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...