Monday, June 12, 2006 :)
Youth Leadership Training Camp
Yesyes, I'm finally blogging about it. Before everything slips my mind!
It seems like every day, youth camp just keeps getting better and better. This year it was planned by Pastor LKY, Terrence, Roy, Ron etc etc. Mainly the leaders la. And I must really say that is was great =)
Day 1
Right I was only there for the night activity. So lemme blog from there =) Went into a room filled with Song Yang, Hui Qi, Ben and Cheryl. They all looked kinda worn out. Next room they were having band prac. Bla bla. In other words, everyone looked sianified. Which kinda surprised me. Little did I know what to expect X)
Had dinner and had our night activity. It was this trust game, where all of us were blindfolded (for about 2 hours at that) and brought around by the leaders. On the roads and stuff. It was kinda scary at times cos it seemed like I was the only one left and then Roy came 'thought I left you behind right? -cheeky tone-' 'haha. ya.' lol. So anyway, it's all about trust. After a long while of almost-being-knocked-down-by-car-ness, we were back in church, still blindfolded. Then they added another layer of blindfolds and we were told to run, as fast as we could. Just run. (oh, we knew we were in church cos they told us) so presumably, we were in the car park. And after being in the same car park playing for like, 10+ years, we kinda know the place. So all of us, by instinct, slowed down at some point of time. But then again, it's about trust. Ultimate faith shown when Evan knocked into the car. hahaha.
Walked around in circles bla bla, went thru 'land mines' and stuff. Finally, trust fall. After playing pepsi cola with Cheryl and she talking rubbish that she'd won 5 times (when i was the one winning XP) they called for a girl volunteer so I went. And they led me to the chair and i was told to just fall backward. Ok, a lot of chairs stacked up. Seemed much much higher than it really was. Of course, got people catch la. THUH. So after that we removed our blindfolds and I helped catch others =) fun la. and it's really all about trust.
Ok that was a long post for one activity. This looks bad. hahaha.
Day 2
Rise and shine, all tired. haha duh right it's camp =D ok we woke up at 8 ok? haha. Had message in the morning and then in the afternoon it was CULINARY SKILLS. Very the fun =P stripped of all cash (except our 20cent coin) and ez link etc. Kinda like amazing race around katong. Where you have tasks (everything to do with food) and if you do bonuses you get $$$. Hahaha the funniest part was from pastor's house where we got lost and then we saw Lois so she said she'll chaffeur us there for $7 then we bargained that if we sang she'd send us there for half the price. So we sang ONE WAY on the road, shouting across since she was opposite X) with the actions. Bet the lady at the bus stop thought we were mad. hahaha. anyway we got the ride for free =) did lots of tasks so got lots of money.
Kinda scary when I fell on the road, trying to run across when the green man was blinking right. then suddenly slipped and fell. and the light for cars turn green. wa terror. thank God there were no cars going straight. hahaha.
Bla bla, took cab to parkway and shopped at Giant. Had some really cool ideas for our food contributed by Zhi Kai =D Oh man, hahah the way we prepared our food ah :P make roy worried only hahaha super funny. instead of cutting the fruits we were eating them LMAO.
So that was cool. Barbecued our stuff and it really turned out nice!! =D YIPPEEEE wahaha! Our dragonfruit was really cool la. Seriously. NICE.
Watched Gospel of Judas at night and one part really scared me. Electric chair. Quite scared by it =X
Day 3
Message in the morning. Left in the afternoon for school. Got back for Omega night, which really was the best night la. Worship was really powerful, quite a few were on their knees worshipping (First time in the history of KPCY) and it really was quite a scene. Pastor led in a talk, then Ron made us do some interesting things like writing a letter to God, planning our objectives for the year ahead. Spiritual objectives la.
Finally it came to putting our 20cents in the cup, which represented giving our hearts to God. Somehow a lot of us broke down. It was kinda like a chain effect thing but we were all crying and crying. It was a heavy burden on our shoulders, on my shoulders, as I realised how much I hadn't given to God, how much I hadn't really surrendered. And somehow I felt really inadequate. I didn't really know why I was crying then but I was really just crying. Prayed long and hard and dropped my 20 cents in the cup =) still continued praying and singing and crying after that. haha. but yes, we were like crying til 11.30pm. And after we put our coins in the cup we were all so happy and stuff, all playing around. Haha. And evan had evangilitis hahaha.
Went for supper and did all kinds of rubbish on the van =P in the van hahahaha. TAKING PICS OF JOSHUE IN THE CAR =P super funny. and the uncle at the coffee shop hahahah. rubbish!!! funny supper we had. on the way back too. played mafia and had lots of fun. then played murderer. and heart attack. finally, we resorted to hide and seek. in the auditorium.
Hilarious la. We gave Des 20s to find us only hahaha. Anyway we decided to play HIDE AND CATCH (since it was more challenging that way). and to top it off, we all had to hop. So that was around 3/4am, and you have 15-18 year old youths hopping around the auditorium playing catching. I couldn't stop laughing la. hahahaness.
So the more mature youths said we were too noisy hopping around so we played Pepsi Cola instead, the leg one. super duper funny. hilarious actually. then we played tai tee and bridge. hahaha. until morning. 7.40am. worship practice. all of us 3/4 asleep. And I fell asleep playing at the keyboard. Pro right? Funny. took a POWER NAP until 8am then was much better =D
but we were all falling asleep during QT. some people ah dropped their Bible ah =P hahaha funny. played more, had roti prata. Wa, i tell u, lack of sleep really makes us talk rubbish.
This is the conversation.
Somebody: Eh, the prata still hot anot?
Somebody else: Aiya, get Pyro to heat it up la!
Everyone: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Somebody else: Ya, the Storm use electricity heat up the curry ah!
Everyone: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Roy (this one I remember): Then what, Jean Gray use her powers and flip the prata!?!
Everyone: -collapses laughing-
Jeffrey: Wah, all the brains not functioning properly liao.
Hilarious man. HAhahaha rubbish =P went home slept like a pig.
Anyway, really gotta thank Benjamin for being so super funny singing Chain of Fools, I still can't stop laughing about it, and for being such an encouragement on Omega Night =)
To Song Yang, for opening up and being so fun, never knew you were so mischievous! =D
To Jonathan Yong, it doesn't really matter if you cry in front of me la =D No need pai sei one. haha. And thanks for putting your coin in the cup too =)
To Jonathan Ma, SUPER LAME!!!! thanks for being lame with me, and for being so retardedly funny and laughing so loud X)
To Hui Qi, for being such a great group leader and for being so funny too! =D
To Zhi Kai, for being hilarious and doing silly stuff with Samuel! And for coming up with the dragonfruit thing =)
To Samuel, thanks for being Samuel. Everybody loves you!! hahaha you can really make everything seem so funny just by giving your silly laugh =D
To Desiree, for always being there and going 'haloooo' when I go online and for being great fun at the camp =) AND FOR ACCUSING ME OF BEING THE MURDERER EVEN WHEN I SAID I WAS INNOCENT JUST BECAUSE I DIDNT LOOK HONEST! =P
To Evan, for being such a retarded-laughing kia =D and for putting the coin in the cup!
To Kimmy, for telling me about DONALD DUCK =P your presence was an encouragement too! =D
To Edward, for staying over on the last night and being so fun. And for believing I wasn't the murderer when i said i was innocent (altho DESIREE ACCUSED ME) and for giving me the pillow so i could have my 20 minute power nap =D
To Shaun kia, for always being encouraging and guiding me with keys and all that. Thanks for being such a great friend and worship leader, kia =)
To Roy kia shaun kia's brother kia, thanks for the advice and for treading along the lines of death when you ate the food my group cooked =P and for all the sacrifices too!
Okok this is getting kinda long and I can't think properly. If I left anyone out, it's not because I don't love you or cos you didn't move me in any way. Your presence at camp was definitely something I'll cherish =)
Love you all, Kpc youth kias.
Oh, I forgot about the TAU POK ROOM. And the KPYPP - Katong Presbyterian Youth Political Party. (ps: our plans when we become a 400-kiaed youth population! =))
What, ho, what, ho, what, ho!10:30:00 pm
