Sunday, February 27, 2011

A Sabbath Afternoon (and Night) with Chuan Hoe Youth


Saturday - February 25,2011

After church and lunch and some chit chatting a bunch of youth got ourselves together to go to Elder Yeo's house.  He had invited the adults over to his place last Saturday and this Saturday it was our turn.

We walked to the bust stop, rode the bus, and walked some more to elder Yeo's house.  When we arrived we had cake, jelly and juice.  We talked with each other and spent at least an hour together with Elder Yeo and his wife.

Icy, cool, almond jelly and fruits
Baked fruit cake for us! And the jelly bowl empty.

100% natural juice, no sugar added, no preservatives.
Hydon said we need to drink it all up because if there's no preservatives
 that means it's going to spoil ! haha
Eat & Talk
Eat, Stand, Sit
Thank you Elder Yeo & Mrs Yeo for having us.
I don't know what we're laughing about =)
Talk...pose....talk...eat...talk...
Come and meet some of the nicest people in Singapore! =)
Group picture! (Jerome was the photographer)
Group picture 2! (guess who the photographer is now??)
Hydon & Simon as we walk to the bus stop. 
You are not alone - we walk together!

After at least an hour at Elder Yeo's house, we separated int two groups.  One group went to a talk and another bunch of us went to Jerome's house to do what we do best.  Eat & Play.


See how Pastor Bayu, Lerie, Stacia, Julaila, Simon, Hydon, Jerome and later Isaac enjoyed their evening together. 


First was dinner of course:

Lovely people
Galssss saying "peace!"
and of course....dessert!
After dinner and dessert it was time to play at Jerome's place =)

DDR- Dance Dance Revolution!
Boys turn...
Quality time together =)
You can see hydon's face.....
Now you can't see his face..haha
Here we all are...
Simon trying his best =D
Stacia and Simon Wii racing.  We ended up playing wii's Raving Rabbids instead because Jerome's neighbours from downstairs said we were too loud with all our feet dancing and pounding the floor.  Sorry neighbour downstairs!
SDA Champagne...cheers!
All in all it was a wonderful and great Sabbath day and evening.  It's God's providence to be with people who help each other grow spiritually and in friendship.


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Quality Time At Sentosa!

On Sunday, February 13 a small group of youth met at Vivocity to spend the day at Sentosa's Palawan beach.

It was a hot day but the whether was far from our minds as we enjoyed each other's company and the water.

The youth who showed up were Alvina, Joyce, Nella, Julaila, Lerie, Frank, Pastor Bayu and Shawn.

Now let the pictures do the talking of how we enjoyed our day!

Bayu waiting as we had one of our many toilet breaks =)

Long-haired girls with shades!

Nella & Joyce enjoying the heat!

Shawn running because the sand was too hot!

Frank sweating from spinning the frisbee =D

Time to cool off!

Slowly getting into the water......posing first...

Water Fight!

Guess whose feet?

Beach models...

Another model pose...

Passing the frisbee...

Hanging out...

Joyce chilling...

Peace!


Mermaids!

And the conclusion is...yoghurt ice cream!!


What a way and place to spend time together and get to know each other.  Company and friendship like this is certainly a blessing from God!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Kite flying @ Marina Barrage

On Sunday we went kite flying at Marina Barrage. About 10 to 15 of us turned up. The first few of us reached there at about 10am. Brought Ruffles (my dog) as well. She was so hyperactive on the way there. Most of the kites were from my family. We bought 1 or 2 from China before and the rest were from many many years ago. Took the lift up to the grass field, laid our things down on the ground sheet, and I immediately started setting up the kites. The weather was perfect! Not too hot and the wind was sufficient to fly our kites without much problem.

To fly kites comfortably you really have to have sunglasses. The glare from the sun would give you a headache if you look up to the sky for too long.



To really enjoy the flying of kites, you need to have kite string winders/wheels (unsure of the exact name) so as to have better control of the kite and tension of the string. It also prevents string burn which I suffered from for quite a few times that day. Control is important whenever you are just bringing up your kite into the sky. Once the kite is high up in the sky, you can just stick the "wheel" under some heavy object on the ground and the kite will fly by itself!


Only 1 or 2 hours after we started flying did someone notice that I actually owned a super long tail which belonged to a kite that we were already flying in the air. LOL. So excitedly, we attached this super long tail to the kite and WOAHLA! It flew like a charm! Almost 100% of the time I could just throw the kite (by myself) into the air and it would just fly up by itself, of course with me providing tension to the string at the same time. I bet that this particular kite of ours attracted the most attention through out the whole day as it had the longest tail. It was so long that it often got caught with neighbouring strings that were attached to other kites that belonged to other owners. Haha. LOOK. IT'S DOMINATING THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!


Lerie enjoying herself...


The aunties brought lunch! There was bee hoon, bread with vegetarian meat, watermelon, and even cupcakes, baked by Auntie Patricia I think.


This should be just before Simon started to get a headache... He borrowed my shades soon after lol. Looking up into the sky to fly a kite without shades is really annoying and quite impossible for long periods of time.


Like a string pointing towards heaven...


Uncle Seah Ho joining in the fun...



What other way to have a great photo by flying a kite in front of MBS.

The string magically disappearing into mid air... This is Lerie.


Frank.


Simon.


Pastor Bayu.


Ruffles certainly enjoys being outdoors.


LM's turn to take over the wheel.


When you look up too much and too high up into the sky, your neck becomes painful. Hence lying on the ground solves the problem!!



The girls re-living their childhood days!


This is our kite with the super long tail. The tail is so long I spent at least 10 minutes rolling it up lol. It's really a beautiful kite though :)


Hydon's turn to take over the long-tailed kite.



BEAR ABUSE.


Our long-tailed kite STILL dominating the sky..........


Everyone's skin was cooked especially mine! My skin was so red by the end of the day.

At night we went to Makansutra for dinner, located just beside Esplanade. The hokkien mee is seriously good. Around the same standard as the one I've eaten at Food Republic at Suntec.





Overall it was a great day flying kites and bonding between us. In total we were at Marina Barrage from like 10am to 6pm+. More than 8 hours! Flying kites is certainly a fun and pleasurable hobby/sport to have as it can be very challenging and yet fun to master the control of your kite. We certainly thank God that we had good weather and that we had a fantastic day!

More photos here.