The word Retreat really fits this occasion, i didn't know what to expect of it, i knew we would continue doing the normal Alpha course sessions, but other than that i didn't know what would happen. But in the end, it was a good place, beautiful atmosphere, delicious WESTERN food and really good company. It was held in Frasers hill, methodist bungalow.
On friday it suddenly dawned upon me that i didn't have a bus buddy, owh joy, ah but nevermind, that's not a big deal. Actually that's all lah, haha, owh and i didn't really know the january batch people that well. A bit off topic here, friday, me, jas, vic and lynn were the first customers in the newly opened Old town kopitiam. Not a fan of Old town kopitiam, but the ambience of the place and the new paint smell (note slight sarcasm) was too much to resist. Back to main topic, came sat, i reached college early, like first student early. Hung around, go in and out of the marketing office, then finally the bus came! the trip up was fun, i played Taboo with the jan batch, wah the way they try to get you to say the word can be really smart, complicated thinking. For me, it's like this, word: papyrus, "ok where does moses live? Egypt, ok what to they use to write on? and you get the ans" haha yes i know, simple thinking. Then after that, i played Identity with my july batch. I was Ultraman, serene was Adam Lambert, Julius was Tellytubby (thanks to me hahahahaha, dunno how to spell it btw), chuen ho was Barak Obama, Wei Han was Yu Wern and Vincent was Hans Anderson.
We then reached the gate, i found out for the first time in my life (ahhh the uluness) that there were time slots when you can go up and come down Frasers Hill, they sell petrol in one of the shops there, and there was this group of rich people in fancy sports cars. Up we went, the bus fella dropped us at the bottom of the hill (the rest we had to climb up, he could actually drop us a bit higher but dunno, lazy maybe?). The walk up was tiring, no stamina and you have guys in front of you playing rugby with their shoe bag, lol dunno where they get all the energy seriously. When we finally reached the place, it was really beautiful, the bungalow was colonial style and the place was full of flowers! Went inside, there was a real fireplace, but no wood so nobody would get tempted to light the place up. jkjk. The rooms rock whey! i've been to so many camps and i know it's hard and expensive to get attached bathrooms! We settled down and got into our first session.
This session was conducted by Miss Moey, she was really good, made it interesting by giving loads of example, i tell you the amount of bible info she has is amazing. She can qoute scripture without even looking it up. Then Miss Leow took over the next session, it was also really good and we got into really deep discussion about the Holy Spirit and related stuff. After the first two sessions there was free time, i went and took my bath, when i came out some of them decided to play captian ball. Note, we're on top of the hill so when the ball flies over the barrier, it's bye bye ball forever. Ahh as you can guess, that's what happened, i'm not very good at giving some suspense am i? haha. Owh yes, i forgot to mention that we had scones, delicious little scones, note to self, learn how to make scones. And it was Mary Ruth's birthday! so we sang to her, it's cool that she choose to come up to frasers instead of being with her family so that she can learn more about God.
The night session was done by Reuben, and we had to think of a skit in 2 minutes with all the items, i was quite amazed at how i saw the stuff and a story just formed in my mind, not trying to show off here la, but yea i was surprised too. My group was group 4, consisting of Jeremy, Caroline, Ranita, Wei Han and I. The guys were really funny when they came up with impromptu lines and actions to make the story funny, ahh only guys can do that i guess.
The day was finlayy called to an end, we were supposed to go to sleep, but who ever does right? It was a boring start at first, then the guys invited us to go walk around the place, we did, wanted to go down the hill but the guys thought it was too dangerous with girls, so we then decided to play Taboo, it was really funny, the things people say sometimes are hillarious! vicky, word: Multiply "go forth and...?" qoute God to Abraham. We playe till 12, the guys won by 11 cards, owh so near yet so far, we played ALL the cards btw, one colour only la of course.
Went to sleep, didn't know why but i kept on waking up, but i didn't feel cold at all, the bed sheet and blanket were tucked in tight like the hotel style, so i didn't mess it or loosen it, just slipped in and didn't feel cold at all. Woke up at 7.40, quickly brushed up and found out that many were still asleep, supposed to wake up at 7 a.m, owh well. Had breakfast and the final session with Miss Leow. It was a really good session and many went up to be prayed for. After that we quickly packed up and walked down the hill. The bus driver too us to town where we took a pic at the clock tower, then went to the playground, i sadly failed at taking jump shots, darn.....should have custom programmed it, owh now i know! i shoulf have put it in sports mode.....nooooooooooooooo.
The road down was windy and dizzy, watched the movie 'Man of the Year' it was a good, nice and funny movie with loads of political jokes (no wonder she likes it la, haha), We reached MCKL at about 4 and i immediately went home, slept fr 4 hours and now i'm typing this. And that was the retreat, all the time i was up there it was really relaxing because i didn't have to think about work (except for accounts, but that's because it was a pending homework), got to see everyone outside studying mode, fresh air, beautiful flowers and no tight schedule! The schedule was really relaxed and there was no list of rules you usually get at camps. Now it's back to reality and normal life, it's good to have retreats once in awhile, plus point for this camp for me personally is that i got to chat with people that i don't usually chat with and we became closer.
