Top Table :)

This is my first blog post in like weeks with PICTURES :) Haha.

And once again in my 3 and a half years of studying + working in TP, I've also never ate at Temasek Culinary Academy's fine dining restaurant - Top Table.

So me & my friends decided to pay that place a little visit :D

The place there was really nice with great ambience and service :D All the waiters and waitresses there were all in their 2nd year in Hotel and Tourism Management and I think they did a great job :D

And check out my new YELLOW sweater in the pics :D :D :D Haha! :)


Outside Top Table :)


Jay Lloyd covering the wrong eye. Haha!


Our entree...Onion soup & salad :D Whoo hoo :)

The soup was really awesome with bread and cheese in it. *Slurps* :D


Our main course: Veal (calf) and grilled fish, Dory I think. Haha.

The main course was even better :) The veal was really good. The sauce, the mash potato and the mix of vegetables make the course filling yet inviting. The fish was really good too :) The fish had a lighter taste, without the heavy crunch of red meat. Haha. Does that make sense? LOLS.


Our dessert :) Some ice-cream cum cake cum mousse with apricots and almond stick :D Sweeeeeet :)


Sam & Jay Lloyd with their dessert :)


Our exit...in the lift. HAHA.

I must say this visit to Top Table was really good. Our courses only cost us $12.50. The courses served would have cost at least $30++ at any ordinary restaurant outside like Swensens' or Billy Bombers or Jack's Place...haha.

The only thing is that the 2 managers/supervisors of the Top Table restaurant kept correcting the waiters and waitresses on the spot. Like when they didnt pull the chair out for us, the manager will say audibly "Pull out the chair for your guests..." and "You pick up the bowl and serve them..." kinda thing.

But O well, it's all in the name of learning right? Haha. So yeah, I don't mind visiting Top Table again :)

Long Fa & Ravi Zacharias

Recently my secondary school best friend introduced me to his new company "Long Fa" which is a "weight-loss" company. To be more accurate, they sell health products using direct selling or Multi-level marketing, consumer franchising and referral marketing.

They had a super good sales system established and they had really good people there to talk and explain the stuff to you in a friendly & engaging way.

I was on the verge of joining them, I signed up as a member but I didn't touch my bank account to buy their products for consumption and selling. Why? Cos it costs between $1000-$5000+ package deals where you purchase the products and re-sell it.

So I told them I'd consult my parents because moving of such a huge sum of money w/o their prior knowledge is really unaccountable. That resulted in a 45min of them trying to convince me into transfering that hefty sum (which I didn't have) into their investment account w/o my parent's knowledge.

They forked out analogies like "If you like this girl you will consult your parents before asking her to be your girlfriend meh?" and stuff like that.

In the end, I didn't join them.

Even though it felt like a missed opportunity, I didn't have much peace in making a decision favourable to them. A peace within me that knows it'll be alright and it's in line with God's will. I didn't hear a definite "DON'T JOIN THEM MY SON!" from God and neither did I have the peace to join them.

But it was quite an episode, I went down 2 times for their talk which ate like 8hours+ of my time after work. But o well, I must say that it was still worth it - getting to know the company and some marketing knowledge through the one-time engaging lecture.

I'm really thankful that my dear friend David was kind enough to share this good business opportunity with me. Thanks alot brother! :) Appreciate it man :D All the best in your sales! :D

And I recently finished tape-scripting Ravi Zacharias' 6 part apologetic (defense of the Christian faith) video on YouTube.

His 6 part video is really powerful. Substantiating the reasons for his belief in a God and referencing numerous theistic and atheistic sources and finally explaining why Jesus is the answer has been quite a journey for myself and him.

It really solidifies my understanding of the Christian faith and it's proofs logically, philosophically, scientifically and historically.

Ravi Zacharias has been my invisible mentor for 4 months now, I've been reading his books and watching his videos. So yeah, if you guys got any questions or want to find out more about how to explain and defend our Christian faith, Ravi Zacharias is the man. You can ask me as well :) Haha.

Fighting - The movie

My saturday was spent doing our full band recording of our song "Who Cares" :) and at the Revival Now Conference with Abigail. :)

Recording was good :D And I believe LIVE will be better :D Whoo hoo :)

Sunday was a combined service. And after the service there was some church building dialogue.

We were having our own dialogues at Marina Square. HAHA! After walking around, we decided on watching the movie "Fighting" @ Marina Square :D

After a clumsy dinner (I spilled a whole cup of Ice lemon tea on Xiao Hua :P) we proceeded to play pool :D Just me & Lebbeus with Jon Wee, Joel, Xiao Hua as the spectators. Haha.

Guess what. After winning Lebbeus in pool like 1 year ago, I lost to him 4 times in a row. -_-" HAHA. I almost won the last round but somehow, God wanted to encourage Lebbeus that day so I missed the 8 ball. HAHAHAHA!!

Just joking :D HAHA. Anna & Abigail witnessed the grace of God upon Lebbeus (LOLS!) as I missed the 8 ball and we proceeded to catch "Fighting"! :D

It's a rather low-budget show with predictable plots. So it was kinda boring. I accurately prognosticated that the grandmother would interrupt their romantic moment. HAHA.

I was animating it to Xiao Hua & Abigail "This is where the grandma steps in"...haha...

We then proceeded to Chomp Chomp for supper/late-dinner.

And Joel didn't drive today. HAHA.

Thanks Anna for the lift home :D The engine breakdowns in the middle of the roads are exciting! HAHAHAHA!! LOLS! :) But yeash, thanks alot Anna :)

Revival NOW! Conference :) [Part II]

I hesitated going to the 2nd part of this conference because Regina fell ill and I had no one to go with. HAHA. So, I decided if I could pull at least one friend along, I'd go for the last night of the conference :D

After calling all of my closer friends who hail from busy Singapore, none of them would join me. So I decided I'd join them to catch the movie "public enemies" :D

Just as I was about to leave to catch the movie, Abigail called me back and said she was free and could go for the conference :D

So I scrapped the movie plan for something eternally meaningful. (Apparently not meaningful enough for me to go alone for. Haha)

So yup, we had a nice chat over dinner and the last night of the conference was...good, but not as good as the first day. Dr. Jonathan David still joked well and preached well but the ministry time was a bit...how should I say it?...It's a bit different.

Only those who paid for the full conference would be personally ministered to by him. Fair enough. So all those with conference tags (excluding myself & Abi) went forward for prayer.

The church was super small so they didn't have much space for people to remained slained and wallowing in the presence of God. So Dr. Jonathan just went around pushing heads and the moment they fell, the catcher would catch them and the next thing, they would wake/pull them up to clear the stage for the next batch of paying conference delegates to get ministered to.

To me, that was a bit like...just going forward to get your head pushed and next thing, you're escorted back to your seat. Haha. When I get ministered to, it takes time to just sit and relish God's presence. But as for this church, well, they had a different style I guess. How effective, I don't know.

So yeah, the main message of his sermon is that we must claim the authority we have as Christians.

I've read a better version of such a sermon by Dutch Sheets. So this was like, a reminder. Haha.

And I really must say the people in the church are really fired up. When you step into the premises, the people will just welcome you cordially, greet you wholeheartedly and engage you genuinely.

And during worship sessions, they really worship. As much as volume doesn't dictate the level of worship, but it is somewhat an indicator. The people there were singing and worshipping so freely and lifting their hands that the worship leader's voice is drowned in the congregational worship.

As the pastor preaches all the members will also verbally affirm him so readily with shouts of "Amen!" and "Yes!".

I've learnt that atmosphere is so important in retaining new comers and making people feel welcomed. It is the culture in that church setting that really makes it so vibrant.

And the thing is, that church consists predominantly of adults! Haha. You'd expect adults to be the fold-arms, frowning, skeptical breed of mean humans, but they did not live up to that stereotype. They lived out the love and warmth of Christ.

The next question I always ask my closer leader friends, God and myself is: How do we change our church culture then?

The answer seems tough but entirely possible if the leaders see the weight of its implication in establishing the kingdom of Christ and start working on it. :)

-__-"

Is burning DVDs that hard? I've burnt 4 and all my subsequent efforts to burn more are futile.

I first used my pre-installed Sonic DLA programme to burn data into my DVDs. But then, it kept hanging. So I uninstalled it and installed Nero. And guess what?! The Sonic DLA programme is attached to my DVD drive system! So when I uninstalled Sonic DLA, my computer can no longer read my DVD roms -__-" I've yet to fix it and I don't know how am I going to. -__-"

The rest of the DVDs i tried to burn using the Nero DVD burner programme on my desktop but failed after burning like 70% of the data onto it, rendering the DVD useless.

Whoa. I tell you, I tried 4 times and 4 times after writing data halfway, it failed, giving me some computer programme error log. -_-"

If you're wondering what I'm burning, I'm burning an instructional singing module for all the youth vocalists in MM.

Well, I hope I won't be burning any more DVDs! -__-"

Any word of advice from some IT pros reading this blog post? :)

Revival NOW! Conference :) [Part I]

Regina invited me to this conference. Fully paid for cos she had a friend from that church - Tabernacle of Christ. The original tickets were priced at $50. Thank God for this divine opening :D Haha.

The speaker at this conference is Dr. Jonathan David.

Man I tell you when I first saw him with his Indian skin, bald head and longer-than-average-beard, I couldn't resist but judge the book by its cover.

But, I tell you, when the cover opened, all your judging will go back to your book. Haha! LOLS!

Passionate, experienced, learned, UBER-inspirational, animated, hilarious yet candid and real.

The truth of his messages slaps you and the jokes that punctuate his messages massages you. Doctrinally deep yet simple to grasp.

In just his 1hour++ sermon, I wrote down more than 5 pages of notes. Here's some of the crystallised nuggets of truth:

"God kicked the devil down not to have a vacation here on Earth; but to punish him. How does God punish Him? By raising up men and women to establish God's kingdom rule on Earth! So don't pay for the devil's vacation!"

"The main reason why we are refilled (in church) is so that we can complete our assignment; like fighter jets. We don't get refilled solely because we're badly beaten up by the enemy; we're refilled to complete OUR ASSIGNMENT - drop a few bombs in the enemy's base!"

"The church is a military base not a hospital! We don't come church just to get treated! We come to get trained for warfare!"

"The church has become so natural like another form of entertainment, another country club!"

"God is releasing an economy from His storehouse that cannot be robbed and destroyed by moths and rust!"

"Are we just a company of people gathered in a building with a cross on top of it?"

These are just some of the provocative yet true words spoken from God through Dr Jonathan David.

His main points - Revival starts when the church recognises its purpose here on Earth.
1) The church should be connected to heaven
2) The church should stop the gates of hell
3) The church should advance God's kingdom

His words are echoed by many other revivalist and prayer warriors. Dutch Sheets (international prayer warrior and author) is also saying the same thing about how the church has lost its cutting edge compared to the Early Church established by the apostles.

How sad that this truth is only heard but not practiced by churches worldwide. Like the song by Jeremy Camp "Speaking Louder than Before" says "We are the hope that's been forgotten"

Satan has indeed disabled the church of Christ - His delegated authority used to legislate His Kingdom rule.

But that's about to change. There is hope and we are tapping on the economy that will never liquidate.

"All authority in heaven and on Earth has been given to me...and surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:18,20

Weekdays

It's been a wonderful week thus far :)

We're getting ready for our song presentation of "Who Cares" written by us - Regina, Myself, Terence and Zane :D

Yesterday (wednesday) I just did a recording of our new song "Who Cares" with Zane! :) Whoo hoo! The acoustic recording was pretty good :D Except that we both hit a few bad notes and did a few wrong parts. Haha!

And Zane is a really nice guy. He's also really encouraging. When we were in the room singing he praised my guitar skills. My reply "Thank You :D Haven't heard that in some time. :D" HAHA! Just kidding, the latter part of my quotation was imaginary. HAHA!

He also commended my vocal range. I was like, "thanks :D But I can't hold my notes like yours and end off with a nice vibrato...haha"

We had a great time tying down our parts and vocal techniques and we also had a good chat about the bands we adore and the singers we "idolise" haha.

So yup, that was a fun wednesday :D

Today in work, I had my first form of non-verbal appreciation as an assistant lab teacher :) One of my students (a guy not girl) gave me a Ferrero Roche :D Haha.

It's kinda small and impromptu act, but it really encouraged me cos I never expected any of my students to do that (some don't even say bye to me after class when I'm standing right at the door).

Ingrates. HAHA! Jk. I am one of those ingrates when I was a student too; Expecting the teacher to fulfill his responsibility without my appreciation.

But working's still fun, interacting with my students and 'enlightening' them still energises me. If not for this, I'd have quit long ago. Haha.

Still 4 more weeks of work before I really kiss TP goodbye and wave hello to NS :( haha.

My work contract ends on the 14th August - Meryl's Birthday! HAHA. And guess what? Meryl's working contract ends on the 7th August - MY Birthday! LOLS!! HAHA. Our birthdays are each other's source of joy...LOLS. Ok, I'm not really that happy to quit my super awesome job but then again, it still spells more free time with my friends! :D Haha.

Finally, I have a PAID-FOR Christian conference tomorrow and Saturday thanks to Regina's friend :D Yay! :D See you guys reading this post :)

18th & 19th July :)

I'll start blogging about my Sunday first this time. Haha. Since I uploaded my pictures Sunday first...haha...Counter-chronological.

Sunday was a nice, simple day.

After youth service, we went to ECP Carl's Junior to have dinner :) The we includes Melvin, Myself, Joel, Anthony & Yourong :) Haha.


Melvin & Me! :)


Me, Yourong, Anthony & Melvin

If you're wondering why Anthony's face is so cramped up, check out the next picture...He's trying to imitate my facial contortions. HAHA!


Joel & Me :)

When the boomer's arms are around you, your expression will be much worse than my already cool expression. HAHA!

Now for Saturday :)

Saturday Myself, Daryl, Joel & David (who left halfway) went shopping @ VivoCity :)

There Daryl & I bought a GAP sweater or pullover or whatever you call it at 50% discount! :) Whoo hoo!

I bought myself a GAP yellow sweater! :) Yes YELLOW in colour :) The colour which I fell in love with since I was a kid. :)

I actually wanted to take a picture of our new sweaters but Daryl for some unforseen, incomprehensible reason doesn't wana take a picture of our latest steal. Haha. O well, you thought girls are unpredictable, guys are too :)

When we shopped till we dropped, we dropped at Coffee Bean :) So here are some of the pics.


Another one of our drink-sharing pictures :)


Still nua-ing. haha.


Of all pictures Joel had to zoom into this one -_-" HAHA. It's nice anyway :) Cos' it's got us :D


The very first pic we took when we sat our butts down :)

So yup, shopping is a man's job too :D

Haha. And O, I also bought 2 slim fit Uniqlo T-shirts @ $9.90 each @ Tampines 1 :D One YELLOW & the other BLUE :) haha.

That was on my lunch break wif my school friends / colleagues. Haha.

I've been buying alot of tops (shirts, jackets, sweaters, etc...) recently so I'll concentrate more on my lower body on my next shopping spree :D Haha!

So yup, that was my weekend :)

And I'm always thankful for every car trip you've provided Joel. :D haha. Thanks alot! When I drive soon, I'll return the favours :D HAHA.

Tampines IKEA :)

Today was Royston's birthday! :) So we decided to have lunch at Tampines IKEA to makan and 'celebrate' his birthday there :D

Chin Yeung, Sam, Royston, Jay Lloyd & Me :)

Me & Sam :)

Chin Yeung, Jay Lloyd & Royston :)

We sat and talk for 2 hours. And the best part is, all of 'em didnt buy the paper cup to get the soft drinks and they simply used the free glass goblets and helped themselves to the free flow drinks. -__-" Haha.

I was the only honest idiot with the legal paper cup. Haha!

O well, that speaks of my testimony as a Christian anyway :) LOLS.

And Happy Birthday Royston! :)

Youth Leader's Retreat July 2009

This year's youth leader's retreat was AWESOME! :) Held at Aloha Changi for 3 days 2 nights with the theme 'take 5' :D

We all went to the young adults' event called "Game of Life". It was a really, really cool and fun concept I must say. Just that the time frame given for us to play wasn't all that sufficient.

And guess what? I won a S$99 Levi's watch from their "Leisure Lucky Draw"! Whoo hoo!! :D

I was talking to Matthew who was also at that event and his remark was "Whoa, you got something out of nothing." haha.


Check out my watch man :D

We then boarded the bus..


Daryl, Me & Yourong :)


Daryl, Me & my NEW WATCH :D pardon my face. It was in reaction to Daryl's. HAHA!!

Upon reaching our destination, we unpacked and started playing Saboteur and MUNCHKINS! :) Jeremy Teo brought them :D Haha.

In the meantme, the 'birthday surprise committee' - Cherie Wong, Me, Anna, Abigail, Daniel Foo & Jake -were also planning our birthday surprise for Anthony & Jaslyn @ Fish&Co. HAHA.

We went up to the room to pretend to "play Saboteur" and discuss how we're gonna surprise Anthony & Jaslyn. We were so drama. HAHA.

Anna's suggestion was "Why don't we get Cherie to pretend to fall down and injure herself in the middle of the field and then she'll phone Anthony for help and all of us will rush there and then suddenly take out a birthday cake?"

We all agreed in unison until we realised that there were many factors that could prevent its success. Haha.

We continued discussing UNTIL SUDDENLY, Anthony walked in and almost foiled our whole plan. HAHA. We then kept switching places and trying to solidify our plan and then suddenly Jaslyn came and talk to Cherie. I almost fainted. HAHA. Another near foiled plan. LOLS.

Finally, they all went supper and me, anna & abigail stayed back to fix the plan. Whew.

Returning from supper, we continued munchkin-ing and we munchkin-ed for over 2 hours :)



My munchkin arch enemy / last minute ally. HAHA!

We finished our munchkin game at around 4.30am. Haha!

The next day we woke up super late @ around 10am+ And we played "Bang!" until around 12pm+ before we left for Fish&Co for lunch :)


Daryl dear & Me :D


Joel, Jonavan & Jeremy :) The 3 Js :D


Joel, Melvin, Me & Jeremy :)

After lunch, we all went to do different stuffs. I went shopping with Anthony, Jake, Daniel, Cherie & Jaslyn :)


Posing with Topman hats :D haha. This is an illegal shot cos we're not allowed to take pictures -.- Haha. O well, commercial reasons.

Next up was the SUPERBLY, AWESOME, MIND-BLOWING, GOD-ENCOUNTERING, HEART-MOVING, LIFE-CHANGING, DOUBT-DISSOLVING, FOUR HOUR service. Haha.

Ps James Singh has a really unusual style of preaching that breaks all homiletical structure but is way more effective than what homiletics can teach you.

Preaching halfway, the Holy Spirit will just reveal something about someone to him and he will stare at you and start telling you what the Holy Spirit had revealed to him.

All that God spoke through him was scarily accurate. In the middle of his sermon, he turned, pointed to me and started telling me 5 main points of what the Holy Spirit revealed to him. I was shocked, all my good friends who knew what I was going through and know me was laughing because of Ps James Singh's prophetical accuracy. Haha.

Thank God for that irreplaceable service. :)

Next up was BBQ! :D


Jon Wee & Me :)


Jon Wee, Daryl & Me :D


Melvin darling & Me :)

Halfway through the BBQ, it rained again -.- Haha. But don't worry, our main heroes Daniel Foo & Joel Qin brought the BBQ fire into shelter and placed them on the drain concrete slabs to prevent the heat from burning the tiled floor apart.

This is the outcome of their hard work :)


After our BBQ dinner, we played another round of "Bang!" :) haha.


Andrina & I playing "Bang!" :D


Abigail & I playing "Bang!" :)

The morning half-woken up smiles. HAHAHA! :D

Jon Wee & Me :)

All in all, this camp was really enjoyable, fun and we did take 5 with plenty of board games :) haha.

My only regret is that I didn't get have much HTHT (heart to heart talk) with my friends and besties. Other than Daryl and Jake when we were on the bus. Haha.

Yup, hope we will have more of such encounters and bonding time together and I really pray we'll take this out to our pre-believing friends out there in the world :)

Bistro Walk

In my 3 and a half years in TP, I've eaten in every canteen except a little 'restaurant' near the TP bookshop called "Bistro Walk"

They serve western cuisines there and on the day we went, they had only 3 selection of spaghettis. Haha.

But what makes me want to go back there is their desserts:
Waffle ice cream & brownie with ice cream :)

Their main course is average.

And after talking to the cashier and the 'staff' there, I found out that they were actually students from ITAS, Food and Nutrition in their 3rd year. Haha.

Next thing I asked "Are the chefs students from TP too?"
Mr. Cashier: "Nope."
Me: "Thank God. HAHA :D"

Thank God he didn't charge me extra for suaning them. Haha.


Royston and I with our queue numbers waiting for our order :)


Me & Sam with our courses served :D

Yup, their waffle ice-cream is the best :D Those TP-ers reading this, the dessert is worth the price: $3 :D Haha.

Board Games Weekend! :)

4th & 5th July was spent laughing, chatting and cracking our brains on the board games. Ok, maybe not brain-cracking cos the games weren't all that intellectual. Haha.

Saturday was a pretty long day for me. In the morning I had fish4men prayer and vision renewal session. In the afternoon I had MM prayer and worship session.

And after that, we went to Jeremy's house to play MUNCHKINS. Haha. The 'we' are: Abigail, Anna, Jeremy, Joel & I.

It was a pretty cool game where we spam monster cards at each other, help each other and devour each other. HAHA.

We took THREE HOURS to finish ONE ROUND of Munchkins and we used up THREE EXPANSION CARD SETS. HAHA! We're crazy.

In the end, I WON!! WHOO HOO. My victory left a bitter Joel grumbling about his "could-have-let-abigail-win opportunity". HAHA! I keep telling him that my victory's already planned since the beginning of time. LOLS!!

We then proceeded to tian tian huo guo for dinner in bugis which SUCKED BIG TIME - Slow service, average food, lousy steamboat (huo lu - i learnt that that's the stove tingy in chinese. HAHA), super slow food refills and worst of all - EXPENSIVE.

Thanks to Joel Qin who wanted to join Jon Wee & Melvin at that scam steamboat syndicate (SSS). HAHA!

Nevertheless, it's the people who makes the event turn out fun :)

Jon Wee, Me, Melvin, Joel, Jeremy, Abigail & Anna :)

And btw, check out my new polo-T i bought :D HAHA. They all say it's nice, except Joel who was jealous of my figure. HAHAHA!

After steamboat, we still went for supper till a late 1230am plus.

And thanks Joel for sending ALL OF US back home! :) haha.

That was saturday.

Sunday was service as usual - mediocre. Haha. Then mentoring training which was really good. Learnt lots of stuff from Ps Nicholas who used his much of the discredited greek model to teach us. HAHA.

Then I was to join Jeremy, Cai Jie, Cheryl, Meryl and Laura for a jog at Hougang Stadium.

However, it rained. So we ended up playing board games for 2 hours at Daryl's (or cheryl/meryl's) place. Haha.

We played and chatted and we lived out the Hebrew model where CaiJie imparted truths to us in a coach-like, informal setting. Haha. Ok, imparting truths is still Greek. Whatever. LOLS!

Yup, had a really great time laughing, chatting, playing and catching up with a whole diff. lot of my besties :)

That was Sunday :)

Thank God for board games. Haha.

Family Holiday in Langkawi, Malaysia

Finally I'm blogging about my family trip to Langkawi 2 weeks ago. Haha!

All in all, the trip was really, really refreshing, relaxing and relating to nature.

The trip was one of the first where I really was awed by the beauty of God's creation. The luscious green trees, the azure waters, the unsullied fresh air, the pristine landscape, the soothing crash of the waves and the striking orange horizon all interwove to create a magnificence and awe that overwhelmed a tiny, insignificant being like me.

So yup, I shall let the pictures tell the story :)

Our arrival - Jerina & Me :)

We then set off in our rented Proton Saga to our first un-named destination which is near our hotel on the sea. And yes, I didn't type wrongly. It's hotel ON, literally ON the sea :)

Check out the beautiful harbour at our first stop :)

Our first stop. Me, Jeravan, Jerina & Mum :)

After having KFC (no better place to eat there) at the harbour, we set off for our even more beautiful hotel.


Our hotel room which sat on the waves. :)

After nua-ing in our hotel room for an hour or so, we then set off with our fishing gear to explore the waters that were teeming with life.


Fishing! Daddy + 3 of us :)


Still fishing...


Caught fish. This is just one picture. Haha.

My brother just has what my dad calls "fish luck". Each time he casts the line, 2-4 average sized fishes will bite the hook within 5 minutes.

Me? First time, caught a few good ones. After that, it was just the fishing rod and me. Haha!


Done fishing. :)

Then we proceeded to a Thai restaurant and handed them our prized catches for them to whoop up a meal for us :)


@ the Thai Restaurant


These fishes look familiar. O we caught them earlier! haha. They'll now be swimming in our bellies and later, our bloodstream. haha.

Second day, we headed for the mountain tops! We took a really long cable car ride up there. SCARY.


Me & Jeravan in the cable car :)


This is how high up we were going - Look at the islands down below! Whew!


@ the peak. :D


Sign says we're 710metres above sea level. I thought we're already in heaven. Haha!

If you wondered what was up there on the mountain, there was a MOUNTAIN-TREE TOP WALK.

In Singapore parks, we have tree-top walks. There, the treetops were like those in the fable "Jack and the beanstalk"! Our trees back in Singapore seemed like some bean sprout to these uber-tall trees. Looking down the treetop walk brought many butterflies to our stomach. Haha. Thus, I named it the 'butterfly trail'. LOLS.


In the middle of the Mountain-tree top walk :)


The end of the 'butterfly trail'

Day 3 was spent in the city! :) That means SHOPPING! ;D haha. I love shopping, especially in Malaysia because all the merchandise in Malaysia are always on 50% discount to Singaporeans. HAHA! [If you still didn't get it, it's the exchange rate la bohdo. haha]

So our first stop were the city's attractions:


The harbour, or bay or whatever you call it. Haha.


Langkawi's icon: An eagle with the words Langkawi below it.

We were joking that the eagle meant that corruption was still soaring in Langkawi. Haha! Hope we don't get sued for this. Heehee.

After this, we went on our shopping spree - my mum, my sister and I :)

After ending our shopping spree, we went to visit the beaches and Langkawi falls.


One of the many beaches :)

Talking about beaches, my brother and I spent quite a few hours at the beach and caught a few crabs. They were then brought back to our hotel room for some science experiments. HAHA!

The crabs stayed with us for a few days :) And then returned to their maker. HAHA!


Langkawi "falls"

The langkawi falls was half a scam. There we saw nothing but a small rivulet of water flowing down the cliff. They said it was the dry season or something like that. Haha.

Nevertheless, we snapped a picture there to make our journey there worth it. HAHA!

Our last day was spent snapping whatever remains of the resort we haven't took picture with like the swimming pool. Haha.


The swimming pool. Who needs the pool when you've got the sea? haha.


Our last breakfast.

So yup, that was my family trip there.

Provided much insight for me into the interwoven intricacy and splendour of nature that it is impossible for it to come by any other explanation than God.

This trip was also a relaxing one, no hectic, rushy itinerary but a more slow-paced, relaxed, enjoyable one. :)

Thank God for this little retreat! :)