ok... this is going to be such a long post.. i competing with janice.. see who's post longer!!! i must win!! so now i posting rubbish... hahz... i'll go by the days... add some pictures on the way....

day 1. monday, 28th november, 2005.

packed my bag 2 days ago... so everything was ready!! big and small bangs, with a guitar, walked out of my house alone... for the first time i go mission, i go alone... so excited... into the mission field... with friends, all out for God, with God, through God... went to lot 1 to meet up with people... rushed upstairs to get extra guitar strings.. bought cheap ones.. no $$... rushed down... met with damien, theresa, vivian, liang zhi, si heng, wei hao, siew yu, siew sia... went to the airport via private bus... siew yu and siew sia's dad's employee drove us there... big bus, so little people... funny sia...

on the bus, we sang songs, played the guitar, practiced thai songs which we sang to the thais there... time seems to fly when you're with friends, and the bus ride seemingly took up 30 min... reached the airport, heart pumping fast... flying off soon!! my heart was still not prepared at that time... im flying off to thailand already...? im not mentally prepared... to face thailand, speak a foreign language, to squabble with team mates and to be away from home for the next 10 days... everything seems to be flashing by so fast... im just not ready...

got off the bus, took our luggages... met up with joey, janice, faith, wee kiat, si heng, joel, who took joey's dad's car to the airport... talked alot... after that, our team went up to popeye's, to eat our last round of chicken before departure... thank God for creating chicken... one of the best food you cen get... zealot came... julia, joanne, qin ching, derek, tok kai, sabrina and shara... here to send us off... talked to them, encouraged and ready to go... but one person is still missing... where is he anyway...?

went down, checked in our back packs... lester's cute cousin kept on shouting "bye bye kor kor!!" from the 2nd floor... all laughed... was such a funny, yet warm sight... at least someone's loves him and misses him back in singapore.... looking at my wristband... im reminded... im being prayed for back in singapore... relief fell down to me, and im revitalised... yaiqi gave me a cute bear, with 3 words, "get well soon"... cos a week ago i coughed out blood due to asthma... i went around, holding the bear near my cheek, asking almost everyone... "am i cute??" all these while, he's not here yet...

took photos... really felt like a star, with all those flashes... as a whole, we took loads... from at least 10 different cameras... hugs and tears were everywhere... last wishes, goodbye seems to last forever... im still looking for him... and then, amist the crowds, there he stands, looking at me... he's here, as he promised... alex, my sheep... passed me $10, said it was from his mum... im like, wow... thank you... kept it safe in my wallet, and walked in... floodgates opened... faith cried... missed home... outside, hui jin cried.. what a touching moment... but we'll see each other 10 days later anyway... went in... mission offically started...

commands were shouted here and there, gather, grab food, wait, go.... got our day packs checked, were in the waiting room... we all grabbed the phone, which provided free local calls... made our last calls back home... i called my dad, grandma, aunt, mum, brother... after all the phone calling, queued up, readied our hearts, and boarded the plane... we're another step closer to thailand now...

tablecloth: "missions" scorching suns, raging seas, on the road marked with sufferings... but with backpacks ready, hearts all set out to impact the world... as we depart....... i hope you come prepared...

the plane is cramp... not much leg room, and altogether stuffy... it's okay, since we're with friends... sat as a team, day packs packed not so neatly, along with my guitar, above our heads... seat belt buckled.. ready for take off... as the plane began to taxi, heart raced... oh my goodness.. i should be down with a heart attack by now... im leaving home... it's us against the world now... or at least thailand... took off smoothly... got a little sick in the air... stupid pilot dunno how to fly plane one... budget air, bo bian... got a sweet, ate it and felt better... on the air we walked around, had fun... my angel wrote something lame to me... i'll post the picture of it some other time... and then we landed... hello thailand....

went to the toilets... did some peeing, and went to chop passport... at the queue found out that i lost my immigration form... oh no... nana scolded me,(cos i every mission also will loose things one) and told me to fill one up quick... after some time i found it... guess where i left it...? in my guitar bag... ahh!!! i wanna bang my head against the wall... den my passport gave vivian... let her keep... cos i'll loose it... after chopping... claimed back packs... took the coach back to the hotel...

at the hotel met up with pastor daniel and the rest... we went for dinner... got our rooms... my room mate for the trip... chua wee kiat... had a service after that... the small service is at the 24th floor... i stood at the window... staring into the roads... im in thailand... im really in thailand... im still not ready... my heart is not prepared... but there's no time for preparation... it's time for the missions...

praise and worship wasn't really good... no coordination... when it ended, pastor daniel came up, took up the 12 string guitar and played a song himself... Jesus, we enthrone You... we sang, and the Holy Spirit decended upon the place... filled with his spirit, and our team prayed as one for ubon rachathani... it was so intense, His presence saturating the whole room... after some time pastor joyce stood up and shared about faith being stretched... allowing God to stretch it... she pretty summed up everything that pastor daniel wanted to share... flowing in the spirit... allowing God to guide you through... and a team will think as one...

after that went back to my hotrl room... soaked in the bath... ahhh.... warm... something embarassing happened... i shan't say it here... after that i knocked out... end of day one... and it's so long already!!

day 2. tuesday, 29th november, 2005.

woke up, got dressed, went down for devoltion... vivian shared about faith... base our faith on God... after that went down for breakfast... they served french toast, which is bread fried in eggs... served eggs... chicken sausages... wow... temptation of chicken came already... we ate them... cos vivian allowed us to... filled to brim... went back to the hotel rooms and rest... we gathered at around 10 at the lobby... got all my stuff down, returned the keys... den i suddenly remembered something... my wallet is still on the shelf!! got back the key, ran up take... oh no... kena scolding again... /sob...

after everything is in order, we set out for the airport... loaded our back packs into the coaches, seated down nice and warm in our seats... i seated alone, played my guitar... thought si heng some chords from the song, the river of God... and we made our way to the domestic flight airport... wei hao took a photo of georgiana and sarah sleeping... i asked permission before posting... she wanted me to delete the picture... oh well, deleted...

once there, we checked in our back packs, and got ready for the flight... after that we found out that our flight have been delayed for another 2 hours... aww.. dang... time wasted... 2 salvations could be made in that 2 hours time... so in the end we spent our time at the airport... fooling around... bought black cannon coffee... burger king for lunch... took out our guitar and play... took silly pictures... i'll post some later... i actually met a chatholic preist at the airport... saying that the pope sent him to convert people to chatholics... oh no... the devil is working... we gotta work fast.... move before them... sudden surge of adrenaline rush, to just go and share his word to the people in the airport, with or without translators... the world need to hear the gospel..

tablecloth: swift as a buterfly, painful as a bee... his evil schemes realising, as the good's hope diminishing... come fast and move, be fitted with the swiftness of the gospel and peace... for world is starving for salvation...

after about 3 hours, we finally boarded our plane... saw a herculeus at the airport, majestic as can be... compared to our budget plane... we look like grasshoppers... but on board this grasshopper, giant slayers are seated in there... ready to slay the opposition... that's the spirit... we took off, and the journey took meerly 1 hour... almost left my handphone on the plane... lucky i did a double check before i go off... alighting, we took pictures... post them later... collected out back packs... went out and met the pastor...

nana, big zhi wei, vivian, lester, liang zhi, wee kiat, wei hao, si heng, siew yu, siew sia, theresa, faith, joey, artoven, damien, anathan, vidas, joel, edward, and me... we're here... excited and ready...

outside the airport, the pastor and his daughter to fetch us personally back to our living quarters for the next one week... a rather nice place to live in... unpacked, dumped our bags, and we set off to the church, whereby we discussed our plans, what we will be doing for the following week... i was rather quiet... feeling a little out of place... stood by the window and some gentle night breeze blew across my cheek... inspiration hit... but i forgot where i left it... i'll post it when i find it...

became playful and played with the kids over there... there's this kid called bible, what a nice name... kinda violent, though... had fun with him, he even know how to play drums... in fact, he was playing it when we arrived... we became even more playful and joel got onto the drums... banged on the drums so hard that zhi wei scolded us... got off it, let the leaders do the discussion... we did some skits for them, to show them what we are doing for the trip... got their approval, we went out to have dinner...

dinner was at some road side stall... COOL!!! roadside thailand is always so cool... fun, cos we are eating with friends... and the food there is really good... too bad cant ta bao back to singapore and let you guys have a share... they gave alot of veggies... asdly, our team have quite a number of carnivores.. siew sia, liang zhi... partial carnivores, joey, faith, siew yu, theresa... veggies came to bowls of me wee kiat.... suddenly out of nowhere a cockroach flew into damien's noodles... he freaked out a little, but din eat for the remainder of dinner... wonder what would happen if it's not damien's bowl, but faith's........ it's so terrible that i cant think of it... after that did some jay walking... the traffic in thailand is terrible... went back to our rooms... rested.. wee kiat is my room mate... our room is always in a mess, and it stinks... we got a joint bed... stinks... he's the first person i ever shared a bed with... ah well... showered... slept well...