Friday, December 29, 2006
Of firecrackers, mudskippers and dead fish
Edit: Added "Bolly Bolly~!" video
MA says:
you should cut and paste your blog entry on the kukup trip there
MA says:
which no english or sunset youths went to because we all thought it was a kindergarden expedition
[ skinny twit ! ] [ young and idiotic. ] says:
wad the.
okok.
i will then.
Kindergraden expedition?! What were you guys thinking?
Anyway, I'll try my best and give you all a brief description of what happened la! Long entry with lots of pictures so go make yourself a nice cup of milo fuze. (drank that everyday there) Will update it with more pictures and videos soon!
Ok, so we all had to meet in church at 8 la. Nothing much happened except Shuz's cup of Mcdonald's tea spilt all over every one's bag la.
One for the camera before we leave.
MA says:
you should cut and paste your blog entry on the kukup trip there
MA says:
which no english or sunset youths went to because we all thought it was a kindergarden expedition
[ skinny twit ! ] [ young and idiotic. ] says:
wad the.
okok.
i will then.
Kindergraden expedition?! What were you guys thinking?
Anyway, I'll try my best and give you all a brief description of what happened la! Long entry with lots of pictures so go make yourself a nice cup of milo fuze. (drank that everyday there) Will update it with more pictures and videos soon!
Ok, so we all had to meet in church at 8 la. Nothing much happened except Shuz's cup of Mcdonald's tea spilt all over every one's bag la.
One for the camera before we leave.
We cleared through the customs rather quickly (except in M'sia cos the officer refused to stamp ZP's passport for goodness knows what reason) and sat on a long and boring 2 hour ride. We landed in Pontian (what a name) and had our seafood lunch. It was very nice! Except there were a lot of flies buzzing around.
I suspect people in Kukup don't drink water because they seem to only have Pepsi and more Pepsi around the island. Oh wait, you could ask for Chinese tea but that's for the oldies. Yep, so Pepsi and 7 Up it is for the next 3 days!
I'll post up more pictures as I get them. Lunch in Pontian was a noisy affair. Like, duh. With Puden, Beverly, Shuz and the rest of us laughing our heads off at the flies, boats and sea.
Right, so after lunch the tour agents organized a trip to a kelong. I haven't been on one before, but it's really.. Amusing. It's basically strips of wood tied to floating barrels in the sea.
A little boy of 15 showed us around the kelong. As usual, Beverly screamed when Puden and I jumped on the planks behind her. *Sniggers* (You too Shuz!)
This is a gao hir. Some fish you can eat. Although it looks really big here. Must be the water. I must emphasise, the water is really dirty. It smells of trash and dried salted fish.
This bunch of squirming mass is called Archer Fish. Pu Chuan and I got to feed them. You hold a dried (or in my case, live) ikan bills in the air and wait for the fish to shoot water at it and then it drops into their mouths la. Pu Chuan got hit in the eye.
This oyster is very special because the boy said there's a Pearl inside.
This is a cute little sea urchin. It resides in a water container along with a cute little sting ray. Both are very cute little things. They are so small you could hold it in the palm of your hand.
This is a horse shoe crab. It looks exactly like some shell fish from the prehistoric times. The boy offered to let me carry it, but at times like these, it looked too icky. I didn't even dare to hold the shark.
This is the shark I'm talking about. I can't remember it's name. What Dog Shark in Hokkiean. Anyway, as you can see, Puden holding it. It's skin is really weird. Sort of smooth one way and rough the other. Amazing likeness though Puden!
As usual, must take group picture.
*SMILE*
I suspect people in Kukup don't drink water because they seem to only have Pepsi and more Pepsi around the island. Oh wait, you could ask for Chinese tea but that's for the oldies. Yep, so Pepsi and 7 Up it is for the next 3 days!
I'll post up more pictures as I get them. Lunch in Pontian was a noisy affair. Like, duh. With Puden, Beverly, Shuz and the rest of us laughing our heads off at the flies, boats and sea.
Right, so after lunch the tour agents organized a trip to a kelong. I haven't been on one before, but it's really.. Amusing. It's basically strips of wood tied to floating barrels in the sea.
This is a gao hir. Some fish you can eat. Although it looks really big here. Must be the water. I must emphasise, the water is really dirty. It smells of trash and dried salted fish.
This bunch of squirming mass is called Archer Fish. Pu Chuan and I got to feed them. You hold a dried (or in my case, live) ikan bills in the air and wait for the fish to shoot water at it and then it drops into their mouths la. Pu Chuan got hit in the eye.
This oyster is very special because the boy said there's a Pearl inside.
This is a cute little sea urchin. It resides in a water container along with a cute little sting ray. Both are very cute little things. They are so small you could hold it in the palm of your hand.
This is a horse shoe crab. It looks exactly like some shell fish from the prehistoric times. The boy offered to let me carry it, but at times like these, it looked too icky. I didn't even dare to hold the shark.
This is the shark I'm talking about. I can't remember it's name. What Dog Shark in Hokkiean. Anyway, as you can see, Puden holding it. It's skin is really weird. Sort of smooth one way and rough the other. Amazing likeness though Puden!
As usual, must take group picture.
*SMILE*
Right, so after the kelong trip, we reached back to the jetty in Pontian (which is the only modern building in miles and it's not even built finish yet) and took another ferry, this time to the place we are lodging. Pontian's sort of like the "market" la.
Do not let this picture deceive you. The air smelled terrible. No nice "salty, sea breeze," you get in the books. The smell of shit was overpowering.
This is how Kukup looks like from our ferry.
Do not let this picture deceive you. The air smelled terrible. No nice "salty, sea breeze," you get in the books. The smell of shit was overpowering.
This is how Kukup looks like from our ferry.
It was orientation time. Then worship, then dinner. I must highlight dinner. It's steamboat la. And since we are living on the sea. We get nothing but fish, prawns and more seafood. I sat with Beverly, Ben Ben, Shuz, Ed, X, Pu Chuan, Justin, HY and Celesta.
Beverly was going on about the finer points of prawn peeling when I suggest we have a prawn peeling competition. Loser eats 2 fish balls. Yeah, so we all sort of held the prawns high in the air before Beverly said "GO!" Very hot ok! I finished first, followed by X and Shuz was last. HAHAHA!! She had to eat 2 fish balls! Bluff one, you still peeling when you said done. HAHAHA!! Make you eat fish balls!
Then it's bed time, but not before singing karaoke. There's nothing to do there except fish or k-boxed or play mahjong. (Which the guys did) The chalets are like little one storey houses. The living rooms were built quite solidly and the girls rooms even had marble flooring. But the guys' rooms seem to be built over planks. Their toilet leads directly into the sea. You could see the sea water underneath the toilet bowl. = =
Here's the 2nd day! Today's talent-time. Stress ah. We had only 1 day to prepare. Haha! The results were good though from our very crappy Ed, Pu Chuan, Aaron and Puden.
Yes, the nice bright sun.
Someone "Look! A jelly fish!"
Someone else "No.. That's.. A plastic bag."
Puden went fishing in the morning I suppose. We were strongly advised not to eat the fish because goodness-knows what rubbish they feast on in the sea. Human shit and stuff. So Puden threw it back into the sea.
This is breakfast. At least they gave an egg. Tomorrow's breakie will be spicy noodles! (In the morning?!)
So rare to see Shuz without make-up. It must have been years.
You made your own milo and took your own food packet. You don't have to wash up after yourselves, but almost everyone did so. (except me) Hey, I pick up after myself at home ok! I wash my own dishes and stuff. Must be you all never pick up after yourself at home la..
Happy breakkie.
Ben Ben toying unenthusiastically at his food. Classic.
The milo must have been good.
Beverly grouchily stirring her milo. Must have been over a hundred times.
Beverly was going on about the finer points of prawn peeling when I suggest we have a prawn peeling competition. Loser eats 2 fish balls. Yeah, so we all sort of held the prawns high in the air before Beverly said "GO!" Very hot ok! I finished first, followed by X and Shuz was last. HAHAHA!! She had to eat 2 fish balls! Bluff one, you still peeling when you said done. HAHAHA!! Make you eat fish balls!
Then it's bed time, but not before singing karaoke. There's nothing to do there except fish or k-boxed or play mahjong. (Which the guys did) The chalets are like little one storey houses. The living rooms were built quite solidly and the girls rooms even had marble flooring. But the guys' rooms seem to be built over planks. Their toilet leads directly into the sea. You could see the sea water underneath the toilet bowl. = =
Here's the 2nd day! Today's talent-time. Stress ah. We had only 1 day to prepare. Haha! The results were good though from our very crappy Ed, Pu Chuan, Aaron and Puden.
Yes, the nice bright sun.
Someone "Look! A jelly fish!"
Someone else "No.. That's.. A plastic bag."
Puden went fishing in the morning I suppose. We were strongly advised not to eat the fish because goodness-knows what rubbish they feast on in the sea. Human shit and stuff. So Puden threw it back into the sea.
This is breakfast. At least they gave an egg. Tomorrow's breakie will be spicy noodles! (In the morning?!)
So rare to see Shuz without make-up. It must have been years.
You made your own milo and took your own food packet. You don't have to wash up after yourselves, but almost everyone did so. (except me) Hey, I pick up after myself at home ok! I wash my own dishes and stuff. Must be you all never pick up after yourself at home la..
Happy breakkie.
Ben Ben toying unenthusiastically at his food. Classic.
The milo must have been good.
Beverly grouchily stirring her milo. Must have been over a hundred times.
No one's really awake. The sheets were scratchy and strange smelling. The houseflies kept buzzing around. Luckily there weren't any (maybe 1 or 2) flies in the girls' bunk. The guys' chalet smelled weird. Ming Zhi must have went trigger-happy with his insect repellent.
This is how a room looks like.
This is how a room looks like.
We had our 1st real sermon (which I promptly slept through along with the other kids) and the preps for talent time. We had lots of free time, which was really great! Zhi Yuan planned time time table and he did a great job. We had time to go around and explore the village and well as visit the market. I really liked this camp because of the amount of free time. Will future camp co-ordinators please take note? Give us more free time!
We had over an hour and a half to eat and more than 4 hours of free time a day. It was really good because if you were tired, you could take a nap at noon. Really nice!
We played games and my group had a wonderful score of negative 18 while Hwa Chuan's group had 18^2 because they managed to pick the square bonus point thing. Zzz.. But the kids went overly mad and cheated in round 2 ("Pass-The-Message" game) and poor Zhang Ping had to deduct points. I wans't aware because KKK and I were busily talking and taking pictures.
Who's fingers ah? Must be a girl's because it's painted with pretty flowers.
So much for this morning's devotion on Integrity la. = = |||
Then it was tea time. We had baos and milo. Allow me to post of picture of Shuz again!
We had over an hour and a half to eat and more than 4 hours of free time a day. It was really good because if you were tired, you could take a nap at noon. Really nice!
We played games and my group had a wonderful score of negative 18 while Hwa Chuan's group had 18^2 because they managed to pick the square bonus point thing. Zzz.. But the kids went overly mad and cheated in round 2 ("Pass-The-Message" game) and poor Zhang Ping had to deduct points. I wans't aware because KKK and I were busily talking and taking pictures.
Who's fingers ah? Must be a girl's because it's painted with pretty flowers.
So much for this morning's devotion on Integrity la. = = |||
Then it was tea time. We had baos and milo. Allow me to post of picture of Shuz again!
Zhi Yuan *Bites pao* "EEE!! You bluff me! This is not char siew!"
Xav "I help you throw away wan?"
Zhi Yuan *Nods enthusiastically* "OKOK!"
Yeah, so X peeled off a bit of the bao and threw it at the mud skippers (low tide mah) when he realized the bao wasn't getting smaller.
Xav "HAIYA!!" *Throws entire bao* "POK!"
Eddie "HAHAHAHA!! Why you throw the bao!! Hahaha!!"
And Da Hao proceeded to scold us la. I think if he hadn't stopped us, we would have throw all the baos into the mud. So satisfying to hear the "POK!" sound! HAHAHA!
After throwing the bao, we still got the cheek to laugh. =D
This is their fly catcher. You think what, got blue lights and all like those in SG huh? No! Their fly catcher is a piece of paper brushed with glue and stuck with tapes on an empty carton box! The bunch of us gathered around there and said "YEAHH!!" every time a fly got caught in it.
Dinner was BBQ seafood. Having been accustomed to the taste of Chomp Chomp, the BBQ wasn't so good. Shuz went mad and ate like about 4 or 5 sting rays at one go. I should bring her to Chomps one of these days.
Xav "I help you throw away wan?"
Zhi Yuan *Nods enthusiastically* "OKOK!"
Yeah, so X peeled off a bit of the bao and threw it at the mud skippers (low tide mah) when he realized the bao wasn't getting smaller.
Xav "HAIYA!!" *Throws entire bao* "POK!"
Eddie "HAHAHAHA!! Why you throw the bao!! Hahaha!!"
And Da Hao proceeded to scold us la. I think if he hadn't stopped us, we would have throw all the baos into the mud. So satisfying to hear the "POK!" sound! HAHAHA!
After throwing the bao, we still got the cheek to laugh. =D
This is their fly catcher. You think what, got blue lights and all like those in SG huh? No! Their fly catcher is a piece of paper brushed with glue and stuck with tapes on an empty carton box! The bunch of us gathered around there and said "YEAHH!!" every time a fly got caught in it.
Dinner was BBQ seafood. Having been accustomed to the taste of Chomp Chomp, the BBQ wasn't so good. Shuz went mad and ate like about 4 or 5 sting rays at one go. I should bring her to Chomps one of these days.
Then it was talent time night. Eddie' group did a wonderful act. It's called Bolly Bolly~ I will upload the video on youtube soon. I can't put it in words. It's too funny. Obviously they won. Very creative.
In the day, Pu Chuan went to the market and bought several firecrackers. Yeah! Real fire crackers! I haven't seen any of those before. We had a great time lighting the fire crackers and watching them explode in the air. Also, he gave us lots of sparklers, similar to those in SG, and we threw them into the sea after lighting them. Very nice!
Except Eddie threw really hard and one of them landed on the mangrove tree. Everyone was hoping the tree won't catch fire, because DH had explicitly told us all damages will be paid by the person who caused it la. So we can't possibly pay back a tree. = =
Last day now..
Right, we had an hour to pack up before leaving. KKK was chosen to act as the tree while Ed and lil Pu Chuan were made to pose last night's act again.
This is to give you an idea of how the place looks like. The "house" on the right is where we have our outdoor worship while the one on the left is used by other people la.
Of course must take picture. The aunty who took for us had to hold 6 cameras. In the end, she asked her daughter to hold for us.
The boat was called "Bot B"
Except Eddie threw really hard and one of them landed on the mangrove tree. Everyone was hoping the tree won't catch fire, because DH had explicitly told us all damages will be paid by the person who caused it la. So we can't possibly pay back a tree. = =
Last day now..
Right, we had an hour to pack up before leaving. KKK was chosen to act as the tree while Ed and lil Pu Chuan were made to pose last night's act again.
This is to give you an idea of how the place looks like. The "house" on the right is where we have our outdoor worship while the one on the left is used by other people la.
Of course must take picture. The aunty who took for us had to hold 6 cameras. In the end, she asked her daughter to hold for us.
The boat was called "Bot B"
Da Hao told us we were going to have lunch at Shangri-la leh! So we were all very excited when we piled on our coach for the 25 minutes ride to another part of Malaysia.
Da Hao "Ok people! Wake up! Reach already!"
Us "Huh? Where the *bleep* is this?
Da Hao "Shangri-la!!"
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.
.
.
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"WA KAO EH ! ! !"
The napkins felt weird.
Halfway through lunch of more prawns and fish, a waitress screamed. Puden said if this is Singapore, she would be fired. Apparently, the waitress saw a rat run up the chimmy and if anything runs up the chimmy, it will come down in a ball of flames and the whole "restoran" will trip.
A Malay waiter caught it anyway. Che.
Then we had an hour of shopping. There's nothing to shop there la. It's like shopping in Shop and Save and Daimaru. I bought seaweed (really cheap there) and the guys bought chewing gum and brough it back to SG.
Nothing happened on our way back to Singapore. We cleared through the customs all right (With Ed, X and I triggering the detector and were being made to empty our pockets) but our bus was still stuck in the corner of the checkpoint.
Waited quite long leh, until Lydia Lim spotted the bus driver handcuffed to a seat on the bus! OMG! And several policemen were interogating him! All we could see was the driver furiously shaking his head. After that, this Indian policeman gave us the "thumbs-up" and lead the bus driver down, handcuffed!
Because Qin Shu is a policeman, Qin Hui asked him to go ask his policemen friends what happened la. And apparently, the policemen found "something" on our bus. So they told us, we could either wait for the bus company to send another bus or take a bus back to Jurong East ourselves. So we did the latter. It was bloody freezing cold and raining. Heng, IZ sped back to S'pore and managed to get the Church Van to Jurong East to ferry us kids back to church.
Anyway from yesterday's papers..
"On sunday, a 38-year-old man was arrested at Tuas Checkpoint. He had tried to smuggle in 1.450 cartons (of cigrettes), hidden under a tour bus floorboard. Officers dected them with a mobile X-ray scanner."
Omg! We have been sleeping under 1450 cartons of ciggies and we didn't know! Aunty Mei Xiang's jelly kenna confiscated too because everyone forgot to bring it down the bus. LOL. Anyway, it was a very exciting camp! Hee Hee!
Credits to
Aaron - for his pictures
The people in the pictures - for posing la.
Us "Huh? Where the *bleep* is this?
Da Hao "Shangri-la!!"
.
.
.
.
.
"WA KAO EH ! ! !"
The napkins felt weird.
Halfway through lunch of more prawns and fish, a waitress screamed. Puden said if this is Singapore, she would be fired. Apparently, the waitress saw a rat run up the chimmy and if anything runs up the chimmy, it will come down in a ball of flames and the whole "restoran" will trip.
A Malay waiter caught it anyway. Che.
Then we had an hour of shopping. There's nothing to shop there la. It's like shopping in Shop and Save and Daimaru. I bought seaweed (really cheap there) and the guys bought chewing gum and brough it back to SG.
Nothing happened on our way back to Singapore. We cleared through the customs all right (With Ed, X and I triggering the detector and were being made to empty our pockets) but our bus was still stuck in the corner of the checkpoint.
Waited quite long leh, until Lydia Lim spotted the bus driver handcuffed to a seat on the bus! OMG! And several policemen were interogating him! All we could see was the driver furiously shaking his head. After that, this Indian policeman gave us the "thumbs-up" and lead the bus driver down, handcuffed!
Because Qin Shu is a policeman, Qin Hui asked him to go ask his policemen friends what happened la. And apparently, the policemen found "something" on our bus. So they told us, we could either wait for the bus company to send another bus or take a bus back to Jurong East ourselves. So we did the latter. It was bloody freezing cold and raining. Heng, IZ sped back to S'pore and managed to get the Church Van to Jurong East to ferry us kids back to church.
"On sunday, a 38-year-old man was arrested at Tuas Checkpoint. He had tried to smuggle in 1.450 cartons (of cigrettes), hidden under a tour bus floorboard. Officers dected them with a mobile X-ray scanner."
Omg! We have been sleeping under 1450 cartons of ciggies and we didn't know! Aunty Mei Xiang's jelly kenna confiscated too because everyone forgot to bring it down the bus. LOL. Anyway, it was a very exciting camp! Hee Hee!
Credits to
Aaron - for his pictures
The people in the pictures - for posing la.
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