Went to attend sunday church service with Drey as promised, clambering out of bed at 8-ish am! Made friends with a number of her friends there, who were not as scary as i thought, and all were generally very amicable to me, despite being there for the first time!
The day was an adventurous yet super memorable one, with a picnic after church (it was kinda a last minute, spontaneous decision, with the picnic stuffs being bought just before we drove down to Serpentine). I remember during the service, i was touched - the christian songs had kinda moved me. They had very meaningful lyrics to praise the God.
Audrey asked when I would be ready to let God into my heart; I had no answer for it...
Anw, we had lotsa fun at the picnic! Aussies place a high priority on family bonding, or even bonding with friends (and new friends at that!), and i think i want to do this too! It's so nice having family picnics and just chilling out together, playing together isn' it! (I'm probably home-sick, but well. i don't deny I AM HOME-SICK). But seriously, what's with all the Asian values of family being the primary unit of society when we don't even practise much of it? Time to picnic together peopl! (Rico, Ting ting and my bro... Are you reading this? hee hee)
After picnic at Serpentine Dam, we proceeded on to the Serpentine Fall - the entire trip to getting there was totally awesome! We didn't have a clear path to take. We had to climb the rocks, etc and somewhat like climb the mountains, clear the dangerous terrains before we could be sufficiently near the fall! Goodness, timid Jerica was really scared of falling into the river (it was really steep and I had promised daddy, mummy and rico I wud takkire of myself!) so she skipped going down to the foot of the fall? Yes. SCARY! And the scary thing was, I caught sight of many HUGE ANTS and caterpillars and i was shrieking away before long! YUCKS. Jerica detested small crawlies. And she's crawlies-phobic for nuts! Grrrrr.
Jono came over after awhile and kinda saved me, cause i was stuck at my spot and didn't know what to do, so he had come to lead the way. Climbed on a while further, and with the sun already setting, we decided to head back. Drey drove approx 1 hour and it's really tough! Imagine having to concentrate on the roads even as you're tired, having woken up at 9am that day??!?!? And imagine all your passengers are sound asleep??!??! And imagine ... ... ...
It's not easy, but audrey did it... Congrats! And clap claps for you!!! =)))
Dinner was instant noodle! Hahaha. Tasted SG flavour to much delight, kinda ironically. And during dinner, web-cammed with Rico for awhile before he was too anoyed by his nieces and nephews. (Rico, your bad. Haa)
ANW, here are the photos taken thruout the day!
Audrey with Jeri at her church!
Shout HAPPINESS!
Here's where we had picnic... Near to Serpentine Dam
Perth has got this kinda BBQ Pits around parks, etc... Very much bonding-oriented. How nice!
This is Simon the joker. Very funny guy! Speaks good english and is super friendly. Haah!
My sausage bread! Yummy yummy!
Do you see the lovely rays?
Tried to form a heart, but didn't really made it. Love the scenary though!
She's always making funny faces! Hahaha!
And Jerica sneaked up on her in this pic...
I Love This Picture!
Perth has really nice blue skies cos they have few clouds to block the true blue, whereas in SG, it's humid and there're many clouds looming above...
Climb until very happy, but tired too!
Anw, today's adventures, together with the "ordeals" of being home alone when drey went to church practice, stuffs, made me ponder if i had been too sheltered back in SG. All along, i had thought i was one of the "rougher" kids on the block; that i was tougher than other "sheltered" kids who grew up with a silver spoon. Today's fears that i experienced made me understand that i have my own fears to overcome, and that i am afterall, still very much not-independent enough to takkire of myself.
This is the problem that lies with SG'rean kids.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
