We've Been to Malaysia
Pictures taken by Paul Hsiung
From the trip of the saints from the Great Lakes to East Malaysia 5/24/02-6/4/02
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Travel plans
Kuching - Saturday 5/25 to Wednesday 5/29
Sibu - Wednesday 5/29 to Saturday 6/1
Miri - Saturday 6/1 to Monday 6/3
On the airplane
Sunset
Moon under the wing of the airplane
Sunrise
Clouds
Mt. Fuji in Japan
Mt. Fuji (large picture)
Detroits saints sampling long-missed Taiwanese food during a fuel stop in Taiwan
Picture of Taiwan after our 1 hour stop there
River in Taiwan
Clouds over South China Sea
More Clouds
I like cloud pictures
We're here! (Saturday night)
Kuala Lumpur Airport
KL Airport
Beoing 777 that took us from KL to Kuching
Rivers in Malaysia
District meeting at Brother Wong's house (from the Left, Joe the Dutch man, Mark my hospitality, the brother in blue shirt is Duncan)
Lord's Day
My hospitality (Mark Lam and his parents)
Sunday Love Feast at Brother Wong's (the brother in white shirt is Matthew)
The children in our district meeting (they were singing, praying, prophesying with the adults)
And they do dishes too!
The children meeting is after the Table at Matthew's house
Sunday night dinner at Kuching Park Hotel
Kuching Park Hotel
Meeting at Kuching Park Hotel singing "We're one in Christ"
A 9 year old sister gave her testimony
The Wong family gave their testimonies
10:30 blending at Matthew's house (this is when the flesh is tired but the spirit is willing)
All the dear sisters who prepared our snacks for the blending time
Monday
Breakfeast at the meeting hall
Kuching meeting hall
Alex and Faye
Me!
Thomas and Priscilla
Mountain in Kuching
Culture Center
Everyone waiting to get into the Culture Center
Main gate of culture center
Alex, Faye, and Christina
Ed and Amy
Daily's
Dave and Toni
Christina and Sarah
Walking on a bamboo pole
Local flowers
Alex and Faye
Group picture in front of a totem pole
ditto
Bamboo bridge
ditto
Native dancers
Head hunter prizes: skulls
Head hunter weapons
Blowdart gun
Ed and amy
Me, Chris, Joe, Faye, and Alex with the locals
Native guitar player
More skulls
Native houses
Culture center show
ditto
ditto
show: some guy who eventually put his stomach on top of that pole
Blowdart gun
end of the show
Afternoon
Lunch at a seaside restaurant
My table
Mountain besides the restaurant
Lunch
ditto
ditto
Pittsburgh saints
take 2
Ed and Amy at lookout point of cat musem
First group picture
Another group picture
Detroit saints
ditto
Kuching Civic Center
View of Kuching from top of Civic Center
My hospitality
Night
Dinner
Then we had the service meeting but I didn't get any picture
Tuesday night prayer meeting
Saints from Detroit gave their testimony
Saints from Canada
My picture with college saints in Kuching
ditto
Wednesday from Kuching to Sibu
At the airport when we are about to leave Kuching
group picture at the airport
Chris and kids
Thursday at Sibu
Blending at the park
park 2
park 3
park 4
park 5
park 6
My picture with Sibu children on the bridge
Spider
Bridge
Cutting coconut
Pile of coconuts
Wang's and Ho's enjoying some coconuts
dinner 1
dinner 2
Giving testimonies at the meeting hall in Sibu. This hall can sit 3000 saints!
ditto
meeting at the hall
Friday at Sarikei and Sibu
Sarikei
Barge that took us across the river
Wang's
Barge 2
A little song on the boat ride
Barge 3
Hand massage. This brother gave massage to about 20+ saints...
Alex and Faye with pinapples
Sarah behind bananas
More hand massage. It'll hurt now but feel a lot better afterwards.
Meeting Hall in Sarikei
ditto
snacks at the meeting hall
meeting at Sarikei
The young people at Srikei performing hand motions for us. Their singing was very exercised.
ditto
A gospel friend with Ed and Amy
Young people of Sarikei
Carl with the young people
Carl getting a hand massage
Nature Hike
Attack of the Malaysian Alligator
Chris and I to the rescue!
Into the jungle
Jungle 2
Look at the size of that ant
Local youths swimming in the river
Friday night love feast
Little Enoch. He said "AMEN!"
My hospitiality Firiona, Enoch, James, Chris and I
Lovefeast at Hall 2, Sibu
Young people serving ones' meeting in Sibu
Chris, I, brother Hii and sister Hii
Hospitality
Saturday Sibu to Miri
Pulau Hulia
Blending again at Pulau Hulia (Can someone give me the correct spelling?)
PH has rows of cookie cutter houses
2 couples
Faith and a young girl
Relaxing
They finally agree to let me take their picture
And they can't get enough
This sister opened her home for all of us
Rick, his host at Sibu, and her two chidren with a friend
Mrs. Hsia-Chao-Zing with her family, a friend, Faith and Amy.
Going to Miri
At the airport, Chris, myself, and the kids of Sibu
Ed and Amy
This prop plane took us from Sibu to Bintulu to Miri. We can finally sing "We've been to Bintulu" with a clear conscience.
Prop plane heading right into a storm. It was a rough ride.
Conference in Miri from Saturday to Monday
Conference
Group Picture 1
Group Picture 2
Small group picture
ditto
Us giving testimonies
ditto
Post conference blending
Blending Karaoke!!!! During lunch there is a stage with 4 microphones and a brother with a electric piano, so we blend by singing!
Saints from Taiwan Hall 13
Saints from Taiwan
A sister from Taiway doing a solo
Us singing "Jesus is blending us together"
ditto
Us doing the hand motions
Saints from Korea
More saints, not sure where they are from
Combined saints from Taiwan and US.
My hospitality in Miri
ditto
Super sized love feastThis the biggest love feast I have ever seen. They have 3 long rows of food
Meeting Hall in Miri
Endless table #1
Endless table #2
Endless table #3
Love feast
Firiona, James, Enoch and I
Blending meeting where we translate Chinese to English to Korean to Indonesian.
Ride back home Thank you saints in Malaysia! Our trip seemed so short yet we did so much. It's time to bring it back home!
Kuching
Kuching mountain
Kuching river
Kuching mountain again
I love clouds.
more clouds
even more
Immigration line
Alex and Faye
Jason on the KL airport train
KL airport
ditto
Boeing 747 that took us home
An island in the Pacific
Sunset or Sunrise.... I lost track
Eating a really good bowl of beef noodle soup at the fuel stop in Taiwan
Again, I forgot if this was sunset or sunrise
ditto
Finally the good ole' USA. Land of hamburgers and steaks. You can tell where my mind is at.
Carl and passengers
California mountain ranges
Bird's eyeview of a California city (I think Sacramento)
More california mountains
At LAX
Blending again
Tire travelers
waiting for the plane
This is the end of our trip to Malaysia. But hopefully this will be the beginning of something new amoung us. If you have any pictures that you would like to add, please send them to hsiung+@cs.cmu.edu. Also please sign my guestbook.
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Extras
Movies This files are quite large (2-4MB each). To play them you need quicktime.
Kuching children's meeting - singing
Kuching children's meeting - story time
Kuching Park Hotel meeting - singing "We are One"
Kuching Park Hotel meeting - singing and shaking hands
Dance Perfomance at Culture center
Church in Kuching singing "Jesus Loves You" to us.
Sibu District group singing the welcome song to us.
Movie of us singing "Flow of the Spirit" at the conference.
Karaoke - indoesian saints
Karaoke - 2 korean and 2 indoesian saints singing
Karaoke - 2 indonesian sints singing
Us singing "The Right Person"
Blending meeting - Korean saints singing "Flow of the Spirit"
Taiwanese saints singing "Flow of the Spirit"
more saints singing the same song
Translation nightmare - translating in 4 languages
Panaromic pictures from the lookout at the Cat Museum
Whole Picture
PartA
PartB
PartC
PartD
Panaromic pictures from the Civic Center
Whole Picture
PartA
PartB
PartC
PartD
PartE
PartF
PartG
PartH
