Merimbula Fishing Trip

This is officially the first day here at Merimbula (a small, beautiful coastal town in New South Wales). I can say, the journey here was very...taxing - it was meant to be a 7+hr car trip but we ended up taking about 10++ hours!! The reason? A bushfire on route to Merimbula. So we were stopped by officers and told to either turn back or take a detour around the area: we opted for the detour...and it was a rather perilous detour I might add. Not joking. This detour also destroyed what little trust I have left for Susan - our very unreliable GPS. She took us to a "shorter" and more dangerous route though hills/mountains with only dirt for tracks! Dad nearly lost control of the 4WD at on stage and that was pretty scary. But after that section which lasted for 2 hrs, we I got pretty bored and started taking photos.It's not fog, but SMOG (from the bushfires...)

Hah...

I made her pick her nose

The 4-star inn we're staying in.

It's is pretty good AND cheap!

The next day, we didn't really get up to much - woke up at around 9...went for a stroll through town around 11...lunch...then watched volleyball (Italy vs Japan - GO JAPAN!) on TV...and then we went fishing at around 3. Did not catch ANY fish. Not that there weren't any, just that they were too small and would flee every time I jerked up the fishing rod; only dad was successful - he caught 2!! Basically, NOTHING interesting today...meh...I'll let the photos tell the story...haha.

We'll be going off to Eden tomorrow morning to catch somemore fish. I hope that I'll catch something this time...and I promise, MORE PHOTOS! Till then, GL out.

AMYC '09! (Part 2)

Day 4 + 5 - Catamarans and farewell

We had to bid farewell to newly made friends, brothers, sisters and comrades in Christ. It was sad, but I know that I'll be seeing them again next year (I hope) at Brisbane!!!

Below are some photos taken when we went catamaran-ing the next day. OMO OMO OMO I think that was the highlight of Perth! It was sooooooooooooo FUN! The wind speeds that morning were really good, so we could go really fast around Swan river/lake! It was surprisingly very easy to control too, they only briefed us for 5-10 mins and left us to do our thang - haha.

These are our catamarans :)

So we catamaran-ed for about 1 hr, then we headed out for lunch at...this food plaza at Carillion City plaza - good good food for good good price. After lunch we went to Kings park where they had war memorials (below)

LOL @ expressions below. We were mucking around trying to look like we're in jail.

Same monument as before but from the back

You can tell we stayed at Kings park pretty long...

Glorious view of Perth City @ night

Anddddd that's it for AMYC 2009 :(

AMYC '09! (Part 1)

It's the time of the year again where most Australian Methodist youths all gather at one place - this year it's Perth! I just came back from the 15th AMYC (Australian Methodist Youth Convention) this morning and what can I say?! I had a blast. Met so many new friends, was encouraged and touched by so many youths with great faith and maturity and had loads of good fun in the sun.

Enough of my talking - here are some photos (some taken by me and some not - I took them off facebook. Hah)

Day 1 - Combined Sunday Service @ Kingsway Methodist Church, Perth

The Sunday service consisted of all camp delegates and Methodist pastors/reverends from all over Australia: there were so many people that we had to watch the service broadcast through a tiny TV in a different room. There were around 3 room just like this. Whats more, some of the Kingsway people were told to stay at home until the opening ceremony of our camp because they couldn't fit everyone!

The sermon was on...I can't remember - I was pretty tired then having not had enough sleep because of jet-lag the night before.

Onto the bus we go! - Kingsway Methodist Church
Coach 3 - The Melburnians' bus + some Sydney-siders too :/

After morning service, we had lunch then waited an hour or so for the official start to AMYC 2009! (again held at KMC - this time all camp delegates were in the same hall as the church-goers left). We then boarded the bus for a relatively short trip to our campsite - only 30mins. Perth is so small :O

I didn't manage to take photos of the campsite- was too lazy, but I can tell you being only 8 minutes away (by foot) from the beach is AWESOME!

Day 2 - Ern Halliday Recreation Camp
Morning aerobics

This year's program was really really really well organized - I mean comeon, where do we get to have 'morning exercise' other than @ AMYC '09?! Yeah, morning exercise complete with their own made-up moves such as "the Toilet" where we bend both our knees (just like going to the toilet asian style!) LOLOLOL. There was also "the Jesus" - start with your right arm, and fold it over your chest, then repeat with left arm whilst keeping your right arm in place (imagine Egyptian tomb pose but standing up); then finally spread out both arms to your side like a cross (JESUS!). Wait! There's more! There was also the "Super Jesus" same upper body movements 'cept you're doing that whilst jogging on the spot...oh the hilarity. I think I more time laughing than actually doing the 'exercise" - twas good fun!
Our camp shirt

After that was devotion, breakfast and then the 2nd theme talk on "Leadership". We also had games that afternoon (again I did not take photos) and we also found out our skit timeline and hero. Our team- Phoebe had Bruce Lee as the hero and it's to be set in the Dinosaur age - had to think up of ideas regarding dinosaurs...

Day 3 - Photo-taking & Skit Night!
A bunch of eyes going gaga for Michelle Ting - LOLWHUT

"My shirt ish too shmall :( " -Richard
Since the t-shirts were made in Malaysia...the sizes are 1 size too small!! Thank God I could fit into an XS O.o I ordered small!

Fantastic Four!

The skits were...SO FUNNY! I couldn't stop LOL-ing at the ideas other teams came up with!
Sorry, no photos :(

Campies having fun on the last night of camp...

It feels depressing now...last night of camp we played card games and chatted. I went to sleep at an unearthly hour of 2am...others went to the beach to watch the sunrise - which they couldn't see cos it was blocked by hills - HAHAH. They waited in the freezing cold!