Experiential Staff Outing!

For many years, we'd suggested to have office staff outing or staff trip away and somehow it did not happen and suddenly, at the first office devotion of the year, Pastor Tim announced that we will take an overnight staff trip from 19th to 20th of January! and that's when things started to pick up...

Pastor Steven has been assigned to pull together the trip and he'd been on the phone ever since - looking for a bungalow to stay, calling up restaurants to find out where we can have dinner, calling up the various 'activity' options, calling up to ask about which movie we can all go together... but in the end we decided not to do an overnight thingy.

But here's the final plan ... he set the theme to be an 'Experiential Outing'...

We locked up the church after the Frontier Learning Centre students finishes (some of them had to wait for their parents at the kopitiam behind church) and all of us head over to Mid Valley - meeting point: Info Counter @ Centre Court! But there were some delay and so we started off quite late. But nothing could dampen the spirit as we rush there to kick start the experience!

First up - GALACTIC LASER! For those of us who dare brave it, we suit up for the mission ahead! It's back to Red Team against Green Team! We didn't divide ourselves but somehow standing in two rows so we were instantly put into teams like that!

We were to go into the 'galactic' and basically hide or shoot others or be shot! Loads of running around and screaming for the 3 ladies that went in! It was exciting yet funny for me at the same time! hahahah... But Jaime opted out of the game as she deem it to exciting for her!

Red Team won of course - no surprise there (I was, of course, in the winning team). ahahaha.. But the surprise came when we check the score chart and realised that Pastor Tim was one of the highest scorer! He's Raven, the ultimate champion with 7200 points! Good thing he's a pastor, else he would make a good predator! I was Shadow... being shot by Neil & Max!!

The entire office (plus me behind the camera) were present, joined by Pastor Tim's family! It was huge fun! They were supposed to be in galactic hero poses but.... failed lah! hahaha...

After a hectic game, we were all given a 30min massage - either foot or half body! For some, it's a first time. The Thai way of massage involves a lot of bones 'crackling' sound as the lady pull and tug and step on you!! But everyone came out satisfied, happy and instantly lighter! Jaime even commented that her nose is no more blocked!

Just can't resist that shot! It's CHRIS LEONG! hahahaha...

Instead of just a typical sit down dinner and since the theme is experiential, we were ushered into RED BOX Karaoke for buffet and of course, 4 hours of singing and screaming into the four microphones! There were two yee sang that came with the package and everyone was just enjoying the moment and 'lou' for everything.... someone even shouted for 'a wife'... ahhaha.... which got us started laughing all over again. (traditionally, the chinese will say blessed words during the 'lou' or mixing up the ingredients).


There was two groups of people in the room.
Group 1. Pick all the Chinese song, especially sad and teary kind + sitting there laughing at the other group
Group 2. Pick all the English songs, especially the latest and current ones + making hilarious antics to be laughed at!

Even Joanna got her turn! She was holding the mic and doing her own moves. But when we selected 'The Five Little Ducks' for her to sing for real, she got all shy. But we had our laugh when the music video came on! ahahhaa...


First shot of the day of Pastor Steven. He couldn't join us earlier and came during the karaoke time and immediately started off with a chinese song!

See Pastor Tim laughing there? He was surprised when Joel took the mic and did a fast rap song from the beginning til the end with Joash singing the vocals part of the song. We were all wow-ed! hhahaahahha...


Last shot after I got forced to sing a song too! Not that I don't want but I couldn't read the chinese lyrics and usually mumble half the song away! This is my problem when I go to karaoke but of course everyone have to sing something! Chrystin sang the whole Taylor Swift song - Love Story! Jaime did a Westlife song!

But back to this last shot. It's Jaime, Teresa, Pastor Tim and PC all sitting there and Pastor Steven (not in the pic) all singing 月亮代表我的心 (Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin / Let the moon represent my heart). A classic mandarin song that I think all Chinese knows how to sing! Can see Joanna already slept there.

After a couple more songs, it's time to go home. For me, it's time to knock out but for the rest of them, they were all set and ready to go over to PC & Kel's house for an overnight board game session!

Well, that's all for the half day staff outing but it was indeed experiential, thanks to Pastor Steven for making all the arrangements. It's good for the team that works together to find time to play together! What I like was that it's not just meet, eat and leave but we actually did spent time together!

That's all for today... and yeah... it's gonna end with dinner at Frank & Cecilia, tomorrow night! Each year, they invite the whole church staff for a dinner and from past experiences, they cook the best food - the kind that I love! So I'm excitedly anticipating for tomorrow night! Being church staffs have it's cons and limitations in certain ways but it definitely does not lack in TLC, blessings and fellowship!! =)