Hello again, after such a long time. I didn't realize I haven't blogged since this year began, until last month. Someone asked me:"Has not your life been happening since 2013?" It's just the other way round bro. Life had been like a roller coaster ride for me since 2013. It's just that when you're in the middle of the ride, how can you possibly pause for a moment and blog?
Well...... I really don't know how to start. In fact, my holiday started two weeks ago but I kept excusing myself from updating my blog because I seriously don't know how am I supposed to record all that had happened all this while. Maybe I'll do it month by month? Alright here we go.
January
The only thing I can remember of January now is the flash mob we did. Karthik was the PIC- person in command, and I could see that he was doing his best to make it a success. And throughout the process I think what gave me the deepest impression would be him apologizing again and again? :p Have to admit that he's really a peacemaker. You may imagine our flash mob to have caught the audience by surprise with the dancers coming in one by one out of no where. Well no. Before we even started the student area was already flooded with crowd, with cameras here and there. Apparently many people, especially our former classmates knew about it and were waiting there to watch. Great supporters, aren't they? :)
February
You won't imagine that I'm actually updating this in October haha. I can only look through my photo album to recall what went on in February coz I can't remember anything lol.
Hmm well one of the significant events would be the Sexual Health Awareness Campaign which was held for three days. I wasn't involved much in this campaign, besides the visit to Sg. Buloh Hospital. Harri assigned me to be in charge of a game station which I initially thought to be unfair as this was group D's job in the first place. But I prepared for the game, still, till a few days before the event when Shi Hao told him to reallocate the task to group D members lololol. We had did most of the job so all they had to do was to just carry out the game. And so my game station was passed on to Zhen Theng.
After this not-so-exciting event came the very exciting Chinese New Year! :D I can't remember much of what happened, but I know, we had our last reunion dinner with our grandmother, because she passed away later on in March :( My Chinese New Year wasn't of much fun because it seemed to be more of a study break. We had an exam right after the holidays so I didn't get to play all I wanted to. And I kinda felt sorry towards Husna for having to rush home just to study, otherwise she could have had more fun hanging out visiting friends. Sigh. Life as a medical student :((
What touched me was when my Interact Club friends celebrated my birthday! We were at Raymond's house for gathering, and Wan Yi walked in with a birthday cake, which really surprised me as I wasn't expecting a birthday cake this year. Thanks a lot! :)) I do appreciate it and I'm missing you guys now writing this. :')
March
One event I remember most is the captain ball competition! :) It means a lot to me as I witnessed how united our classmates could be. That was when I started to appreciate them. I was kinda forced into the competition, I didn't want to take part for I knew how bad I was at games. But it turned out to be an unforgettable experience for me. It was super exciting watching them play! My classmates proved that medical students are not nerds! ;p I remember how I fooled Aiman by nodding my head when he asked if I was his team mate, and he passed me the ball surprisingly when I thought I wasn't gonna fool him with my very hypocritical smile. :p I remember how we had a "secret meeting" a day before the game to discuss "strategies" as though we were about to march into war. I remember how Kelvin encouraged me seeing that my team mates were not so cooperative when it came to practicing. I remember how we had fun talking nonsense, and how they started calling me RBC. I remember how when Karthik tried to be lame by showing me what's a red blood cell, I got him speechless by showing him how a sickle-cell was like. I remember Wilson's cool way of catching the ball, keeping it out of reach of the opponent's catcher by just swiftly jumping up and reaching out to the ball. Cool and composed, impressive! ;) I remember how Karthik and Loga, who are football players, played well in different roles. I remember how Kelvin pressed on even though he hurt his ankle during practice. I remember how Chin Liang and Kah Chun, these two basketball players, took control of the game by passing on the ball to and fro till it reached their catcher. I remember how Kah Chun forgot he wasn't on a basketball court and literally bounced the ball, which of course, wasn't allowed as a rule of the game :p His "Oh man!" look was just so priceless hahah. I remember how at the very last second, Kah Chun threw the ball without even facing Nicholas, the catcher, and yet it so accurately reached Nicholas' hands! That was totally dramatic! I would think that such scenario could only be seen on movies, or drama series - but not in real life like this, right before my very eyes! Wowww. Even though my team didn't play very well, I was proud of my classmates, who won the Champion and the First runner-up. They deserved it! :)
This competition brought us close together and I'm glad I was part of it :)
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Looking for the Silver Lining
Just realized I haven't been blogging for two whole months. Not that I didn't have stories to tell, but it's just the other way round, I got stuffed up with so many things I didn't know where to begin.
I'm not the kind of "emo" person but I know lately I've been emo-ing a lot. I wasn't aware of it until my friend asked me not to. I had been struggling to myself to some problems I was facing. Some are about choices to make, some about people, some about myself. I talked to my parents about these problems, but I know I'm old enough to decide for myself.
I saw in the papers today of Shio Yee's brother, who is now well known in my hometown because of his successful video assignment which made him "the first Asian to win the Best Short Film Award at the Alto Vicentino Film Festival". It's really awesome to see someone from your hometown becoming famous because of high achievements. It reminded me that successful people are actually ordinary people who worked the extraordinary way. I shouldn't be finding excuses to be lagging behind, that's irresponsibility. Responsibility finds a way. And guess what, this is from a quote I saw in one of UCSI's toilets hahaha.
Tell myself: stay focused and work a way out! :)
I'm not the kind of "emo" person but I know lately I've been emo-ing a lot. I wasn't aware of it until my friend asked me not to. I had been struggling to myself to some problems I was facing. Some are about choices to make, some about people, some about myself. I talked to my parents about these problems, but I know I'm old enough to decide for myself.
I saw in the papers today of Shio Yee's brother, who is now well known in my hometown because of his successful video assignment which made him "the first Asian to win the Best Short Film Award at the Alto Vicentino Film Festival". It's really awesome to see someone from your hometown becoming famous because of high achievements. It reminded me that successful people are actually ordinary people who worked the extraordinary way. I shouldn't be finding excuses to be lagging behind, that's irresponsibility. Responsibility finds a way. And guess what, this is from a quote I saw in one of UCSI's toilets hahaha.
Tell myself: stay focused and work a way out! :)
Saturday, 13 October 2012
We Run KL
Went for the 10km Nike Run just now. It was actually a super random decision. I thought of signing up before but I missed the registration date. Soon I gave up all thoughts of joining till this day.
I was eating a slice of cheese cake while studying. It wasn't till noon that I finally finished that cheese cake. Then it came across my mind, why not take the opportunity to run since my roommate's sister registered but decided not to go for it? I quickly messaged her and one of my classmates who was also going. Then I grabbed my stuff and joined my classmates to take the public transport together.
We reached there before time, and I waited anxiously for my roommate to appear. If I didn't get to change into the particular shirt given, I wouldn't be able to join the event and all effort would have been wasted. Finally she arrived and I changed. It fitted perfectly! :) We left our belongings with the people who were in charge and got our numbers before we started running. I still remember her number was 1707 and mine 1708.
My roommate told me to keep pace along the way and try not to stop. In order for me to keep up with the speed she was going, I had to. At one point of time where there was the U-turn, we lost sight of each other. I assumed she was in front of me, so I kept running, thinking that with that I'd catch sight of her soon. Even if she was behind me, given her ability she would definitely catch up and we would meet again. And true enough, we met again! Yes she was behind me. And she specially made a trip back just to find me. I was touched by her sincerity. And all the way we ran together till the finishing line, where we lost each other again among the crowd.
I took my finisher T-shirt and started looking around for people I know. And I met a random nice girl who offered to bring me to ask about where to get our belongings. On the way, I saw my classmate's girlfriend and quickly called her. And almost immediately I couldn't see where was the random nice girl already. I just hoped that I didn't cause her trouble searching for me. I felt a little guilty but I was glad that I finally found someone I knew. So we went to search for our stuff together after a few fruitless attempts to contact my classmate. At lorry A, where my stuff was supposed to be in, we met our classmate. Finally! And soon more people gathered.
Some of them went to get our belongings while we waited. I didn't have to queue because they were getting it for me as well, but my roommate said she was in a rush and sought my help. So I took her number and went into the impatient crowd. Why impatient? Because their system of keeping and returning people's belongings was simply silly. With hundreds of bags in the lorry, three person stood at the end shouting out numbers, and as people raised their hands they passed on the bag. I mean, anyone could have raised his or her hand and got what didn't belong to him or her right? I was worried I wouldn't see my lovely bag forever. Praying hard in my heart, I waited patiently for 1707 to be shouted. After about an hour, I saw my friends squeezing out of the crowd, and with my bag too! I was more than just being happy to see it once more!
They went to the tent where the rest were waiting, while I continued waiting for my roommate's bag to appear. I waited for another hour and my classmate called me, saying that LRT station would close by 11pm, and it was 10 something at that time. I felt bad to keep them waiting so I asked them to leave first. But they didn't. Instead, Matthew, Aiman and Kelvin came to where I was and started shouting for my roommate's bag. Thankfully her bag was We Run KL bag and it wasn't long before they found it for us. So we went back to the tent and made our way to LRT station together. I was looking pale that time, that's not surprising as I sustained my whole day's activity solely on the slice of cheese cake I ate in the morning. My classmates asked if I was alright and if I needed to eat. I just answered,"It's okay, Just go." So we left.
All the way, I walked behind as I really felt bad that I might have caused them to miss the LRT. Wilson offered to help take my roommate's bag but I really didn't want to trouble anyone. A few of my classmates kept me in sight and occasionally asked if I was fine. I'm really thankful for their concern and care, and that they didn't blame me for holding them up.
At the station, all of them went pass the entrance easily with Touch'nGo card, me? I raced towards the machine to get a token. I didn't have small change! I turned and asked the girl next to me if she had any. She didn't have enough to change with me, so she gave me RM5 and refused to take my RM10 in exchange. Another random super nice girl! :) Guess what, actually I stood for quite some time in front of the machine looking for Bandar Tasik Selatan. I found it already, but it showed RM1.70 and I was totally puzzled. I came here with RM3.30 why was it RM1.70 showed??! Gosh I couldn't delay further so I just clicked that destination, hoping that I didn't make a mistake. The rest were waiting for me and Matthew asked,"Ruby, you never take LRT before?" That was embarrassing. We raced up the stairs as we saw the train had arrived. But alas, as we reached it went away. Cheng Cheng offered to take my roommate's bag for me as I was holding quite a lot of things. That's so nice of her for we didn't know each other. Joanne took care of me as well on our way back. Finally we reached.
Sometimes I don't understand why am I always giving people trouble. I feel really bad about it, but thank God it's always nice people that I meet. This Nike run was really a good experience for me. :)
I was eating a slice of cheese cake while studying. It wasn't till noon that I finally finished that cheese cake. Then it came across my mind, why not take the opportunity to run since my roommate's sister registered but decided not to go for it? I quickly messaged her and one of my classmates who was also going. Then I grabbed my stuff and joined my classmates to take the public transport together.
We reached there before time, and I waited anxiously for my roommate to appear. If I didn't get to change into the particular shirt given, I wouldn't be able to join the event and all effort would have been wasted. Finally she arrived and I changed. It fitted perfectly! :) We left our belongings with the people who were in charge and got our numbers before we started running. I still remember her number was 1707 and mine 1708.
My roommate told me to keep pace along the way and try not to stop. In order for me to keep up with the speed she was going, I had to. At one point of time where there was the U-turn, we lost sight of each other. I assumed she was in front of me, so I kept running, thinking that with that I'd catch sight of her soon. Even if she was behind me, given her ability she would definitely catch up and we would meet again. And true enough, we met again! Yes she was behind me. And she specially made a trip back just to find me. I was touched by her sincerity. And all the way we ran together till the finishing line, where we lost each other again among the crowd.
I took my finisher T-shirt and started looking around for people I know. And I met a random nice girl who offered to bring me to ask about where to get our belongings. On the way, I saw my classmate's girlfriend and quickly called her. And almost immediately I couldn't see where was the random nice girl already. I just hoped that I didn't cause her trouble searching for me. I felt a little guilty but I was glad that I finally found someone I knew. So we went to search for our stuff together after a few fruitless attempts to contact my classmate. At lorry A, where my stuff was supposed to be in, we met our classmate. Finally! And soon more people gathered.
Some of them went to get our belongings while we waited. I didn't have to queue because they were getting it for me as well, but my roommate said she was in a rush and sought my help. So I took her number and went into the impatient crowd. Why impatient? Because their system of keeping and returning people's belongings was simply silly. With hundreds of bags in the lorry, three person stood at the end shouting out numbers, and as people raised their hands they passed on the bag. I mean, anyone could have raised his or her hand and got what didn't belong to him or her right? I was worried I wouldn't see my lovely bag forever. Praying hard in my heart, I waited patiently for 1707 to be shouted. After about an hour, I saw my friends squeezing out of the crowd, and with my bag too! I was more than just being happy to see it once more!
They went to the tent where the rest were waiting, while I continued waiting for my roommate's bag to appear. I waited for another hour and my classmate called me, saying that LRT station would close by 11pm, and it was 10 something at that time. I felt bad to keep them waiting so I asked them to leave first. But they didn't. Instead, Matthew, Aiman and Kelvin came to where I was and started shouting for my roommate's bag. Thankfully her bag was We Run KL bag and it wasn't long before they found it for us. So we went back to the tent and made our way to LRT station together. I was looking pale that time, that's not surprising as I sustained my whole day's activity solely on the slice of cheese cake I ate in the morning. My classmates asked if I was alright and if I needed to eat. I just answered,"It's okay, Just go." So we left.
All the way, I walked behind as I really felt bad that I might have caused them to miss the LRT. Wilson offered to help take my roommate's bag but I really didn't want to trouble anyone. A few of my classmates kept me in sight and occasionally asked if I was fine. I'm really thankful for their concern and care, and that they didn't blame me for holding them up.
At the station, all of them went pass the entrance easily with Touch'nGo card, me? I raced towards the machine to get a token. I didn't have small change! I turned and asked the girl next to me if she had any. She didn't have enough to change with me, so she gave me RM5 and refused to take my RM10 in exchange. Another random super nice girl! :) Guess what, actually I stood for quite some time in front of the machine looking for Bandar Tasik Selatan. I found it already, but it showed RM1.70 and I was totally puzzled. I came here with RM3.30 why was it RM1.70 showed??! Gosh I couldn't delay further so I just clicked that destination, hoping that I didn't make a mistake. The rest were waiting for me and Matthew asked,"Ruby, you never take LRT before?" That was embarrassing. We raced up the stairs as we saw the train had arrived. But alas, as we reached it went away. Cheng Cheng offered to take my roommate's bag for me as I was holding quite a lot of things. That's so nice of her for we didn't know each other. Joanne took care of me as well on our way back. Finally we reached.
Sometimes I don't understand why am I always giving people trouble. I feel really bad about it, but thank God it's always nice people that I meet. This Nike run was really a good experience for me. :)
Friday, 12 October 2012
Red, Black
Hey bloggy. I got myself a pair of wrist bands from the Pharmacy students. I bought red and black, mysterious and beautiful combination.
Red and black ♥
I've seen many other combinations like green and blue, blue and purple, red and white...... But red and black is significant to me, and it makes the perfect combination in my eyes :)
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
1010
Yay! No early lectures tomorrow :D
I didn't go back for the weekend that has just passed. It's just one week since I last went home, but I'm missing home already. I'm not one who will easily feel homesick. I only do when I'm faced with troubles. So yeah, you can guess, I was.
Missed my daddy so much. His calming voice is always so soothing when I'm perplexed. I called daddy today! And yes, I felt so so much better after talking to daddy :) The man who loves me most in this world, that's him! Hehe. I wanna go home! :( But I have to stay back to prepare for the upcoming exam, sigh. Stupid MEQ. Why only now you tell us about that huh Medical School of UCSI?! Informing people at the last minute is your hobby is it?!
Fine. I'll bear with it for the moment till I can fly back home after MA3, hehehe. Ahh. Listening to 煎熬. Feel so 煎熬 now. Hahaha! Okay I'm being so random. Should get started with PBL thingy now. See you, bloggy!
I didn't go back for the weekend that has just passed. It's just one week since I last went home, but I'm missing home already. I'm not one who will easily feel homesick. I only do when I'm faced with troubles. So yeah, you can guess, I was.
Missed my daddy so much. His calming voice is always so soothing when I'm perplexed. I called daddy today! And yes, I felt so so much better after talking to daddy :) The man who loves me most in this world, that's him! Hehe. I wanna go home! :( But I have to stay back to prepare for the upcoming exam, sigh. Stupid MEQ. Why only now you tell us about that huh Medical School of UCSI?! Informing people at the last minute is your hobby is it?!
Fine. I'll bear with it for the moment till I can fly back home after MA3, hehehe. Ahh. Listening to 煎熬. Feel so 煎熬 now. Hahaha! Okay I'm being so random. Should get started with PBL thingy now. See you, bloggy!
Monday, 1 October 2012
Hello October!
It's been almost a month since I last blogged, September was a great month for me. Wake me up when September ends? No way, I'd miss out a lot of fun and knowing nice people then :P
I haven't had enough sleep since before I went for CF camp. I didn't really manage to get proper rest since then. I don't know why. Probably because I was kept occupied with lots and lots of events.
Like I said, September was great and fun. The only thing is that I kept getting the same questions from people for the entire month. "Ruby! Why did you cut your hair?!" Like I needed a reason for that *shakeshead. What's wrong? Well maybe they were not used to it at first, coz I never had such a short haircut since after primary school. I have to admit that I didn't quite like it at first, but for a self-loving person like me, it isn't hard to love every part of myself again, this is plain narcissism, lol. XD
I haven't had enough sleep since before I went for CF camp. I didn't really manage to get proper rest since then. I don't know why. Probably because I was kept occupied with lots and lots of events.
Like I said, September was great and fun. The only thing is that I kept getting the same questions from people for the entire month. "Ruby! Why did you cut your hair?!" Like I needed a reason for that *shakeshead. What's wrong? Well maybe they were not used to it at first, coz I never had such a short haircut since after primary school. I have to admit that I didn't quite like it at first, but for a self-loving person like me, it isn't hard to love every part of myself again, this is plain narcissism, lol. XD
It's quite fun playing with hairstyle, that's the privilege of being a girl :P
So now, stop talking about myself. Now I'm going to briefly describe the events that I had this month. :D The first one was the camp, of course, which I told about in my previous post. These are what came next:
Birthday Celebrations! :)
We had two birthday celebrations in a row with our CF friends. Hanging out with these people are just fun, but tiring though, since I never had enough sleep. :P
Harry was caught by surprise, we succeeded! Yay!!
Paul dedicated a song "For You I Will" to Harry XD
The following night after Harry's birthday celebration, we hanged out again to celebrate David's and Philip's birthday. It was rather a well-planned secret "mission", but somehow... it half failed. XP It didn't happened the way it should, but still, they both were caught surprised :)
Discussion before executing the great plan :D
Getting into position... Look who's showing off his wrist band *shakeshead
Do re mi fa. Hehehe.
I didn't take much photo for the second celebration because first of all, I was sitting at a distance away from the birthday boys; secondly, my Kodak baby doesn't like taking photo in dark places :P So... this is all I've got>>
One of the birthday stars- David!! XD
Nicholas the annoying kept singing the same song that whole night: "Baby you light up my world like nobody else!", until Amanda and I got this song stucked in our heads -.- As if he only knew that sentence. *slaps forehead.
Departures... :'(
September was also when my sister flew to UK. :( Gonna miss my heart-talk companion.
The last family portrait before my sister's departure.
My Bugs Bunny friend, Charmaine; and also Anlynn, Jessie, Wendy and Syakirah all flew away, up up to the sky, and down down to land on other countries.
Managed to meet Charmaine before she left. We got her this lovely sweater :D
Beginning of Youth Alpha! :D
It was also the start-off point for Youth Alpha, Yay!! Amanda, Ann and I created the "slogan" ourselves because there wasn't enough space on the banner to fit in the words "Welcome to Youth Alpha". Creative right! Say yes! Haha!
Our cute banner! :)
Installation of my high school :)
It was the last installation my brother would be participating for Interact Club. Soon he'll be an outgoing director. He was performing. As a very supportive sister, I made myself present :P
My lengzai brother who thinks he looks like a Korean -.-
Reminds me of those times when I was an interactor :P
After all these came MA2. And I'm lazy to write on. So yeah, I'll continue when I'm free :P
Sunday, 9 September 2012
First Camp in UCSI!
It's been a long time since I last joined a camp... Actually it's only about 3 years, but for a camp-lover like me it's considered long lol XD
I wasn't feeling well last Friday, which was the first day. Headache and whatever, I didn't even know the source of my discomfort, just felt awful. All campers set out in the afternoon, I'm one of the odd ones, starting my journey to El Sanctuary at night. A thousand thanks to Harry, who drove us there :)
An evening transport was promised in the beginning before me and my classmates signed up, but some errors occurred somehow, and we were asked if we could skip class. It wasn't our usual lecture, it was about our modular assessment, which we find to be quite important, so we asked if they could make other arrangements. Harry was supposed to go by afternoon, but he stayed back to bring us there after he was told to, so I kinda feel bad about it. I tried speaking to him in Malay (he's an Indonesian) this afternoon, just to check how far have I gone backwards in my speaking skills, and it was totally teruk! ><
We had jungle trekking till past midnight, so we turned in late. And I was thinking "Oh man, I'm gonna suffer a severe headache after this." I had only 3+ hours of sleep that night. But miraculously, my headache was gone the next morning even though I "underslept"; I didn't have to miss out any activities that day, praise the Lord! :D
The second day was really fun. We played scissors paper stone in the morning to make up a queue as long as possible. And my queue was the longest with me heading it, but I really didn't know how did it happen. Goong goong. -.- Ps. Les Lee shared the second message and had a dialogue with us, which was interesting, coz I've never seen any church camps held this way. We played station games in the afternoon, totally wild and exhausting, but fun! Picking rubber bands from a heap of flour with our mouths; memorizing 15 steps; running up and down taking photos; throwing balls of newspapers with one of our legs tied to another group member and walking in a zig-zag pattern; passing a wet sponge to fill a pail with water; spinning to get ourselves giddy before we bring a ping pong ball to the other side with a spoon in our mouths; making a long bridge with anything we had, and passing balloons with cloths.
There was a game of captain ball after that, and it started to drizzle in the middle of the game. We carried on; my team won the first round, lost the second (because Billy was too tall for us, and his team members were "ferocious" players XD), I don't know how about the third. Treasure hunt which was supposed to be carried out at night was cancelled, everyone was worn out lol. XD We had a special session, whereby punishment for committees who were caught "breaking the commandments of the camp" was executed with a CF's Got Talent show. It was amusing seeing Keng Cheng and Paul mimicking cartoon characters XD
And yes, we had a campfire! Yay!! Uncle Vincent made the effort to make us this fire even though the woods were wet because of the rain, thank you so much Uncle Vincent! :) We sang praises, and danced, like Sunday school kids XD
We had an earlier night, though it wasn't early either. I'd just washed my hair and I couldn't hair-dry coz my roommates were already sound asleep, my hairdryer would be a nuisance. I had a talk with my "owner" of the Guardian Angel game - Patience Malete. She was studying under the dim light outside our chalet to prepare for her exams, so semangat >< Gotta learn from her lah hehehe. This will be her final year of study in Biotechnology, and she'll be returning to Africa after this. She's so kind with words :)
This morning, I woke up at 5.51am and I couldn't sleep anymore because it was so cold, and my "bedmate" rolled and cuddled almost the whole of the blanket we shared, so I had no choice but to get out of bed. XD I was one of the earliest to arrive at the hall, which was surprising coz I was on time, not before time, even though I woke up very much earlier. I really learned a great deal from my group members Sung En and Paul during sharing. They must be very deeply rooted in the Word.
Breakfast was awesome!! Pancakes, porridge, bacon and bread, so mouth-watering! Before our last session, Ps. Les Lee's daughter performed ballet for us, she was so cool and composed, admiring her for that! :D After the session it was revealing time for the Guardian Angel game, Keng Cheng and Billy guessed I was their GA, that was strange, I thought it would be Paul to guess his GA was me, because Amanda and I tried to mislead him a few times XD I guessed mine right! Priscillia Angela! Woohoo! No prize for that though hehehe. My team, The Conquerors, got the 4th place out of 8 teams for the games, we had a hamper of Zip, cheesy ring and durian tit-bits, and Halls sweets. Nicholas exchanged for my tit-bits with a nail-clipper they got for second prize, because he said he didn't want "girlish stuff". -.- For lunch today, spaghetti, toast, cucumber and fried marinated brinjal, awww... so nice!
I took the school bus back this time, as I wanted to talk to people because I was in high spirits. But I felt so tired when I started talking, and I fell asleep. -.- (Overestimating myself lol.) We reached in the evening, around 6pm, I had roti canai with Amanda on our way back to Angkasa. Amanda, thank you so much for helping me to take photos with our graduating friends! And thanks for your concern and anything throughout the camp! You're like my second GA la lol XD
I'm really blessed to be in this big family of CFers. There's so much I learned through sharing. This camp is beyond my expectations, and thank God for such awesome, amazing organizers! You guys are great, thank you for the sweat and tears you poured in to give us a wonderful experience :)
I wasn't feeling well last Friday, which was the first day. Headache and whatever, I didn't even know the source of my discomfort, just felt awful. All campers set out in the afternoon, I'm one of the odd ones, starting my journey to El Sanctuary at night. A thousand thanks to Harry, who drove us there :)
An evening transport was promised in the beginning before me and my classmates signed up, but some errors occurred somehow, and we were asked if we could skip class. It wasn't our usual lecture, it was about our modular assessment, which we find to be quite important, so we asked if they could make other arrangements. Harry was supposed to go by afternoon, but he stayed back to bring us there after he was told to, so I kinda feel bad about it. I tried speaking to him in Malay (he's an Indonesian) this afternoon, just to check how far have I gone backwards in my speaking skills, and it was totally teruk! ><
We had jungle trekking till past midnight, so we turned in late. And I was thinking "Oh man, I'm gonna suffer a severe headache after this." I had only 3+ hours of sleep that night. But miraculously, my headache was gone the next morning even though I "underslept"; I didn't have to miss out any activities that day, praise the Lord! :D
The second day was really fun. We played scissors paper stone in the morning to make up a queue as long as possible. And my queue was the longest with me heading it, but I really didn't know how did it happen. Goong goong. -.- Ps. Les Lee shared the second message and had a dialogue with us, which was interesting, coz I've never seen any church camps held this way. We played station games in the afternoon, totally wild and exhausting, but fun! Picking rubber bands from a heap of flour with our mouths; memorizing 15 steps; running up and down taking photos; throwing balls of newspapers with one of our legs tied to another group member and walking in a zig-zag pattern; passing a wet sponge to fill a pail with water; spinning to get ourselves giddy before we bring a ping pong ball to the other side with a spoon in our mouths; making a long bridge with anything we had, and passing balloons with cloths.
There was a game of captain ball after that, and it started to drizzle in the middle of the game. We carried on; my team won the first round, lost the second (because Billy was too tall for us, and his team members were "ferocious" players XD), I don't know how about the third. Treasure hunt which was supposed to be carried out at night was cancelled, everyone was worn out lol. XD We had a special session, whereby punishment for committees who were caught "breaking the commandments of the camp" was executed with a CF's Got Talent show. It was amusing seeing Keng Cheng and Paul mimicking cartoon characters XD
And yes, we had a campfire! Yay!! Uncle Vincent made the effort to make us this fire even though the woods were wet because of the rain, thank you so much Uncle Vincent! :) We sang praises, and danced, like Sunday school kids XD
We had an earlier night, though it wasn't early either. I'd just washed my hair and I couldn't hair-dry coz my roommates were already sound asleep, my hairdryer would be a nuisance. I had a talk with my "owner" of the Guardian Angel game - Patience Malete. She was studying under the dim light outside our chalet to prepare for her exams, so semangat >< Gotta learn from her lah hehehe. This will be her final year of study in Biotechnology, and she'll be returning to Africa after this. She's so kind with words :)
This morning, I woke up at 5.51am and I couldn't sleep anymore because it was so cold, and my "bedmate" rolled and cuddled almost the whole of the blanket we shared, so I had no choice but to get out of bed. XD I was one of the earliest to arrive at the hall, which was surprising coz I was on time, not before time, even though I woke up very much earlier. I really learned a great deal from my group members Sung En and Paul during sharing. They must be very deeply rooted in the Word.
Breakfast was awesome!! Pancakes, porridge, bacon and bread, so mouth-watering! Before our last session, Ps. Les Lee's daughter performed ballet for us, she was so cool and composed, admiring her for that! :D After the session it was revealing time for the Guardian Angel game, Keng Cheng and Billy guessed I was their GA, that was strange, I thought it would be Paul to guess his GA was me, because Amanda and I tried to mislead him a few times XD I guessed mine right! Priscillia Angela! Woohoo! No prize for that though hehehe. My team, The Conquerors, got the 4th place out of 8 teams for the games, we had a hamper of Zip, cheesy ring and durian tit-bits, and Halls sweets. Nicholas exchanged for my tit-bits with a nail-clipper they got for second prize, because he said he didn't want "girlish stuff". -.- For lunch today, spaghetti, toast, cucumber and fried marinated brinjal, awww... so nice!
I took the school bus back this time, as I wanted to talk to people because I was in high spirits. But I felt so tired when I started talking, and I fell asleep. -.- (Overestimating myself lol.) We reached in the evening, around 6pm, I had roti canai with Amanda on our way back to Angkasa. Amanda, thank you so much for helping me to take photos with our graduating friends! And thanks for your concern and anything throughout the camp! You're like my second GA la lol XD
I'm really blessed to be in this big family of CFers. There's so much I learned through sharing. This camp is beyond my expectations, and thank God for such awesome, amazing organizers! You guys are great, thank you for the sweat and tears you poured in to give us a wonderful experience :)
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