Twas a tiring but fulfilling weekend…

Thank goodness I had plentiful of rest on Saturday :P Sunday morning started off with an amazingly high note after basking in His presence during worship in church. After morning service, I had to quickly grab lunch *gobble gobble gobble* before assembling *rush rush rush* at Banner of God Church at Kota Damansara. It’s a month’s old church birthed from FGA church. It’s missions week *Wheeeee!!!!*

After a short briefing and prayer time we were off to Ulu Langat again. The team received a warm welcome and it was really cute having the kids shout at the top of their lungs, * “Selamat Datang, kakak Juan!!!” (*translation: “Welcome, big sis Juan!”) *giggle* There’s Darren reading passages on ‘spiritual fruits’ from Bible. It was really interesting how the familiar passages sound in Indonesian language :p

After a time of worship, the teaching was Gates of Jericho - the gates were kept shut to keep the Israelites out. To capture the city, the Lord had asked Joshua and his soldiers to march around the city once a day for six days. On the seventh day, they were to march around the city seven times while the priests blew the trumpets. Then, they were to sound one long note, the people were to give a loud shout, and city walls will collapse. What an amazing miracle! The people in Jericho must have thought these soldiers were idiots circling their city like musicians :P And so, we got the team act as the walls whilst the giggly kids circle round, sounding their make-believe trumpets. What a riot when the walls collapsed, “Oi! Careful that your ass doesn’t fall on the kids!”

Aww… the kids had so much fun coloring the Jericho fort. They built a game using two pieces of paper - the first piece was a picture of the fort with some holes cut for the second piece to turn around like the soldiers circling the city. The funniest thing that happened was, I was shocked by this chicken that came into the house pecking away at my crayons *LOL*

Then, it’s chow-time. It’s so easy to get a smile from these children, just need to serve them with something sweet. Heh… there he goes serving everyone with his mum’s cheesecake. Err… afraid that he might need to bring them home, perhaps? Naaa… it was very yummy *grin*

Ooo… I want to show off the little toddler that capture my heart *flutter flutter* That’s a quarter of me peeking out at the side. Eh? I remember making a mental note to myself that this trip, I was going to snap some photos of their water source and their toilet. They get 24-hour refreshingly cold, clean water from a source that connects straight to their pipe. And their toilet… had no doors! Ahahahahah! *LOL* We need to stand guard outside for each other. The last time, I was standing guard when suddenly a two year old rushed in before I could catch him and I heard a scream, “AAAAAaaa!”

We managed to get back early so I decided to pop over to Ian’s place for Uncle David’s (Ian’s dad) birthday celebration. Whar… would you just look at the spread on the table? It was a pot-bless and I think everyone outdid themselves (with ‘me’ as the exception, cause I just brought my tummy) kee kee… There goes my diet!!! Never mind… 1 hour of gym today. *wink!* Ahhh… slept with a full stomach last night… has been 2 months since my stomach felt so satisfied going to bed… mmmhhhhhh…

It wouldn’t be a night at Ian’s place if there was no karaoke. Okay, apart from the 'constipated' expression on Ian’s face *giggle*, the atmosphere caught in the picture DOES look kinda dead, right? Hrmph! What to do? I’m the one holding the camera… couldn’t very well capture myself doing the Britney Spears movements …ahahhahaha.

Happy Birthday Uncle David!!! Would you just look at the picture… the Lau family all grinning from ear to ear. So obvious where Ian gets his smiling genes from, right?

Ah, yes… me doing the cake-cutting. Juan, the official cake cutter. For the past three years, I have officially carried the title proudly as the Mess-Free, Perfectly-Portion-Sliced Cake Cutter *ta-daa!*

We sha-la-la-la-laaad until about midnight and were forced to go home cause needed to get to work the next day. Ian was boo-ed when he asked, "Anyone wants coffee?" Hrmph... easy for him to say, he's the only one who doesn't need to work the next day >:P Poor Lavender had a 5:30am shift. Lavender, if you’re reading this… “5:30am shift wor, not scared of ghost meh?” Ga-ahahahahhahaah!

Ahhh… am… dead… tired… but… feeling… extremely… happy… *snoreeeee…*

I remember a year back when everyone decided to go separate ways; we were so bummed cause we weren’t going to see each other every week anymore. Who would’ve thought that our friendships now are so much stronger? Perhaps, now there’s no pressure to bond; we actually take the effort to keep in touch; but most of all, we keep in touch because we just love being with each other. Sigh… strange how things ALWAYS work out in the end, doesn’t it? :D