CEPG #55 - Social Gathering

i know i know, i'm sorry, it's a long over due post :)

CEPG #55 had organised a Social Gathering in August this year. and it was quite a success eventhough less than half of CEPG #55 attended. but never the less great effor on the organisers and i'm sure we all had great fun (with the heat from the steam and bbq LOL). we were blessed by our fellow CHOICE Melaka-Johor friends who joined us for the gathering. lots of chit-chat, laughter and food!

this gather was held at Town Steamboat, Macalister Road. it's a huge place (hawker centre like) where it's buffet style. pay one price (differs from weekday and weekend) and you can eat all you want. they have fried stuff, to raw meats/veg/mushroom/taufu, to seafood, laksa, noodles, ice-kacang, ice-cream, jellies, cakes and drinks. great place to for such gathering, fun too! hahahah

i do hope in future, more gatherings or reunions of CHOICE weekend participants will happen. and it was great to see all of you again. when will the next one be ah? :D

CNCM - Kuching 2010

CHOICE National Conference Malaysia was held in Kuching this year at St.Lukas Centre. This place is known to be the venue for CHOICE Kuching weekends, as we are able to see familiar posters around the facility regarding to CHOICE weekend. About 20 odd CHOICEes from Penang (both English and Tamil group) flew to Kuching for this conference. It was quite an exciting trip. :)

dorm, hall and dinner hall of St.Lukas

The conference was chaired by CHOICE Penang and there were a good number of observers from CHOICE Penang, KL, Kuching, Miri, Perak, Melaka-Johor. Turn out was a lil less than last years but yet a good number as well. We made friends and caught up with other CHOICEes as well, and also to exchange experiences, ideas for each group.

group pic

We headed to St. Joseph's Cathedral for evening mass and it was a wonderful church. it was my first time there and my jaw dropped at least for a few seconds. i'm sure if u were there the first time, u'd feel the same way too. Fr. Simon and Fr. Dominic was 2 of the CHOICE priests to celebrate mass that evening. We even had our CHOICEes to be lectors for the readings.

after Mass, we headed to Penview Hotel at their Chinese restaurant for our fellowship dinner. Food was lovely and the company too! each state performed a dance or action song and everyone enjoyed it! in the end everyone joined in and danced all together!
the last day of the conference was bitter sweet, it was time to say good-bye to old and new friends and time for sight-seeing around Kuching! :) we're glad that a few of Kuching CHOICEes brought us around, to eat the famous kolo mee, Kuching laksa. we even went to the Kuching Cultural Village, that was very interesting. coming home to Penang was hard, as we had such great time in Kuching.

Thank you very much to CHOICE Kuching for being such great hosts to us. You were lovely! and we do hope we meet again! God Bless!

arrived Penang safely