We stayed at Pulai Desaru for 2 days 1 night. It was a weekend cum retreat cum fellowship cum bday celebration for one of our sister, Fefe.
Although it was a short trip but I really enjoyed this trip very much. Well, I can say it was very fruitful, a good opportunity for us to get to know each other. Not to forget, thanks so much for the organizers who put time and effort to make it happen. :-D
Day 1.
Gathered in Outram Park MRT station at 8.30am. As most of Indonesian usually do, I was late for 15 mins. :-D Sorry, guys!
The journey from Singapore to Desaru was about 2.5 hours and I was asleep in the bus throughout the journey. Reached there at about 12.30pm. Check in hotel room and settle down (for awhile), we proceed for an outdoor game. Here are the photos of Pulai Desaru resort.
Information board at the lobby
Desaru is a small tiny island beside Singapore
The road to swimming pool
Okay, the outdoor games required lots of stamina, I don't really like it especially after the long bus journey. But to give face to the game-master, ok lah play enthusiastic a bit. (Can I say that's a form of compassionate!? uhm...hope he's not reading this)
Cut story short, there are 2 groups consist of 4 persons. Cut story short again, after 2 rounds of games, end up we lose by 5 points behind.
So this is our group photo with our *playground/ plaza made from sand*
All handmade. Seriously.
Loser team. It's okie. The most important thing is team-bonding.
:-D
We have free & easy time, which we use that time to..... go swimming.
Swimming pool by the sea.
After swimming, most of the girls play volley. Me going back to the hotel room for a quick bath and chill out in the hotel room. Indeed, I am a loner....just wanna be alone and chill out/ watching TV in the hotel room.
At 7pm, we gathered at lobby to have a dinner. It's a buffet dinner which price RM 35++. At first, we were so happy wah so cheap wah so affordable and stuff like that. End up, after eating happily and greedily *ahem*, the bill came, and the truth is up. RM 35+ is only lunch buffet. The dinner buffet is RM 65+...we were like uhmm...okay...then we paid.
For me personally, this minor thingy sometime will be very irritating, but don't let it ruin our holiday. Remember our purpose of having holiday is to have fun. Anyway the buffet was also quite good, I like the sausage and the soup very much, and the pasta, too...although lots of flies flying here and there :-D
*Relax relax....take a deep breath*
Fusilli and Spaghetti
After dinner, we proceed to the boy's room (again) to prepare the birthday celebration for a sister in LG. I don't want to tell you who is the birthday girl, it's a secret. We're not so close (yet) and I'm not sure whether she is mind anot :-D
So we prepared a card, candles, balloons (blow manually together okay!?), and birthday present. She was very happy.
Happy 26th bday!
Then we went for a drink...We enjoyed the night by sipping cocktail or beer and asking few questions to get to know each others.
For me personally, being a Christian doesn't mean that I have to be holy all the time. What's wrong with drinking cocktail during holiday? It's not that I will do binge drinking and start doing something stupid...Drinking in moderate should be fine....:-D
I don't know why now I have a habit of trying Pina Colada during holiday trip. errmmm...but still, the nicest Pina Colada that I had, was in Phi Phi Island. Superb! Maybe *Kena Mel's influences, LOL*
So that's the end of day 1. We went back to our room to sleep. ready for the next day.
Pina Colada RM 30
Singapore Slings
Joel said it's like cough syrup.
Day 2.
Wake up quite early @ 7am, we gathered at lobby again to have a breakfast.
Taking a walk after breakfast, let the food digest....exploring the hotel, enjoying the scenery. Sooo heaven!
Okay, It's P&W and sharing session. We learnt about Relational Evangelism.
After that, we had 1 hour to pack up and do solitude time. Wah, my favourite!
So without further due, I just walked to the beach, sit by the water, enjoy scenery, talk to God, and jot down on what I've learnt today.
Sitting at hammock, jotting down in a new note
Still got time to cam-whoring some more.
*Faint*
We reached Singapore at around 4pm. Home sweet home.
Indeed, it's a tiring trip but thanks God it was a fruitful trip, too...Okay that's all. I'm ending this post by this photo. My fave photo ever!
Footprint by the water.
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