Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Just came back home from the camp! about 2 hours ago. Very very tired DDD: but still must post this cos it's way too fun! xDDD The last day (today) was really touching. I'll tell you why in a short while :D

Alright, first picture of the day!:














^Our CR group photo on Day 1! unfortunately some of us weren't at the camp yet D:

Day 1 was really fun! We had loads of games! I loved the RALLY. we were to spin on a stick for TEN rounds to get ourselves dizzy, then go thread a needle. After threading the needle (heh, i took around 15s to get it right despite my dizziness :DDD poor shaun, he took a long time cos he spun around too fast), one of us had to balance a ping pong ball on a plastic spoon using our mouth and at the same time, use the chopsticks to pick out 2 marbles out of the EXTREMELY soapy water DDD: shaun let me do cos he didn't know how to use the chopsticks well. Took me well over a minute Dx anyway, when we finish that, we had to hold a ball using only our backs. that means two people with their backs facing one another and clutching the ball in between. quite simple cos we weren't that dizzy anymore and that shaun and i were of about the same height :DDD the picture above was taken just before sunset - how sweet(:

Later on, when the sun did set, we had our debrief. we were told how communication and teamwork in SC were of the utmost importance in order to strive. After that was the CRAZIEST bathing session. ALL BUT ONE TOILET WERE CHANGED INTO GIRL'S TOILETS!!! so the boys were stuck with ONE toilet DDD: jia teck went crazy. he asked 2 other guys to bath with him in a SINGLE cubicle. CRAZY! and then when i was bathing next to their cubicle, they were like comparing whose private area was larger O.o listening to their conversation could make you puke!

After crazy bathing session, we were to watch a movie! It was a movie from Disney called "Cold ________" i can't remember the title DD: anyway, the movie was set in Jamaica, and it was an Olympic year at that time. There was this guy called Sanka at the beginning and he wanted to win some "Lego-built-car-look-alike" sort of competition but lost even though he proclaims himself as the number 1 athlete in that sport in Jamaica. Okay, enough talk of him. There were 3 Olympic track runners who were going for tryouts. two were tall with one being very muscular and there was one shorter guy. all 3 were great runners who ran on lanes next to each other with the shorter guy in the middle. the shorter guy tripped, fell, tripped the other 2 guys and all 3 lost their chance at the Olympics to a lousy track runner.

However, one of them did not give up and went to ask for help to train in bobsled, a sport his father used to star in. So they trained and trained and after a lot of accidents, they managed to get well-trained! then they saved up 90K to get to the Olympics ground. They got there, got treated like fools, then they trained more, got pass the qualifying round and at long last, during their finals, they went super fast but ended up losing cos their bobsled was too old to handle the stress of the driver. The bobsled overturned and crashed. but, the 4 of them still carried the bobsled all the way to the finish line!

Here's my thoughts on this movie! I find that it represents the courage and perseverance that we all SCs should have :D Xin Qi was asking it on the day itself but no one answered so here i am answering! xDDD after the movie was bedtime in which i didn't sleep till a teacher told me to xD sorry mdm loh! i was still listening to music until 5am ++ xDD oops, hope you don't read this! hahas, anyway, i did fall asleep after all. woke up at 6.50am the next day. Ha, if you think i didn't get enough sleep then you should see our dear AHOD, yan lin. she was like so exhausted on day 1 to the extent that i thought she may collapse any moment! so worried for her DD: anyway, she said she was fine so i hope she is alright after a night's rest. Oh how i wish my own sister is more like yan lin. Sigh, my own sister pushes everything for me to do while yan lin's more like the other way round x)

That's all for Day 1 of the camp!

More pictures! (eh, somehow blogger's image uploader got problems so later then post more)














^that's our steamboat table! We came in 6th for the 2nd pitstop during our Street Chase '07!

Whee! Day 2 was fun! There was Street Chase '07 for our activity today! we woke up all sleepy but were fine after that. OMG, jia teck was sleep-dancing?-walking?-sitting? oh i dunno, i saw him sleep-something correct lerh. <-- singlish is present O.o whatever, we got beehoon/nasi lemak for breakfast and some milo (yuck, i don't drink milo Dx ). after some briefing in the LT2 we left off for our first destination, FORT CANNING! We were to take a picture of The Black Box there. our school's vice-principal, Mr Ng joined our group, CR2 for our adventure around singapore! Well, that was just the first, we went to Changi airport too where we talked loads on how shou yi and si yin were destined to be lovers xDDD so funny! we also went to holland v for some cold rock ice cream, kampong java park to take a picture of the chimes and even to vivo! vivo was our first pitstop where our group ate at the food court. CR1, which had Mr Teo go along with them got treated by Mr Teo! So envious! $116!!! Mr Teo, don't burn too big a hole through your pocket!

After some more travelling, we had the crazed origami tetrahedron in 20min. what one may call an impossible task O; haha, but CR2 made it cos we had 11! hahas! oh yes, we went to plaza singapura before the first pitstop too! It was tough there cos we only got to look at the photo for 1min D: but we were clever enough to take a photo of the photo so we won't be breaking the rules! We arrived at Marina South in the end for steamboat and hotplate! Although the day was energy-draining, we all had fun and were refreshed by the food! Mr Ng treated us all with Green Tea! So cool :DDD

I took pictures of almost all CR members! i feel sian at home all the time so i was thinking i could use the time to do something meaningful to myself and for others. so i decided to take pictures and sketch portraits of them! Shaun and i played daytona at the arcade later on and he just keeps getting 1st or 2nd! PRO!!! Went back to school to watch another movie afterwards called "The Guardian" the movie was a little meaningless cos it basically just re-indicates the importance of courage and perseverance. only difference is that this movie tells us more about how teamwork is important and that serving to save lives is one of the greatest jobs to do that exists.

After watching both movies, i could tell that Day 1 was spent bonding us together and teaching us how to pluck out our courage and persevere. While on the other hand, Day 2 was spent teaching us the importance of good teamwork in which without, SC will not be.

And well, before the movie was yet another crazed bathing session with jia teck walking out of the boy's toilet half-naked (bottom half with towel). Some girls freaked out O.o to save time, i shampooed my hair while waiting my turn(: saves like.. 1min?

There ends Day 2! The large group photo at vivo was great!

Day 3 (the finale)

Day 3 was the most hilarious of the 3 days i spent in the camp! the cream was like "eww" but it was fun! Shou yi went to dirty both his hands with the cream and wiped it all over my face DDD: made my face all sticky with a stench of shou yi's sweat plus vanilla. The historical video of DHS was highly meaningful as i could see that the perseverance, courage and teamwork that the camp had taught me was put to good use to bring our school up to where she is standing now.

The last activity was the most touching one! A chair was placed at the front of the LT and we were to take our turns to say how we felt about the camp. From CR, there was Shou yi, Jia Teck, Kimberly, Yan Lin and finally me who went to express our thoughts.

Quotes:
Shou Yi ~ "hope everyone will be cheerful..."
Jia Teck ~ "peanut-face..."
Yan Lin ~ "i'm not crying..."

Yan lin was going like she wouldn't be crying. She was strong, i would say cos she didn't want all of us CR'ians to worry about her too much. considerate and thoughtful would be two of the many that may describe her. Rachel isn't around so it was hard on her. Exhausting herself on the 1st day is quite a hard one already. Rachel, come back soon alright! yan lin misses you loads! what yan lin said touched me a lot. ah, just typing this now is making me tear. *forces tears back in* our dear AHOD actually cried for US, not because she was feeling lonely or anything of the sort. After seeing her being like this, i just couldn't stomach my feelings anymore. and so i went out. *tears start filling up faster* argh, no way, thinking of this is making me cry too T.T

Shou yi told us all to be cheerful but i just couldn't do it right. i ended up crying a little back up on my seat after saying some stuff. Shaun and I got her a box of ferrero rocher as a token of gratitude for her efforts in keeping our CR spirit alive!

Well, here's another line for her then:
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE FOR CR! ALL OF US WILL REMEMBER IT FOREVER!!! (well, i will to say the least)

Here ends Day 3! My post here is getting really lengthy. JIAYOUS CR!

*tear drops* oh no, i DID end up crying again.