Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Church Camp!!!

The last church camp I went was the one in Kota Tinggi, wasn't that super long ago? Haha... It has been so many years already! I really want to thank God for this year's church camp! The feeling of wonderfulness is beyond words can describe. I really enjoyed the kind of fellowship during the camp, like what Wei En said "It taste like part of Heaven". Haha! The feeling of togetherness, wow, just wonderful! The sermon was great especially the first sermon, the accommodation was good, I heard it was much better than last year's. And food, of course, from Xiao Ling's tone and expression was much better than last year's. The schedule was a bit packed, but who cares? Its church camp! Like what Uncle Tai Guang said, if there is none other important business, we should try our best to come! That's right man!

Here are some highlights of church camp:

Day 1:

Went to church at 9.45 a.m. to gather, took quite a few photos before boarding the bus.


Cute Leah!!!



We had fun playing with Kai En's sun glasses on the bus to Changi jetty!!! Haha...

Yan Heng trying to do er... pole dance???






On the ship...


Haha... Yi Qian is my roommate for this year's camp.


This photo is taken from inside the ship, this is I think Changi Beach? Don't you think its beautiful??? Planes usually zoom past this area for landing or take-off.


Off we go!!!


En Xuan is so cute too!




Now, that's classic!



Let me introduce you to "超级无敌大帅哥和和美女们”!!!

拥有超级无敌小蛮腰的大美女,施晓玲!


超级无敌大帅哥,杰哥哥!!!


拥有超级无敌dot dot dot的大帅哥,Yan Heng!!!


整天去 gym,身材fit到漏油的 Tan Pei En!!!


En Xuan and Ah Ma, En Xuan so cool hor!!!

We reached Pulai Desaru Resort at around 2.00 p.m. and had our lunch before they handed us room keys, the lunch was fried rice, nice but so little lor! Not full enough!


Our function room!


Leah trying to learn to play the piano!!!


See that contrast??? Muscular man and small baby.

After the keys handing session, its free time, Yi Qian, Pei Fern, Linda, Wan Yee, Ailing Pei Xian and I went walking around the resort to explore a bit.



Thats a scary hen... in the mini "zoo"... I thought farm would be more appropriate...

Went to beach walk walk, see see, they never maintain the beach sia! So many leaves around and oh my, there was a big Komodo dragon walking right behind where I seated, scared the hell out of me man! But it still look quite peaceful and nice under the bright big sun!




Later in the evening after dinner, we had the opening ceremony where there was children drumming water bottles, a session of line dance with balloons tied to our feet and stepping on each other's balloons! Really had fun!!! Then Yan Heng prepared some games for us, showing us photos of past camps and events and guessing questions posted by him, wah, got feel, memory flooded in, got photos of me when I was young leh... Haha... And all the laughter surrounded YanHeng and Heng Wei's muscle man pose when they were young. Haha...

Day 2:

We woke up quite early in the morning, around 6.00 a.m. like that to gather in the function room to do QT, Yi Qian and I rushed down coz we were late!!! Wah, the resort har, don't open lights at night de leh, we were literally searching in the darkness for the key hole and finding our way to the function room, when we reached the lobby, wah, no lights also sia. They so 环保 lor! After QT, we had line dance and had our first breakfast in the resort, wah, the breakfast super got feel. The scrambled eggs were super nice, there are staff there cooking 荷包蛋 or omelet for you de leh. The harsh brown... wah... Ok stop stop, later you all jealous until don't want to read le. After breakfast, we proceed to the big field and play rubber band passing using the straws in our mouth and find things to build the tallest tower. Uncle Qian Lu very 夸张, he go take a fallen tree branch, not small one leh, super big one leh, after he take, every other group went to take, super funny lor! Anyway we came in third for the tallest tower. Not bad sia.





Then we had preparation time for skit, wah, that day cannot think of anything leh, later I thought of using Return of the Condor Heroes as our main plot, a lot of funny ideas lar, but not yet complete. Then came lunch, I will not elaborate, coz after that I realize all the meals we had there were around the same, though the taste nice, its always lamb, chicken, beef, fish and vegetables, standard de. Then came our sermon, sermon was good, very encouraging, Rev Lai really made me think a lot! Even though at the front, I almost fell asleep, I stood up aside and listened at first. The sharing we had later was really fruitful, I shared about the fear of stepping up and serve the Lord, others shared a lot too, quite a deep sharing. Then dinner and sermon again. Sermon part 2 was more theoretical and practical, it was good, but all the high I people started drifting away, including me lar. Xiao Ling and me were self entertaining, I was asking her, "Hey, do you find Rev Lai looks like Humpty Dumpty?". She give a funny expression and said, "Walou, you very bad leh". I almost burst out laughing, opps so sorry, Zhi Yang look at our direction still, so paiseh, next time I will try to concentrate more! We then break into groups and shared until 11 plus that night.

Day 3:



Fiana dancing line dance with baby Leah!



See that classic muscle man pose by both Yan Heng and Heng Wei???


They went out of glass, so we took bowls for our fruit juices, 我敬你一杯!!!

Had line dance again, this time more people woke up early to join, the breakfast, the singspiration and the last sermon for the whole camp. The sermon also quite theoretical but the last two sermons really pose some very challenging questions to the leaders of our church. Pray that God will continue to guide our church into the right direction. Later we break into groups for sharing again, shared about how we share gospel to others, Leah was with us too, she was happy and noisy, distracted our attention, haha... and she had her delicious beef bolognese, baby version of course, by Heinz, maybe I will feed my baby with that next time, coz it taste not bad. Later we had skit practicing time, the plot already out but we practised too long lar, haiyah, didn't had time to swim, or at least I didn't get to swim, coz by the time we ended its already 5 plus and 6 is our dinner, but Pei En, Wei Hong, Xiao Ling and Linda went to swim, I went to play ping pong with Kai En and Ying Qian, I first time learn, haha... So Kai En and Ying Qian taught me the techniques to play ping pong, I became all sweaty and went back to bathe before dinner. Dinner that night was fantastic, although I didn't eat a lot, it was BBQ food!

After that it was family themed programs, every family have to wear specially for the last night. Uncle James' family won the best dressed family. Haha... We then had our skit, wah, super funny, coz our theme is to imitate other members of the church mar. Was laughing throughout the whole night. Haha... I think the best part is where Vinc's group imitate many other members of the church, laugh until cannot tahan. Our group got a bit disoriented during the skit, haha... but nevermind, I still heard laughters.


The best dressed family!


Vinc and family!



Pei En's 姑姑,冰清玉洁的小龙女!!!



After that, we did not want to sleep, we heard that the KTV open until 1 o'clock, so we excited went down to find to our disappointment, that place is like a pub, and there is only one stage which means you have to sing infront of everybody, mind you, there were strangers in there... Haiz... Then they went to my room for singspiration, haha... nice fellowship, but everyone were very tired, especially me, dozed off and come back during the mist of the singspiration, haha... Before they left, we agreed to go see sun rise next morning and go to have a game of water polo the next morning at 7, wah, so excited lor.


Left: 累到发呆,Right: 累到痛哭流涕...


累到傻笑。。。



Day 4:



Woke up at 6.30 and went to the beach to take photos of sunrise! Then jumped into the pool for the first time since the starting of the camp, really have no time to swim lor, haha... Then had a game of water polo with Kai En, Shun Jie, Ming Yang, Joshua, Yan Heng, Pei En, Wei En, Wei Hong, Heng Wei and Yi Qian. Really had good exercise, then after that went back to our room to pack and rushed down to have breakfast and gathered at the function room, had singspiration with Uncle Hong Cai leading, wah, his sharing was tear jerking, super sad, but a lot to reflect on then we had prize presentation, our game group came in third, YAY!!! And then we had sharing and lighting of candles for the closing ceremony.






腼腆笑容。。。哈哈。。。



灿烂的笑容。。。 (路人甲:也太灿烂了吧!)


这是痛苦的表情吗? Erm, 是吧。。。哈哈。。。


Auntie Jing Yu!!! Our camp commandant! She did a great job, appreciate her effort, round of applause please!


Happy brothers! They look like small kids though. Haha...


Shh... Don't disturb!


Don't care, still disturb!

Then took a big group photo, then after that this became super rushed, fast lunch, fast pack up, got on to the bus quickly and zoom, off we go, the journey back to Singapore. Really enjoyed a lot a lot, I WILL PRAY HARD I CAN TAKE LEAVE OFF ARMY NEXT YEAR TO JOIN 2009's CHURCH CAMP!!! Church camp is a must come, church camp is wonderful!!!



BYE BYE!!!

Monday, 19 May 2008

事过境迁,也是时候有个结论,这半年是我人生中过得最辛苦的一段日子。。。 2008年的确不是一个好年。。。但能够从中学习的也的确不少。

从去年11月开始我的身体就开始响起健康的红灯,我的情绪也一度掉到谷底。父母也一个接一个的生病。整家人都在病魔的笼罩下。我们也因此花了很多钱看病。这半年,家里的气氛很沉重,我脑里也浮现很多负面的思想。现在想起来我觉得我只差那么一点点就可能患上忧郁症。所以我一直往外跑,不喜欢躲在家里胡思乱想。但让我能撑过去的有两位我要感谢的,一位就是神,另一位是我妈。

神就好像狠狠地刮了我一巴掌,让我看清原来我是多么的小信,这么的弱不经风,让我看到在危机时的我还是那么固执。也因为看清自己是那么的无能,渺小,我才从新的回到神那里去,我第一次感到祷告的威力和平安,神话语里的安慰。记得在那段时间的一个唐崇荣的讲道上,说到关于雅各的生平,神取了雅各的腿,让他一切归零,让他醒悟他一生就在靠自己,原来除了神,没有别的可靠地。他的生命有被神抽打过的迹象,Uncle James曾经说过雅各代表了大多数信徒的生命,我不得不承认,这次神就好像抽打雅各那样的抽打我,让我醒了,觉悟了。

我也感谢我妈,每当我情绪低落,她都会是第一个用圣经的话语来鼓励我,我的恐惧和不安因为她的鼓励而消失。母爱真伟大。

现在也说得上是雨过天晴,郑秀文在他复出演唱会曾经说过:“过往,你看不见太阳,但你看看今天,当你推开窗,太阳终为你而微笑。”,我觉得这句和我的心情写照一样,在这半年,我就像看不见太阳。今天我学习了更会去感恩,因为就像 Uncle James 说的,我们今天能没有病痛,我们还能活着,不是理所当然,乃是神的恩典。缅甸风灾和四川大地震让我也深深的体会到这道理,比起他们的痛苦,我这半年的经历又算得了什么呢? 看到这些报道,我的心都酸了,现在说什么都没用,只能够感觉无奈。。。末日似乎越来越近了。。。 我准备好了吗?