Presentation after our Social Engagement

Presentation after our Social Engagement
by TAN CHEE YEOW

After our social engagement, we have to do some presentations about what we have done during our social engagement.

First at all, we separated into four groups. I'm one group with Wanyu, Pekche and Karmei. Fortunately, our team works is strong as we can finish our report and slides at the date we've agreed.

For my part, I took the responsibility to do the objectives, activity summary and future planning part. I wrote five objectives for the report. I also wrote an activity summary about the map drawing season during the social engagement. Lastly, I prepared three future planning for our art programme.

During the time I am preparing the report, I realized that this art programme isn't a short term programme. To get the best result, we have to do it every year and improve every year. So I hope that our juniors can make it more much better than we do.

茨场街五言诗一首。

陈启耀作

徐徐路边摊，壶中茶叶香；
酒店四方有，热情似烈阳。

旅人偶来访，及时逛茨场；
食得色香味，买得鱼与掌。

忆起旧商行，如今外劳忙；
平常叫卖声，换作英文帮。

尽兴数日酱，是时该回航；
旅人离而去，文化残而伤。

Day 1 by Chok

Today was our first journey of Our Social Engagement programme.14 of us gathered in the morning, and went to Petaling Street (茨厂街) by LRT together.

Many of us felt excited once we reached becauseit was the first time to step in Petaling Street for  some of us. After having our wonderful breakfast, all of us departed to Lostgens. Lostgens established in early 2004 by a group of artists. Though situated in the bustling capital city, Lostgens has managed to take on a certain quietness and edginess that comes from being off the beaten track. This self-managed experimental space aims to encourage originality, creativity, individuality, as well as to promote contemporary arts. It provides an alternative space for budding innovative exhibitions and performances. Lostgens has entered a next phase of unique development and operation. What started as a small private group has now moved out into the public, Lostgens aims to weave itself into the multicultural artistic atmosphere. More than just a place that brings together artists, it also provides a platform for a dynamic growth of multi-layered artistic culture.

We met up with the principal of ‘Lostgens’, Mr Yeoh.He slighyly introduced us about the art centre and those things we were going to do in the coming days.After it, we went for an interview along the Petaling Street.

Those are some example of places we went for the interview along Petaling Street.Although it was hot inn weather, and we were extremely tired, but it was a great day for us to learn many things and experienced a lot.

 Chok

5th Day 。 Final Day

      Today is the final day of our social engagement. We continue all those thing we haven't complete on the first four day. We divided into few group and walk around Petaling Street to complete our maping. We jot down the exact location and the name of the shop along the road. Some of the old shop had closed down but the name is still there so we need to interview locals there and record down. 

The map that we done in these five days

All coursemate's photo captured together before this projek ends

wanyu

Social Engagement ------------ 4th Day

Today is the forth day we having our social engagement projek in Petaling street. We plan to end up this projek with a zine that combine everything we did during this five day but most of us are not good in editing and designing using phtoshop so Mr yeoh had organise a photoshop workshop and designing workshop. We have two teacher teaching us in both workshop. Through the few hour workshop, we learn more about using the photoshop and we tend to be more handful to the new skill.

Everyone of us paying full attention and focus to the workdhop so that we can done our zine perfectly. During the drawing workshop, Miss Nia which is our teacher ask us try to draw something and try to use our creativity.

wanyu

Rumah Tamu Birdnest -------- Hari Ketiga

     Hari ini merupakan hari ketiga kami menjalankan projek Jalinan Masyarakat, kami telah mengikut kumpulan yang telah dibahagikan semalam dan menjalankan interview serta memberi bantuan kepada penjaja dan peniaga tempatan. Saya, Winnie dan Michelle telah dibahagikan dalam satu kumpulan dan akan menjalankan tugas di Rumah Tamu Birdnest. Rumah tamu ini berada di kawasan perniagaan dan terdapat tiga tingkat termasuk bumbungnya. Kami mengadakan seksyen interview yang ringkas di atas bumbung rumah tamu. Ribuan terima kasih ingin diucapkan kepada Bos rumah tamu kerana sudi meluangkan masa untuk menerima interview serta memperkenalkan ruang tamunya dengan sangat jelas. Melalui interview, kami dapati rumah tamu ini bernama Birdnest kerana kebanyakan pelanggan adalah dari negara asing terutamanya dari Australia dan South Africa. Mr Willi berharap rumah tamu ini dapat memberi pelanggan asing berasa selesa seperti dalam rumah sendiri. Birtnest iaitu sarang burung merupakan rumah burung. Pelanggan dari negara asing adalah burung yang berterbang dari satu negara ke satu negara manakala sarang burung merupakan rumah mereka untuk berehat.

Berikut merupakan pemandangan bumbung rumah tamu Birdnest

 Reka bentuk dan corak lukisan atas dinding sangat unik. Ini merupakan corak yang dilukis oleh artis yang berasal dari seluruh dunia. Mereka boleh menjadi pembantu atau melukis untuk mendapatkan tempat tinggal secara percuma. 

Winnie dan Michelle sedang menyediakan peralatan untuk menjalankan interview

Ini merupakan salah satu bilik ruang tamu Birdnest

Corak yang dilukis oleh artis di atas setiap pintu bilik

Kami sedang melihat sekeliling rumah tamu

Bos rumah tamu : Mr Willi

                         wanyu 

社会服务第二天 ----- 开工啦！

     

        正式进入了第二天了，为了让在场的志工能够认识我们，我们每位进行了简短的自我介绍环节。介绍完毕后，杨老师便正式向我们讲解了此次活动需要被完成的事项。讲解一完毕，我们便开始被分成了几个小组然后等待着被分派至由当地居民经营的几个商店或档口协助他们并进行访问。这次的商家与档口包括了品泉饼家，鸟巢旅店，杰隆文具商行，维纳斯美术用品专卖店以及煮炒档口。由于我们计划将这次的合作计划及过程刊登成一本小书册因此我们也开始分组并各司其职为免小书册胎死腹中。我们将把收集来的访谈资料一并整理好后放入小书册中。除此之外，我们也需把茨厂街的地图绘出来。待组别分好后我们边各自完成自己手中的任务。被分至需要到商店去进行访问的小组准备就绪后就出发到目的地去了。而剩余的人便开始进行地图绘测。

     

      Today is the second day, in order to make us able to recognize by volunteers, we had a brief self-introduction section. After that, Yang started to explain the works that needs to be done in these few days. After he give us a complete explanation , we began to be divided into several groups and then waiting to be dispatched by the local residents to run several stores or stalls and assist them to access. This merchant stalls include Ping Quan bakery , Bird's Nest Inn , Jie Long Stationery firm , Venus art supplies store and food stalls . Since we plan to publish this social engagement program into zine so we had be divided into a small group and  began to carry out our duties in order to avoid zine can't come to real. We will have some interview and collect them together. In addition, we also need to done the Petaling Street mapping. Every group has been divided to complete their task in their hand and they start heading to the destination while the remaining people began to done the mapping.

畹妤笔

社会服务。大学必修课

今天就是长达四十小时即接连五天的社会服务计划开始的第一天。一大清早，我们便从马大出发。我们一行十二人浩浩荡荡的搭了公共巴士再转搭轻快铁接着再步行一段路才终于抵达了目的地。到底这目的地是哪里呢？为什么需要经过像到西天取经那样才能到达呢？答案：那就是位于茨厂街的Lostgens。这是个当代艺术空间，经常会展出来自世界各地的艺术家作品。虽然说是艺术展览但却与我们传统刻板的展览印象截然不同，这里的展览大多数都会让参展者有参与感。怎么说呢？恰巧在我们去的当天有一个想带出环保主题的展览。
Today is the first day we have our social engagement. We are having an art community project with Lostgens which is located at Petaling Street.

    据Lostgens的负责人杨两兴先生说，这些是一位日本艺术家从日本寄来的衣夹子。参展者可以随意用这些生活中随处可见的廉价衣架做成属于自己的艺术品。接着就让我们进入正题吧！因为我们即将在这里进行我们的活动所以杨先生便带我们熟悉这个空间。除了这些展览，这里也有个小小空间供人印出属于自己的衣服。

    在为我们介绍整个艺术空间后就来到下一个环节，那就是杨先生将会为我们导览整个茨厂街，带我们一探茨厂街这个布满文化的地方魅力。就这样，我们一个个就在这环节充当小小游客啦!

    杨先生非常详细的一一向我们介绍这里的街与巷名的由来，我们也仿佛跌入了时光隧道随着杨先生穿过大街小巷，想象着他向我们描述的古早时期街道的场景及古老建筑的原本面貌。走着走着我们便到了一座锡克庙。

杨老师在热辣的太阳底下耐心向我们讲解锡克庙的特色及它的由来等等。

锡克庙的门口摆着一篮丝巾，你们是不是很好奇为什么那里会摆着这么一篮丝巾呢？别急，让我们继续看下去吧！

答案揭晓啦！原来在进去庙前我们需要用丝巾把头部覆盖起来以示尊重。锡克庙在每周日都会免费招待一些饮料及食物而且任何人(不分种族)皆可以入庙里的食堂享用。这些食材皆由善长仁翁布施然后将有义工帮忙准备。锡克庙里的志愿工也非常热情的招待我们并与我们进行一段小访谈。这也让我们对于这座竖立在茨厂街的唯一一座锡克庙有更深入的了解。接着杨老师便领着我们一行人继续导览茨厂街。

沿着小巷弄走，我们便看见了一根灯柱竖立在那里。经介绍后方知那根灯柱在整个茨厂街里只有三根而我们看见的便是其中一。那根柱子就这样静静的在那巷弄里，饱经风霜且默默的杵在那里看到了几代人事的变迁。其中就有在那巷弄里的一位老婆婆。其丈夫本是位当地人人皆知的铁打师父但却已过世了。为了纪念她的丈夫，那间简陋的铁打木屋仍未拆除。老婆婆甚至在木屋旁经营了煮炒生意，偶尔也替人铁打推拿。这份感情还真是让人为之动容。我们一边走着听着就这样把整个茨厂街大约都走了一遍。

在吃完午餐把能量充满后，我们就继续我们的下一个行程那就是前往

Kampung Banda Dalam.

到达那里后，当地居民向我们大约解说了村里面临的问题以及他们为了保卫自己的家园所做出的努力。一向少关注时事新闻的我这时才发现原来有那么多人正在努力捍卫他们自己的家园。全村上下一条心保护他们共同的家园！那个村庄的地理位置也非常特别因为它的周围皆是高楼林立，也是那里仅存的唯一一个纯朴的马来乡村。也因如此，社会人士纷纷竭尽所能向他们伸出援手保护，保护这个即将沦陷的马来乡村风情。其中就有包括Lostgens，杨老师准备在那里设立一个小画廊。画廊里将展现所有有关乡村的特色，相信这也是全马第一间设立在乡村内的画廊了。我们一行人也开始商量如何协助当地居民把画廊办好。在这趟乡村之旅结束后，我们第一天的社会服务计划也跟着结束了。系友们纷纷拖着疲惫的身躯回到马大各宿舍去期待着第二天的到来…… (未完。待续)

畹妤

嘉美之篇5 —— Our Social Engagement

       Social Engagement, a subject have to take by every Universiy of Malaya's students. For me, it is a intresting program. We using 7 days to finish this program.

       The 1st day, we walking all the street at Pasar Seni to get a preliminary understanding of the streets. When visit Pasar Seni, we can realize that why Pasar Seni is a place to introduce our country ,Malaysia. It is because here have different type of temple, we can saw many features that represent Malaysia is a multiple country. There have Indian temple, Sikh temple, Chinese temple and Mosque too. 

       

Must Wear Scarf
infont of Sikh Temple

The second day, we start to "social engagement" by helping the villagers there to doing business. The villagers there are friendly and they share their memory and story to us. We found that Petaling Street is a important memory to them although the street had change a lot. 

      The other days, we keep engage with the people there, hearing thier story ang we dicided to doing a map of Pasar Seni and a zine about Petaling Streets. We finish our map within 7 days but the zine is not enough time to finish it within the period of " Social Engagement". At last , we decided that we have to continue our zine!

Social Engagement, FINISH BUT NOT OVER!

 To be continue ......

Teamwork

        In this five-day event, I think I learned the most is teamwork. In these days, we have played slowly teamwork to accomplish something. Coexistence between people is not that easy, but a few days to get along, I think the relationship between us was seem to be more harmonious. I feel a great sense of what we accomplished together a map of Petaling Street, this map was not easy to draw out. Before painting the map, we are divided into two groups traveled every street in Petaling Street, and the store name of each shop are all recorded. Thanks to our cooperation, some people were in Lostgen's continue to draw a map, and then another part of the people went out to record its shop name. So, we quickly in the past few days time to this map to draw out. To go out walking every street is not easy, incredibly sun was very big, we'll quietly against the sun that continue to go after these days, I find that all of us are black. But when we saw our efforts to complete the picture of good, we really feel that everything is worth it, good sense of accomplishment. Our feelings between friends are virtually slowly getting better. This map is not just there in Petaling Street name, but we have fourteen people in it together bit by bit.

This is the picture that we are on the progress to draw out a  Pataling Street’s map.

This picture was took after we are finish our map and also that day we are the last at Lostgen's.
We take a picture with this map to remember this memorable memory.

This is a map that draw by our 14 people in this few day.

Michelle Yeoh~