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! :)