Missions Report : Day 1

Ah, it's all in reverse for this portion of the report. After finishing day 2 to day 5, here's day 1 before I forget anything (and jumble up the report again, heh)
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Day 1 : 2/9/04

We started off with devotions and worship. Can't quite recall who did devotions dat day though. After that, I couldn't recall what happened until we were in the car (haihh, can someone help me here?)

It was a one hour plus journey there as we used the way through Serdang to Kajang. Ken got us lost a couple of times as we manouvered ourselves through. We had great cheap chap fan in Kajang. (which was our last meal that was duly paid for by the missions fund)

Reaching Rumah Keluarga Kami, we unloaded. It was a sad sight seeing the dipilated state of the orphanage. There were two houses, one for the boys and another for the girls. It so happen that the one for the boys was in a worse condition.

We didn't have much to do there except clean up the place. Thus, as the girls cleaned up the insides of the girls orphanage, we, the guys, cleaned out the field before cleaning up the boys orphanage.

It was a sad sight with bad smell as we washed up the boys orphanage. Even sadder are the kids who are so in need of love and attention that they did things to get our attention.

After finishing with our cleaning, we set forward to entertain the kids and make them some baloons. It's astonishing to see quiet, adorable kids suddenly transform into Captain Planet once they have their lightsabers (ahah, those baloonsla) Audrey made her only bumblebee of the trip, cute baloon but it didn't appeal to those Captain Planet kinda kids.

And it was surprising too to see Chee Yong good with kids. Kids were practically hanging around him. Chris made another good kid handler too, especially with his baloon making skills. Presumably good dad in the future hor? (hehe, Jane'nette's gonna kill me if she reads this)

After everything, we needed to head back around 6 as the kids had dinner later and had to wash up. Thus, we prayed for them. It was a hard time for me as suddenly I felt for them and felt I should have done more and perhaps talked more to them (the older ones). Suddenly I felt sorry for their bleak future and their poor lives while we all live in luxury in comparison with them.

And I began to appreciate my family more, although mom and dad seldom brought us out while young and emphasised a lot on results, but it was good. They sheltered us from the fact that we were living poorly. In fact dad saved most of his money for us all.

Dinner was at some place in Kajang. It was good as the dishes were superb. We didn't have money from the missions fund for our dinner as we had given it to the orphanage when we left.

Later on, we dropped Angeline off at Putrajaya before heading to Tesco, Alamanda to buy stuff for the missions proper. It was good too to see a live band playing 'Girl from Ipanema' in Alamanda. A really nice place with nice decor. And it was fun crapping with the rest.

Think I was knocked out by the time we reached back Cyberjaya. But it was an eye opener to the Temerloh/Mentakab trip