C&C Day #2 - part 1

I was awoken by soft voices and sounds of movement from the other guys. I guess it was time to wake up. I went outside, and the sky was partially lit. There were already some others waiting at the lounge area next to the 'aquarium', or shuffling in and outta the toilets. Upon entering the toilet, i saw a crowd of ppl brushing teeth, waiting to use the sink or cublicles. I found an unattended toiletry bag and used the tooth paste for myself. Splashes of cold water on my face really helped to liven me up further.

Soon, we were all called outside to the carpark for warm ups. The ground was still wet from last night's raining and the air was cool, still and fresh. so cool that it felt like as if i was in another country during autumn time. It was a nice feeling undescribable completely by words. The instructor Junxu turned up in his singlet and shorter-than-short shorts. We did standard warmups like stretches and jumping jack, then kenny and hq was invited up front to demonstrate the 'dance' that we had to follow after. Super lame.

Then, a stream of ppl came into the compound carrying bags of packed food for breakfast. We were saved from more morning exercises. We went to the usual eating area for a breakfast of beehoon with fake meat (soya bean product) and veggies. It was in a very large quantity, even larger than a lunch portion. We sat in our groups to eat. Nobody in my group managed to finish it. Hazel was the closest to finishing, but gave up when theres only another mouthful left. Wasted, but she was still crowned the biggest eater of Hammerhead. The runner up was Joel Chua. I ate all the meat n veggies but hardly touched the beehoon.

We then had a time of mass devotions in the chapel before being dispatched into our own groups for more devotions. At 9, we went back to chapel for session 2. This time i cant remember anything taught. The session scheduled to last until 11.

The next hour was reserved for cleaning up the area of whatever messes made the day before. I spent that time practicing rubber band shooting with the rubber bands colected from the breakfast packets. High score: 39 (15 shots)

At 12 it was time for lunch. Cant rmb what was served, but good quality as usual i guess.

C&C Day #1 - part 2

At 6pm it was time for dinner. usual dinner time is at 7, but somehow even at 6 i was hungry alr. Meals were held at the outdoor backyard.. under a shelter. My group was in charge of dinner duty, to serve food to the campers. A few ppl from my group was missing or busy with music pract and we had not enough manpower, so i had to engage help from the piranhas, and in turn we help in the cleaning up. i was serving fish cutlets, and there was plenty of garnishing of spring onions, chilli, onion layers and capsicum. So i gave some ppl lotsa garnish together with the fish. For some of the girls i just gave some spring onions on the pretext that veggies are healthy for them. If they still stayed on, id give them some fish. The meals were of good quality. fit for restaurant buffets. we all had a good fill of it. Some of the mealtimes were spent eating together with our groups, sometimes with random ppl.

After dinner, there was still a little time left before thefirst camp session started at 7pm. The speaker was Rev Dr Tan... and her name was never revealed. As a bible lecturer, she had a deep knowledge of the bible contents. But she treated all of us like lecture students and rattled on in lecture style. In the end, i cant remember anything taught during the session. Too boring to comprehend. Then some ppl asked her some questions.. like what would happen if Jesus wasnt awoken by the disciples during the storm. (of course nothing bad can happen. Probably the storm will go on but the boat wont sink cos Jesus is on it.) But after answering every question, she would go on to talk about topics somewhat related to the topics, so each qn took about 10mins to answer. Yawnzz...

After the session we had some time to go into our groups to discuss the stuffs that were talked about, before going back to the chapel. Then all the girls were evacuated and sent to the old chapel while the boys remained to play some mass games. First we played some rythm game, but everyone seems to keep blundering so we moved on to 7-up, where we gotta do a continuous headcount , but if ur number is a multiple of 7 or contains a 7, its replaced with a clap. Some wrote the taboo numbers down on a paper, but they still said them. We played countless number of rounds before getting a record of 90. And i had the honour of setting that record by saying '91'. Yeah... "The boy's '90' streak has been ended by John! (+4400 gold!)" Hahaha....

Next, we went outside for supper. It was raining heavily and cold wind blowing. It had been raining off-and-on for the whole day. Since the tap was outta order, i washed my hands in rainwater. Everyone was entitled to just 1 small pau for supper, and free flow of milo. My steaming hot milo was cooled down very quickly by the continuous cold wind.

Most of the people did not bathe during the 4.30 to 6 time slot so the bathroom was very crowded after supper. All the boys in the camp had to bathe is just 3 cubicles, so some may have to wait an hour before their turn comes. At about 11.30, i was one of the last persons to bathe. The water was cold, cubicle very small, no proper place to put clothes and water had to come from a hose attached to a sth like sprinkler.

The boys all slept in the auditorium. After some floor cleaning during the afternoon to remove all the shoe dirt, the floor was clean enough for sleeping on. I came in late, so everyone found their sleeping spots alr. I found a corner and slept there. The corner is the dustiest, but least people step there. There was just hard floor to sleep on, so i had to use my towel as a mat and sleeping bag as pillow. Halfway in the night i woke up cos the aircon was too cold. So i used the towel as blanket instead and bear with the hard floor. Since i was very tired, the hard floor and cold aircon did not stop me falling alseep soon after.

C&C Day #1 - part 1

On 19 dec 2006, the Christ & co church camp began. It was to be held at my church since the camp isnt combined with other churches, so we can save rental cost.

That morning, i did last minute packing, attended to my bean plants, then set off for church. I left an hour before meeting time to be there early. When i left, it was drizzling, so i quickened my steps. Halfway into my journey, it started getting heavier and heavier, so when i finally reached church, i was soaked through. I went to the aircon conference room to dry up before going to the auditorium for registration and gathering of campers.

We had to go to the 'registration counter' to mark attendance, confirm shirt size, then draw out a name from a bag. i jumbed it all up, and using intuition, tried to feel which name would be the best, then i was hurried by janelle to quicly get one... and that lucky person i drew to be my mortal was... DERRICK WONG

After most of the campers had arrived, the camp commitee ppl gave us a long boring round of briefings, and then our groups were revealed. I was to be the asst group leader of group Hammerhead. My brother being involved in groupings, i got to see the groupings a day earlier. And one glance at my group members, i alr knew its gonna be tough. I could consider it a challenge. though im quite fond of challenges, but not plain unfair challenges. There were last minute changes to the groupings, but it didnt make it much different.

Then it was time for icebreakers. Icebreakers had been always the same for every camp i went to... always the same few games like wacko, random questioning, or some other games rather similar to those 2. But this time it was very different icebreakers. I guess the gamemaster Jesse is really experienced n skilled at creating interesting games.
For icebreakers, 2 groups will combine together, and the scores will go to both groups.One of them was not really an icebreaker cos we dun get to noe each other thru that. Every group sent 3 people and the players would sit in a row. The gamemaster will then call out numbers between 1-4, and the corresponding number of poeple who r next in the line has to stand up n shout "yo!" Its a game of quickness, cos u gotta count fast how many more ppl before it comes to u. My combined group was had the least number of ppl who survived to the final 4.
In another, the groups would form a row. the last person will run up to reveal a part of a movie poster, and pass the message to the first in the row. then that will be passed down the row to the last person. After piecing the information together, we are supposed to guess the movie.
Next, 1 combined group stand in a line and the other 3 formed a horseshoe. both sides will roll a ball to each other and the person hit will go into action. the person from the line will name all the people in the line, while the person from the horseshoe will pass the ball to the front of the horseshoe and the ball will be passed to the end. see which group faster.
Another 1 is about observation. 1 group forms a line and let the other groups memorize who is there, then send 1 person to hide. the other 3 groups will send some ppl to find out who is the missing person.

Icebreakers took 2.5 hours and ended at 4.30.The next 1.5 hours is considered free time, for us to wash up, maybe play games and write messages to our mortal. I spent the time hanging around doing nothing much and writing a letter to my mortal. during that time i also recieved a letter and sweets from my angel. i wrote a return letter, trying to guess who is the angel. Later i saw derrick peeping at my return letter... so that got me suspicious. but could it be so coincidental that the same person i picked picked me also?