Nando's and Farewell!!!!!!!!

So as I said in my previous post, we went to Pelita on Saturday night instead of going after church the next day as planned... partly because we didn't want to eat at pasar seni and partly because we weren't sure if they had roti in the afternoons...so we just went to Pelita the previous night.. :)

Instead of going to Pelita after church we ended up at NANDO'S instead!!!!!!!! :) Wow I said so many insteads.. :P

Anyway, yeah, Kerry also wanted to go to Nando's because she loves the food there too... :)

Jie Jie Janet joined us too, so that made 6 of us girls.. :) Sarah, JJJ, Kerry, Chrissie, Jie, and Me!!!!! :)

We had an awesome time there......but after Nando's came the sad part, we had to say goodbye to Kerry and Chrissie!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! :(

It was soooooooo hard to say goodbye, I didn't want them to leave and we hugged so many times!!!! :P Kerry was saying, if only she can put all of us into her bag and ship us to America.. :)

I really miss them so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a crazy week, filled with fun, and awesome-ness!!!!!!! I really enjoyed myself with them last week....

Picturesssss......

Jie, Chrissie, Sarah, Me, and Kerry posing at Nando's!!!! :) JJJ helped us take the picture thats why she wasn't in it... :P

Me and Chrissie!!!!! It was really nice meeting her, she's so fun.. :) I'm going to miss her too... :( <3

Me and Kerry!!!!!!!!!!! She hugged me sooooo tight here in this picture!!!!!!! Awwwwhhh I miss her soooooo much!!!!!!! She's always so jolly, and fun, and exciting!!!!! <3

I miss them soooooooooo much!!!!!!!(yes, I know I said that so many times...)

Charissa

KLCC, Pasar Seni(Central Market), Petaling Street, and Pelita!!!!! :)

This is what happened on Saturday...

Sarah came to pick my sister and I up from our home at about 11 something... :) We had a girls day out!!!!! Just Kerry, Chrissie, Sarah, Jie, and Me!!!! Sam didn't come along.. :) So we didn't need to squash in Sarah's car... just nice, 2 in front, and 3 the back... :D

We headed to the LRT Station at Kelana Jaya, because we intended to take the LRT and not drive downtown.

Bought our tickets, boarded the LRT, and we were on our way to KLCC!!!!!!! It was a longer journey since KLCC was one of the last few stops.. :) But it was fun, it was still early so there were plenty of seats for us... :) We all sat 5 in a row!!!!! It was fun.. :D

Unfortunately, when we arrived at KLCC, we had bad news... Sarah wanted us to go up to the sky bridge thingy in between the twin towers...they give out only a certain amount of tickets per day for visitors to go up. It's free, as long as you can get a ticket... first come first serve basis. :D

But when we enquired at the info desk where to get the tickets, the lady said that the sky bridge and twin towers were closed for maintenance!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!! :(

The whole reason why we went to KLCC was to go up on the sky bridge and of course for Chrissie to see the twin towers too...since she hasn't seen it before...Kerry has though.. :D

Ah well, so we decided to walk out to the park, and try and take a picture of us with the twin towers in the background...we managed to get a picture of it, almost all of the twin towers.. :D You'll see in the pictures later.. :)

By that time, we were all sweating and dripping...Both Sarah and I sweat really easily, all I need to do is just walk out in the hot sun and I will start sweating... Kerry was already glistening much earlier, and Chrissie and my sis were also saying it was hot..

We quickly headed back into the air conditioning and agreed that we all wanted ice cream.. :)

But in the end we didn't get any ice cream...we headed to the food court and jie and I had our lunch...the other 3 didn't wanna eat because they were still full from a heavy breakfast...we tried to hunt for ice cream later, but all the places we found were kinda of like expensive and we didn't want to pay so much for ice cream we haven't tasted before...so we went without ice creams...sad... :(

We hung about and walked for awhile until it was about 3pm and went back to the LRT and headed to Pasar Seni!!!!!!!! :D

All of us love Pasar Seni!!!!!!!! I really like the place, all the interesting shops and little things you can buy.... nice place... we stayed there a loooooong time... until like about 6 something.. :) All of us did our shopping there....especially Kerry and Chrissie, who still had to get gifts for some of their family members...they got everything there.. :)

While walking along the shops at Pasar Seni, we came across a stall which had bottles filled with sand paintings in it displaced on a shelf!!!!!!!! It was so interesting and we were wondering how it was done...I said aloud that maybe they did sand art and then stuff the card inside the bottle...the guy heard me and immediately said, NOOOOO, no paper, just sand...I will show you...

And he created another of those amazing bottles with a sand picture in it!!!!!!!! :) He was so fast, and it really amazes me how he can make such pictures... all the little details, he can do it so quickly!!!!! It's really amazing, all of us were just so thrilled and you just can't walk away!!!!!! :)

The guy is from Syria, and he said that the art he was doing is the culture in his country... awesomeee!!!! :D We had a conversation with him while he was showing us how the art was done... :)

I should have taken a picture of his work...AMAZING!!!!!!!!! :) Kerry and Chrissie bought one for a friend of theirs who was generous to them and gave them money to buy rings...the syrian guy made for them a bottle with the twin towers in it and other designs, and also he told them they could put in words... so they got the guy to put in a thank you note... :)

That was really interesting to watch...anytime you go to Pasar Seni, you should look for him...and watch him make one.. :)

After Pasar Seni, we went to Petaling Street, China Town... we just walked through the shops one time and we decided to head back to Pasar Seni again for dinner... later we decided that we didn't want to eat there and we should just eat dinner at PELITA!!!!!!!! :)

So we headed back to the LRT and back to Kelana Jaya...there weren't any seats available until almost towards the end of the journey so we had to stand up...after a whole day on my feet without much sitting down except for twice, my feet were hurting SO BADLY!!!!!! :( Sarah's too... but don't even mention my sister...she was complaining the whole time at Pasar Seni that she needs to sit down, her ankles were ready to burst!!!!!!!!! :P

Before we headed to Pelita, we had to pick up Sam first at Jamie's house...the whole time we were traveling to Jamie's house, we were trying to figure out if all of us could fit behind... since with the 3 of us behind, it's already pretty squash, what more with a 4th person!!!!!!!!! Finally we decided that we probably could fit in... hahahaha

Arrived there, and we had to wait like 10 mins before Sam appeared...even though Sarah already called earlier to inform him we are arriving soon, we still had to wait... haiz.... :P

WE MANAGED TO FIT IN!!!!!!!!! :D A little bit cramped but still "stand-able"... :)

Both Sarah and I could hardly wait to go to PELITA!!!!!!! We were both starving!!!!!! :)

Kerry was sooooo excited to go to Pelita, she missses their food a lot.. :) And you should have seen the food both Kerry and Chrissie ordered, it was like a feast.. :) It filled up our whole table and also part of the table next to us.. :)

And of course, Kerry couldn't go without her orange juice...she ordered 2 glasses and we took a picture of her drinking both of them simultaneously just like the last time she came to Pelita.. :)

After that it was time to drop both my sis and I back home...it was a tiring day but also AWESOME FUN!!!!! :) We had a good time with Kerry, Chrissie, and Sarah...we could talk about things that we won't talk about when a guy is around...teehehehehe... :)

Picturessssssssssss.......not many though.... just 5...

Me, Kery, Jie, and Chrissie posing with the twin towers behind... :)

Kerry and Chrissie!!!!!! :)

Kerry and her two glasses of orange juice!!!!!!! She finished them before her food arrived.. :)

The feast!!!!!! I think 1 plate of Roti hadn't arrived yet too.. :P

Posing infront of the Pelita sign!!!! :)

Charissa

Malacca Trip!!!!! :)

Kerry, one of the American girls from the Peacemaker VBS Team dropped by Malaysia with her friend for a visit!!!!!!!!! :)

We were all so excited, haven't seen her for more than a year!!!!!!!!!

So she and her friend, Chrissie, arrived in Malaysia on Wednesday morning...they are staying at Pastor Wong's place...

So Sarah, my sister and I have been planning things for them, and Sarah wanted to take them to Malacca. We started planning and discussing this Malacca trip only last Sunday!!!!!!!!! :P

We could have came to a decision quicker if Sarah had asked them first if they would be too tired to make a trip to Malacca the same day they arrive in Malaysia.

The thing was, Sarah only had to work until 12 something on Wednesday, and yesterday(Thursday) she had a holiday..so Wednesday and Thursday was a good time to plan a trip.

But we were so unsure whether the girls will be really tired and jet lag...it was sooooo hard to decide, Sarah even thought of just making a day trip there on Thursday instead...but we figured it will be too rush and also we can't all fit in her car. ):

Finally we decided to just go ahead and plan the trip, and we decided to buy bus tickets instead...and Mummy managed to book Puri Hotel for us!!!!! (:

So on Wednesday, Sarah, Sam, Kerry, Chrissie, Jie and Me left for Malacca on the 4:30pm Transnasional bus... :)

And arrived in Centra Malacca at about 7-nish.. :D

After that we took two cabs to Puri Hotel!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Puri Hotel is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! It's pretty reasonable I guess, and the rooms are really clean...only thing was, it was a bit musty...

Anyway, I guess all of us enjoyed Puri Hotel, and we will definitely stay in that hotel if we ever go back to Malacca again!!!!!!! :D

The hotel used to be a house owned by some baba-nyonya guy I think... :D You can check it up on Google....

Unfortunately we didn't get rooms side by side...only two rooms were next to each other and the other room was one floor below...saddddd.. :(

Sam and Sarah took the room below and Kerry and Chrissie and Jie and Me took the rooms above...

There was a door connecting our two rooms together!!!!!!!! We unlocked the door and we can enter each other's rooms without having to enter through the main door!!!!!! That was nice... :D

After freshening up we met downstairs about 15 mins later to walk to Jonker Street for dinner...

We had Chicken Rice Balls!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDD

And we had fun at that restaurant because we did kinda of like a revolving video.. Sam had this gorilla tripod thingy, and it had wheels so we sat at a round table and spinned the camera around and we had a revolving video!!!!!! :D We kinda of just did hellos and laughs and some talking...it was fun.. :)

We were hoping that the shops at Jonker Street were still open at night but apparently not so we headed back to the hotel...and we sat at the lounge area to play CARDS...

We played SPOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome game, except we changed the spoons to pens since we didn't have any spoons.. :)

I didn't get a single letter!!!!!!!!! The rest all had SP's, or SPO's or SPOO's and finally SPOONS!!!! :P Chrissie got SPOONS first...

At first Sam and I were the only ones who maintained a zero letter, then later he got two letters... hahahaha...they were all trying to get me to get a letter, but I didn't.. :)

Guess what, there was FREE WiFi downstairs, and they provide two Mac's for those who stay there...if there are people waiting we can only use it for 15 mins...but no one wanted to use whenever I wanted to use so I could use as long as I wanted to. :D Awesomeeeee!!!!!

We played and hanged about there until it got quite late like 11 and then we all went back to our rooms to bathe and sleep...

Unfortunately I didn't bring along a hairdryer and it was quite late to go downstairs to the main desk and ask for a hairdryer so I had to wait until my hair dried first before I could sleep..that was about 1am in the morning when it so called dried..

I was sooooo tired by that time, and plop down on the bed...next thing I knew was, there was this MOST ANNOYING MOSQUITO BUZZING INTO MY EAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how annoying and irritating it is to have a mosquito buzzing into your ear when you want to sleep?????

I had to get up and call my sister and we tried to look for it, but it didn't wanna come out with all the lights...

In the end we left the light near the door on and my sister went back to sleep..I was almost going to sleep when I suddenly SAW THE MOSQUITO!!!!!!!! I tired to catch it but failed...then came the long waiting game of waiting for the mosquito to make its appearance again...

Each time it appears it goes away for about 5 mins and then comes back again, I tried easily 5 times to catch it but it always flies to a dark corner...

I couldn't stand it anymore I was soooooo groggy, in the end I fell asleep with the light still on, and without catching the mosquito...

Thank God I didn't get any bites... :) I woke up at about 7 and then went back to sleep and woke up at 7:45 am...then got up and got ready because we all agreed to meet for breakfast at 8:30 am..

The hotel provided breakfast for us!!!!! It was a yummy breakfast, so many things to choose and eat.. :D

We planned to sight-see the farther historical places after breakfast so that we won't need to carry our backpacks with us....but that plan failed because we figured it was better to check out in the morning and then we could do whatever we want instead of checking out at the 12(that was the checking out time) and having to come back all the way to the hotel to check out...

So we had to carry all our stuff with us which, was ok at first but later it got a bit heavy but ah well, I survived.. :D

We went by foot to all the places we wanted to go to...all the historical places.. :D

And after lunch we went to some shops and then headed to the roundabout to get taxis to Malacca Central again...

I know we really had a short trip, it was like 24 hours in Malacca only.. :(

We were all quite tired, and I guess most of us slept in the bus??? I wanted to sleep earlier but the bus driver played a comedy movie on the bus and I wanted to finish watching it so I guess I only took about a 15 min nap.. :D

And guess what, Aunty Constance invited us all to her place for dinner, so my parents drove two cars and picked all of us up from the bus stop and headed straight to the Wong's place!!!!!!! :D

The first thing we wanted to do when we got there was to BATHE!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D We all hit the showers, that is only four of us, Sam, Jie, Chrissie, and Me!!!

Kerry and Sarah showered after we left... :)

Aaahhh it was good to feel clean!!!!!!! :)

Dinner was a FEAST!!!!!! Pumpkin soup, baked bolognese rice, lamb, and salad!!!!!!!! It was sooooo yummy!!!!!!!! :D

We headed home soon after because everybody was tired too... :P

So that's about all we did at Malacca, nothing much, tiring, but still AWESOME FUN!!!!!! :)


Pictures!!!!!!!! :) I stole all the pics from Sam, he was the only one who took pictures for us, I didn't take any.. :) So all these are from his camera.. :) Enjoy, not many though!!!! :)

Kerry, Chrissie, Me, Sarah, and Jie at the Chicken Rice Balls shop.. :) Our dinner!!!!

We were supposed to do a regal pose but just as I put on a serious face, Kerry started giggling and the rest of us followed after she started, but only Chrissie managed to keep a straight face, she was good!!!! :)

Yaaayyy, we did our Regal Pose!!!!!!! :)

Casual......

On the first floor of Puri Hotel!!!!! :D

Walking in the hot, hot, hot sun... :(

This sign is so funny, the english is so broken and it sounds so funny...and Sam still took a picture of it anyway.. :D

At Stadhuys... :)

St. Paul's Church..

<3

Sarah was supposed to be slave driving us, and looks like Chrissie and Me are laughing at Kerry being picked on by the big boss!!!!!!!! :)

The Ship!!!!!! :)

We were crazy people here...this was part of a fort near a main road and we decided to pose in the hot sun for about half an hour here...Sam took so many pictures.. :D We were really crazy to do this and a lot of people were smiling at us and like laughing.. :D

With Sam, he used his tripod so that he could be in the picture.. :)

Us girls all lined up!!!!!!!! :)

That's about it,

Charissa

Guess What I Found in the Mail?????

I never get any mail. I'm serious, because nowadays people will use emails or facebook to connect. So I was really surprised when my sister shouted to me that I received mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

It was in quite a big envelope, and I was wondering who could it be from????

I tore open the envelope and GUESS WHAT I FOUND IN THERE??????????

A PICTURE FRAME CARD FROM AUNTY RACHEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was so surprised to find that beautiful gift inside the envelope!!!!!!!!! First of all, I didn't expect any mail, secondly, I didn't expect something from Aunty Rachel!!!!!!!!!!!

In case you're wondering who Aunty Rachel is, she's one of my coaches from Teens in Mission. I'm sure if you read my previous post, you would have read about her. :)

The gift had a picture of our whole NET in the front, decorated with the teens in mission logo, and our group number(I think) and also my name!!!!!!! =D

And at the back is a little message from Aunty Rachel!!!!!!! =D

It's so cute, and pretty!!!!!!

This really made my day!!!!!!!!! I have the sweetest, awesome-st coach ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D

Pictures below.....

Posing with the lovely gift!!!!!!

The front...there's my name at the left, our NET picture in the middle, 3 flowers on the top, the Logos Hope logo on the right hand corner, the teens in mission theme logo below, and the 3 stands for our group number(I think...)

The little message at the back.. =D



Charissa