everyone is special

hey... ya of course everyone is special to God...
don't nitpick my entries! -i'm offended-
i know i make mistakes when i write sometimes! i'm sorry about that!

anyway.. song of the day :

I will sing, i will sing
a song unto the lord
i will sing, i will sing,
a song unto the Lord
i will sing, i will sing,
a song unto the Lord
i will sing a song unto the lord

hallelu, hallelujah
Glory to the King
Hallelu, hallelujah
Glory to the King
Hallelu, Hallelijah,
Glory to the king
Hallelujah, Glory to the King

and Teacher's Retreat in Bintan!
it was great.. we went for a full body massage... braved choppy seas on a small little sampan....
ate durains, ate kueh, ate vege fritters, ate coconuts, ate keropok, ate mangoes and pineapples ate all kinds of food!
yuppp.. but highlight of the day was going to the church....
where we sang that simple but unique song ! and well... as i tried to understand the Sermon delivered in Bahasa Melayu (is this the right term?) ..
talked about how the Pastor went overseas to study, came back and found a hard time settling in, but he did... and well.. how we should walk in the light (Ephesians) and continue to do good in our lives... well thats where i stopped.... their church was beautiful.... yet held a really bold statement in a muslim country... anyway..
its really a refresher from what we are used to back home...
We lived on a kelong, saw tonnes of rats, crabs, litter, mud... walked around the village..
they're quite poor, yet their simple lifestyles sustain them much better than ours do.
i also met some Grace Methodist church people and Church of Singapore (Balestier) people... of which the latter made me sit in between 2 of them guys and right next to the mission leader, and we traded a little bit of our experiences... every month they go down to Bintan to the villages to do mission work. i'm impressed... how many of my own church people actually do that? SIGH... i hope its a case that i don't know, rather than don't have.
yup anyway thanks to Lucy, Guat Ha, Simon, Siewling, Sarah, Avelina, Winnie, Cecilia, Irene and Bee Choo for being such great company as we played Taboo and ate Keropok the entire night, watched the stars and marvelled at what we miss so much back here.. Simpleness.
the retreat was jampacked, not only with activities, but drama and fun! but yet everything seemed to fall into place... (thank God). E.g. Simon hurt himself getting into the sampan, Ave didn't get her full massage, We didn't manage to find durians and all at first!

But.. so many of them were single middle aged women! which was really funny, when they talked about how no one messages them, how they should be getting married and all... but we all ganged up on the married couple in the end! and had tonnes of fun ourselves.. the long-serving batch of teachers (excluding me). what a 2 days! *smiles really brightly*

But yet i miss people back home, and i missed home.... i missed Fathers day with my dad because he's overseas too

okay today's quote is "everyone is special"