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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Retreat might be over... but our fire will still keep burning!!! Amen!!! At first I thought that maybe... this will be just like any other retreats... Although I didn't really like retreats before... But this one in 2006 was so entirely different... It's like a different atmosphere... So here is wat I did during retreat...

Day 1.
I left to go to meet my crew, the Dolfins at Newton Car park.. I decided this year to take the bus cos every year I would take the car.. and it's so boring... I wanna do a change this time... so anyway... ya... I had fun in the bus.. I sat with Amanda first then nessa wanted to sit next to her.. so I ended up with Adeline.... Yeah... so everything was fun... We took I think about 4 hrs to reach Desaru Hotel... (I know I went there 3 times... but I sort of forgot how it looks like..) We went to our rooms.. and we were so happy that we had connected rooms.. so altogether Amanda, thadya and I shared 1 room.. plus nessa, rennita, racheal and jennifer were next door.. and we could like share rooms!!! So anyway... We had our dinner.. then we went for session 1!!! Oh man........... Pastor Arif is one of the coolest pastors I know... I mean the preaching was really, extremely powerful.. But his jokes are like so funny!!!But truly yes it was a really good preaching... after session we actually had like this youth session but we didn't cos it was too late already.. so we went to sleep... But since Grace and adeline wanted to sleep in our rooms.. I let them... So rennita and me went over to Ci Nelly's room to sleep... accompany her...

2nd day
had breakfast.. the food wasn't that good... we were already thinking of our mums' cooking in singapore... and it was only 1 day!!! hahahaah!!!:) and my whole table of dolfins.. were talking about how we met each other.. Like for example.. I met Adeline, Jennifer and Amanda at Hillsongs Concert last year.. Grace.. I met her at church when she was still small.. nessa also.. rennita, I met her last year... but we weren't really that close... and so I got close to her this year!! hahaah!! so after dinner we had this youth preaching by pastor Yudi.. his really cool, you know??? yeahhhhhh.... and we had amazing praise and worship also!! Like we are jumping for God!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after that session we had session 2 from Pastor Arif!! Once again it was good!! hahaha!!! The real fun begins when we had our free time.. Nessa, Amanda and I had so much fun in the beach!! Play play play!!! But then shortly the rain came.. but amazingly the rain was kinda weird... cos we were like at the end of the beach.. and u could see that at 1 point the rain were at the other side of the beach.. it was dark at the other side but it was bright at our side... but soon the rain from the other side came to ours.. and we headed home.. to bath.. and we got ready for our rafting excersise (rennita and racheal had to go back to singapore) ... it was soooooooo fun!! And yeah I couldn't swim.. so yeah... u know how I felt.. like afraid yet excited.. cos it is my first time and yeah I COULDN'T SWIM!!!!! Then we had dinner.. Food rating: 3/5 hahahah!!! Ok that's lame.. we had another session after that!! Then we had Mystery games by Thadya... Thadya's games were tiring.. like we had to walk from the other end to the other end of the hotel.. and the hotel was like terrace houses.. and there were patches of bushes, forests, grass everywhere... and it was like at night.. around 10.30??? plus u know wat types of animals will come out at night?? Frogs, crikets, snails and mosquitoes!?! That really freaked me out.. Like u dunno wat is hidden behind those bushes and grass?? and like once u step on it... that's it man.. the animal dies and u can feel it under ur feet... hahaha!! so anyway by the time we ended that mystery game it was way too late.. but u know wat that isn't over... we still had to do our most favourite tradition.. "Bidadari"(Is that how u spelt it???) wahhhh... pranking the next generation was so fun!!! hahaha!!!!!!! and we arrived at our rooms at 3am in the morning?!?! And I was like so exhausted... so Thadya and I were like half dead soon after we came back and Grace and adeline had to go back to their rooms.. cos kan nggak enak kalo tinggalin Ci Nelly.. I set my alarm to 6am.. plus Nessa, Amanda and Jennifer had such a good time that I didn't know wat time they slept..

3rd day.
I really woke up at 6am!!! hahaha!! but I was still sleepy and tired... but anyway.. cos we had u know prayer in the morning.. so I woke not becos I had to... but becos.. I wanted to know more and more!!! So ya.. I woke up and u know wat I thought that nessa, amanda and jennifer were still playing but I heard noises from the other room but it wasn't the 3 of them.. it was the TV!!! hahaha!!! so I tired to wake Amanda and Jennifer up.. and u know wat my plan failed... So I took a bath.. then I went to do my mission again.. I tried to wake them up again.. but again it failed.. so u know wat... I decided to call the expert in waking pple up!!! MISS LING LING!!! hahaha!!! So yeah.. she was good!! But she gave them extra time.. so ci lingx2, tiffany and I left them and headed to prayer... I really had to be there cos I was suppose to do LCD.. I totally forgot.. hahah!! I did it..Adeline and Jennifer and amanda and grace came!!! then we had breakfast.. not bad lah.. I was sitting with pastor arif this time.. and boy.. did we laughed loud?? hahahaha!! He rawks man!! Then after that we had our 3rd session.. then we had holy communion.. I was sooo sleepy already.. hahaha!!! We had to go pack up already... and check out.. so ya...I packed as fast
as I can.. then I gave my bag to my dad.. and I just carried my sling bag. So in some cases that is quite smart... Just leave everything in the car.. and just board the bus.. so after packing we had lunch.. and we said goodbye to Pastor Yudi and Ci Litha and Ko benny.. man... they shld stay longer... hahaahah!! So anyway, I thought the bus ride home would be like the bus ride to desaru.. but it wasn't.. I was really angry... *SECRET* hahahaha!!!! So yeah when I arrived in Singapore I was already like sooooooooooooooooo quiet!!! Then i went home without saying a word... Only that Ko Kiky wanted to go home with me as we were going the same way.. and then Anthon, Ko billy, Ko Budi and tirto followed us.. and we took the same bus.. I was so tired... but I just decided to watch TV awhile.. logged on to computer awhile.. I thought I could like just sleep at 10.30.. but I was so wrong.. I was super tired.. and soon after watching "That's so raven" I was like "Oh man!! I need my bed!!!" hahahah!!!! So I slept at 8pm..

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