Petra Palz

caroling with US!

2009-12-23T07:53:00.001-08:00

So, CHRISTMAS is around the corner, so we, PETRA PALZ, decided to bring good tidings to our neighbors... with our.... erm.... unique caroling joy!

Sean with Bryan... Stevie and Amanda behind

Us, preparing to sing our LUNGS out...

We were in our BUS!

Andy, with his signature stand.... =.=

We were trying our best to sing in tune.... ^.^

why you guys covering your nose? who farted???

We were eating in Dr Leong's house.... I was obviously starving! ^.^... And don't be fooled by the fruits in the basket.. THEY ARE FAKE!

CAUTION! below's picture is a bit obscene...

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OUR buncit KOR KOR Desmond... ^.^

more pictures in facebook!

2009-11-26T03:21:00.000-08:00

Venue : Wisma St peter, Melaka
Time : 7 pm- 11 pm
Price : Rm 5
Date : 23 January 2010

This youth festival is organized by the CFM (St Theresa Church), PetraPalz ( St Peter church) and The School Of Acts (St Francis Church) of Melaka. We hope to bring more Melaka Catholic youths to know each other and also of course about Christ.

The youths are always caught up with their tuition, studies, school, and other activities and they tend to put God aside. So, this youth festival is organized to enable young people to reconnect back with Jesus.

What do we have that day?
Ans : we have bands playing, we have cool speakers to tell us their life experience, we have praise and worship and most importantly we have what you are looking for!

So, why don't you just come and see for yourself???

hey ya hey ya!

2009-06-01T06:07:00.000-07:00

ok people! pentecost is over and great job you guys. Although there are some technical problems we pull it through and we are proud of you...

Anyway, as i said, if you are interested in the potter and clay program, please e mail me your names or msg me.... dude! it's already june. If you are still blur, refer to the previous post.

thanks.

Youth Council Meeting

2009-05-15T01:16:00.001-07:00

We had a Youth Council Meeting on last Thursday on the 14.5.09 at 7.00 pm in Kor kor Desmond's house.

These are the following details about this meeting:

1. Reports from their activities:
- St Peter's (Petra Palz)
- St Francis (school Of Acts)
- St Theresa (CFM)

2. Review on the CAFE RUAH.
- held in March at St theresa's

3. Potter and Clay
- 10 representatives from each church
- leadership training program (retreat)
- 19th - 21st June 2009
- Names by next week
- Rm 30.00

4. Youth Festival
- suggested venue (st Peter's Hall)
-12th December 2009
- 1 day program; workshops end with a concert

5. Majodi Camp ( Leadership, Spirituality Camp)
- August 27th- 30th 2009
- Registration fee : RM 30.00

6. PAG Training
- Aug 7th - 9th 2009
- Rm 30.00
- No particular age (older if possible)
- Only those who have attended PAG

7. Amended Budget
- Youth Council Meeting RM 100 x 4 = RM 400
* Next Youth Council Meeting = 10th August 2009
-Venue to be decided (Calanthe = KIV)
- time : evening

8. Asian Youth Day Briefing
- 20th -23rd Nov ( Days in the Diocese)
- stay in peoples house in districts of the Philippines
- 23rd -27th Nov 2009 (actual Asian Youth Day)
- Manila
- 2 more spaces ( 1 from SPC)
* accept ppl on standby.
~ RM 1000 ; sponsored RM 500
- Dateline : 30th April ; still open but ASAP : latest next month

9. Praise and worship
- Friday ( 22/5)
- 8.00 -10.00 pm
-St Theresa's

10 Praise and Worship
- 30th may 2009
-st Francis
- 7.30 pm -9.00pm

11. Pentecost
-30th & 31t May 2009
- St Peter's
-6.00 pm

* Family Day
- Card making For Parents ^.^

* Breakfast Desert Corner.

The agenda

2009-04-05T00:56:00.000-07:00

ok peeps. new plan for the Pp...

1. We had selected 6 representative to do some readings on Good Friday, which is on the 10/04/09 at 7.00pm. But those 6 must gather at 6.45 pm to prepare themselves. So those who are involve, please be punctual. better still, be there by 6.30 pm.

2. Geogio's leading us for the easter eggs. We are giving out FREE easter eggs to the kids, ranging from age 3 to 10. So kids, Come on and grab the eggs from Santa Geogio! We'll be giving out the eggs after mass on the Easter vigil mass on the 11/04/09.

3. For Pentecost Sunday, we are animating the 10 am mass and we will be having a short play. We might be having some Dessert Corner after mass (K.I.V). Something like milk shake and some muffins.

4. Today's meeting, we also talk about having "tradition" activities. Eg : Palm Sundays and Easter Sundays, Caroling, and etc.

Cafe Ruah (2)

2009-03-16T01:25:00.000-07:00

Greetings everyone.

Care Ruah (2) will be organised by CFM (St Theresa Youths) and the youths are excited about the event.

It will be held on the 28th March 2009 (at night) at St Theresa, Melaka. Would appreciate it if the others could encourage the youths to participate or even get involved in assisting them to make preparations.

Please spread the news.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Desmond Ho

The 'DANCE'

2009-01-19T03:55:00.000-08:00

Sam,Uncle Des, Geogio and Mandy were forced to do a dance. And here's what they did. Way to go Uncle D! Samantha keep laughing only! LOLZ!

Christmas Day

2008-12-25T21:43:00.000-08:00

Holy Family Day 28th December 2008

2008-12-22T20:02:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz will be organising the games for this year as follows :-

A/ Ice Breaker
1. Stickers will be distributed to all 500 participants with half of a word on each sticker.
2. Bible passages will be splashed on the LCD screen and everyone frantically looks for the other half of the word to form a full passage and sit down in groups

B/ Christmas Carols - Getting the group to start working as a team
1. Participants sitting in groups will be handed a piece of paper with popular carol songs that have been masked in cryptic words to be deciphered.

C/"Baloon Master" or "Find someone who" - Competition

Wrap em with masking tape and smack as much baloons as possible onto the mummy

Everyone fills in a list of "someone who"

Tiffany main masak masak

2008-12-20T03:58:00.000-08:00

Carol - Feliz Navidad

2008-12-19T23:22:00.000-08:00

Carol - O Holy Night

2008-12-19T22:50:00.000-08:00

Carol - Hark now hear the Angels sing

2008-12-18T18:51:00.000-08:00

Carol - Silent Night

2008-12-15T20:39:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Photos2

2008-12-13T06:09:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Photos1

2008-12-13T05:59:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Edmund Jiwang

2008-12-11T00:50:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Drum Circle

2008-12-11T00:37:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Intro

2008-12-10T23:39:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Singing Brothers

2008-12-10T19:43:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Treasure Hunt

2008-12-10T19:40:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Serenade

2008-12-10T19:14:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp - Chicken Dance!

2008-12-10T19:02:00.000-08:00

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme - Vid 4

2008-12-06T01:58:00.000-08:00

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme - Vid 3

2008-12-01T00:22:00.000-08:00

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme - Vid 2

2008-12-01T00:05:00.000-08:00

Me being silly

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme - Vid 1

2008-11-30T23:56:00.000-08:00

Cafe Ruah - The Event

2008-11-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

Early in the morning, Katrina, Samantha and Amanda dropped by Patricia's house to bake cupcakes with oreo cookies. They did a splendid job finishing 80 cupcakes within 2 hours from 10.30am to 1230pm. I wish to thank Patricia and her mum for allowing the Petra Palz to get involved in baking the cupcakes.

We started the programme at about 8pm with Desmond Ho singing a CCR song - Have you ever seen the rain. Justine started taking order for ImmacuLatte, Trinitea and Holy Cocoa (ciplak from the cafe Immaculatte programme). The crowd started trickling in and it was nice to see the support and presence of some young adults from St Theresa's Church. Father Moses Lui dropped in for a while.

Due to some technical difficulties, the slideshow on the World Youth Day in Sydney was without sound. Andrew and Brandon performed a few numbers for the night from Peter Pan to Simple Plan and they entertained the crowd with a splendid performance.

In the meanwhile, Charles was giving up his time unselfishly in the kitchen preparing us Latte,Espresso and Macchiatto from Brazilian Coffee Beans. The Cafe Ruah Committee is grateful for his support.

The participants of the World Youth Day together with Father John also performed the Theme Song with Father John accompanying Desmond Ho on the guitar. Father John then went on to perform a song on the keyboard for everyone. Margaret, Mandy and Brandon also entertained the crowd with instrumental pieces on the keyboard.

We were pleasantly surprised with the presence of Archbishop Soter's presence who sat down, had a Latte and cupcake and listened to the performance.

I wish to thank all involved and especially friends who gave up their time and effort to assist in this programme.

- Father Moses Lui and Father John
- "Uncle" Desmond
- "Uncle" Augustine
- Charles Low
- Jonathan
- Patricia and Mum
- Sharon Yap
- Jennifer
- Parents of Petra Palz members
- Margaret Yoong
- Andrew and Brandon
- Geogio
- Prem
- Albert

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme (Update 2)

2008-11-20T21:23:00.000-08:00

Petra Palz Youth Camp

2008-11-17T08:01:00.000-08:00

The chosen venue this year is Marist Brothers Bungalow in Teluk Kemang, Port Dickson.

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme (Update)

2008-11-17T07:49:00.000-08:00

22.11.2008
8.00pm
St Peter's Church Malacca

Cafe Ruah - Post World Youth Day Programme

2008-10-25T00:06:00.000-07:00

My suggested programme for Malacca is :-

1. Three teams with youths from each parish to work together to assist for the 1st Cafe we are doing. The World Youth Day 2008 participants will spearhead this programme

(a) Music (Performance of 10-15 minutes set each parish) - contemporary or Christian tasteful music

(b) Beverages and Food department - FREE Coffee/Tea/Cocoa and a slice of cake (Cake to be made at Patricia's place with participation of youths from 3 parishes)

(c) Setup/Decor - Committed members from 3 parishes to set up the decor and place and to clean up (Cushions - pinjam first, cloth over boxes as tables, light stands or candles (pinjam and sourced), sound system (mike and PA - source or pinjam)

2. World Youth Day booth with memorabilia's and mementos (bag's, books, tshirts, badges, bandanas and etc..)

3. Videoclip of WYD 2008 (LCD Screen)

4. WYD Theme song by WYD Participants

5. Venue St Peter's church (Old Parish Hall)

6. Date : 22nd November (8 pm)

Note that there is no FIXED programme as it will be light and easy like a cafe style...it's like visiting Coffee Bean or Starbucks to chit chat with friends over light music. Cards (UNO and etc) will be provided for those who wish to play games whilst the music plays.

Who is participating? All youths invited together with parents and priests (no cassock please). Invitation by Postcards created by WYD 2008 team.

What do we get out of this?

Fellowship amongst Youths and parents in contemporary setting without the supposed "boringness" attached to church programmes. Strangely sitting at Cafe's sipping RM10 coffee talking with friends is NOT boring. So Let's import that setting into the church. This time coffee and cake is free on the house with good live music whereby patrons attending can even go up to the mike and pick up a guitar and sing.

The Pre-paration for the event will see youths working together and having fun..getting to know one another baking cakes at Patricia's house, jamming together on current pop songs (which most youth do during Youth meetings), and Makan-ing which is Malaysians' favourite past time.

This event if successful will see it being replicated either once every 2-3 months with better settings and better coffee/tea and cakes and a slight injection of Faith Formation. What I see in the future possibilities :-

(1) Youth displaying their talents positively and enjoying being in church (perhaps a standup comedian someday?). The church premise sheds its reputation as being boring compared to Makhkota Parade

(2) Themed Nights - Dead Theologians Society (ala Dead Poets Society) night - Saints become theme

(3) A stepping stone to inter parish gatherings/outings ?

A Wake Up Call

2008-09-08T02:59:00.000-07:00

1st of all I want to thank Kat for helping my for the pass few weeks in doing the youth blog. Dang, I've been so lazy lately. Haha. Feel like an old fart who only does sleeping and eating only. Ok, this week, we did a rehearsal our Adoration and well, it wasnt what the bosses (Un.Des and Ko. Des) were expected. 1st, we tried practicing the entrance hymn man... I tell you NO SEMANGAT AT ALL! i only heard Brandon and I who were singing like really weird Gay Dudes =.=" 2nd, when we were ask to do the reading, all of us were doing like we were forced to do it and that includes me :( There's no spirit at all you know. We were reading it like is was just words from a scrap book and isn't not! It's HOLY BIBLE people! Put your hearts into it when you're reading it! 3rd thing, we should be ashamed of ourselves as members of Petra Palz. This adoration was requested by Alex and it was up to us to prepare and present it but instead we took things for granted and always let Uncle and Ko Ko Des to do it for us. Come on ppl! We should start reflecting on ourselves! Whats happening in the youth. Like what Ko Ko Des told us, it is not that the youth is boring but it is you yourselves who make it boring. We should prepare something each week to make the youth enjoyable! We already planned to make a youth camp by this december and chrismas carols but no one is really up for it each time we take the duty. Each year, it's always ko ko and uncle desmond who help us planned it and we were just shaking our legs. This year it's gonna be different! We're gonna try managing the camps and carols without relying too much on ko ko des and uncle des who already helped us so much throughout the years. ok, i think i've done enought complaining de. Hahaha.. next week there wont be any youth meeting cause it's santa cruz. Ok, lastly i want to wish to those taking PMR, SPM and STPM that may the Lord be with them and guide them in their exams! Amen! bye now:)

Interesting activity...

2008-08-30T07:15:00.000-07:00

Another sunday...With no sunday classes...So, what did we do this time? We went bowling!!! Yup, you read right. Bowling.

First, we gathered at the blessed sacrament chapel right after mass. Then we set out in 3 cars (Un Des, Andy's dad and my mum's car). We reached our destination in a short time. While walking up to the erm...bowling place...(LOL)...Alex was sms-ing all the way...(^^) eheheh...for obvious reasons....

Andy, Stevie and Matthew were already there waiting for us. The place was packed. Thankfully, there was a place for us. We started our game as soon as we paid. There was a total of 11 people, which are, Un.Des, Sean, Jerald, Matthew, Stevie, Andy, Brandon, Alex, Julez, Joachim and me.

It was fun. We had a hell of a time. It's a pity some of the youth members couldn't make it for one or another reason. Even though we did not know how to play...or at least most of us don't know (because...Sean seem to be very good at it...*claps*haha) but we still had a great time. Especially because people in youth are so creative, they have so many other 'special' ways to roll the bowling ball. haha. Too bad we didn't take any pictures...it would have been a laugh!!

Un. Des join in to play at times. There was once, he wanted to roll the ball and so I let him. In the end i scored zero...not because Un.Des didn't know how to throw, but because of Alex. Alex, who sneaked behind Un. Des and scared him and the ball...As a result..the ball went STRAIGHT into the drain...seriously..=.=""...and there Alex was laughing away...Evil Alex...hehehe...

It was really a blast. After the first round of bowling, most of us wanted to play another round but didn't have enough cash. So, in the end we decided to play arcade. By the way, Sean scored the highest point for bowling. Which was 111 points. The rest did fairly well too.

From bowling to arcade. We spent some time there and after awhile Matthew and Brandon had to leave early. So we said good bye to them and went on playing... After we FINALLY decided to eat and had to 'pull' Julez and Sean away from the place. We ate in the food court. We each ordered our food and drinks. We said grace and then start to dig into our delicious food.

We ate and chatted. By 2.30pm we finish our food and headed home.

It was a blast!! Real pity to those who didn't and couldn't make it.

That's all for this week. Seeya and God bless. (^^)

2008-08-12T04:20:00.000-07:00

Hey there everyone!! Yet another sunday! Guess what we did? Went on an outing, sort of. More like a treasure hunt. (^^)

First, we gathered in the youth room. That was our 1st station. Korkor Des gave us a short 'preview' and later we were suppose to draw it out using our imagination.

We had 5 stations:

1st station: Youth room. Koko Des told us about the apostles who were in an upper room and it was very dark. They were trying to escape from their enemies and were very scared. After Koko Des told us we were given 5minutes to draw.

Going to the next station.

*sighs* look at that....Find the odd two out.

2nd station: The Church Garden. Koko Des gave another preview. Keywords: Throw a few seeds on solid ground and will a plant grow? Of coz not! Throw it on sand? Nop, still no results. What if you throw it on rich soil? Duh. It's bound to grow from a seed to a beautiful bud and lastly a gorgeous flower.

Koko Des giving us a preview.

3rd station: Blessed Sacrament Chapel. In here we talked about the Eucharist, the breaking of the bread.

Finally, we were on the move. After having 3 stations in church, we finally headed out. Of coz, before heading anywhere far...we stopped at a shop to buy curry puffs. I mean, everyone's gotta eat. We were very hungry.

I think the business here has juz shot up! Look at the amount of people!

Walking while eating our curry puffs.

Walk....walk....walk....and walk...and walk.......................

We were walking for what seems like hours until we finally....FINALLY reached our destiny...Which was the DESSERT STALL. Another place to eat...Yummy!! Since it was on the house, as Un. Des said, we gladly sat and enjoy our cold servings.

"Too many to choose what should I pick?" wondered Sean out loud.
"Take that, it looks good, and that too and this and..and..." Stevie helped out. "Stop! Pick anything that is below RM2.50 only!!!!" said Un. Des

When our desserts arrived, we started to dig in. I ordered 2 scoops of ice cream while most of them ordered ABC. Wanna know something? Koko Des asked me what flavour was my ice cream. Guess what? I said that I haven't the faintest idea. I mean, Hellooo!! I was eating it. There must have been something wrong with my taste buds. Yup,my taste buds are definately out! (FYI, Kiddies are attracted to JieJie Margerat's elmo! ^^)
Time was definately going fast, or we were very slow. I'll put it in a nice way, time was going too fast as we were enjoying every second of it. By the time we reached St. Francis it was...well...Late.

4th and 5th station: St. Francis's church. Koko Des gave us his last preview. Then he gaves us a little more time to put down what he had said into pictures. (This is the time all our imaginations go wild~)

Everyone had a fun day. Who didn't?? Erm, well, maybe Jerald. Ehem...Un. Des...if you are reading this. You're son said that he should have stayed home..... (I didn't say a word!! :p)

Lastly,
mental-note to everyone:
JieJie Margerat LOVES cheese cake! Anyone who wants to impress or make her happy, PLEASE learn to make a cheese cake. Or take the short cut by buying one.

That's all for this week. Seeya next week!!

(^^)

Sunday , 3-08-2008

2008-08-05T02:44:00.000-07:00

Today, Ko KO Desmond had this meeting organized to show us pictures and videos that they took during their trip in Australia and some of it was so funny! We even compare Alexs face with a goats =.=" and there seem to be a resembles!! So funny man. Sorry ya Alex >.< And there was a picture showing alex holding a box of milk which was suppose to go with the coffee one but alex went to drink it instead. And ko ko desmond made fun of him saying mamas boy. Kaka~ Good one ko ko. And there was a pic of a Wombat which looks like a guinea pig but a size of a dog. Dang.. i tell you, it looks like a harry pig but cool! Then there was videos of them having concerts and i tell you it looks cool! Too bad i dont have the pics of them in australia with me, but to those who want to check it out you can either ask Ko Ko Desmond or Alex for them. Besides that, there's also a pic of them having a mass in a stadium which was like bigger than out Kubu Stadium that we have here in malacca x5 or more man! Alright guys, thats all for today. An announcement, tell your parents to pick you up at St Francis church at 2.30 and not in SPC thats what ko ko desmond said. ok thats all for now guys. chaoz!

2008-07-29T03:35:00.001-07:00

God bless alex and ko ko Desmond that they arrive safely to Malacca! Today, the meeting was led by Ko Ko desmond which tells us about what they experience or gain and also learn from the trip. First, Ko Ko Desmond warmed us up by teaching us a new action song which was very confusing! I forgot how the song goes but it requires us to touch our head then the shoulder then the knee and lastly toes. But as the long goes faster, we're asked to change the order like Head knee shoulder then toes.. man.. It was really confusing. Now to tell about what happen after the song.Alex and Ko Ko Desmond tell us their story.1st they took a trip to Melburn which they home stay for a few days and they were preparing to go for the World Youth thingie. After a few days, they took another plane to Sydney where there held the celebration. They had many band concerts going on at different places but at the same time. So you could imagine how things would be at there. They also got the chance to visit Phillips Island which people go to see penguins! Lucky !! They also experience many things like the feeling of having 1~10 Celsius temperature all the time :P haha... Ko Ko Desmond also said that he accidentally stepped on someone's head O.O because all those who took part in the celebration has to sleep on the field I think and millions and millions of people came to the celebration and you can imagine that how the field would be like.. the field would be spawning with people with their sleeping bags and so. With that many people in one place, you would even think twice of walking to the toilet or so. And guys, how long does mass last in our normal churches? Around 1 hour and so right, but from what i heard from alex and ko ko desmond, the mass there took at least 3 hours O.O Not only the mass took 3 hours but the most of the masses were run by Bishops! Pretty neat huh... Not only they got the experience of being in the presence of the POPE but they also had the enjoyment of meeting more beautiful girls from all around the globe! So LUCKY! I should have gone T.T! Ko Ko Desmond says that he's gonna show us the pics they took in next weeks meeting, so those who don't want to miss it better attend this weeks meeting know! So, thats all for today folks hope you guys will be going to the next world youth day celebration ya... Cause i know i will be going >.<

Sunday , 13-07-2008

2008-07-20T00:14:00.000-07:00

Everyone sing sing!!

Me! teaching them to sing :) haha

Sean with his guitar!

Aprils reappearance! Quite Shocking

In today's meeting, i was nervous because i was the one that was going to lead this week. So Kan Chiong! Well, i wanted to make the meeting fun a bit so i decided by teaching them a new song called "You Are My All In All" we sang ok i can say. Not bad for the 1st time. After that, i have a little bible quiz with them to test and train their bible. What is a Catholic without their bible knowledge! Next week there wont be a meeting cause Uncle des and Jie Jie Margerat cant make it. So the next will be carrying out by Amanda! good luck ya. Hope you can figure out something nice for us ^^. Well, thats all for now. Chaoz!

These are some of the pics which happen throughout the weeks that haven't been uploaded.

Working hard to find the clues in the bible^^

Looking hard to finish the puzzle!

Someone too free till decides to disturb someone >.<

We blew balloons

Representatives of both teams! (sean and jules)

Sunday , 6-7-2008

2008-07-11T08:29:00.000-07:00

Hello again guys. Today i would like everyone to know that today is our x-member Daniel Bong's Birthday! Happy birthday Bong. 1st i would like to apologies to everyone that my camera's photos cant be uploaded to my computer! I'm still working on it but i think only next month Microsoft will send the solution to my problems. Today, we had Bible Quiz again! Which is good. Todays meeting was lead by geogio and is was his effort in conducting this weeks meeting and i would like everyone to thank him and uncle desmond for this. Well... to tell you the truth, there's actually nothing much to write about today cause too little things that happen during then. Well, i think i'll stop writing for now. I would like everyone to pray for Ko Ko Desmond Ho and Alex Teo for their save return and that they would bring back something precious information back when they get back. Thats for all now guys. God Bless

Sunday , 29-06-2008

2008-07-05T03:05:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the delays, there was an error on my com which cant detect my camera so, i can't upload pics that were taken on our previous meetings. Today, we got an interesting activity which was introduced by Ko Ko Desmond. It's a bible trivia quiz. And it's really freaking hard! Some of the questions were too impossible to answer example, "Which is the shortest verse in the Bible?" I mean, come on... why this kinda questions T.T But to tell you the truth, it has a lot of benefits from it. You're able to know all kinda stuffs about the bible which other ppl dont even know. I shall list out all the questions which were in the activity below

Which is the shortest verse in the Bible? Ans: "Jesus Cried" John 11:35

How many books are there in the Bible? Ans: 73

How many books are there in the Old Testament? Ans: 46

How many books are there in the New Testament? Ans: 27

What was Jesus when he walked the earth as the Son of Man? a)Christian b)Arab c)Jew Ans:Jew

Which is the shortest book in the Bible? Ans: The Second Letter of John

Which is the longest book in the Bible? Ans: Psalms

Which is the shortest chapter in the Bible? Ans: Psalms 117

Which is the longest chapter in the Bible? Ans: Psalms 119

Do you know which verse in the Bible contains all the letters of alphabets except the letter 'Q'?
Ans: Daniel 4:37

The Bible has been translated into many languages. Would you know how many? Ans: 2223

Which chapter is in the center of the Bible? Ans: Psalms 118

What is the center verse in the Bible? Ans: Psalms 118:8

Which books in the Bible do not mention God or contain His name at all? Ans Song of Solomon

I hope that our youths will now know the Bible better through this activity.And i personally want to thank Ko Ko Desmond for introducing us this wonderful activity to us. With that i'll end my blog for the day. Thank You :) God Bless!

Sunday , 22-06-2008

2008-06-23T02:09:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. I would like to thank everyone for supporting me on carrying on this blog. It's been months since i started this blog. Well, to carry on with what happen today, it's really sad to say that each time i enter through that door, less and less ppl are appearing on whats opposite that door.. Whats happen to the youth!!! Guys, pls call back all the old members! Do something. Ok, taoday, we start off with singing 3 songs which were From The Rising Of The Sun, Fa..Fa..Faith and How Great Is Our God. And were also sang Umpama Bulan as a request from jie jie Margret who's having soar throat. Then we got our results from the game last week we had which was finding 30 names of books which are inside the bible and the number of books which was found is 26 over 30. Not bad eh. Then, we had a little planing for an event which we're gonna do in august. Well, thats all for now. Sorry i could say much about what we're planning but i'll try to write about it in next weeks blog. If i remember >.< Ok bye now and God Bless

Sunday , 15-6-2008

2008-06-15T00:49:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone again. I want to thank you for reading this blog and I appreciate everyones support towards this blog. Today, with the absent of our Form 5s which is out president and secretary(April and Kellin) Our meeting was lead by Uncle Desmond and Geogio. We started off with 3 songs which are "Our Lord Reigns" , "Power Of Your Love" , and "It's a Good Thing". After singing, we are asked to find 30 books which are in the bible like gosple of mark,mathew and so in a paragraph. Man... I tell you, it was so damn hard!!! We spend like 30 mins on it and non of the members are able to find all of them. The most was only 26 books if i'm not mistaken. For your information, we were split into 3 groups. Mathew(Leader),Stevie,Katrina and Sean were in one group, Me(Andy),Jules(Leader),William, Abraham and Edmund were in a group and lastly Samantha(Leader), Alex, Mandy and Jared were in a group. This activity was introduce by Geogio which got the idea i think from the workshop which was gave by a lady from penang on Friday and Saturday. Lastly i apologize once again for my weak "england" and a Part time blogger for this blog is needed. Thank you.

Sunday , 1-6-2008

2008-06-01T06:25:00.000-07:00

Hi again! Sorry for the late updates >.< Today, we started off with a song followed by an action song. After that, we continued with a game where 2 groups were formed and was then separated by 3 tables folded up. The rules were actually quite simple, all we were asked to do is just to blow a tissue across the opponents territory and wherever the tissue lands the team looses a point and the opposite team gains a point. Sounds easy right, but believe me.... it isn't. (Precaution, before playing this game, pls.... pls... prepare lots and lots of water to prevent dehydration.) And the loosing team was punished to do a Belly Dance! with Egyptians STYLE! Dude... you can imagine how the loosing team got humiliated and you don't wanna be in the loosing team which was MY team. Damn! I still feel crappy after doing that humiliating dance! Yuck! And it's all thanks to Uncle Desmond for suggesting the idea of belly dancing... thanks ....T.T And I'm sad to say that today... Today... it's April's last day as our president and won't be coming for youth anymore for the year 2008 till she finishes her SPM. Wuuu..... So sad.... Everyone pls pray for her success in her Spm examination. God bless her. Next week, we're gonna cancel our meeting cause there'll be a fair at monfort youth centre. Alright guys, thats all for now. Man... I really need someone to help me in this blogging stuff, Someone, anyone from PP, if you're interested in helping to blog the youth blog pls inform me. Bye now! Chaoz Cheri o

Sunday , 18-5-2008

2008-05-18T02:01:00.000-07:00

First I want to thank April for thanking me for the youth blog. Thanks April. Today, we had P and W session lead by our very own president April again, Uncle Desmond and also Ko Ko Desmond a.k.a. MU Hater!! For those who doesn't know what P and W mean it's Praise and Worship. P and W for short. We started of with a few songs and some reflection about what has God done for us and that how lucky that we were. After P and W, we had some games which was introduced by Ko Ko Desmond. The game is like Scissors, Paper and Stone but instead of using scissors, paper and stone, we had to use Lady,Men and King Kong. we started off with 2 groups with 6 on each teams. The winner out of 5 rounds are then proceed to the semi-finals.
The people who reached to the Semi-Finals were Jared, Mathew, April, Amanda, Sean and Stevie.

(How the game was played)

Katrina VS April

Semi-Finals

Finals(Well, It's happy to know that there're ppl who enjoyed the game Example: Jared >.<)

and the moment of truth has arrive. The winner is.................Sean!!!!!!

The face of a Happy Winner!

I would like to thank you for reading this blog and to all members of PP please call all your friends to join PP!!! Thank You.

announcement!!!

2008-05-14T06:32:00.000-07:00

there's be a youth council meeting in st teresa's this Sunday on 18/5/08 at 2pm. we need to send two or three representatives for this meeting... anyone interested? pls look into this.......... the advisors????

April's thoughts

2008-05-14T06:22:00.001-07:00

OK....... first of all, well done Andrew! Okay.... i apologize for not attending last week's meeting. i had some stuff to attend to. at least now you know what will the youth be like without anybody to guide you guys right? well, tell that to kor kor desmond. anyway, we'll have lot's more to come. just that i need to slow things down for my self because I'm having my major exams this year and my trials are coming. so please forgive me. it's all kor kor desmond's fault. Blame it all on him. But you guys can be rest assured that our meetings won't just be dancing or fooling around only. so! continue to spread the good news people! and may GOD BLESS...

love,
April

Sunday , 4-5-2008

2008-05-04T02:19:00.000-07:00

Wait... wait... wait..........................w...a....i......t..... This was practically what we were doing the whole time... From 1 to 2.. Because most of the members were alter servers and they were having their alter server meetings once every month so, we cant start the meeting without them so we've decided to wait. 1st, the girls went to buy some snack to eat while waiting for time to pass, and the boys, (my bro and I) went to get slurpy at the 7/11 opposite the church. At 2 O'clock, we started our meeting, and our president April was absent in todays meeting cause she has some other things to attend to. Therefore we had to carryout our activities alone. Today, we had to dance.. again.... and i dont like em... Geogio, and Samantha was giving us instructions on how to dance. And i think next week's meeting we'll also continue the dancing activity because we didn't manage to finish the dance steps due to the it was 2.30 and parents were already downstairs waiting to get their kids. So, we had to stop the dancing. Thats all for now and pls forgive me for the grammatic errors that I've made and all. Bye!

2008-04-28T05:28:00.000-07:00

Announcement

The youths of the Church of Immaculate Conception, JB would be visiting Malacca on 24th and 25th May 2008 and wishes to have a friendly football game with Petra Palz on the 25th morning (Sunday). Kindly arrange for a team and inform the SC's.

Sunday , 27-4-2008

2008-04-27T01:18:00.000-07:00

This week we had our youth meeting with the theme Arr..... Waaaa... Forgot... hope i dont get killed for this =.=" Hope She's(April) not reading this weeks blog>.< Haha.. The theme is something something ...movement. Today, our 1st activity is dancing! We were asked to make new dance steps according to the song called We Wanna See Jesus Lifted High. Besides that, we were also asked to form into 3 groups and create new dance steps for each group. And to our amaze, some people in our youth group were gifted in DANCING!!! Example, Samantha,Alex,Geogio,Mathew,William,April,Jules and last of all EDMUND!! HE can Dance man... I think he can shuffle or Hip Hop dancing. I haven't asked him so it isn't confirmed. So, i'm proud to say that our youth group not only have talented singers,guitarist,keyboardist and also leaders but we also have talented dancers at our youth group. I Hope that this youth group will grow and ,may the Lords light shine upon us always. ^^

Photos

2008-04-20T22:52:00.001-07:00

Although the other Desmond could not make it for the past two weeks, he was updated about what happened during the youth meets. The Chairlady, April has utilised her mms skills and sent me the following photos :-These tea candles were formed into the shape of a cross spontaneously by the youths after a brilliant praise and worship session and individual prayers.

Human Pyramids and Human Machines were games thought of after ciplaking some ideas from onlin websites to illustrate the importance of unity. There will be a series of team building exercises to build the youths up following last years team building youth camp

Sunday , 20-4-2008

2008-04-20T02:05:00.000-07:00

hey, it's me again! If you're bored of seeing me again then you write this BLOG then! Ok, on sunday, 20/4/2008 we had two games today. Btw, today's sermon was being lead my our youth president April and Uncle Desmond again, and our 1st game was "Human Pyramid". In this game, we were split into 2 groups. Each group has 7 members and April and uncle Desmond were the judges. The aim was to build the tallest ,and stablest tower. The 2nd game we played is a game which you have to use your own body parts to form 2 types of machine while i dont know what is the name of this game. My group managed to come out of 2 ideas which was a tea leaf grinder and another one is a roller coaster. The other team managed to make a submarine at 1st and then a robot which processes food. The aim of today's sermon is to show to us that TOGETHER WE'RE SOMETHING. ALONE WE'RE NOTHING!!! And I'm please to say that this weeks jamming session is continued as usual. We're also gonna have our 1st teens camp of the year which will take place during the May school holidays.

One again, I'm sorry about the grammatic errors I've made and may God bless you and your love ones. ^^ Peace!

Sunday , 13-4-2008

2008-04-13T01:43:00.000-07:00

Today.. We had a Praise and Worship session which was lead by April, our president and uncle Desmond. We sang some songs and there was also lighting of the candle also. So far..the songs we sang were ok, but still need we need to brush up on out singing and improving it. I also recommend that we sing more rock and roll Christian songs like One way, Tell the world, Blessed be your name, how great is our god, take it all and ect. Yesterday we also had out 1st jamming training and it was good. But we gotta work on our discipline like, going back at 9 like we're suppose to, to come early for practice and so on. But so far, things are going great ^^ Keep up the good work guys!

Praise and Worship and beyond

2008-04-11T21:40:00.001-07:00

Petra Palz takes a step further to conduct it's own praise and worship at it's own initiative without the two Desmonds this Sunday 13.4.2008. Moving towards independence and away from trivialities, this youth group is passing through growing pains in an evolutionary process.

To follow Christ is to pick up the Cross. The deepening of faith, seeking the "Glory" of God requires the experience/transfiguration and the descent from that place of comfort/mountain to the world below.

Early Promotion adverts on powerpoint slides in SPC 23/7/2006

2008-04-08T10:16:00.001-07:00

The birth of Petra Palz

2008-04-08T10:07:00.000-07:00

Excerpts of early minutes leading to the formation of Petra Palz

Date:6.8.2006

Time:12.00 noon

Venue:St.peter

opening prayer:Desmond Ho

Subject:1)Gathering

2)vision and mission

3)core group + coordinator

4)planning,retreat,brain storming

Activities:1)trips

2)camps

3)invite speakers to give talks based on career, normal life, education,stress management

4)organising games such as futsal,netball

5)jaming session

Portuguese Settlement-Uncle Raymond report that portuguese settlement based more on activeties such as Christmas party,football matches.Uncle Raymond wil be meeting two of the group leaders this saturday.

St.Peter'church-Karen reported that before the youths normally meet after church but now there is no proper system or plan in St.Peter.

Assumption Chapel,pray lane-John Paul reported that the youths are organising a examination mass in Assumption Chapel on the 2nd September 2006,saturday.the youths in Assumption gather where there will be praise and worship ,sharing the word of God and sometimes games.

Attendance:Karen,Uncle Raymond,Desmond ,John Paul,Dennis,Allycia

other matters:the youth formation.it means that we start from the basic in getting to know our faith and be able to defence ourselves.there will be obstacle coming our way.Uncle Raymond said make it hasppen and do it full hearted.the next meeting will be on the 20 August 2006

From,Dennis

Date:20.8.2006

Time:12.00 noon

Venue:St.peter

Attendance : Geogio Teo, Desmond De Souza, Alexander Teo, Karen, April Tay, Alicia Tay, Augustine

Next week Sunday school

Augustine

What type of youth group do you want to create :

1. Active outdoor and indoors, not active compared to KL, Christians. Strong…they help out in music, organize camps, education to the youths, premarital sex, I attend youth groups elsewhere…(April)

2. The church is doing something because there is a lack of direction after form 5. That direction cannot be our direction but your direction and guided.

3. Last year I attended a Christian youth camp, they teach about premarital sex, open up to parents, make us more open, music jam sessions, prayers

4. They are more modern, they will do anything to get ppl in their youth group, they send out flyers. Where else we just call out personally, no oomph. Its not about technology, how they influence. We enjoy their kind of songs. They will attack what the youth wants, hey want to talk about boy girl relationship. Stress, they will invite psychologists…parents, one by one to stand up and state.

5. We want to talk to our parents, but we cannot talk to them.

6. Raymond - children nowadays ask questions, parents themselves not knowledgeable to convey message.

7. Actually this meeting going to be all outsiders, going to be stressed. Thought Father Moses will be around. (April)

8. It was more like we didn’t have successors. Those considered active left for further studies, plus with the zoning, we didn’t have many blue area youths in the parish. Last president was Michelle. (Karen)

9. We had meetings once of twice with father , but nothing happened (Karen)

10. What time and what day. Bible study gives me the chills.

11. What about 9am, will you all come?

12. Get Father to tapau food…first week.

13. For next week, more people, more activities, like games, talks, opinions,group sharings,

14. Any of your play musical instruments?

15. We want to learn how to play music…

16. Music, own band…

17. praise and worship, basic introduction – talk –

18. Raymond – Tony De Costa represents Portuguese settlement, younger generation, Currently organizing mostly on games, every week got games as far as seremban. They are quite active and them football team doing well and going to be registered with FIFA. Most of them after school. They got a younger team for football too. He has been informed and agreed to come but did not turn up today

19. The other group is the choir, feedback that he is way out negative. Father did call him out once, but he gave negative feedbacks. Kevin Savage.

20. Was told that he is not actually leader of choir.

21. Fundraising – easter eggs,

22. Kiddies day – for primary school organize by the youths ( 8am to 5pm) babysit – Next year

23. Camp

24. youth for wedding masses – as a fundraising

25. Christmas Pageant (Santa Cruz)

26. Get collection of old newspapers –

27. A youth flyer, notice board beside library. – blog (revive the notice board)

28. Character building camp – (motivation)

29. New powerpoint for youths

Sunday, 6-4-2008

2008-04-06T04:30:00.000-07:00

OK, this is my 1st blog. Don't insult it or you'll be sorry. Blogging isn't really my thing =.=" But April made me to it.. Thanks =.=". K here goes.

Today, we had our 1 youth outing. We went to the Malacca River Cruise. We started gathering after out usual sunday class, and managed to have enough vehicles thanks to the SCes. MUahaha!!
Joking =.=" K, we left church about roughly 1.10P.M. And got there around 1.20 cause it was nearby to our church. So, we got off our respective places and started walking to the place and later we found out that the next boat ride was at 2PM!!! So we had to kill LOADS of time... So... We started by buying some "Goreng Pisang" followed by some Cendol!! Yum! Then.. Some of the "guys" started to have a great time watching Girls which was opposite the river cruise site. Haha!!
Then, finally it was 2 pm and we got onto the boats. The entertainer or what do you call guys that tells us about the river and houses and stuffs was a funny lad. LOL!! Lots of nonsense coming from his mouth but it was funny.He started calling the big lizards or what you call it arr!!! Sorry my England not to geng one so pls tell me how to spell that lizards name. K, as i was saying/typing the started calling names of superstars and actors like Jackie Chan and others. So the trip lasted for about 40 mins and after the river ride. We went home. If you guys are wondering that why didn't i write out more details about what happen during the river ride it's because i'm too lazy.

K, Bye... Give comments know!! you insult you die ..... So better choose your words wisely...