the mochaholic

Saturday, June 19, 2004
15 - 18 June, Port Dickson, Malaysia

15 June

Supposed to go to school (Ngee Ann) today for flag day...compulsory event...but u know what? I totally skipped it hahaha...yesh. Woke up at 745am, showered and got ready and all, then left the house by 9am. Took the causeway to Port Dickson (PD). It wasn't supposed to be quite a long journey, but it took longer than usual. Our car tyres were slightly unbalanced so it made the car a lil shakey. It's not much of a big problem but if we could get it fixed, even better. So we stopped by Ayer Keroh..some lil town near to malacca to grab some lunch and some snacks and well, we saw a lil tyre shop there and they charged like half of what u pay in singapore for tyre balancing treatment, so we got our wheels done there. Left the car at the workshop and went for lunch nearby. Lunch was good, had wanton mee at only RM2 for the largest size ranging from S, M and L. Cheap rite?? Had kopi-peng as well, and it was really REALLY good. RM1 only. Haha..went to collect the car after that and as soon as we left and got to the highway to PD and hit 100km/h, things started to get dodgy. The tyres were way unbalanced and the whole car shook like crazy!!! Serious..we were all very disappointed..and quite shaken too haha. When we were reaching PD we came across a petrol station that does tyres as well so we got it fixed there. Much better after that! Reached the Guoman Beach Resort bout an hour late but dat's alrite, cuz they only start the program at 5pm. Rested for a while then went on with normal camp stuff like dinner, worship, sermon, free time and etc. Dinner was...unappetizing. The whole place was like a housefly's haven!!! It was infested i tell ya. And the food tasted...bad? Well it was really unappetizing but i ate it anyway. Around midnight, went back to my room with a few friends..mainly some of the girls and daryl and we all talked and jammed on the guitar and sang and did a bit of QT ('True Love Waits', topic on sexual immorality), as well as watched the soccer match (Germany vs. Netherlands). Was quite an okay match. We ended up sleeping around 4am plus and waking up around 640am...not much sleep eh?

16 June

Woke up ard 640am..did QT with the church then had breakfast and did the program planned out for us. Youths were rostered to lead worship that night, so we nearly spent the whole afternoon rehearsing for the worship service that night. We sang "It is now", "I will worship", "Agnus Dei" as well as "Believe". I was the worship leader together with michelle...had daryl and cheryl as background vocalists, sam on guitar, aaron on electric guitar, dom on bass, angel on keyboard and anna on drums. That afternoon the whole church had durians at tea time! It was a totally wild event i tell ya! They ordered a few baskets fulla durians and like wow..i was so happy to see the whole church so united. It was a real beautiful sight, so much happiness and unity. I guess we could all agree on durians rite? Hehe...i ate quite a lot of durians lah..can't resist haha..then that night when it was time to have worship, i was quite worried that i wouldn't be able to sing but..wow by God's grace, i still managed to sing, so praise God~!!! B4 we started, someone must have taken my lyrics away cuz they weren't there and i couldn't get any so..haha embarassing, had to turn my head all the time while leading worship and look at the powerpoint. Haha..but overall it was quite alrite. That night's dinner was quite horrible as well so we ended up ordering room service after midnight. Had a chicken chop, and i got scolded for going into the girl's bunk after midnight. I admit i was wrong..and i deserved the punishment. So anyway..that was day 2 of camp...

17 June

Woke up but didn't get to do QT cuz i was late. Woke up ard 8am plus, just in time for breakfast. Breakfast like all meals, wasn't fantastic, and was as usual, fulla flies all over the place. Was quite a hot day that day. Then same as the day b4, did the normal camp stuff, worship, sermon, bible classes with auntie marrilyn. Was overall quite good, did learn some useful stuffs. That night after youth sexual purity program, a number of us took to the streets and went to eat some supper. Among the youths that went was me, aaron, angel, anna, and cheryl. We ate quite a lot of good stuff like hor fun, buttered prawns, sotong and so on...then when we got back we realised it was already past midnite, which means it would be eugene har's b'day..and since his parents were with us, we decided to ask them if we could give him a birthday surprise and haha they said yes~ So yes, we grabbed our guitar and a lot of us went up..like my bunch and charlotte's bunch...in other words, lotsa youth guys and gals. So yeah, he was in his room already sleeping, and haha we caught him sleeping! HAhaha...his usual look on his face...didn't take any pics but his mother did so yeah..haha was fun that night...i slept quite late, tho not as late as the night b4..maybe around 3am plus? Was in room 312 playing bridge and watching soccer. Then around 230am went back to 313, my room, only to find many ppls inside playing Settlers, some boardgame..but that was totally fine with me..they were my friends so yeah. They played and i slept hahaha...

18 June

Last day. For the past few days i slept very little hours only, so i was somehow extra tired that night and cos of the rainy weather, i only managed to wake up around 1030am instead of 645am...my bad...and yeah..i feel a bit bad, cuz my dad was worship leading and i like totally missed it, and i also missed the last sermon, which was supposedly the best of them all...haiz...regret. But oh well, left the hotel earlier than the rest. Drove down to malacca town..had nyonya food...some chendol...some putu piring, then bought some D-24 durians back! Hahaha..good stuff man..it totally stank up our car but hey..it's worth it! haha... then yeah, most of the day was spent in the car, driving home and all. Got back to Singapore, then picked andrew up from camp and then went for dinner at cheong chin nam road...bumped into cheryl and family there haha..but yeah..had indian food. Quite good. After that came home and all and then here i am, sitting at my computer typing away.

Reflections

How would i describe these few days? Well, i could say they were almost magical, haha but no, it was..well, i would say they were well spent. I admit i was too tired to concentrate to majority of the sermons, but i did get something out of the youth program about sexual purity, and yeah, i think it was really good, a wake up call if i may call it...a call to commitment and purity especially. Yeah...well i didn't quite make many new friends..knew most of them already anyway..but yeah, i probably still could have put in bigger effort but i don't know why i just didn't. But a good point is that i did become closer to my existing friends, so i guess that's a good point..unity in the body of Christ haha...yepz..just wanna say thank u guys and gals at the camp! You guys rawk~ See ya all in church this sunday, God bless!!!

whipped cream? ~~Yes~~/No

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