It's been awhile since the camp now, and I can hardly remember much of it. I shall attempt to put together the bits and pieces of whatever that's left of my memory.
I do remember John Sek trying to dive into the ocean though.
Benedict nearly scared off a couple of young girls who were swimming there by trying to go skinny dipping.
Thank goodness I managed to stop him in time. We wouldn't want the kids to emerge from the water with horrified looking face now, do we?
We managed to catch this black looking thing, which I think it is a sea cucumber, if I am not mistaken.
To my amazement, the kids didn't know that it could squirt a white juice that looks like the guy's
...erm, you know. It looks really cool, not to mention funny as hell. You can get the video from the disc which we should be passing around sometime soon.
Lunch was just stupendously delicious. Got sambal ketam, sambal udang, vegetables, meat, soup,chicken, sotong...what nonsense also got. I usually don't even eat this kind of food in restaurants. And here I am eating luxury food for each consecutive meal! Praise the Lord!
And praise Brother Andrew for the food!
The funny thing is that we actually get to feed the wild hornbills there. Pardon me for my shallow knowledge but I thought hornbills were only found in Sabah, Sarawak and..the Internet?
Apparently I was wrong.
We had some group activities after lunch which does not ONLY include talking, but also sophisticated and complex stuff such as cutting out articles from newspapers and magazines to be pasted on manila card.
The theme for the discussion was "Sign of the Times', where we were suppose to look for pictures that depicts how the world was slowly experiencing a morale decay and etc.
After sticking all those pictures on the manila cardboard, we were expected to present it out in front of everybody.
Woops, I guess I didn't see THAT coming when I decided to choose some explicit pictures for my group's cardboard.
But still, I can't help it but stare with amazement at my group's effort. Simple yet carrying a powerful message. *cough*
Hey, who put that picture of that girl there???
After that we had team building exercise at the beach! It's really simple actually. All you have to do is hold the hands of the person next to you while a hula hoop is passed throw from one end to the other. It's so simple, even my grandmother would know how to play it.
And yet we still have cases of a few people who keep getting mixed up and don't know which way the hoop goes. Maklumlah, Malaysia boleh ma.
There was this game we played which involves standing on plastic chairs. Half the team had to stand on the chairs while getting themselves over to the finish line.
It looks pretty easy, but in fact its not! It's super easy to lose your balance and fall down like humpty dumpty. But Charles didn't believed it.
And speaking of humpty dumpty, here we have Mr. Charles Teh lying flat on his back. Jonathan couldn't resist throwing sand onto him..well, I suppose that's what you get for lying flat on the beach. Haha :P
Amidst the chaos and confusion, the dogs decided that they should have some butt-action fun too. Whoever said that Fun for Christ 4.0 was for humans only?
Tada! Our most remarkable feat! Building uh, a sandcastle...with only our hands as tools! We can't possibly get anymore childish than this, can we?
Aunty Susan was nowhere to be seen while we were at the beach. No wonder lah, she was in her room conducting some side business.
What business you ask? Selling dried shrimps and keropok! Yeah and if you didn't know, Pangkor is famous for its fresh-from-the-oven keropok and stuff. Not bad ok, business was pouring in like the tsunami in Perlis. Or was it Penang ar?
We had more sessions after that. Our speaker, Brother Gasper from Monfort Boys wasn't really suitable for our group, perhaps due to the fact that we are a bunch of energetic chums who can hardly sit still.
Oliver sat right in front. Perhaps not the best place to be if you're planning to doze off. And I think that's what he did.
Who said that the most safest place was being in the most dangerous place?? Well, I guess that fella may be right. Oliver didn't get caught, at least.
Daniel Ho seems to be in deep meditation. Is it just me or do you see a drip of saliva from the edge of his mouth? Tee hee.
During the night, we had Washing of the Feet™ where we were suppose to wash our partner's feet to remind us of how Jesus washed his disciples' feets and to show his humility.
I probably enjoyed this session the most. As I thought that the video that was played was really touching. Nearly cried lah, but need to show abit of macho-ness. So what to do...tahan lor.
And finally we had group photo!
But damn! Due to the blazing sun and miscommunication, the group photo on my camera turned out to be a fluke. As you can see, most of the people were trying to cover their eyes from the sun and some didn't even look at the camera.
And yes, I am one of them. Try and spot me if you can.
And finally, that concludes the Fun For Christ 4.0 2007! Thank you for reading!
Disclaimer: These posts are based on my experience, so please pardon me if I did missed out anything important. If there is anything you feel that you need to add, please let me know and I'll give you authorisation to post your own writings.
Welcome to HRC's first blog for the English Section! Have fun reading the first inaugural post for this blog!
The Youth Ministry of HRC recently organized a Fun For Christ 4.0 camp in Pangkor with the theme, 'Discipleship for Youths'. Don't worry, it wasn't a gimmick for us to hire any priest from the pool of participators.
When was it you ask? Simple. As far as memory serves, it was on the 24-26th August 2006! I mean 2007.
I was the first one to arrived in church at 6.45am and it was all pitch dark with no one to be seen. What to do, I was conned into believing that the bus would leave at 7am sharp. People only STARTED arriving after 7am.
Next time, I'm going back to my Malaysian timing!
Response was kinda bad for this camp. Apparently the Sunday School kids had decided that we were too uncool to be associated with. Somebody please get Msgr. Daniel to give them a nice lecture! Or a nice spanking. And if that doesn't work, nothing will.
Safety is one of the main issues that we emphasized on.
Contrary to belief, this is NOT a packet of yummy yau char kwai. First aid kit is one of the more essential items when it comes to safety issues.
Don't worry parents, your kids are safe with us! I haven't actually looked inside it but I'm sure there will be lots of gadgets to safe a life should there arise such occasion.
An opening prayer by Edwin Koh set us off on what would be a most tiresome and gruelling 5 hour journey by land, sea and air (the stuff we breathe? not the ride) to reach our final destination! Pangkor Island here we come!!
Journey by boat was suprisingly a short and smooth one without much hassle. No one vomitted, thank God. Only complaint I had was that WHY WERE THERE SO MANY FLIES in one small boat?? Can't even sit still without flies landing on my hair and nose.
And yes, I took a bath before I came ok?
4 pink gay minivans were what we used to get ourselves and the luggages to the hotel which was located by the beach. Each minivan only costs us RM10 which was rather cheap, considering that about 8-9 of us could fit into one van. I thought we were tourists and we were supposed to be charged astronomical prices?
It says here Sea View Hotel and true enough, it had the view of the sea. Situated directly next to the beach, it allowed us to enjoy the cool breeze and the panoramic view of the ocean. So nice.
If got tsunami also we kena first. Got good things also got bad things ma correct?
Everybody unloaded and rushed to the beachside like kampung kids. Sometimes it can be good to just get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and to spend the weekend with the Lord amongst other fellow worshippers.
Wow, did I just say that? So unlike me. Must've been the Holy Spirit.
I was quite tulan when they served us lunch. One dish was mixed vegetables and another dish was the same mixed vegetables, but dumped in soup. And after that got more vegetables. We pay so much but only get vegetables?? But lucky thing, only the first meal didn't turned up like what we expected. The rest was just heavenly. Got sotong, fish, chicken, prawns...so many until I can't possibly name it all here.
The point is, we got what we paid for and probably more.
If I were to make a guess, I would think the total value that we had eaten would amount to 300+ each!
Brother Andrew Ho from the Monfort Boys Angels Society gave his opening speech on house rules and many more other rules while Edwin provided the movement action for those having hearing difficulties.
Among one of the more important rules was STRICTLY NO SWIMMING in the swimming pool. Unless Andrew himself was in it.
I guess it was a reason to keep the kids from endangering themselves.
And what do you know? He was the first to dive into the pool.
We only get to play games during the first day of the camp. The following days were gonna be filled with activity-laden sessions by the REAL brothers from Monfort City.
Among the games played were 'Guess who?' where 2 chums are placed together but separated by a cloth.
Then when the cloth is unveiled, they had to say out the other person's name as fast as possible.
It was a breeze since we were all from the same church anyway except for a few new faces. It'll be rather humiliating if I don't know Paul Chuah's name after this many years, right?
Adults like to have fun too. Sometimes.
We also had treasure hunt. Under normal circumstances, treasure hunt would be easy...but this time we decided to include a catch to it, such as blindfolding half the team!
How does a team expect to win when the blind walks in front, followed by a non-blind person and more blind people? See, this is called the blind leading the non-blind. FAIL! Haha :D
Everybody vying for Edwin's attention to decide who is the winner. Of course, my team won la. Well, with Joshua a.k.a Jesus Jr. settling all the problems and guiding us, how to lose?
The winner gets....*drumrolls*....a pack of chips??? Ok lah, better than nothing.
I thought get some medal or cash award. Apparently I was living in dreamland.
Fun by the beach! After games everyone was just dead tired. What better way to release stress then by taking a stroll by the beach?
Yeah I used to love doing that to myself. But now I'm too easily irritated by the sand that won't get out of your underwear/swim trunks later. I wanted to bury the kid completely in sand but then again, his mother is standing next to me. Better think twice.
And finally, we end with the majestic view of this guy.
No, that's not Jesus. It's just Charles.
