Tuesday, June 12, 2007
youth camp (:
WAHHH YOUTH CAMP AND LEADERS' RETREAT ROCKED ME UPSIDE DOWN ((:okay, so this post about camp is quite late. but anyways.
sunday, 3 june and monday, 4 june- leaders retreat! (:
leaders retreat was really something!
first reaction when i found out i was assistant leader---SHOCK :-O
abel and I were bored in the afternoon and we started giving everyone a raise in status as well as AGE. grandpas grandmas grandaunties kungfu masters and veterans flying everywhere!
we stared at the pile of snacks and drinks on the table in the chalet,
and voila,
THE BIRTH OF AILOOT!
root beer+ aunty aileen (the super zi-high funny sweet dear camp manager-ess!) = AILOOT
Pretty soon we got down to business and started naming all the other snacks like fruit plus and SUNsweet prunes after aunty aileen and uncle sunny. Sunny+7up= SUNNY SIDE UP (:
Pretty soon we got down to business and started naming all the other snacks like fruit plus and SUNsweet prunes after aunty aileen and uncle sunny. Sunny+7up= SUNNY SIDE UP (:
The messages were really good and helped me learn alot about leadership, and the night-time shopping trip was great too! The leaders+rev ho+uncle chang (CHANG BEER!)+ aunty joanna+aunty AILOOT+ uncle sunny had dinner at white sands food court. The crazy people kevin elaine and cliffton made us go mad with an incredibly difficult EASY question. In the end dong xing debbo and pris got it and abel and I were left there to feel all stumped and emptied of whatsoever brain juice left in our brains. GRRRRRR MATHS
oh and throughout the car ride back to the chalet, elaine deb pris and I were squashed up at the back side reminiscing the good ol times where there was PEEWEE, while watching barney on a small tv inside someone else's car. Then we practically tortured cliffton and ailoot with our horrible opera singing coz we were POTO HIGH, especially elaine and I (having watched POTO twice!!). AH I MISS MY POTO CD WHICH IS CURRENTLY WITH MY AUNT!
oh and that night,
I learnt that sleeping with aunty ailoot is totally a whole new experience for a suaku person like me! we slept in the same room on the first night!
second day of leaders retreat was fun too, but after the dinner and shopping I went home to get some medicine and rest coz I had my stupid nose bugging me throughout the entire previous night and half of the morning.
but still, YOUTH LEADERS' RETREAT IS LOVE 
elaine pris deb me abel dongxing cliffton kevin
AI LOOT Y'ALL (:
youthcamp- 1st day, tues 5th june
our group's name is HUNNYSTARS, with leader kevin, ALs debwah and i, members: darren xingwei wanxin jane. yeahhh man we so rock! After morning message and discussion ALL the groups were playing games and we had to come up with infinitely stupid but funny forfeits for people to do. darren ended up doing an advert for ailoot (actually it's mug root beer).
he loots, do you loot?
HUNNYSTARS is the love! we were last for the ice cube game, but we slowly managed to catch up for the tongue twister game! haha the ice cube game was super wet and cold and fun coz we all had to rub ice on each others' body parts until the ice cubes melted! darren rubbed the ice so vigorously on my cheek until it went numb after that (: but nothing compares to rubbing ice on his forehead and debwah's NOSE!
yup after that had outdoor games- captain's ball! HUNNYSTARS THE CHAMPS! but I guess that's coz we have so many highly athletic people in our group- kevin, xingwei and darren. (:
the night message!
HMM oh well I admit it was really hard for me and many others to stay awake during the night message but the worst thing was that I was sitting in front so I was trying really hard to pay attention. good thing I managed to take notes, but halfway through I sort of nodded off for a few seconds and when deb suddenly jerked back her chair I jolted awake and it was super funny! oops, better get a good nights sleep before camp!
HUNNYSTARS ROCKED THE NIGHT GAMES TOO!
the night games was amazing-race style and very fast-paced and exciting some more! At first our group got stuck and by the time we rushed back panting with only our first sticker, the other groups ESPECIALLY NEO TENSHI had collected five or six stickers already! rush rush rush but in the end, after two (road)blocks we raced back and clinched 1st place! yeahhh man!
the second day was fun too, especially the photo hunt in the afternoon which was held at downtown east! SUPER FUNNY PICS!!!
picture this- HUNNY SMILES with ronald!
we did quite well for the photo hunt, second place!
THIRD DAY. thurs 7 june.
the entire day was mostly spent brainstorming ideas, scriptwriting and rehearsing for our skit. HUNNYSTARS SKIT! featuring a christian pig adam (me), a wordly pai kiah pig steve (xingwei), the narrator (debwah) prince chiangbi/ magic mirror on the chiangbi (kevin) and THE BIG BAD WOLF (darren) and the HUNNYPUFF gals (jane+wanxin)
our skit turned out pretty good, it's basically a parody of the three little pigs+snow white+cinderella+ the camp messages and camp theme verse all rolled up into one super skit!
the funniest one was the chiobu part where kevin and xingwei had to do some waltzing and some lovey dovey actions!
xingwei and I, the two fat pigs!
HMMS in the end HUNNYSTARS got overall second place! that makes us second best and second last, right smack in the middle! (: neo tenshi got third and the black horses WUMINGDAO got champion! hah congrats to abel and pris. especially pris coz first time her group got champion after two consecutive years of last place (:
sharing and testimonial time was also really meaningful, like all the the leaders and assisstant leaders shared+ darren (who got arrowed by us) + cliffton + loads of the adults.
EVERYONE'S LOOKIN' GOOD!
cliffton (with the sunny 7up!), darren (booboo keys!!), daniel, me, kevin and deborah.
yup all in all this was the best youth camp (and church camp) I've ever been part of, although didn't manage to get a single piece of work done that week (and the previous week too coz I was stomach flu-ing the whole of the first week of june hols), I really learnt so much from the leaders retreat as well as the camp. and loads of very inspiring people like the leaders dong xing kevin and abel, and fellow ALs! elaine pris and deb! THANKS to all the adults- rev ho, sa peh, aunty joanna (the food person!), mum, uncle chang (STILL CHANG BEER!), uncle jia siang and of course AILOOT AND SUNNY SIDE UP! and all the leaders cliffton elaine dongxing priscilla abel deborah kevin and all the campers for all the effort and late nights!
to the dear HUNNYSTARS- you guys were the best! HUNNYSTARS IS LOOT!
and to the leaders and ALs- hope we can stay HIGH in the crazy zi high way and also spiritually and jiayou jiayou jiayou! thanks for everything! AI LOOT YALL!
shining like the stars!
Octeopus rambled on and on and on, on
9:23 PM.
