Monday, December 26, 2005

Hey guys. sorry for the inactive updating for the previous week. Was real, real busy with me in camp and the christmas weekend etc. =P Shall start with Tuesday which i promised adelyn that i would update on our outing. Tuesday: I was in school since 10am to do discussion with Kenneth and Linette in the library for the BTN term paper. Hectic job and realised that there was a lot of things to be done. In any case, had a alot of fun during the discussion and shortly after 4pm we left the place. I went to the DVD section to borrow a DVD while waiting for Adelyn to finish her briefing which intended to finish at 6pm but ended up it finished at 5pm instead. So ended up she joined me till near 6pm when we realised that Sheryl won't be meeting us in school. Pretty vexed over that as we were 'stoning' in school just to meet up with her. Haha.. ended up we all met up with each other in Bugis instead. During the journey from school to Bugis ar, really got an entertainer which really made me have nothing to say and no room to hide from all her suaning. A bit cannot take it but better than be being all alone going to Bugis. Haha.. Anyway, both of us reached Bugis just nice at 7pm and met up with the rest like Xue'er and Yuan Shan. Destination was to have dinner at one cafeteria just behind Parco Bugis. Met up with John there who had kindly booked the seats for us. So after some intoduction etc went down to get food. The cafeteria is pretty famous for the Laksa and Kway chap, i got the latter instead while Sheryl and Adelyn got the former. Anyway, I just had a filling dinner and later went down to Parco to do some shopping. Walked around and found out some clothes which I could spend on buying after i get my pocket money on January. Haha.. Then the whole group of us walked until 9 plus when most of the shops were closed, then went down to have a game of Daytona and a game of pool with Yuan Shan before leaving the place. Whaha.. Had a fun time spent with the guys and went back home to sleep before camp the next day.

Wednesday - Friday:
I combined these 3 days together because those were my days in camp at ZHSS for the NCC Annual Camp.. went down to school only in late morning after their morning bunk check etc. By then IFC station was being conducted halfway through and well, it was an eventful morning.. Why? Caught a lot of cadets with either long hair, hair not according to regulations or with dyed hair. First time at an annual camp would the officers have to come and send students out for their hair cut and even borrowing money from officers. Sometimes I really think how ridiculous can things get at times. Well, got quite a few discipline problems here and there..
There was this special case at which this cadet got quite a few probs and refused to cut his hair but thank God after some talking to him he went for an haircut after listing some criteria if he wanted to cut his hair himself. Things turned out fine after that. One more thing.. Lunch was bad then.. Rice is not nice and the chilli was too spicy for most cadets. Even Mr Wong complained.. Haha.. Ended up the CLTs got to buy lunch themselves. Crude but what to do? Heh..
Then after lunch i believe it was the games. The specs did a good thing in replacing the free time slot as games and the games were pretty good and I was pretty impressed by it. However the seniors didn't went along with the games, most of them were just slacking while some of us did checks on the cadets at intervals.. After games was dinner. Dinner was alright but there were some mistakes in the planning of the night schedule which sort of compromised the welfare of the cadets but all things went well in the end. Later at night were activities like movie screening and night walk.
(Won't do any commenting until a later post.. )
After which the seniors had a good night of gaming and stuff for the first night of camp. There's like a total of 5 CLTs present including myself and Dong Yang was around too. Didn't had a lot of sleep coz the light's out was at 2am in the morning. =X

On Thursday morale of the cadets was pretty low.. Ask them to shout at the timings during PT, all of them are like so soft. Even my voice can beat the whole company of 50 plus 60 man, and it's not even my max yet. Even Daron's voice couldn't be beaten. Haha.. Things were worse during the run when the specs although tried their 'best' but the morale of the cadets were still low. Things function in such a way that when the cadets enjoy themselves and morale is high, they will just sing, as loud as possible no matter what. Some cadets even complained during the run.. So ya lor..
Anyway the breakfast was good and i must say the programme for second day was much better although time management wise wasn't really done well. Morning was pretty slack until after lunch when the games started. Got a bit of problem with the weather because it was raining and most of the games planned were outdoors. Still the cadets enjoyed themselves which was a good thing. Tian Jun i realised had a bad day because the CLTs keep aiming at him with water guns and Daron also. haha..
During the games got to leave because of BS. Reached YMCA pretty early like 5.30pm. I realised after 5 weeks of BS still got people asking and confirming if the classrom used for VL is for VL class. Lol.. Saw Josephine there and although didn't really know her but we talked as if we knew each other for quite some time. Pretty scary haha, she's a bit too sociable and was telling her that I thought she would be the super shy and closed up kind. BS was pretty good, it was on divine healing. Then shortly after BS had to rush back to camp and I reached school earlier than intended.
Weather was still pretty bad then but least for the night everything was done in doors. Had a short talk with the specialists both in the day and night time and got quite a lot of feedback from them. Hopefully they had learnt something out of what I told them then while Daron was talking to the specialists also went to talk to the cadets plus some games. Realised cadets can be a super rebellious bunch of people, and out of this world too. Like out of control to a certain extent. Anyway, I played Magic Carpet with them, using trash bags and only a max of 6 people would try to flip the thrash bag over but well, none of the groups succeded. All complained too hard le, oh well. Haha..
After that was packing up and lights out for them. Then came early morning when there was 'Operation BangBang' when the cadets including the specialists were woken up 1.30am in the morning to have changing parade and a bit of 'tekan session'. Haha.. Didn't really sleep, only had 3 hrs of sleep for the whole day.

Then next up was Friday, the most 'siong' day. =X Woke up at 6 plus, went down to check on the cadets, executed "Operation BangBang" the second on the cadets and the timing for them to gather was worse than the first one. Imagine them taking their own sweet time to gather when there's a real fire. =S
Left the place around 9.15am after slacking with the seniors for a while and took my own sweet time to go to church, since I only got to reach there at 11am. So took 105 to Dover and took the chance to catch up on my sleep. So by the time i reached Jurong West church it was on the dot 11am!! Haha.. see, my time planning was so great!! *sorry. *
Had a pretty fun time during the Children's Church service and good training for my own ushering skills too. The service was cool although a bit childish for my age la. The Praise and Worship was real cool and was quite surprised by which the songs sang by Children's church is the same as those of adult services. Got quite a big shock by the way Pst. Eileen was handling the children during the service because her method was firm yet not too strict. Anyway then came the end of service and directing the traffic can be a killer at times. And I do mean a killer. Imagine kids 3 times or 4 times younger your age walking and sometimes they would just run and not listen to instructions. But the fun part was that they were very cute and courteous. Just love kids!! VERY CUTEEEEE!!!! *losing my image soon* (should consider enrolling into Children's church ministry sia.. )
Anyway after sending the kids of, quickly left church and manage to get Shirley's present at JP before leaving to Expo to do support. Support was overall good then got to know more ushers through it, so pretty satisfactorily on that point. *gleams*
End of my 3 days at camp and church le..

Saturday!:
Woke up at 10am in the morning, ironed clothes and off i went for church at Expo le.. This time it was good, support only at 12pm. Can sleep more.. =) Went there, did a little bit of support for the bulletins then went for lunch. Haha.. sadly i went for lunch alone but didn't get to eat anything. Oh well, reported for internal traffic duty. It was real hectic, shan't say much but I guess, all of us are at fault, not only the leaders. Shall learn from the mistakes made. Stayed for the 1st part of second service since they needed help too. After that while rushing to airport for dinner with the cell group my santa hat got stolen by Josephine. =X
Haha.. was blessed by John for my dinner.. So nice!! Anyway the whole cell group went home after that it was a pretty good fellowship then. Or should I say fellowship would always be good with S.Vic around? Haha.. Again reached home at 12am because got to accompany Yuan Shan to meet King to get carnival coupons and send him back.

Sunday:
Bad weather in the early morning of a Christmas day. Anyway, expected myself to reach church late but ended up being on time instead. Haha.. never like being late although sometimes it can't be helped. =X This time was doing front door ushering. Haha.. Got 'beaten' by one Group Leader because i just missed' greeting someone who just walked in front of me. =( And it was a real bad one. Haha.. Overall the 2 services were great and the drama was real cute with King Herod singing and dancing with the dance moves and all!! HAha.. Reached home early on that day for that week, like 4.30pm. Standard thing for me to do was to go and catch a nap and was a good nap though I was still tired from it. Slacked the whole day till night time when i watch 'Date with Vampire 3" =)

I know this is a super long post but i hope u can just bear with it. HAha.. toodles!!

Shall update later on what happened on Monday. =)

Mark 5:36 -
"Do not be afraid; only believe."

it got me home
11:54:00 PM

Monday, December 26, 2005

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