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

Report: St. Anne's Feast

I do apologise for the late report on the help at St.Anne's feast. Have been quite busy with work and up-coming CHOICE outings.

At St.Anne's feast, there was a need of volunteers to help serve food that was sponsored to all pilgrims and devotees of St.Anne. I'm glad to say that we did have a number of CHOICEes who came to volunteer help serve and sell food. We had CHOICEes from the latest weekend (CEPG 55 - good to know see you all again), from CEPG 54 and other senior CHOICEes.

our CC1 taking a quick second to pose for a pic :)

busy busy busy

Some volunteered for full 10 days, some for a few days, but I believe the full team was on Saturday to help with the crowd as it was the BIG night of procession, stage play and open-air mass. Didn't manage to take pics of the other CHOICEes as we were too busy, the crowd was impressive! But fret not, we really appreciate your help to those who came. God Bless You!

So hopefully to see more CHOICEes to help out at next years feast? ;)

Steaming with Steamboat!

Social Gathering by CEPG #55 will be at Town Steamboat, located at Macalister Road. I heard that it's a very popular and delicious restaurant. It's very spacious AND packed with people. I believe it's because of their W I D E variety of dishes/food! Look at this pic and tell me you're not hungry yet? hmm??

So, if you're interested and not sure where to go for dinner AND miss your fellow CHOICEes, join them for this makan gathering! It's gonna be fun, I can feel it! :D

Venue: Town Steamboat Restaurant, Macalister Road

Date: 28 Aug - Saturday

Time : 8pm

Contact:

Angeline and/or Bernard for info/attendance.

angel_d_81@yahoo.com

bernardtowong@hotmail.com

Lost World of Tambun - POSTPONED

UPDATES!

Hi All, the trip has been postponed to a later date. Stay tuned to this space for latest updates. i'll post it up as soon as i get more info from the organisers. :)

Calling all old and new CHOICEes!!
CEPG #55 is organising a trip to Lost World of Tambun!

Everyone is encourage to join in this relaxing trip.
It's a time for us to get together, share some updates of our life, get lost in the Lost World and most of all, have fun! of course makan makan as well!


So contact Angeline and/or Bernard for info/attendance.
angel_d_81@yahoo.com
bernardtowong@hotmail.com

Keep tuned to this space for updates of the trip.

Venue: Lost World of Tambun (of course!)
Date: 1st Aug, 2010
Theme Park Fee: RM30 (excluding food, transportation..etc)

*If the crowd is big, transportation can be arranged.
Perhaps rent a bus or van depend on the headcount.

CHOICEes help out at St.Anne's Feast

St. Anne's Feast started on the 23rd of July and will continue to the 1st of Aug.

Since day one, St. Anne's Church parish has been providing free food and drinks to all devotees, pilgrims, parishioners and visitors. As long as there's masses/novena's being held in the church, there'll be food available for all.

I'm glad to report that a few of our CHOICEes have been helping out at the stalls. They helped the organisers serve the food and drinks and sell ice-cream. They also helped around the stalls making sure that there's enough fork and spoons, plates...etc. I've also heard that they have met a CHOICEe from Perak from Perak Weekend #1!! Wow! That's nice.

The feast is still going on, and the organisers are still looking for volunteers. So if you're free and want to join in the fun, come and meet them at St. Anne's Church and I'm sure they'll be glad to accept your help.

God Bless You.

St. Anne's Novena & Feast 2010, Bkt Mertajam

M.A.D Project - AIDS Centre, BM

Does CHOICE have a stuntman? hehehe not exactly. This fellow CHOICEe is just helping out to clean the windows at St . Joachim's AIDS Centre in BM on the 27th June. This M.A.D Project was organised by CEPG #55 and it was a day at the centre. We help cleaned the house, the windows, put up curtains and even played some board games with the patients. We also contributed some food stuff and daily essentials to the centre. Hope it will help them for the time being.

after all the hard work in helping to clean the centre, we had a lil fellowship with the patients. the iron lady of this centre also gave us a brief introduction of what AIDS is and assured us that we do not need to be afraid of them as they are just like any of us.

of course before we said our goodbyes, we managed to get a group pic!

CEPG #55

CHOICE English Penang Weekend #55 was held at St. Anne's Domus, BM from the 7th - 9th of May. There were 26 participants, some came from Ipoh, Kulim and even from as far from China (he's originally from Sibu). We also had 10 presenters where one came from KL. So it was a good mix :)

I believe everyone had a great experience, not only for the participants and presenters, even the service team too! Thank You all for saying YES! to CHOICE.

the Presenters of CEPG #55

M.A.D Project - Shan Children's Home, Penang

In January, CEPG #54 organised a trip to Shan Children's Home for their MAD Project. It was quite a good turn out as even friends and family of the CHOICEes joined in. We went to the home bringin lunch and I'm sure the kids were delighted with it, different from what they usually have. They even had the privilage of being served by us :)

Once everyone was full with the lovely food, we then had a Charade game. CHOICEes and kids played together and had a really good time with lots of laughter! Then next was the musical chairs. This game, the kids were the pros! they even fought the chairs with the adults! they don't give any mercy! :D And to cool down after all that excitement, we headed indoors for a sing-a-long session with our songstress - lovely voice.
The day spent with the kids was just lovely, simple yet meaningful to the kids as well. Contributions of school equipment and dried food were given as well. Of course it all ended with a (crazy) group picture!

Care to SMASH?

So some CHOICEes (as friends) decided to join an Inter Parish Badminton Tornament. Though the group was small, they tried getting some other friends to join them, who knew, practically ALL (maybe except for 1 or 2) were CHOICEes! :D

Practise soon started, and they were training to at least be in the finals... eventually the tornament day came and all were pumped up!

Wonder how they made it?

ah hah!! they came in 2nd place! not to shabby I'd say! So eventhough they didn't win 1st prize, I think it's more of the fun they had playing together, the game itself and just being with friends that really matters. so, not training for next year? :D