Tuesday, June 08, 2004

finally im back from malaysia.. i lost my voice. got back this morning at 12.40 am! and later was rudely awakened by mother cos the air con man came. and its not very nice to have strangers in the house when you're sleeping. so after they left i slept again.. piggish.

ok heres a sum up of church camp..:

day one
started out at 6.20 am. was not tired at all cos of the excitement. on the way listened to bee gees! yeah man they rock unfortunately half the brothers are dead. stupid sis wanted to study ok! got there was pretty boring at first, then pastor benny ho delivered this wonderful message. haha he rocks hes got so many stories to tell. [getting bitten by mosquitoes now] there was this angel-mmortal thing called secret pal that all youth and single young adults participated in. purpose is so that we know how to behave to wards the opposite sex. i think they ran out of boys my age or sth cos i was out in this all girls group. my mother was 'disapponted' when she found out i didnt get a guy. go figure. by the way my codename is hebe from s.h.e. that night slept pretty late and woke far too early.

day two
woke at 7.30? breakfast at 8 and then worship and message. fun again! i think that was my favourite parts. then had ingroups time watched this very graphical video called hell's bells and the topic was 'does music/media affect our purity?' those who said yes one group those who said no another group. in the end i was saboed into being one of the debators. so was my sis [she was in the other group] so we were practically just rebutting each other.. then free time went swimming more like just dipped in the pool i didnt actually swim. more like looking after my kid brother and making sure he doesnt drown. then at night more worship and more message! the whole 4 days was on james chpt 1-5 i think.

day three
worship and message in the morning was singing my heart out. it really is really uplifting you forget everythig except how great God is and how insignificant we really are. how He is merciful and loving, gracious and magnificent. ah yes it was the part i enjoyed most.. then was ingroups again and continued our discussion. then free time. went shppping at this really awful place called hugo shopping centre. bought shorts and nice pants. and my sister bought htis really nice shirt i would have bought if i were not so puny. that place was filled with really shady malay guys who mostly wore black, had long hair and moustaches. and they looked perverted. thank God i was with my mother. then more worship and message. this time we had two messages one after the other. i tell you pastor benny is by far the most exciting and interesting preacher i've heard so far. hes got this way of putting things so simply and funnily that no matter how sleep deprived you are you still listen. dinner was with your secret pal(s). all the older youth got one another so they were at the same table. guess what my table was all adults at first cos i arrived pretty early. looks like they totally ran our of boys of any age. i was traumatized and lost my appetite. later two girls my age came but it sure seemed like ages later. so the adults and i sat there, not speaking a word and i wanted to eat and run. what a washout. that night was fun.. stayed up in stef's room with leroy bryan and sean tan.. watched the ring (wchich was stupid) and played dai dee. leroy was teachinh my sis how to strum and he said he never heard a girl play romance d'amore before. (is that what its called) haha i won sean and amanda in dai dee at least 7 times. woohoo. then ring was too boring and unscary os we watched second disc of moulin rouge. oh and the older youth joined us. abt 3 girls and 4 guys? haha they are so funny..the guys i mean. moulin rouge seems soppier and soppier each time you watch it. then after the show i konked and went to sleep. that mind, that was at 4+ and at that time i received a sms form TANIA IN UK!whee! and all throughout both shows my sister took this guy's guitar and strummed it in the balcony. i think he missed it.

day four
worhsip and message lunch pack drive visited someones father in hospital in malacca and got stuck in an hour-long jam. only the adults went to see him though. so the kids were left in the cafeteria. and of course the oldest ones were put in charge. aka me and some other guy called owen. then wonderful owen produced a pack of cards and me my sis mervin and owen played dai dee. haha somehow he or my sis (grace) always won. and mervin never knew what suit to follow. then owen taught us this game called smack. it was pretty noisy and violent. later drove all the way to jb for dinner. ate at 10.30. that sucked the food was pretty standard. its poor planning and lack of wisdom i tell you. but managed to be cheerful about it.

on a last note, church camp rocked. so did the Bangi Equatorial. or Equatorial Bangi? and i totally lost my vioce due to over-singing. worship twice a day for half an hour each for 4 days. straining. and ytd everybody kept saying my voice was sexy cos it was real low. now my throat hurts so much it feels like theres a hole in it or something. and trng today was wierd (or weird) for me cos i could only whipsper and at best only half my words came out hoarsely.

ok so you've reached the point where i end this post. someone asked me to blog what. and this entry cost me an hour of warcraft time. :)

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