Desaru YAG retreat 24 to 26 Jun 2005

Well, I went to the YAG retreat (24 - 26 Jun 2005 , Fri -Sun) on car wiv Esther, Boon Chin, Regina & Jennifer on car. The retreat was realli different from the usual church retreat. It was super relaxing except for the tight schedule for the Free & Easy & meal times...

The 2nd day, we had team games such as Human scrabble, Captain's Ball (using water bombs intead of a real ball), Water puzzles (I had to dive to fetch those puzzle pieces in the pool!!), Catapult (where we had to make a catapult out of the materials given). Can u imagine all the team had names after Walt Disney characters? My team was named "Nemo", hahahaha!! :)

At nite, the whole YAG grp went to a seafood restaurant which is incidentally owned by one of my church's AV crew Priscilla's uncle and was even featured on Channel U's food variety show! The food is pretty decent but i enjoyed the fried lobsters the best. After dinner, i went with Esther to the provision opposite the restaurant & bought a pack of Tau Sar Piah & some chewing gum.

This is not the end. The Indian seller spoke to us in Chinese & managed to coax Esther & myself to buy 3 durians instead of 2. RM$5/kg. D24 sumore!! When the YAG gp went back to the hotel, the durian grp (we were so called becos not all bought durians.) had to move to the further end from the hotel but near the carpark to enjoy our durians.

Boy, the durians were really "zheng4 dian3" !! So rich & creamy with small seeds! A lot of "bak" too!! Esther & myself & some others couldn't finish our durians & had a lot of leftovers. There were some of us who had "extras" given to us despite us being unable to finish our own! Terrible leh!!

The last day, Boon Chin, Bernard, Esther, Jennifer & myself went to the fruit farm. Quite a good experience, i would say... The way back home was tiring for me on the ride becos i was realli irritated by Bernard by his incessant talking. Both Jennifer & i were pretty squashed up becos he (with him being BIG-sized!!) was lodged between us @ the back of the car. Can't even put our seatbelts properly!

Then we shopped at Carrefour which turned out to be a disappointment for me. It is indeed spacious but variety is lacking. So i didn't buy anything. Then we drove to have dinner on our way home juz b4 we reached JB checkpoint. Dinner was @ a street of roadside stalls and it was a simple affair. I was nauseous in the car the way home but luckily i got home safely without puking my insides out. Mus have ate too much lah...