Things you learn from the planetarium

Group Picture!

I think Jessica the mangkuk queen owns the place. Her signature is all over the place.

Give you one example.

What.Do.You.See?

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A Mangkuk!

Somehow, the Mgcians were automatically drawn towards the mangkuk.

Wonder why. Some mangkuk effect. Scientifically unexplainable.

Juliana: *Gasp* We're all in Jessica's head!

If you hear carefully got echo.




 

If you look closely, you can see the planets at the background.

Or me camwhoring and Wei Jin helping me camwhore.




Again!

What.Do.You.See?

Shuen: That's Mercury, Venus, Earth........, and Pluto. Eh what's that orange thing at the front?

Shaun: *Jaw wide open* THE SUN la. *Smacks head in disbelief*

Shuen: Ohhhh. The sun. It looks like orange.

Shaun: *Still in disbelief* That's sun, mercury, venus, earth....

Daniel: Ohhhh, earth is third from the sun?

Shaun: *In greater disbelief and wider jaw* You didn't know?

Daniel: ^_^!

Ya people. The orange is the sun. Earth is third from the sun.

Now that's education.


Actually not suppose to take pictures in the planetarium. ^_^!

But since it's Jessica's place can la.

Visit to the Orphanage!

**UPDATE: For all who have been asking, this orphanage is called "Calvary Care Home". Their Facebook page is here.**

29 Sept 09 (Sunny Saturday)

We went to the orphanage at Bukit Beruang (or was it Bukit Baru? too many bukits in Malacca) overseen by Calvary Life. Main activity was to clean the orphanage home. That was the plan, at least. Not to say that we didn't clean the home, but it didn't feel like the main event. The main event felt like... oh wait. Let's do this in sequence. Hee.

We gathered at Unc Rod's place and left at 11am++.

the newspaper sandwiched in unc rod's gate.

outside the home.

the first face that greeted us was a jolly one.

joshua, the new kid on the block.

puan letchumy, the caretaker

There were ten children in all, and they all had fantastically Christian names. E.g. The four Gospel writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (unc rod: "are you matthew, mark, luke or john?") and Old Testament heroes: Daniel, Isaac, Joshua. Ahaha.

eh. more than ten here.

Sharma fitted in very quickly.

look so cun here right. ahaha.

We were nervous enough as it was. Then we sat in a circle and smiled at each other. *awkward*

We introduced ourselves, age and all, with the relics (Mel, Sharma, Shuen, Sin Yee =P) repeatedly emphasizing that they're 24 but look 16. Then Uncle Rod started the singspiration.

It was terribly unfortunate that they didn't like to sing. Or more accurately, they didn't like singing "children's songs". In the end, we sang a youth song that they suggested. Hm.

Qi did the Ice-breaker, the one where you get a piece of paper with an animal's name and go around making acting like an animal till you find your group members.

They weren't very responsive also, which was understandable, given the circumstances and surroundings. We have gotta work on this.

The boys were shy, I suppose. We had quite a hard time getting some of them to move onto the field for our famous True @ False game.

We had an even harder time persuading the False team to chase the True team. (they had no problem running FROM the True team. ahaha.) But they loosened up in the end. Yay! =D

Then it was time to move on to the main activity. Aha. The Toilet Men (so termed by Uncle Rod, a Toilet Man) went to the toilets, the Sweepers went to sweep, the Rakers went to rake, the Moppers went to mop, and...

...Well, the Photographer went to photograph. =D

Eh, I attempted to be a Sweeper and a Mopper ok. But I got chased out of the house cuz I was leaving footprints everywhere. =(

(public: er, yalah, but at least take a pic of something more worthwhile ler.)

Bah.

Neway.

The boys were really good with cleaning, and I wasn't that surprised anymore when I found their duty roster.

ps2 roster on the right.

Then it was karaoke time!

Erm, without the singing though. ^_^

Uncle Rod and Shaun's teacher from GBS and the home staff (far end) talked about how to improve the discipline of the boys.

...While the young(er) socialized. With Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal playing in the background.

eh, shaun's in every picture.

We may look like we were seriously doing nothing, but we were actually rockin' to the likes of Akon and MJ. Aha.

Socializing ceased for awhile when Sharma arrived with the pizza for lunch.

Again, some of the boys were very good with cleaning up after themselves and the rest, and helping to make sure everyone had an equal share of pizza.

This is Issac below. Woohoo! He's only 15. Shaun was much grieved that day, on account of feeling vertically challenged.

when mel gave them their gifts.

Then we went for lunch ourselves, because we didn't have any in the home. US Pizza it was! =D I didn't take any pictures cuz takut goda our fasting friends who may happen to stumble upon this blog. Ahaha.

When we got back, Will Son (one of the boys) SMS-ed and said,

Thank you for coming we r very happy.

=)

p/s: i'm sorry if i sound awfully detached and factual. it' 1.33 am. i finally managed to upload the pics. whoo!

18 & 19 april 2009.

18 april 2009 (saturday)

there was only a few of us, so we gathered at one corner of the church and sang to the music from the piano. then the piano tuner tetiba came along and started tuning the piano. ping pong piang. well. almost. so we had to go to the youth room instead. (children were colouring)

uncle kian boon spoke on Authority

then we got squashed in the kenari.

actually only shaun and sin lan look squashed. =.=

19 april 2009 (sunday)

uncle philip continued his series on 1 kings. we're up to chapter 15 now. i personally think it was a thought-provoking chapter - though cross-references to 2 chronicles are needed to give impact to the chapter - filled with spiritual moments, awesome for people under stress. like uni kids. with fyps or finals. memorable verses:

Abijah (judah) ... army of valiant warriors, 400, 000 choice men
Jeroboam (israel) ... 800, 000 (more than the entire population of malacca ok) choice men...

2 chronicles 13:3


...and the children of Judah were strong,
for they leaned on Jehovah,
God of their fathers.

2 chronicles 13:18, young's literal translation, modified

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro
throughout the whole earth,
to show himself strong
in the behalf of them
whose heart is perfect toward him.

2 chronicles 16:9

new king james version reads "perfect" as loyal. we sometimes wonder why our lives aren't filled with Christian joy and peace, like some other people we envy and can't seem to understand.

it's because it is a loyal heart that catches His eye. one that doesn't turn aside from Him even after sin. God will show Himself strong. for our sakes. let's be perfect toward Him. our God delivers. =)

then we had a dmsj + youth camp meeting.

see so selamba.

our sexytary.

actually we were stalling for time. of all days, kah wei had to choose today to be so extremely busy. he was on the phone for who knows how long, then auntie yu ming called him to take the keyboard, then uncle kian boon pulled him aside to talk. gahness. we actually ran out of things to discuss in the meeting room. and then he finally came. i felt a wave of at-last!-ness sweep across the room.

i had no choice. i had to say it. i scolded the youth for always giving sharma trouble, not registering their names for DMSJ like they were supposed to, and giving the DMSJ organizers such a hard time. "always waiting for someone else to move before you move", i chided. so i played a game to show them how looking at someone else will not achieve anything for either party.

the game goes: everyone looks down. when i say "up!", everyone picks someone to look at. if the person happens to be looking at you, you both scream, and you're out of the game.

eventually, kah wei was the last one left. this is not a good thing. it means nobody wanted to look at him. nyeh nyeh. "kah wei's the winner!"

kah wei: "so what's my prize?"

"your prize is... everyone has something to say to kah wei, right? everyone?"

everyone:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAH WEI!!!!!!!!!!

yep. it was all a farce. it was more than pretty difficult to keep a straight, solemn face when sharma and melissa and almost all the youth were smiling and stifling their laughter. ish.

then we asked kah wei about his future plans for about the next two years to come. and he said he'd work in malacca. and...

i hope all of us won't just come to church and that's it.
i hope we can grow spiritually together.
if not it'll be like going to high school,
then graduate,
then become alumni. lol.

after all, we're going to see each other again.
in heaven, when we die and all.

sharma: "dude. the next two years la. what in heaven and all??"

but it was pretty profound anyway. aha.

kah wei: "what la, this blue cloth. like taking IC photo."

Adrian shared on Giving

The Question

"What is Giving?"

Sharma

"Giving is when you lose something, and someone gains something." (like opportunity cost*)







Hwei

"I would agree with Sharma's definition, except I would add 'voluntarily'. Because if someone steals from you, you're not actually giving to him."

Melissa

"Giving is investing."








Juliana

"Giving can be a lot of things. It depends on whether there is an extraction or subtraction. Giving can also be giving up, giving in, giving out..."






Yen

"Engineers think simple. Giving is giving."

-beberapa saat berlalu-

Layman

"...So what is giving?"

*the cost of giving up something to gain something in return

let's play "guess the profession"

A Regular MGC Captainball Game

Everybody knows our motto:

Kalah Tak Per, Janji Bergaya!

It is assumed that we lose all the time. (especially after a few DMSJ's)

And the rage in MGC now is the success of founding a new measure of lameness (thanks to the Mangkuk Society) - Shaun.

It is now probably also assumed that MGC-ians are a bunch of nuts who shouldn't be taken seriously.

Not true at all.

We can be serious.

so serious hmm hmm

Er. Ignore that.

Anyway.

We are serious people. Although we may lose to a lot of other people in a lot of other things, we put our whole hearts and souls into the things we do. Hmm Hmm.

forgot to capture the ball on camera *sorry*
-tengok lai and ken berdrama-

And here's to proving the "always lose" statement wrong.

goal!

(Nevermind the fact that we were only playing amongst ourselves)

Here's a victory picture!

look at yen

After the goal, we put on our serious faces again.

eh? wassat?

er. adrian still revelling in the previous victory, i guess.

One Fine Saturday When We Had An Actual Game

Game: True or False. Gameleader: Shuen

Here's how the game goes.

There are 2 groups - the True Group, and the False Group. When the Gameleader gives a statement, it can be either True or False. If the answer is False, the False Group will run after the True Group and try to catch the members of the group. But once the True Group passes a certain set borderline on their end, they are "safe". Vice versa for if the answer is True.

For example,

Statement: KFC sells pizza.

Answer: False

So the False Group chases the True Group till the borderline. The True Group members who are caught are then out of the game. It continues until the other team is completely annihilated, or in this case:

public: what's this?


sole survivor of the false team: "bring it!"

...when the winner is fairly obvious.

Having our church's layout means our games get interrupted quite often.

the game stops for that one car

~big hint to michelle *** chen **~

Also, there are times when seemingly normal statements can be controversial:

Statement: Andy is sitting on the car.

answer: true? but wait...

which Andy??

Or like the time Ju said:

Chen Li is pretty.

Result:

Nobody moved.

Or like the time Shuen said:

Shaun is a girl.

Result:

The True Team chased the False Team.


(and the False Team ran)

Hmm.

we actually saved this game for last for DMSJ's afternoon games.
too bad it rained. =(