Sunday School celebrated Parents Day on the 26th of June 2011. We invited parents to join their kids in Sunday School for a time of fun and games and fun we had indeed!

We played 3 really fun games that day :

The first was Samson, Delilah and The Lion – a really fun twist to the age-old game of “Scissors, Paper and Stone” or what we call in Malaysia “One-two-som”. To play it, everyone first had to find a partner. Then they would either show Samson, Delilah or The Lion. Samson would kill the Lion, The Lion would kill Delilah, but Delilah would OVERPOWER Samson. The loser would then have to go behind the winner, hold his/her shoulders and start to form a train. Round two would then see the winners of the first round playing with each other. The losers would then have to join the winner’s train and so on. I can’t believe how quickly it went. As usual, yours truly lost in the first round itself. I ALWAYS lose “One-two-som”, “Paper, Scissors, Stone” and now “Samson, Delilah and The Lion”. Sigh. I’m better at “Lat-tali-lat”.

We playing Samson, Delilah and The Lion - lah... not Paper, Scissors, Stone

Noooo... this is NOT Delilah... c'mon.... this is The Lion... ?

No-lah, this is also NOT Delilah, but she IS a very good girl. She drinks 86.28 glasses of water everyday.

The second game was for Parent-Child pairs. The game was paper dancing. You know the drill. The pairs would have to dance on a newspaper and when the music stopped, they needed to remain still AND stand within the paper. With each round, the paper would be folded in two, so as the game progressed, they would end up having to stand on a teeny-weeny paper folded to the size of ohhh… 4 inches by 5 inches. I know, I know… you’re thinking “Mana boleh daaaa”. Which is what I thought too, considering the humongous size of my bodeee. So I passed the privilege of playing to my wife. Twas a funnneee sight – parent carrying child, child stepping on parent’s foot, standing on one leg, one foot on top of the other… etc. One thing that truly touched my heart was the Youths who “adopted” a child each who came without parents. I mean… the sight of Heng Wei and Cally carrying their “little lambs” on her back while wobbling on the itsi-bitsy paper trying their best to win a prize for their little partners was soooo heart warming. Our Youth will grow up to be really good Daddies and Mommies, me thinks.

What? 2 people have to step on THAT iddy-biddy piece of paper? No wonder her toes all red already lah...

In fact, the paper was soooo small, we have to use a Power-Vroom-Zoom lens to see it!

Then the final game was Porridge Feeding. This time, the child would have to be blind-folded and they would have to feed their Mum or Dad a bowl of porridge. Now, this was up my alley – you know, eating being my full time profession and all (joke la, joke) !!! While seated on the floor and getting ready, I listened to Raymond (Cheah) practising and giving detailed instructions to daughter Zoe on what to do. I was thinking “Wah… so engineer-precision-like lah. Like space shuttle going to dock with space station only… they sure got chance to win wan…” . Me pulak, my only instruction to Sara was “You just keep scooping, I’ll just keep sucking.” It was fun. I heard some parents got porridge on their lap more than in their mouth!!! To be honest, I hate porridge. I know, I know… even my family says I’m a fussy pot, but what to do? Eat porridge four bowls after ten minutes still hungry, this type of person cannot eat porridge wan I tell you. But I must say that the COLD porridge I had to eat that day was delicious. I think Auntie Yuh Bin is a good porridge cooker AND most of all, because my daughter fed it to me with love.

Now mummy... be a goooood girl and eat your porridge ah... then you'll grow up to be pretty like me...

They didn't win. How to win when Mummy kay-poh looking at other people?

Yours truly getting ready to transform into a super-duper-porridge-sucker...

But… all good things must come to an end. Auntie Wee Wee gave out the prizes to the winners of each game and then we were dismissed. I’m waiting for next year’s Parent’s Day.

A short video of our celebration follows below. Just to help you out, take note of the following highlights in the vid :

3:10 Aaron pities Aunty Cheng It… okay, okay, Aunty Cheng It very clever…
5:05 Wei Zheng shows ABSOLUTELY NO MERCY!
5:30 Wei Zheng finally vanquished by a 2 foot high hero. Must be because he was distracted by pretty Cally standing beside him… eh?
7:05 Uncle Leong Soon showing the “Got ants in my pants, Soooo itchy” Dance!
7:30 Uncle Raymond doing the “Bottom Wiggle” Dance.
9:00 Tevin slooooow dancing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IXe24Oo6Vk[/youtube]

God Bless All Moms, Dads, Grandmas, Grandpas… and caregivers wherever you are. You are a blessing from God!

Post : Andrew
Pics : Samuel / Charis
Video : Amber

Excited children waiting to board their buses

T’was seven o’clock on a cool Saturday morning and about 100 children were already excitedly waiting in the MUlti Purpose Hall to board their buses and head southwards to Negri Sembilan.

This year’s Sunday School outing was to the Yakult factory located in Seremban. After one last visit to the toilet – Auntie Yuh Bin warned us “Go squeeze every last drop of pee or p**p out because it’s a long trip!” – three busloads of happy,  chattering children made their way to the Yakult factory in a 90 minute drive.

All safely seated on the bus. Why is the image blur? Have you ever tried taking a photo on a shaking bus?

The ride was bb-um-ppp-yyy and s-sh-a-kk-y as you can see...

The ride didn’t seem that long. We thought it would take a lot longer. After all, Bus A was supposed to land in Alor Setar,  Bus B in Bangkok and Bus C was supposed to head to China, but reach the Yakult factor we did, all safe and sound – by God’s grace.

In the visitor's lounge area as soon as we arrived.

The Yakult staff were very, very efficient. As soon as we arrived, we were quickly ushered upstairs for a short briefing about Yakult. We learnt that we have millions of yucky bad bacteria in our big and small intestines that constantly try to make us sick. Fortunately, there’s also good bacteria that fight the naughty bad bacteria. We learnt that we can help increase the number of good bacteria by eating healthy food, practising good hygiene and also drinking yummy Yakult!

See how all the nice, obedient bacteria errr, I mean children, walking up to the video room...

After the briefing, some of our kids were lucky enough to win prizes when they managed to answer a few quiz questions. In fact, we were quite impressed when Sara answered the first question which was “What is the name of the good bacteria in Yakult?”. The answer was a mouthful – Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain. Say what??? At first it sounded like “lick-your-toes-already-basi-loh something-something”. Smart alec this Sara… After she got the first prize, EVERYBODY also wanted to answer the question!!!

Wahhh... soooo attentive... good kids leh? Surelah... got video to watch and get to drink ice-cold Yakult...free some more!!

Anyway… the kids enjoyed the cartoon video after that, because it was funny and best of all, the Yakult staff served ice-cool Yakult. Teacher Adeline and Tien Li said it tastes so much creamier and fresher than what they buy in the supermarket. I smiled and said it tastes like bacteria. Okay-lah… it was yummy bacteria.

Eeewwww... what's that funny purple wiggly stuff? Good bacteria or bad bacteria huh?

We were then taken to the viewing gallery above the factory floor. Big glass windows allowed us to peek into the way Yakult is made. One thing we found surprising was that ALL the millions of bottles of Yakult in Malaysia is produced by machines with VERY FEW humans involved in the process. In fact, I counted less than 8 people working! They explained that this was to ensure the high-level of quality of every Yakult bottle. No cameras were allowed in the viewing gallery, so you have to take my word for it!

Just about to board the bus and head on down to mum-mum some delicious KFC.

After our visit to the factory, we then hopped onto the buses again and like happy little good bacteria, swarmed into KFC in Jaya Jusco, Seremban. Nice meal of fried chicken. Good thing the toilet was nearby because after the meal, every Sunday School kid must have deposited a billion bad bacteria there. Peee-yooo.

You know why KFC is "Finger Lickin' Good"? Because almost all of us never wash hands before eating... the bacteria sedap lo...

Wah... 2 lovely 90% bacteria-free sisters.

The trip back home to Klang Wesley was un-eventful. By “un-eventful”, we mean that nobody threw up in the bus, although one little one in Bus C suddenly declared halfway on the highway that he had to go doo-doo. Quick as lightning, I asked Uncle Bus Driver if he could stop. Thankfully, there was a toll-stop just ahead. I asked if little one could hold on (I forget his name… so many kids!). He said “yes”. When the bus stopped, I quickly took him to the boys bacteria-deposit room where he then said, “I only need to shee-shee”. Haiya… make me panic only. Anyway… when we stopped, another load of kids decided this was a good place to unload more bad bacteria… peee-yooo again!

These fellas ah... going there also sooo chitty-chatty, coming back also soooo chitty-chatty...

We reached church at 1.30pm. Then we had to make sure we got all our blessed little ones got in their transport and safely on their way home. Nice trip me thinks – short, sweet and educational.

Praise the Lord for good bacteria yes?

Post & Pics : Andrew