hey blog! i've come back from ks camp! and i shall blog about it while it is fresh in my memory. actually i was planning to finish u p my 3rd the final post of the written account of my china trip, and was pressing to do so cos da jie made a bet with me, haha. but i have decided that ks camp is MORE important as it involves my spiritual life. also, i have promised emelyn that i will blog, and that it will be a long post, so i don't want to keep her waiting! hmm... i've just napped for for 3 hs and when i woke up, first thing to do was blog, but i have to be super concious of the time, cos i don't want to infringe the law of christian liberty!
anyway, first things first, this post will be very alike my other recount posts, very long and sometimes boring, but all in the name of memory's sake, so bear with it.
day 1 - tues 2 dec 2008. 'i'm lovable lisa....'
first of all, that 'i'm lovable lisa....' thing was actually a qoute from me on the first day. wanna know why i said so.. find out!
the day before on monday, i had a contract with joanna and bernice to travel by taxi to the campsite itself, and with it, we had to adhere by certain rules like waiting at the main road for the taxi so that when it came, we could hop on without wasting money on waiting time. the taxi was flagged by joanna (and her sis jema who i did not have a fore-knowledge of her presence) and would travel to my house and subsequently bernice's. i had a set of bulky lobang that consisted of my guitar and my enormous duffel bag. good thing mum helped me to the bus stop, if not i would have used up a considerable amount of my energy... while waiting for the taxi to arrive, i was a little nervous of what i would say to joanna when i saw her, remembering that i had a year's worth of things to talk with her, i was both worried and calmed at the same time.
so joanna came and i saw jema too, i hopped on. in the taxi, i was surprised that i could talk freely with them, catching up with them a little, and sharing a few laughs.. my fears were unfounded. then we headed for bernice's condo and then she boarded. jema had a little joke about bernice being too big and the rear had no space for her so she had to lie in the boot. harhar, that was some lame joke that unconciously made me feel more awake and comfortable with them.
the ride was a pretty smooth sailing one, without jams or worse, being lost on the way. so we reached there in about 45mins, and the fare was $24.20. bernice smartly bargained with the taxi driver to give us a flexibility of $0.20 and she achieved it. so we had a fare that could be cleanly divided by 4. nice work bernice! when we reached, i thought we were the first cos the place was so quiet, but i was wrong, the bungalow had many footwear outside at the door, so i was preparing myself to be greeted by the follow youths and maybe get a 'long time no see' from them. but no one said that, maybe 1 year to them was a day? lol. although i had no 'long time no see' from them, i'm certain that they had missed me and had welcomed me sweetly with open arms, whoever i went up to gave me a broad smile. :)
anw, when i got in the bungalow, i first greeted emelyn! my best friend for camp! i didn't see lin yan around, so i thought she hadn't reached. and lin yan is also my best friend for camp! haha. anw, emelyn led me to the room she was sleeping in, which was the same old room we had slept in the previous year with rachel tan and joanne. this year, we had a new comer jemima sim, and she roomed with us. my bed was the upper bunk and emelyn's was the lower bunk. jemima had the double bed for herself (at least until part timer joanne claimed the other half) after putting my bag down, i went out and said hey to a few people, namely ben yeo, rachel (goh), nathaniel, kevin, hannah etc. they said hey back and exchanged smiles.
soon it was time to gather for the official opening of the camp. camp master kevin greeted us and welcomed us. we had the introduction of camp personnel and the camp theme song and verse. i was girls' dorm ic, and i had no idea whether my role involved anything other than waking people up, which i sucked cos i woke up later than them... so i immediately told emelyn to take over me, cos she seems better at it from past experiences. the camp theme song was new to me, but it was very nice and i liked it in no time. we had 4 groups. namely epistle, testimony, witness and children of light. mine was children of light (col) and consisted of johanna (jo) and jessie who were our group leaders, jema, jemima, ryan, kevin, tim quek and i.
it was time for ice breakers! joanna led us and we sat in a circle. there after, she explained that the first game was as follows, we had to introduce ourselves, by stating our name with an adjective that more of less described us and started with the same letter as our name. in my mind, i went oh... i've played this before in p5, when miss lam introduced herself as sleepy sarah and i as lovable lisa. so i probably carried a very confident expression, and that is probably why joanna asked me to start. and lol, my mind went blank. i wasn't lovable, besides, that p5 vocabulary... but i hate unwanted silence, especially whenever i was the cause of it. so i blurted out 'i'm lovable lisa' and i was relieved that ppl laughed, cos what i just said was rubbish. lol. after thinking about it, i realised im more of lisa, the leisure lover, in other words, the hedonist. back to the point, i also stated my age and which school i am from and how long i have been a christian. then i threw the ball to emelyn and then the game went on. this game generated laughs at a few points of time, when the ball was thrown to ryan, he deflected it with his camp booklet. LOL, it was so quick and i was surprised that he could respond that fast. also, it was entertaining watching the verbal squabble between the quek brothers. song jia said that she was sociable-not, i guess joanna meant that the adjective was meant to be a positive one, but she didn't define, so we left it at that.
after the first game, we had another game that was miming facts about ourselves. i partnered rachel and i mime that i like seafood and red. actually u could say i will red seafood like crabs and lobsters, but i didn't mean them to be combined cos i really love all kinds of seafood, all but the deplorable cockles! lol. rachel told me that she knew jap (which i alr knew) and that she was considering body building! LOL, i never never knew that fact, it must have evolved during the 1 year of my hiatus from fe, if not i might have known. for the finale of this game, we all had to guess what jo had to say which jessie had no clue on how to decipher. but i managed to guess easily cos i could lip read. lol, hamsters still pretty much are the highlights of jo's life.. her phrase was 'my hamster changed home'. LOL!
the game which followed was an improvision of the game blow wind blow. we had to state i love people who love.. yeah, so when it was my turn, i said i love people who love sports. :) and im glad many people share my sentiments. after the game, the game of ice breakers was to a close.
after the ice breakers, we had lunch. i remember having chicken rice, and it was brought to us by auntie saw huey. thanks auntie! anyway, next up we had SYLO, which was short for sing your lungs out. i found myself very familiar with the robust singing of the ksers. i have always enjoyed singing with them as they nvr lacked enthusaism when it came to singing, furthermore, there were a considerable number of strong singers in our midst, thus in pitch wise, we always met the mark. i was one of the official camp guitarists, so i played the guitar this round.
following that, we had our first message on guarding out heart by uncle joseph liow. i learnt that our heart is what God sees as most important, thus, we must do our utmost to keep it from evil and sin. also, that we could do so by relying on God to help us and centering God's word in our hearts. during discussion later on, i shared about pranking diane, haha, i still feel bad about the incident that also broke our clique up!
when discussion was over, it w as time for 'chapalang' game time! haha, i had no idea what on earth was chapalang, maybe it's the brother of hampalang... anyway, i asked emelyn at the start of camp when i was still flipping through the booklet and she said that i would noe later, of course i would if not how would i play her game? anyway, the game was sort of a team bonding game that required us to be able to spray out our team members' names in seconds, at the same time, be quick in passing balls from under our legs to above our heads. wow, it rhymes. haha. so the game is as follows (i hope i will be able to explain it better than emelyn as it is quite complicated at first). basically, there are 2 balls for 4 groups. so 2 groups will have a ball each while the other two have none. when the game starts the groups that have the ball will throw the ball as far as possible while the other group chases after it, the members have to stand in a circle and one person in the middle will shoot his/her tongue off with all the names of the group members, the more rounds gone, the better. once the other group chasing after the ball has gotten it, they have to pass the ball under their legs and above their heads and then shout stop, that is to stop the other group from saying the names, and then they will throw the ball some where else and then start reciting their group memebers' names, and the game follows in that cycle. okay, it that clear enough? eh i hope so, but i think emelyn did a better job cos we eventually played the game in the proper, while i think mine would make people never start the game. okay, im confusing myself now... :/ anyway, my team's alpha male kevin joined the another group for this game as we had uneven numbers, and my group was very reluctant of this, but later i learnt that he was more of a hindrance than help, lol, his excuse: i purposely made it so, so that our group could win.. um, okay kevin...
after chapalang, we had the game traffic jam, my group teamed with epistle and guess what, we solved the seemingly impossible to solve puzzle. anyway, we accomplished that after trying out many times, but it was sure better than the other group which never succeeded. it was thanks to the focus we had that enabled us to solve the problem. :) well done col and epistle! :) anyway, it was during this game that the penang brothers came, that's why there were a lot of distractions with nicholas and all. it's the forth time jonathan and timothy have joined us. :) im very happy for that. haha. hope that this will continue to years to come.
the next game played was depicting an object. i dunno whats the name for this game, but it involved a group forming a particular object given by emelyn. the first was toilet bowl if im not wrong. lol, so i rmb i was the toilet bowl seat with jess, we linked arms and squat down. then beside us was johanna, the flushing component, jema was the toilet paper holder and jemima was the toilet paper as she was wearing white then. kevin was the toilet user and ryan was amusingly the 'poop', so he hid behind johanna till kevin 'did his business' and then he would come from behind to appear and when kevin flushed the toilet, he would once again disappear. lol! it was really funny! the second object was a car. i was the car front door plus front wheel, jo was the other front wheel and kevin and ryan was the rear wheels. jema was the driver, jess was the flashlight (lol, she used her camera which unfortunately didn't coorperate during the real thing itself and led to a blooper) jemima was mutli-purpose steering wheel and wiper. whee, it was really funneh! that's was all i think for the games. great job done emelyn!!! :D
after that, we played captains ball. :) i must say that captains ball took over as one of my 'fun' during the camp as the table tennis table was removed (much to my despair) another things i like about ks was captains ball, cos we truly displayed team work and sportsmanship during captains ball. furthermore, we had many strong players, thus the game was always enetertaining and fast paced. i rmb being more or less active during this game cos i wanted to sweat it out. :) i LOVED sports rmb? :)
dinner came at 6.30, uncle wee beng was the provider. thanks uncle! :) i forgot what we ate. hmm... :( bad memory. anyway, i recall having bad appetite throughout camp for some unknown reason, so food was definitely not the best thing at camp. :( also i had some stomach pains, i guess was because of the water cooler water cos whenever i drank it, it sent some painful sensation through my stomach. after dinner, ben, lin yan, jonathan mohan (whom i shall 'mohan' as he seems very mohanish to me... ps, i called him that way at camp, lol, and he wasn't too happy, so make sure this doesn't reach his ears!) and i played cards (to be specific, taiti)! this is another 'fun' of mine at camp. :) also, it was dinner time when my group lost a memeber, tim quek, he wasn't feeling very well and had to leave. :( but he was back on the third day! fast recovery tim!
soon it was time to gather for SYLO, joanna played guitar as i was unfamiliar with most tunes and then we had message 2 on christian liberty. :) when our speaker uncle gim theng entered, ben quek asked where's marcus? haha, i was upset that he didn't come, didn't he want to meet up with his friends from childhood?! haha. when i met him later on fri, he said that he had wanted to go, but lazy, lol, is that his only excuse, and he said that he should have gone. yes, marcus, u should have gone cos u didn't know how much u missed :) lol. also, some interesting coincidence here, jemima was marcus' schoolmate and classmate, what a small world. :)
when uncle gim theng shared about christian liberty, i think what struck me most was that i had been doing too many things on sunday that wasn't really pleasing to God. i was made further guilty during tabi's workshop the following day. however, i still do not think that eating out on sunday is a crime, cos like what bak wei said, the non-believers are a 'tool' for us... umm. i think i've made it sound very cruel, but it wa s something along that line, that as long as we do not stumble fellow christians, instead, 'make use' of non-christians who find no wrong in working on the Lord's day, and maybe buy food from them or take a bus ride on sunday. hmmm, is the reasoning of mine sound reasoning enough? after that we had group discussion where we delved deeper into the examples of things we do in daily lives and whether they defile christian liberty. i learnt that worldly music is really bad, and so is christian pop, which is just world pop in disguise, so i shall try not to ever listen to them again. I'LL TRY and hope i succeed! :)
anyway, on a side-note, (this is for da jie) while i was writing notes, i kept writing christine liberty instead of christian liberty! lol, maybe i missed u so much that i wanted u to be liberated from america and come back to singapore. harhar. u will be soon! 16 dec! :D
after discussion, we had group bonding time. it was really funneh! thanks to jo and jess the organisers. at first, we were to play as a group, but then we saw the other groups loitering around, not having anything solid to do, so in the end, we included them in our games and it became more of camp bonding time, only epistle did not join us. the first game we played was lao ying zhuo xiao ji, but this time, the organizers steered the objectives to remind us about guarding our heart against evil. so the mother hen became the protector, the eagle became the evil and the chicks were the pink hearts, that looked too palatble to the evil one. :) after a few rounds, we gathered around in a circle to play a very interesting game. it was the plastic bag game. the game went as follows, while jess tossed the plastic bag up, everyone in the circle had to laugh, be it fake or real, but the catch was once the plastic bag touched the floor, all laughter had to cease. the game seemed so simple, but once u played, it was wasn't at all! i was sitting beside bernice and boy! she burst out laughing when the bag touched the floor, so much so that i joined in, cos... laughter is CONTAGIOUS! and i got caught for that. :(((( but good thing they did not make me perform forfeit as i hate it. :) likewise, we played a few rounds. and boy, it was good to play. there was a time when jessie kept hitting the plastic bag up and then we had to laugh non stop, it was then when our fake laughter turned real. LOL! it was very very very very very funny! after this game, we played hide and seek, although emelyn and i had been the champions last year, this year, i could not repeat it as i didn't have even enough time to hide! so i became a seeker almost immediately after the game started. hmph!
with that, camp bonding was brough to a close, i went to shower, played a few rounds of bridge and taiti with ben, lin yan, mohan, and jonathan tan. :) it was fun! and i also talked a little with emelyn about the little nyonya and being excited about the morning exercise the next morning. :)
day 2 - wed 3 dec 2008. 'why do zebras cover their eyes when they see women? cos they see bras!'
what's up there is what u have to read out to appreciate. so do u get it? haha... it was a joke coined by jessie, or maybe she had seen it else where, anyway, jo and i laughed like mad when we heard this, maybe we were too high then. lol. we were on our way back from 'i spy with my little eye' :) read out to find out!
as i had told u, emelyn was the one waking me up! haha. anyway, i had a very bad night sleep. the air con was way too cold and the blanket was way too thin, so i was awake most of the time, if i ever slept, it would be defined as a fleeting sleep. but i thank God, cos i didnt not fall terribly sick with flu the following day, which is pretty unnatural for my nose under such circumstances. and also, i learnt that emelyn did not sleep very well too. :( anyway, i was still more or less refreshed for the day.
morning exercise! i was looking forward to it! ben quek was suppose to lead in it but he was absent for too long, so jo took the initiative to lead! and boy, she did a fantastic job! at first, we played lao ying zhuo xiao ji again. it was not bad lah, but later on, we played what i would call the highlights, the one that really made me run and get out of my slumber, was the chain catching! i starting with lin yan and we caught many people, some of whom we are proud of like bak wei, kevin etc. haha, cos i noe they are the mean runners that hardly get caught!
by the end of morning exercise, i suffered from a teeny wound on my right big toe. haha, it's itching right now when im typing. haha. thank you joanna for attending to my insignificant wound. haha.
breakfast, i ate mainly cereals,milo balls, and milk. after eating, the card club went to play taiti and bridge again. lol, ben, lin yan n i could be the official card games club for the camp. lol. next was SYLO, sharleen played the guitar. then message 3 followed. it was by pastor berends, some canadian pastor, i must say that i didn't really appreciate his message. :( (anyway, i noe im not suppose to look on the outward, but i couldn't help thinking when he stepped in, that he looked like a goose, cos his neck is so long and his head shape so oblong too.) also, there were times when i didn't really understand what he was speaking about. his message was on prayer. but i did take some things back, like being reverent in prayer and trying not be distracted or doze off while sleeping and always, what ever we need, we have to constantly ask, knowing the He is able to provide.
after discussion, we had lunch, provided by some kind parent whom i forgot. haiz, i should quit trying to remembering who brought food cos it will only expose the weakness of my memory. :( lunch was followed by the briefing for 'i spy with my little eye'. this was an activity that involved us going out to take pics of the required things on the list. i shall name a few queer ones, like taking a pic of a flower with 12 petals and an item that has a price tag of $1.97 and taking a pic of a pair of identical twins, witnessing to someone etc... my group went to causeway point in woodlands to complete our task. there, we saw many ang mohs and we started taking pics with them cos we needed to have pics with foreigners from 5 different countries. and let me share with u the ingenious things my group did! to get a pair of twins, we went to minitoons and got a pair of dwarves, supposedly from snow white and the 7 dwarves. one looked sleepy and one looked happy, but nevertherless, they looked alike. also, when we witnessed to someone on the mrt, we gave tracks, so the person had no choice but to listen to our witnessing, we manually photoshopped bananas so that a bunch would have 11 by combining one bunch that had 4 with another that had a comb of 7. smart eh! we did other crazy things, like taking a pic of a car park and then conveniently claiming that there was a toyota car in there that had a christian bumper sticker. lol, obviously we failed for that.
on the way back, while on the mrt, jess made me do some stupid poses with jema, lol... i made a fool of myself there. later on the bus, jess, jo, jema and i got a little crazy about jess' little teeth. and then while walking back to the camp site, jo jess and i created animal jokes, laughing our way in. haha.
after all the groups came back, we viewed the pics. had a few laughs when the quek brothers presented. haha, many of the twins became soft toys and the was one flower that pitifully its petals plucked out so that it had 12 petals. how incorrigible could that person be who came up with that idea, first of all, it was cheating and it was also harming a poor flower that did no halm to deserve such treatment. :( anyway, when it came to my group, i feel that we had to most no. of things taken, all but the name key chain. haha, although we did cheat a little by changing one of the price tags from $1.99 to $1.97 just by covering the last 9 with a downturn 'j' created by our fingers. lol. when it came to the mrt pics, everyone was burst into a guffaw, the only one who didn't laugh was me. lol, so embarrassing, but i did allow myself a smile. :)
after the whole presentation, we play more captains ball. :) i pretty active this time too. :) after that, dinner, and of course playing card with the card club and then SYLO. i guess i took turns with sharleen to play guitar. then we had a workshop by tabi on keeping the sabbath holy. she covered many many things that pricked my conscience and made me resolute to change. i shall just put down what i think are the important points: i should keep the sabbath holy by question whether what i do is helpful to the service of God, and what is my intent of doing that thing, is it to glorify God or grieve Him? and that i should keep the sabbath holy with joy in my heart. lol, i rmb just failing to do that yesterdya when i went tracking with ks youths. when in bak wei's car, tabi asked why nat and i suddenly wanted to go tracking with them. and then i quite spitefully said cos of u lah! (refering to her workshop about doing things for God only on the sabbath day), lol, then i was reminded that i should do it happily. lol!
anyway, if u are wondering what on earth i was doing by tracking. i shall explain here, please forvive me for side-tracking. nat n i had to go fe yesterday cos we had to design the bottles for ck camp and needed tabi's help. so we met up with many friends of old, actually, not that old, only one year of separation and then we got cracking. by the time we finished, we had time to join the kser for tracking. nat n i hopped onto bak wei's car with 5 others in the rear. they were jo, song jia, qian hui, ben yeo, jema! lol, 7 in the rear and tabi and bak wei in front. LOL! this reminds me of the past ks camp when about 10 ppl from my group the wanderes squeezed into his car! it seemed like so much fun that ee jia wanted to come in too, but ben yeo protested, lol, 'no more space!' heh. during the ride, bak wei made a 3 point turn, much to the discomfort of us at the back. haha.
back to the point. i learnt that i have to keep the sabbath holy, and i will try very hard to. after that, we had night walk. ben quek as usual was the organizer. i think he had been at it for the past 3/4 years! and he is so pro at it! anyway, though this year's was not bad, i felt that last year's was the best. i loved the forest walk! haha! anyway, this year's was more confusing and i half didnt understand what on earth was going on, only the time when we searched for silver coins in the bungalow did i find myself active. i found 2 out of 6!! haha, i claim my credits! but other than that, i think i have learnt more about the different parables during this activity. :)
during free time after thati played cards again and then read my bible and then went to sleep. this time, i fell into a deep sleep. :)
day 3 - thurs 4 dec 2008 'what a shame!'
'what a shame!' it's the second last day of camp!
today was the same, emelyn woke me up with her soft pats. i was half unwilling to give up my snug bed, the temperature last night had been less extreme, so i had a good sleep which made up for my poor sleep the previous night. something i forgot to add in my post on the past day, i actually fulfuilled my role as dorm ic by waking up 2 of the impossible-to-wake-up-ers. they are lin yan and bernice. haha, emelyn and their room mates had no success in waking these 2 sleepy heads, but i had 100% success! maybe it is because i was close to lin yan and thus knew that she will not bear a grudge against me for stirring her from her slumber. so listen up for the 100% success rate method in waking my friend lin yan. i basically grabbed her hands and pulled her up, then she dropped down on her back. then i tickled her on the sides, she squirmed and squirmed, causing much 'turbulence' on the bed. in the end, lin yan woke up within a minute and her partner bernice woke up right after her, without me even touching her, she had woken up due to the 'turbulence'. yeah, so effective huh, in fact it is 200% success rate, cos i woke 2 people up in one go...
jema was in charge of this morning's exercise. she introduced to us the ben quek and ben yeo game! lol, it was probably created by her, cos this game was rather lame, but at the same time, it was funny too. we had 2 lines and they stood face to face with the other line. one line would be ben quek and the other ben yeo, so when jema called ben quek, the line that was ben quek had to turn around and run to its baseline before the ben yeo group catches it. i was in the ben yeo group, and it was pretty funny. my partner on the other side, tryphena could not catch me all the time, but i could catch her easily. haha. there was also another call, that w as bernice. when jema called this, both lines had to run to their baseline and then go on our backs and point our arms and legs toward the sky and wave them. lol. it was kinda stupid. after that, we played the island game. very enjoyable cos i could run. :)
for breakfast, i ate the same stuff and then played the same card games after that. SYLO followed after that and the final message for the camp. it was presented to us by uncle kam loon on the topic of being the salt of the earth and the light of the world. i learnt that as christians, we have to be different from the world, being a salt of the earth in my perspective is like bring souls to Christ, a more pro-active measure, and adding the gospel to others' lives, thus like adding salt to a bowl of soup to make it different. as a light of the world, we have to be a shinning example for people who are lost in their lives, and guiding them to learn about salvation in Christ. haiz, i think it is something like that.
during discussion, my group went one round to share of what we are thankful to God for and what are our prayer requests. i said that i was very thankful that ks is still treats me so well, as if we have never been separated. i also said that i felt very welcomed and the fellowship was very warm. then jema adding, 'yeah, especially in this warm room.' haha, the warm room we are refering to here is the discussion venue my group had. for almost all the time, it had no air con on cos the remote control was lost. so it was always stuffing hot - this was why i was blur and unspontaneous during discussion, cos i couldn't really concentrate. and yes, we often referred to our room as the 'sauna'! haha. and i also prayed that i would be more consistent in my walk in faith. after the prayer, my group discussed on what props we wanted for the other groups to use for the upcoming skit performance.
next up was lunch. half way through, it started to drizzle, then it become heavier and started to pour. the schedule had water games following lunch, but seeing the condition of the weather, we had to push it back till the weather was more friendly. meanwhile, we prepared our song and skit. since group testimony was using the sauna, my group was exiled to the kitchen. haha, no lah, we were willingly 'exiled' and gave in to testimony. in the kitchen, it was rather hot too cos the windows were shut and there was no fan or air con. but fortunately, our ideas managed to flow coherently and we ended up with very good compositions of songs. after the songs, we planned our skit.
after rehearsing our skit for a few times, the rain was much lighter, so we decided to commence on the water games. the water games were organized by sharleen and hannah (i think). the first game was the toilet paper game. two groups out of the four were combined to make 2 big groups. col was with testimony once again. we had to wrap someone in our group with toilet paper and then later, we would have 3 attackers and the rest were defenders. johanna kindly voluteered for my group and rachel was the other. after wrapping them, we started on the game, the attackers had to try to toatlly drench the toilet paper mummy. ryan, ben yeo and lin yan were the attackers. the rest of us tried to surround jo to shield her from the water. the final result was close, but i think my group did better cos much of the toilet paper still clung on jo while rachel looked 'feather-less'. anw, here are some pics to relief your eyes of words and of course, to add
colour to my blog! :)
heh, this is our group photo (with testimony). :)
from left: camp master kevin, me, amanda (partly blocked by me), emelyn, jessie, jo, jemima, ben quek, lin yan, ben yeo, ryan (partly blocked) and jema.
we all look so hairpee!
big bully nat(haniel)! many many on lookers not doing anything! lol, im one of them!
after the toilet paper game, we had dog and bone, but slightly different. instead, it was more of dip and splash! we had to get water using our cup and within certain boundaries, splash our opponent.
after dip and splash, we played captains ball! this time, all of us were soaked to the skin, and the ground was pretty wet too. i took of my slippers to play, but didn't play as active as before cos i was afraid of wounding myself if i ever slipped and fell.
after captain's ball, we had pizza dinner! it was something different and i guess i liked it. and yes same story, the card club played more games. subsequently, we had SYLO and timo's exhortation. then we had the group presentations of songs and skit! the songs to me weren't every interesting, but i shall share with you what my group did for pride's sake! haha. we had in total 5 songs, 4 which included the memory verses and the last one to round up. the sang to many tunes like the colours of the winds, the lonely goatherd, heigh ho, a whole new world and where i belong! wow, what a diverse range songs! it was so hilarious that i couldn't sing properly! but i must say that it was a very very good job done col! cos although bak wei marked us down for worldly music, but i bet ours was most enjoyed by the audience.
after th song presentation, it was time for skit! the first skit was by testimony. it w as not bad lah, having the shield of faith and all. the next group was witness. lol, jonathan mohan was so comical as the ever holy deacon! haha! and his expression during the offering part was priceless! the following group was epistle! i love the 'remember ah maaaaaaaaaa' part! oh man, i laughed my guts out! furthermore, when it was nathaniel who said it, it was just perfect. and joanna as the ah ma on her death bed. i love it she would quote proverbs 4:23 - 'keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life' and at the word life, her hand would drop and she dies! lol, they are putting irony to place here! also jia song-ah in her defensive tone purring mam, mam.. lol. also the part when ah gong-ah aka jonathan tan and his walking chair! LOL! and his toilet paper beard. hehe. i still can't stop laughing when i recall the part while 'remebering ah maaaaaa', ah gong-ah faints and ah maaa wakes up from her death! lol!!!! it was so crazily facetious!
but last but not least! col's presentation which won the the skit component! was snowlight and the 7 dwarves, a la snow white and the seven dwarves! we had seven dwarves, they are as follows - sleepy (jo), busy (jemima), shameful (me), grumpy (kevin), happy (jessie), shy (jema) and potty (the potted plant prop)! ryan was snow light and tim quek was the narrator. the wicked witch was part of audience participation, and someone who had an evil laugh could do it. and it was obvious who was going to render his service... it was nathaniel! boy! it was so funny, he had to trick snowlight into eating the poisoned rocky road chocolate. so snowlight was to eat it and be poisoned into an unnatural sleep and then lie on the mattress (another prop) the dwarves would come back from work, once again singing the heigh ho song. then they would realized that snowlight is in a sleep and is unable to be woken up. so they start praying and in the end, snow light woke up. it was kind of a typically story, but it was very funny, at least to the audience. and i will never forget how freaking nervous i was. hehheh, even jemima had to prompt me to deliver my lines to her... anyway, if u are wondering whats the line 'what a shame' up there, it was actually my main line in the skit, cos i wa s shameful.. yeah..
towards the end of the special night activity, we played a game by which my had to cut out words relating to guarding out heart from the newspaper. other groups did crossword puzzles etc on other topics. after the game, gifts of appreciation were given out to respective camp personnels and then we viewed the much anticipated camp photos, there were much laughter whenever an unglam of someone popped out. with that, the speical night activities was brought to an end.
for the rest of the night, i mainly played cards, not only with my card club, but with others too. and past midnight, we sang ben yeo his birthday song! happy 14th ben! :)
lights out was at 1.30, but emelyn and i chatted till about 2. :) we had so much to talk! :( but then sharleen came in to remind us to sleep.. oh well, i really miss emelyn now. and furthermore our common interests, like the little nyonya etc make me so excited when im with her! :)
day 4 and final day - fri 5 dec 2008
same story about waking up. :) ps, i woke lin yan again! :) but this time, we had no morning exercise. :( we had camp debrief and clean up. i was very very sad. :( i would not be really seeing the ksers till next year. but maybe i will go for some of the ks meetings! before we left, we took a few camp shots. here they are!
camp shot! formal take. i love everyone there!
lol... fun shot!
yep, so that brought camp to a close. majority of the campers went for lunch at lot 1 and i joined them. there, dad picked me up to go marcus' house. there i played even more. lol. i play badminton, ping pong, soccer and captains ball. it was very fun but very draining too, considering that i had slept for only about 5hs that night. hehe. but thanks marcus for opening ur house! it was fun.
okay, thus far are the proceedings of the few days at ks camp! :)
