Wheeeeeeeeee~
Hahah. The Batam leadership camp was soooooooooooooo super fun!!
On 27th May, (first day)...
We slept in the tent pitched by the guys in our group. We slept in a super weird position cos the tent was wet. Half lying and half sitting. Apparently not a valid excuse la. That morning, we had loads of fun activities waiting for us to participate in. We had some fun in an air conditioned room in the resort itself. Then we had our field cooking at a whole patch of sand in the resort and while we cooked, the guys pitched the tents. Straight after lunch, we proceeded to our challenge. We went into something like a jungle and crossed two rivers. One is waist-deep, the other one is, to me, very deep. Cos I can't swim and as you all know, I'm short la. Then there's a point where I couldn't touch the river bed, which was all mud. Wet and slippery. So, I shouted. 我动不到地！！！！！！！！！！！！！That was so super embarrassing. I regretted shouting for help. But it was my human instinct to shout at that moment. So couldn't help it. I was hanging onto dear life as I sank downwards. Then, help came. Instructor Alvin pulled me up a little so that I can at least have my head above water. THANK YOU ALVIN.(sincerely)cos I was scared half to death. The instructors were in the river to help us and also to have some fun for themselves la. They scooped up mud and wiped the mud on us, throw the mud on us. There is another thing which I will never forget. Instructor Wayne had a handful of mud on his hands and he stretched out his hands for me to hold onto. I believe he did that to almost all of the other leaders who were there too. As I have no water confidence, so I definitely would want to hold onto him when he offered help despite the mud. Then I guess you all would know what happened next. The mud which he was holding onto went on my arm. Hais.. mud spa. Don't know to laugh or cry. Then we went back to the resort to bathe and was late for assemble and was kind of scolded for not having a sense of urgency. Then we went to a shopping mall for dinner and bought things for the CIP in the ophanage that we will be visiting the next day. I still can remember that night, we slept in the tents by 9pm. And were expected to wake up by 6am I think. But guess what. We were waken up at 12 midnight to go to the 'HAPPY LAND' where we were taught a valuable lesson for constantly being late. There at 'HAPPY LAND' we paid the price for being late by doing countless buddha claps, situps, pushups, running etc. We did all these till 4am. It was super tiring but a brand new experience. I was literally half dead when I reached my room. I drop dead on the couch and there became my bed for the day and next. Still had to have peggy and kaiyan to wake me up to bathe. Thinking of it, it may sound really stupid, but I'm really smiling to myself. :P The day continued as we all hit our pillows and go into DREAMLAND...
On the second day, 28th May..
We were required to gather at 9.30am if I'm not wrong.. This time, NOBODY is late. Or rather, NOBODY dared to be late. Hahah. Had breakfast and went on to the 'HAPPIER LAND' for a lesson of trust. All I can say is that its super fun. I really don't know how to describe what we did there. ps. We went to the swimming pool to build rafts. Peggy and I was the ones going to sit on the rafts built. Then unexpectedly, our rafts could not stay intact in the water. And when I sat on it, it came apart and I went straight down into the 2.2m deep pool and drank water. I was thirsty then. But not that thirsty till need drink pool de water la! And when I went down into the pool, I can still remember grabbing someone's leg I think. Oops..:P Whoever it was and knew about it, I'm sorry.:P Then we had 45 min to bathe and have our lunch in our rooms. Amazingly, nobody was late despite the short amount of time given. See! The 'HAPPY LAND' thing worked.
We procceeded on to the ophanage to do our CIP. Our mission was to put a smile on their faces and therefore, we had a lot of games prepared for them. I guess we had succeeded alr. I will never forget the smile on their faces and how they followed us when we left. It was a great experience that I will never forget. They are just pure young children that are just sooooooooooo lovable. I hope that they would all have a better future.:) We went back to the resort and had dinner after changing into our youth leaders' tee. The dinner was good and we had to prepare for a performance for the night our group A, prepared a dance using last farewell and sorry sorry. And..we WON!! Hahah. Quite unexpected.:P The teachers performed too and it was so funny. Then the instructors' performance was one that I'll never forget.:) They compiled our behaviour in the camp and put it into a 'show'. We laughed till got tear alr la. Then yonglay imitated aunty lucy and the whole group of us, teachers, instructors and all had a whole lot of fun and we reported to bed at 11 plus.:)
On the third day, 29th May..
We had some free time to roam about the resort to try out the facilities after breakfast. Then we had a game of bowling with the instructors and teachers and ourselves. I got only 53 points in total.:( So sad.. Hahah. But what to expect?? First time touch the ball leh.:P Then we had a game of water polo with the same opponents.:D Super fun!!! Totally awesome!!! And group A won!!! Then, we were sent back to our rooms to change. CHANGE only mind you. We can only change and we have to go back to Singapore with the swimming pool water still on our hair.. OMG.. Whatever. All I know was that we had so much fun to care about the water.:P It was sad to know that we are going home that soon..:(
I sincerely thank all the leaders especially Group A, e peng, peggy, jiaxin, junwei, amirul, kaiyan, teachers, instructors and all, for giving me such wonderful memories at this 3 days 2 nights overseas leadership camp. I really hated times like these when we have to say goodbye when we just had so much fun tgt and not knowing when would be the next time we'll ever meet again. I will miss the trainers from Agape Group Holdings.. Thank you all: Delane, Alvin, Wayne and last but not least, soh hwee. Thank you for the memorable time we had together. I'll be looking forward to seeing them once more.:) Thank you for making this camp possible.:)
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lose confidence in you can help or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.:)
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Well, today I finally broke down..
It was very embarrasing but I can't help it.
After signing the confirmation slip for maths, everything just felt so real and it really made me very worried.
I am very afraid of having to face reality.
After so many times of failure,
You will find that it gets easier to walk out of the sadness but the fear for failure will only keep building up within you..
That's the scariest part of failure and reality.
I don't know when will I ever be able to walk out of this fear..
I really don't know..
But there's one thing that I know and will probably never forget.
"There's someone up there looking.."
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I HATE MYSELF.
Today's giving back of results certainly left me very depressed, right from the start of the day..
Want cry alr.T.T
Really don't want to talk about the marks anymore.
It just makes me hate myself even more.
Physics just passed.
Failed both maths.(Which is kind of expected even though I don't want)
Geography, one of my favourite subject, mind you, failed.
Chinese functional and paper 2 was quite okay, just satisfied. But apparently compo out of point again.-.-
Extra: Just as I'm very pissed off with myself, typing this new entry, my dear neighbour is drilling upstairs and making a whole lot of noise.
But very fortunately, I finally recieved a good news at the end of the day.
Chemistry!!!:D -- A1
Seriously now I know why I love chemistry so much.:D
<3 chemistry!
And one thing.
Its not that I hate maths..
In fact, I enjoy gaining new knowledge.
All along when I don't do well, it's me myself that I hate.
I just don't seem to have the kind of brain needed for maths.
Or probably I don't know how to use the part of my brain that can excel in maths.
I'll definitely reflect on what went wrong for the mid year papers, through the June holidays.
I will.
Though I got A1 for chemistry, I'm not entirely satisfied yet.
I will try aiming for a high A1 instead of one that's just 76.
I will remind myself not to be complacent.
Cos I know that being complacent will kill..
Whatever that is over is over alr.
Guess I'll just have to be forward looking and continue to work hard..
May I have the motivation to work from now onwards..
Persevere till the end and you'll be the final winner.
Make miracles happen..
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Good grades
Sunday, May 30, 2010