Camp!
First things first, I must give credit to all who rmbred and wished me happy bdae. ~D, Jeff, Yix and a whole lot of others for the lanning, the watch and the fun. Go To those that didn’t make it, lets go KBOX! Then theres qx, and joella! People whom I did not expect will rmbr. They kinda made my day. And to V and chicken for being the first two. Then hy, for being the last. (Haha!) And to the friend that rmbred the date wrongly. sniff…… Haha
Ok, me, im a camp right now, right here.
First, the people i know and got to know at camp. Bzx, anyi, stephanie, shi yun, vincent, zhiling, rongsiu, jorina, wenyan, deborah, shi fu, chong yi, kelvin, deana, Beatrice, hai song, tiong hwee, etc whose name I forgot. Argh, I can’t remember names, sigh… Great bunch of people though, yeah!
On to the camp and events
Tuesday. I had to wake up so early because swiss cottage is so far away. Zzz. Poor vinc was sick, or so i thought. Only realised later on that he was at a chalet. $@!#@ :p I was still having a bit of a coughing fit which lasted since my fever. Then, we had to cheer. There was this guy called Eddie. He is like me when I am talking to sis or to certain friends. Very lame, very funny, and very loud voice. He taught us a number of cheers, but none of which was really stunningly good. Well, I will not be fussy, shall move on. We were taught a number of games as well, orientation games. The most memorable one was the knot untying one. Arthur, a CARE staff, was in my knot, so he oversaw our unentanglement. In the process, I hugged a guy (ChYi) 3 times, even though I was not holding onto his hand. Faggish…
I was assigned the role of game master at first. Thought it was going to be boring, and so I whined a bit. Hehz. Apparently, there was a chance for me to be a group leader because I had experience in dealing with problem kids. So I took up the challenge with rs. Oh I must mention this, hunger struck me at nine. So basically I was looking forward to lunch. 12.00p.m came after a long wait, and I was like, FOoood….. Walked to the canteen in great anticipation thinking I could eat anything. Then, food revealed. Rice with two petite chicken drumlets (Frozen chicken) and cabbage. With bland curry. Blegcrhm (Blech) sux sux sux. I am not fussy about types of food, just quality. So basically, memory for day one ends here, a bit bad.
Wednesday, start of the camp. It was an amplification of the training yesterday. I had to wake up earlier, but at least vinc was going too. The food was only slightly better. But when it was the only kind of food I was going to get for the day, it is so much worse. Must say that only milo and biscuit were decent. Sigh. Anyway,I did the most stupid stuff i'll ever do in life. This is the extent of which i intend to impress, and it also show the extent of my immaturity. Shan’t elaborate. (its called handphone)
My family group was ok, though, it consisted of kids with all kinds of attitudes. There were mischievous boys, ostracised boy although he is nice, a girl that goes “Eeee, I don’t want” to anything and everything she was asked to do regardless of whether it was a good or bad thing. Eg. Don’t want to stand in front of queue, don’t want to stand behind queue, don’t want to touch guys, don’t want to touch girls, don’t want to be player, don’t want to be keeper. Sigh… Reminds me of girls that go “I freaking broke my nailsss” A girl that cried, a girl whose flaw I dunno how to put into words. Only two kids were pretty ok, Lloyd and Jiamin. Matured enough to put others before self. Meaning they don’t just think about themselves and want fun. They are kids that are willing to compromise. So heres my group members. (Jun rong, Yi siang, Irving, Lloyd, Jialin, Jiamin, Uraimah, Farina.) Then the student leaders were very nice. One looked to an extent, chio. Like a member of some gothic band though. Then fellow fgl is rs. The game masters attached to our group was Beatr and someone else. Crashing was ZhL and Deana. My FGL name? APOC, theme matrix. .jpg)
Apparently, the kids were not very enthu about a lot of stuff, so all the cheers I planned for them, I did not teach them. Sigh, wasn’t able to keep their energy level high throughout the camp. So basically, whenever it fell below a certain level, things happen. Ooo, the guys like to hit each other, irritate one another, and they have the cooties syndrome. Will do anything to not touch girls….
We started out with abit of get together activities. Played a game where our hands criss cross. Then we are suppose to tap in a circle, tapping twice to reverse, tapping 3 times to skip, with people accumulating forfeit points. Haha, rs thought it was fun, so did a few others, so success! I so wanted to teach them Mafia, a very successful OG game (Io’ren). But, no time and no chance. Aiya, wasted… The cheers taught was the kemama and the A-P-O-C cheer. Made on the spot. Yay.
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It was on to the games. It was where all hell broke lose. I had to shout a lot to get the group to do the cheers, and to keep their spirits up. Did the chicken dance twice, blech. The two boys kept doing stuff bored little boys do. Run around, don’t want to play by the rules, don’t listen to instructions, commenting that the games are lame. Actually, truthfully speaking, I too thought some of the games were boring, but what to do. So bytes was awarded ever so often. Apoc was in first place and ended in the last place. Sadness eh :p
The night game was so much worse. Because of the blindfold element. I thought it was going to be fun, but the kids did not like to be blindfolded. So hey complained and complained and complained. Only llyod and yi siang did not. The rest, 6 out of 8, majority, complained. Majority…. As happy as I am that somehow, we managed to survive 3 rounds, I am disappointed on how these kids ain’t adventurous. Can’t take hardship. (When I did the blindfold thing in sec one, it was so much worse, but so fun la. All the guys were blindfolded and led through a series of obstacles in the school and field. Stupid people played tricks and tickled us, and poured toothpaste water over our body saying it was mud. We were half naked ‘cuz the tshirt was used as blindfold) Ooo, special mention to Jo, who joined the group and led us to various places. And when the leaders and mentors were blindfolded, she volunteered to take over my place cause I was needed to coordinate the group. Im kinda touched, so thnx thnx!An interesting game was the spiderweb one. Despite the many reminders, the group broke the web nonetheless. Hahahahahahaha, poor things. ( specifically the game masters)
It finally ended at 11, where we had a quick supper and went on to do some the family talk. The care staff assigned to our group was Mrs. Pek. It was during the talk when I realised that most did not miss their siblings for one reason or another. And hated their family, some loved them a lot. One cried, and I had no idea why. Two had brothers that bully them. I laughed la, realising that I was one of those kind of irritating brother myself, haha. At least I know I don’t bully my sis considering we take turns being the aggressor. But it is all in the name of fun. Yeah. Finally got to turn in, after a strepsil that saved my throat for the next day. Bathed, only to realise my towel disappeared. So it was very cold. Haha
Thursday. My body is aching from sleeping on the ground. Hip bone kept rubbing the floor when I turn my body. And I slept a few hours only. Kept checking on the kids. After the fifth check, it was around 3.30, and I really slept, till 6.30. Then it was pt. Very stupid, cause the rate at which we are doing it was like cooling down exercise, not warming up. Nonetheless, I sprained my arm a bit when I did the jumping jacks. Stopped when it started to drizzle. Breakfast next, and the food was naturally bad. Bee hoon that tasted more like rice flour in water. And milo that was a tad too sweet. (I know, I am picky) Went on to some games in the hall.
Then there was the war games where various groups are assigned into pairs of a guy and girl and are suppose to snatch rugby balls. Naturally, with the cootie syndrome in our team, it was very difficult to get things started. And the explanation of the rules of the games was very bad, so the way I assigned the pairs was very bad. Taufik shouldn’t have asked mentors to choose the tails first, and assign the protector stuff later. He should ask for pairs straight away. And the defender part? He made them sound like a separate entity all together, when they are not…. Whatever, the game was bad for our team, doubt anyone enjoyed it, especially with all the “I don’t want”, “I am sleepy” and bo chap attitudes. Gotta comment on rs who perservered. I gave up.
During our game, the 2 boys pulled shi yun when she tried to get the rugby ball. I have yet to apologise on their behalf, sigh. I just witnessed the epic battles later on. Naturally, the couples were together, and some of them were rather sweet, the way the guys really protected their gf. Then a group of sec 4 was really powerful, since they were all guys. Easily won the second game! Poor Jiamin, got scratched in the face by a mentor. Rs did the comforting. I was a bit bo chap by then. Sigh..jpg)
There was talentime, where our group combined with another to put up a performance It was damn difficult to coordinate them cuz the other group was very quiet, my group is… We managed something in the end, though nothing spectacular. When they finally performed, as expected, they didn’t do it very nicely. And they forgot the cheer too. Haha, all the mentors stood in the back stage laughing like crazy, I know I did J All the volunteers did the RI batch song, We are the young. Sang with zi kai, wondering if I was out of tune. Probably, after all the cheering :p I should have just kept quiet and save my voice abit. Haha. Anw, its such a nice song, and the girls got it really quickly. Cool. Vinc can’t be bothered though, haiya! We then played a virus game with Eddie. Some ti, to, ta, diu game. Very comical, especially when the 3 girls joined the game not knowing what to do. Got *saboed* by ed! .jpg)
There was an auction, where we bidded stuff with the points we got. Apparently, the 1000/ 2000 points difference did not matter because the prices were mostly worth more than 10000. The group won a trip to the underwater world, which I cannot go cuz I am going Malaysia!! Same day! The other groups performed and some were quite impressive, I must say. Then there was an eddie chikucha dance. Very stupid, very cute, especially when the planning comm had to perform! HAha. .jpg)
It finally ended, with a bang, though I could not do anymore cheers.
Still, I must say, I did learn lots of stuff in the camp. One was that my patience level was really high. Really really. Another is that I don’t open up to strangers easily… Sigh… So I know a lot of people, but good friends, not yet. Still, it was an enjoyable camp..jpg)
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