Monday, February 21, 2011

Youth Chalet 2011!

Our youth chalet lasted from January 14 to 17, at Costa Sands Resort (Pasir Ris). Many weeks before that we already started announcing and trying to ask everyone to RSVP since the more we have the merrier it'll be! We requested that everyone bring some food/drinks/etc to help out. For the first night on Friday, a few of us stayed over at the chalet. We went to care group and then to church the next day as usual. After church on Saturday we headed early to the chalet to prepare for the BBQ at night.


All the ladies along with Shawn preparing some salad sticks.


Olivine brought her specialty. CHEESE. This was one of the main highlights of the night in regards to food. She brought approx 4 to 5 different kinds of cheese. Forgot which one I liked probably the orange one lol.


Pastor Bayu's turn to prepare food with the ladies.


Is that full or full?!!!!!!!! More than enough salad for everyone :)


From left, Mr Song along with his daughter Grace, with Pastor Edmund Liah setting up the BBQ pit. They had to bear most of the heat and charcoal "stains" so thanks to them!!


One of the loveliest couples in church, if not the loveliest! Pastor Bayu with his wife Lerie.


Alvina writing a get-well card!


Joyce and Nella.



Many helped out to cook the BBQ food.


Stacia with Olivine sitting on the stairs to the room up above. What's with that epic smile??!!!!


Chuen Rong and Lerie having a great time eating and chatting.


We have a professional typewriter in our midst.


Smiles everywhere :D

While some of the youth went walking around the compound, the adults decided to watch a movie on the TV. Aliens or something?


Chuen Rong and me.


That is one melted marshmellow!


Overall the BBQ was great. We had more than 30+ people present and MOREEEEE than enough food that we could eat! So much food that it lasted all the way until 2 days later when we had to check out. We invited old church members, new church members, as well as friends and etc. The food was great, thanks who all who took their time to prepare them. There were many helpful people who BBQed the food hence the supply of BBQ food kept flowing until there was almost no more. Thank God that the rain stopped early as well. It started to drizzle at first but it stopped later.


Later at night we had about 12 to 13 people staying over? Lol. Luckily we had enough beds thanks to Auntie Patricia. The females slept in the aircon room above while the guys slept at the bottom. Thanks to the adults who helped us to mop the floor after the BBQ hence the floor was clean.


The next morning we had to say goodbye to Shawn. He was starting work early at Subway at NEX.


We lazed around in the chalet that morning. Waited for a few people like Andy and Orielle to arrive as they wanted to go to Wild Wild Wet too.

Simon and Shi Rong playing iPhone games.


Alvina resting away...


Time to go Wild Wild Wet!!!!! Everyone was pretty excited. The weather was great.


Thank you very much to Andy who treated us! We had around 8 free tickets so it wasn't too much on him. Overall, WWW isn't one of those parks where you can go alone and you'll find it relatively fun. You need friends to go with to have fun, since this theme park isn't big at all. We went to the slides, lazy pool, wave pool, etc. We had great fun together.


After WWW we went to have lunch. Forgot the name of this place, but it's a vegetarian cafe at E-hub. Yummi green or something? We seriously recommend this!! The vegetarian food is yummy! Especially the dishes with the brown colour glutton thing.



Later we went to the arcade to take some neoprints. First time we ever did such a thing as a youth group? Haha. Certainly an unforgettable memory. :) Only unfortunate thing is that some of our youth weren't present that day hence they're not in the photo. I'm sure that we could have actually squeezed a few more faces into the photo lol.




We had one more night to stay over until Monday but all of us went back on Sunday. It was a great chalet and I like to think that everyone had a great time socializing and bonding. Thanks to everyone who helped out in the BBQ, to those who donated some $$ to help out in the buying of the BBQ equipment. And lastly thanks to everyone who came!!


More photos at our gallery here!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Church visitations

Happy Chinese New Year to all our dear readers!
This year our church visited many different houses and did many interesting activities.
It was rather different from the previous years and the experience is indeed 1 to behold :)
This is our visitation for Saturday and Sunday.
I'll let the pictures tell the story of our fun times together~

Look at all the happy faces of the children receiving Ang Baos (Red packets)
from the aunties in our church.
Some of them were especially well dressed such as Sammy (top right) and Grace (top left).
They are part of several Korean families which have joined our church since last year.
Multi-racial church! We accept anyone who has a heart for Christ ;)
Visit to Calvin's place. You can see the whole house is packed.
Even many others not in the picture.
Our church members really support the visitation!
Happy to be bonding and enjoying the festive mood.
From left: Jade,Linda,Ping and Calvin.
Jeremiah, the "baby" in our church. Cute eh? ^.^
Breakfast at Nex (newly opened mega mall several months ago) on a Sunday morning at Din Tai Fung restaurant a Chinese restaurant.
Evidently, a substantial amount of people didn't feel lazy on a
Sunday morning so they went there for a get together.

Yu Sheng (Raw fish) at Christopher's place. It's a Chinese tradition that brings about good luck for the rest of the year. Its something where many people gather about the dish with chopsticks and start mixing them together whilst saying 4 character blessings in Chinese.
Ingredients consist of raw fish (this 1 is Vegetarian though),
crackers and something like coleslaw?
Friends eating lunch together. Annique(right)
and Min Yi (2nd from right) joined us too.
Frank and Alvina~ Hmm they look good in New Year clothes.
Florence and Jade. Florence is wearing jade?
Played several games there and this game is called Poisoned where 1 has to die dramatically.
Stacia showing us how~
Welcoming new guests~
At someone's house. Gaming as usual.
Watched videos from youtube together.
Drinks - Sparkling grape juice and Orange juice.
Looking at photos of the old times. Brings back pleasant memories...
From left: Julaila, Lerie, Bayu and Chuen.
Watching TV at Orielle's place.
Many of us were all engrossed to the TV later.
Korean drama "200 pounds beauty" on DVD.
Good thing I watched before as I had to leave early.
Nice food. Desert was interesting with mix of sprite, ice cream soda and cocktail.
Overall, we had a great time these few days. For me its my last real holiday for a long time.
At least the for the next many months. Glad I enjoyed myself & we'll have more activities soon!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Church Cleaning

Hello!


So on the first day of the new year 2011, some of the youths stayed over after service to help out with the church-cleaning. Linus too joined us :)



Having dinner, bought by some of the adults. Many thanks for lugging back the huge amount of food back for us:)



Some of us stayed over at church, had a mini sleepover with tons of games. Woke up at 8am in the morning, to get ready to clean clean clean!



Breakfast cooked by Aunty Patricia :) Everyone enjoying their food!




After breakfast, we were divided into groups to clean different parts of the church. The guys were mostly in the kitchen or doing the toilet and balcony.


Uncle Seah Ho and Wei Hong prying out the termite-infested cupboards. Bleugh.
Polishing the windows. It was only then did I realise how many glassy surfaces we have.

Scrape scrape scrape! Do away with the dirty bacteria-infested stuffs!




Danielle & Stacia helping out with the polishing :)




And our dear pastor, bending his poor back, cleaning out the balcony, haha



Aunty Janie, cleaning out the dusts from the fans.


Lunch by the staircase. Excellent bonding time/area!




dirtyyyyyyyyyyyyy


Nice model pose Uncle Oliver!




scrubbing time!



and we decided to watch the slippers. Excessive bacteria lurking in them. Time to disinfect!



Guys being guys they can play with everythinggggg :D



All in all, it was a very successive cleaning. A huge thank you to everyone who turned up and helped around :)


More photos at our gallery!