My Week-Long Holiday

Mon – Tues:

For the first time we are going to leave our little home unattended for so long. It was still dark when we left our home. I felt my heart skipping away into that happy holiday mood. I love the coolness of that morning. We drove and drove and at around 9 am we reached our first destination of our Holidays; BIDOR!!!! Hometown of my darl. We were suppose to meet our college mates here who were also on a college field trip, but since we arrived earlier, Lionel drove to his aunty’s noodle shop. WAH a plate of noodles with curry sauce, with lots of liu and 2 cups of drinks only costs us less than RM 4. Cant believe!!! KL RM 4 can only fill a quart of your tummy! We strolled the small town for a while longer. A nostalgic feeling, laid back mood could be sensed throughout the town.

Then the VANS arrived. The bunch of BCM-ers finally touched down on Bidor. And they were ready to devour all the food they could. MUAhahahaha.. DUCK NOODLES was the first to be devoured. Many duck’s drumsticks were cruely chopped off to feed these mouths from KL. ……………………………………………………………………….it was a pity DELICIOUS!!

After consuming ducks, the whole bunch of us moved on to destination 2: KAMPAR! Driving along the crowded streets of people cycling, riding bikes without helmet and big old Hup Seng Buses roaring away, one of our friends spotted our next food stop. The ice kacang shop. Wahlau… at the entrance of the shop was a sign “buy 10 free 1″ back in KL even with the offer of buy 1 free 1, people will still walk away. But I am really wondering what’s with Kamparians that they can confidently put a buy 10 free 1 sign. Either the food is really good or people there love contributing to the economy even if they only get back minimal rewards. Anyway back to the ice-kacang eating frenzy… it was indeed a cold frenzy.. We ordered almost every type we can find on the menu. And we did receive the buy 10 free 1 offer.. LOL

 

Eating did not ceased after ice-kacang.. we went on snacking on anything we see sold along our way. Too much I forgot what i ate even. Look at all the hungry posers

 

Good thing we took a break from food and headed to more nature activities. Waterfall was it..! lovely refreshing and good de-stressin. The guys went crazy, the girls were kept cool. haha. Great fun time and crazy time skipping stones. Some of us could skip a good 4 times while many of the rest just sanked the stone.

    

This is the I LOVE NATURE GIRL……. and her recruits

   

The good part is at least we are not gluttons always..though we may sound like a bunch of them… Our next stop was not about food anymore..It was truly an experience for all of us and it was an interesting one. We visited a drug rehab centre known as the Vineyard Keepers. Visiting Rehab centres always sounds so uncool especially for a holiday stop over. I felt that way…. but wait a minute.. the moment we drove in the drive way of the centre.. It was like in somekind of recreational centre more than a drug rehab centre. SERIOUS.. DEAD SERIOUS… it is a beautiful place.. The rehabilated druggies literally did beautiful wall carvings on almost everywall. The most beautiful part was the chapel. It looked like a cathedral. Angels singing, playing musical instruments, bible story characters we all carved and painted carefully on the walls. The most painstaking art was carving scripture verses. Every alphabet was carved beautifully in celtic fonts ALL OVER THE WALLS.

The centre owns a massive plot of land which allow them to have a fully equipped gym with full sets of weights and sand bags. They have several courts for sports, a huge football fields a farm of cows goats and sheeps. They reared a kennel of huge K9 Dogs. Foxes, monkeys, birds fishes was all part of their animal family. Another section of their land was  alocated for a gorgeous orchard of flowers, plants, fruit trees and vegetation.

When that little excursion was done… we were all set back on FOOD.. food and more food.. It’ll make you feel blotted if I would to blog the details of the food we had.. So I better not spoil your apetite.. My advice is: Go to ipoh and experience the food yourself and BLOG bout it.

Alas we can finally take our shower and bunk in for the night. We all bunk in Emanuel Church, Ipoh like sardines in a can. We girls were shivering through the night in a small air-con room, with hardly any blanket to cover and woke up with sore backs and sore necks from sleeping on the hard floor with only our bags or stack of clothes as pillows.

Here we go gila-gila-siao-siao-pose-pose and SNAP SNAP in the main sanctuary :P

 

   

But morning breakfast was comforting to our aches and sprains. Good chee-cheong-fun with the famous mushroom souce. YOU CAN’T get this kind in KL! Look at the toast bread ….. topped with the irresistable mouth watering perfectly done half boiled eggs. Look at the yoke… imagine in seeping through your taste buds as you munch on the freshly toasted bread. YUMMY YUMMY YUM YUM.. I WANT IT NOW!!!!!

Here is a Travel Tip when visiting IPOH.. YOU MUST STOP BY THIS SHOP… (Yee Hup)

Here’s where you can get fresh from the oven Hiong Peng and other chinese homemade Biscuits. This is the shop most famous in all Ipoh. They have several branches all over Ipoh but this particular shop we went is the want where the biscuits are baked then supplied to the branches.. So you guarantee get the freshest of the freshest. After that food shopping we stop for coffee and tea at a mamak. This was our last destination with the gang at Ipoh. The gang would continue into the cave of Gua Tempurung, attempting to finished still in one clean piece. While my hun and me would continue up north to Penang.

The journey to Penang seem to me like a blink of the eye and .. BINGO we reached.. well maybe is because I slept all the way til Penang Bridge. Woke up just in time to take pictures of the Bridge. From the bridge Penang looked like a serene lively harbour city. We headed to Gelugor to USM to meet my bestfriend but the hardworking friend of my was still in lectures so she told me to shop from 12 pm to 6pm then only return to USM. She suggested me to shop at queensbay mall. Shopping.. hmm sounds good for a KL-lite. So we made our way to queensbay. Not familiar with the roads on the island we traveled almost half of Penang to get to the mall which was only like 10 mins away from where we started off. We hit one wrong road after another that’s how we ended up exploring half of the island before finally reaching the mall. The mall is HUGE-MONG-GOUS…. You’ll probably shop til you drop and faint… Dun ever attempt shopping at that mall for so many hours with your Boyfriends.. They will forever be traumatizzzzed.

Anyway, after that long hour shopping, I finally got to meet my dear Eang Bee. We talked alot as usual… it was a good thing her boyfriend was able to join us too.They were a good host. They brought us round Penang town and continue to feed our glutonny. We bunk at his apartment that night. Apparently that night at the apartment i pulled a muscle in my neck. Well many of you may not know that I have weak neck muscles since 14 years old. Due to that I was always advice not to strain my neck and to stay away from active sports. But as you know the way I play my games, no one will think my neck is not suited for any of those sports. Okay so I pulled my neck and it was really bad I could hardly move my neck. I could not even sit down. Almost any slight pressure on my neck in almost any position sent sharp pain from my lower neck to the back of my head. It was really a downer..

Thankfully my caring darl, bought yoko-yoko from a 7-11 store and I pop in a good dose of Postan, lay flat on my back and decide to just sleep off. My darl said a prayer and all i could remember after that was a good tight sleep with my darl beside me through the night.
Wed:

The traffic noice from the streets below woke us up. I sat up, turned and stretched my neck a little here and there … and…. Thank God! It was so much better. Just a little sore stil but no more sharp pains. So I applied more Yoko-yoko and off for breakfast. Eang bee and Abe brought us for Pan Mee and Nasi Lemak. ooooo The Nasi Lemak is so  so much nicer than what we get at Kanna.. LOL…

It was quite a rush breakfast because we had to beat the morning traffic and get to the Penang International Airport for our next Holiday destination.

So zoom zoom we went within minutes we were at the huge automatic glass door of Penang International Airport’s arrival entrace. We bid our dear friends bye… and off they went with our car. They would be babysitting our car for the next 3 days. What a Lovely and fun couple they were…. I wish my best friend all the best.. It’s really fun to hang out with your best friend that had been with you since primary til secondary school days. And the double joy is to be able to share our lives and fun with two added love of our life. What a journey together.

Walking through the airport we check in our single black luggage, got our tickets and chilled at Mc D with a cup of hot tea.

YOU MAY BE NOW WONDERING TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR NEXT HOLIDAY DESTINATION…

GUESS WHAT…… YOU WILL SOON READ ABOUT IT MORE

IN MY NEXT POST….

……………..to be continued

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What Were My Holidays Like?

Okay…. This is how the holiday started..

The first week went by like this:~

DAY 1&2

UPHILL… Naik Bukit Genting With BCM Gals just for one night…. we ate, played, prayed, ate more, watch wayang, bump each other, and **cuddle** in one room.

 

DAY 3

Leon came back from Spore by plane..after Lionel fetch him and his female fren, Ai Min from air port, they came to my house to pick me up for a whole day of outing…. PHEW!! actually it was an outing to satisfy Leon and his singaporian friend’s food craving. Thank God I live in Msia… Yumm Yumm!

So first stop was Dim Sum.. Leon Paid.. whoo-hoo… Second was KFC @ Curve, then back to Kota Kemuning for homecook dinner… supper was with BCM fellas, Danny, Victor Lee and Girlfren, Jon Koo, Lionel, Me, Leon and Ai Min.

Day 4

Mid val with Ps. Ooi Lin’s family til lunch den headed to Leon’s dentist for his surgery, but good for him, the surgery was not done and it was postponed again. So headed off to Tesco for shopping with the whole family…. shop till you drop…..good thing none off us drop..LOL…

well.. oh ya.. that night we had a show “run fat boy run”… Aft that lionel, leon and ai min slept over at my house so that the next day we did not have to wake up so early to visit Miracle (Leon’s Kai Lui) at Sg. Long.

Day 5

Miracle House… see miracle… den Went to Klang to pick stuffs up …….

Dinner was great!!!! we went for Korean Barbeque with Painted Picture Band and then went over to one of the band member’s house to play Nintendo V.. wakakkakakaka cool… we played boxing, golf and tennis.. it was fun to see the silly expressions of everyone.

 tap-tap-tap with Leon’s IPhone

 Korean Barbecue~Look at the Meat… YUM YUM

 Virtual Boxing with Lionel on Nintendo

Then came the weekend back to church and work……

SUNDAY.. ARGHHH WOKE UP WITH A RED EYE on the right eye… sighs down with sore eye……

Week two was stressful yet the happenings in the week did bring some relief :~

Monday I tried to get enough rest for the family dinner in the evening but eyes did not really cooperate much.. it watered and watered….

Wednesday was the day we went to Cyberview Lodge to check out the place….YEAH!! finally prayer answered. He provided us an award winning garden… Truly he gives and takes away all for a better plan!! 

Thursday, shopping for dresses with the Kay Renn, Yuli, Wai Chi, and Eang Bee…..YEAH YEAH!! Double blessing cos’ now I don’t have to worry about their dresses! Another Big Relief

ooooh but Friday came and eyes hurt even more. Went to doc again for a change of medication cos’ the first medication did not seem to work very well.. sighs..

Saturday, woke up.. *gasp*GOSH. BOTH EYES were red.. the virus must have spread in the night to the left eye.

And Sunday came, swollen, extremely painful and teary. My already small eyes looked even smaller now. NO!!! Then after the service, one of my member who also had sore eyes said he dripped the eye drop every hour and it helped his eyes clear faster. So I decided to be my own doc and started dripping the drops every hour …… GUESS WHAT!!!???

I could sit up the whole afternoon and finisg my assignment without the slightest pain or teary eyes. And best of all the swelling went down, pain got tremendously lesser, and my eyes came back to its normal size..

 

How would I evaluate the holidays????!!????!!

 It was everything but DULL

Yup Thats Bout It!!

Funtime @ FullHouse

How bout dining at a food and lifestyle cafe. Girls you gotta check it out. Dine yet at the same time you could shop for clothes and lifestyle stuff.. and the ambience of the cafe is so cozy and english.

 

Check this out!!!

 

Well Guys can also camwhore ….

Looks like the Guys first photo taking session wasnt so good…

 

But…..later on they were getting the hang of it

 

Now they not only got the hang of it.. THEY BECAME PROs!!!!

LOOK this is an excellent shot… The GUYS posed WELL and they were the photographers of this splendid reflection shot

 

 

ALL AT FULLHOUSE!!!!

Melaka E-Team

Back from Melaka E team

First e team for the year 2009 and it was to Melaka, Bandaraya Bersejarah (historical city).

With a team of 6 we left KL on Saturday morning and arrived at about 11 am at Bethel AOG, Melaka. The team settled down and started practicing the Special presentation and Worship session. The good part was we were able to get to work right away with not much of a fuss or hassle… Hmm.. I am wondering what was our motivation then??? After that we went to our respective lodgings. The guys stayed one floor above the sanctuary at the chinese church while the girls went FOUR floors above to a residential 3 room flat. The room we girls got was so small it could fit nothing else accept our 3 mattreses. After laying out the mattreses we had no room to walk about. No more clear floor to step, just mattreses to step on. No windows for fresh air, just one cold air-con which had no remote contro to control the temperature and a huge commercial fan.

After all that settling down we went out for SHOPPING,  TOWN HOPPING, & MELAKA FOOD!!!! nice.. Great hot sunny day to walk round town and just enjoy the sights, scenes, the historical architecture, smell of various food, and the weather. I enjoyed myself throughly. Thanks to our tour guide, Jason Foo. By the time we got back was about 4.45pm. We took a short nap and rush out for a quick dinner. Dinner was bad for me. I had Kuey Teow Soup. The noodle was so elastic that you could hardly bite through. Must have had lots of Boric Acid in it. Sighs… Didn’t dare take the risk of finishing up that bowl of boric acid noodles.

 ~snake handlers of Christ Church~

8.pm. The service began…… Worship was quite long, led by Bethel members. I don’t know if they usually have long worship or they just made it long that day because we were there… After that was INTRODUCING the BCM team.. We did a Special and a Testimony and it was handed over to Ps. Alex Soh to complete the job fo rthe night. He preached well!!!! After the service the team was asked to pray and minister to the youths. I am so so surprise that Bethel Church youth meeting is held after the main service every Saturday Night.

 

We were done for the first day’s service and now its supper time.. Off we went for Satay Celup. The street that we went had 3 satay celup stalls, all beside one another. One was a grand decorated shop (d’celup), the second was more open concept similar to OLD TOWN (Zao Jiuu) and the third was a typical cheapy stall with no decos (Ban Lee Siang)…And guess what.. that typical stall was jam pack. No seats left. So we had to go to the second shop.

Here is the story of Panda Fish

Panda Fish is fish paste made in to the shape of a cute pink panda…. Now look at the following pictures..

“Save the Panda Fish!!! Evryday hundreds of them are being celup-ed!!!!”

Hopefully this pictures serve as a public awareness.

 

Later, our tour guide, Jason drove us through Melaka streets with rows and rows of modern buildings that were brightly lit with many coloured lights while  the historical and traditional nyonya buildings were dimly glowing in red lights. What a beautiful nostalgic feel to the whole city. Finally we reached the city’s lantern festival. Where huge lantern sculptures decorated the whole area. There were building, towers, castles, palaces, traditional kampung houses all made of lantern. There was also a little garden/park with all the flowers and plants made of lantern. There were animals, traditional trasportation ie. beca (trishaw) and the kereta lembu (bullockcart) made of lantern. I enjoyed the colors and the lights. Right beside the lantern festival was the Melaka River where river cruises was provided for visitors and foreigners. And take note the time was past 12 mid night and the city was still so alive. The difference with the nightlife in KL compare to Melaka was that in KL, you hear car engines, you hear the street bustling with noise and loud music, you see the youth culture come alive at full force, and less families will be seen hanging out in the heart of KL in the wee hours of the morning. But over at Melaka the city comes alive at night with lights, and families stolling the streets, families gathering and makan stalls, kids running with lanterns and lights at the lantern festival, couples taking rides on the beca as they take in the nightlife, youths hang out but not in lala apparels. They come out in decent clothes, mostly just house shorts and T-shirts. I love the simplicity of life there. Its not too quiet, it’s modernity weaved with the quietness of life, added with the flavours of culture and a tinge of traditions. What an awesome blend.

We finally got back at about 1am in the morning and hit the sack immediatly.

Day 2 at melaka. Had a simple breakfast at the church prepared by Bethel Church, then it was time to roll out. We led worship, then Ps. Alex gave another good sermon accompanied with many funny jokes. LOL….. After the meeting ended the team spent time fellowshipping with the members. A group of young girls, who were upcoming pianist for the church, came up to me and aske some playing tips. So I spent my whole time giving them what I could. Then it was time for photos and BYE BYE to Bethel Church.

Our last destination for this trip was when Ps Emily, the Chinese Department Pastor took us to a Chinese Restaurant for a hearty chinese lunch. With hearts minds and tummy all filled…..yawns….. We bid GOODBYE to Mei Fern, Ps. Emily and Jason Foo………………………CHAOZ… 

Footprints in Melaka

 

In less then 2 hours We Reached K.L. safe and sound!

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Pangkor Island Holiday (Part 1 & 2)

 Day 1:

We started our journey after a quick lunch and headed down from KL to Teluk Intan. We stayed there for one night at one of my former church member’s semi-D house. She hasn’t really shifted in yet, so our company opened ceremony for her new house. We really did WARMED the house with our presence of 23 adults and 6 kids!!! By the time we reached Teluk Intan we were really a bunch of HUNGRY people and gratefully we were treated to a wonderdul dinner at RIVERVIEW SEAFOOD

RESTAURANT. REALLY yummy yummy yummy food.

Ps. Rachel Kala (right) together with my mom and dad

Together with us was our member’s Pastor,

Pastor Rachel Kala. She pastors Faith Assembly (AG) at Teluk Intan. After dinner we headed to Faith Assembly for a visit then it was supper at Teluk Intan’s famous chee cheong fun shop. There was so many of us and the shop was rather cramp, we literaly filled up the seats in that shop.

chee cheong fun shop

Then we headed back for alittle more chit chats and then snores…… 

Day 2:

It was 7am almost everyone was awake. All was trying to get to use the toilet first. I pushed myself up from bed got dressed and then when for a good morning walk and devotion with Lionel, around the housing garden. The area was cool and serene. The air was fresh because the housing garden is surrounded with green trees, jungle, oil palms…….

Once we got back from our morning walk, everyone was now ready for breakfast. We drove to the town’s open food court and had breakfast that were good and CHEAP.

St. Anthony School

Imagine a bowl of curry noodle only costs RM 2:20. Lionel and me shared a bowl of Kuey Teow soup, curry mee, yong tau foo and a few spoon of nasi lemak. How nice if PJ food were this cheap today.

After breakfast we visited the St. Anthony school to watch my church member’s husband’s brass band group play. The missionary school architecture was nice. I always admired missionary school architectures. The high doors, the arches… they are just great. And the unique thing about this school is that the motto of this school is “charity without hypocrisy”

 

Our next stop was the famous leaning tower of Teluk Intan @ Teluk Anson.

Menara Condong

We even got the opportunity to walk inside the tower. There is about 3 stories accessible to the public, the rest was closed off. But we did get to see the interior of it, walk out to the balcony at each leval, admire the wood structure of the tower… according to history, the tower was made to store water. However due to the soft foundation the tower was built on, the pagoda structure tilted.

Gate to the towerThe water tank built within the Tower's structure

A view from the top of the Tower's balconyIntricate wood structure seen inside the tower

 

Just next to the Menara Condong, was Kompleks Menara Condong. In there was a shop with local antiques. Things like, the old school cameras which were used when my parents were kids, sports trophies of their time, weighing scales (dacing), magazines, calendars, mugs, typewritters, fan etc…..

And as city sleakers, we cannot miss our shopping. We headed next to a small shopping mall nearby the leaning tower. It’s no match to our huge midvalleys and pavillon. But I managed to get Lionel a nice pair of leather boots as his Birthday gift for only RM 49 and I got myself a brown heels for RM 27… What a treat!!! 

Close to noon, we left Teluk Intan for Lumut. There were quite interesting sights on the way to Lumut. At one point of the journey we passed by huge vast paddy fields on both side of the roads. And there were Stalks in the paddy fields too. Then the scene changes to acres of oil palm plantations. Later we passed by the coconut tree plantation. We don’t get to see these along our city streets. LOL….

Finally here we are at Lumut Jetty. A good break for a short Photo Taking Session.

 

 

 

 

  

   

 

Not very long after that we borded a bright yellow ferry. I slept all the way til we crossed over to Pangkor Island. The weather then was gloomy with light rain. It had rained heavier a couple of hours before so the roads were muddly and puddles were everywhere. We got a taxi to taxi us to Vikri Huts Resort. Located just opposite the beach, our lodging was a comfortable kampung house chalets with private patio for each hut, fully furnished with water heaters in the toilets and tiled floorings. The place is comfortable and economical. The journey was quite exhausting which made me ate quite little during lunch.

Lunch was over, we settled down in our rooms. Right after that our intinary for the day at the island began. We went for an island tour in two taxis….. It was drizzling lightly as we started off.

We look at giants posing at the mini Great Wall of China

We visited Nipah Bay, satay fish factory,

 

 

a Dutch fort and a Chinese Temple where we got a chance to see huge Koi fishes, 4ft  Apiranas and some other species that were big but i forgot their names. There were also a part at the Temple where big Turtles were reared. One of the attractions of the Temple was the exact miniature structure

Giant Turtles

 

of the Great wall of China, built along the slopes of the Temple. By that time the rain was staring to pour heavier. 

Dutch Fort

As we toured on round the island we passed a small airstrip, beaches, fishing areas, rocky beaches, boat making factory and finally we landed up at Pangkor main town. That was the end of our island tour.

 

 

 

 

 

All I wanted after the wet tour was a warm shower….

The very good thing about mealtimes was that it was all homecooked dishes with fresh from the sea seafood….. Yummy!!!

After dinner we all sat down to fellowship, and later chilled at the beach for awhile before supper was served. And day 2 ended.

Day 3:

6 am I pulled myself out of bed. The temperature in the room was cold…I washed up quickly grabbed my shawl and went out to meet Lionel. We decided to bike over to the other side of the island to watch the sunrise. it was really a cold windy ride. The sky was dark still. As we rode on it started to brighten. Just as we reched the spot…. The view was awesome!!!!.. The sea was calm serene, boats were chugging out to sea. Sea gulls, eagles and hornbills were flying above the beautiful scenery. The waves lapped gently on the rocks by the beach. Then the sun started to peak over the horizon and as it rises, we could see the rays shining over the sea, and the colors of the sky around the rising sky was like some work of art. Truly that morning was like watching God working on his art. It was beautiful. And even more amazing to know that God does this every day – Perfectly!

Later after breakfast we headed in a speedboat for an insland hopping. Scenery was great. The weather was a blessing. Sunny warm and the sea was calm and crystal clear. Sea creatures could be seen right from the boat itself. We had the opportunity to snorkel and see some really nice sea fishes, corals and other sea creatures.

After a good day of sun sea and sand, we headed back to our lodging huts for lunch and some rests.

I was tired out by then and a quick nap did me a whole lot of good. By mid afternoon, some of us when on bike and rode round the island and got to the town for some shopping. I got myself hand accesories, a wrap-around-skirt for only RM 9 and a wrap-around-shorts.

I looked forward for that evening’s meal. IT WAS BARBEQUE DINNER!!! after a long day, it was nice to have a barbeque. The weather was lovely that evening and food was sumptious!!

Day4:

After hearing my news about the sunrise the day before, today the entire group set out to watch the sunrise. The weather wasn’t as clear as the day before but we enjoyed too. After our last meal on the island we played a game of volley ball. There was lots of laughter and sweat even minor bruises…LOL…

Since it was our last day…. we just had to go back to the beach for one final deep, splash and tan……

Then it was time for pack up before heading to the jetty. Standing at the jetty awaiting the ferry, I missed the island. It was time to say goodbye to one good holiday which I haven’t had since a long while. I stood there letting my thoughts run through the few days we had on the island and deep inside me I thanked God for all this good blessing He gave.

When the ferry arrived, we were glad to see that it has an open deck where you could stand up there and watch the island passed as we headed back for mainland. It was lovely with the wind blowing and the smell of the sea breeze and the familiar sights of the island…… i missed the holiday….

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For more photos click the link below:

Pangkor Island album

Sugar Is No Poison

Sugar is poison!!!!!!!! argh argh … NOOOO how could that ever make sense to a 4 year old kid??? well it didn’t to me either but sooner it became an undisputed commandment of the Cho family.

But tonight, i decided to break that commandment and pamper myself. Oh yeah let me re-phrase it.. Tonight i just did some self soothing. Being tired, stressed, and exhausted I had a good cup of McD Choc Sundae and Coke. Oh man!!!! it was awesome..!!!…

For tonight sugar was No Poison. It was so soothing to the woman’s soul… !!!!! YUM YUM..

I’m satisfied now and i think i’m ready to hit the sack and soothe myself with sleep now!!!!

Nite Nite!!!!! muaxx

High Touch

This is my third annual camp ever since I set foot at the Bible College of Malaysia. And the second time being part of the camp committee. The camp committee basically plans everything from the lodgings to the preparation to the gifts and etc etc etc. Throughout the 2 months of planning and preparation there were alot of things learnt from each other as committee members. We made mistakes, we slacked in certain of the jobs assigned, there were miscommunications, and headache moments when making arrangements for the roomings. Well, but after its all over, I would say we did made quite a team. Maybe not exactly being able to fulfill each of our roles perfectly as assigned but rather helping anc making it up for each other and in the end the camp turn out to be a rather successful one.

I believe that the camp speaker, Ps. Julie Khoo has in many ways impacted and touch our lives and refresh many hearts all through that 3 days at Elsanctuary, Melaka. Her message were not stereotyped camp sermons but rather she really had in mind the Bible College students, staffs and faculty and preached on subjects that convicted us, and also encourages us to continue serving God faithfully. I personally was very touch and encouraged. The week and even months before this camp there has been so much going with assignments and other church work, for me and many others, hence this camp was really really refreshing like water being poured on parched land.

The venue that we choose this year was one close to mother nature, where chalets will built on slopes amongst the rubber trees and greenery. Away from the city traffic and brick walls, the atmosphere there was green, fresh, natural, and serene. Run by a family, this retreat campsite was built with much effort and I would give credits for the way it is well maintained. Oh not forgetting the food there-its just mouth watering, and you will surely look forward to the next meal. The meals are fusion of local, chinese and western. Part of the family that does the cooking were formally chefs at the J.W Marriot Hotel and also cooks in their very own restaurant chains. So thats why sure YUMMY YUMMY lah.

On the second night of the camp, a group of 13 students decided to do a night jungle trek. After much persuading between the camp advisor, Ps. Florence, we were reluctantly ‘blessed’ to proceed with our mini adventure. WIth much prayers by our dear Ps. Florence  the 13 of us managed to finish the trail, crossed one muddy river and a mud pool full of leaches, unharmed. hee heee….

For more, click BCM Camp 2008 Photos

It has been such an experience for us as camp commitees, that we took the that as a chance to pamper ourselves to a mini delicious celebration at T.G.I Fridays!!!!!!

For more, click T.G.I. Fridays Lunch Photos

Great!!!

BCM camp is finally over!!!!

A GREAT CAMP

WITH GREAT COMMITEES TO WORK WITH

AND DEFINATELY AN AWESOME “HIGH TOUGH” FROM GOD!!!!

with my bunch of crazy pals, there was lots and lots of

eating

fun

shoulder rubbing

chat n chat n chat and keep chattin

craziness and dumbness

etc. etc.

ALRIGHT camp is well OVER!!!

is back to BCM, “the place that I love”

Another trimester to “enjoy”

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and now is BACK TO BCM……

oh well 2 weeks has just a passed since classes began………

so much for now…. will keep u updated!!!