*|mission trip : FOOD and "talkshow"
Now is 147am, knock myself on the head... What am I doing, wasn't I suppose to go sleep!!! Later got work! BORING. My classmate told me that he happened to chance upon my blog when searching for some other blog in yahoo. Oh my gosh... One thing I like about blog is I can type whatever I want, well almost everything but what I don't like about it is you can't like say this entry meant for anyone or good frens, or btw best friends only. So some things I can't say. I really hope that no more school mates chance upon my blog because I did type about my family problems and all that and well... let 's just say I don't want everyone to know but that brings to the question why I typed it out in the first place... I guess I just need someplace to channel all my sadness or anger to if not I will really start to bottle up and become a bitter person which I admit I was when I was young.
I wanna write more about the mission trip. Lots of things I havn't say. Start with food! the food there is fantastic. Its really wow. It really makes Singapore food taste really bland. Glad that my stomach take to the food there very well. In fact, the food there is so much better for me than Singapore food. Oh I really love the mao gua!!! I havn't eaten that for ages and when I ate it there, it was heaven. Haha The cucumber soup is great. I like the porridge that we ate one morning and well even before we started eaten, Phil said that there are insects in the porridge and on closer inspection ther really are small green insects and the whole pot of porridge is filled with them. Sometimes I surprised myself. I am very very scared of insect, very scared and logically, it makes sense that I wont dare to eat the porridge but I did and I ate it happily even after knowing and upon closer look, realise that you can actually see which is the head, the legs and all that. What is more I even ask for second helping... Haha help Phil eat his porridge since he didnt wanna touch it. Now I starting to be hungry.
I love their salad dressing. It's excellent, home made salad dressing!!! Love it except for the fact that I tasted only once or twice cos it is TOO spicy for me. Still remember how each meal, Adidas (we named the dogs there and one of them happened to be blac and white, adidas colour... you know what I mean) come up to ask and ask for food. CUTE dog! Oh I must say the egg noodles is fantastic. Way better than those sold in Singapore. Mouth watering!!! But think we eat too much and ended up they (the pastor's brother's wife I think) have to ask the villagers there to offer some of their vegetables from their farms if they are willing. We realised that it is their culture to give guest more food than they can eat. For us, we believe in not wasting food so each time we clear a dish, they will judge the portion and cook even more for the next meal. Oh no, we such BIG EATERS! But really the food there is delicious, the best that I ever tasted in my whole life apart from what my godmother always cook.
Oh during the mission trip there was one afternoon when Jia Ling she "hosted" a "talkshow" and each one took turns to talk about our past relationships or crushes. It was really fun. Wow Jia Ling is pro!!! She really asks a lot of questions that are rather chim to answer like "How you know that he is the one?" and things like that. Lucily I was spared from all those questions cos I didn't have any relationships at all. Well crushes a lot but a relationship, NO. I would like to enter into a relationship once and it must be the man that God says is the one. The rest I don't want. I just only want one. Haha... Anyway we had a really fun "talkshow".
I just don't get it, what is so interesting about us? The room that we stayed in at Huay Hok had a lot of windows and the kids they just love to watched us from the windows.Are we really that amusing? LOL... They don't even understand what we are saying cos we converse in English but we must have been entertaining for them to have watched us for so long through the window. They make paper fans for us too because it is really hot in that room and well I still had mine with me for memory sake.
Ok I shall stop here, getting really really sleepy and it is 216am. Shucks I have to be up at 715am. I HATE WORK!!! Vanessa thanks for the "Grease" musical tickets. The musical is fantastic!!! Love it. Thanks gal!
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*|Mission trip and my life, my future
Its almost 3am in the morning and I am just starting to update my blog. Weird timing to do it. Not in a really happy mood now. Its no big deal actually. All I did was watched a dvd just now and in that movie someone died and so now I am affected. I am too emotional sometimes. Anyway I havn't been updating since the mission trip.
I have been back in Singapore for more than a week and well... It feels strange to be back here. First of all, I have nothing to do, no work no nothing. After been in Huay Hok for like five days, I realised how much I DO NOT miss my laptop or tv or what so ever, I can totally do without them but apparently I still need them to check school email for exa, results which are not out yet and registration of subjects and stuff. Its rather a surprise to me that I don't miss all these stuff. Haiz~ Just feel so useless now doing nothing except watch dvd and clearing room. So you can imagine by now how many dvds I have watched or rewatched. I wish dance lessons start soon cos I really wanna start dancing or rather learn how to dance. It start round June but when. After coming back from this mission trip, I am still thinking about this issue... How has me wanting to be an animator and dance and learning to play the instruments help with the spreading of the gospel. I know they be related somehow but for now I don't know the answer. God allowed me to study arts and love performing arts for a reason. Erm... Ok now I don't even know what I am talking.
Anyway I shall talk about the trip. I did things that I have never done before while I was in Huay Hok, like climb mountain and big rocks and eat porridge with green small insects as ingredients. I survive 4 days in an environment with an endless supply of insects which caused me to run and jump about and freak out suddenly. But after these 4 days, I am not that scared of insects. I still do a bit but not as bad anymore after all that insect attacks like the big cockroach like insect that landed on me during the church service and which I accidentally sweep it to Ophe not intentionally but more out of fear. Sorry Ophe!
The water there is WHOA cold. It's like putting the water in the freezer for a few hours and then taking it out after that. It's that cold and we bathe in it but after a while, my body sort of got used to the temperature of the water and it is refreshing. I miss that water! LOL.
Teaching the children about the bible is not too bad. It's my first time and well I realised something. I am not really cut out for teaching. When I see Ri Xin and I see myself, Ri Xin is really good at it. Ri Xin can elaborate on things just like that on the spot but I can't seem to do that. I can only do that in my mind and when I am penning it down but speaking it out loud, can't seem to do that. Really wonder is it cos I am really not cut out for teaching or izzit cos it's just I am not that prepared for the delivering of the lesson. Maybe it's both.
Oh well, enough about that. The food there is good. I love the food there and YIPEE my stomach got used to the food immediately. Actually my stomach loves the food there then in Singapore. In Huay Hok I eat a lot but back in Singapore, I eat very little food (but I did eat more fruits), I just hate the food here, its oily! SO NOT TASTY! Lots of MSG! There the dishes are simple but it's the best I ever eat even better than hotel food.
I can go on forever about this mission trip but I don't think I ever be able to finish writing all about it. That's what happen when I was writing about my Korea trip. Anyway today during discipleship, we were talking about right living and all that. Realise that Proverbs is really a good book to read and it's even better if we take the advice of the verses and do accordingly to what it is stated. Today we talked quite a bit on marriage too. I am now very certain that if I ever have a bf, he first has to be a christian. If he is not, I won't even think about starting anything with him. Haha, maybe I shall stay single my whole life. That be great, been able to go where I want and dance all day long. LOL. All these things, my career, my future, everything I shall hand it over to God. I take whatever He gives cos that be the best for me. Time to sleep. It's 310am. Pei Shi, Hui Nan and Marc still in Vietnam. Really hope Pei Shi is feeling better and that God is curing her of her illness. OK SLEEP TIME before my dad comes out and scold me for being up so late.
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