My disastrous retreat T.T

As you all may have known, I have "check out" from my 1-week religious retreat.

What was suppossed to be a wonderful, relaxing and calming retreat turns into horrible, nerve-wrecking and patient-tolerancing experience for me and a few of my other family members.

Just so you all can understand our frustration, I will have to explain several rules and how it works during the retreat.

We have praying/offering session whole day morning to night, just small breaks in between for rest and meals. Meals mainly only half hour to one hour max. And there's like 400 people with only 12 tables. Time is of great essence here. It's a 1st come 1st serve basis, no reserving seats for people.

There are 6 of us from my family lah, my mum, auntie with her daughter(Agal), my "wonderful" sis-in-law (here on named Imitation Queen,"IQ") and my cousin's wife (let's call her "Bgal")

Our IQ bitch starts to show her horns and tails on the 3rd day. 3rd day we start the session at 2am in the morning. So we have our breakfast at 5am that day. Because my mum and auntie sit on the front row, (seatings are based on the amount of money you donated for this particular event), they already told us beforehand to come out as fast as possible. So guess what? our IQ bitch somehow got lost while we making our way out. Apparently she was walking so slow that she got left behind. So we have to go find her lah. When we finally found her, she said: oh I dun wan to eat, u guys eat urselves." ok fine, nevermind, though we would have appreciated it if she could bloody tell us while we still inside, after all she was just sitting next to me, only 2cm gap between us?-.- (and of cos my mum reprimanded us for being so late to the eating table, and she innocently say: I dunno, I told them I dun wan to eat already" WHAT THE FUCK, she told us only after we wasted 15minutes looking for her man. *sigh* (patient, patient I keep telling myself)

Then there was a day when we 4 young ones lazy lah, skip 1 short praying session. This session is directly before lunch. So 10 minutes before lunchtime, we go down and sit on the table first lor, just waiting for my mum and auntie. And each table can take 10 ppl, if not full you are not allowed to start eating. (tats the rule too) At this point, because of the increasing number of ppl attending the sessions, the temple organised for another room at the back of the temple filled with just 10 tables for meals, it's like buffet style, u queue take food, no seat stand and eat. Fast but not as comfy lah. So we sit and wait, then hor, apparently my mum and auntie feels its faster for them to eat at the back and they went on without letting us know lor. In the end Bgal found out about it and told us:" we can just eat, ur mum and auntie finished eating liao at the back". At that moment, there was another auntie (my mum's friend) with her daughthers on the table too. So we are about to start eating lah, then u know wat? The crazy IQ without saying anything, stands up and walks away from the table. We are like: O.O
Asked her where she going: she said she wanna accompany my mum at the back to eat. take note: 1. My mum they all finished eating liao. 2. we only have 15 minutes left to eat. 3. If she leaves her seat last minute, where to find a replacement? since the rest have moved on to the back thinking no more seats liao. She basically dun care if we can't start eating cos she moved out suddenly. I was like FUCK FUCK BIATCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh

The auntie also shocked, she said to me: Your mum will scold her if she dun eat with her is it?" I was too shocked to answer her, lucky Bgal quick thinking answered: Nope, My auntie not that kind of person, this girl is just crazy, dunno wat she thinks." I felt like, she must have been giving others the impression that we are oppressing her. urgggh i felt like slapping her there and then i tell u. Considering u gals didn't see how she easily walked away with a weak smile on her face as if she is not doing anything wrong.Man she should just go be an actress, why the hell she marry my brother?

Then got one morning, we went back home to sleep, cos temple not enough water to use for bathing. So in the morning the session starts at 8am. We have to wake early mah, all of us wakes up at 6 and finished ready to go at 7am. We woke her up at 6am too, she refused to and only wake up at 7,30am. then she still slowly slowly bath, PUT ON MAKE UP(i dun understand for wat, we are going to retreat leh) then my auntie chase her she said: U all go first lor, I will follow up. In the end we just leave her behind. Cos we can't stand she speak as if nothing wrong. from then on, my auntie said: We are not ever going to wait for her already, i dun care if she told the others we left her behind on purpose or wat.

To be continued........



However I do learn a lot from this experience, overall it's a rewarding retreat, would have been perfect if the bitch is not around.