God's Clay

Read about the amazing journey we went thru from 20-22 June! The most unprepared trip where God just provided transport after transport for us and continued to protect us all!
We went thru this adventurous journey! Was Swept into the open sea for 4 hrs on Day 2! Our kayak even capsize! Lost the oar! Lost snorkling set! Drank alot of SEA WATER! Climb mountainous rocks! Trekking in the jungle at night in pitch darkness! And the awesomeeee starssss and strange green light sparkling phenomena we saw at low tide at night!

And on the last day,God showed me with this verse at biblegateway when i finally reach home and turn on my computer!

“The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”- Psalm 121:7-8"

I was like WOW! God really is a FAITHFUL GOD!!!!

Saturday,20 June Woke up about 5am! Reached Sixth avenue bus stop at 6.15am!

(we all gathered at the bus stop at 6.15am at Sixth avenue area)

(Bus 170 to Larkin!)

At Woodlands check point!

(The God's clay girls!)

(the bus journey to larkin! Benlei , ernest knock out!)

After reaching larkin... we were all rushing to see if we sld take bus or cab down to mersing as we were afraid of missing our ferry to tioman which we did not booked at all! So we bargained with the cab drivers of a cost from larkin to mersing..from 200RM to 135Rm per cab! thats the best we cld... although it was abit ex!

(we boarded this looooong ferry ride from mersing to tioman!)

(the sleeping Mooooniee!)

(Finally after 2hrs plus our ferry reached paya beach!)

(the video of the speedboat to melina beach resort)

(we took a speed boat there!)

(arriving at Melina Beach Resort,Tioman!)

(I love this photo! We actually had this boulder in our ROOM! & we all climbed it!)

(God's clay! Some tea time before we explored the sea!)

(moonie to the rescue as charles had some bleeding foot!)

(I can't believed we actually managed to all climb this rock! It was super slippery at the other end, and the only way was when we work together to pull each other up this rocky rock!)

(this is a cool fresh water stream by the beach)

The start of our EPIC trek from melina to paya for dinner....

(the video of our epic trek thru the jungles!)

(the start of our epic trek!)

(we abseiled down rocks! Climb mountains!)

(the huge tree we saw!)

(FINALLY we reached the peak of Paya Beach!)

(the video of our epic return journey at Night! It was PITCH BLACK!)

(return journey back in pitched darkness after dinner!)

Sunday, 21 June
Steph,moonie,benlei & me woke up at 6am for sunrise and started exploring the beach!

(MY ROCK!)

(video of the journey thru the sea!...in later part of video catch Benlei peeing on his pants, followed by the CRAZY LAUGHTER!)

(video of the journey thru the sea! to the cave!)

(we climb out this rocky mountain)

(the top of the "mountain" we climbed!)

(the Happenings at the top of the mountain! as we talk for abt 2hrs!)

(the beautiful sea beside the rocks!)

(watch those splits!)

(the delicious breakfast!)

The tiring but adventurous day...... This was the day we got swept into the open sea for more than 4hrs! So this was how the story went... We rented a couple of kayaks and some snorkling sets that day,we saw this platform in the distance from our beach and thought lets kayak and swim there! After muchhh effort we managed too! We sun-tanned,relaxed awhile at that platform before we did some snorkling around the area...so some pretty cool sea corals, this huge eel and many more creatures...and soon we realised a bunch of us was swept into the open sea by the currents!

And another grp kayak actually capzised! And lost the oar & a snorkling set! Dunno how that happened! So a couple of us came to them to try to overturn the boat and all! Later we tried searching for the oar but to no avail...and when we tried to swim back to that platform! Espeically me when i had flippers on which was abit big and i only cld do breaststroke with it which makes it not movable at all! I look down to sea that i was swimming like 1 cm at a time AGAINST the currents! And after much much effort & drinking down up to 6 cups of sea water!

Some of us finally reach to that platform! We rested a while before heading back to shore to meet the rest, by than we were all KNOCKED OUT!

(the open sea!)

(i was soooo tired and BURNT!) Before we set off for paya beach this time via the sea taxi...

(vyan's last time with us before he left for singapore first)
Dinner time!

(the lovely ramly burgers we ate at paya beach!)

(after dinner! we chatted with a bunch of snacks at paya beach!)

(the video of some of the HIGH people after drinking HOOCH! =P)
From 11pm onwards we were gazing at the awesome starry night! Saw about 6 shooting stars that night!

About 1am! The NIGHT walk to the super low tide sea in the DARK!

(We saw a lot of sea cucumber at shore!) And we saw this amazing STRANGE PHENOMENA! When we step on the coral area at low tide! We could see green sparkle lights beneath our feet! It was such a surreal sight! I went to google it to find out that is some Bioluminescence from corals or plankton when distrubed...

(the green sparkle light we saw at low tide when we step on the corals was very similar to this video of the Bioluminescence effect we saw! Only thing it was green!)

Monday, June 22
The longgg journey home! Left melina at 1130am... but only got back singapore like 9.30pm! 10 hours in total of boat,ferry,bus,cab!!!

(the return jounery back from mersing to larkin!) At larkin station, we were loooking for a taxi back straight to Singapore, and we were offered by this 2 random guys to sent us back to our doorstep for just $10! So we carpooled in 2 cars! Was a little concern at first bcoz it was total strangers! But we got back safely in the end!

God's clay 2 sub bible study groups have finally been reunited again last saturday at our usual bible study place at YWCA lvl 7 life lobby after about 1-2 years of going thru many bible study sessions and topics from "the book of Thessalonians" to "I KISSED DATING GOODBYE" to " The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines by John Ortberg", to "Unwavering Tenacity- The story of Elijah from the book of Kings" and now as we start a new topic "1 Corinthians and purpose driven life"...(i may have missed some topics)... While some of us went for Precept inductive bible study sessions together for the last few mths too (Jospeh,Titus,Covenant..next up book of Daniel)

And now most of the guys are either in army already or going to army soon and a bunch of the girls are already overseas studying! So looks like the 2 years to come will be a very interesting year as we continue to fight for our small grp survival and continue to be supportive of one another spiritual life!

At the end of the day i know our ever Faithful God(The Potter) will still keep his claysss going strong! =)

(God's Clay have been molded so much over the yearsssss! From that small little plasticine clays when we were sec 2...to now the much grown and molded clays who are almost at the end of our teen years and moving on to young adulthood! )

Some of the happenings from end last year to this year 2009....

Saturday, December 27, 2008
The mini God's clay "day" retreat at ellen's wonderful BIG HOUSE!