16 December Updates

(Yesterday was Rest and Relax, when we took a good break before tomorrow's Anjali programme)

Sumptuous lunch at The Pizza Co.

Enjoying our ice-creams

Buying tickets for a movie in a Personal Cinema

At night, the COMMA team went to a nearby carnival together

(we won lots of goodies at the booths)

We went on rides like bumper cars

...which Joshua enjoyed so thoroughly

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15 December Updates

Photo with children at Sunrise Orphanage

Helping Sunrise Orphanage kids set up a new volleyball net

Picking up litter with the Sunrise Orphanage kids

Scrubbing the walls with the Sunrise Orphanage kids

Interaction with the Sunrise Orphanage kids

Lunch at Lin Ratanak Angkor Hotel

Exploring laundry and tailor shops around hotel after lunch

Eagerly getting off our tuk-tuks

Meeting Sunrise Orphanage kids to play soccer together

Interaction with Sunrise Orphanage kids

Tired but Happy participant

Group photo at the soccer field (half of COMMA)

Rest & Relax at the hotel (some girls went to swim)

14 December Updates

Arrival at Anjali House after breakfast
[purpose: on-site recee -- our lessons begin next Monday]

Volunteers' briefing inside the building

On-site dry run of games

...unexpectedly we attracted quite a bit of attention (from kids and staff alike)

Teamwork in action

Post-dry-run discussions (under the big tree)

COMMA team deep in thought

Chidren Comm had lunch at scenic spot (of course we had to take a picture)

we split into 2 comms: children & youth comms to have lunch, buy logistics

Youth Comm had lunch at Swensen's (the ice-cream was quite cheap)

Searching for logistics (Youth Comm)

Searching for logistics (Children Comm)


Buying and waiting for receipts

Youth and Children Comm met together back at the hotel.

We began preparing for tomorrow (folding lots of origami boxes)

Then we had team dinner (:

Leisure Walk/Shopping around after dinner

13 December Updates

So sorry for the delay in posting updates -- the wifi at the hotel is not very good for uploading pictures!

COMMA 2012 Group Photo at Changi Airport

Waiting to board the Siem Reap flight

Entering Gates (I) 

 Entering Gates (II) 

 Boarding the plane 

Group Photo: Arrival at Siem Reap (finally!)

Buying SIM cards

Settling down in our hotel rooms/ Discussions for Anjali House activities

Dinner together at Khmer Kitchen

Team Bonding Games (I)

Team Bonding Games (II)

In summary, 13 Dec was mainly set aside for us to settle down in Siem Reap, get to know each other, and to meet in our smaller groups to discuss activities we'll be holding at Anjali House. 14 Dec (today) has been yet another exciting day; we'd love to keep you posted on what happened but we'll sign off for now first as we're going out for dinner now.

We hope that things are going well in Singapore and we'll see you soon!

Sincerely,
COMMA 2012 Committee

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Good Evening Parents,

Update: We’ve finally touched down in Siem Reap, Cambodia! At the Siem Reap International Airport, all participants had bought a Cambodian SIM card each. As there were too many telcom companies to choose from, we settled for two telcom companies: “hello!” and “qb”.

More information on our phone numbers:
Phone Numbers starting with “81” are registered under “hello!” telcom company.
Phone Numbers starting with “13” are registered under “qb” telcom company.

For "qb" numbers:

SIM card price: $5 per card
SMS charges:
SMS to Cambodia (qb) users – FOC*
SMS to Cambodia (non-qb) users - 3₵ per SMS
SMS to Singapore - 10₵ per SMS
Calling charges:
Call to Cambodia (qb) users – FOC*
Call to Cambodia (non-qb) users - 7₵ per min
Call to Singapore – 20 min call time (included in the $5). If require more call time, top up 3₵ per min
3G:
1 GB data plan FOC. If require more, top up 1₵ per 1024kB (1MB)
*FOC: free of charge

We hope that the above information was helpful. Judging by the above charges, we highly recommend that you call instead of SMS the participants to minimize costs incurred. Please also keep in mind that the Cambodian time zone is one hour behind Singapore when making calls to participants! (:

We’ll be going out for dinner now. Do keep a lookout for further updates on what had happened today; we’ll try our best to post up another blogpost (with some photos hopefully) tonight!

Signing off,
COMMA 2012 Committee