June 13, 2008
DEAR DIARY ;
Just when I was ever so determined to sit down and blog about the camp, someone out there is knocking on the door.
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Oh, it was just some random salesman, whose Chinese I can't understand.
Me (after opening the door) : Yes?
Him (after 5seconds) : @!$#%$^& (I don't understand)
Me: OK (quickly closing the door)
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'Soak in the Son' was a big blast! Let's see...
On the very first day! We were suppose to have a committee meeting that didn't occur. We met up with the rest @ Mac's white sands before going over to the interchange to board the bus to Home Team NS Chalet! We took photos outside while waiting for the keys and proceeded in to take a mini-rest while preparing to kick-start the day.
As usual, we had our camp rules before playing Ice breakers prepared by Yvonne and Jacq Jr. We started with blow win blow that actually helped 'sabo-ed' Irene and Cheryl to do the chicken dance which made us laugh like crazy because of someone's random remark that the chickens got no sense of direction! Haha! The second game that we played was a number game where the person that says 21 have to stand and choose a number to attached a kind of action to and we all have to remember. Then the last was the one where one person of each team (
we have two) have to sit behind and then mention the other party name first when the blanket got pulled down. & my team won! Hoho!
Side track a little, Grace was super funny that day. She stunned me for a while when she said " I am Grace, my surname is Tan and I am cute " . Then during the game, we won because she screamed scaring the next team and shout out the other party name. It was overly hilarious. Plus we had Mun Yee's super classic hair shaking action!
Then we have Jerome in his hair band, which according to our guys there to like geeks and to the girls he looked like Mark Lee in Ah long pte ltd. (
you can imagine right?) But according to him, its boyband. Cos' he's a boy wearing hair band. Get it?!
We played cards (7 person Big 2) for a while before dinner and washed up after which had Daniel to share with us on abiding in Christ! And what really captured my attention was when he mention that we need to dwell in God's word to have a right heart because only a right heart can help pray the right prayer as well as the importance of Quiet Time which is quite an motivation. (:
Then , the second day...For this day, we had QT in the morning, with me reading through the last passage before Mimi comes to start on her lesson later in the day. We had Wanting to share with us on what's life in the spirit and spiritual breathing. And the short time given to reflect on my Christian Walk was more the beneficial. Before rounding up, she actually shared this quote that make a lot of sense :
Faith is like a muscle, it grows with excerise.
After which was Mimi's teaching on selection. We had a little quiz, and it seems that we all know the vision of CCC. But when Mimi taught and relate back to the vision, it made even more sense in that aspect. I actually learn a lot from her like the importance and seriousness of choosing COMPETENT & RELIABLE men. And Mimi's was so nice that she bought us snack and Ice cream that really came timely.
After lunch, we had another session with us learning how to do personal time. This time we changed group and played another game before starting. And via this, I got to learn more on the importance of building relationship and what was needed before having personal time which helped.
Follow which was our training on Conversational Evangelism where Irene introduced to us the - Musician, Artist , Archaeologist and Builder. It reveals how we can actually start a spiritual conversation by listening to sour notes and etc which is a revision. (:
We had our games after that led by Karen and with the help of Cheryl. It was twister, with a twist. We were again divided into two teams, and given 12 bags and 3 balloons to be filled with water. I was in Team 2 with Wanting, Qing wen, Candy, Maggie, Grace, Yvonne, Jerome and Joon Kiat. And the most hilarious part when filling the water was when Joon Kiat filled balloon couldn't be lifted because of the heavy weight. Proceeded with the games and send our Jerome as representative on the twister mat. The losing team would have to roll two dice to move their representative about on the mat while the winning team can choose if they wanna bomb the mat with water.
Winning team can choose 4 other in the team to be on the mat to be bomb as well at the end of the day. In fact, no team lost, so Karen said that the team representative that was the wettest would be considered lost. Unfortunately , it was yours truly team. :/ (But , it was fun) Oh, at that time our representative changed already, it was Joon Kiat and he was wet! Anyway, back to topic, since a lot of them got no extra tees and are not convenient to play, the balance 4 went up and the brave fours that willingly took the forfeit with Joon Kiat and showed team spirit (Haha, self praising time again) - Wanting, Qing wen, Jerome and Me. I don't know if there are photos. But.. Irene's team water bomb had soap inside as well that made our eyes so irritable. Wanted to hide behind Qing wen & Jerome because they were tall but ended up being in the front line awaiting the throw(s).
But in the midst of being 'bombed' , we've decided to go and hug everyone of them especially Jacq senior that gotten the most hugs from me and Wanting while Jerome and Joon Kiat went after the guys. Hohoho! Awesome Fun(s). Wash up and all before playing cards games for a while and practicing worship with Hazel(:
& next on was the anticipated Girl's and Guy's time having with us , two couples . Irene and Qing wen plus Victor and Candy! It was really a fun time with the girls giggling writing about the 10 things we don't appreciate and appreciate about the guys. And in the appreciate sector most word that popped up was (some) & (minority). I suppose the guys had their fun writing about the girls as well. Then it was a time of Girls only and Guys only where we discussed issues and all that was quite cool but meant to be kept within us ONLY.
Played twisters again at night and some game Qing wen brought along with Victor , Karen, Joon Kiat and Jorrie! It was awesome, and the usage of internet there was the next awesome thing that happen. Thank God for vodafone! Thank God for technology advancement! Haha!
To end off, the classic thing of the day was when I tried pouring water without opening the cap with the most irritating pig laughing at the side. & the box with the leg and kick with the hands actions in the morning when I was the least awake.
*READERS ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO LAUGH*
To sum off the day, I would say I've learn that:
Guys and Girls have their differences, but we appreciate when each other made the effort to try to understand. & that placing God first is definitely the right decision to make (personally)
Omega Night / 3rd day...Basically, it was quite a short day. We started watching a video on the projector by Mr Steve Douglas. Through the video, I understood that if God isn't working in us , we cannot expect him to be working through us and basically the three main points that was brought up was:
Walking humbly, Walking continually and Walking passionately.
Via this, we were also given time to share with a partner on our warning signs and pray for each other which I felt was a moment of surrendering to God our weakness and humbling ourselves before him while bonding still we our partners.
When the warning signs flashes, deal with it!
Then we played a short game called Guessxxx(something) before proceeding to our case study while awaiting for lunch. For this, we had 5 teams altogether! My team compromise of the DGL and his DG guy - Joon kiat and Darrell and we were doing on Guy friend watch porn and invites you to join in thing. Discussed and then it was acted out by Darrell and Joon kiat. Laughter added due to quick thinking of Darrell in the skit - 2o minutes and watch together! Muahahaha! And it marks the end of training after all teams were done! (:
Played twister again, this time with Jacq Sr, Joon Kiat, Hazel and Jorrie. The day before was with Irene. I think I really stretched to the extreme that my legs are still hurting. Pity short people playing this! Haha! Then sang songs , cheena and all. (RP crusaders rocks because we are billingual, Hehehe). After which we decided to go Cycling! Rented a total of 7bikes for an hour - Jorrie , Hazel, Jacq, Charlton, Joon Kiat, Amandaz (
lagged for 5minutes before realizing that I missed myself out) and me!
I miss cycling a lot, I haven't been cycling after the day we went ECP together , but then that day I was fetch-ed too, so not much difference. We placed our legs at the top and allowed the wind to breeze through. It was fabulous totally because of all the slopes that allowed it to happen. Jacq Sr was persuading Joon kiat to teach her how to do the bike jump trick (
whatever you called it) and as she was did the trick, Chalton said "Airpork" and it got us laughing (
go think about it, the pig jumping thing). After returning the bike, went with Joon Kiat to send Cherie out and got to talk to her.
Ivin arrived shortly and I suppose he was quite shock at the rarr-rarr ness of RP crusaders as well. Hoho! We were singing horribly and laughing and doing a lot of monkey actions. He shared after worship and dinner and he's introduction of himself was funny. He said he was a
ABCDEFGHI - Ah beng christian something something Holy Indian. (
I kind of have STM). & the back part is too personal to be shared. Only for the ears of my dear diary.
Thanksgiving, sharing and appreciation time was super. It was really heart-warming and appreciations were shown to various people and we had our candle lighting thing. This moment is seriously beyond words. When it was over, it was the big surprise turn, we blew off our candles and brought out the cake, and co currently fed-ex delivery to our dear wanting who is 21!!! Anyway, the bear that we gave her was named Jacob! Hoho!
Cake fight with the best smack, smash with cake face winner- Jacq Sr. Haha! Chalton was in front chasing her while I and Joon Kiat countered from the back and Jorrie from somewhere else I couldn't remembered. After which was Jerome smearing her face with even more cream! Washed up, then settled some stuffs & shared with Hazel before playing finger-guessing game with Jacq, Anthony aka Mr cute, Jerome, Jorrie, Charlton, Hazel and Joon kiat. It isn't the typical scissors, paper , stone kind of thing. But those where we can put either a stone or paper and say a number and see if it fits, if it does, person on the right drinks. OK , and the person who was on my left was Joon Kiat. Scary like don't know what.
After that we had a swop of seats and I think I was purely unlucky, I was the one that cause myself to keep drinking . But thank God , there was Mineral water in Joon Kiat's bottle if not I would have to drink Newater! Argh! Hazel was pretty hilarious as well coming up with the scissors of all the sudden and saying things like one -five instead of fifteen. LOL,totally. Msn for awhile and then went on to take over jorrie to play 3 team twister, have to keep smelling people butt in my position! Smelly!
Then finally , some quiet time that I am so certain would allow me to doze off. I was sitting beside Joon Kiat and he was playing the guitar and singing, BEST time to sleep since the focus was on Jacq. But apparently couldn't because Jacq was sitting beside me as well. Haha. When I was so close to sleeping,the pig had to knock my head with the empty bottle. Went upstairs to drag Jacq out of the bed and down to the dining area because her promise of 15 mins was up but allowed Charlton to sleep still. Hehehe! And then.. due to her yearn to sleep , Jacq went to sleep beside Jerome while Joon kiat and Jorrie planned how to deal with her, and Joon kiat's laughter was HORRIBLE! (Seriously).
As for the things afterwards , I don't really remember. Was pretty half-asleep already. I just know that before that Jorrie and Anthony was lying on the floor, Jerome and Jacq asleep and Joon Kiat playing PSP. Boring! And the best part was.. NO ONE WENT TO WATCH SUNRISE! Hohoho! I think only Charlton would manage to catch that pretty sight.
And Jorrie was mentioning something about coming back to the next and the next and the next crusade camp as well if we were steady enough. I'm game OK, Jorrie. (:
HOME SWEET HOME AFTER BREAKFAST @ MAC(S). The Great commission is the greatest plan by the greatest person concerning the greatest power with the greatest promise. I remembered! Hoho!
Then off to Poly Forum. Update about that soon.
But I tell you, SOAK IN THE SON WAS A BLAST, FUN! :D And I have seriously learn a lot and laugh a lot and YO! a lot and what else?! oh , sleep well because of the companions. But
BOO! to the cats that scare me off as well as all the things done that made me the joke of Joon Kiat's day (cos' he went round saying and laughing like a PIG!) Hoho!
& finally
DOWNTOWN EAST tomorrow with the gang.
