CL retreat @ Dusun Paradise , Malacca 1/5

On the same day (1/5) , while the unit members gone down to Melacca to have fun, UPTEN oldiest were with Pastor and other church fellow leaders . We went to melacca too :) . We departed from our house after prayer at 7.05am, stopped by our first destination - R&R hentian seremban to fill up our stomach. Then we continued our journey to Dusun paradise which is located somewhere near alor gajah for ' times of refreshing '... We arrived at our second destination around 9am. The admission free is not cheap, RM35 per person and there were 20++ of us... our pastor really spent to appreaciate the leadership team in Hope church. Below are the pictures taken during the tour at the dusun P.

We got the chance to sit in 'tutu' car. Though we were not the one who drive, but everyone was excited when seeing the cars. And taking pictures like never before...hehe

The one in the middle of the photo is our pastor bong, having a cool ride.

The one in the middle of the photo is our pastor bong and his wife, sis shara.

One thing we always remember to do is taking group photo - UPTEN AUL & CLs

UL in india...kui woon, you just watch us first lo.. next time bring you there.

Here , we saw different type of plants and fruit trees, there are some animals too ..

In our visiting to dusun P, we learn a new word call "Park touring" , we sat in the tutu cars and started to tour the park. Is the hokkien word "paktor" which means dating originated from english ??

We got to know a plant called Pokok Cinta ( Love treet), which the seed has a heart shape on it. According to the guide, some people use the seeds to confess their love to....don't know how true it is but i guess it would work.. There are other interesting plants like - Monkey cup-the pitcher plant, Mosquito repellent plant , Pokok duit ( let's plant one in the church and it grows money to contribute to our church building fund ) .

Thousands of banana

We are allowed to pluck and eat the jambu air along the way , we collected a lot and fed the deer. The ostriches were very hungry, they ran to our direction for papaya leaves. Sis lih qing was screaming all the way coz the big birds were very aggresive...hihi

These are picture taken at the hall while we were waiting for cultural dance performances...the native from sarawak presented to us with 3 to 4 dances. One of it was very dangerous, they demo on their culture hunting 'equipment' - blowpipe. The presenter managed to shoot all the balloons though he missed 2 times. It was fantastic. Tetapi I wonder why don't dusun Paradise get someone from melacca to present something related to melacca like baba nyonya dances instead sarawak cultural dance lo :p . Anyhow, the performances added joy to our retreat.

At the end of the last dance, large crowd were invited to the stage to join them ...really funny when they shouted together. wowowowo....

At the mini cultural village, our mighty leaders were practising how to use the blowpipe. Samuel was teaching Ah Qing how to use it though he only has 3-legged-cat kang hu...haha...

After the dusun tour, fruit party awaited us...

We were treated with great Nyonya food @ Suan Restaraunt, Melacca after the 'main-main' at dusun Paradise ... We enjoy the CL retreat very much. Thank you Pastor Bong for preparing the trip for us. We love you love you lo.

brb