Welcome To This World Sweetie!

N116 warmly welcomes the latest and youngest addition to the cellgroup - Baby Cheyanne! (pronounced as 'Shy Anne')

This little princess is the bundle of joy of a VIP in the cellgroup, and of course this VIP is......our very own chief Mr. Wong Chee Foo! That's right, Chee Foo had been promoted to be a daddy and so this marks the beginning of a new chapter for him call 'fatherhood'.

Indeed, it must be an amazing process and experience for a first-time mum and dad to witness the birth of their first child and holding her in their arms, feeding and caring for her, seeing their little baby turned 1 month old and finally celebrating their first baby shower.

Congratulations Chee Foo, we are so happy for you and proud of your 'promotion'. Children are a gift from God. We pray that God will bless you and Xiao Wei abundantly with more gifts like this, so that you can fulfill God's calling in the bible, and that is Genesis 1:28 - 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it'!

Baby shower + great fellowship @ Chee Foo's house

Sumptuous buffet corner

Men's fellowship corner?

Women's fellowship in the room (sorry Joseph!)...actually we came for the aircon :P

Belinda's signature smile

Joyce, Shufen and Michele

Grace and Michael's little prince

Baby Jonathon's turning 1 soon!

Is Gregory inspired to be in the same league with Chee Foo and Michael?

Mid Autumn Festival Celebration

Its the yearly 中秋节 mid autumn festival again! This is one of the best time to get together, drink some tea, eat lots of mooncakes and have some fun. Being the sporting bunch, we decided to light up the lanterns and take a moonlit stroll around the quiet neighborhood.

Lighting the evergreen paper lanterns that are unchanged for the last 20 years.

Amanda's got the green light.

Now we are all ready.

And here we go..with big wide smiles and happy faces!

Strolling in a beeline.

Joshua's wacky invention. How to carry more lanterns? Find a good sturdy tree branch...

Joshua and Gregory - the 2 'big kids' and their newfound toys.

Of course that's not all, mid autumn festival isn't complete without some feast. After we had a good stroll under the moonlight, we treated ourselves to yummy mooncakes, fine chinese tea and some other great food.

We even had a professional tea making set to make fine Chinese tea for all.

Our tea master Cheng Yan demonstrates his Chinese tea brewing skill.

Great food, great tea, great fellowship! What more to ask :)

Durian Fiesta

2 weeks ago, we went to Four Seasons for durians. Well..I mean Four Seaons Durian stall at Joo Chiat (lest you are thinking of Four Seasons hotel!) Yup, although the stall was located out of the way, the durians are superb! It's probably what the real Four Seasons hotel will have if there are to start selling durians inside.

We started off with 1 expensive 'Mountain Cat King' durian...

Then we have another. Our durians are not just rich in taste, but rich in colour as well..

Then we have more....

And even more! Look at all the big yellow creamy thing each one of us is holding..are you salivating now?

KTV Outing

ET zone had a KTV outing recently. As there are many humble people in our cellgroup who are rather shy to sing out loud, so the attendance from our cell was small. Although there's only 4.5 pax from our side (4 adults and 1 kid), we had fun crooning to all kinds of tunes and making a fool of ourselves occasionally. It was a cozy setting where we had a good time fellowshipping and listening to each other's beautiful vocals at the same time.

Very accurately-timed synchronised pose in this supposedly impromtu shot

Say cheese...

The cozy group

Peanut for you?

Posers wannabe...

Why so formal looking?

That's more like it man!

Zone Outing at Botanical Gardens

We were off to the Botanical Gardens last Sunday after service for a great time of pinic cum telematch with other cellgroups within the zone. It started with a nice weather and some cool breeze. We also had a great pinic under a nice bamboo tree with delicious food from Botak Jones.

Lovely park, nice weather...

The huge bamboo tree we are sitting under...

and the rustling sound of bamboo tree leaves in the background...

Our yummy food from Botak Jones!

Enjoying the pinic...

The sleeping 'prince' (don't know why he's smiling to himself in sleep...)

What a nice environment and weather right? But then things took a turn suddenly and the sky was filled with dark clouds soon. We were getting ready to start our captain's ball when the rain started pouring, so we have no choice but to hurry and seek shelter at a pavillion. We didn't get to play any outdoor games because of this heavy and enduring rain, but we did however get to play an indoor 'telematch', praise God for creative response!

One of the games we played is a theme based one that can start with something like 'the smallest, the biggest or the fastest' and each cellgroup must anticipate what the challenge is and send a representative they think can fulfill it. The challenge is then being revealed after that, such as the smallest feet size, so the representative that has the smallest feet size wins. We won one of the rounds on 'the biggest' theme and guess who we sent? Of course none other than our tallest, hunkiest brother Gavriil! We place our stakes right because the challenge turned out to be 'the biggest biceps', which Gavriil won hands down...and without much effort. :)

Another round we won is with the theme 'the fastest' and so we sent our dear Joy to compete because we thought it's going to be the fastest sms. It turned out to be 'the fastest person to finish drinking a packet drink'! Joy was so 'zai' in this round, check out the cool video below:

Next we played charade, where we won two rounds. Check out a cute video of michele below acting out the phrase in which guessed correctly.

We also played a game where each team has to translate the word 'goodbye' and the team with the most number of translations in different languages wins.

Wrecking our brains to think of saying 'goodbye' in foreign languages.

Our work-in-progress...

Perhaps it's God's will for us that it rained because in the end our cellgroup won the 'indoor telematch'! :P And here's what we got for our prize:

Five $10 vouchers from Ben & Jerry's! Hallelujah!

Ultimately, the most important thing is that everyone had fun despite the heavy rain and we did not let it dampened our spirits. Indeed, we have all obeyed the verse "This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

N116 group photo...with someone trying to make a funny face :P

The kids had fun too.

Who are they 'bio-ing'?

The loving couple of N116 - Daniel & Shaoqing