God-given friends, campsite and meeting of needs...

Now that I am in a more sober state I think I should give a good account of what happened during the entire 2 days (38 hours) of being together... :) it was fun, first of all, and exhilarating... and made me realise what fantastic people I have got on my committee this year!!!

We met up at 8am (or so) at Lavendar MRT station to catch our bus which was scheduled to leave at 8.30am for bus terminal at Kallang. After promptly getting onto the bus we wasted no time in getting our assigned seats and as the guys (nelson and fred) looked pretty excited to be sitting together to hang out since well.. they're pretty tight... :) me and peishan got adjusted pretty quickly and started on the myriad of 'girls'' topics and had alot of fun sharing and knowing one another more intimately... :)

Peter was stranded one side, for which I really feel horrible about but felt better immediately after we got off for the customs at both Singapore and Malaysia as our change in buses meant that we could all sit together...

even so, though... he sat a corner to read his chinese book... i couldn't bear to look for fear of having motion sickness... *puke* but we roped him in when talking about obviously 'interesting' topics... *wink*

ah and we slept and even my eyes started to close well hidden behind my sunglasses for fear of looking stupid... whilst sleeping...

oh well... we reached in good time and I was disappointed at having left the new packet of hong peah that I had wanted to share with everyone else and looked so much forward to eating in the bus... but we got to meet Jimmy after a little hiccup of not being able to find the 'entrance' to a place that has 4 entrances...

we had beef noodles and washed it down with extra deep fried pork, soya bean milk (that wasn't too sweet nor too bland) and tropical fruits (mainly longans and dukus) that were so cheap!!!

Jimmy bought us that lunch and we wasted no time in getting to the campsite to check out its facilities... I must say that it is different when you look at pictures and imagine the whole place, and really getting down to the place to feel what it's like... you get a better picture and idea of what it would be like when and if we eventually get down for the camp in december...

after taking lotsa candid shots (involunteerily)... we headed for the melaka bus station to catch a taxi to port dickson. I thank God I felt so conned when fred asked for prices (wearing an england football jersey and huge cool sunglasses) of the taxis and buses going there that i was determined to find out another avenue... i found the auspicious looking signboard that stated 90 rm for a taxi there... instead of 150rm...

yay! though Peter had to leave us to attend to some stuff back in singapore...

and so we caught one with a probably aspiring F1 driver... he was cutting into and out of lanes with a frown of concentration always... for the entire hour and a half... or more... some of us felt a little worried at first.. but I somehow had this inkling that even if anything happens... my butt was wedged between peishan's and nelson's and i probably won't get thrown anywhere... *luffs* on a more serious note... God protected us really well and I felt a whole lot of peace...

we got there and went round and round trying to find the campsite.. the patient young brash driver helped us get around and thank God he didn't just throw us out of the taxi leaving us stranded in some strange place... we made friends and shared snacks! Nelson even got to drive the manual drive taxi for a while... fooling around and revving up the engine that runs on petrol that cuts less than half our prices here...

*yeeks*

we finally got to learn that we might have to have dinner before meeting evelyn and so eat we did! went to this seafood place to eat some really good food (though the fresh orange juice really tasted like orange syrup without a not so much as a spoonful of orange pulp for fake) ...

nevertheless we found the place and met up with evelyn... getting to the place at 830 really felt like 12 midnight for us then... so much had gone on that day... woo hoo... we were just too glad to be there... and having nice beds to lie in... then we felt what the rest of the campers might feel after long hard days of studying the Bible...

further negotiation and confirmations with evelyn led us to choose the place...

it's fantastic really... there exist my God-given tennis courts! and swimming pool...

so we stayed up to think of the ways in which we could publicise the place and after much brain storming and alot of incoherent crapping, we laughed and decided to film certain parts of the campsite... do silly things on film to publicise anntic 2006...

please keep a look out for it! there's raw real talent there man...

*wink*

filming was done right after breakfast which was rushed down since we hadn't much time... after filming we had to get to the lunch place to meet up with the food caterer to confirm everything... it was a good meeting... :) food and drinks were good... though i had a little trouble trying to figure out why black jelly drink didn't have the jelly in it... it was all stuck in the can...

blackforest ice cream thereafter to wash the food down and we headed to wash up, pack and leave via a horribly expensive taxi for a bus terminal at serimbun...

the bus left at 330 and we reached JB, Larkin at about 630... rushed to 'output' at the tandas given the 'determination' of the bus driver not to stop any time within the 3 and a half hours' worth of bus ride...

we got to kenny rogers' at city square to eat good food... i was thankful we didn't have much time to roam around... as not being able to shop in shopping paradise is really not very nice a feeling to have... so we headed for home... i reached home at 11pm...

some jokes that nel came up with so spontaneously!!

1. A chief justice-wannabe was asked if he would like to name his children justin, justina or some names along those lines... he thought hard and replied... "Well, when me and my future wife are trying to get settled in, we'll have a-justing... when we finally get settled down I would have a-justed... then just before my wife has her menopause, we'll have a just-in-time..."

2.
Angelina: Hey you feeling good today?

Brad: You brad I am...

don't roll your eyes! we've got worse ones... better to tell in person... makes it alot more... engaging... hehe