cg outing part 1
...written on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005, @ 9:33 p.m.
i went for ivan's commissioning with josia today. it was quite interesting. i envy those pple who got the sword of honour. i wanna get it too!! josia said it was nothing special but i tell u, u are darn wrong. imagine those pple who got it... their family, their ocs colleagues and their friends, they will be so proud of that individual. actually those without the sword of honour, being able to stand at the paradesquare is a big achievement already. someday, if i am able to, i will join OCS. pple, must come and support me okie? the location is quite a big problem (boonlay). eliel will most probably go cuz he stays at boon lay. but then again, even if he stays at somewhere else, i think he will still turn up, provided if his parents allow. same thing for chris and daniel i reckoned. heh.
keith flew off yesterday. alot of pple sent him off at the airport. if it was me who is leaving, would there be a crowd to send me off too? u know sometimes i feel that i am transparent in tm412. nobody will bother to talk to me if i dun talk to people. i know that is not true but ya, at times, i feel left out. partly because i am too used to small groups. when i lost that group, i felt empty. i guess i got over it after the mob trip. its a new start i suppose. yeah! back to keith..
somehow, it was pretty different from the way i picture the way it would be like a few months back. i wasn't that sad, i wasn't happy either. josia and mich asked me whether i felt anything. actually i really dunno. it was weird.
anyway keith, thanks for your friendship.
on friday, i went for cg outing at ECP. we met at paya lebar mrt control at 11am. suprisingly, none of them were late- as in not later than 10 mins. i was quite happy, convincing myself that they must be really excited bout the outing- is that true? anyway, amy reminded them to be cooperative during the briefing before we set off. this statement will play an important role later. heh
lunch at the hawker center was okie i think. we (the guys) played 2 games of dai di and 2 games of UNO. i won every round. zech tried really hard to win me but i guess i was lucky. heh. UNO was really funny. we kept drawing each other until less than a quarter of the deck were left. the girls went shopping while waiting for time to pass cuz we were slightly ahead of schedule. heh. outside the bra shop, there was this old chinese man staring at the panties along the corridor for a freaking long time. WEIRD!!
the walk to the canoe place was really long. the girls were walking alot faster than the guys. its the reverse when comes to shopping ya. we did our devotions shortly after we settled down, at a place near the chalet. while praying, suddenly there was bollywood music playing. it was quite distracting. anyhow, devotions continued. we did some reflections on john 3:16 but as i was praying, God referred me to the prodigal son. to be truthful, recently i haven been really close to God. i did my QT and pray regularly but somehow i felt that i wasn't connected to Him. deep down, i know its sin that is stopping me from getting closer to Him but i did nothing to stop it. sitting at the breakwater and looking back on the past events that happened, i pour my heart out to God and guess what, God filled me with the Holy spirit and joy once again. on thursday, my friend taught me a new song 'When God ran'. the lyrics mentioned something like God, being mighty and powerful, the only time when the writer saw Him running was when the writer came back to Him. its really beautiful!
the devotions were fruitful for the cg as well. all of them shared their thoughts, role as a cg member etc. as we were about to rent the canoes, a group of NS guys caught our utmost attention. there were dancing topless and ya, they looked retarded and gay. there were pple dancing on the stools, pple with hands swinging in the air and one who danced like he got abrasions. truly entertaining.
the weather that day was fantastic and thus, most canoes were rented out already. therefore, we had no choice but to hang out at the beach first before canoeing. one by one, i pushed the guys into the water. nicholas was first, followed by zech and daniel. zech pushed me in after that. shaoyong was the sole survivor but in the end, all the guys were wet. after half an hour of slacking at the beach, we saw people returning their canoes so we ran to book the canoes. in the end, only 2 doubles and 1 single were available but hecked, we took it anyway. our cg split into 2 groups. one group go first, i was in that gp. heh. we canoe for like 20 mins before we headed back to shore to let the other group canoe. nicholas tried to compete with me but obviously, he lost. being gentlemanly, he blamed his partner for not paddling fast enough.
while the other group canoe, my group looked kinda bored so i decided to let them bury me since i never tried it before. hmm, i dug my own grave and laid on it. how interesting. they merely covered me with sand and had 2 leaves put beside my ears. we took several shots with me smiling hysterically and the rest of them kneeling and mourning. it was dumb but funny. after the photo taking sessions, the other group came back. daniel was estatic when he saw me lying there. immediately, he ran back to the sea and got up again, running towards my direction. he stood in front of my face and commented, "pee on u!" -- spastic guy. heh.
we slacked until 5.30pm before washing up at the toilets in the chalet. the management removed the toilets for the guys shower cubical and placed all the doors in the first cubical. i think he must be GAY!!
dinner was cute. i made all of them eat with their right hands and used only 4 fingers. the thumb was to hold on to a one dollar coin which was on the palm of that hand. everyone was asking me, can tell us the purpose for doing so but i told them that i could only reveal that later on in the night. i dun think they really enjoyed their meal especially sarah, who were complaining throughout dinner.
i shan't continue in detail for the rest of the cg outing as its kinda late already and im too lazy to. to conclude, i think the outing was quite successful. all glory goes to God.
im on the fone with my auntie who is staying in new york. she's actually a christian. darn cool!!