A day after the conference, flew off to Sandakan for the Diocesan Young Adult Camp (yeah, November 2011 is a traveling month, barely spent a week inside the office...creating a lot of backlog >_<)...but it was kinda special and a blessing for me, as that's the first time on my birthday to fly somewhere and stay at a hotel (the date coincided with 2 other weddings of friends & colleagues as well).
Highlights of the camp:
- Food hunt. It was more like Amazing Race + Jalan jalan cari makan. Grouped into teams of ten, we drove ourselves around town stopping at popular eating outlets and ordering specific dishes which we then needed to take a group photo with. The restaurant and stall owners were bewildered at first when they had a few tables each with 10 people seated around but only ordering one dish with no drinks. Until they realized we were playing a game and they then sportingly accommodated us.
- Yumcha. This is probably the only camp that I've attended where participants go out for yumcha almost every night after the evening sessions. Particularly, on the last night where we occupied 3/4 of a new rooftop hangout.
- Iced grand mochachino. My Starbucks kaki brought me to a place equivalent to Starbucks at half the price...n_n
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| View from our room on the 6th floor of Sandakan Hotel. |
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| View from inside our room. |
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| The historical St Michael's Church. |
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| Just before the Sunday service started. |
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| Local delicacy. Some call it 'UFO'. Others call it 'Cow dung tart'. Don't worry, it doesn't taste like the latter. |
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| New friends from Lahad Datu. |
A day after the camp, was the English Zone retreat at Kokol. It's supposed to be a time of refreshing and planning for next year...but I was honestly still exhausted from Sandakan and couldn't completely immerse myself in every activity up in the mountain...
And time flew past and it's now December with a few days till Christmas and the New Year... =P
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