The recent church camp is a huge success! The resort is nice, the food is great (buffet style!), the speaker, a Pastor from Singapore, quite famous thanks to his joke book, Rev. George Ong, simply humorous! It's impossible to sleep during his section! Here's a brief summary about what happen...
Saturday morning, we gather at our church, where we make some arrangement on transport. I get to drive a car, just a Perodua Kembara, not a great car, but get to drive, that's the main thing! Funny thing is, not sure who write our name, my name become Vincent Tan! Even my name tag written my name. Anyway, after complaining about the name, we hear some briefing from Brother Wong, the camp coordinator. Quite a lot of vehicle going, it's a pain to mention it here, i think i will just skip it. After the briefing and everyone get onboard (in my car is the car owner, An indonesian lady, Aunty Kong and Uncle Ngeow), we set off around 10am. Not sure where to go and just for the fun of it, i decide to follow the church van, which, as usual, driven none other than Kah Hong. Our first stop? For petrol, of course! The Shell station in front of the Goldfish Area is our stop. After that, we head straight for the highway, entering it at the first point, the Duta toll. During the journey is quite fun, chatting with people in my car and enjoying the scenery (it's a bit pain following the church van a bit, especially it goes only 40 km/h when climbing a hill), we reach Taiping around 2 pm. There we have our lunch at a food court. I forgot to mention that i was quite unwell that day, having difficulty in breathing, but driving is not really taxing, so i'm fine. We were amaze by the price of the food there! Imagine, Rm 3.00 for a plate of chicken rice and RM 2.50 for a plate of Char Kuay Teow! After our lunch, we set off again. The last group consist of Brother Wong APV, Church Van and my car. We set off with brother Wong in lead. I doubt he really know the route there. We end up in the Taiping Zoo! After a few round, we found the town exit and meet up with the others. It's a nice feeling, like a convoy. We reach Bukit Merah Laketown Resort about half an hour later, with me being the last, being stuck at the traffic light, but thanks Kah Hong for waiting for me. We arrive safely, but because of my illness, after checking in, i just went straight to bed. I reach room around 3.30pm, and sleep till 6.30pm! But i feel better after the nap. After bath, i go down to restaurant for dinner. Thanks to Daniel who help me in getting food and Pastor Serena for praying for my health. After dinner we have our first sermon by Rev. George Ong. As expected, he's really a funny fellow. He even bring his small guitar along! (not sure what it's call). After that, we take our supper, i switch room from my old room to Adol's room, mainly because i don't really like my roommate (the 2 Lam brothers). What a fun day!
Second day i'm awaken by Adol and William.(William reason: don't want me to skip the first section. how nice of him). After a bath, went down to same restaurant, have some really good food... And off to the first section on Cat and Dog theology by Rev. George Ong. It's a really interesting topic! It's something about we live not for ourselves but for God. Cat Christian is something like a cancer that might destroy a church according to George Ong. I wish i can say more about it, but i left the book in the car when i return in to the owner! Oh yar, before he begin the first section, we have some ice breaking, which means a song from George Ong. I forgot how the song go, maybe i will ask Sammy and post it later.Ah well. Well, after the first section and the first half of the second section ends, we go have our lunch. (which consist of fried rice and fried chicken). After that it's time to visit the theme park! I swap vehicle with Kah Hong, so i'm driving the church van. After fetching people to the theme park and park the van (which is a pain, it's so hard to park a large van like a normal vehicle), i too go and visit the theme park, as i get a free ticket to enter the Orang Utan Island and Waterpark (a combo ticket), i just need to get an extra ticket to enter the Eco Park (RM12, thanks to Kah Poh), then i can follow Kah Poh and a lot others who plan to visit the Orang Utan island and Eco Park. I wish i can enter the waterpark, most youth go there, i hear it is fun, and it will be nice playing with Edline, William, Danniel, Dennis, Kah Hong... ah well, maybe we will have chance next time. Around 5pm i start fetching people back. At the hotel after a short rest it's time for dinner! The dinner is awesome! Who would have thought we will have black pepper lamb mutton! Super delicious and suits me too. After that it's another sermon from Rev. George Ong, very interesting too. After that go back to my room (switch room again, because Adol and William checked out, so i go to Daniel room, and thanks to Daniel for taking my bag, i can't do any heavy duty job that time). That room is crowded, with Daniel, Dennis, Kah Poh, Kah Hong and me. But well, they say the more the merrier, and it's true. It's F1 in Canada, we watch for a bit, then we go sleep. (disturb by Daniel, who come back from Winnie room at 1am).
Third day and the last day of camp. Waken up by loud conversation, after a bath we went for breakfast, then for the second half of the section 2 of the cat and dog theology. Before we begin, Rev. George Ong start with another song again, this time about army. I will post it later. I must say this section is very deep and interesting. The danger of being a cat christian. After the section end we got another briefing from Brother Wong about transport arrangement, and i am quite happy that i will be fetching the car owner, Aunty Kong, Sammy and Winnie. Some youth at last! After we pack our bags into the car, we go have our lunch at the restaurant. Same wonderful foods. After our lunch, we head back. I think we are the first to leave, the church van and my car, with Dennis family heading to Ipoh. Before we arrive in KL we make a detour to Kampar, getting some famous local delicacies, then we head back. It was raining heavily on our journey back, i half thanks and half curse the car i'm driving. For one thing, the viper is not really fully functional, but being a high 4 wheel drive car, even when you drive across a pool of water at the side of the road, you don't feel anything. We make it safely home around 7pm. What a wonderful weekend it have been! Praise the Lord.
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