Back from youth camp.
Youth camp was nice. Dam shiok. The only bad thing, for me, is being the leader of my clan. :P.
Anw the first day we all get sorted out, then some games. After that night service, by pastor Kenneth Teo. Man he rox.
Second day we are playing "empire building". To build an empire you need resources. And to get them you have to go through CHALLENGES. The committee will be the "saddists". There are 3 resources. Water, Stone, and.... dono wad. Anyway, for the Stone, we must BEG. For the Water, we must play get sprayed by the committee while playing a game. For the dono wad, we have to play the freeze and unfreeze game, while the committee tries to make us luff. If we luff, we have to do over again.
To get water, the game is this. We all have to stand on 5 chairs, and move to the finishing line. whilst doing this, our feet cannot touch the ground. We must only stand on the chairs, while the committee, along with SOME HELPERS spray us with water from the pails and waterguns, to distract us, and for some fun. So to get to the finishing line, we must squeeze to 4 chairs (there are 8 altogether), and pass the last one to the front.
To get stone, we must beg for it. The guy in charge will ask you to do all sorts of funny stuff. But this guy we get asked us to do rubbish stuff like emptying the bins, picking up litter. Some other groups got funny stuff like, rolling a person across everyone, who are all lying down. They have to roll him across.
To get the dono wad resource we must play the freeze and unfreeze game. We have to do it countless number of times. Some of them are really funny. They cracked us a lot. They make funny comments and actions. One of the actions i have a real difficulty coping is this the guy in charge doing push ups in the the air in front of me. I cracked twice because of that.
After that is the dinner, then the service. It's very great. This is the first time I really FELT God's presence. It's so strong! Pearl and Char led the worship, and it's really cool to see God's name raised until so high, and real cool to see the worship leaders reminding us again and again to look to God, not to them. What great stuff. And on that night, the altar call, everyone's up there. God's up there, always. I raised my hand up to God. I never felt this ever in my life before. Because this time I truly believed. Because this time I say that I realy never want to remain in this anymore, because this time I know and totally believe, with complete faith, that God will take it away, that God is gonna do something tangible. There had always been things questioning me about healing, from other religions. But I know, that my God is to depend on him, not myself. Not meditation. NOTHING can earn my salvation. I believe God will take it away, once and for all. And as I raised up my right hand to God, tears flowed. I felt God so strong, and he said that he would do it. He told me that it will be alright. What the love of God is it, although I sinned against him so much for so long. And I prayed for a long time. After that, it's a feeling I cannot describe. I'm FREE. FREE! FREE not from control of ppl, not from the control of the state, not of the government, but free of the things, the few things (don worry too much for me, i have little problems) that I SERIOUSLY want to get rid of. I am free. This is not hapiness, the happiness of freedom from the oppressive government! It's internal freedom. I am FREE. I wrote a poem about it on my friend's notebook. I will post it up, the next post, again.
The next day is worship. It's my seksay friend and I leading the worship. And now, after being fired up and touched by the holy spirit, I DARED to lift my hands up, even if no one is doing it. It's a complete new fire for God. It's not myself daring myself to do it. Last time I tried doing it, it worked very rarely, then I returned to my old self. Last time, though I feel like doin it, but i felt shy, but now I don't. It's just a driving force that I am not familiar with that made me raise it up. Something like, that it's not me raising up the hand, but someone telling me that it's alright, just raise it up. It's God sayin "It's alright, it's between you and me, and no one else". What a difference this camp made. Thank you God.
After the service is the games. We played captain's ball using TOMATOES. We gotta play till the tomato is broken to so small, maybe 1cm by 1cm large. We are overpowered. One member is absent, the other had weak ankle! I am the guy with steroids. The most animated player in the youth. I went to dive at one stupid small piece of tomato, rolled on the groud, and screamed nonsense. In school, I am known as Chemical in soccer, because I run like madman, and tackle like madman, and ram like madman (i seldom score). This is wad i did for the match, just that i did not throw the tomato at the captain like a baseball pitcher (I can't imagine anyone doing it and actually MISSES it. Maybe, hit someone's face?)
Then it's the WAR GAMES. We have to capture the flag from other teams. Every one have a cloth tucked in his pants, representing his life. I captured one flag, and got one frag. I'm the flagbearer of my team, got fragged twice. Firstly by the STUPID committee!! XD I was talking to Issac, then suddenly he lunged his hand forward and took my life. I got FRAGGED. Issac i am gonna kill you. Then the second time is by the long finger guy... TIANYONG. I was turning and pushing the flag round and round to block him. It worked. But this time, I blocked, and tianyong's long fingers went further than anyone else's, around the flag post! Pro face. You took my life and my clan's flag. Haiya. My team ended up the 4th place.
At night, comes the buffet. It's really good. The food is nice. Then it's the celebration service. We gotta do a skit. I acted as a princess called papayarella (not my idea...). This name came out ecause i love papayas. Wei Liang acted as the prince. Gina and Josephine acted as the 2 ugly sisters, Benjamin as the fairy Godfather. Charmaine as the TOWER, Chen Xiang (sorry I don't know how to spell your name) as the narrator, and Sandy is not acting. Because she is the directress.
It's really funny. Other groups are EXTREMELY funny. Tianyong, from another clan acted sissy as a knight called "GAYLORD". In his clan, Chara is the PROP. The idea of the PROP is DAM FARNI. She acted as a ROCK, a DOOR, and a HUMAN. Another group, the Huns are oso dam farni. They got Joy to act as the princess, and she acted very well. Then the battle is actually 2 ppl playing scissors paper stone. HOW RETARTED!!! LOL.
In the end, Huns won the contest, my clan got the CONSOLATION along with 2 other clans. There is no lights out. I stayed up till around 3AM. I breakdanced a lil. Still needa practice right? I also played a lil soccer. From 3AM to 8AM when I woke up, i never moved my body, as in i never even shifted a bit since the moment i slept.I woke up in the same position, same direction.
In this camp, I played a nice amount of soccer. I really loved being a defender. Loyal defender. haha. Because of that, I commited some Extreme asburd of soccer skills. During a clearance, I slammed the ball out of my half (the field is about only 50 meters), and it is going out. BUT because the ball is super light, and there is wind, and it's spinning to a curve, it curved SO MUCH that it actually went into a GOAL. I kicked it from 30 meters away. Thanks to the wind! Extreme Asburd of Soccer Skills (EASS). Then I tried it another time, but the goalie caught it. Another one is the midnight game. I was blasting at any chance (I am running up and down). Got close a few times, went in once. The goal size is about 1.6 meters wide. Amazingly, from 18 meters, still went in. Both shots are EXTREME luck. Extreme Asburd of Soccer Skills.
But most importantly, I am closer to God. I am close to him, much closer to him. My faith is greatly increased. Thank you God for this camp, my clan, the food, the pastors, the worship team, the EASS, the games, the bunks, the transport, and what you had done through this camp, to everybody involved in it.
