Attending Fr Anthony Charles Prabhu Ordination to The Priesthood@Novena Church Singapore

Fr Anthony (Charles) Prabhu CSsR was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore at the Novena Church, Singapore on Friday 17 January 2025.

A group from the OMPH Church travelled down in 2 buses at midnight early Friday to attend the evening event and returned the same night arriving early Saturday  morning. 

It was a little tiring but the event was very grand and being in the new Novena Church was a treat. Just to view it now and compared to its former self was awesome, like a total  transformation of adaptive reuse within the same grounds.

The event started with Cardinal William Goh and the long train of priests entering the church. For the next 2 hours it was wonderful event reliving all the steps of the ordination.

Rite of Ordination of a Priest

.......you are fighting against the devil..you must fight aginst temptation...the devil likes tempt priests, the big fish …..

A bouquet of Thanks  

Until it ended with Fr Prabhu's word of thanks to the multitude of people from his family to the Redemtorist confrere and supporters along his journey .

..a group photo with his confreres 

Fr Phillip Lai with Fr Prabhu's family ....

Perhaps it was grand because his personality shone brightly during his words of thanks which made him stand out as an all-rounder priest.  

...taken before the event started .....

And then it was time for dinner. It was held at the back of church. It was spacious area.

 

..it was a wonderful dinner..simple and sustaining ..chappati, tomato rice, vadei and masala vadei and a desert PaiRasam ...it would see me through the night going home by bus ...... 

Fr Anthony's family ....

the Redemptorists Priest's can sing ....must be the Filipino connection .....

..the Ipoh connection 1 ...

..Ipoh connection 2 ....

Ipoh connection with Fr Anthony ...all together 

It was a lovely getaway and so enlightening.

JAG

  

 

The 1st Full Moon of 2025

 This is the 1st FULL MOON of 2025. I did not see it last night but this morning. I awoke to it looking at me through my window. It had a star (top left of the photo) looking from afar.

I enlarged it ...looks interesting

..by 7.15+......above the Kledang Range 

KK

 

‘Bulatan Dato Lau Pak Khuan’ - was the result of a town-hall discussion in 2019

Bulatan Dato Lau Pak Khuan located in Ipoh Garden in the vicinity of Maybank and CIMB Ipoh Garden

Late December 2024 I was alerted of a signage bearing the name Dato Seri Lau Pak Khuan being erected at his road/ circus junction of Canning Estate and Jalan Dato Lau Pak Khuan. I was glad that Council remembered him for he was a revered community leader of the early independence years.

I was determined to enquire with the council which department was responsible for this wonderful gesture. A quick check with Project Planning department drew a blank and similarly with the Special Dept and even Landscape Department. Only the mayor’s office remained and that is where I got my answer. 

Mayor Dato Rumaizi said the signage was decided at the 2019 Town Hall meeting  

According to Mayor Dato Rumaizi Baharin the decision “to construct the signage ‘Bulatan Dato Lau Pak Khuan’ was the result of a town-hall discussion in 2019. It was the participants who attended the town-hall meeting and proposed the signage. The participants decided that the council give appreciation to Dato Lau Pak Khuan and name a circus after him. Most of the circuses were named after Sultans as such we supported the motion. The majority wanted it and so it unanimously agreed”.

About Lau Pak Khuan from Wikipedia:: Lau was awarded the title Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George V for public service. He was awarded the Datuk title in 1963 and Datuk Seri three years later by then Sultan of Perak, Sultan Idris Shah. He was the first Chinese to be conferred the Datuk Seri title. (MBI might want to consider amending the signage again). A street was named after him in Ipoh Garden, Perak. He served as President of Chinese Chamber of Commerce for 33 years, Perak Chinese Assembly Hall for a similar period, Perak Kwantung Association for 30 years and Perak Chinese Mining Association for 25 years. He was president of the associations for so many years as no one wanted to challenge him. They had such faith in him to lead the community. He died in 1971.

Datuk Seri Lau Pak Khuan (seated 4th from left) taken from the Hakka Association 

The Town Hall Meeting of 2019 / Ipoh the 2^nd Poorest City and Upgrading Canning

Rumaizi who became the Mayor in 2020 added that in the 2019 minutes Ipoh was ranked as the 2^nd poorest of 17 cities in Malaysia beating only Kuala Trengganu.

His 1^st priority at the time was how to eradicate poverty in Ipoh specifically ‘urban poverty’. One of the areas was to improve our services in tourism and the subsector within tourism. Another was to develop an expanded Ipoh which, besides just Old Town and New Town was to include Canning, as one area.

This would involve the infrastructure at Canning which included improving the street lighting, roads and 5G which is a necessity to make tourism more viable.

Currently our ranking has improved, added Rumaizi, and our position lies in the Top 10 of twenty cities of Malaysia. We made the right decision then and it has helped Ipoh.

..the circus at sundown ....

Syabas Mayor Rumaizi!!

KK

Canning Garden Drains Need To Be Upgraded .....

 This was the drain outside of Canning Market after just half an hour of a heavy rain. IT WAS FULL. I've noticed it's been this way for over 2 years now. It seem the drains here are too small to carry away the excess waters. It could be there has been so much new developments that the existing drains are now inadequate.

..this was the scene in the market 20 minutes earlier. All the drains were full....Isn't it about time these 50yo drains were upgraded anyway ......

KK

Neighborhood KopiTiam, Happy Hour With Astro / The Malaysia Open And Pearly Tan & M.Thinaah

Witnessed these gentlemen enjoy the Petronas Malaysian Open. At the time M.Thinaah and Pearly Tan were against the Indonesian pair of Ramadhanti and Meyasari.  It was the rubber set and the 'happy hour gang' were rooting for the Malaysian pair. Unfortunately they went down to the Indonesians. Even at small neighborhood KopiTiam's and with Astro....national players can bring joy to a normally quiet evening.

the Malaysian pair scored a point but alas it was not to be ...........

KK