staff retreat; getting drenched, lost, phoebe-fied, and crazy jumping moments.
hang tight.
and today was Praiseland's annual Staff Retreat and MAJOR APPLAUSE goes out to Vic Teo and gang who pulled off a wonderfull retreat, much unlike those that we've have had for the countless years, this year, we had this fun Amazing Race thingy! :)
but to start things off, lunch with Aunty Adeline's family,
okay, i dunno how that pic up there constitutes lunch but, i realise that kids are often intrigued by my phone. (or all your phones in general, i reckon.) every single gathering i go to with little ones, they'll clamour for my phone, and first thing they ask, "Jie Jie Joanne! Got games?"
hahaha, and i alwaysalways tell them, "ohsorry! i dont have games!"
and believe me. i dont.
which is so weird right, i mean. they arent even preloaded into my phone. nil. nadah.
which really explains the diminishment in my kwel factor in their eyes.
probably the sparkle of my braces keeps me popular with the kids. heh.
well, and the boys were messing around with this 10x10 Rubix, and that's just, pure madness.
the 10x10 cube i mean.
well okay, the whole amazing race thingy was modeled after The Game of Life, where we had to traverse up and down Khatib and Yishun.
My family consisted of me, my mum, my dad, becca, charmaine, aunty alice, and aunty errr. (ohno, i dunno her name. :/)
but anyway! it was a great time of bonding, and running around and completing tasks.
plus, it was raaaainnninggg, and i bet the Khatibers&Yishunites thought we were wild kukus.
my favourite pitstop was Est's, and the games were so FUNNY!
one of the tasks was to write a poem of proposal (cause we were at the Marriage pitstop)
and we came up with this,
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Will you marry me?
Cause I LOVE YOU!
in like, 2 secs flat. cooolios much. and we had funky actions and to quote my mum, "after we say I LOVE YOU, we must go "muack!"
hahaha, but i think i'll smack my future Darcy if he chooses to propose this way.
well, okay, back in church! all wet, and smelly, and tired,
we sat around and dried off, while some of us had to prepare for worship later, and WOW. this is why Simon is in the deco comm,
the blah MPH was turned into this really pretty and romantic spa-liked place, which drew audible oooohs and ahhhhs.
it was so pretty that i could have just fallen asleep.
but noooo! WE WERE TOO HUNGRY.
like hungry monkeys, i think our minds werent functioning when Vic was sharing a short message.
oh, that's beside burning the orchid stems and observing the oxygen bubbles that escaped.
but it was finally, dinner time! :)
you can see how happy monkeys we are,
and during the course of the entire dinner, there were manymany onetwothreehuh? pictures taken of Charmainey,
and by that, i mean many.
hahah, i think the lighting makes her look reaaallly sinister.
contrasted with Phoebe, she looks REALLY sinister. :)
and we were being such kukus, we wanted to take jumpshots, and went on stage.
our jumpshots were funny. as in, weird funny.
hello, if Charmainey's legs could contort like that, it definitely is funny. :)
but what was really funny when the aunties came onstage to do jumpshots too.
HAHA. hilarious.
and obviously, they didnt lift off, cause instead of hearing "1,2,3!" that they were expecting, Joel shouted "3,2,1" instead. :)
PraiseSings & PraiseSounds 08'thank God that our ministry has been growing, there have been new blood into the ministry (and thank God that they have been guys, or the kids might just grow up with a skewed perception that Sunday School teachers are all female).
im looking forward to Kids Camp with these people, cause it's gonna be A BIG BIG BLAST!
through the night, we were also very much entertained by Phoebe and her ubercuteness, i love her slightly wonky eyes here!
heh. no wonky eyes her, though i have wonky hair.
ohwell, balances out both pictures!
well okay! i love my groupmates! :)
Charmainey and Becca! cause without them, YELLOW BUFFALOES will be boring!
hahaha, (well, everyone's named after a colour, but we're special.)
(and okay, i know it isnt yellow, but yellow cannot be seen against my blog, and this is the next prettiest colour)
and we're all doing different Y- poses, though Charmainey's just trying to ACT CUTE.
hahahaha.
and i present to you, favourite picture of the day,
she is so huggable!
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since there's this whole boy crazy going on, might as well put a face to the names,
Gaspard,
as Alina describes, gasp hard, is quite cute yes!
and okay, since i cant find a pic of Edward Cullen, or as Sof will call him, Ed Cullen,
the next best, the actor who's gonna act as him.
hahaha, judging from Ali's, Sof's and Rach's outcry. he isnt that ed cullenzxzxz-ish eh?
and oohhkay! Johnny Depp, and i lovelove his characterization as Capt'n Jack Sparrow!
HAHAHA.
and Khiu, i sourced for all these pictures via Yahoo!,
and when i typed in Jon Johnson, i got this.
HAHA, third picture that popped out,
you beloved;
JON johnson.
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okay lah, not that bad uh.
he has the somewhat, geeky allure about him.
HAHAHAHA.
***tags,
mrs ed cullen, hahahaha. i see you havent gotten over your vampyer yet! :)
genpok; i realised! they're like, bats right? so what, they're leathery???? HMMM. and yeahh, i think vampires are kinda cool! i like those in Underworld! and okay, you're reading one too many romance novels.
khiu; HAHA. i realised, jack johnson's a guitarist, right? ohno. my cultural literacy is in the pits. HAHAHA. but look where JON johnson got you! :) and please, i think you should just slash yourself to death with the epilator, cause epilating EVERY fullmoon is just not worth it.
so as a werewolf, you've basically lost your purpose in life.
charmainey; pass me a thumbdrive or something! and i wont circulate it to everyone, i'll just uhh. somehow hijack Channel 5 and put your pictures on rotation every 1min. :)
becca; hahaha, i've posted! and oh, you two, if you wanna snitch pictures, go click my Picasa link okay!
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and i cant believe Joseph wants a colour code, and "must camwhore!" tmr.
hahahah, he's such a girl.
:)
