Helllllo everybody!

It's been long since my last post, I think. Quite long. :D

I really thank God for all the opportunities He has given me, like being able to participate in guides camps, LTC and all. Many new experiences :D

It's time I do that again. How can I have "no time"? Is it an excuse I should have to be stressed up, even during the holidays? No. Dad says it's time I take a step back and look at my life and ask myself - "Why do I have no time? Why am I so busy? Is it time to let some things (e.g. commitments to CCA and all) go? God is still first."
Even though I admit I have quite some stuff on hand, I still have time to spend with God and my family, which is just great man. :D
Not to forget SLACKING, playing/chatting on MSN. :P

I'll just post many posts at one go with whatever has been going on k! (guides camp and LTC another time :))

27 Nov
Can't really remember what I did on the 26th (monday) but on the 27th,
met up with best friend (Ge Rou), Fiona, E Shyen and Kelly at KAP to come up with the last banner and poster designs for guides comp. for Ms Lau to choose. Laughing day as usual - many stupid things happened. Hehe.
So Fi borrowed ah Gui's eraser and actually returned it to Gui, but Gui forgot, and she couldn't find it in her pencil case awhile later when we needed it. Hence, they decided to go to Cold Storage to buy a pack. They came back with 6 erasers, but guess what? While they were gone, I found the eraser deep in the corner of Gui's pencil case. That was hilarious. :P
Fi and I had fun at Cold Storage walking around like mad, lost, aimless people getting inspiration, and we did. 8 silly and good ideas came out of that walk. Hahaha, Fi's just so cute.

Next, because of some miscommunication (battery flat phone! :(:() I had to go all the way to Tampines to meet JY to discuss SMPF stuff, to much failure for an obvious reason.

IT WAS PETRA CHUA'S HOUSE.

When I got there, JY, Lina and Rachel were still at Tamp. Mall so I ended up playing Tennis with Chua instead. Obviously, I missed the ball alot, but I can serve man, muahahah. I think I embarrassed myself alot then, but it was fun. :D Then, when JY got there, we couldn't really discuss much because of all the noise from Chua especially, hahhaa.
Fun overall, Petra's house isn't as bad as I thought it'll be. Just that the cab fare there cost me 13 bucks. :(


28 Nov
International Guides Camp Day 1
Thank you sooo much Shar for giving me a lift to Camp Christine, and even offering to pick me up at the bus stop outside my house so I didn't have to go to yours. :)
We didn't do much on the first day, really more of warming up to sub-camp mates (there were 4 sub-camps /big groups) and pitching of the tents (Shar, Lydia, Justina and I had a collapsing tent. :P) So, there was nothing much.

29 Nov
IGC Day 2
I got Cable Skiing and Fencing as activities for the 29th and it was really good man!
Cable Skiing was at ECP in the morning. Lydia's really good at it - not just on a kneeboard - but even on her first try with DOUBLE SKIS, she went really far already! Further than everyone else on the kneeboard (the supposed easiest one to use) and double skis. Fi, Shyen and Ge Rou all fell after a few seconds on the skis on the first try. Me too. But mine was worse. I didn't go ANY further than 4m for all 3 tries, so I'm just not fit for that sport. Really proud of Lyddie, ah Gui, Shyen and Fi on her last try.! They did great man! :D
Next, it was Fencing at fencing masters at some ulu place in Ubi Park (I think!)
That was really fun too - bad bad muscle aches.
Lunges, where we have to step forward as far as we can to attack our opponents or something really makes our thigh muscles ache.
Fencing supposedly help us tone our thighs and butts. Hahaha.
Lyd and I ended up going on about how we have to go home and lunge on our left!

Cable skiing and fencing were both great first-time experiences so it was worth going for the camp for that! :D

30 Nov
IGC Day 3
I had to leave that night - family obligation (sat)
Rafting and Recycling Art.
Rafting was cool. We got to practise square lashings and Lyd's really a good leader and supervisor. Beats Ah Gui who LOVES to supervise. :P Haha, just kidding!
I got to hold a pedal for the first time, and finally understood what 'pedal forward' and 'pedal backwards' mean 'cos I couldn't get it initially. Our raft went the wrong way (and I definitely contributed to this 'cos of the wrong pedalling :s), we almost hit a stationary boat. It was a good experience though - made new friends as all of us worked together!

Recycling Art - we all thought it was gonna be bad. But no! We got to learn a new skill - toe weaving with 3,5 and 7 threads/strings/yarn! So next time I can make friendship bands for friends. :) More sincere.
We were also supposed to make a small sling bag - silicon cord and blue cloth were given and I, being sewing-illiterate took soooo long to just sew the cord to the bag. ;] I didn't have the time to sew patterns onto the bag as I was really urgent for the toilet.
Here comes the best part of the camp (for me, at least).
All the jokes about our tent collapsing, it did. I could no longer hold my bowels so I dragged Shyen to the toilet with me, and after I used it, I wanted to go pack my bag because I was leaving that night. Shyen went "Oh my God, your tent!". I really didn't know what happened but when I saw it, hahaha that moment was priceless. I tried fixing it, but I couldn't do it on my own, so I just held on the 'dolly' (it was definitely not as strong as the huge green 8-man tent) and waited for 'rescue' which I longed for (then). Seeing Shar and Lydia strolling towards me, I was quite worked up but in the end our rafting 'instructor' came over to help us so yeah, that was okay. The funny part of that incident is, that instructor was wet from rafting so his shirt was translucent. Justina and Sharanya were standing on the side with his back facing, and Shar spotted tattoos. While Shar was trying to point that out to Justina, she thought we were just letting her know that was our rafting instructor. Sharanya looked constipated as she was laughing and telling Justina 'no, that wasn't what I meant', keeping her fingers pointed but Justina didn't get in. It's hard to explain, but if you were there, you'd probably have had a bad stomachache, and hopefully got some abs. ;) I laughed so much I fell on the floor and wanted Fiona to help me up. Instead of holding me steadily, she let go of her hands even before I fully got up, so I fell back down onto the slightly wet grass. What I did NOT realise was, Shar's wet rafting shoes were right next to me, and I was in fact lying on one of them on the side. That just got everybody laughing all over again. There were 2 or 3 other similar laughing incidents, but it's been really quite long I can't remember the details. That night, Mum came to fetch me home and we had crispy noodles at some coffee shop in CCK. :)
Nonetheless, I still thank God for giving us such laughing incidents because it did bring us closer when you do things together - laughing in this case. God also used the 'collapsed tent' incident to teach us how to respond to such situations, an experience we may not experience again. Personally, while I was waiting for help to come, I felt anxious and this funny feeling really hard to explain, but I knew I was getting restless and thinking 'why are they taking so long!' because others started staring at me holding the tent by the side with some weird facial expression. Impatience and restlessness are just part of who I am, the part which I know I had to change. I really like the feeling when you know this is another incident God's trying to teach you something, even though it's a really small something.
:D

Okay, yay! Finally updated. :)
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