Yoga: 11th of June '14

Today is my last yoga meeting. Even so, I will still keep on practicing my yoga movements because I think it would be such a pity if I worked very hard all these weeks but end up inflexible like I was previously before joining yoga.

At the end of this CAS activity, I feel like I have grown not just physically but also mentally. Through the meditation that I have to do in the beginning of every yoga class, I became more patient and more focused. I feel like I am now calmer in handling problems that I have in my life because I learned in yoga class that I have to let go of the worries that I have once in a while.

In the beginning of this CAS activity, I was questioning whether it is ethical to take yoga classes (because a lot of people think that yoga is a process where one needs to unite one's body, mind and soul to reach enlightenment). After going through this CAS activity, I think that yoga is a completely ethical sport. In yoga class, I never was asked to meditate for so long as to unite my body, mind and soul to achieve "freedom" or "peace". The only unordinary thing that I was asked to do was to practice improve my mental state like letting go of my worries. Yoga may not be a conventional sport, but why should a sport that improves mental health be considered unethical?

Above all, I learned a lot from yoga class and I am glad to have chosen yoga as my CAS activity.

HFH Project: 11th of June '14

Today was the potluck service. We were soooo exhausted. People who said that they would buy the items (e.g. Calvin and Kelvin) apparently couldn't because they hadn't think through what transportation they're going to use. It was really chaotic. Everybody was panicking. Some customers gave their money right at this day too so we had to make sure that the ones buying their orders really do buy their orders. Most of the items ordered came on time though, which is a relief. But there were some items that are forgotten. Chika forgot to buy the 2 boxes of pizzas that our customers ordered. These orders are actually two of the orders that gives us the biggest profit, so it was really important that we get them for our customers. As a solution, we asked Chika's driver to buy the pizzas for us. It came about 20 minutes late but good thing it came before the potluck party was over. Besides that though, everything went smoothly. I am really really proud of my team members. I believe that we learned a lot from this experience. Every little detail should be thought about first. For me personally, I feel that I really learned that a group's ability that does not all depend on the leader but actually most of it depends on the members in it.

HFH Project: 10th of June '14

Today I sold some more brownies and peanut butter cookies. They sold out really fast. So it wasn't really a big fuss.

Mandy, Chika and I also went to Botani today after school to revise the proposal for Bu Harum. We got some feedbacks from Bu Harum. She said to change the list of menus. We have to sell less brownies and cookies, we're not allowed to sell es mambo and drinks and we're also not allowed to sell pasta. These are because either the food contain a lot of sugar or because they are sold by the vendors in our school's canteen. So Mandy, Chika and I had to research on other recipes that are healthier. We looked at food that contains fruits and veggies. So we changed es mambo with es susu and drinks with smoothies. We added some other menus like fruits covered in chocolate. I'm hoping that Bu Harum will accept the proposal this time. We finally finished the proposal today. We rushed because we want to get this done before the holiday and tomorrow is our last day of school. Now all we need to do is wait for Mandy to have it print and have her give it to Bu Harum tomorrow.

Besides that, while we were in Botan, we helped buy some of the times that are ordered for tomorrow's potluck service. We're scared if we will not have enough time to buy all of the items before the time tomorrow so we did this. We bought some of the orders for Cha Time and JCo. I'm really worried about tomorrow's potluck service. Hope nothing goes wrong.

HFH Project: 9th of June '14

We were really overwhelmed by the potluck service. We have a lot of things to do and things are so not organised. Thankfully Regina sort things out. She made an excel document on google drive listing out all of the menus that we're selling. We now just need a price tag for them. How much do the menus cost us? How much are we going to sell them for? And roughly how much are we making profit from these menus?

So thanks to Regina now we know the prices of the menus we're selling. Not a lot of people are coming to school today so I am in charge of collecting the payments for the potluck. It is quite a sudden for our customers actually because we just announced the prices we're charging through email not so long ago and we said that the last payment that they could make will be tomorrow, a day before the D-day. I was just hoping that all the customers can work this all out and be cooperative, but looking at how today goes I am optimistic that all the customers will make their payments on time. There were a lot of payments going in today.

Besides that, my group and I also sold what's left of the brownies and cookies. Chika bake some more brownies because Regina's group didn't want to bake the materials that they left last week. There were some materials that was not enough so she had to buy some more materials like eggs and sugar. So our costs adds but I'm pretty sure that we're still making profits. So it's okay. Today's selling went well so everything right now is fine.

HFH Project: 6th of June '14

Yesterday I couldn't help sell the brownies and cookies because I had to go somewhere so I couldn't come to school. But today I helped sell the brownies and cookies. Apparently, yesterday we didn't sell much but thankfully, today we sold a lot. The brownies were all finished so Regina's group has to make them again and finish all the materials this time. The peanut butter cookies sold well too today but there are still some left. Since the cookies do not rot easily we can still sell them on Monday next week. We just had to store them appropriately and securely at school. 

Besides selling brownies and cookies, today we also had a meeting to talk about next week's potluck service. So next week on Wednesday the whole school is going to have a potluck party and we plan on buying people's choices of food for their potluck and delivering them to their homeroom. We will raise the price and gain profit that way. Currently we plan on rising the price up to 10%. Our choices of shops range from KFC, McDonalds, Burger King, ChaTime, Domino's and Pizza Hut. These aren't finalised yet though. We still need to check on the prices so that we can know how much we're going to charge our customers later. There might still be changes to the percentage of the price increase and shops range.

Yoga: 5th of June '14

I'm reaching the end of this CAS activity. One more lesson, next week, I will be done with yoga. Although I will not be joining yoga class anymore after next week, my instructor told me to keep on practicing at home. I felt that after several times practicing yoga, I became more flexible and of course I do not want to be inflexible like I was in the beginning of yoga class. This is why, I have to keep on practicing at home although I am not going to be attending the yoga class anymore.

Today, only one of my "classmates" came to practice. The class was pretty quiet. It was not really fun. Plus, there was not anything different in today's practice. We did the same routine: meditation, sun greeting, cat pose, cobra pose, camel pose, etc. However, I did find some moments entertaining before. When I was doing the pose that required me to reach my toes, I could reach them quite easily. I felt really good about myself because I used to not be able to reach my toes, or at least it was really hard for me to reach my toes.

Although I learned a lot from yoga class, I decided not to continue the lesson because in every meeting, we always repeat the same pose (except once or twice when I did headstand). It gets boring and so I learn fewer every time I go to class. Nevertheless, I still recommend people to join yoga class (at least for a month) because they can learn a lot from it, not just physically but mentally.

Below is the picture of today's yoga practice:

HFH Project: 4th of June '14

Today my group and I made the brownies and the cookies. Although the proposal wasn't approved yet, Bu Helmy said that it will not be a problem if we sell these first. So we mad brownies and cookies by dividing ourselves into groups. Febie, Calvin, Kelvin and Regina are in charge of making the brownies and they're making them in the school's cooking lab. While Chika, Mandy, Sherni and I are in charge of making the cookies and we're making them in my place. The division of the team was pretty effective, however there was no control at all in Regina's team. They were told to use all of the materials at once to make 100 brownies but they instead used only half of the materials bought. They made it just for 50 brownies. Also, Calvin, Kelvin and Sherni didn't come to help today so we didn't get as much help as expected. Besides these I guess we all did fine today. We succeeded in making the brownies and cookies for tomorrow's selling and they tastes good too. I'm proud of us.

HFH Project: 3rd of June '14

Today Chika and I went to the supermarket to buy the materials that we will need to make brownies and cookies, as we plan on selling these for next week's fundraising. We bought the materials for 100 brownies and 100 cookies. It was pretty hard to calculate the amount of materials we need to buy on the store before. Chika and I should've done this before going to the store. What we did before was we look at list of materials needed in the recipe and calculated how much we need to make 100 pieces manually. It took quite a while. To minimise time, we should've also divided the job. For example, I could be in charge of collecting the materials needed for brownies and Chika could be in charge of collecting the materials needed for cookies.