”, keeps singing “ xiao hung, xiao hung, wo ai ni” . Check out the pics from the sidebar for the pics!

All in all, an enjoyable and wonderful outing. Thanks to Bro JH for this yummy treat!

世界献血日 World Blood Donor Day

这个星期日是世界献血日
This Sunday is World Blood Donor Day

WHO set the theme as :
世界卫生组织定的主题 ：

¨Achieving 100 percent non-remunerated donation of blood and blood components¨
达到100%无偿献血

Please donate to save life.

Another Life Saving Event in Pacific Komtar

To response to the request, we will organize another Blood Donation Campaign in Komtar. We are thinking to able to call more people to become blood donors, thus to save more life.

Venue : Level 3, Komtar (Pacific Entrance)
Date : 24/May/2009 (Sun)
Time : 11.00am to 04.00pm









It's the same venue that we organized last BDC in 11-Jan-2009.

How to reach there ?

1). From "old" Komtar :









2). From Georgetown Cafe :









See you there !!!

Visit to another Blood Donation Group

Chinese proverb says "learning never end". Although the Metta Blood Donation Group of Hui Yin Seh may be the longest surviving volunteer Blood Donation Group in Malaysia, we are looking to continuous improvement.

We visited the other famous Blood Donation Group in Kedah, the Sungei Petani (SP) Blood Donation Association on 08-Mar-2009 (Sun).












The SP group was established in 2003 and has organised 96 blood donation campaigns, quite a great success within only 6 years.





We have exchanged views on how to improve together.

My secretaries has drafted many action items to do. Haha!

负血型者的求救声及传发拯求血液急救短讯

最近一直收到这个短讯

“请帮忙呼吁，请问有谁能捐 0 Negative 血型？ 非常急用于急救一名孕妇及即将出世的两个小生命。 如找到， 请联络 Lim XXX Aun (Tel: 012-499XXXX)
您的大爱，将万分感激。”

尝试联络 Mr.Lim, 但电话好像已经停止服务，因为sms上没注明有关医院及病患姓名，所以至今也无法证实这短讯。

你是否收到过SMS要求捐血?
你是否好心的转发SMS给更多人?
你有帮到他们吗? 答案是90% 没有。

这种方法无疑可以解決了不少亟需血液急救的个案，请在传发短讯前：
1向有关医院确认
2必要時幫忙找人献血，而非盲目传发。

短讯內容：
1注明病患需要用血的日期。
2病患姓名。
3病患血型。
4病患所需的用血量。
5医院名称及州属。
6联络人姓名及电話号码。

短讯的內容，以供公众參考，如下：

"陈小明在吉打州双溪大年XX医院，于2月12日需要5包的B+血，請联络陈妈妈012-1234567，谢谢！

善心人士助人的精神值得赞扬，可是，大家必须懂得如何更加有效去幫助有需要者，必要時幫忙找人献血，而不应盲目传发短讯。
發送徵求血液急救短訊須註明病患需用期 - 中国报 February 12, 2006 18:27

Photos of 岁末献礼紧急献血运动

SOS !!! Help !!! Donate Blood !!!

Thank you to everyone, the blood donation event was a success, a total of 651 donors response to the SOS call. See you again !!!



Penang Hospital Blood Banks is facing shortage of blood, please come to donate blood.

Venue : Level 3, Komtar (Pacific Entrance)
Date : 11/Jan/2009 (Sun)
Time : 10.00am to 06.00pm



It's easy to find the venue, either enter through this glass door,
take the lift, go to level 3.





OR

climb a bit, good through this small door. It's short-cut (really ?).





Hope you will fill up all the donation beds here.






And Here !!!








We are ready, how about you ?