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If you have changed your mind, please do keep us (me & the Borneo Orang Utans) in mind for your future charity donation. We would be very much appreciative if you would support my conservation efforts on these endangered primates.

Hope to hear from you again. Do come regularly to visit my blog for exciting & fun social events. Maybe then you can donate to my cause, ah! ;-)

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Thank you very much!

Thank you for your generous donation & kind support for my cause.

Please come back to visit me on this blog for updates on my effort and eventually my experience in Sepilok, Sandakan, Malaysia from August to October 2010.

Many thanks & appreciation.

Cheers,
Jacqueline Kueh @ Jacque

Gracey and her band

I cant say that I cant believe it is happening. It is gonna happening. No doubt about it. Grace was surprised by my disposition. She is a person with action! Now what more than I ask for? This is great! The level of commitment from her is astronomical: getting the band together, and getting them to play for charity, worked her charm on Adam for a reduced fee, while still having a full time job as a gung-ho lawyer! Of course it is not as simple as it seems. because the search for the right fit in a band can be time-consuming.

Like how Lau puts it, it is just that we have the right people in right place, talking and coming out with the brilliant ideas and everything fit rights at the right time for the right reasons.

She has put together a digest of her band and the event tomorrow.

Check it out!

Money Raised - What to do it and How it looks

I have already set up a separate account for these ££. It would be posted on this blog, so that people can keep target. I would also be publishing the generous donor (if they want) or just their contribution on the blog. Anyone that is willing to commit a sum of ££ now, is more than welcome to. I'll be updating it on the blog, at least the status of the fund raising is known.

In the next couple of weeks, I would be setting up a Paypal system here on my blog, so that it would be easier for anyone to donate.

Again, it is tough for me now, as I am not able to take corporate donation, I would only able to take all personal donations. But of course, I will try to make it as transparent as possible, so all my donors know where ££ is and what it is for.

Do feel free to comment ya. this is my first fund-raising effort, so I have much to learn too. ;)

Jungle Jam -

Now that we have all the 'marketing', 'logistics' and the 'sponsorships' (from Melaka) kinda sorted out, here's our target for this event.

Jungle Jam will be held in Melaka (restaurant at Canary Wharf), hoping to attract 100 people at the span of 4 hours (2 -6pm). We hope that from these attendees, we will get an initial donation of £5.00 into the donation, either at the entrance or me going around with the box.

Lau has discussed with Shah about the portion of the proceeds for that afternoon will go to this fund too. Shah has given his words. So PEOPLE, do get a seat and eat!! Most importantly, DRINK!! The more you drink the more you are contributing to the fund, for a greater good!!

We will still have to meet again to determine the floor layout for that day. We have determined the space for the band and open mic (somewhere middle part of the long-ish restaurant) to ensure of maximise visibility of the performers. Now we need to know how do we want to place the tables and chair and the bar, maybe an exact one at the alfreco backyard?

Our target for this event: a modest £700. Of course the more the better.

My Photo

I am sorry if I am irrecognizable on the picture, so to at least let everyone that's donating know how I look like in real life, here I am.


-smily me-

There should be more exciting photos and pictures of everyone involved upcoming ya.

June 10 Gig - Jungle Jam

Of course other than the write-up, I got done with the flyer too.

Continuation of 'A fortiori'

After much coxing from Lau, I finally got done with the short write-up on this volunteering program. I have to say, as little as it may seem to Lau, he is a great motivator in this whole process. I was able to find all reasons to push it back, but he was always there to just cox me a lil by lil, saying that it is a dry run, it is gonna be easy. I was expecting too much from myself, but his persuasion made me realized that baby steps is all you need sometime. Lesson we learned in our life.

Back to A Fortiori - here's the write-up


Perhaps innate charge to return to nature fuels my passion for conservation.

Among my closer friends in Singapore, some would be tired of hearing of my inspiration to volunteer, but just couldn’t find any programs to partake in. Then I decided to go for soul search, something that I would be able to just wake up and do it, and do not have any worldly excuse to stop me from accomplishing it. A fortiori, to make a fruitful life out of what I have now.

Teaching Nepalian children at the foothill of Himalaya, volunteering at Acheh tsunami site or mosquitoes-fretted rural towns to work with village kids on their English or conservatory with Orang Asli. Neither piques my fancy. The list went on.

Then I realized if I were to give my time to betterment of the world, why not something for my own country? Charity begins from home! After a long search, the resonating theme was always monkeys or primates, the animals that share the same with the “Homo” as us, yet we can be so different. I just enjoy watching documentary on them: how scientists are always seeking for deeper understanding of these once-our-ancestors, how the pseudo-humans act so much like us, but not exactly us. It fascinates me to see how pristine and pure their behaviour and love are.

There was how my journey with the monkeys started. Google led me to Travellers Worldwide – Orang Utan project at Sepilok. My Sabah network didn’t quite do me any good as Sepilok is very strict about how their volunteers getting in; even WWF Sabah has no pull power through it. I can only get in through Travellers WW, charging £2,900 for this popular program. A year of exploration in Singapore only deepens my passion and makes me search more about this volunteering in Sepilok. It seems incapable to raise SGD9,000. Only when I came to London, the passion slowly re-ignited, after putting some thoughts in it coupled with my resolution of the year: running a marathon! But I was determined to make it happens. As insecure as I was financially, I put down £190.00 of deposit to secure a place in September 2008, the closest date I can get, a month upon reaching England. I know if I don’t take that plunge, I would only be always talking about it, like in Singapore.

Of course, at any fund-raising activities, all you have are tumbling blocks. But I have an angel, Sie Lau, all thanks to Eugene Toh for the introduction. One night of drinking led to great pool of ideas. My initial New York Marathon plan was proved to be too exorbitant as a good platform for fund-raising. So that plan was dropped. Cardiff Half Marathon and Flora London marathon seem more modest in comparison and possibly a more sensible choice as a fund-raising platform. Alongside, Lau and Grace (another wonderful person I met) came out with a splendid idea of open mic with fund-raising initiative at Melaka, which is a newly established Malaysian/Indonesian restaurant at Canary Wharf. Rumour has it that the cook couldn’t be much better than the one with a Michelin star.

Jungle Jam at Melaka was then conceived! People, there is no better time to get to know some of the most talented artists in their own rights coming together to perform under one roof, while ushering with some tantalizing Malaysian food and drinks. Don’t deprive your innate quench for hedoism of life. Plus it is a good excuse to do some charity for Orang Utan Conservation!

Venue: Melaka
27 Ropemaker's Field, off Narrow Street, London E14 8BX
Nearest DLR station; WestFerry
Date: June 10, 2007
Time: 2 – 6 pm


About Sepilok Orang Utan Volunteering Program:
The fund raised would enable me to participate in the project. The fund covers for the adoption of 2 baby orang utans, maintenance of the husbandry of the sanctuary. That accounts for 85% of the amount paid, while the remaining amount would be for my modest lodging and food during the two months I am there volunteering. From my part, I am basically taking two months out of my PhD program to serve the program: taking care of orang utans and their daily cleaning in the sanctuary, habitat surveying for possible rehabilitation of the primates to the wild again and any chores needed from the research group in Sepilok.

No corporate sponsor!!!

What's up with that? Aggrrhh....

Yes it is the hard truth, when you are raising fund for your own purpose, unless I want to go through setting up my own trust for this. Looking at how things work here, I won't have my hope too high.

This is what Vicky has wrote to me today.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vicky Boughton
Date: 09-May-2007 17:40
Subject: RE: Cheque for Travellers & Re: Placements in Malaysia with Travellers &
To: Ulu Gange
Cc: Jenny Ashworth

Hi Ulu Gange,

Thanks for your email. We have placements available in March or May or July in 2009 so you can certainly swap to one of these if you would like to – please let me know which time suits you best and I’ll make the arrangements here (there will be a £15 administration fee).

With regards to fundraising – we are not a charity and so you won’t be able to get corporate sponsorship in that way unless you are able to somehow set up a trust fund yourself, although I am not sure how/whether that would work. I’m afraid that you cannot direct the money through Sepilok appeal as they are not affiliated with us in that way. Corporate donations unfortunately have these restrictions so the best thing to do would perhaps try to raise funds through alternative means (sponsored events with friends and family etc).

Best of luck and sorry I can’t be of more help.

With kind regards

Vicky


Vicky Boughton - Project Co-ordinator
Travellers Worldwide - voluntary placements overseas
7 Mulberry Close, Ferring, West Sussex, BN12 5HY
Tel: +44 (0)1903 502595
Fax: +44 (0)1903 500364
Email: vicky@travellersworldwide.com
Website: www.travellersworldwide.com

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Jazz nite at Melaka

L is full force in my fund-raising. I cant be more grateful for it. I think I just have too much in my hand now to think of what to do.

L and a couple of frens came out with the idea to do a jazz night at Melaka, this Malaysian restaurant. Kalam was right about Lau. He is just fantastic in organizing stuff!!

Ok, he has talked to the restaurant owner and would/have booked for June 10 for an evening just for my fund raising.

I would have to come out with the theme for the night and organized with his musicians friends to work out the share of proceeds and arrangement for the evening.

Hopefully we will get to meet this weekend to get this sorted out. It seems he even set me a deadline: May 21.

This guy is ON man!!

Run - Fund Raising

Last week L, K, I and I met up at Sushi Hirobo at Holborn, just like 10 min walk from my work place. Finally I get to sit down with L and talked about the fund-raising, though my system was pretty much adulterated with alcohol when we finally have dinner.

After serious consideration of the finance to fly to New York and run (now the only packages that is available with Sport Tours International is the £1000 odd that includes running pack, flight and hotel), it is far more effective to be raise the fund for the volunteer than volunteer and NY marathon (£4k for the two of us to go NY).

Well L talked me into some senses. We would do Cardiff Half marathon and next year London marathon. Berlin marathon might be too close, well at least to me. L just did his full this April in London Flora.

More programs coming up. Stay tuned!

Serendipity

I was out with a bunch of friends whom almost all I met for the first time. Just so happening one of them, L was running for tomorrow Flora London marathon. And I related to him now I was planning to run the New York end of the year and it is also an effort to raise fund for the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary. He was totally gig for it!! He's from Sandakan that's why! That's as close as home can be for him. Guess he was amazing for the fact I am affliated with something so close to home.

But I did express my sceptism about raising the entire amount: volunteering fees and the trip to New York. He quickly replied, I can always include the cost of the trip to the amount needed to be raised. He doesn't mind doing the New York marathon with me and raise the fund needed!! He has all the corporate network that are willing to throw in $$! I was OVERJOYED. I just announced to everyone (mind me I just met them for like a couple of hours) L is my next BEST Friend. It is like a dream come true! Run in New York with a buddy and raise enough fund for Sepilok!!

Hahaha... that mean I won't really have to set up booth at Covent Garden, holding a banner saying 'Save the Orang Utan!' and wait hopefully for people to donate. Come to think about it, it might just be fun ya!

I will keep up with the progress on this. Let's hope that he is still keen on it. Do come back and find out ya!

Choice of marathon

Ok I am not changing my date for Sepilok, coz it costs me £50 to change dates. Hell no!!

And I am gonnna run in one of the European marathon to raise fund. No point sequeeze my ass off to go to NYC to run and be a pauper for the next two years!! Europe is a whole lot cheaper to travel (if I book early, I can travel for like £0.50!! Can you believe that??) Anyway, my end point is to raise fund right?

With this change in plan, I will have more time to train and raise fund.

More update on the running in a few weeks time. I am settling well with work schedule and personal life, but need to get into a routine now. I should be able to start my mileage build-up training again soon.

Lagging on the training!

I am trying to get back on track again. I am lagging behind on the training, as work and social life is piling up.

I still have the spirit and drive to do it, i just need more motivation.

Maybe I should seriously look into finding a running partner. I used to have Berlinda and after a while, I could run on my own. Maybe to get me back, I'll look for a partner.

No Luck with Rainforest Foundation too!

I wrote to Nick Tuchband this afternoon and an hour later, he rang me up! That was very prompt of him. Unfortunately, the rules of the NY marathon has changed this year, even small charities like Nick's have to pay a premium to have running packs too! This year all the race packs for NY marathon is held by this company Sports Tours, affiliation or subsidiary of Real Buzz.

I knew about this route, but was hoping for something else. Guess if I would like to run, I would have to commit to this.

Quoting Nick Tuchband :

Hi Ulugange,

Please find details of Sports Tours International. They have a variety of marathons and then you can raise money directly for your preferred cause. 0870 350 1106

I will add your name to our database for future events.

Kind regards
Nick

PS we have a 10K on 16 September so feel free to come along and run with us on that for fun

Nick Tuchband - Events & Marketing Manager
_________________________
The Rainforest Foundation
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7485 0193
__________________________



From: Ulugange [mailto:xxx@ucl.ac.uk]
Sent: 27 March 2007 15:22
To: Nick Tuchband
Subject: running in New York maraton 2007



Hey Nick

I was wondering if there is still any available place to run for your charity organization.

I have a unique case there. Initially I was hoping to run for this volunteering program: Sepilok Orang Utan Conservatory Program (Sept 2008) in New York Marathon 2007. It is my 2007 personal resolution to run and complete a marathon. Unfortuntely, it proved to be tough due to the entry requirement to the race. So far I have yet to find any possible avenue of getting on the race, unless I pay for my own race pack and travel (£900). I thought maybe these fund (which I am going to raise anyway) can be rasied for better use for organizations like yours (I know it would be more than £900), but with the hopeful condition that you allow the remaining fund raised out of the mininum fund would go to my volunteering fund (which 78%-80% of the £2,800 is for the conservation of orphan Orang Utan in Sabah, remaining 20% is for my food and logging in the sanctuary).

I hope that you and your organization would be able to explore this option with me. I would be more than happy to pay you a visit or have a chat on the phone to further discuss how we can go about this. It is my sincere wish that as little as a young earnest person like me can do, I hope that it would still somewhat contribute to the betterment of the rainforest conservation, in particular the orang utan rehabilitation.

Just a quick question, how much is the mininum fund that I need to raise for Rainforest Foundation for the participantion to be paid for?

Certainly hope to hear from you soon,
Ulugange

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Ulugange
MPhil/PhD Student
Institute of Neurology
University College London
Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG

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Reply for Change of Date for Placement

So I got the reply from Travellers.com about the change. Unfortuately, they have a £15 charge to any date alteration. (Damn it! I should have thought of it earlier!)

The dates they have for around the period I want to go in 2009 are (these dates haven’t been confirmed yet and may change slightly):

16th January 2009 - 8th March 2009

20th March 2009- 17th May 2009

I need to let them know asap. I have not decided yet, so I'll only reply on next Monday.

MBU Week 5 :(

I have not been training at all for this MBU Week 5. I'll get back to it tomorrw.

By MBU Week 6, I need to clock 18 miles per week. It is done over the spread of 5 days now, instead of 4 days, starting this Sun.

Sun 6 miles
Tues 3 miles
Wed 3 miles
Thurs 3 miles
Sat 3 miles

Man I can't slack anymore. My new house is just taking a lot of my time, I need to getting it sorted soon so that I can get back on track again.

Change of placement date to early 2009

I have just wrote to Vicky from Travellers.co.uk to change my placement date with Sepilok.

I figured I would like to get an internship at any biotech companies, or consultancies or even banks (someone was urging me to try that as well!) during summer next year. So being away from June to August and then September to November would be too strain on the project. I thought I would spread then out.

Let's see what she say! Wish me luck!

MBU Week 4: Wed

I walked around Reading: Bath Road - Brunwick Road- Western Elms - Oxford Road - Reading Central - Chain St - (back on) Castle Hill/Bath Road.

Last night was just along bath road and town centre. I didn't get to go to Napier Road. So, I thought I would walk the route I mentioned above to compensate for it.

I think I am doing alright. Weather was sunny, rainy & wet and then cold cloudy and then sunny again.

I sweated like a babe ... the pig! ;-)