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@ 24 January 2010 : 1/24/2010 08:32:00 pm

BACK FROM RL 288 LEADERS RETREAT!

wow, i think i have not been to church camp/ retreat for quite a while, so seeing all the familiar faces again is really comforting.

1st day: arrived at tct for romans lesson, was not feeling well because i was experiencing chest pains before that and i have not recovered from my flu. took a bus from tct to praisehaven @ salvation army, and begin to check-in at the canteen. i was in the group 'Jacob', which consist of the people szechuan, samuel, tiffany, xiangru, weilian,who came for the 1st night, and eric, kimseng,siewfei, gladwin and leslie, who came the next day. then off to the bunk that i shared with samantha poh's cell, shinshin, huishan and yuping. B1-06. of course with my cell group too. the bunk had beds, aircon and blankets+pillows. wowness for a retreat! supper was prata with curry, and teh tarik, and i got to know my group better.

2nd day: did not sleep the entire night, so i woke up early, and with cordelia, went to bathe. arrived for breakfast, which was beehoon, eggs and fishcake. a light hearted breakfast. devotion and sharing after that. then went to the function room for official camp opening, ice breakers, worship and sharing. pastor's sharing was about the many seeds that God has given to us, but we must learn how to hold on and protect the seed because the devil will try to take it away from us. after sharing and watching the video on pastor brian burton who was going to preach that night, we prepared for 'amazing race'! started with finding stickers around the campsite, then off to botanic gardens for our next station. station at botanic gardens was a mini telematch, then after that down to 313 @ somerset for the HMV clue finding and sentence solving. lunched at 313's foodcourt, which was super expensive and not worth it. but still. thank God for food. haha. then down to vivo's sky garden for a 'mtv' video shooting, which was super hilarious. and super throw-face. and off to sentosa!! headed to palawan beach ( i seem to be forever going only to palawan beach whenever i go to sentosa). it was this telematch again, of charades, passing sponge with feet and squeezing the water into a bottle to fill it, and some holding the candle with one finger thing. i was totally wet! and partially thanks to ben seow. hahaha. bathed and then went back to see pastor roland getting dunked by some of the guys. LOL. had longan-almond jelly ice at koufu before heading to tct by bus. dinner was zi char, then went for service at tct. loved pastor brian's sermon! headed to some forest near our campsite, and did night walk, which i will talk more about in my next post. then back to praisehaven to write on the 'facebook' walls.

3rd day: had an awesome sleep, so woke up refreshed. washed up, and had breakfast with estee's cell and ps lai fun. cleared stuff from dorms, then went to chapel for devotion. worship and sharing for the second round, after that was prayer by rl 24. was really annointed by the holy spirit and set free from my bondages. (: thanks yuping! watched the ultimate hilarious video that every group took at vivo. laughed non stop. slacked a while at canteen after that, group photo then break camp! took 171 with zhong yu, as well as aaron and his cell. it was so nice talking to aaron, as well as victor and daniel, especially aaron. and finally found someone exactly the same age as me, besides sarah of course. then back home!

had a fanta-bulous retreat! this camp rocks cos the committe boomz! so true. really thankful for the committee's effort. :) and i made many new friends: those from my group, daniel kalai, aaron, victor, daniel, huishan, yeeling, yuping. i will miss retreat!