mob retreat rocks.
...written on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, @ 9:11 p.m.
i love my mob team, especially so after today. it was our first retreat (at pulau ubin), eventhough it wasn't perfect, but its so nice. my buddy is nice, my guys team is nice, the whole thing is nice! i mean wad more can i ask for. hurray!!
i am sleepy now but i wanna blog because today i really feel that it is necessary to do that. came online to like see if there's any interesting mobber or people around. alrite. the retreat...
it started off with a bunch of church leaders, who were acting as pple from bartley island. they are suppose to be refugees from the Mao Ze dong era. our task was to preach to them. hmm..
most of us got like freaked out obviously by their response. most of the time, i was at a total lost for words. the people that i spoke to was shawna and yew ya. they wasn't that scary, but the questions asked were difficult to answer. they wanted to see something solid and ya, by talking to them, we are suppose to give them a gift that is physical instead of what the everlasting water or the bread of life.
every event that we have, there will be a debrief. we went around the island to the so call different churches, with the same faces acting as diff people. at the end of the mission, we were given gifts, which was pepsi ice, wrapped in a thick layer of newspaper. at first, i thought they were going to serve us some funny drinks to test our response. thank god that its a normal drink, and best of all, its COLD!! the weather seriously make the drink taste heavenly.. the feeling of AH!!! WOO HOOO!! WE WANT MORE!! --> now, am i exaggerating things abit?
during lunch time, we were asked to cook maggi noodles. the food was slightly abysmal, but i think i was too hungry to choose. as a matter of fact, i don't think anyone will eat that unless they were put into this kinda situation whereby u either eat or starve. its first of all soggy. after the first bite, a layer of salt will stick onto your tongue. the swallowing of the mouthful of noodles causes the taste buds to turn black! nah.. i am obviously kidding. it was bad, but not as bad.
everything was excellent according to shukun, except for the last part, which was the children's program. i can accept the mob com acting as old pple, youths, barbarians, but definitely not small kids. i can't believe that we actually have to teach them english! its partly our fault for not doing our stuffs seriously but look! here we are talking to our leaders in church, teaching them how to pronounce hand, hair, eyes, leg etc. sigh! it of BADDDDD.. bleah
during debrief, something bad happened. it was between the girls. i got dragged into it a little but i think i got out of it. afterall, i am trying to be nice to everyone even though not everyone is that lovable like me. don't u think that God is so unfair? haha.. kidding again..
okie so ya. it ended off quite ugly but i'm glad that the storm didn't really last. and guess what, after the everything was over, we got coconuts for a treat. something that i would consider a reward. the leaders bought like 20 of them. since there was left overs, i ate 3, along with eliel. hi five man buddy!! while we were eating, apparently it was so windy that the umbrella which was stuck onto the table flew away. shu kun saved 11 lives by catching it in time. fast reflexes for HIS age. :x
we da bao dinner and ate at the basketball court, 5 mins away from the hawker center. actually, i dun think the nasi lemak there is that fantastic. the guys occupied one stone seat and use it as our dinner table. it was squeezy, but was terrific. the guys are like super united now and im really glad that i am part of the team. yeah!
going to have our first outing on friday. going to either chris of shukun's house to study. i got project to do and ya. the rest of them got exams. studying is fun. staying over and fellowshipping too. guys are easily entertained. we dun need shopping. just a pair of sticks and some electric guitar will do rite, daniel? haha.. as for eliel and chris, one can sing and the other can dance. nice combi. actually we are not going to jam, going to study or maybe si9mply just laze around and crap. haha.. nite pple.