Youth Exchange Program

Leo Lau Jian Hui, our outgoing club secretary , had been qualified to go Japan via the Youth Exchange Programme, together with 19 other YE-s from District 308-B1.The Youth Exchange Group of 308 B1 is led by Tey Kwang Hawe from Segamat. On 15^th December 2009, Leo Lau Jian Hui departed from KLIA to KANSAI International Airport, Japan. He will be there for 22 days and will be back on 6^th January 2010. Upon reaching Japan, he will be welcomed by two host families, both from Osaka. The two host families are Lions, Miss Fumiko Iwata and Miss Yuki Kitahama. In Japan, he will be joining a camp organized in Kobe.

JIAN HUI! GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

YES Camp 2009

The annual Leo Youth Essential Skills Camp was held on 17^th-20^th December 2009. The Leo Club of High School Batu Pahat sent 3 directors to the camp including club president and secretary. For them, YES Camp is the best camp that they ever participated in. They learnt many things in this camp, especially the 12 keys. They say that they are flexible enough to apply the 12 keys to “different locks” to get any problem faced solved. They were having much fun in the camp, like flying fox and playing insanely in the water. The activities planned had enabled them to enthuse themselves in teamwork and team spirit. And this is what they said to every leo members after coming back from Y.E.S.. They knew numerous number of friends too. From acquaintances became friends and at the last day, they cried, because they had to be apart with their BUDDYs.

“It would be our biggest regret in our life if we didn’t even attend Y.E.S. Camp!”

Helping Tzu-Chi in Charity Sales

• All those involved in this activity gathered around 7.00a.m. at Hall of SJK©Cheng Siu.(Breakfast offered)At 7.15a.m., they started to help arranging the stalls and the chairs.The bazaar was then started at 8.00a.m..Some of them were asked to lead people to go to the stalls that they wanted to go.Some of them were asked to help in some stalls.There wasn’t too much people went for this charity bazaar.It was tiring as they had to walk around for the whole day, but they felt satisfied with their performance and their passion shown.After being offered the free lunch at around 12.30p.m., they helped arranging the tables and chairs.They went home at 1.00 p.m, they felt great as they were actually helping those in need at the same time.

Christmas celebration with PPIA

We, Leo Club of High School Batu Pahat, had been offered four slots for this Christmas Celebration. Those who were going gathered at the downstairs of PPIA Job Training Centre at 6.00p.m. Then , they went up and helped in the preparation of the celebration, like arranging tables and chairs. At 7.00 sharp, the celebration started. They started the event with the slideshow on the activities throughout the years and their achievements. After that, they started distributing some awards to the children who performed outstandingly throughout the year. The dinner started after that. At around, 8.00p.m, the performances started. Soh Shi Hao walked around and performed his magic card tricks to amaze the children there. All of them were wondering about, at the same time they were entertained and they enjoyed watching the magicshow. After the singing of “Merry Christmas” song, they shook each other’s hands and went back at around 9.00p.m. They felt happy to be invited to this celebration as they enjoyed a lot too.

Visiting Orphan House At JB with SMKDSE leos

“Rhythm Music Studio” joined us in this activity. At 7.00a.m., all of the Leos and the members of Rhythm Music Studio waited the chartered bus at the side door of SMKDSE. We then departed to Johor Bahru, headed to FGC Life-Link Community Care Centre. Once upon reaching , the person-in-charge thanked us again and again for having to perform as well as entertain the orphans there. We went into the orphanage and started playing around with the children before the performance started. The first performance was Magicshow by Leo Dick Lee Wei Hao, Leo Soh Shi Hao and Leo Pnwee Jun Wee. The orphans were amazed by the performances. The cards disappeared and reappeared makes them screaming. Then, the second performance was the Music Performance by Rhythm Music Studio. They clapped and screamed when they were listening to the music. After the impressive performances, they came and thanked all Leos. We then bought some souvenirs from the centre, which were all made by the orphan there using some recycled items. We went home happily as the performances went smoothly although it was Dick Lee,Shi Hao and Jun Wee’s first magic performances to so many people.

“Because of U, our life is different now…”

Together we care the earth

• All those involved in this activity gathered around 7.15a.m. at the car park of Hutan Lipur.At 7.30a.m., the PPIA children reached, they helped them to get down to the platform of the Hutan Lipur, where many people do exercise.They went up to the Hutan Lipur together with the children of PPIA.2 of them were holding plastic bags and picking up the rubbish along the way to the top while other were assisting and helping the PPIA children to get up to the top.When they reached the top of the Hutan Lipur, they took pictures before coming down.After them having simple breakfast at the “pondok” at the top of the Hutan Lipur, they came down from the Hutan Lipur.Before going back, the person-in-charge of PPIA thanked everyone who attended the activity. They went home at 9.30 with fatigued bodies but they were happy with themselves for helping.

Fourth Recycling Activity with Tzu-Chi

As usual, all of them reached there at around 8.00a.m.. So, we started to collect the items from others(Some came to give their used daily items to be recycled) without the supervision of the Tzu Chi Volunteers. At around 8.30a.m., some of the volunteers reached and they brought along some plastic bags to put the recycled product. The Perdana Station received very much contributions from the citizens there. At the end of the activity, we have collected Aluminium(10kg), Plastics(320kg),Iron(200kg), clothe(300kg) and also glass of 85kg. We were informed that next month (January) will be the last month to have this activity, as February will be Chinese New Year. The activity will be continued most probably on March.

‘Trash can be converted into gold, gold can be converted into LOVE’

LIFE Camp 1st Joint Motivational Camp Of Leo Club And Interact Club Of High School Batu Pahat

As the organizing committees, we felt very grad that this camp was a great success. We do admit that organizing a camp wasn’t easy, but we have made it, with the great teamwork and commitment shown by all the committees in finding people to join the camp.LIFE Camp stands for “(L)eo (I)nteract (F)ellowship (E)xperience Camp”, this motivational camp goes with a theme “Today’s Camper, Tomorrow’s leader” which clearly showed that we should train to be a good leader and try to learn something new and useful in this camp that we can apply in the way to be a good leader. The campers were divided into 9 groups (Muraamu, Jaburu, Drake, Mogo-mogo, Saboga, Manihiki, Puka-puka, Parotanga and Aitutaki). Some exciting activities like flying fox and the obstacles tested the campers’ ability, confidence, persistence, intelligence, leadership and also the teamwork. We had our 2^nd Vice District Governor, Lion Dr.Ben C. Ng to conduct our opening ceremony and give us an influencive yet amazing talk , about “Leadership”. We learnt many things from the camp, from leadership to fellowship, from teamwork to self-confidence, from ability and capability and everything. No matter committees or campers, we shared the same experience together. Many of the campers and committees cried at the closing ceremony. We do treat this camp as an unique experience for all of us, we could learn from the mistake made in the organization of the camp and the importance of punctuality. LIFE Camp rocks.

Third Recycling Activity with Tzu-Chi

At 8.00a.m., all of them reached there and the volunteers of Tzu-Chi Association had not reach yet. So, we started to collect the items from others(Some came to give their used daily items to be recycled) without the supervision of the Tzu Chi Volunteers. At around 8.30a.m., some of the volunteers reached and they brought along some plastic bags to put the recycled product. The Perdana Station received very much contributions from the citizens there. At the end of the activity, we have collected Aluminium(14kg), Plastics(300kg),Iron(240kg), clothe(455kg) and also glass of 96kg. In this acitivity, we were not only helping those in need by committing in the recycling project, we also got to learn about the moral values. The effort was worthwhile.

‘Trash can be converted into gold, gold can be converted into LOVE’