Generation Hope

Tee-Shirt Design

2009-03-31T22:15:00.004+08:00

Yo! People, I have two designs from Daryl for our youth shirt so there still can be a poll! HAHA! Ok, the two are quite similar but they are different so vote for the one that you prefer! Oh yeah, they are still in the sketching process so, the designs are still quite rough and hairy. So presenting the two entries!

Design A

Design B

Sorry, but design A is very light cause it was in pencil. So you got to either click on it to enlarge it or save to open again. A brief description about design A would be that it is showing the transformation of the 'Transformer' robot from a car to the robot form holding a cross. Design B is the simpler version of A whereby the robot is replaced with a stickman and the stickman transforms from carrying a burden to being free.

So what are you waiting for! Get voting!

New poll!

2009-03-06T22:40:00.002+08:00

The new poll is out! Get voting! Oh you only can vote once. Please play fair and vote once. Vote now!

New ideas include: Wet games, Ice skating and ice skating. Well I was getting a lack of response to what new activities you guys would like to try so time a wasting might as well start the poll now!~

With that I shall go vote first. Hehehe. You probably know what i'm gunning for hehehe. Hint, it rhymes with pet!

Fast forward!

2009-03-06T22:21:00.003+08:00

This just in, we have breaking news that the Tee-shirt design competition is being fast forward-ed! Abigail and Shaokai have pressed the fastforward button on their universal remotes as they want new tee-shirts!

So here are the new details, the competition ends in 20 days time! That's 480 hours or 28800 minutes or 1728000 seconds! That's alot of digits! So the competition ends on 26 March at 12 noon!

So what are you waiting for~ Get your butts moving and start cracking em up! Er not crack your butt but your brains. Get designing! again if you want to know further contest details, click here http://hopefulyouths.blogspot.com/2009/01/contest-woo-hoo.html

Mission all over!

2009-03-01T20:37:00.003+08:00

Cycling was fun! Was'nt it? Well it was for me but coordination I felt could be a little better. Well I guess when the group gets bigger, coordination gets tougher no? Anyway now what? Cycling's over and I guess we won't be doing that in the near future so what's next? We need to plan people! But I'm not saying we should have more games and lesser bible studys!

Even if we plan ahead now, I'm sure the next time we go out it would be after some saturdays of bible study hehe. Why? Because bible study is important!

Ok so how? What say you again ahaha. There would be a new poll where we can hear your views and please do not vote more than once. If somebody doubles post and the poll count goes over 30, I would seriously consider restarting the poll. But before I start the poll, I need some options! so for this coming week, I shall be keeping my ears pealed or even eyes to hear/read your options! So start telling me what you guys want to do!

I have some ideas which include:

Wet games
Sports (like captain's ball etc)
Go to the beach! (mainly involves frisbee maybe picnic?)

So get your creative juices going and think of some activity that we can look forward to! Maybe in lets say a months plus time?

Mr potato

2009-02-23T22:31:00.002+08:00

Mr potato, the post below applies to you so we are giving you until Friday to reveal yourself if not you will be banned from the chatbox :) (I'm saying this with a smile on my face).

Please note that I have nothing against you and don't feel bad that I had to single you out and gave you an ultimatum but even so we still welcome you back to the blog! It is just that we felt it is important that one takes responsibility of their words :) (this smile is for real and so was the other ontop)

Please do tell us your name!

Ownership

2009-02-23T22:15:00.009+08:00

With immediate effect, there will be rules in place for those using the chatbox. Please do follow the rules for using the chatbox otherwise it would result in a really unwanted consequence. Ok, the rules are very simple and are the following:

No vulgarities
No slandering
No anyhow-ly using other people's names as your name
No unkown nicknames or unknown alias
Never break rule number 1
Never break rule number 2
Never break rule number 3
Never break rule number 4
There is no rule number 9

In the event whereby anyone breaks any of these rules, the person would be prosecuted in the court of law and you would be facing our lawyer, Skai! (that's if he agrees). Lol ok not really but it would just result you in being banned from thechatbox.

This post had to surface due to some feedback and of cause I shall not disclose further details.

Anyway this is just proper courtesy that we reveal our names when we say things on a blog. We must take RESPONSIBILITY in the words that we speak or in this case, the words we type. So please take proper responsibility when you use the chatbox.

This is just a reminder to all of us of certain lines each and every one of us should never cross. I hope that we put this blog to good use and not turn it upside down :)

We are going to the [s]zoo[/s] i mean east coast park!

2009-02-21T18:52:00.003+08:00

Yes people, it has been decided! FINALLY. We are going to the ~~zoo~~ I mean East Coast Park to cycle! Hehehehhe.

Ok the details are as followed, meet at 1.30PM i.e. 1330 hours at Kallang Mrt. If somehow you read PM as AM then good luck to you when you find out nobody's at Kallang Mrt. We would be having lunch there first then head down to East Coast Park to cycle! So bring your money! I am not paying for you. No seriously, I am not. Lol.

If you want, you could bring extra pieces of clothing and a towel and WATER! That is important. Rather than spending money on cold drinks, bring your own plain water! It's healthy!~

OH~ One more thing. Bring your potato friends along! Like what the potato that has been recently really active in the Chatbox said, bring more potato buddie~!! Then we all can have potatos for dinner. Hehehehe. (I was'nt serious about that...)

SEE YOU THEN!

New information

2009-02-15T22:05:00.003+08:00

Yes! Finally I updated the members section of our blog! We have new information of our youths and if you did'nt know there was such a thing, check it out! I'm sorry for the late update but I lack the time! Haiz, wish that we had 48 hours in a day. Ok anyway just check out the updates!

Polls are closed!

2009-02-06T20:30:00.001+08:00

Yes people it is that time of the year! No not youth camp but the polls are officially closed! The results, you can see it over at the right hand side so I shall not repeat it again! So do look out for our next outing as hinted by you guys! Woo Hoo~

Polls are closing!

2009-01-29T20:25:00.004+08:00

Yes the polls are closing! How long more? If you don't know, the poll I am refering to is the one which will determind our youth outing! Well the polls will remain open for a week + 1 day more! So hurry up get your votes done and get those people who have yet to vote to vote now!

Right now, cycling and going to the beach are in a tie for the lead so that's where our direction would most likely, at this time be heading!

WE NEED YOU~ ok once more, WE NEED YOU TO VOTE.

Where do you want to go?

2009-01-19T00:03:00.004+08:00

People what say you? What type of outing would you like? We are giving you the opportunity to voice your opinion. The poll located on the right sidebar is for you!

You are able to select multiple choices as it is a possibility to join both types of activites but please have some self control and only vote once! PLEASE. We want a non biased result and we want to hear from everyone not just one person. So thank you in advance for voting once!

So far I will keep this poll open until either when I see there is too few response or when we have a clear winner but I will give this poll at least a month's time. So vote!

Contest! Woo Hoo ~

2009-01-18T22:53:00.007+08:00

Contest what contest? Yes people this is our very first Tee Shirt Design Contest!

Well what is this contest about? We are in search of our 2009 Youth Tee Shirt! So instead of wrecking our brains to get a decent design for our Youth Tee Shirt, we have decided to ~~make you guys wreck your brains instead~~ create this contest to get a better response! This would help us get a unique, and truly 'our' very own Youth Tee Shirt plus its going to be interesting!

You guys would have to create a whole entire tee shirt design (every single design, meaning all the colour of the tee shirt logo luh, picture in front and picture behind). What would be smart (in my opinion) is that you guys could work as teams, and delegate tasks around.

Here are the rules of the contest:

Must have reference to our youth group name: Generation Hope for example a logo or just words
No vulgar language (you guys should know this)
No explicit images (and this too)
There is no colour restriction
Entrees must be a soft copy i.e. a jpeg, png, gif, etc. If your designs are originally in a hard copy please get it scanned into the computer. (can look for me)
Teams can have a maximum of 2 members (NO EXCEPTIONS)

This contest starts today, 18 January 2009 and will end on the 18 April 2009 Noon. So you guys will have 3 months which I feel is enough time for you all! I will be very strict regarding the rules so if you guys do not abide by the rules, your entrees would be disqualified! Other than what I have stated, other ideas are generally accepted and I'm pretty ok with it, just run it by me.

Additional info that could be useful is that our Youth Group's vision:

"Follow Me, be transformed"

Let me explain a little, basically it is Jesus calling each and everyone single one of you guys in Generation Hope to follow Him and be transformed from glory to glory in all aspects of your lives.

So what are you waiting for!? GO! Wreck your brains and start designing the tee shirt! Oh yeah the thing about using you guys? I was just joking no offence!

LOUDFEST 2009

2009-01-17T23:57:00.002+08:00

People! LoudFest 2009 coming to Singapore (Cornerstone). What is LoudFest you say? Well let Nub and Bub tell you more!

Nub: Hey you want to go learn about creative arts/ media, more about Christian celebrities through interview sessions and much much more?

Bub: Err ... what are these much much more things?

Nub: Well LoudFest 2009 is coming to Singapore and the conference would have creative arts/ media workshops plus interviews with Christian celebrities also there are other workshops such as preaching 101, band dynamics, dance, photography and drama. So many right!

Bub: Ya lor so many leh but must I go for all?

Nub: Well no. Chose one luh.

Bub: Oh cool what are the details of the conference?

Nub: It would be held during th 19th -21st March 2009 at Cornerstone at The Odeon Katong, 11 East Coast Road #03-01/02 Singapore 428722. If you're interested you could look for my friend Abigail who has the sign-up list!

Bub: Wow cool I'm quite interested! Oh ya how do you like remember all the details?

Nub: Heh. I just all the info on this piece of paper. Lol.

Ok so now you know the details. So if you're interested do sign up with Abigail!

Old chinese man meets new english man.

2009-01-17T21:42:00.009+08:00

I have been inspired to write a series of short stories to make this blog a little more lively. These stories tend to be melodramatic and weird. Please bear with me. All characters mentioned in the following stories are fictional and any similarities with anyone is purely accidental and has no hidden meaning. Ah one more thing, some inspiration for the stories are needed so they mainly come from Xiangle.

Tales of the Old Chinese Man Episode One: Old Chinese Man Meets New English Man.

Long long time ago, there lived an old man who happened to be a Chinese living in China. He was old and happened was called by the name Old Chinese Man. Apparently during his time, people still thought the earth was still a big fat square and that if they went to the edge of the earth, they would sure fall to their deaths. *Cue shocking sound effects*

One day Old Chinese Man got into a box and little did he know that he was in fact inside a box heading towards London. *Cue dramatic music* Why did Old Chinese Man go inside the box? No one knows ... *shakes head* Soon after getting into the box or should I say a fit one old man barrel, he fell asleep.

Then before he knew it, Old Chinese Man awoken to the new world, the city of the English; London. Nobody knows how he got into the barrel and got onto a ship and got out of the ship and out of the barrel but he was out of the barrel and into the city of London.

Old Chinese Man thought to himself: 终于我到了伦敦，我终于可以告诉那些英国人我的不能说的秘密
"Yes! I can finally tell the English my Cannot Say One Secret!"

So now we know Old Chinese Man's plans! He wants to tell the people of London his 'Cannot Say One Secret!" Now this all makes sense! He hid himself in a barrel to sneak on board a ship to take him to London where he can tell his 'Cannot Say One Secret!" It's so wonderful but I wonder what is his secret? ...

Old Chinese Man then ran to the nearest English man that he could find and told him his secret.

Old Chinese Man: 我有一个秘密要告诉你…是一个不能说的秘密
I have a secret to tell you ... a 'Cannot Say One Secret'.

New English Man: What is it?

Old Chinese Man: 你不能告诉别人
You cannot tell anyone about this ...

New English Man: Ok ...

Old Chinese Man: 那不能说的秘密是…地球是圆的
The 'Cannot Say One Secret' is that ... the earth is ROUND!

New English Man: WHAT! NaNi?! *Goes into traumatic shock*

Old Chinese Man: Sigh, you could'nt handle the truth. So dissapointing *shakes head*

With that, Old Chinese Man set forth to tell the whole of the land of the English about the 'Cannot Say One Secret'

THE END

P.S. Apparently, the English Man could understand Chinese and the Old Chinese Man could understand English and stay tuned for the second episode!

A Verse a Day

2009-01-16T19:09:00.004+08:00

Update people! Now there is a Verse a Day on the site itself! If you have not noticed, it's located on the sidebar on the right.

It's good to keep in touch with the word of life i.e. the Bible so I hope this applet would be very useful to you!

You know the saying a apple a day keeps the doctor away? Well I have no idea what a verse a day does to you but I'm sure it's good! I'm sure God has something in stored for you and may even talk to you through this applet so have fun using it!

Erm. Just another reminder, read below! By that I mean read the post below! It's really very important! VERY!

We Need You!

2009-01-15T23:25:00.004+08:00

WE NEED YOU!

You heard me, We Need You! Yes You! Well more like Daryl needs you! Well if you did not hear, we're acting out a skit for Sunday service! To be exact, on February 15. We would be putting up the winning skit of Soft Toys from youth camp.

According to Daryl, we are apparently still in the planning stages which is not good! So we need to get moving! ~I like to move it, move it ~You like to move it move it~ We like to ... move it!~

Ok back to business! We need actors/actresses, stage managers, prop managers, anything and everything! Daryl would be approaching you guys this Saturday and Sunday to help out in the various areas, so instead of he telling you what to do, tell him what you want to do!

So again here are the avaliable positions up for grabs:

Actors/Actresses
Stage Manager
Prop Manager (Jiapei hint hint ^^)
Up to Daryl's imagination!

Ok maybe you guys would need some explanation, regarding stage manager-ing and the manager-ing roles. For the stage manager role, most likely only ONE person will get the role and that goes for prop manager too. So you get what I'm trying to say? Lol.

The Stage Manager is one who would organise everybody during the day itself. He/She must be well versed in the script (which we would give you lots of chances to learn) and you get to command people around! Like tell them where to go and whatever not.

Prop Manager is simple. You would be in charge of getting the props ready before D-Day! BEFORE arh not after. You could get people to help you and stuff after all making one person make all the props isn't that fair.

Ok so looks like that would be it! Oh just a reminder, Daryl would be looking to involve EVERYONE so no point trying to escape, cause there is NO ESCAPE! Buahahaha! lol no luh we just want everyone to participate after all we are a youth group! Also some people may end up doing double roles so let's say you're good at acting don't go look for the stage manager role luh. Sign up as an actor! It's like if you're the toe of the body then you go say I want to be the nose. Sounds familiar? I think so too ...

Ok so that's pretty much it!

WE NEED YOU! desperately ...

Youth Camp 2008!

2009-01-05T16:08:00.004+08:00

YAY! I got more photos from Pastor Peter on our youth camp! The pictures are up! hehe You can view the photos under the photos section. So now you can see me with my fish! hehehe.

Ok luh I shall just give a preview of the newer pictures say cheese SARA! hahahah

This is what I call teamwork lol.

Remember this place?

No! Marcus don't fall in!

Yup so that's just a little preview of the other photos hehehe.

MODERATOR HEH.

2009-01-03T21:58:00.002+08:00

Ok I shall make it official! Give a hand to SARAAAAAAAAAA-LAH! Woooooo~ She is now one of the blog's moderator along side with me! heh. She will be doing stuff like updating posts and notices and stuff. Then the more difficult stuff she leaves to me. Yup so again give her a hand! Heh.

If anyone would like to extend your hand to help out with the blog, you are welcome! just notify me. Yup. See you guys around!

YOUTH MEETING.

2009-01-02T23:25:00.002+08:00

a big HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you guys. so here's a little heads up for the youth meeting tomorrow.

youth meeting is at: shao kai and abigails's place, at 2.30 p.m.

and its gonna be the first youth meeting of the year 2009!!! so have EXTRA EXTRA fun tomorrow!
see all of you guys soon, and once again,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year!

2008-12-31T23:53:00.007+08:00

Let me be the first to wish you a very (read on top). As you know yesterday was our church's event for the count down to the new year and I would say it was kinda a success. In one a way that we had lots of fun no? hehe.

The youths went ahead earlier to Pastor Peter's place to start the b-b-q as well as some early fun. Anyway here are some photos of the youths! The other group photos will be in the photos section so look out for them! Keep your eyes peeled! hehe.

So we have Chris!

And Kelly! With Daryl behind.

Big-mouth Joel!

Ryan!

The arm-pit boys with the eeyer boy!

Joel and me with the wet hair!

A blur small group photo.

Loke and Jiap

Ah. A event is nothing without it's food hehehe.

The room was packed man.

Lovely otak and the neverending hot-dogs!

Who can forget the 'hot' chicken wings! hehehe really 'hot'.

All in all I think almost all of us had a good time. After eating we basically took many many many many many many many many many many many did I mention many? Lol. After that we had our games. We split into two main groups. One taboo and the other Bridge. Heh Sara was like. "I'm bored!" Thats because she does'nt know how to play bridge and don't know why she did'nt play taboo. Even Mag knows how to play Bridge! SARA GO LEARN!

Ah anyway the other photos are in the photos section and most probably on facebook. So look out for them! STAY TUNED! hehehehhehe.

New Year's Eve Celebration B-B-Q

2008-12-31T00:20:00.004+08:00

tomorrow theres gonna be a (look at title.)
so yeap! here is the info:
date: 31 December 2008 which is tomorrow
Time: 7:00pm - Midnight (doubt so)
Vennue: Gillman Heights Condo Function Halls A&B and Pool-side

If anyone of you guys are interested, let one of the leaders know.

AND.if you don't know how to get there,
be at Queenstown Mrt at 5pm

so yeah,youths are gonna hang at the pool side so bring your swimming stuffs if you want!:)
see you guys tomorrow, and God bless.

Help needed!

2008-12-30T22:48:00.006+08:00

Hey people, your help is much needed! To complete our blog, we need a personal profile of every single youth! So here is a 'form' that I need you guys to fill up so I can upload your profile up here!

Info I need:

Name, nickname (if you have one), birthday and a short write-up about yourself. Include interests, stuff that you usually do and or anything that you want to include! so people start cracking! and tell people about this blog! hahaha.

Just send me your profile through msn or something in MS Word format or Notepad also can. Oh by the way, I would be taking photos of you guys for the profile this coming Sunday or Saturday so dress properly!

Stay tuned hehehe.

Youth Camp 2008

2008-12-30T21:45:00.000+08:00

Youth camp was over not long ago! However I only have some of the youth camp photos. So do wait awhile while I try to get the rest of the photos! meanwhile, enjoy the some of the photos. Lol.

Stay tuned!

Things are coming together!

2008-12-30T21:30:00.004+08:00

Wooo Hooo! This website is coming together! Almost everything is done! Hehe. Guess what?

New PHOTOS are up!

Ok my other plans for this website would include the touching up of the profile page which I would like to make a personal profile of every single person of our youth group! hehehe. So stay tuned!

Photos!

2008-12-30T20:38:00.001+08:00

People! This is an important announcement! So listen up!

'The PHOTOS are UP!'

Click on the photo tab to check the pictures out! Heh. More are coming. I'm starting with the really really old photos first so wait a little longer they're coming! hehehe.

OFFICAL OPENING!

2008-12-30T17:34:00.000+08:00

Que extra music! TA-HA-DAH well not really that extravagent but that would do the job. Welcome to Generation Hope's Blog and official opening! Hehe.

The purpose of this blog is simply because I don't know how to set up a website from scratch and we want a webpage for ourselves! This blog would serve to just reach out to the masses and let them see what God is working in our lives! There would be all sorts of fun stuff posted here. Just as long as those exams and work don't keep us too busy! Heh. Anyway I think thats the end of the opening ceremony. Thanks alot. No really. Thanks alot. Come back soon!