"LISTEN" by the Fallen Stars Project

ON the 17th of January 2010... a tragic boatrace accident dawned upon Leo Club and Lions Club members in Malaysia... 3 beloved Leo members, the late Leo Jason, Brendon & YiZhang passed away.. People mourned their deaths and everyone were sad during this darkest hour of our lives...

That's when LISTEN was born...It's a song to bring everyone's life back to normal... but not forgetting them ... "We should stop mourning death.. but instead... Celebrate Life!!!!" - ROARRR!!!!

LISTEN
Performed by the Fallen Stars Project (Members of the Leo Club I.M.O)
Music by Chris Thoo
Lyrics by Alan Thoo, Marcus Loh, Baki Zainal
Arrangements by Alan Thoo
Produced by Rafikoncept Productions
Executive Producers - Lions Club of IMNC
Copyrights 2010 Giant Ants (M) Sdn Bhd

There's this time in this place
Not too long ago we knew each other
We smiled and laugh we cried a tear
There's so much memories with you being here

All your friends love you so...
You are like an angel to everyone...

We remember you always told us
To reach for glory...you inspired us
You taught us how
How to stand when we fall
Standing stronger with just one call

Somehow or rather we're still together
Theres a part of you in us that makes us stronger

Chorus
Listen.... as we sing this song for you
Listen... as we shed a tear or two
Even though you've moved on
To a place far beyond
Memories of you will stay on
So listen.

For every breathe we take, an obstacle we shall break
Walk us through this journey, a legacy we shall make
And we shall be strongAnd we will strive on
No matter come what may, we will keep moving on

Teardrops wont cause no pain
The sunshine is here again
As we feel your halo guide us through the rain

Chorus
Listen.... as we sing this song for you
Listen... we believe well make it through
Sadness was from yesterday
We know hope will come and stay
Therell be miracles and wonders as we pray

And Listen... Time has passed us by
Listen ... We'll promise we will try
To shed a tear no more
Hand in hand we will soar
Thank you for the strength you gave before

Listen.... as we sing this song for you
Listen... we believe well make it through
Listen... Time has passed us by
Listen ... We'll promise we will try
So Listen Way up high we shall fly
Listen No matter what we'll try

Listen... Listen...
Listen... Listen

The Making of "Listen"...

DISTRICT 308B2 BEST "SLEEPER"??!

The recently ended District 308B2 LEO Camp was a blast! The 3 day 2 night camp was held at the White Resort National Service Campsite located at Balik Pulau, Penang, Malaysia. Attended by approximately 100 Leos from Selangor, Perak & Penang, the camp managed to train Leos to understand and fulfill the true meaning of L.E.O! Video is posted on the District LEO WebTV site and also available on the side bar of this blog! Instead of blogging about the camp... Just view the 10minute long snippet of the entire journey Leos went through..!! ROAR!!!

Now... I introduced BEST SLEEPER in Region 4 last fiscal year!!! Let's take it to the next level
~~~ Let's see who is the BEST "SLEEPER" OF DISTRICT 308B2!!!! (hahahaha)~~~

As you can see the panel of vote on your left... Vote now for the BEST "SLEEPER".. and the winner will walk away with RM 100.00 cash!!!! This means, YOUR CAMP REGISTRATION FEE IS REFUNDED!!!!! Vote now!!!!!!!

Regards

DC Alan Thoo

*Disclaimer:

There is absolutely no purpose of this competition! Yup! NO REASON AT ALL! You guys don't like it... don't vote! Don't go round stabbing my ways of doing things as we're just having fun here!! I can't change how your conservative mind thinks, but I can certainly change the way I think about how you peeps think! Sorry.. I'm the DC for Leo... not the DC for Taking Care of The Ageing

A Special Visitor from the Phillippines!!!

District 301-A2 (Phillippines) LEO Cabinet President, Leo Daryl Patrick Ruiz, will be joining us at the installation of the District 308B2 LEO Cabinet on the 19th of December 2009! Fully sponsored by Event Plus (M) Sdn Bhd & the Lions Club of Ipoh Metro N.C., Leo Daryl will be arriving on the 17th and will be leaving Malaysia on the 24th.

Leo Daryl will be attending the Charity Home Hopping pilot event @ Ipoh on the 18th of December 2009 in Ipoh (more info from the organizers later...), and then the installation of LEO Cabinet President, Leo Eliza Chia on the 19th of December 2009 in Ipoh. Thereafter, we are still scheduling for his visits to our Leo Clubs all over our District in hopes of sharing what they have done in Manila that we can do here too! Likewise, Leo Daryl will also be bringing back some of our ideas to share with his Filipino counterparts after his visit!

So, Leos... if you have an event coming up between 17th-24th of December, please send me an e-mail ~ alanskthoo@yahoo.com ~ so that I can make some arrangements. Who knows, we might just be able to make it to your event!!!

Leo Daryl, 2nd from left, at a Lions/Leo induction event in Manila

Regards
Lion Alan Thoo
DC Leo

District 308B2 LEO Cabinet Installation!

Dear Leos,

19th December 2009 marks another milestone of success in our District as we install the cabinet officers of the District 308B2 LEO Cabinet! Inevitably it has been almost 40 years since the existence of the Leo Club program in District 308 (Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei), and B2 has taken the first step to follow the International guidelines to form our very own LEO council... but for us, we call the council ~ The LEO Cabinet.

Headed by mostly past presidents of Omega Leo Clubs, or some candidates strongly recommended by their respective club, advisors or RCCs, the LEO Cabinet is aimed at providing more on ground support to all LEO Clubs all over the district and aiding the District Chairperson & Regional Committee Chairpersons.

The LEO Cabinet is not here to take over any duties or roles, or impose any rules & regulations etc etc. It is here to assist, support and help the LEO program in anyways possible.

We hereby invite everyone for the Installation dinner @ Heritage Hotel, Ipoh, on the 19th of December 2009 at 8.00pm. Kindly RSVP with Leo Eliza @ 012-5238041 asap!

Your support and attendance is deeply appreciated!

Regards

Alan Thoo
DC Leo

"Charity Home Hopping" by District 308B2

Here's something new. I have gotten some sponsored items that include t-shirts, books & stationery sets and so on mostly for kiddos use. Hence, to try this out, after the "Save Your Kidneys" program organized by the Leo Club of Yuk Choy, Ipoh, I brought a few Leos from Anderson Ipoh & Penang City for .. what I call as... hmmm "Charity Home Hopping"! Haha.

It sounds like those island hopping projects or shopping mall hopping projects.. or a guy night's out "bar-hopping" too! haha. Oh well, running on that line, we are going to do that. I'm openly plagiarizing an idea from the Andersonian Leos who said that they wanted to do something like an "Amazing Race"-ish idea! I was very interested and I told them.. the District will support in any ways possible. When an idea like that comes up, of course we should share with everyone!

Here's the plan. Let's do this sometime around Christmas or after....

Requirements
1. Form 1 team of not more than 5 people
2. 1 must be able to drive (like duhhhh), and has a car
3. Driver can be a Lions member, of whom will be the judge and moderator of your activities!

The gameplan:
1. Identify 10 Orphanage in your region within 30km in radius.
2. Contact all these orphanage giving them specific time on your arrival at their home.
3. Obtain approval from your sponsoring Lions Clubs and school authorities (if applicable)

The task
1. You need to go to each of the home, perform a community service at their home all within 1 hour, and the caretaker of the home MUST be happy and sign off on a form that they give you a "pass"!
2. The services include the following:
a) Toilet cleaning
b) Cooking lunch or dinner or preparing something for tea time for the kids
c) Cleaning up bedroom
d) painting?
e) Anything else - you have to propose what you intend to do ya.. and which home (with their approvals too!)

IMPORTANT:
At every home, you are required to upload a few photos of your team's activities on a designated Facebook account. At central control (chehhh wah!), someone will monitor who sends in first! Teams will be given marks etc etc!

THE CHAMPION
The Champion team will walk away with RM 500.00 worth of grant for your club to perform community service! (This means you cannot take the money for a fellowship project or to buy you a new Ipod! duhhh!)

Any takers on this? I hope each region will send at least ONE team!!!!! Write to me @ alanskthoo@yahoo.com if you want to take part!!!!

Regards
Lion Alan Thoo
DC Leo

"Saving your Kidneys" Campaign @ Kuching, Sarawak

Together with the IPP of the Lions Club of Ipoh Metro (N.C), Lion Marcus Loh, we were given the opportunity to travel to Kuching to lead the "Saving Your Kidneys" campaign by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), fully sponsored by DiGi. The team comprised Teen Ambassador of the NKF, Azizi Zakaria, and 3 other LEO Club member that included Leo Steven Tiw (from SMI Ipoh) & Leo Aaron Gabriel & Leo Kamaldip (La Salle Klang). Initially, Marcus headed a team of locals from Kuching together with Azizi. In the 2nd week, the 3 Leos joined them.. with flights, accomodation and all expenses fully paid for by Event Plus (M) Sdn Bhd & the Lions Club of Ipoh Metro N.C.

NKF CAMPAIGN PRELUDE: LIONS NURSING HOME FAMILY DAY
Before the 2nd week of the campaign started, these 3 Leos were given the opportunity to attend the Family Day of Lions Nursing Home...

Leos Steven, Aaron & Kamaldip got a chance to take part in some of the activities too!

The gang also got a chance to meet up with LIONS International Director, Hjh Ellis Suriati, who is also the Chairperson for the Lions Nursing Home too! Pn Hjh Ellis has always been an inspiration to myself personally... and my work too. I am always inspired with high motivation especially after listening to any one of her speeches and talks. Her words of wisdom truly brings out the best in you.. If I am ever given a chance to work with her on anything at all, it would be my biggest honour and priviledge! :)

"SAVING YOUR KIDNEYS" @ KUCHING...

Before the 2nd week started... Leos Steven, Aaron and Kamaldip were also given an
opportunity to witness a Live! radio interview of Azizi on SarawakFM with DJ Am!
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As the Teen Ambassador of NKF, Azizi has been giving such talks in Melaka, Johor, PJ and now in Kuching. We visited non-Leo based schools LEO based schools like SMK Pandungan, SMK & SK Batu Lintang, Kuching High, St. Thomas, SMK St.Teresa, SMK Chung Hua amongst others... The main objective of the campaign is to urge school going teenagers to reduce the intake of sugar and salty food.. hence keeping their lifestyle as healthy as possible and of course, preserving their kidneys at a tip-top condition.

St. Teresa LEO Club members with Azizi

DISTRICT 308A2 & B3 LEO FELLOWSHIP-FUNDRAISER

Leos keying in their e-mails so that we can add them on Facebook, Twitter or blogs later..
Truly a great fellowship that expanded across regions!!!


Kuching Leos are a fun bunch! Seen here one of their younger, smaller sized Leo member
kena "saboh" by his gang of mischieves. Haha...

Leos from District308A2 seen here "attacking" Leo Steven... (haha) for badges exchange! :P

This trip to Kuching really was a meaningful one for us all.. as we managed to build bridges across to District308A2... With that, expertise & experience can be shared too! In time to come the Leo Club of Swinburne University (O) and the Leo Club of Georgetown Mutiara will become sister clubs.. Thus engaging in more inter-district activities! We hope that one day, challenging all odds, some alpha clubs will also twin! (Hint-hint... St.Thomas was interested when I threw them the idea! hmmmmm..)

I conducted some games too...hehe.. (bad habits die hard)

Azizi performed a song too... and a Leo Xavier from Leo Club of St Thomas sang Gary Chaw's 背叛 too!

The Fellowship ended at about 9.30pm.. here's a group photo of the remaining Leos who were still very fresh despite the fact that they have school tomorrow (?) - haha.. ya ya.. it's the last day of school one said.. and some said it's already holidays! (tskk! tskkk!)

The "Saving Your Kidneys" campaign sponsor in Kuching, DiGi & Giant-Ants (M) Sdn Bhd, talent agency for Azizi Zakaria, sponsored the dinner for the fellowship. Each LEO and Lion paid an entrance fee to the event of which all proceeds , a total of RM425.00 raised, will go to the National Kidney Foundation. Even though not a huge amount... but heyyyy... this fellowship was not even planned in the first placed! It is never about the amount, it is always about the fact that we try our best in giving hope to the people in need. It's always the small steps in Making the Difference!!! :)

Aite! It's already 3.30am...last night @ Kuching ... but our work is not done yet. We are visiting the NKF Dialysis Center in Kuching tomorrow to help out whatever we can... and later a final promo of "Saving Your Kidneys" @ a local shopping mall here before we fly back to Kuala Lumpur...

Kuching has been fun. I definitely would love to come back in the near future!

Lion Alan Thoo
DC Leo
District 308B2