Ever since our last kelong retreat last year where the kelong boys were formed! We now expanded and multiplied inviting moreee guys from wesley ym to join us in this Spiritual Men's retreat! This time it was at a different setting which was actually much more scenic than before and it was a 5 star Kelong with proper sanitaries! =).. only thing compared to the last time one was the food previously was better.
Day 1- Good Friday
Arrival at Harbourfront macs at about 8.15am!
(had a nice hearty breafast!)...(we waiting for our ferry)
(in the ferry!)
(arrival at batam!)
(we split into 2 grps to go into 2 separate vans)
(our first stop...some kelong restarant for lunch!)
(walking towards our sampan!)
(the sampan to the Shalom kelong!)
(the first boat)
(First boat to arrive at SHALOM KELONG!)
Our swimming pool!
(we immediately jumped in once we arrived!)
(played some "waterpolo-captainball-rugby"....)
(the kelong polo boys!)
(Andrew had a cramed leg during out intensive match!)
(The KELONG BOYS 2009!)
(Relax timeeeeeee!)
(first dinner!)
(First night session! We were very grateful to have 2 awesome worship leaders, yangshen and bobby to lead us in a time of free worship before adriel gave a sharing on A Men's Purity!)
(after that... some of us went on a crazyyyyy fitness moment led by "PHYSICAL INTRUSTOR"...Kheng hao.... we all had to do an average of 100 push ups first to pass!... which i did about 160 push ups in total, followed by about 4 sets of 50 cruches,front,left,and right abs obliques and abt 30 pull ups in total all back to back that one night! I kinda died after that!... super aching the next few days)
Day 2- Saturday....
Some of us woke up pretty early to go for a morning walk at the beach when we noticed the awesomeee sight at low tide...
(the morning walk where we saw some awesomeee creatures upclose with us!)
(guess who was the real one pee-ing?)
(the lovely starfish we saw!)
(King fisher!)
(Crabs!)
(More Crabssssssssss!)
(Crab hunting!)
Some of us took a boat to this island where the beach was much clearer!
(Glenn adn Me doing our trademark XT sign!)
(Ian Fong and Me beneath the sun rays!)
(played some ball games by the sea!)
(Played some thumbgame,followed by murderer...and than Polar Bear aka Killer whales since it was in the sea!hee)
(this was quite amazing...we realised that deeper into the sea...instead of getting lower... it the tide was lower as there was some land part further in...thus it seemed we were like walking on water suddenly! Amazing right!)
Night time
(*THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL PHOTO!...this is from the net..but i used this picture bcoz this was very similar to the sight we saw that night ..This timeee the STARSSSSSS WEREE like a even more than what we saw the last time! It wasss like milllions millions more! And the photo here is quite similar to the amount of stars we saw that night!......It was just super duper indescribable feeling to be under that night sky, especially when they off the master light on the kelong for a short while so that we cld enjoy the night starry sky to the MAX!!! But well we only cld stay there gazing at the stars for abt 20 mins! And for our short time we saw 1 shooting star!!!... thought I saw another one after... but everyone thought I was dreaming... =/)
(our final night session led by Adriel again on a Men's Leadership...after that we broke into 3 grps which isaac,yangshen and me led in a time of discussion on the message)
Day 3- Easter SUNDAY!!!
We woke up at 6am for our very own easter sunrise service!
(This was really an impromptu session which was led by the Spirit as the transition from the free worship to adriel short sharing to the others sharing was all not planned at all!)
(see the change in the sky)
(see the change in the sky)
(Adriel shared a easter message)
(time of worship at the jetty!)
(Some of us!)
After that we continue to do more walk around the low tide beach...to see some amazing creatures...
(A video of wenhao and benlei killing crabs!)
(mrs Crab)
(I think this is a mud skipper?)
(A close up view of the many crabs we saw!)
(we think the starfish is mating!)
(A video of how this 3 star fish did a super flip!)
(the many many many crabs!)
( A HUGE storm that was approaching us.... A De ja vu of our last kelong last day!)
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( Watch how this EPIC storm swept thru our kelong!!! And how it made everyoneee soooo crazy!!! hahha!
ENJOY THIS VIDEO!!!!!! =)!)
(THE KELONG BOYS braving the storm!... the storm was literally over us by now!)
(THE KELONG BOYS braving the storm!... the storm was literally over us by now!)
(THE KELONG BOYS doing push ups!)
(This is one classic video... as Ian Fong was sleeping... we crept into his room and poured a couple of crabs on top him...he was so oblivious to it for quite a while... and
the MOST FUNNY PART was after this video...which sadly the video was cut off by then... was...when he realised muchhh later that there was a crab on him..which followed by a LOUDDD SCREAMED!!!!!!!!!)
Played some polar bear game before we left!
(kheng new eye patched)
(the polar bear match!)
(on our way back home!)
This is sure one memorableee kelong retreat which bonded this 19 guys from wesley ym! and we sure came out stronger than before...both physically and Spiritually.... =)
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