Chiang Kam Mission Trip 09 blog post

Posted by Berries May 07, 2009

Chiang Kam Mission Trip 09 blog post

Finally, i force myself to sort out the pictures n blog. there are so much that given the speed of blogger, i will take exactly one day. =.= so shall blog in 3 parts.

Part 1
From preparation===>Day 1 Reached chiangkam=====>Day 2 House visiting
Part 2
Day 3 to Day 6 Camp!!
Part 3
Day 6 To ChiangMai =====>Day 7 R&R======>Day 8 Home sweet Home!!

A few days before take off....

Last min packing. SBC ppl luv last min thing. Squeezing everything ranging from books to gifts to milo..

Logistic head: Ah Seng

Logistic assitant: pei pei

Treasurer: qi qi

Logistic head: dingxin

We will be going this place.

these are the no of cartons we be bringing there. funny leh, last year i dun rmb we have so many cartons...

Day 1!

Meeting time: 630am

Venue: terminal 2 starbucks

oh yes, i'm bringing xiaopi again. he misses chiang kam ppl too=)

Lloyd came to see pei pei off. sorry but do i see doubles??

a paparazzi managed to take a scandelous pic of them loitering far away from our sight.

Seng whole family came to see him off.. his mum really dressed super havoc lor. like jolin tsai no 2. haha=D he called his own mum 妖精 =.= *his dad working*

pei pei shows off her super pretty(which she thinks) passport photo.

A group shot before entering the immigration.

At the transit, while waiting for our flight, these 2 guys managed to find a corner to kill their time.

seriously, i tink sporean always have a bad habit of last min. i rmb we had alot of time before the flight arrives, but yet we are the last grp who board the plane. the above pic explains all. play too much n forget about the time.

seng 1st time on plane. guessed he's pretty nervous.

his 1st 机餐

After a 3 hrs of pleasant flight, we reached Chiang Mai!! David uncle and chu zhen jie was there to receive us. they were in bangkok earlier..

loading all our luggage including the 6 cartons. heng got so many guys around..to do all the carrying..thnx dudes!

hello thailand~~!

And we split into 2 groups cuz each van can only take up to 12ppl. but with luggages, each van can only take 7-8.

after driving for merely 15min, the vans stopped by a roadside coffee shop for us to catch our lunch beofre our 3hr of long travelling.

This is very very common in chiangmai chiangkam..kway tiao teng...the soup is bagus !

their so called dim sum but other than the siew mai and pork in sauce, the prawn dumpling not fresh=(

ANd the sacred water of life - to ah seng. it's never the same drinking coke from a bottle.

I guess the dim sum made zhaoqi had a terrible stomachache that immediately after the lunch, he dun feel good. but anyway we carried on with our journey not knowing that his face totally turned white! he begged the driver to stop and luckily along the road there's houses and the owner is happy enough to let him use the loo. because of him, we were delayed for 15min. ahem. hahaa.

After 1 hr plus of driving, along with teresa teng's mtv non stop playing in my van, we reached the pit stop where it is famous for spring..weird leh, y last year didnt pass by=(

u can try out cooking eggs. come on, who nvr boil an egg b4??

After supposedly to b 3-4 hrs of journey but ended up 5hrs (pit stop n zhaoqi's toilet break), we finally reached chiang kam!!! liyi is still reluctant to remove her neck cushion.

Esther 师母 is very delighted that we have reached!! 王弟兄is standing at the back. he's the driver and helper for the kitchen thu out our camp last year..

so long 真光堂! u still look the same old church i've seen last year..

and the interior of the church..haha..so much bigger than 140.

and the passageway to the back on the left...

the former 牧师楼and our current sleeping place..

the canteen!! with en xin(esther's daughter) motor parked at a side.

and of cuz not forgeting lin zhen jie(en xin's aunt) yummy dessert , grass jelly in thai style!! drools...

and using all natural coloring from the flowers, she made us some coconut kueh...but frankly speaking i always hesitate when i see some food which looked too blue..not veri appetising for me=(

the girls' room~~~

and...finally the basketball court is nearly done~~beside is the student centre which housed those students who study in town buy stay on moutains..to ease their travelling issue, the church caters to them a lodging in town..

they have a small field for some plantation..

the ground floor of the student centre..

this dog, called lala, is only 4moths old..i can't believe that a 4 mth old puppy is so big..n its strength can spoil a table tennis table =.=

but it's cute..no matter how. it's still a puppy. But, after one attempt to sayang it, it got so excited n stood up to hug me i almost topple..after dat, i decide to keep a friendly dist. =x

The toilets at student centre.

toilet with heaater. not bad huh. but it's spoilt. =(

The guys' bunk. u people may wander y we girls dun sleep here..after realising the below creature dwells in the toilet and can be easily seen, we change our mind. our very 1st vitcim, xiaoyu laoshi, spotted it when she tried to use the loo. haha.

below is the gecko that is forever making funny sound.." pra.....er....."

it's covered with poisionous looking orange spots..but we realsied it had no teeth. so it cant bite us. but maybe it can release some venoms using its saliva. poor qiqi which has phobia of lizards, was asked to overcome his fear and release this gecko which was then placed in a bag. fyi, he did it. but he is still scared. haha.

after settling down our luggage, catch up with the locals, ate our dessert, it started to pour. we were amazed. i nvr witness rain when i was in chiangkam last year. i feel dat it is really God's blessing, to give us a cooler weather so tml's house visiting won't be so hot.

beautiful water droplets captured by william's SLR D300.

after the rain stopped, we proceed to luo 执事's resturant for dinner. As usual, his way of welcoming us=D i tell you it has become a ritual that after tasted his delicious food last year, i'm so looking forward!!

Thai sweet n sour fried fish with basil leaves

tofu with beans n sauce

stired fried mixed veggie

and pork rib soup

all the hungry pigs..

and finally he came out with his wife to meet us. his wife is very beautiful. I reali appreciated his generosity that despite he's busying entertaining a group , he still show us his hospitality..

after a sumptous dinner, of cuz, we need to drop by our 1-stop hypermart to stock up.

And we reali reali scares the shop people there. see the amount of pretz we bought for the games prizes? not in boxes but in cartons of 20! sporean is reali horrible. when will we realise that we are so kia su???

ok, me n zhaopei are part of it too...this trolley is totally for personal needs.

we get so embarrassed that we hav to hide our identities from the paparazzi. trollies with full fo tidbits!

after a frenzy shopping at Tesco, we went back church n start unpacking the cartons..tupplewares, floor mats are those gifts to be given out to the people during house visiting tml~~

there are a total of 30 bags!

Day 2

Rise n shine!

i cant believe a person can spent his whole night sleeping in a hammock without toppling over. for my case, i tink i will get myself entangle in hammock due to my over frequent tossing n turning =x

brushing teeth

dingxin looked sexy with his foam filled lips. HAHA.

Quiet Time~

william was made the guitarist for the whole trip. with his deficiency in playing b flats and f sharp, we had little choices in songs. (annoyed)

ANd our long anticipated trip to the wet market for breakfast!

This is our past 短宣队 fav stall selling crepes. actuali i dun think the taste is very fantastic, dunno y the rest are so fascinated by it. i still prefer roti prata. this crepe is nice when it's hot and had alot of interesting flavors like 肉丝with choco sauce crepe and many more.

a random pic of a kid with her face smeared with white lotion. is she having skin rashes or it's their culture?? i wonder...

william looked pervertic with the way he's holding his cam..like taking some scandelous pics..

did i see wrongly?? thailand ppl also like bubble tea!

sun dried chili~

fresh dead fish. sound so ironic.

these are the 2 people which are fascinated by the crepes.

savouring the food..too engrossed to look at the cam except baoling jie.

some whitish kueh.

on our way back, we passed by a shop displaying alot of shoes...all of them are second handed and some of them are branded. if not for their dusty looking surface i would haf bought them. =x

after a delicious breakfast not disclosing all the stuff we had eaten, we split into 3 groups to do house visiting. me, the walking group and the remaning 2 with transport.

1st we went to 波儿and小白house. me n dingxin gave them a mini t-shirt with last year 短宣队pic printed in it. as a souvenir.

their auntie..

we went to a student centre which looked after orphans and teached them how to sew n make some money for themselves..he is a friendly and hospitable man...pls pray for his ministry and the students living there.. their growth and salvation...

below are some of the students' works..so exquisite looking!!

i tink i take one year just to sew a portion of the flower=.=

and some hand made greeting cards.

next we went to 夏利，恩友 and 夏芳 shophouse where their family biz is selling rice...his dad is very good looking hor.

and we also went to visit this man who came for chinese lesson for adults 2 years back..although he had no children we still welcome him n his wife to the campfire night. his bis is selling shoes..perhaps can pray that they fnd peace regards to having children issue..

he understand a fair bit of chinese thus we had not much difficulty communicating with him even lin zhen jie is not ard to translate=)

and we went to 淑芳family stall...not this..still walking...

they sells textile..she's busying with her entry exam to high school thus cannot attend camp this time..hai a pity. her mum is veri sweet despite she's busy, she still welcome us n treat us to drinks..pls pray for shu fang's next level of education n her family's biz...

this visit is quite random. we did not plan in the schedule but becuz we passed by n lin zhen knew them, we decide to drop them a visit...

the ah ma on the right is the owner, the ah ma on left just happen to visit her ..hope that they can spread the news to their grandchildren about this church though we nvr see their grandchildren attend the camp next day.

and we went to 路丹's house. she is really a pitiful child. her mum left her when she's young and

she is being adopted by her current fostermum. that's not the end, the reason she's being

adopted becuz her fostermum wants a child of her own but can't and she believes those saying

that by adopting a child, you will get to have a child of your own. so when she did, she abandoned

路丹 at her house, and left her mum to take care of this poor child. and lost contact with the

family. her grandma is old and struggles to withstand her son(drunkard) scolding and sometimes

abusive nature at the same time to protect and look after 路丹. Pls pray for her grandma to have

peace in her heart, and 路丹 will protect herself from her uncle...and that she will continue to

attend church and grows to be a strong woman.

i can't express the sorrow i have in my heart and the only thing i can do is to give her the warmth...

grandma cries everytime she sees this family pic...lin zhen jie explained y she dun dare to visit grandma often is cuz everytime grandma sees lin zhen jie, she will remind her of her daughter who ran away..cuz they used to hang out together when they are young..

ah seng also felt touched..

after a tedious half day visiting, we reward ourself with the delicious 10baht kuey tiao teng...i put too much chili padi, was breathing out hot air..

the stall lady must be veri delighted that we almost ate her whole stall down.

below are other house visiting that i'm not involved so can't share much so paiseh ah..

this one is 李老师house. he is a 云南人and he understands chinese..he had 3 sons whom we decided to invite but lin zhen jie said they used to invite them but he rejected them becuz due to past misunderstanding with a former pastor at church. we didn't know at that point of time. it was oni shared during dinner time..

so w/o the knowledge of this info, we still show our total sincerity to invite him..

we also visited neh neh chan's stall, selling hotdogs and meatballs..she is reali cute!

then my long anticipated house, zhen zhen's house! pei pei happened to stay there cuz her house has too much worms due to hot weather n she can't stand it. for me i wil die...