ET Zone Adults’ Retreat

It was an intense 3 day 2 night retreat (ok more like 2 days 2 nights CAMP!) at Mercure Palm Resort! You can read about my earlier reccee here =)

The adults enjoyed themselves so much that they are asking when’s the next one happening? Hee! That shows the success of our retreat!

I was so busy that I din take much photos so following are pics I took off Facebook!

Coach on the way to JB!

The fun has already started!

Arrived!

Getting keys to the rooms!

Dinner time!

My cg having dinner (eer… dun bother trying to find me, I’m not there!) Busy setting up for the first session!

Where our sessions were held .. apologies for the blur pic!

Everyone enthusiastically doing up their team placards! Adults are a creative lot ok?

Managed to get pics of Team Moses and Team Paul =)

The next morning we had morning prayer, another session and free time for the groups to come up with their drama! Btw, dun despise the adults ok? They can act alright? Lots of hidden talents were unveiled during the drama performance! More on that later…

Outdoor games! Seems like water bombs are a top favourite! Or any game that involves getting wet like the fishing game!

The fishes Lian and me made till late at nite!

They can’t wait to catch the fishes in the pool!

BBQ dinner by the pool! Cool! (Ya I’m not there! Hahah!)

The highly anticipated drama performance by the teams!

The Egyptian dancers … Aaron was a really great dancer! Hahha!

Guess who Alex is acting as? Moses! Check out the belt on his head!

And we had prize presentation and that’s it……! So short right? We had many many requests to lengthen the retreat and we will!! =) I know many of the members played games till late, went bowling, swimming, etc.. the next day!

Finally can take some pics with my cg!

Till next year!

Looking forward to the long weekend!

Yay! I think we Singaporeans all look forward to public holidays, especially if the holiday gives us a long weekend! Lots to look forward this weekend for me!

1) Sun will be doing a live chat on Facebook!

Sun is finally going to release her US album very soon and the video of the first single “Fancy Free” will be out tmr! I am expecting lots of cutting-edge music! It’s gonna be a change from the usual ballads she does for her Chinese albums! I love that she’s so versatile yah? =)

And tmr she’ll be having a live chat on Facebook at 11pm! Just login to www.facebook.com/sunhomusic and you get to chat with her live… hmmm… I wonder if I will get a chance cos I think there’ll be so many people!

2) ET ZONE Adult’s Retreat ENCOUNTERS 2009

The very first Adult’s Retreat is coming to pass and I am SUPER EXCITED for it! It started as an idea one year ago (yes one year ago!!) and it’s finally becoming reality! Many many Saturdays of planning at my place .. and now the final lap! Believing for an awesome time!!

Have a great weekend everyone! =)

Bandung (Part 3)

So basically we ate and shopped and ate and shopped! But we did a spot of sight-seeing when we went to check out the volcano, Tangkuban Perahu (Upturned Boat). It started to get colder and colder as we drove there and smellier and smellier! Hee!

It was nice and foggy and a great change from factory outlets!

There were horses for hire but we declined!

Lots of small stores too.

Throughout our trip, we stayed at Novotel and it was an enjoyable stay! We really liked the buffet breakfast every morning and best of all, they somewhat change the food items so you dun have to eat the same stuff everyday!

Our really comfy bed!

View of Bandung city from our hotel window, we were staying at the highest floor!

Following are some street snaps I took…

The green mini buses you see below are called angkot and you see loads of them on the street. If you are walking on the street, dun be surprised to have many of them honk at you and ask if you want to board. There are no bus numbers but instead various areas and locations are printed on the bus itself.

Many of the locals drive motorcycles as the traffic can get so jammed! So they have two vehicles, normally a MPV and a motorcyle. When they are rushing to get to somewhere, they drive a motorcycle. When the whole family is going out, an MPV!

Pastor Kong was gonna preach during the weekend and many asked if we would be staying till then =)

Saw this cool overhead bridge!

Graffiti on a school wall

Saw lots of these flags being displayed – think cos Indonesia’s National Day was just over.

Very fascinated by this regal looking boutique hotel at Dago

We had a fun getaway! =)))

Bandung (Part 2)

Fandy shared with us that when he came to Singapore, he lost 10kgs cos he din like the food at all – no flavour! Hee! The only thing he liked was Songfa Ba Ku Teh near Riverwalk!

Indo food has very strong flavours and something that must accompany every meal is sambal!

I am not very into spicy food so I would take a small little bit but I saw Fandy literally coating his food with the sambal!

He brought us to Bumbu Desa for authentic Sundanese food and it was really flavourful!

I just love how they really deck out their restaurant so beautifully.

The food would be displayed out and you just pick and choose what you would like. It’s not a buffet though! There was something like a peanut salad, ayam, tau foo, duck’s egg, a spicy sweet corn soup, rice with ikan bilis. My mouth is watering as I think about it!

Another restaurant we went to, Bali Cafe, was really pretty. We had lunch under a pavilion at the garden!

The food was yums too! We also had a lot of sweet drinks when we were at Bandung. See that green drink on the top right? It’s Avocado with Chocolate! Super rich!

Other sweet stuff too… On the top right, we have rojak but it’s fruit with spicy sauce, not the rojak we are familiar with.

More sweet stuff, tiramisu and other Indo food!

Here we have a drink called Soda Susu – very very sweet! They give you a bottle of soda water and a cup of condensed milk and you mix everything up!

Strawberry juice! Very fresh, a bit sourish-sweet with lots of seeds! A must-try!

Tehbotol – bottled sweet tea! Another must-try, it’s really refreshing! Very nice when taking a break when shopping!

Then J.Co~ we bought a drink and got a free donut!

See the photo on the bottom right? That’s kampung chicken! Very skinny but tasty!

We bought lots of stuff back home too, brownies from Amanda, cheese roll and banana cake from Kartika Sari, lots of keropak and Indo Mie!

I miss Indo food!! Thank God we bought lots of Indo Mie back!