Friday, December 23, 2005
alright the previous post was about the bbq...
moving on, next was the JB trip, 9-11 december...
its gonna be a draggy post so forgive me if I am long-winded
Nativity JB camp, THE BEST CAMP EVER, eclipsing all the other camps I have attended!!!
DAY 1
assembled early in the morning, board the bus to JB, stopover at a shopping mall in JB for lunch, had dominos pizza for lunch with Shaun, Moses and Luke... Shaun went on to buy loads of tidbits for the chalet which I happened to bunk in with him, the snacks were enough to fill a big cardboard box la...
then we reach the Tanjong Puteri resort and were designated into various groups, my chalet had Jeremy, Emmanuel .J, Luke, Shaun, Samuel, Thomas, Leonard, Ben Choong (he's in the army now)... seems like a great time ahead of us...
had those typical introductory-icebreakers games blah blah blah...
ate lots of shaun's tidbits at the chalet's dining table whenever we had free time, causing every soul in the chalet to be down with a sore-throat the next day...
followed by dinner next, then had this spritual session where we were suppose to be in Christ shoes, having to go thru the passion, struggle our way thru, carrying our burdens, worries, things tat we couldn't let go and then offload it on the journey to the middle of the conference room (Birdie room) where there was a cup of wine representing a new covenant with candles around and each had to take a sip from the cup and journey to the "cross" where each "die" and Renaissance, which means reborn with the congregation (buddies) to embrace you... a very heart wrenching experience but yet a good way to set things anew...
after that, had some praise and worship, followed by the 1st hugging session among all of us initiated by Father Bosco... really enjoyed tat moment where I could feel all the heart-warming hugs from many of the people... so touched =)
DAY 2
woke up, wash up, breakfast, had the 1 session of the day the trust fall thingy, where one had to stand on a raise chair and then fall back towards your friends to catch hold of you, its damn hilarious la...
I got to demostrate the fall 1st, my heart started pounding as I stand on the chair, got the cue from the facil for me to fall back and there I fall, alamak!, like falling back onto a mattress la cos maybe the guys catching me were damn strong la...
then everybody had to do the trust fall, no drama action from the guys, but the girls on the other hand were like trembling when they went up the chair and Christina were sabotaged by her group mates by stacking the chair higher when it was her turn, she was like "no way am I gonna get up and fall back on that chair man," after much coaxing she finally pluck up enough courage to take on the challenge, the expression on her face was freaking funny la when she was falling back, a round of applause ofr her...
then there was Grace and Theresa turn in their respective groups to take the fall, and each were trembling ontop of the chair thinking if they wanted to take the fall or not... father Bosco had to coax them personally for them to take the fall and the expression on Grace's and Theresa's faces were priceless man...
Disclaimer- this blog posting had no intention to offend or ridicule anyone, the sole intention of the blogger was to poke some fun and maybe fool around and kid with you =)
after that, we had the game where the strong people had to form a circle by armlocking each other with the innocent teamates inside the circle protected... the aim was for us to not let the circle be broken by the Facils, failed attempts to not break the circle at 1st, EJ got pulled out and he pinned one facil towards the wall as he got pulled out... the next few rounds were full of struggles as we were tickled pulled and "manhandled" by the facils, the final round came, where we had the right collaboration among all of us and the facils tried so hard to break the circle apart violently but failed to break us as we seem unbreakable... We are one NATIVITY, yay...
the human pyramid rock too, there were the carriers and the flyers, I was a carrier and Theresa was my flyer, I'll always remember who was behind me, Gabriel Patrick (carrier) and germaine (flyer) cos Germaine was like petrified and kept pushing forward by holding on to theresa, adding alot of added weight pressure onto me, then all of the carriers managed to last for the entire duration of a song, I suffered shoulder aches from tat la...
ok move on to the night, spent the whole night to write for almost everyone in the camp, I counted, I probably wrote 60 warm fuzzies, in the middle of the night did some sneaking with my roomates to around for fun... then I fell asleep back at the dorm while writing a fuzzy, only to wake up to see Samuel and Aloy Lee feeling high, we went crazy and marched around the muddy field singing army songs, hanged around crapping around with each other waiting for the sunrise, 7am came we were still half-awake, when we wanted to wake the rest of the guys up the couch and the bed was so tempting tat I went to the couch and was sleeping like a log immediately, aloy lee and samuel went for the bed immediately...
Day 3
sore throat still had to shout praises to god along the road if not no breakfast, so torturous...
had the most touching session of the camp after breakfast, the washing of the feet for your friend, as I sat there waiting, looking on as each of my friend got pulled up to get their feet wash and washing another friend's feet, I sat there thinking when will it be my turn?... who is gonna pull me out and who am I gonna pull out?...
I saw mark washed Christina's feet and I didnt think she was gonna pull me out, but well she did, I was extremely touched and tears fell and rolled down my cheeks in streams that seems to flow endlessly...she said prayer and washed my feet dried it and had a big warm hearted hug, then I pulled out Luke to wash, said a prayer, wash and dried and shared a heartfelt hug... thats about it... went home fell sick immediately...
I'll miss the camp and can still feel the camp's atmosphere...
nativity youths is the force to be reckoned with...