Tuesday, May 29 ; 12:12:00 PM♥
the past month has been a roller-coaster ride.
but a very good and enriching one.
i've been way busy ever since i got back
and so much has been going on, i've yet to catch a breath.
i'll update on that past 33 days in chiangmai real soon.
still in a transition state, haven't gotten used to singapore life and i miss the people in chiangmai heaps heaps, especially jason and marvin.
anna's staying with me but she's leaving tomorrow morning.
if only we could be like her, staying in singapore for 5 days, then returning to chiangmai.
oh wells, till then!
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Tuesday, May 15 ; 12:51:00 AM♥
called mummy up and wished her the minute the clock struck twelve.
we were in the middle of a show, 'The Boogeyman', when we called our mums.
there's gonna be a 'welcome dinner' on the night we return. cool.
anna, an intern from america will be going back with us to settle her visa and she's staying over at my place!
more crazy times :))
anyways, watching that show was scary.
the shock factors were real good, but shermaine was even worst than the show.
each time some shocking stuff comes, she's screams and starts grabbing us with her nails.
hurhur. overall, the show was dumb la.
church was good, jason and summer cox from texas arrived yesterday and their son is super super super cute la!
his eyes are so bluish and he's got such rosy cheeks. an adorable lil 3-year-old.
we watched yet another show at night, 'The Longest Yard'.
honestly i've never watched so many movies la.
we watched till like 3am and only got to bed at 5.30am (that's when the sun rose up)
since it's interns off-day today, all of us got up kinda late.
had brunch at pizza hut.
then we shopped around the central.
left central with nothing in mind to do and nowhere to go.
so we just sat there and 'stoned' in the jao-ford.
called the cheungdoi people up and we met them at a coffeeshop (cafe).
i was so sleepy, i headed straight up for a couch at the second level and just laid there with my oreo-mocha-mint.
then the 3 of us started teling fortunes for one another.
we even got jason, marvin and anna up to tell their fortunes.
spent the entire afternoon there till 6pm.
came back to the zone and met up with titan, woot and aoi.
we took aoi's motorbike out to get dinner for the rest.
i love riding pillion. it's rather safe here compared to singapore.
we met up with more people, then drove off to play snooker.
i learnt snooker for the first time.
oh yeah! i overcame my fear of dogs!
in the past, i wouldn't even dare touch the smallest dog, but now yeah.
prolly still scared of those bigger ones.
anyways, playing snooker was fun fun fun.
after an hour of playing, the cheungdoi people headed back while we stayed around little's shop for a drink.
marvin and woot went to settle the internet connection, so only the 3 of us, poi, aoi and jason were left at the shop.
just then, this uni girl came to us coz her bike could not get ignited.
since jason was the only guy, he helped her with it.
and after much tries, her bike was 'revived'. kudos to him.
that's all i've got for these 2 days.
just the gist of it.
haven't had much time to blog since the other 2 girls need to use the com as well.
i've got a sudden urge to go climbing and we're doing so prolly on wednesday. yay!
ok i'm gone!
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Saturday, May 12 ; 6:37:00 PM♥
the reason for the lack of updates...bad bad internet connection.
but anyways i've been staying up with the other 4 interns watching movies
tears of the sun, blood diamond, without a paddle, cursed, munich, memoirs of a geisha, sleepover and love actually.
a great time to catch up on shows i missed in the past, we watched at the zone, robert, titan's house, mainly at the zone though.
it's practically just the 5 of us at the zone most of the time since not many thais come over at the zone.
there was one night when all 5 of us stayed up and talked the night through.
an awesome heart-to-heart talk and multitudes of insights.
the daily spiritual discipline time has been good since the 3 of us have been taking over the lessons.
so it's like we've gotta prepare lessons rather frequently.
oh man, i wonder if u guys can get my entry at all, coz my thoughts are rather random and i just type whatever that comes to my mind.
i'll do a proper account when i get back since i do write in my journal everyday.
today's day 20 already! 13 more days.
if only i could stay here for another month.
not that i don't wish to go back to singapore, but i've only got this few months of holiday whereas i'll be in singapore all the time.
i wouldn't mind bringing out 2 months of this 4months holiday doing something so meaningful and enriching.
if only there'd be a miracle...
i've always loved chiangmai, it's totally different from the busy singapore and all the rushing here and there.
now i'm falling in love with the food and the people here!
ever since we came here, we experienced a lot of once-in-19-years' stuff.
things we'll probably never get to experience in singapore.
i can't wait to go rock climbing, bungee jumping, going to that oh-so-beautiful waterfall.
and we're going elephant riding and burma next weekend when jason's parents are here.
alrighty, i'm going off now.
miss me!
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Friday, May 4 ; 5:09:00 PM♥
We had our first service in payap and coincidentally they were having a combined worship assembly.
A total of 5 churches combined at payap.
It started off with worship, then communion, offering and ended with 2 sermons.
There was a lunch-in where everyone had packed lunch.
We set off for Mae Hong Son at about 1pm.
From payap, we had a total of 10 people, and cheungdoi had 5 people.
After travelling for about 2 hours, the van that carried the cheungoi people and S.E.S could not continue the journey.
So, we left the van at some police station and Jenny's uncle drove his truck to pick us up.
The journey to Jenny's resort was 7 hours long.
The roads were so winding, and they were like those you see in Initial D. cool eh.
There were dirt roads as well, and by the time we reached Jenny's, those seated at the back of P'Robert's truck were covered in dust.
Jenny welcomed us with a sumptious dinner!
We walked over to her house after dinner to have a look at her dogs.
They were humongous and super friendly.
Jenny's balcony had an awesome view of the mountains.
It was so pretty, we almost wanted to just sleep at her balcony to catch the sunrise, but no we did not.
Headed back to the resort, played a few rounds of skip-bo, then we hit the sack.
Monday 30 March 2007
We were supposed to wake up at 7am but the 3 of us only woke up at 8am when Oan came knocking on our door.
It was a hilarious scene coz we washed up in 10minutes.
Everything happened so fast, it felt as if a hurricane hit our room.
Thankfully we weren't too late, we managed to grab some breakfast that Jenny prepared.
English camp started at 9am.
We began with introduction and songs with the kids.
The kids were rather shy, so we had to get high to warm them up.
After songs, we split the kids up into 4 groups (The older ones into 3, the younger kids in one group)
There were a total of 3 stations in the morning where the kids get to learn English and just have fun.
The younger kids had some art work and stuff to make.
I did one of the stations and it was great seeing how the kids learn English words and play around.
We broke off for lunch before carrying out the afternoon part of the camp.
This time I led Group 2 with Jeff.
We brought the kids around to the different stations and that day ended with songs.
The kids at the hill tribe are so respectful.
Each time they see you, they'll bow, even when you're sitting down, they'll bend down and walk pass.
We stayed with the hill tribe and again it was a once-in-19-years experience for the three of us.
Unlike in Baw Geaw, this hill tribe did not have electricity.
So we had to bathe before sunset.
The family we were staying with cooked local food for us.
The rice they cooked were fat and big, just eating a few mouthfuls got us so full.
Ended the night with a meeting and a group of us lying around looking at the sky.
Tuesday 1 May 2007
Second day of English camp. It was easier to get the kids warmed up.
Did some fun songs then we split them up into the same groups.
This time I led the younger ones and we taught them how to make crowns.
They were so adorable!
Some had lots of crosses on their crowns.
All the kids got back after finishing the different stations,
then P'Robert had the boys say to the girls, ''How are you?''
and the girls had to reply, 'I am fine, thank you.''
The English camp ended at lunch time.
All of us had lunch at the school, then the prayer walk started.
We walked from the hill tribe all the way to a waterfall.
Throughout the prayer walk, we had a total of 5 stations.
We prayed for the kids in the village, the people in the village,
the people of Thailand, our own spiritual growth and our own churches.
At each station, we had to pick a stone and hit a target.
Just like how David hit Goliath with one shot.
Some of the kids from the village joined us as well.
We reached a waterfall and had a great time there.
Everyone just got into the water and started playing.
Here's another once-in-19-years-experience for S.E.S.
We climbed up the rocks to get to the other side of the waterfall where the guys were, but we kept slipping coz the rocks were just too slippery.
Just when we got up, the others were about to get down.
We were on our way down when we decided we should just jump off the waterfall.
Shermaine went first, then me, and finally Sheena.
It wasn't a very high jump, so it's safe.
When we jumped, we aimed for the bubbling pool and it was fun fun fun.
After playing with the kids in the pool, we made our way back for dinner.
It was our last meal there and the food was good.
We left for Jenny's resort for a night's rest after dinner.
Wednesday 2 May 2007
Spaghetti and scrambled eggs for breakfast.
Then we made our way back to Chiangmai.
The ride was way cooling and we slept through.
Arrived in Chiangmai at lunchtime, Marvin fell sick so he slept in the truck while we had lunch.
Came back to the zone and spent the day resting.
Thursday 3 May 2007
Today's the day where S.E.S. had to prepare dinner for cell group.
It was quite a feat for us to prepare dinner for 17 people!
We did wanton noodles and it was a disaster preparing it.
They don't sell those noodles here, so we made do with what looked like mee sua to us.
After an hour's of cooking, everyone came up.
Seriously it was an hour of stress, the noodles were hard to cook,
the soup didn't taste right, the sauce for the noodles was not that easy to handle..
BUT, we survived through and everyone enjoyed the dinner.
Though the kids seemed to have a hard time eating the noodles.
Oh man, halfway through cooking, we almost wanted to ask the Thais to get their own dinner.
Just imagine the 3 of us scrambling around in the kitchen trying to cook a proper meal and you'll get what I mean.
Cell group was next.
We had a round of ice-breaking, playing dog-and-bone.
Sang some songs, then Woot did the lesson on love.
Cell ended at around 8pm, so we decided to catch Spiderman 3 with some of the Cheungdoi people.
The show was at 8.30pm, we got into the Jao-ford and whizzed off to Kad Suan Kaew.
We arrived just in time, and when we entered the cinema, they played the King's song.
So everyone in the cinema had to stand up as a form of respect.
The people in Thailand have a lot of respect for their King and their country.
They'll play the national song at 8am and 6pm at Carrefour everyday, and when you hear it, you've gotta stand still.
Ok back to the movie.
It ended at 11pm and we made our way back to the zone.
Went over to Little's shop to hang around, it has become quite a favourite hang-out spot for us.
alright, I spent two days typing all these out and I'm dead tired trying to recall everything we did.
The daily Spiritual Discipline has been enriching and we've all learnt a lot from the discussions we held.
Pray for God's guidance and wisdom as S.E.S. start to take over the lessons.
Ok, that's it for now.
God bless everyone!
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