I’m back =) It was an eventful camp from 14-16 June.
J-- Jamboree, Vivacious, Convivial, Geniality; our four OGs
U-- Unexpected wet weather that pushed our limits
X-- Accident…along AYE
T--“The best things in life cannot be seen or touched but felt by the heart.”
A-- Amazing Race, Amazing People—I met a cool tourist who wanted my pic haha 8-D
P-- Phantoms. Why can’t we just call it Fright Night instead of Confidence Night?
O-- *ouch* Sunburn!
S-- Spirit of Compassion, SP game (we nearly won)
E—Enthusiasm + Energy, lots of it despite the lack of sleep!
Many beautiful memories to take back again….
Day 0:
There was a YCM meeting that night which lasted till 1030h. Highlight of meeting- greenhorns + tap-tap game. I went home, bathed and was given a lift to school by Tim at 0000h. What we did: discuss last minute program details, prepare and sort out log stuff. It was 0445h when they decided to go to Geylang for supper. Gwen, Ame and I stayed behind… Thanks to ZB for helping me cut out all the cue cards and stuff… he was the only counselor who joined us that night. This was different from last year when there were so many of us, but it was just as well, made it a tight-knitted ‘sleepover party’. Slept in an upright sitting position that night till my feet were numb. No. of sleep hrs: 2
Day 1:
Woke up at 0700h with a good start because of the nice warm chicken porridge bought back by Edwin from Geylang. We started preparing the wasabi, chili and salt + lemon sandwiches for the Sandwich Game. Feedback was that some people felt discomfort eating the sandwiches. Ey… maybe we overdid it? But the idea was to have fun, not to cause discomfort. Apologies =p
Joined my beloved Geniality team for some ice-breakers. Edwin had told me to prepare a whole long list of ice-breaking games (ice-breaking team-building, not ice-building team-breaking!!) but we did not use any. Instead we played the Big Fish Small Fish game. It was the first time I played that game and it was fun! Guess who suggested the game and did the most forfeits? Poor Titus… the 6 candid shots & the Indian Dance were excellent =) hope the pictures get developed quickly!!! I want to see!! Who ask u to sit beside me? Haha. Then we played Heart Attack and stampeded towards Edwin when Ken won. Some things never change…. Way to go on the Gatsby forfeit (go JL!!), the Twinkle Twinkle (who would’ve thought someone didn’t know how to sing that song?), and HE carrying Nim!
Then it was Banana Soccer and Captain’s what. How teams? Did you guys like the durian that had been kept in storage for 4 days? And Banana Soccer… poor bananas that were injured=p
After lunch was home visits to IMH and MWH. I heard many people were trying to stay awake for the imh talk… haha I understand, I was struggling not to sleep too last year but I still did. Lol. But MWH was fun wasn’t it? Someone played soccer until got injured so ‘ping ming’ means must be fun la, too bad I wasn’t there.
At last, Night O- my baby #1. We went around watching the teams at the different stations. It was fun seeing everyone getting wet and dirty and dressed funnily. Ame told me they broke 2 of my masks and necklace… aiyoh why so violent? I think that station was good and in my opinion, Ame is always one of the best station mistresses around! For me, it was gratifying answering all the distress calls asking for clues to the stations. Challenging eh? Kudos to ZY who came down to help as station master despite his busy schedule.
Who would have thought later that night brought even more surprises? We took the van out to buy stalls for Program and “shun bian” grab some supper. But on our way back on the AYE, 2 tires burst and the van tilted towards the centre barrister. Fortunately, HE managed to steer the van back on course. Although the van was badly damaged it was lucky there were no major injuries except me who hit my head and Edwin who sprained his back. Wah… I was jolted awake to see a spray of bougevilla leaves and twigs and flowers in my face I thought a tree branch had fallen on us just like the bizarre chain of tree-falling incidents recently. I think HE was visibly shaken then cos he said some incoherent things. Relax it was nobody’s fault. The van was just too old. Thanks to Nim who told me stories while we were stranded along the AYE and pointed out the silver lining (luckily it didn’t happen during the day), you can always count on him for that. My 1st supper led to my 1st accident….me and my carrot cake… No. of sleep hrs: 1.5
Day2:
We started SOC late because of manpower shortage. In the end I was assigned a station with JL. My job was easy, just had to enjoy JL’s superb acting as a 3 year old minds kid. Everyone commented during this camp that we saw a 180-degree change in him but I think a few of us knew (the impish always recognizes another imp). Anyways good job, thanks to everyone who acted. I really believe acting can be quite challenging and it’s wonderful that people actually volunteer for it haha. I think it’s because you get to hold the girl’s hands for what seemed like eternity ya JL? At one point I was about to shout “Cut, that’s enough!”
Afternoon we had Amazing Race. I was at Vivocity. Again it was gratifying to see everyone scrambling to solve the clues we had painstakingly thought up. But what was best was the wading pool where I could see the teams run in re-enactment of BayWatch beach glamour! Yummy-licious! I went to join Cat after the 2 teams had finished to go to ECP together, only to be in for another pleasant surprise…
A cute Aussie called Rowland stopped me when I was coming out of the underpass. Imagine cute Caucasian eating “Ba Zhang” (meat dumplings) calls out to you and chats with you about the sights and sounds of Singapore. For a moment there, being his temporary tour guide I felt a surge of pride for the nation Muhahaha. He followed me to the Singapore River to find the teams. He got me to pose for a picture and then it was my turn to take a picture for him. I was wondering why he emptied his pockets after he handed me the camera. But when he started doing a handstand in front of everybody along the river I was deeply impressed! So cute! And so I took a picture with him doing a handstand with the Merlion in the background. He told me he did this pose in every country he visited, that’s so original I don’t think any local guy would be this fun. He said he did Salsa dancing and “I’m in Law”…wah…..hahaha. He also said he’d email me the pictures. I hope he does =)
Beach games were pretty fun too. It’s a pity we only played 1 game. There were more in store if not for the wet weather delay. But haha I got to play too! Last year I missed out on the fun cos can’t expect the guys to carry the tall and heavy girls right? Later they back pain cannot get up how?? Ha but this time Geniality was short of girls so poor Titus had to ‘sacrifice’. Although we lost to Vivacious, it was because our team was playing for the second time in a row and Vivacious just had a break. Not fair haha. We saw a rainbow that day :)
Night time was crazy. Shortage of ‘ghosts’ so I had to sacrifice. What a mad rush as we dug the dungeon for rags to act as costumes and make up ourselves in the shortest time possible. Fight night was never rehearsed; we didn’t even have a story. Luckily, Cat and I chose a station where we could be together and we came up with ideas on how to scare the participants and improvised it along the way. We actually thought our station was quite a failure because a few pairs were not scared and one pair escaped before we could get into our positions to act our part. Another group kept chanting “restless souls” and “mass graves” as if it would chase the ghosts away. I don’t know why they did it but it made me laugh and so some of the scary effects was lost. But there were some encouraging comments after that saying our station was the scariest and Cat also emerged the best ‘ghost’! Way to go my ‘sister ghost’!!
It was a big sacrifice that night, had to endure ZY and J’s nicknames teasing =p and the camo paint…. I had to wash my face 5 times to get it all off. I was sun-burnt that day like a lobster already (Nim said ‘nice legs’…) and with all the scrubbing and washing… *ouch 3x* No. of sleep hrs: 1
Day 3:
The 5 of us involved in the accident were due for the investigation this morning but for some reasons it didn’t materialize. I was in NUSSU sec preparing for MWH Highlight (my baby #2) while participants were having Disability Challenge. It was raining and everything was delayed. At 1300h when we were to board the bus to Pasir Ris Park, we got a call that it was raining there and so we cancelled it and held the highlight in school. But the original plan of Triathlon could not be played as it involved cycling and beach games. We had to think up new games to play on the spot. Geez. CH was sick and Edwin was to collect the kids and so only Ame and I were left. Sigh* luckily everyone chipped in and we managed to prepare and get ready the stalls before the kids arrived. Thanks to Convivial and Jamboree for blowing all the balloons and Vivacious for doing the raisin station. Thanks to main com and Gary for helping tie the gigantic net! Later we even threw in an ad-hoc school tour. Some of the boys were really mischievous and lacked civic-mindedness but generally there were some who were interested in getting to know about the campus and tertiary life. They were also happy for an outing. Thank goodness we pulled it off! A bit wasted for all the games that could not be played though, maybe we can do it during post-camp retreat if we have one??
Great, then it was D&D! Yay, the place that Edwin suggested, Cosy Bay at Kallang Stadium was fantastic, the food was good. We moved outside for games, SP game, pass the parcel, lap game etc. For SP game, we had to do the Chicken Dance followed by a gesture to identify our SPs. Haha mine was a ‘Huang Fei Hoong’ pose and my SP turned out to be…..*drum roll*…JX. Well we played the elimination rounds and were one of the 4 couples left. It was a close fight between us and Jonathan and WM’s team. We were so close but lost to them still haha but it was fun. Shrek and Fiona only exchanged one letter in total haha. Thks for the chocolates! Anw we were supposed to play a trick on Edwin, Ame and CH pretending to be his SP and then leaving him to do the ballerina pose all by himself that day but he did not do the pose till the end leh….too bad. Our PD was so confirmed his SP was KH before that. We had prize giving, I forgot what Geniality got only know we cheered =X and our OGL won best OGL! WTG! I think we did great on our skit too! Three cheers for Captain NVAC, Shrek, Fiona, Donkey! Hip hip horaay!
Months of hard work, gallons of sweat and gazillions of brain cells died trying to make this camp a success. Although we did not have many freshies, the overall spirit of fun and compassion was still there! Always complained that I got bluff in this by Edwin but hmm….guess I still had fun as part of the MC. However….I think I may need to do more good deeds to make up for the bad I’m guilty of throughout these 3 days.
Evil deed count:
1) Prepared sandwiches
2) Mastermind behind the durian
3) banana soccer
4) Titus 'Big Fish Small Fish' nemesis
5) “The person behind Jamie”… sorry your trust was misplaced haha
6) Mastermind behind Edwin’s fuke SP “Invisible Woman”
7) All the NiteO crap
Photos:
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~only photo tt survived that night~
~already washed my face 2x~
~During D&D~
~beach games~
~Nite O~
