The G.I.F.T

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Retreat, once again the church is united in one small resort to take time away from their busy lives to enjoy the fellowship and spend intimate time with God. Every Year, the church will choose a overseas ( preferably ) location where there's lush greenery and enough attractions to keep us entertained and satisfied. Well i just have some comments on my stay this time

1. The Food is not Good

I am sure plenty of you know what i mean. first of all, the menu is confusing, there's quite a variety of food crammed into that little dining restaurant. the rice is ok, ( I mean its just white rice ) and the pasta was quite bad... The dishes were ok, there's like curry mutton, beef, mutton, beef... Chicken, herbal chicken, fried chicken... And cabbage? I enjoyed some of the curry, but most of the time i did not really have the liberty to enjoy my food. But Wat i cannot tolerate is the fact that i have to keep going to the toilet. The food is not only bad, its unclean. Many members were affected with diarrhea. I had diarrhea... I could not sleep... and there's even reports like nail clippings in the bubor chacha...

2. The Hotel room was not bad

Ok, maybe some of you may disagree. But i kind of like the design of the place, its pretty cosy. I feel very comfortable, the beds good. There's a good environment to have guest and have multiple activities to go on in the room at the same time. The bathroom is ok, toilet paper's interesting, but the supply of toiletries is not enough, oh wells, Feng nan and I brought our own toiletries anyway. There's a good selection of channels for everyone and so far, I have not heard much complains about the rooms, too much talk about how bad the food is...

3. The facilities? Degrading...

Ah, what has happened to the lovely Pulai Springs I once knew... There is no maintenance of certain facilities like the swimming pool, the jacuzzi, the steam room, the sauna, the squash courts... But i see improvements like the bar, the lounge area, certain lighting effects ( that can only be seen at night ) and some other stuffs. The staffs are friendly, i remember one guy who went all the way to open up the MPH ( multi purpose hall ) when he was in the middle of drying the dishes. And the receptionist who allowed FN and me to keep our baggages at the reception cos the lockers are too small. Nice guy. Overall i enjoyed the facilities though they seem abit out of shape. I swam quite a bit. I think maybe i am improving a bit.

4. I need to get a portable speaker system

Words cant describe the necessity of a portable sound system. Like the one that Stanford or FN has, Mini speakers that blast your music, sending sound waves that can reach all corners of the room. I NEED TO GET ONE!!!!!! THEN MY SHOWER TIMES WILL BE 40 MINS EVERYDAY LIAO!!!!

5. Friends

The youth worker, under rev. Ang , and I clicked quite well. apparently he and i got certain common personalities. lol. And theres a few others whom i either can talk to again or became friends with. Friendships are pretty hard to maintain sometimes, but it doesnt hurt to try to talk to someone whom you have not talked to for a very long time, Right? :)

6. YAF

Young Adult Fellowship, Some of us discussed to activate the long dead fellowship, and have consolidated a list of names. So far the prerequisites to enter is that you have to be 19 and above, and must be committed and have a certain level of learning maturity, of course all who are 19 and above are invited to try out the meetings, but if they feel uncomfortable with the YA, they can go back YF. Of course My commitment is still to help mavis in the YF worship ministry since we are severely under manned.


Well, this retreat overall was pretty relaxing and fun to a certain level. I am not sure whether i am getting old? but i just dun seem so interested in some of the younger youths activities. I prefer soaking in the spa then watching cartoons... prefer keeping quiet then making "jokes". sigh, maybe i am moving on

To a certain extend i wanna mix with more grown ups now, i feel i can connect to them better. Maybe to a certain extend i look forward to YA.

Oh wells. more updates soon. So sleepy, did not recover from a day without sleep yet...

Hi guys, sorry for such a very long waited update, many things have been on my mind and hands lately, shall just share briefly some points.

First of all, thanks to all who made it for My birthday celebration whom i had with Don, the party could not have been complete without you guys. Haha and apologies to those who got bored easily, maybe its your first time at a Gig or something. I plan to do more Gigs in the future as a side job, i kinda enjoy doing this kind of things.

Thanks to Farhan, or the band ( crap forgot the band name...) Azli, zaki, and the unknown bassist, whose name i have forgotten again... Crap. ( Maybe too much liquor that night?)

Thanks to Davin, the next singapore idol, to Jemie, my good friend, and sab, Justin and Devin, The makeshift verticross band. lol. Thanks to all who performed and made the Gig a success...

The total cost of everything reached around $2000, the rental and food sponsored by my God mum, Mummy, and the band equipment by my uncle, hardcore rocker of an old neighborhood band, U-can.

Thanks to you YFers, hope you enjoyed yourselves, though you looked like you were entertaining yourselves...

Erm ok some of you were worried about me when i was missing or a while, dun worry abt me, i had a thing i needed to clear with my bros from church.

Thing is at this point of time, The term " bros " seem very vague to me . I admit that i am subject to insensitive actions but i have not once seen any of my brothers any lesser. Whether you are from church or from my secondary school, or from some place that God placed us in circumstance.

Actually i am quite hurt that my relationship is or has caused hurt to some of you, my close friends... I have never wanted it to be this way. But i do treasure our friendship and hope that you are willing to give me another chance.

I may be immature or childish or insensitive or careless or ignorant at times... But i have my reasons, its just that its hard to put it into words... especially when you are pressured...

But it has shown me how much you think i am to you. Sorry if i had not regarded you as close at that point of time, it seems that we get close to people we regularly meet. lets be friends again.

Now that i am finally 21, i feel like i have no more time to waste. I have signed up for classical guitar under cristofori and theory as well, hopefully to get a guitar diploma by 3 years time. Then i might want to look into composing and music industries studies , i hope i can music my career in the future, maybe not as a musician but maybe as a business man?

Its time to move on, Soon i will have NS, soon I will work and hopefully stabilize my career and thats when i would propose to my girl and have a family and bring up my kid to be the best kid in the world. thats provided the earth does not end first... ( all those dang end of the world assumptions... makes me a little paranoid)

Dear brothers and sisters, lets move forward and make just one step a day to make our future a brighter one.

PEACE TO ALL , see ya at retreat!

( The party vid is available by 2 weeks time, who wants it can order from me in advance, its free dun worry )

CYA