Oh let the hand of friendship,
Be stretched across the sea,
To bring mankind together,
In one fraternity,
May love and understanding,
Prevail in one and all,
May brother come to sister,
To answer duty's call,
We're faithful Interactors,
Prepared to play our part,
To serve with love and needy,
With understanding heart,
When nations join with nations,
To build a brave new world,
Thus than the heart of children,
Shall sing the song of mirth,
Let not your feet be lagging,
But come and join our throng,
Let's fill this world together,
With friendship happy song!
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To those who are coming on IU DAY,
Written on: Friday, March 27, 2009 Time: 4:27 AMComments:
0 comments
Those who are coming to our IU Day tomorrow, please dress up decently no matter who you are, ex- SG students or people from other schools. There will be teachers that will seriously stop you from coming in if you do not follow these intructions. Thank you.
AND FINALLY, every single Interact members received their new Interact's T-shirt today and it is PINK =). Thanks to our very own Club Service Director, Carmen Cheong, for designing our Interact T-shirt.
Our new Interact T-shirt. (The pictures are abit blur. Sorry)
And to the rest of the Interact members, remember to wear our new Interact T-shirt tomorrow and wear long pants. I bet our IU DAY tomorrow will be a night we will never forget.
IU DAY: Tickets Sold Out!
Written on: Monday, March 23, 2009 Time: 10:29 PMComments:
0 comments
Please take notice that the tickets for International Understanding Day (IU Day) 2009 are completely SOLD OUT.
To those who failed to purchase the tickets earlier, we are very sorry to tell you that you can't come for our IU Day this year. However, there is still next year. And the Interactors and Youthactors of Sri Garden, please discontinue the promotion for IU Day.
For more information, please contact Hiew Jian Yong (IU Director) of 5Sc1 or Adrihani Rashid (Asst. IU Director) of 4Sc1.
Say "NO" to FUR!
Written on: Sunday, March 15, 2009 Time: 11:10 PMComments:
0 comments
Say "NO" to FUR!
by Lee Hua Min
Can you imagine yourself being kept in a tiny cage with many others, with barely enough room for everyone to live in? Then day by day, those kept in the cage with you are being led away, one by one.
You can hear them cry, scream and moan. You can see them being tortured and skinned alive.
Sooner or later, you know that it is going to be your turn.This is what the animals are facing in many places all over the world. They are all suffering this cruel fate just because some people enjoy wearing their fur.
Every year, millions of animals such as coyotes, lynxes, beavers, otters, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, minks, opossums and coyotes are trapped, drowned or beaten to death in the fur farm.
Inside a fur farm
“Fur farm” is a farm which has a purpose of turn animal’s fur into clothing. Animals that are farmed for their fur live in filthy conditions and are fed meat byproducts which is food that’s not considered fit for humans to eat. Other than that, animals on fur farms are stuck in cages where they’re exposed to all sorts of weather conditions, including the blazing hot sun, pounding rain, and snow. They are treated like garbage.
Workers at these fur farms frequently skin these animals while they are still alive and struggling desperately when they are flipped onto their backs or hung by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. Killing animals for their fur is murder and it should be illegal.
And can you believe that it takes 40 animals just to make one fur coat??!! Wake up, people! Start preventing yourself and also others from wearing animal furs because there are so many great alternatives to fur, leather, and wool available, there’s no reason to wear the skin, fleece, or fur of any animal.
A cute mink ended up....
being skinned alive..
and the skin became a scarf on sale. Do you feel like buying it now?
Ohh.. and I forget to mention, animals are made into rugs too.
wolf rug & polar bear rug
And here are some facts about animal cruelty: 1. In many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines!
2. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.
3. More than 15 million warm-blooded animals are used in research every year.
4. Scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day! That's about one species every 15 minutes.
5. If you live in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Rhode Island, Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Vermont you have the legal right to refuse to participate in dissection in class! In Louisiana, there is a State resolution and in Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland and New Mexico, there are Departments of Education resolutions in place that allow you to refuse to dissect, although it hasn’t yet become a law.
6. Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states.
7. It is estimated that on average it takes 1,000 dogs to maintain a mid-sized racetrack operation. New greyhounds are continually entering the system to replace greyhounds that grade-off due to injury, age or poor performance. There are currently over 30 tracks operating in the United States.
8. Tens of thousands of wild and domesticated horses from the United States are cruelly slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the U.S. were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
9. Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.
10. Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.
11. A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.
Earth Hour 2009
Written on: Friday, March 6, 2009 Time: 9:11 PMComments:
0 comments
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, colour and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as a vote - switching your lights off as a vote for Earth, or leaving them on as a vote for global warming.
WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH to reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to the world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will then later determine offical goverment policies to take action againts global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the voices of people from all over the world to be heard.
Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009 which also includes Malaysia. Therefore, we all have to vote because every single vote counts and it can make a huge difference for our planet, Earth.
So, VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour. Date: 28th March 2009, Saturday
Time: 8.30pm-9.30pm
Unfortunately, this falls on the same day as our Interact's IU Night. So, for those who are not coming for our IU Night on the 28th March, please join the world for Earth Hour. Thank you.
Written on: Monday, March 2, 2009 Time: 1:51 AMComments:
0 comments
Once again, we, the Interact Club are oraganising our annual event which is the International Understanding Day (IU Day). It will be held in Sri Garden on the 28th March 2009. The aim of this day is to enable everyone to understand & learn about other countries's culture & also their histories. Every year, there will be a different theme so this year's IU day will be: "America, Here I Come!". However, this IU Day will be held in the evening which is different from the previous one.
There will be special & exciting performances that will impress you. Not forgetting dinner (1901 hot dog), which will be provided if you purchased the ticket.
So be sure to come. If you purchase your ticket earlier, it will be rm10. Do contact any interactors if you want to purchase the ticket. Thank you.
1. Black gold which is also known as Texas tea, petroleum or crude oil - which is in no way related to the oils we eat or excrete.
2. If you are a creationist, crude oil was formed by thousands of years of heat and pressure applied to the carcasses of plants and animals that died in the Great Flood. If you're not, you think oil comes from dinosaurs, right?
3. Wrong. Almost all oil comes from pressure-cooking dead zooplankton and algae -- pond scum, in other words -- which are among the oldest and most abundant life forms on earth.
4. Don't blame the Hummers. That pond scum ultimately produced trillions upon trillions of gallons of oil. But most of it bubbled up to the surface long ago and was consumed by greedy bacteria.
5. Oil companies seek the small fraction that remains, spending more than $150 billion a year hunting for new reserves.
6. Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.
7. When you buy gasoline, you might want to make your purchase at night -- it will be cheaper. Gasoline becomes more dense in cooler temperatures and gas pumps measure gas by volume.
8. A tip for trippers: Keep your windows closed at high speeds -- drag from open windows can reduce a car's fuel efficiency by 10 percent.
9. Neatness counts, too: Cleaning 100 pounds of junk from your car will get you up to 2 percent more miles per gallon.
10. Another trip tip: Instead of taking a break for lunch at a restaurant, cook food on your engine. Find out how (and get a recipe for Hyundai halibut with fennel) in the classic book "Manifold Destiny."
11. The recipe for gasoline itself is complex. Depending on the blend, it can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.
12. Tighten your gas cap. A leaking or missing cap can release 30 gallons of fuel per year into the atmosphere.
13. In California alone, vapors from gas stations account for enough gasoline to fill two tanker trucks every day.
14. Speaking of tankers, that truck you're trying to pass may be carrying 4,000 gallons of gas, which, if in a crash, can explode with the energy of 200 tons of TNT.
15. By the eighth century, a petroleum industry already existed in the Middle East. The streets of Baghdad were paved with tar derived from petroleum.
16. In oil-rich Baku, Azerbaijan, north of Iran, villagers could once dig a hole in the ground with their hands, drop in a live coal and start a fire.
17. In the United States, when people first noticed oil, they didn't quite grasp the energy angle. Instead they did what any industrious American would do: They bottled it, slapped a label on and sold it as a health tonic.
18. Several hundred thousand bottles of the stuff are said to have been purchased and, perhaps, consumed.
19. Since they moved on from the health-drink angle, Americans have laid down 161,000 miles of fuel pipeline in the United States. That's more than half the distance to the Moon.
20. Spies like pipelines. Engineers use a robotic device known as a smart pig to inspect pipelines from the inside. Two James Bond movies so far have made oil pipelines and pigs part of the plot: "The Living Daylights" and "The World is Not Enough."
To those who are coming on IU DAY,
Written on: Friday, March 27, 2009 Time: 4:27 AMComments:
0 comments
Those who are coming to our IU Day tomorrow, please dress up decently no matter who you are, ex- SG students or people from other schools. There will be teachers that will seriously stop you from coming in if you do not follow these intructions. Thank you.
AND FINALLY, every single Interact members received their new Interact's T-shirt today and it is PINK =). Thanks to our very own Club Service Director, Carmen Cheong, for designing our Interact T-shirt.
Our new Interact T-shirt. (The pictures are abit blur. Sorry)
And to the rest of the Interact members, remember to wear our new Interact T-shirt tomorrow and wear long pants. I bet our IU DAY tomorrow will be a night we will never forget.
IU DAY: Tickets Sold Out!
Written on: Monday, March 23, 2009 Time: 10:29 PMComments:
0 comments
Please take notice that the tickets for International Understanding Day (IU Day) 2009 are completely SOLD OUT.
To those who failed to purchase the tickets earlier, we are very sorry to tell you that you can't come for our IU Day this year. However, there is still next year. And the Interactors and Youthactors of Sri Garden, please discontinue the promotion for IU Day.
For more information, please contact Hiew Jian Yong (IU Director) of 5Sc1 or Adrihani Rashid (Asst. IU Director) of 4Sc1.
Say "NO" to FUR!
Written on: Sunday, March 15, 2009 Time: 11:10 PMComments:
0 comments
Say "NO" to FUR!
by Lee Hua Min
Can you imagine yourself being kept in a tiny cage with many others, with barely enough room for everyone to live in? Then day by day, those kept in the cage with you are being led away, one by one.
You can hear them cry, scream and moan. You can see them being tortured and skinned alive.
Sooner or later, you know that it is going to be your turn.This is what the animals are facing in many places all over the world. They are all suffering this cruel fate just because some people enjoy wearing their fur.
Every year, millions of animals such as coyotes, lynxes, beavers, otters, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, minks, opossums and coyotes are trapped, drowned or beaten to death in the fur farm.
Inside a fur farm
“Fur farm” is a farm which has a purpose of turn animal’s fur into clothing. Animals that are farmed for their fur live in filthy conditions and are fed meat byproducts which is food that’s not considered fit for humans to eat. Other than that, animals on fur farms are stuck in cages where they’re exposed to all sorts of weather conditions, including the blazing hot sun, pounding rain, and snow. They are treated like garbage.
Workers at these fur farms frequently skin these animals while they are still alive and struggling desperately when they are flipped onto their backs or hung by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. Killing animals for their fur is murder and it should be illegal.
And can you believe that it takes 40 animals just to make one fur coat??!! Wake up, people! Start preventing yourself and also others from wearing animal furs because there are so many great alternatives to fur, leather, and wool available, there’s no reason to wear the skin, fleece, or fur of any animal.
A cute mink ended up....
being skinned alive..
and the skin became a scarf on sale. Do you feel like buying it now?
Ohh.. and I forget to mention, animals are made into rugs too.
wolf rug & polar bear rug
And here are some facts about animal cruelty: 1. In many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines!
2. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.
3. More than 15 million warm-blooded animals are used in research every year.
4. Scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day! That's about one species every 15 minutes.
5. If you live in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Rhode Island, Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Vermont you have the legal right to refuse to participate in dissection in class! In Louisiana, there is a State resolution and in Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland and New Mexico, there are Departments of Education resolutions in place that allow you to refuse to dissect, although it hasn’t yet become a law.
6. Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states.
7. It is estimated that on average it takes 1,000 dogs to maintain a mid-sized racetrack operation. New greyhounds are continually entering the system to replace greyhounds that grade-off due to injury, age or poor performance. There are currently over 30 tracks operating in the United States.
8. Tens of thousands of wild and domesticated horses from the United States are cruelly slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the U.S. were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
9. Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.
10. Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.
11. A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.
Earth Hour 2009
Written on: Friday, March 6, 2009 Time: 9:11 PMComments:
0 comments
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, colour and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as a vote - switching your lights off as a vote for Earth, or leaving them on as a vote for global warming.
WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH to reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to the world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will then later determine offical goverment policies to take action againts global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the voices of people from all over the world to be heard.
Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009 which also includes Malaysia. Therefore, we all have to vote because every single vote counts and it can make a huge difference for our planet, Earth.
So, VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour. Date: 28th March 2009, Saturday
Time: 8.30pm-9.30pm
Unfortunately, this falls on the same day as our Interact's IU Night. So, for those who are not coming for our IU Night on the 28th March, please join the world for Earth Hour. Thank you.
Written on: Monday, March 2, 2009 Time: 1:51 AMComments:
0 comments
Once again, we, the Interact Club are oraganising our annual event which is the International Understanding Day (IU Day). It will be held in Sri Garden on the 28th March 2009. The aim of this day is to enable everyone to understand & learn about other countries's culture & also their histories. Every year, there will be a different theme so this year's IU day will be: "America, Here I Come!". However, this IU Day will be held in the evening which is different from the previous one.
There will be special & exciting performances that will impress you. Not forgetting dinner (1901 hot dog), which will be provided if you purchased the ticket.
So be sure to come. If you purchase your ticket earlier, it will be rm10. Do contact any interactors if you want to purchase the ticket. Thank you.
1. Black gold which is also known as Texas tea, petroleum or crude oil - which is in no way related to the oils we eat or excrete.
2. If you are a creationist, crude oil was formed by thousands of years of heat and pressure applied to the carcasses of plants and animals that died in the Great Flood. If you're not, you think oil comes from dinosaurs, right?
3. Wrong. Almost all oil comes from pressure-cooking dead zooplankton and algae -- pond scum, in other words -- which are among the oldest and most abundant life forms on earth.
4. Don't blame the Hummers. That pond scum ultimately produced trillions upon trillions of gallons of oil. But most of it bubbled up to the surface long ago and was consumed by greedy bacteria.
5. Oil companies seek the small fraction that remains, spending more than $150 billion a year hunting for new reserves.
6. Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.
7. When you buy gasoline, you might want to make your purchase at night -- it will be cheaper. Gasoline becomes more dense in cooler temperatures and gas pumps measure gas by volume.
8. A tip for trippers: Keep your windows closed at high speeds -- drag from open windows can reduce a car's fuel efficiency by 10 percent.
9. Neatness counts, too: Cleaning 100 pounds of junk from your car will get you up to 2 percent more miles per gallon.
10. Another trip tip: Instead of taking a break for lunch at a restaurant, cook food on your engine. Find out how (and get a recipe for Hyundai halibut with fennel) in the classic book "Manifold Destiny."
11. The recipe for gasoline itself is complex. Depending on the blend, it can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.
12. Tighten your gas cap. A leaking or missing cap can release 30 gallons of fuel per year into the atmosphere.
13. In California alone, vapors from gas stations account for enough gasoline to fill two tanker trucks every day.
14. Speaking of tankers, that truck you're trying to pass may be carrying 4,000 gallons of gas, which, if in a crash, can explode with the energy of 200 tons of TNT.
15. By the eighth century, a petroleum industry already existed in the Middle East. The streets of Baghdad were paved with tar derived from petroleum.
16. In oil-rich Baku, Azerbaijan, north of Iran, villagers could once dig a hole in the ground with their hands, drop in a live coal and start a fire.
17. In the United States, when people first noticed oil, they didn't quite grasp the energy angle. Instead they did what any industrious American would do: They bottled it, slapped a label on and sold it as a health tonic.
18. Several hundred thousand bottles of the stuff are said to have been purchased and, perhaps, consumed.
19. Since they moved on from the health-drink angle, Americans have laid down 161,000 miles of fuel pipeline in the United States. That's more than half the distance to the Moon.
20. Spies like pipelines. Engineers use a robotic device known as a smart pig to inspect pipelines from the inside. Two James Bond movies so far have made oil pipelines and pigs part of the plot: "The Living Daylights" and "The World is Not Enough."
History
Interact Club
INTERACT is a rotary sponsored service organization similar to rotaract for young teenagers (ages 14-18years) that fosters leadership and responsible citizenship and promotes international understanding and peace the purpose of interact is to provide young people with the opportunity to work together in world fellowship dedication to serve and international understanding every club must be sponsored by rotary club and may be either school or community based.
Each year interact clubs complete a community service project interact is also a social organization interactors develops a world wide network of friend through exchanges with local clubs and those from different countries 9 international youth exchange)
Interact Clubs can either be school or community based, but in Malaysia and District 3300, all Interact Clubs all school based.
Tne first Interact Club was formed in 1962 in Melbourne High School, Florida, USA. Few months later, the first Interact Club outside of the USA was formed in Tanjore, India.
Purpose of Interact Club
Interact clubs are organized for the purpose of providing an opportunity for young people to work together in a world of fellowship dedicate to service and international understanding.
Teacher Advisor
Name: Miss Jenny
Board of Directors 08/09
President
Name: Terance Lee Email:teranceleessg@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: Vice-President Interests: Love watching TV, eating and then watching TV again
and the eat again. Hua Min's interest is me.
Vice-President
Name: Yin Sylvia Email:silly.is.me@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: Asst. IU Interests: Loves to dance, going shopping and also eating
Name: Cheong Xin Chi Email:xinchi.cheong@gmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: Secretary (Youthact club) Interests: Musical instruments, sports, theatre and going to chruch is my passion.
Name: Venugaa Sunthar Email:venugaa-sunthar@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: Club Service (Youthact Club) Interests: Talking, shopping, playing volleyball & badminton, watching TV and enjoy travelling.
Community Service
Name: Michelle Lim Email:limjiaxim@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: Asst. Community Service Interests: Love to sleep, eat & sleep.
Name: Lim Jiy Ni Email:jiynissg@hotmail.com Blog:www.jineeesays.blogspot.com/ Pervious Post: - Interests: :) Find ways to save money to prevent wastage! And also enjoy watching TV for a very long time.
Asst.Funding
Name: Jessica Chow Email:jessicachow.nk@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: IU (Youthact Club) Interests: Enjoys shopping, sleeping and also emo-ing.
IU
Name: Hiew Jian Yong Email:jianqzll@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: - Interests: Listening to Sigur Ros. But Hua Min said that my interest is her.
Name: Jonathan Lee Email:jonathanlee_737@hotmail.com Blog: - Pervious Post: Sergeant-At-Arms Interests: Enjoys ping pong, taking pictures & food.
Members
1. Alfred Choo Kay Yang
2. Al-Qasyaff Bin Zainal
3. Benny Teh
4. Farris Daniel Bin Abdul Rahman
5. Ho Lye Tong
6. Jaclyn Kong
7. Lim Fong Bee
8. Kho Zi Jun
9. Mohd. Yusri
10. Nur Shazmohamad
11. Ng Dickson
12. Ng Mun Yee
13. Wong Kah Seng
14. Shamyra Edora Razali
15. Steven Sim Wei Onn
16. Tan Zhao Shen
17. Yap Kah Weng
18. Michelle Lee Xin Yi
A cute mink ended up....
being skinned alive..
wolf rug & polar bear rug
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, colour and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as a vote - switching your lights off as a vote for Earth, or leaving them on as a vote for global warming. 
Once again, we, the Interact Club are oraganising our annual event which is the International Understanding Day (IU Day). It will be held in Sri Garden on the 28th March 2009. The aim of this day is to enable everyone to understand & learn about other countries's culture & also their histories. Every year, there will be a different theme so this year's IU day will be: "America, Here I Come!". However, this IU Day will be held in the evening which is different from the previous one.
