Day +2608 :Oversea Trip - Unknown to unkown (2)

I am fine today.

We needed to reach a train station which was 4 stations away. We were very surprised to find out that we had to pay only 2 Baht (about RM0.20) per person. We found out later that the local here don't even had to pay. The train was very "ancient" and someone told us that it was "poor people train". I think we won't be able to find a free train ride in Malaysia like in Thailand.

When we were in the train, Pastor Andrew called us and requested us to identify the location. We said that we were in a train, heading towards Phaya Thai station which was near the The Siam Mission. He couldn't understand what we were talking about as he himself never boarded such as train before. He asked a local who was with him to help, and surprisingly even the local also never board such as a train :-( Ps. Tan and I were definitely "more advanced" than any of them in this regard :-)

Pastor Andrew asked us to dropped by somewhere and he would picked us up. We did that, get off the train the next station, but we didn't even know where we were. The so called station that we get off is just a small wooden platform. In the end we stopped a taxi to bring us back to the hotel.

Pastor Andrew waited for us in the hotel and brought us for a great dinner after that :-)

The 2 Baht train tickent

Poor people ancient train

This was the train station that we get off

Another form of public transport but we were not allowed to use it was it is dangerous

We distributed this gospel bag along the way 

We had dinner here

A photo with Pastor Andrew

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +2607 :Oversea Trip - Unknown to unkown (1)

I am fine today.

Pastor Andrew gave us an assignment called "Unknown to unknown" on the second day afternoon. He would like us to reach The Siam Mission by whatever means except taxi. He gave us some maps and we had to find a way to reach here by 6:00 p.m. It was about 3.00 p.m. by the time the assignment was given.

We identified the destination on the map and then asked the hotel receptionist how to reach there. We were advised to take a taxi. We said that we were not allowed to take a taxi, the receptionist also didn't know how to reach there without a taxi :-( We asked if we could walked to the nearest train station which was about 45 minutes walking distant based on what shown on Google Map, the receptionist said it was dangerous to do that :-(

However, we had no choice apart from walking. We walked and asked someone along the way, hoping that we would find some transport other than taxi that could bring us to the train station, but unfortunately everyone whom we asked advised us to take a taxi :-(

Guided by the Google Navigation (working in Thailand but not in Malaysia yet), we spent about 45 minutes to reach the train station. When we were about 10 minutes away from the station, I had a stomach ache, and needed to visit a toilet urgently. I was very sure it was due to the western food that we ate for lunch. Ps. Tan was luckier as he experienced the same just before we started our journey, and thus was able to "discharge the mess" in the hotel.

Fortunately, I was able to reach the train station without any incident. It was a great relief to find a toilet to "clear the mess".

A photo with some members of a short-term-mission team; they were leaving for airport

We had to reach here by 6:00 p.m.

Searching hard on the map 

Start our journey

Reached the station finally

Buying ticket

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +2606 :Oversea Trip - Enjoying western food

I am fine today.

On the way back to the hotel from the language centre, we stopped by a western food stall for lunch.

We passed by some fruit stalls

Many 7-Eleven stores in Bangkok and the stores are bigger than those in Malaysia

Ps. Tan's choice of lunch

Pork chop - my choice of lunch

The stall we had the lunch

Purchased some banana just before reaching the hotel

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +2605 : Oversea Trip - A morning prayer

I am fine today.

We had breakfast in the hotel on the second day we were in Bangkok. After that we walked to CCMA Agape (宣道会宣爱堂) church to attend a morning prayer. We met a short-term mission team from Hong Kong in the prayer meeting. They came here many days ago and were going to go back to morning in the afternoon.

CCMA Agape Church

Pastor Andrew Wong

Attendees

Song book with Thai Language

Heading to the language centre after the prayer meeting

Along the way we saw a church

To be continued and see you next post :-)