Monday, May 02, 2005
6.49pm- Done with a refreshing shower! Just came back from a church retreat camp at Laguna Golf Resort. It's was great. Though we did more of worship and prayers than games but I seriously enjoyed myself. Not only getting to know the people better, most importantly I learnt crucial things from the retreat.

1st day- I arrived Laguna Golf ard evening. After checking in with our bags in our respective rooms. There are 6 rooms in total! All of them were fantastic and comfy. We can just simply rot somehow on the sofa bed and all. BUT we are not there for luxurious relaxation(it's a pretty good take-away for a long weekend tho),we certainly did the necessary stuff we supposed to do. -pray- lots of them. Oh yea! Forgotton about dinner! Whoo! The food is good. Sushi, steak, lamb chop, desserts..blah blah. Eat to our fill! Vineyard's food is good, worth a try and plus they have 'live band'- singing for us through dinner. That lady is really one with wonderful vocals..till u guys get to hear from us. "Whoooo" is what i will hear from u people.

After dinner, we had a simple opening service in one of the room. Prayed and sang songs. 9.30pm onwards is our free time!! Baby n i took a walk at the green and swimming pool. It was a starry night and a plane just flew by, it seemed that it's just 2 metre away from us. We could see wings of the plane and even the logo on it. Well.. the night was really great. The first night didnt end here! We watched 'Kungfu Hustle' again at Baby's room till midnight!! Yeah, again. i think i watched it for the 3rd time? yea probably. =p Well. I just wanna curdle in his arms. Soon after we went back to our respective room for our rest! Day 2 is certainly tedious

2nd day- It's was 8am! Goodness, i thgt i couldnt make it for the breakfast-Aunt Ros prepared for us. She's a good cook. We always have good food during church service. Devotion was at 9am. Finished off our food, grabbed our pens and paper. There we were at room 305 for devotion. Followed by 'Workshop on Prayers' It was all the way till lunch. 3 hours sitting down, listening to Pastor Alvin, Reg, Paul, discussion among the group members. My group members are Jo., Mel., Denise and Tab. They are real nice people and I gotta know them better for the past 3 days. I was actually kinda lost when I was there for the past services. Now, no longer. =)

Games! Sherwin is the organiser for the games. Guess what. Most of them consist of carrying people ard, and so they commented that it has gotta do with Sherwin being a weightlifter. Haha. I agreed. Baby, u have to think for the non-weightlifters like me! I'm the one being carried so it's okay. =p Well We are the best partners cos we were supposed to win the competition against Jo. and Mel. Well...in the end the other group won. Know why? cos... we are too fast with good coordination. It's jsut a game. Everyone enjoyed it. so obvious with the smile on their faces.Credit to sherwin the organiser. =) Well done ,baby! We enjoyed our selves playing the pool slides.(tho i kept getting hurt and plunged into the water with my ears blocked) I'm simply loved the moments spent down there. One thing is that the water isn't fantastically clean. The lil' droplets started to fall, we gathered ourselves out of the pool, back to our rooms for shower. It's dinner time! The whole comm watched 'Home Alone 3' while we dined. Baby joined the guys for scrabble!

Dined, we attended the last session - Workshop on Worship. We all learnt S.T.P

1) Learn to stay 'stil'
2) Learn to be 'thankful' daily.(Psalm 100:4)
3) Learn to 'praise' (Hebrew 13:15)

Seemed simple but crucial. And the night is continued with a movie maranthon...not really actually. It's only 2 movies. All of us had a long long day, couldnt take it. Still, we slept at 3am despite waking up at 7.30am. We watched 'I do, I do' and 'X-men 2'. Laid on baby's chest during the movies till he was too tired and went to bed .

Day 3-Today, we did Devotion and 'Workshop on Bible Reading'. Everything ended rather quickly ..in the wink, we were already leaving Laguna. Reg gave us a lift and dropped us off at Old Changi Road.

I accompanied baby through his training. hehe. Sweet, u really gave me a question mark when you put away my book when i was reading. Oh well.. i miss you!! You know i do. =)

LATE LUNCH- The two famished monsters headed down to Purvis Street for Chicken Rice. It's okay nice and rather cheap. Not satisfied with the light lunch!! The monsters headed to Bugis, in search of more delicacies. In the end, they got themselves; taco-pachi, ice cream and japanese fried potatoes!! One of the monsters dirtied his shirt. I guessed the clothing was hungry too! hehehe They ended patting their stomach! *pat pat* FULL- shown on the food-meter WHEEEEEEE!!

Time to get back home and baby has to get back for training! The way back was ultimately long man..I fell asleep on the train halfway through. I was reading Da Vinci Code on the train and there's this kid making so much noise with his toy dino...he coiled the green dino and there came the noise 'ZEE ZEE ZEE ZEE...' all the way! Goodness! He's sitting beside me all the while. I was praying 'can they alight at the next stop'. I was trying to read with distractions...Try to read with the 'ZEE ZEE ZEE ZEE...' I will saluate you if you can do it.

Msg to baby: Dont worry too much! =) And, do get the haircut you wanted. I love you the way you are. (o''o)

See you guys tmr! Yeah..It's back to school times. Well...i guess it will be cool. cos I have decided on stuff i wanna do. So it's cool with me.

I will upload the pictures as soon as baby send them to me!

Love, shannon.


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