This Is Not Your Song.

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Friday, December 07, 2007

Back from mission trip. The 9 days reallyreally just flew past just like that. Like whoa. And its gone o.o

Day one.
Flew off, and cam whored with Changyen on the plane, with the sock puppets.

I sew on the eyes on the plane, without any scissors, because we couldn't bring them on, right? So I used my first premolar to cut it. Now I know why my premolars are sharper than my incisors. I use them more.

Touched down. And we dared Nicholas to tell the guy/girl who checks our passport that he/she was pretty. He chickened out. So sad =(

We went on an 8 hour bus ride to Bua Yai, and on there, the guys (mainly Hongzhang, yaode, nicholas and desmond) sang, and refrained the whole bus from sleeping.
When we stopped at 7-11, most of us bought sausages. They no longer sell the low fat strawberry milk anymore =( By the end of the trip, we bought so many sausages that we were sick of them already.

Stopped for dinner/ supper somewhere. Same place as last year. And Alex put chilli on the flowers which were meant for decoration.

Alex put on 6 layers of clothes. Polo tee, mt shirt, bb polo tee, my jacket, changyen's jacket and glady's jacket. Yes he was that cold.

See the extra person cutting into the picture? Thats alex.

We ate crunchie chocolate on the bus, and went on a sugar high. No wonder crunchie's slogan is 'say goodbye to quiet days'. How true. More high school musical concerts. Talked about random stuffs. Like leg hair.
Nicholas:
guy:How much money do you lack?
girl:20 cents
guy:okay, *plucks off 2 strands of hair*

And they introduced us to heart pumping action, where we went extremely high after all the laughing.

Arrived at the resort. Looked pretty pretty, but there was no heater. Sunil told us it was 19 degrees I think. So imagine bathing with that, the water was probably colder than that. And there was a fan in the toilet, which you cant turn off o.o Everytime after we bathed, we'd be surprised that we were still alive. Artillian: She isn't showing any signs of life! Oh no. Sheryl! Are you okay?
Artrillian and Wanting were my roommates, and we slept half the first night with the light on, until I could not stand it any longer and turned off the lights, and I found out that wanting sleep talks (:
This was the night/day when I noticed that Samuel was called Samuel, same name as my dad. So he became my dad o.o Changyen's crazy suggestion. Heh. But I thank her though. I get to see his priceless expression everytime I call him dad.

Day two.
We were supposed to have english camp for 3 days. And we went to this school on the first, totally chaotic. The students were *quote* a bunch of monkeys/ kindergarten kids. I think they were p4-sec3s, if my memory doesn't fail me.
We had to teach classes in groups of 2s or 3s. And I was with Samuel and Jason. Dad and mum. Woo.
Had mass evangelical outreach, and my team performed the 'you're special' skit. Totally shocking. We practised it the least leh.
Day three.

Woke up, and we realised that smoke could be formed when we breathed out. How cool. It was that cold.
Went to a different school, thank God for that. This school was nicer, the people were more open. We taught our class alphabets by drawings, numbers, and songs. I was like just drawing drawing drawing and drawing. Jason was teaching them(note, he's a good teacher). Samuel taught them numbers and played the guitar. The kids there like guitars very much. They can pretty much go crazy once we bring the guitar out.
We had night rally later on.
Wanting and I took care of this girl, and we suspected that she was deaf, because she was unresponsive. In fact, the one I took care of was unresponsive as well. Even hongzhang could not make her laugh. How rare.
Day four.
Had breakfast, and we cam whored as a team.

Candid

xiao didi and xiao mei mei of the team(the xiao didi happens to be our atl)

With the van driver. And the van. And the dog, xiao bai. Xiao hei was massacred one of the mornings and was turned into a bunch of hot dogs.

Shadows in the sand.

Went back to the school we went on the previous day. We were supposed to watch facing the giants in thai, but something cropped up.

Changyen and I took care of two particularly sweet kids, who bought ice cream for us. We couldn't eat it though, and had to throw it away. Ouch.
Hongzhang and pastor tik/teak's son got stung by a bee. This guy teaches the boy to make faces, and kick people o.o
Chicken mai dai
Chicken mai dai
Is very cute
Is very cute
Turn to your left
Turn to your right
Very hot very hot very hot
o.o
Somehow I think last's years deedeedee song was cuter.

Had night rally again. This time with daniel, yaode, nicholas, alfred. We went very deep in, as usual. There was this blind guy and we were supposed to bring him to the rally. So we continued, and decided to come back afterwards. We met this hokkien speaking woman, and she actually helped us to invite her whole street. We almost got lost in the village. We tried back tracking, but we lost our way. It was dark already, and we did not have any torches. Halfway back, we met a bunch of people who told us the way. And after walking a few steps, we found the blind guy's house. How cool was that?
Day five.
A saturday. We went to church.

The violent twins. One stuck with Gladys, and one with Jason. They're extremely the violent worh. I shall not tell you guys what one did to Samuel.

Went to Khon Kaen at night, and there was this concert thing, super cool. Did the skit again, and went on to do children ministry. I think the kids like the heart pumping action alot.
The whole team slept on the way back. Like wow. Never happened before.
Day six.
Sunday. Went back to church again.

This is how yaode got into the van. Through the window.

Went to a temple, the buddha there was big seh.
There were lots of dogs and cats there. They were supers skinny though. One dog looked as though it had leprosy. I took a picture of with damn cute kitten. Waiting for nicholas to send it to me.

They had this huge pond with dead lotuses.

We had dinner outside. Pad thai and a second helping of wonton noodles. Super nice. Yum. The thai's seasonings are sugar, fish sauce, chili flakes and peanuts. Wonton noodle with peanuts. No, I think sugar's weirder. Desmond and I tried it though. Tasted ok, weirdly enough.

Went back to the resort.

This is how it looks like. The bathroom's over there.
Artrillian informed me that Hongzhang stuffed a beetle and cockroach into a bottle of water. And I rushed over. Hongzhang told me and reenacted how changyen started crying(and screaming) when she saw the cockroach.
Hongzhang was using sticks of pocky to poke the beetle(it was still alive) and I suggested putting soap in the bottle. Then conditioner, shampoo, toothpaste, mentos(which we had to crush to shove it in), more pocky, and finally chocolate milk.
Hongzhang was reenacting how changyen was banging on the door, I laughed so hard that I dropped the pocky twice.
Then I suggested freezing it( the beetle died by then) and hongzhang agreed. Woo. Cockroach and beetle ice pop. Haha.

Day seven
Had to check out today. And went over to make sure hongzhang took out the ice pop from the freezer. It pretty much became solid.

Went back to the church. And took a few photos.

Went to tesco, we were told to do tract bombing. And when we got down from the 1 hour ride,(I slept) and blurly went down the van, tracts in hand.
And sunil told us that we were here to do shopping.
o.o

Stephen treated us to swensens, so much for telling him to xia tai =X

Had alot of doughnuts o.o Bought one for my mortal ding ming.

Found out something.
Alex has the muscle
Alex has the brain
Alex has the sexy legs
And he will win the race!
Guys have no hand hair, and their stomach's FLAT. Especially hongzhang o.o

Went back to church. Had team debrief while waiting for the bus.

After alex's turn, everyone went serious, and started crying. Except me, again. Like last year. We had something like this. Everyone cried expect alex and I. Alex could still take photos of people. So I've earned my reputation as heartless creep. No la. Just that I can't cry easily.

The bus came at 11, and hongzhang started singing 'what i've done' over and over again. It was below 0 on the back of the bus. Our sleep was always disturbed. Like halfway through, the bus driver turned on the lights and went MIA for 20 minutes.
Hongzhang: It starts with the WAN TING, I don't know why. It doesnt even matter how hard I try.
Everyone slept. Hurray. No more high school musical concerts.
Day eight.
Maxx hotel! Was super elated. Had breakfast first, where nicholas started singing bu neng shuo de mi mi. Leng ca fei li de re bei mian. (Direct translation, the cold coffee thats in a bowl of hot instant noodles)

Went shopping*does white chicks sign*
Bought 3 shirts, 1 shoe, 1 bag. Walked past mister doughnut and felt like puking. Then my dad told me that they reuse oil, and refry them doughnuts. Ew. Moral of the story, get your doughnuts from singapore only.

Ate at sizzler, yum. But changyen and I were super full. So we shared a set. Amazing how a small portion of meat can fill you up. It always does. Doesn't make sense.(ok fine I know why. Its science. But stilll...)

I FORGOT TO PRANK CALL RONALD. OH GOSH =(
Day nine
Woke up for breakfast. And went up again, to pack, and prank called people.
Hongzhang: Hello mr ding ming? We have your son.
Sheryl: AH PA AH PA.

Sheryl, to daniel: SAWADEEHAAA. *rambles on in thai*something something room service
daniel: huh?

Changyen: sawadeHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Mummy looks like she's scolding daddy, and he's super sad. I love taking candids. Dad's playing football in actual fact.

FAMILY PORTRAIT. Aww. Dad and mum look so loving.
Checked out, and left the lovely maxx hotel =(

Look at this. ISN'T ALEX JUST SO ADORABLE? I think he was p4 then

Went on the plane, where dad and weihao sat behind me. Cheng liang said I look 17. The very first time. And changyen looks 15.

We had a turbulence on the plane! I find that cool. Like rollar coaster like that. And the whole YI was like. Woo~ing. How cool (:

Daniel and Changyen are gullible. When our luggage did not show up, sunil told us that during turbulences, the airline crew throw out bags so that the load would not be so heavy. And changyen believed.

But its scary waiting for your luggage because the coveyer belt keeps making you feel that you're moving o.o

And finally, I'M DONE.
I started on 5/12/07, 9:54pm. And its 7/12, 4:17pm. Have I broken the record yet?

/edit. just remembered. Some people were struck with rashes.
Hongzhang: You are my rashes, my precious rashes.

/second edit. I've started to like biting people after mission trip. Alex, Changyen and Nicholas were my victims. Oh dear

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