EXAM OVER!!!!

WHEW! This is for Isaac and myself! Thank God it is over! Hmmm, actually the WHEW should be from Isaac (major Os) and teeny whew from me.....hahahahahhaha

I had one paper this morning and my friend told me it would be essay question(s) with evaluation. I studied last night and this morning but somehow couldnt remember too well. And I woke up with painful right hand.... was writing down pointers onto index cards to read thro before exam, probably overused the right wrist (i dont know). Rubbed some gel for pain relief, drove with one hand to Isaac's school (send him for his last paper) and then to FEBC.

About 25 mins before my paper, i tried to write something but couldnt. It was painful. I prayed and asked some close friends to pray too. I was at peace because i know no matter how difficult and painful, God will enable me to pull thro....just as He has always been helping and sustaining me.

As the paper was passed down, we were told not to look at the underside. I was thinking hmmm....how to have essay with only 1 piece of paper???? Then as i turned it round, lo and behold, they were all True n False questions (only degree students have 2 essay questions and i am only on a Part-time course....yeah!) All i had to do was to write my name and tick tick tick...... It was really a moment for me to give thanks to my God who is soooooo GOOD. He knows my pain and so, i made it thro the exam.... in probably 3 mins. Pondered over 2 statements coz they sounded like trick questions....hmmmmm....carol lee.....capable of trick questions like Queky or Koshy??? I didnt do my homework to find out more about her in this aspect but nah.... read and read....finally decided it was a trick and put as False. Hmmm... i was buying time too coz i didnt want to be the first to hand in the paper.....heehee....

Thank YOU all who have prayed for me. It was an episode of faith and trust and praise! Thank God for enabling me to drive with one hand too. My God is awesome!

Pss...Shing, if you did visit erh.... jamesy, i left before 9am!!! Haha, got to return car for Dr lowly to use. Trust your exam went well, with clb too.

NTM Part 13 - FINAL

13 entries - to close this NTM chapter....I hope!!!!

Alright, after the adventure we had on 24 oct, our night was spent eating and shopping. My friend, Tai, also Warunee's friend, brought us to Carrefour shopping complex to have our dinner, thereafter to shop in a nearby night bazaar which is for locals mostly and so pretty cheap stuff.

I bought some personalised key chain here. There was one particular keychain with the word Jesus on it. It was really pretty and unique. I urged Eld John to buy for his wife. He hesitated coz he is very gu hon.....cantonese word for stingy. Call him frugal to be a polite, k? Anyhow, i challenged him to buy something and so he said he will buy if the keychain is 70 baht or less. Hahaaha..... we asked the shopkeeper for the price and she quoted 75 baht. I asked for discount and voila.....she granted. So he finally bought something during this trip and probably his first time buying things back! lolz!

The rest of the NTM team disappeared after dinner and we werent sure where they went. It rained all of a sudden and so we decided to go to a nearby coffee outlet and take a sip while waiting for rain to stop. We had a good time of fellowship, Tai, Warunee, Eld John and myself, getting to know each other better.

At about 8.15pm, we had to leave the coffee place coz it was supposed to close at 8pm! And so we decided to go back to hotel and eat roti prata at the road side stall. YFers, remember the many vareity type? Banana, chocolate, kaya, cheese, sugar and what not??? I was very surprised Eld John had not tasted before and didnt know Thailand has roti prata.

As we walked to the main road to flag a Song Teow, we saw Angela and the rest boarding one. 4 of us quickly hopped onto it. It was perfect timing. What were their goods? Slipper mop, goodies plus thai instant noodles. BK also bought perjamas.... hahaha.....

Oh well, the roti prata was simply delicious and Eld John said it was nice too. Did a quick round of look-see look-see nearby before retiring to bed. The rest continued shopping after putting their bags in the hotel room.

Next morning, it was time for me to say bye to the team.....sad. But before i did that, Warunee, Tai and i brought them to the nearby day market for last last minute shopping. We had about 1.5 hours and guess what we bought? Art and craft stuff (so so cheap) and some cutlery for Susan and Cindy. And Cindy, she bought 11 T-shirts at one go! I helped her to choose too! Each Tee cost $3-4. It was really cheap and good. I think Susan bought something too.

Warunee was feeling a bit queasy after the breakfast and morning rush. Poor girl, she went to the toilet to puke while i helped Cindy to pick the shirts. Rushed back to hotel to pack stuff and transport arrived. Group pic before we went our separate ways. You can see my friend Tai in the 2nd pic.

What did i do after the team left???? Haha... i wanted to play ZORB BALL. What is it? Huge ball that takes two (strapped in) and roll all the way downhill! LOLZ....Warunee and I spotted this when we did the atv thingy and so we wanted to go back this day to try. Alas, it was very expensive. 600-700 baht for one person and 1 roll down the slope. We couldnt even roll it to water. Both of us didnt think it was money well spend and so i didnt try. Here is a video taken by someone (i found in Youtube) for you to understand what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef12rb0oHEA

Tried to play shooting game but the price was so pen pen (expensive in thai). It cost about 1,000 over baht just to shoot a few rounds. And then we went to this Paintball thingy....but it turned out to be pellet gun shooting....BB Gun they called it. Small foamlike balls and extremely painful if you got hit and how else would you not get hit since you play against each other? We decided not to play. That time i did at Phuket last year, it was paintball (shooting from gun). This itself already gave bruises to Warunee coz she was hit.... haha....I erh escaped injury free then.

And so I spent Saturday bowling......the lousiest alley i had ever been in. Why? Because when you hit 8 pins out of 10 for first throw, chances were you would be left with 1 or none before your 2nd throw. How so? As the thingy came down to hold or pick up the remaining standing pins, it kind of knocked 1 or 2 out.....you can term this as machine clumsiness.....hahahahahaha..... And so for many times, 3 of us had "spare" given to us FOC and it was really good especially when your first throw ended up with 2 parallel pins remaining. Unless you can spin your ball, it was no way to hit both at each corner.

Went back to the local night bazaar only to experience rain again and peddlers busy keeping their stuff to go home. Sigh...... came back to my friend's place and slept very early. Sunday service was next day.

Visited Tai's church....Chiangmai Chinese Church or something like that. Preaching in Thai with translation (using a headphone) to English or Chinese. I chose the English of which i regretted later. The interpreter was like erh......taking a break all the time. The preacher spoke about 5 sentences (or even longer) and all i heard was one-liner interpretation. And sometimes, she didnt say anything. I didnt really benefit from the translation. Heard the chinese was much better coz the interpreter seemed so keen to translate line by line. How do i know? It was because i could hear the man speaking in Chinese diligently while the lady on my side spoke once a while (English on the left pew while the Chinese on the right).

Went for a Northern Cuisine Thai lunch after that.....here's a pic of the food we ordered....yes.....there was satay, pork ribs, pork meat, chicken and something like ngo hiang.... a lot of food and i was very very filled up after this meal.....hahaha....

After the meal, we went to this lake in Chiang Mai.

It was really really lovely. They have huts by the lakeside for you to sit down and enjoy a meal or snack.

Singapore should have places like this...... see this owner with his dog who got extremely excited to go on the boat ride? Btw, they brought this bathtub like boat from their home. Doggy resembled Duke, my friend's dog. Oh yes, her name is Sugar....sweet right?

It was such a serene and peaceful plus cooling afternoon and i was so wanting to lie down on the mat to have an afternoon nap (heehee...as if i could but no harm trying, right?). I even brought my bible to read too.

Then all of a sudden, from a distance, we saw dark clouds and this white mist that was approaching us. It happened real quick. Warunee and Tai went to the car to take umbrella and lo and behold, the storm was here! We hid behind the umbrellas coz it was very very windy and wet even tho we were under shelter. I felt like i was inside the twister kind of feeling... you know you saw from a distance it was coming and then it was around you (you being in the inside) and slowly it moved away and sky clear???? LOLZ.... it was true and pretty exciting and fun coz you could giggle together with your friends.

Well, the storm came back again and after the sky cleared, we headed home to take a proper nap before going to the once-a-week night bazaar (a very big thing in Chiang Mai on every Sunday evening). It was really long and wide. But before i could walk down one street, it started to pour and was rather heavy. We had to find shelter and wait. 15 mins was all it took for rain to stop and we continued to shop. Hee, I bought 2 skirts, 2 dresses, 3 scarves and 5 bags (orders from the ladies).

Thank God for seeing me thro this NTM trip plus the extended holiday on my own. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and cant wait for BDC trip to come. Thai food.....wait for me!!! :)

My EYE!

Went for eye checkup this afternoon and guess what?????

The cotton wool spot is GONE! GONE! GONE!!!!! My blood vessels are back to normal and the little red spots are gone too.

God is good! Tell it wherever you go!

Thank U all who have prayed for me. No more "fluffy" eye for now!

NTM Part 12 - ADVENTURE

It was a very peaceful sleep for me on 23 oct night as compared to the 6 nights in CHOL. But somehow i jus could not have good quality sleep despite the soft bed, comfy blanket and sturdy pillow. Nevertheless i gave thanks for the absence of noise :)

At 8.30am after breakfast, we eagerly proceeded to the lobby and hopped into the van. Our van driver was reckless! Warunee and myself felt like throwing up coz he jus kept braking at high speed! We tried to sleep thro the treacherous 1.5 hours ride. Mae Taeng Elephant Camp was the first venue that day. Bought 100 baht of bananas and sugar cane and chose a baby elephant to feed. Cindy and Susan were hesitant about it coz they were afraid the elephant would bite their fingers..:) ha ha. With some persuasion, they soon got the hang of it.

Next was elephant bath. Nothing new to me as i had seen several times and much better performance than this.

Took a pic while waiting for show to start

Elephant show was next with dancing and playing harmonica and drums, swinging trunks to beat, hula hooping, drawing, footballing and basketballing.

Group pic

Oh yes, missed out the heavy wood logging and hat tricks too.

Hmmm, i am still amazed at the way elephants are taught to draw. Kicking a ball and swinging trunks are kind of easy but a lot of coordination is needed for drawing. The guide explained the learning process is a mere 3-month period...these elephants are darn intelligent!

Eld john teased that elephant Suda paint better than i do. Yeah yeah, i painted a horrendous pink outerspace in sec 1 or 2 of which the art teacher had to show tell to whole class this girl was playing a fool. Actually it wasnt true. I was a good girl, tho tomboy and noisy. I would never have disrespected teacher like this. My black outerspace turned out a tad too black and morbid so i decided to decorate it, erh, probably used too much of pink to brighten up that end product didnt even look like outerspace...Lol! Then there was one time we were supposed to draw still life and i chose banana. It wasnt that bad but jus before handing up, i drew eyes, nose and mouth on it while playing with my classmates. Erh, i forgot to rub them off and you can guess what happened during the next lesson. My name was called and i received scolding for trying to be funny with teacher. Thereafter my art marks never got beyond 20 upon 100 coz no matter how hard i tried, the teacher would fail me. Blacklisted and marked. Period.

Oh no, how far have i digressed! Ha ha ha! And so we went on to ride the elephant two by two :)

I must say we were kind of short changed coz they never made the elephants pass thro the river. Ours were on dry land. Angela n BK'S elephant went berseck (jus like valerie n mine in 2005)! It sped like crazy and super fast. They even went to other areas the rest of us didnt cover.

Mine was the most lazy! Took many breaks to drink and we had to buy bananas at every tree top shop to feed him! Was he starved the night before? Beats me man! We were then brought to two rows of shops to purchase souvenirs (if we so wished) before we made our way to the oxcart station. Our people splurged on the merchandise once more and forgot the time till the oxcart people called out to our group to move on!

We went in 3 carts. Hendrick, Laura, Cindy & Susan in one cart.

BK, Angela & Melisaa in another (oops, no pic). Warunee, eld john n i.

The driver of the cart that took Hendrick's group went too near to the platform and as the cart pulled out, it yanked with it a block of wood that was fastened onto the beam that held the platform. We gave a shout and thought platform would collapse...ha ha. Not so easy. And so when it was our turn to get in, i quickly sat down at the back row and started examining the extent of the devastation. 3 of us were discussing about the damage when our driver hurled the whip onto the ox and it took off in a sudden thrust. This threw me backwards and i almost fell off at the back if not for a quick grab at the umbrella pole in the middle. Warunee was also thrown back but managed to pull herself back. Thank goodness Eld john got a grip of himself, or else he would have pushed both of us out with his body weight and sheer force. Thank God. So what was the morale of the story? Always hold onto something when you get on. Get it? Hee hee.:)

It was a shorter ride compared to the big elephant and we spotted angmohs riding on atv! They looked small to me, especially the wheels, comparing to those i took in phuket. We waved happily to them coz we were so looking forward to our ride! Buffet Lunch was next. Rice, noodle and usual stuff. There was thai noodle stall too. We missed out the free coffee and tea totally and only realised there was this section while on our way out. Bamboo rafting next. 5 in each raft.

the alert, the sleepy and the blur....hahahaha

God is good and why do i say so? Coz the sun disappeared behind the clouds while we lazed down the almost gentle river.:) it was really cooling and enjoyable. Took pics and sang hymns. Then Hendrick said our raft was too faraway from the 5 ladies group, probably about 100m. He wanted two rafts to travel and sing together. Warunee asked our "sailors" (or what do you call them) to call out to the first raft to stop while we catch up. Our sailors or steerers worked sooooo hard lor! It wasnt long before we could catch up but i cant give full credit to them coz Angela had a part in this. How so? She took over the oar or long bamboo pole of the first raft and ahem, failed to steer, or rather steer till raft was 90 degree adjacent to river bank. How to move on like this? Ha ha. We watched from a distance her struggles and it was comical. She didnt know which direction to place her oar too.

Our boatsman (perhaps this name is more correct) was funny. He called out to his friends on Angela's raft to slow down coz he was darn tired rowing and catching up! And you know what? We didnt even get to sing together. Hendrick chose 人算什么 song to sing. Cindy started on a super low key. BK her own key. Hendrick another. The rest dont know what key. Me? I kept silent. How to sing like this? Stopped them after two lines n restarted with a pitch given. Oh man, the ladies kept to their own pitch and it was jus Hendrick n myself singing. We only managed to sing till chorus when we reached the jetty to alight. So much effort put in by the boatsman and a mere 4 liner song! Lolz!

Next was 1 hour of rock-a-bye baby sleep in the van, uneventful journey to atv. It was a shop by the side of the road and they looked so free (no customers). We were made to sign an indemnity form. Gist of it was we bear full responsibility for any accident and rules spelled out like no overtaking, no using of hand brake (which worked on 2 front wheels only) while going downhill. Need to use foot brake instead as it worked on all 4 wheels. Donned our gear, erh jus helmet lah, and we were all ready.

Instructions given and we each got on one atv. I decided to go last so as to watch the whole group. One by one our people took off. A rugged terrain test circuit was our very first course. It was full of pot holes, mud, bents and uneven ground. Poor cindy, she struggled so much and couldnt get the machine to move. The rest seemed pretty ok. The one person i worried most was so steady and i was impressed. Guess who?

BK!

Dont underestimate her strength. She has potential! The atv people were watching us. At the end of 2 rounds, i heard the sad news. No difficult track for our group coz some couldnt handle properly. And they didnt have enough manpower to split us to beginner n intermediate routes. Sigh. Nvm. We stay together to cover the easy track. One hour. Melissa's tennis elbow hurt too much n so she sat pillion with the first guide. Cindy sat with Angela.

I worried about Susan too (thinking she might not know how to handle) and spotted her driving very fast. I could see her overtaking too. But she was among the first few and so i couldnt overtake all the way to tell her to slow down. It wasnt until when we had come to a stop that i learned she has a driver's licence. Haha.....steady Susan!

The next person i worry was Laura. She looked rather tense on the atv but she seemed to be doing just fine.........

until she banged onto Hendrick. We were traveling on this road in single file to dont know where and she failed to break on time. It was not too hard and i pray she would learn how to brake the next time. But it wasnt so. She went on to bang Hendrick even louder and harder at another stretch of road. Then she did a very dangerous maneuver by overtaking Hendrick, then BK. Next was a sharp bend and i told myself i needed to tell her to slow down. The other guide on motorbike crusing next to her also followed after her. I overtook Warunee, sped all the way, turned round the bend only to see her crashed onto Angela who was taking Cindy. Oh man!! Angela's vehicle was knocked till it went perpendicular to the road. Cindy & Angela almost jumped off the vehicle because they thot they were going to be injured. Thank God no one was hurt here. Asked Laura what happened and she said the man on the bike was talking to her and so she looked at him and didnt see Angela's atv. I told her she was traveling way too fast and needed to keep in single file to be safe. Also reminded her to use the foot brake coz i had a strange feeling she didnt know how to brake.

Laura's 4th crash was back at the shop. We needed to park our atv in 2 columns and hers was the 2nd vehicle after the guide who took Melissa. She moved in slowly at first and then suddenly a little faster and BANG!!! Hahahaa..... i guess this will be the first and last for Laura on atv. Angela, upon reaching the shop, got off her atv and screamed at Laura: "Hell Rider!!!".......lols!

Hendrick on the other hand had an accident. He didnt speed nor overtake but he made a mistake while negotiating a sharp bend. It was rather narrow and so he wanted to apply brake but pressed hard on accelerator..... actually accelerator is situated at the right handle and brake at the right foot. He got totally mixed up and according to him, sped forward fast, vehicle tipped over and fell onto him. Thank God he didnt sustain serious injuries....abrasions and scratches only. I went round the bend and found him topsy turvy with the guide just about to flip the vehicle over. Angela said it was a loud bang but no one actually saw how it happened. Hendrick looked like he was in great shock and it has to be.....so terribly scary!!! The right mirror broke and since it comes in a pair, the shop said we need to pay in full.... US dollars cost. After conversion, it was $25.

I thot Laura had to pay for the 4 BANGS but they didnt ask for compensation. I remembered my MHC staff in Phuket had to pay 500 baht for the rear lamp when he hit twice onto the atv infront of him.....same reason....fail to brake.

It was fun overall but if i were to do it again, will do with people who know how to drive or handle vehicle :) And i want to go to the intermediate or advanced trail!!!

Just Me!

NTM Part 11 - KHANTOKE DINNER

23 October Thursday was the day we made our way to Chiang Mai town from Fang. Transport has been arranged to pick us from CHOL at 2pm. With sad hearts, we hugged the children to bid our goodbyes and then began our 3-hour long journey. Robert & Dara had specially instructed the driver to stop at a coconut drinks stall along the way, which was about an hour before our destination. This little hut came highly recommended and it certainly didnt disappoint. We tasted the MOST lovely, juicy, refreshing coconut juice ever!!!! It looked small but it did its job perfectly, quenching our thirst and filling our hungry stomachs.

It wasnt long before we reached Royal Lanna hotel at about 5.45pm. Warunee has already checked into my room and went wandering in the day market nearby. Settled down to freshen up and off we went for the Khantoke dinner (traditional thai cultural dinner with dance performances). Two vans picked us up and there was a guide provided too.

We had the pleasure of dining in the aircon area of this restaurant. Our group complained of cramped legs after a while and wished we chose the other section where there was a cut-out centre segment for legs to be placed while seated on the ground. The food was great. I had never eaten so many pieces of fried chicken at one go and put it together with sticky rice.......mmmmmm.......yummy yummy! Eld John drank many bowls of soup (cantonese man) and ate 3 big drumsticks plus lots of rice and of course other dishes. Warunee ate up all the rice but not much of the dishes coz she said she had taken some food from McDonald while waiting for us to arrive from Fang. I could tell the rest of them were enjoying their food coz the waiters kept replenishing the dishes.

After a rather heavy meal, we settled down to chit chat while waiting for the dance performances. Perhaps we ate too fast and too quick, being Asians.... or rather Singaporeans....anyhow, Eld John was spotted sitting like an emperor munching on his drumstick and so 3 of us acted as his servants. Angela & Warunee were trying to fan him with the napkins and me pretending to wipe away his sweat....hahaha..... When we showed the pic to the rest who had gone to the toilet then, it was commented we resembled 3 concubines and not servants!!! LOLZ!

The dance performance finally began and it was real s - l - o - w to the extent that eld john fell asleep. Wanted to catch a candid shot but he woke up before i could take out my hp. Actually the performances were rather entertaining, each with a story to tell. We were given an A4 sized paper with details to each dance but you know, who reads this kind of stuff?

The whole emsemble of cast were dominated by females except for one dance of 12 swords performed by a male. It was very engaging as he attempted to do risky stunts and he did well.

After about 5-6 performances, some dancers came out to take willing audiences to the stage and do the traditional thai dance. None of us willing or daring to go except for Cindy. She happily made her way up and we could tell she was enjoying herself tho struggling to keep up with the delicate hand movements. The angmohs were the most comical.

Not bad for a former disco queen.....haha....Cindy told us of her past and kind of reminded me of Eld Boon who frequented discotheque before his conversion. Hmmm..... shall stop here before i start to imagine him grooving around to Saturday Night Fever or Grease.....oh boy.....period now.

We were brought to another place to watch more performances and after a while, it kind of got a little boring..... to me. Why? Because some of the dancers here were uncles and aunties from the various tribes and they were so not smiling and enthusiastic like the professionals. You could tell they were just doing their routines. How to cheer for a lack-lustre effort??? The children did the bamboo dance and they were adorable. Here is a pic of a lady dressed as a peacock. She was one of the better dancers here.

Soon it was time to end and we headed back to hotel. The ladies, with Hendrick, wasted no time to proceed to shopping at the night bazaar (our hotel is situated right smack in the middle). Warunee and I bought 3 bottles of freshly squeezed orange juice from a nearby stall and went back to our room to retire for the night. Eld John too. It would be a long day for us tomorrow......the adventure day.

NTM Part 10 - THANKSGIVING

On our journey to Chiang Mai on Friday 17 Oct, we had a weight problem due to the stuff we were bringing up: Puppets bag (12kg), Art n Craft bag (18kg) and Goodies bag (17kg). Our team's total baggage weight exceeded by 12-15kg. The staff was about to charge us and she was asking her assistance to add up on the calculator the total weight of our individual bags. Her assistance failed a couple of times and she was also unable to do it. I dont know why but i think God caused her to be confused. She looked up and saw the long queue formed behind us and then she said to me "OK, you can go now" and that was it. WOW, we saved about $150 and thank God for this. Amazingly and awesomely....haha....God enabled us to get them all checked in with no extra cost at Tiger airways.

But we had problems with AirAsia in Bangkok airport. Their policy is one passenger one checkin bag of 15kg, which is what we paid for. Any extra bag will have to pay 100baht each and if exceed 15kg in total, got to pay extra. We needed to check in the stuff we brought and so Eld John and Susan (the two lightest bags amongst us) hand carry their luggage up. But we forgot one thing, i.e. to take out the shampoo, liquid stuff and put into another person's checkin bag. Oh boy, we didnt realise until our hand carry bags were screened inside. Unbelievably, Susan's bag was scanned and contents ignored but eld John's shampoo and body cleanser had to go to the bin. Angela gave her extra bottle to eld John so he need not spend money to buy new ones. And so you see, not all staff were vigilant. Susan could have been a "terrorist" and made a B O M B with her shampoo and stuff.....LOLZ!

Thank God for enabling Laura to teach in Sunday School about responsibility & Hendrick in VBS on repentance.

Thank God too for the preaching of God's Word. Heard from the team that John, at the age of 19, was able to expound God's Word in great depth. I missed his preaching due to sickness on Monday.

Eld John's message on Prodigal Son brought reminder about God's great love and compassion towards us. His message on Jonah during morning devotion was equally engaging and powerful, reinforcing obedience in our lives. Robert's preaching on King Uzziah, who sought God and was blessed till "his heart lifted up to destruction", gave us precious lessons too.

Thank God for Robert & Dara's hospitality towards us. Not forgetting Abigail's lovely cooking who whipped up Hainanese Chicken Rice (Dara's recipe), sumptuous thai food with Tom Yam and Prad Thai. Grace cooked Brownie for us too but i didnt get to taste it coz too much food to eat on that birthday celebration night.

Thank God for keeping the weather dry for us when we needed to have our activities outdoor. He send rain on Wed night to water the earth and gave us cooler temperature the next morning.

Just before we left CHOL for Chiang Mai, Robert brought us to the padi field to show us the future site for the school building. God willing, Dara upon finishing her thesis, will be working in some public school for few months and thereafter granted a licence to be the principal of the new school. We were also shown the site for the church building.

Padi field

Robert gave us stalks of wheat to take home for home deco and that was what some of us were holding in this pic.

Future Church Site

Group Pic before we left. Abigail, the No 1 cook, is the lady beside Eld John. She shared with us about how in the past she was not able to rejoice but now she could and since then, she had been smiling everyday for Jesus.

Thank God for a blessed time of serving, learning and fellowshipping in CHOL. Will show more pics during mission echo. Next to blog will be our holidaying in Chiang Mai.....stay tuned!

P.S. I left out one animal in the insects' blog. Do read if you can coz i just added it there. :)

NTM Part 9 - LAUGHTER LOADS & OTHERS!

We had a wonderful time fellowshipping together, especially the 6 of us in the dorm. There was one time we were discussing about the Sunday School art n craft and the ladies wanted one too for souvenir. It was a bookmark with lamination pre-done in Singapore with a chain of beads bearing the name. BK was checking if she had sufficient to spare and when she realized there wasnt, she mentioned we needed to go back to Singapore to laminate before we made one for ourself.

Cindy was sitting at a corner, next to Angela, and both of them started laughing. Guess i am being too conservative here if i describe them as laughing. They were almost like rolling in pain from laughter.....super helium effect type.

3 of us noticed that and asked to share the joke. In between giggles, Cindy told us as she couldnt hear what BK said, she asked Angela what was it that we want to MARINADE, only to have Angela answering CHICKEN before they burst into laughter. Cindy said she wanted to say laminate but somehow the word marinade popped out. This time, the remaining 3 also joined in to laugh till our stomachs hurt. It was highly contagious and super funny. Especially Angela's sharp and quick reply to Cindy's question. hahahahahahaha.....

The next mix-up came from Melissa. Cindy was singing to herself while bathing in the toilet. Melissa commented that Cindy can sing and keep her tune and perhaps she can be Paparazzi. Nobody quite understood what she meant and the connection to paparazzi. Then suddenly i realised what she wanted to say and i burst into laughter after uttering the word Pavarotti lah!!!!! Oh man, our ladies are so funny.

There was one time we wanted to take a group pic in the dorm together. It was a Sunday, after our lunch with Robert. Without a tripod, Angela found a chair to replace it and so she tried to put her camera to timer. It was her first time doing timer thingy and she failed miserably. Each time she thought she did but instead she clicked a pic of us minus herself. I managed to help her find the timer button in the end and so we thot finally there would be a good pic. We positioned ourselves, all seated on the floor, and waited for Angela to set and run over. She did set and ran over but our ladies commented pic not nice and needed to take again. Well, again and again we did.... about 3 times and Angela complained she was very "Chuan" running up and down. Hahahaha.... Here is the fruit of her labour:

Nice?

There was a table tennis table in the compound and soon it became a favourite past time for Eld John and Hendrick, playing with the CHOL boys. John, Adam's bro, is the BEST among all of them and with 11 balls for each game, no one was able to beat him. And so the bat on the right side of the table changed hands several times. I couldnt resist and joined in the fun but lost to him too. Then i urged Angela to play. She was hesitant at first, citing reasons like she and BK only know how to play tid tod tid tod kind...slow play. Hahaha..... she finally took the bat and play against John. Guess what? She was the only one who could get to 10-11. How so? Because she played too simply, John didnt know how to return her shots. LOLS!!!!! And Angela sweated the most here coz she said very "gan jiong" and stressful. Here is a pic of the only shot our team taken for table tennis game. Playing against Hendrick was Adam.

Thank God for a good team. Here are some pics of CHOL and us for savouring.........