Young master Harvey Gooi shares his experience on last week's FT Weekend 2.
Arriving in Ipoh on 21st August 2009 at 11.00 p.m., Harvey took a 20 minutes walk all alone, from the Sri Maju bus station all the way to La Salle centre. Tired and sweaty, with his feet almost blistering because of his poorly fitted slippers, he walked down the slope leading into the centre, thinking in his heart, “Heck, why did I come all the way back here to Ipoh again?” However, the moment he stepped into La Salle centre, greeted by those familiar faces, voices and smiles, he knew why he had come. He came to be home with his other family again – his La Sallian family.
FT2 started the next day at 9.a.m. The theme for the meet this time around was and environmental one. This time around, facilitators from the The Awakening Team were invited to give a symposium entitled “Awakening the Dreamer; Changing the Dream”. The goal: to promote an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our times. Yes, even Harvey went “What?” In a nutshell, the three components which are environmental sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice work hand in hand in order to promote change to the current state of our world. The idea of plainly going green would not work unless one feels a sense of satisfaction and the support of the society.
The symposium lasted for 4 hours, short as it may be, FT members were definitely glad to have learnt not only about how to work towards a sustainable world, but also that they are not alone in their strife. But that wasn’t then end of the weekend. FT members were given an assignment – to look up on issues of energy conservation, air pollution, water conservation and waste management.
Well, FT meet 2 was not all serious. There were of course, the all important late-night mamak outings, pillow talk, “dai dee” and pictionary! As simple as it may sound, those little unplanned activities are what made FT2 such a fun and rejuvenating weekend.
Well, after the weekend, Harvey was feeling refreshed, and the prese of the new semester suddenly seemed to have faded away. In his heart, he has also pledged to promote an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of his times. And he is still wondering… How is he to draw “squirt” and “period” in Pictionary should he ever get the card…
Some pictures from the weekend:
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