Destination: Segamat

13 March 2010

One cold saturday morning, a convoy of cars gathered at Yiew Mei Green. Amongst them were a group of people. From my hideout, I could see that they were planning something mysterious. Who were they, and what were they doing? Were they criminals escaping, or agents on a mission? Whatever it was, I was going to find out soon...

I followed them as the convoy of cars moved along in a long snaky line towards the Woodlands Causeway. As I followed them closely, questions flooded my mind. Had Mass Salamat escaped again, and was he hiding in one of their cars? There wasn't much of a jam at the Causeway, so I had no trouble in tracking them, but soon I made an amazing discovery, and that was, they were on a mission trip to Segamat!

I'm sure that you fell for that trick and if you had read in one of my earlier blogs in 2008, I had gone for a mission trip too. Well, we were going back to the same place again, and I was in my dad's car, the leader of the trip!

Once we crossed the Causeway, our CG, yet formed another line of cars and we headed into the long long boring road trip to Segamat. Of course we had a 'pit stop' at a state called Yong Peng for a short break and a snack. My brother and I had a drink called milo dinosaur! The top of the drink was covered with milo powder, and the rest of the drink, milo. We had two cups of this and it was refreshing.

After a quick visit to the toilet, we set out as a group again to finish up the road trip. This part of the road was my favorite, as it was bumpy, the road uneven, and there were plenty of slopes and red mud. It looked a little like a dirt track. Finally we reached the Golden Lake Hotel which was the place we were staying in no time at all.

Our hotel rooms 106 and 107 were very ordinary, unlike those that we stayed in during our vacations. We had a bathub to soak in and the hotel rooms' carpet was pretty soft and soothing to one's wearily feet. No more comments about the rooms here.

After one last rehearsal in Ian Kang's room of our song presentation, we went to a chinese restaurant for lunch. Then came my favourite part of the day, our visit to the Childrens' Home. Actually, it wasn't really the going of the childrens home that really aroused my enthusiasm, but the thought of playing games with my friends and of course, the children there. First we had some ice breakers to introduce ourselves.

The first game we played was about getting to know one another better. We played this game by telling each other what we liked or what we do not like. Then, the kids who had something in common would have to swap places. Another game we played was throwing the ball, in which we had to remember each other's names. We had to throw the ball to one another, until everyone had the ball thrown to them except the first, then we did it again with the same sequence. This was fun because after awhile, two more balls were added. But finally, we did it. Last of all, we were split into groups of five. We were to go to different stations, to play diffent games, and from these games we would learn something. My favorite game was untie the knot. At first we had some difficulty as one hand had to be held onto the rope while another to try and untie the knot. From this game, we learned the importance of teamwork. My group did it! Now are you bored reading all these, but I just need to blog about it as the games were really fun and we go to know the children at the home well Dinner was KFC, then we wearily drove back to the hotel.

Day two 14 March 2010

Our CG helped at a new church service in Segamat. Our parents lead the worship and my dad preached the message. The children helped out as ushers. But instead of welcoming the people, we seemed to be scaring them away! We also helped the younger kids in art and craft, as well as sang our song. I was nervous, but eventually we did it. Immediately after the service, we had to drive back to singapore as daddy had to catch a flight to Egypt for his business trip. Along the way home, we stopped at Yong Peng again to top up our patrol at the shell station. Mom also treated us to ice-cream! It felt good after being cooped up in the back seat of our MPV for a while. We were glad to be back home again!