joel

salutations to u, and u, and u

bit late but MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
bit early but HAPPY NEW YR!!!
bit on time so CONGRATS TO BEN N EVELYN!!!

hope to c u all soon after im melted in singapore

joel

time, distance n growth

it's been almost 3 yrs since youth started. we started in 2006 n it's almost 2009. oh how far we've come indeed. for some, we might be agonising " oh no! i've grown older". for others it might be a case of " oh yay! i gotten more mature". wadeva the point of view, no matter how u look at it, we've all grown in these 3 yrs.

4 myself, i've changed. my bro n sis had to drag me to church when i first came. i would even purposely take my time so they would be late in the hopes tt they gave up n left me home to sleep. now it's totally different. i'm glad to be in church. it's where i juz feel so comfortable. i feel i've become friendlier as the me 3 yrs ago wouldnt really dare to talk to anyone new.

wiki defines growth as "an increase in size, number, value, or strength; the act of growing, getting bigger or higher". i believe we fit these criteria totally.

as a grp, we've grown so much. frm having cell in someone's house, we now have a larger space. i believe though someday we'll have a place of our own. a space where we can stick our own stuff up on the walls. instead of juz normal cell all the time, we've progressed to have things like outings n discipleship. though the number changes, our number has changed many times n we still grew. we have done a few performances in church. spiritually, we've grown as well due to the help of the youth leaders. appreciations shall be done in a different post. together as a youth, we've grown bolder as well. being in youth, we've done things we nvr tot we would ever do. i certainly din expect to have performed in front of so many people or even sit down to learn how to fold a paper star. all these memories i'm sure we'll all treasure. we've grown in strength of our own n also thru adversity, learnt to rely on god's strength. last but not least value. these past years, i believe this is wad the leaders have constantly done us youth. they've constantly added value to us, so tt we may go out as shining beacons of light to then add value to the people surrounding us and our lives. juz as the leaders have added value to us, i believe that in our own little way, we've added value to them as well. i think we can agree we've at least taught them patience n how to hold their temper better. haha. inside they might be boiling but outside, they still seem so calm n i admire that.

we might not be as big as the fcc youth group but tt's the way i like it. being small n close knit, being able to know everyone well is nice. but i believe we can grow in numbers. i believe we still have a long way to grow. we've grown bigger and higher the past few years. let's continue to support each other n forever growing by the grace of god.

personally, how far have you come? as a youth, how far have we come? i'd say pretty far.

joel the thinker

hey everyone, new happening in my life

I'VE FINISHED MY EXAM! pray 4 the one(alvin) tt still has exam yeah?

wads new in yours? use this blog to inform us bout new major happenings. im sure we'd love to noe bout it.

anyways, juz a reminder tt we're on 4 ushering this sun

jello

hi all. exams are ALMOST over, for most of the ppl lah ! i mean. anywayz, i know its a bit late, but meh, plz tell us wat u've gone through in the exams. so dat we can pray for you lah !!!! and... for the ppl who work... we'll pray for u guys as well :D pray dat u guys will ENJOY working, enjoy working with frenz as well. hmm.... yea. we'll start pray once u guys hav put in anything lah !!!! hehehe GOD BLESS !!!!

ALvin.

youths outing...

sb...

Anime O2 Youths!

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THE BRICK

THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, ‘What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?’ The young boy was apologetic. ‘Please, mister…please, I’m sorry but I didn’t know what else to do,’ He pleaded. ‘I threw the brick because no one else would stop…’ With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. ‘It’s my brother, ‘he said ‘He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up.’Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, ‘Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me. Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. ‘Thank you and may God bless you,’ the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy! push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: ‘Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!’ God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It’s our choice to listen or not.

yea...so touching rite ~~~~ got it off from internet, i think this is really meaningful and as it is said, got got through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.REMEMBER !!!!!

ALvin.

3 course dinner by Chef Sam

We started with a lovely creamy pumpkin soup... but we all ate it up so fast that no one remembered to take a photo of it

Then we had this love pasta salad on the side


Also a fresh green salad


And for the main course, butter fried chicken with an italian sauce


Happy customers!


Stop fooling around and get to work on the dishes :)

EXAMS R COMING!!! but dun stress.. haha

to all those who r starting TEEs this week.. god bless u.. rest of yuf pray 4 them ya?

to bring ur spirits up n brighten ur room

Psalm 23 Student Version

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not flunk
He keepeth me from lying down when I should be studying
He leadeth me beside the water cooler for a study break
He restores my faith in study guides
He leads me to better study habits
For my grades' sake

Yea, though I walk through the valley of borderline grades
I will not have a nervous breakdown
For thou art with me
My prayers and my friends, they comfort me
Thou givest me the answer in moments of blankness
Thou anointest my head with understanding
My test paper runneth over with questions I recognise

Surely passing grades and flying colours shall follow me
All the days of my examinations
And I shall not have to dwell in this exam hall forever.

Psalm 23(New International Version)

1.The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,

3 he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, [a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.

hi all, just got an idea, why not we do ushering next week ???? coz i saw SOOOO MANY passion ppl or YA already went to help out... except for O2 Youth... we haven't taken any actions yet.... if anyone interested, let me know ya ???

ALvin.

hi all, sorry for not updating youth's blog for so long ! anywayz good news ppl, i've found SOOOOOOOOOO MANY PHOTOS ! hehehe... i've got more than 100 photos of Witch Doctor, if u guys one, i will pass the USB to u guys lah. and Joe. T complained dat dun hav his solo pic ! now i've got one DAMN nice one leh ! and, also sorry sam, last time they only took the second session ~ now i've also got yours ! hehehe.... and i got the BANNER ! pic lah, not the real one... dunno where it went also !



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ALvin.

roster

here's the new roster.. so none of u can complain tt u lost the paper, except ling but meh, she'll be informed.. if cant see like tt... obviously click on the pic to enlarge...

verse of the day

tot it might be nice to post small verses to get us thru our day.

2 Corinthians 13:14
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.


jello

the new term is here!!!
hope u all have fun coz i noe alvin n i will in our extremely short term!! haha

4 those of u tt have to stick it thru the entire yr, gd luck wif ur tests n stuff

pray tt all of u would have a wonderful week 2 of school and tt the working pple would have a gd week at work too. tt no prob will come up wif the bosses n u wun have to o.t at all..

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!! :)


jello

pictures

juz some pics frm phone

















sfas















youth logo thingo tt ling drew

hi all, im glad im still faithfully blogging !!!!! hahahah sorry, i know i haven't been updating for very long !!!! well, few days. HAHAHAH. anywayz. school has already STARTED !!!! i know, a lot of people don't feel like going to school after SOOO much fun rite !!!!! nothing much to say recenly coz everything is going pretty well and cool ! thank God for blessing us ~ and yea, STUDY HARD YAR ? *i know its NOT very convincing when i said this to you guys* hahahahahah. so yea, GOD BLESS YOU ALL !

ALvin.

another one...

i got some new photos from Gerard again !!!! muahahahahahah i know... we keep on talking about sfas ! bcoz it was really really fun and awesome! seems like youth has done something really good ! >.< HUUURAAAYYY !!!!!

AWESOME !

OH YEA !
GROUP PHOTO ! FINALLY FOUND ONE !
....alvin got pushed down !
YEA JOE ! WE'RE THE STARS !!!! hahaha

we youth are such posers.... hahaha

SOLO PART !!! jason !!!!! HOOOOO!!!!!

DJ RAJA !

wooo !!!

the crazy dancers man !!!!

my apologies for bringing all these things up after SOOOOOOO L.O.N.G !!!! hope you guys miss them though~~~~

Zion Lympics

church had an event called Zionlympics. as usual, youth must PARTICIPATE ! hahahah and Gerard had taken some VERY very limited photos for us.... Young Adults and Oxygen Youth were combined together ! and they named our group CANADA ! cool rite and we came FIFTH among SOOOO many countries !

group photos !

group photos2

GO GO GO !!!!

HOLLYWOOD SUPERSTAR !!!! joking lah !!!!!

Mother's Day !!!

well, not sure there's anything to post, since i've been putting so many "serious" posts recently, why put those very happy and memorial moment? rmb we also did some performances for a few events at church like mother's day, zionlympics and sfas which is the latest one. i've got a LOTs and HEAPS of photo from Gerard. i think he shall be included as the buddies since i've got so many photos from him. well, i didn't really ask him... i kinda just grabbed the photos from his album >.< also ="]" style="text-align: center;">
we were the group for singing, ling ling so pro, she memerised the lyrics ! haha

sam, the main singer ! the REAL one

we also hav Joe the guitarist and Jason the pianist ! and joe chan, chello-ist?

speech time. speeches for all MUMZZ !!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !

juz playing around wif some ideas

as the title suggests, ive been playing around wif a few ideas

• maybe a trip down south someday as a cell?
• a yuf tshirt? will go check out costs soon b4 i get back. guessing 10 bucks a shirt atm
  
• to make ourselves more prominent in church.. but how?? hmmm....
• wash leaders cars after sunday or something to show our appreciation
• leader appreciation day!! haha..

wad other suggestions?? im juz throwing ideas out there to see if they work but juz brainstorming so kinda juz babbling atm.. dun mind me..

jello

Azn Photos.

we went outing today among oxygen youth ourselves. we were meant to meet at Utop**, but alvin was late for one hr !!!! there was Sam, Ling Ling, Jordan and Alvin. we then headed straight for lunch. we saw Marcus Cheong and Benedix our leader. he was with "someone". after lunch we then went to a few shops and stuff. at last we went to Time Z***. we took azn photos together well its kind of like an unspoken rule for all the ppl dat goes to Time Z***. hehehe and here are the photos !!!!

as i've didn't want to mention the whole name for those particular shops was bcoz i cannot make this blog as an advertising blog and they're PTY LTD i suppose =]

Memories......

i hope this pic will bring a lot of ppl's memories back. this photo was taken when youth was created. the 1st time of youth and they took a pic. this photo was definitely taken with a lot of big dreams, big hopes, and also with a lot of God's LOVE. as the post underneath. u all shall know dat our youth is great and stuff but whenever we pray for growth, we only pray but i dun really see anyone has ever put in any effort maybe u guys did but.... u know... so i really do hope dat u guys will start taking actions about it and go talk to the families so they mite know any teens and invite them to youth dun always PLAY and hang around with ur own ppl (especially those three ppl hope u know who i am talkin about) i was very very very disappointed when i heard this. Ps Josh MOYO has brought a few teens to attend SFAS. Boon Wai ask the youth group to go and hav a talk with them and also acompany them but i found out some ppl actually went away and only one or two youths left. can u imagine if u were the ppl around ??? i wonder wat kind of thoughts would boon wai hav. anywayz. let's set it aside i will discuss about it at other time. the pic at the top. start from left. Ben Tung,(wow we used to hav three bens) Joel Tan, Sam, Stacey, DJ Raja, Ivan, not sure who dat lady is, Ray, Chin Seng, Andrea, Benedix, Chui Lin and Risako.

My apologies if u guys found it not good or the way i talked was very rude...
God Bless \(^.^)/

growth

was thinking of whether to post this or not n finally decided to

went to city harvest church today for their sunday service.. had to travel 45 min to get there but its alrite.. twas worth it

i've nvr really been to any big churches so this was my first time going to one.. twas relatively big i guess but not as big as hillsongs definately.. anyways.. twas very nice to be able to juz worship wif so many other pple.. some CEO of KPMG was there too

when i walked in there was juz so many people worshipping god.. people of different ages,backgrounds and races. it muz be wad heaven will be like.. it was juz so many people packing out the EXPO hall

this juz brought up a thought in me.. i believe god is gonna expand our youth.. he's gonna bring more people in but we as the youth muz have the initiative to go talk to other teens in church n invite them too.. this is one of the things we usually pray 4 in prayer but somehow i think we all lost the vision already n juz merely pray wifout envisioning a big youth, a youth where transport has become a problem n we dont have enough cars. i think as a youth, we have stagnated and we should continue to grow. we're kinda being headless chickens here n juz basically having fun( not tt it's not gd) but we're called to be the head n not the tail therefore arise and go out n draw the masses in...

Meetingz !

tonite we had dinner instead of having a proper cell. if i didn't collect the info wrong, leaders were suppose to discuss about wat's going to happen next three month of oxygen youth. and here are the pics that were taken during the discussion =]

sorry, i somehow cannot put the names next to the photos. so i can only use here as discription. 1st photo- meng how
2cd photo-Chui Lin
3rd photo- Benedix
4th photo- Serene
5hth photo- Alvin and Chui lin

there's also meant to be DJ raja there but he didn't want us to take a photo of him. so yea...

hehehehehe. oxygen youth... see how hard the leaders are doing for us ! so we should appreciate them and respect them !!!! (in ur way) if u want. lol !!!! well, just be nice to them afterall !!!!

GOD BLESS

trip down memory lane

thank u serene 4 the wonderful trip down memory lane.. 4 the rest of u, here the pics i ripped off frm serene's blog.. the vid's frm her blog too.. haha.. serene the historian.. kinda messed up the formatting but oh wells.. at least i tried yeh??





























haha.. our grp's special... we get 2 pics!!
all coz the owner of the cam's in our grp


























































































dunno y but me likes this pic quite a fair bit.. somehow benedix looks diff in this too





joel the archivist