Monday, December 18, 2006
i kinda find my font size a little too large. so im trying out to the normal size.
just came back from my church camp. super tired but slept after helping mum wash clothes. tomorrow my mum is going to come back from her mission trip so she is going to have more clothes to wash.
this is going to be a pretty long post. sorry ron, cant help it. my blog has to suit my timing not vice versa.
on tue noon to wed night, i stayed overnight at my friend's house. we took taxi to vivocity and after seeing that the timing of dejavu didnt really suit our time so we just had lunch at carl's jr (shiok!) and then walked around. usually a mac's burger would take 4 bites, but a carl's jr burger would take 8-10 bites. i ate till i was very very full.
so we went to j8 to watch. i treated my friend's family (including his mother) to the movie with my free movie tickets. then my friend's father came from work to watch the show with us. this is my 2nd action movie in my life. it was a very nice movie, just that i had to clear my doubts with my friend after the movie.
for every meal, we went to his house nearby coffeeshop which sells really good food. the mee goreng wasnt really nice, but the crispy noodles, beef kuay teow were especially nice.
i brought my PS2 to his house because his PS2 only allowed 1 player. then his famliy introduced to this game which you had to find weapons and attack the opponent. it was a very fun game and we played that game most of the time.
at night, we ate instant noodles (sorry dj) and then when we were about to sleep, we talked and laughed a lot. his mum prepared the 2 mattress at the living room joined by a clean king-size bed sheet his mum purposely changed for us.
the next day the parents said we kinda talked a little too loud. thus they had to sleep the time we slept which was abour 2am. we woke up at 10am. haha.
we then ate waffles for tea break and 1 bubble tea were allowed for every meal.
my mum left for mission trip on wed, so i asked my mum if it was ok that i didnt see her off. she said it was ok.
on wed night, his parents wanted to go for wine tasting so my friend went to my room to hang for a while, watching a few shows. i was super tired that i slept for 10mins unconsciously with my friend still watching tv. sorry.
on mon zhi xiang, samuel and i did the stock-list for the storeroom cupboard. we were super sian towards the end.
after my friend went back home, i had to start packing for my church camp which was from thurs to sun. because my bro was a camp comm and he had to be in ACS International at 8am, i had to go church 1 hour before the meeting time. yes, we stayed in ACS International (sorry all SA ruggers...lol) when we were in the bus, we had to blow a balloon, wrote a message and pass to someone. i was so excited until my balloon burst when i alighted.
we were given a name tag with a card with our name printed on it. it was so cool! we had to play a game to find out our group members. after i knew my group, i wasnt really happy with it. but the purpose was really achieved. the theme was to love "deeper, wider and beyond" and i really love my group members. it was a mix from p5 to working adults. we played all the games and i especially like the night game. just that towards the end we had to wait a lot. i scored 2 goals against a J1 guy. the water captian's ball was very fun. my group won.
on the 1st night after the sermon when we were asked if we wanted spirit-directed love i kinda teared till i cry. usually i would tear when im snoring or when im sneezing but neither of these happen. i really felt that i wanted to cry freely but no shoulder to cry on. (so sad...) the people beside me was very young. i even had to mumble the words of the song that was sang after that.
after that when it was worship, it was either i couldnt focus or i couldnt feel that God was there.
maybe tomorrow i would go through the whole sermon series again. and i felt that i should join the worship ministry after hearing the sermon. i would pratise tomorrow and see how.
after this camp i got to know a lot of people whom i dont really mix when im in church like clarence, julius, philida, joey, ru tian, charity, ettel and rae. i learnt a lot of things like putting away your idols. so i officially saying this, IM GOING TO GIVE UP WRESTLING because i feel that wrestling is satanic and it was my idol so tomorrow i would visit the wrestling website for the last time and im going to block it. [1 Corinthians 6:19-21] read that verse. because we have to honor God with our bodies, we should not destroy it.
we also went to an old folk's home and singing christmas carols, we went around shaking and interacting with the old folks. there were times i hesitated to go up to talk and shake the old folks' hands but i remembered this verse [2 Timothy 1:7]. so i went up to everyone i could and i got rejected by 1 lady. the smiling faces and their enthusiaism into clapping really touched me. i then thought that we are too materialised. when we look at life we think only about all the stars and see how low we are compared to them, where we are very high compared to those who lost the freedom of movement.
there was one man who told me that if you are bililugual to have a future as China is rising. he also told me that during WII his famliy and him were pointed by a gun by the Japanese soldiers and they had to surrender his house. he also said that his children had died one by one so i was pretty sad after hearing that. he also said because of all these he decided to be a Buddist. i was even more sad. he told me that happiness is more important than $$$.
because each group went to a different place, one member of each group had to share his/her experiences with the church. luckily it wasnt me. but after charity (the girl who shared) shared, clarence then said to the whole church that i was the aunty killer and those below 16 really did their best.
after that we had group discussion and 1 verse impacted me.[Matthew 25:34-40] read those verses.
i also wore the jersey "Chubby" printed behind and then i had instant fame. haha. and there was the sisterhood thing. ask Charity and Ethel. so i was Sister A and Jabez was Sister J. and together we were the Sisters JACE. lol.
after the whole camp, ru tian, the leader wrote a letter to each and every one in the group. and it was completely different in every letter. really touched. after the camp, clarence also sent an sms to all our group members that we were very co-operative and he was very happy. Ru-Tian also compiled a list of our group's members details.
during the camp i remembered that God worked in small ways such as the Sharity Gift Box, when we were almost out of flyers, those who donated didnt take any flyers, thus there was no barrier.
i dont want to be so long-winded so gd night everyone.
;2:20 AM
