15 FANTASTIC SINGAPORE AIRLINES CREW AND FAMILY

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We are so privilege for having the visit of  15 fantastic friends . It was so easy to work with them as all of them are so capable to do so many things and doing it with such a fast and efficient method. The group was consist of  11 ( eleven) cabin crew ( bro William Chua, bro Wong Kock Yin, bro Jimmy Tan , sis Wen Dee Kee, sis Vincent Boey ,bro  CK Onn,bro Jeffry Cheong, sis Amelia, sis Selina CSJ , Kath Lee , one mom madam Wong  ,one cabin crew division staff sis  Laraine and a pilot bro Terrence Tay  and his dearest wife sis Pauline .  The trip was planned by SIA 5Cs ( Cabin Crew Club for Community Care) . 5Cs are making regular trips over seas for helping whoever need helps. It is really a fantastic group of people with a very good intention to help others as human being. The trip was well organized and the participation of the group was just so great. We are thankful for the 5Cs visit as they were able to bring along things that were collected from so many of you at our place in Singapore ( Children clothes , toys and etc). Thank you 5Cs for bringing them for us.

just arriving at ElTari Airport at 00 28 AM Jan 11th 2009

bro Terence and sis Pauline as Sakteo Hill

For my self , I was arriving in Singapore from Los Angeles on the 6th of Jan  morning and only after some 2 hours at home I went to Jakarta for a meeting with my  friends which were coming from so many places including Germany and Australia  . It was a great gathering and we commit that we will be having our reunion in 2010 which will be attended by friends from different countries ( Asia, European countries,  USA , Australia and many more).  I was not able to stay beyond 23 00 as the next morning at 05 30  I must go to the airport for 07 45 AM departure to Kupang.

I found out that going to Kupang with Mandala Airlines was a pleasant one. The 07 45 am departure is very good , we will not get any traffic jam matter and we will arrive there at 12 25 PM . The best is no delayed departure as the plane is originated from Jakarta it self. It was a great flight as the weather was clear all the way from Jakarta to Surabaya and to Kupang. The transit was only about 25 minutes at Surabaya and the plane was less than  one month old Airbus A320.

It was so great to see all the area of Kupang being so green and soothing  to my eyes. Indeed during the rainy season is common to see it like this. Very much different as we are arriving during the month of June onwards to November where the colour will be brown and the trees has not much of leafs. My eyes was so entertained by  seeing some of the mangoes are still hanging and the bread fruit was so ripe to which I was right away asking the older orphans to get the bread fruit down and made them fried with lots of garlic , hmmmm it was so yummy ( especially my mother in law who made it , it was even better ha ha ha ha ).

our tapioca

On the 8th evening bro Terence Tay and his dearest wife Pauline came . It was so good to see him again at the orphanage as he was here also some 3 years ago. This time we are so privilege to have him and his wife with us. He told us that the condition now is much better and indeed that this time he can sleep on a proper bed ha ha ha . He was sleeping on the floor with mattress some 3 years ago , common bath room and no air conditioning . Now he can have a much nicer and bigger room with attached bathroom and even with air conditioning too. The old building in front of the rooms is changed with a new building now. His plane was late by  one hour so he was arriving at 23 25 pm and reaching the orphanage after midnight. It is sad that there isn't any meal service on board the plane from Surabaya ( even from Jakarta ) so we prepared a take away which we all like it ( BBQ fish with lots of chilly sauce or we call it as "sambal".

The group were coming on the 10th .  Three persons were  arriving via Jakarta ( Singapore - Jakarta for one night then to Surabaya - Kupang with Mandala Airlines)  while the 10 of them were arriving from Surabaya ( Singapore - Surabaya with Silk Air - Kupang with Lion Air on the same day) .Our thanks to Holy and Andre who was looking after the group which arriving via Jakarta.  The group who were arriving with Lion Air was late and arrived at 00 08 am on the 11th ha ha ha . For them again we prepared a take away food as the restaurant were already closed. It was so great to have them especially they are so ready to do any thing .

Some 2 hours later after their arrival and  after taking " very early breakfast at 01 30 am " and after taking a bath  we were start doing our routine at as early as 02 00 AM . This time we were lucky because we were getting the help from this 5Cs group friends so we can get it done at 04 00 AM.On that day we are going to visit Tasipa village  and helping the children by bringing nutritious food and this time we were bringing them some Christmas gifts too . It was so great to work with our SIA family friends , they were so fast and efficient with job sharing and the team work was just so great. So much was planned but we were limited with the timing that was available .

The team was not only preparing to help by working physically but they are ready also for a sudden changed such as to do performance for the children. Some are so good with drawing/colouring, balloon making, cooking, thread arrangement , making up the children hair . Simply the group was consist of people with different and wonderful talents. Praise The Lord. On that evening while we were doing the packing we were getting some wonderfuly played music by the frogs . There was a small pool of water and we saw some 11 frogs were singing right through the night.

putting up a tent

tent in the making

bags of clothes , playpen and others brought by 5Cs for the orphanage and others in need.

looking at the singing frog

one of the frog which was singing for us

gifts packing after the very early meal from 01 38  to 04 00 am

Doing it together after some short nap

garlic chopping

no hands are free

Food packing

food for the children

bro Terence Wong making sure that we were looked after

food packing lady Amelia

This is at "  Tasipa " Village on Jan 11th 2009

such a great team work

food and gifts for the children as well as for the villager's family

Peggy "preaching about sanitation" to the children

the older people were listening to Peggy about sanitation too

a girl was singing for us

the house and family must stay clean to be healthy

food for the children

sweet green bean soup for the children

At Nun Kurus Village :

The Sunday School children at Nun Kurus Village

an encouragement to the children

Green bean soup for the children's appetizer

gifts to all family of Nun Kurus village

gifts to the older ones too

young and old were receiving the gifts

Performing to the children

the children enjoying the performance

If you are seeing that these children are having a good clothing then its time to thank you to All of you. These are some of the village children that we are giving away the clothes that we brought from Singapore and collected from you All.  It is great that we are able to bring them from Singapore and to give away the clothes to the ultimate receivers. It will be great if one day you are coming and able to give things directly to the ultimate receivers your self. They will not be able to give you anything except genuine smiles and wide opened  eyes for you.

At the orphanage :

what shape do you want it to be ?

super duper day

Origami making

Polaroid photos from Selina

simply these are quality time for the children  because of you All

some little time to refreshed our self

We have been here

madam Wong  having lunch at top of the hill(mountain)

picnic with the children

breathing fresh and pollution free air

trying to hold back the sun from sun setting

mud crab cleaning

crab cooking at 02 30 AM ha ha ha

walking back to the dining room to eat the crab

do you want some ???