Thursday
THE Night was created to be an evangelistic tool with which OCF could reach out to other Monashians through skits, dances, and music. This year the committee decided that there will be no preaching - just a simple dinner accompanied by performances throughout the night. Well I was on a couple of the performances and as for my first time on stage in Australia, I thought it was pretty decent. We had a good turnout, maybe about approx 150-160 students were present that night. Minor setbacks aside, I think it was a success. Well done to the organising committee! and of course we went to Rock Kung @ Glen W. for supper as usual.
Friday
There was no OCF meeting today. Instead we had cell fellowship at various houses. We had loads of fun eating steamboat and playing Taboo + Charades in my cell. The funny actions people do in Charades.... I mean, how'd you act out something like Brad Pitt?
Saturday
Played soccer in the morning with a bunch of Msians and Singas for more than 2 hours in the winter rain. Thank God I didnt fall sick after that.
In the evening we went to CityLife Church for the 4pm service. A Msian young pastor was sharing that day and he was really good. One of the things he said that stuck with me was that people can be serving Christ full-time, but can also be only part-time IN Christ at the same time.
Interesting eh?
After church, me, Viv, Eugene, Desiree, and Sam headed off to Glen to try out the Yong Tau Foo at a Msian restaurant. The funny thing was, they labeled it as 'Young Tau Foo'. But it was pretty alright I guess. But obviously nothing in comparison with the Jalan Ipoh Yong Tau Foo. Delicious sial. But the five of us had a great time fellowshipping with one another that night over Yong Tau Foo and chocolate cake desserts after that.
Sunday
Thanks to Jo Lynn we had to wake up super early on a Sunday morning. Well 9am is pretty early especially since I usually wake up at 1pm in Sundays. She convinced the both of us to accompany her and her friend Kat up Mt Dandenong along with KC. But there was no regrets la. Especially with all the Jo Lynn bimbo moments the whole day. Until even KC and I had our dumb bimbo moments.
Our first stop of the day was for breakfast at Sassafras in a quaint shop called Miss Marple's Tearoom where we had scones and tea. Oh FYI, Mt Dandy isn't really that cold at all. Managed to tahan the weather in three-quarters :D
After breakfast we spent an hour walking around the small town visiting the shops that were there. There were shops selling puppets, some coffee-related products, and one kinda freaky looking shop which sells mystical objects. And I could have sworn that the two women behind the counter looked like witches.
After Sassafras we made our way to Sky High on a flying bus. (Inside joke) The view from Sky High was fantastic though, along with most of our bimbo moments of the day. One highlight was conning Jo Lynn into believing that we could actually see the Melbourne Airport as well as the Menzies Building in Clayton from there.
After the breath-taking view from Sky High, we had lunch at Olinda in a shop called Pie in the Sky.The pies were alright, even though the servings were really small. Afterwards, we stopped by at a chili shop where being the hero that I am, I HAD to take TWO helpings of a chili sauce called the Ultra Death Sauce which claimed to be 800 times hotter than Jalapeno chili. It apparently has a rating of nearly 1million on the Scoville scale. Okay, I did some research afterward and to put it in your perspective, the chili sauce I tried is approximately TEN times hotter than the chili padi. Well effectively it is the hottest chili sauce in the world because it includes the Naga Jolokia pepper which is the world's hottest chili pepper according to the Guinness' Book of Records. The effects only hit me about 5 minutes later. I think if I had anymore of that chili I could have passed out. 2 helpings was enough to make me dizzy in my head and feel the blood rushing through my veins.
The poison:
All in all we had a great time bonding with each other that day on Mt Dandy.
Monday
And we're off to the city for a night of patriotism:p I guess what they say is true, Melbourne is really quite a small place for Asians. First off I met a bunch of futsal kakis from Monash Clayton. Then I met other OCF-ers whom we didn't know were coming. And finally, I met my pastor's son. Horrors. lol, joking. Oh and I met Ong Ka Ting's daughter as well! But hey Melbourne is really pretty small and it really wasn't my first time meeting people I know on the streets. I'll just let the following pictures do the talking for me:
Whatchu, whatchu, whatchu wai-ting for?
pastor's son?
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