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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Hmm...

Hmm... it seems that I have a habit of blogging once a week recently.

Of course, the highlight of the past week would be Maxx Camp! Hahaha! Sorry Vic, I was lazy to upload my pics onto my com on Sunday. Now I'd be posting scenics on my blog first. Haha!

It's a really relaxing camp... nothing like Men's Camp at all. Basically, there were 3 sessions (talks/sermons/whatchamacallit), meals, a couple of games, and the rest is really just free time! Time to get to know each other, know new friends, deepen friendships, and basically just to have fun! The most fun, I'd say, is playing touch-footy... At first, I was like, nah... don't like sports. Plus there was this nature walk group going at the same time they wanted to play footy, and knowing me, I'm MUCH MORE inclined to go for nature walk than play footy... But the girls somehow ended up delaying & heading for the footy game, so-o-o... follow lor. Vic sat aside, so in the end Mel, Pauline, Emily & Felicia played... with a whole buncha others la... and we were just running & running... and dodging & twisting... haha! So fun!

K, I didn't have any photos of that... but I do have some of a little bushwalk we had to get to a waterfall... which was more trickling than pouring. But well, it's the walking & the fellowship we had that was fun. Haha!

Hmm... I don't know what on earth Vic is doing. Haha! I should know though, shouldn't I?

There we were: myself, Vic & Feli!

Shitting in the middle of the forest. Actually the roots made a small compartment that looked like a toilet bowl that sparked this lame shot. Pauline looks like a really happy shitter; Vic just looks bored... like "shit again... -.-"; and I just look really constipated. Hahaha! Shit, I always look constipated... *pfft*

Now doesn't Mel look like she's strangling Pauline? Well, she's not. Haha! She's hugging her! And Felicia was too tired to come down & join 'em so she decided to just "pop" out. Haha!

Haha! Poor Vic afraid to climb around... but no worries! Felicia to the rescue!

The place was beautiful too... just lots & lots of grass & fields. At night, we would take our sleeping bags out into the open, lie there & just look at the sky. I tell u, it has GOT to be the clearest skies I've EVER EVER EVER seen la! There were just BILLIONS of stars... it's like those outer space views, and star dust, and shooting stars, YES SHOOTING STARS!!! So many of 'em... And the stars were really twinkling! Twinkling for all it's worth! It was just SO beautiful, y'know? And as Vic mentioned, it really shows you there's a GOD. How can anything like that just occur by chance?! Do you know how STUPID that sounds? But no matter how I describe, only those who have been there knows what I'm talking about.

And in the mornings, everyone just goes everywhere to do abit of quiet time... and it's really nice to just lie in the sun and it's cold, and you're really just basking. =)

This was just after the quiet time session one morning. Look at the expanse of fields!

The campsite (the Bornhoffen Campsite for the Police Youth Citizens) was surrounded by mountains... and it's really like, out of civilisation like that... haha! But it was good... =)

General view of the northeast from the slope where we'd lie down & stargaze...

The view of the campsite from the multi-purpose hall...

View from the girls' dorm...

View from the boys' dorm!

Haha! I just got this from Vic's camera... That's Pauline clinging on for dear life from being thrown into the pool, which in the end, she ended up in anyways. Haha!

Sun (the Korean guy on the leftmost) was the first to be dipped... haha! I was planning to throw Mel in also but everyone else was planning to throw ME in... so I told Vic that I was gonna carry her & jump in together with her... haha! In the end, we were all wet and the water was really icy cold... biting, freezing cold... haha! So here we are: the wet ones...

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Watched "Amazing Grace" with Louis, Mei, Tiffany, Dawn & ST on Tuesday... It was a good show, just that the only link I could find between the story and the title is the origins of the song... when a slave-trader was touched by GOD and he gave up the slave-trade and he wrote the song. To me, the show tells me more about perseverence and persistence and having faith in GOD. I shan't spoil the show for u, so I shan't say anymore. There were at least 3 quotes in the movie that really touched me though... but I cannot remember already since I couldn't have taken out my mobile to key in the quotes.

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Watched "Facing the Giants" last night when we went to Felicia's cell group. It's a really touching show... about how GOD does HIS work in HIS own time and in HIS own way, and how the faithful will be rewarded and how we need to always be thanking & praising GOD for all that HE's done for us... good or bad. Many times, I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes, and I really would have cried, except I didn't wanna break down in front of everyone. So I just kept eating popcorn, which by the way, was delicious... haha! And the show was good... really. Inspirational. And challenging for us to really trust in GOD. There was this pastor who goes around praying for all the students in the school by touching their lockers, and this coach had a little chat with him about his life. I love his analogy & it goes something like this:

"There was once 2 farmers who desperately needed rain to get their farms going. Both of them prayed very fervently asking GOD to send rain down to their fields, but only one of them went out & prepared his field for the rain, planting seeds and ploughing the fields. Now you tell me which one of them has faith that GOD will answer their prayer?

The one who went out to prepare his fields.

And which one are you gonna be?"

This calls for great faith, doesn't it? But it's so true... When we ask GOD for help, we often do not believe that HE'll actually do something. And without faith in HIM, we can do nothing! So next time I pray for something, I need to try having faith that GOD will answer my prayers. And even if HE doesn't, I'm gonna praise HIM.

"When we win, we're gonna praise GOD. When we lose, we're gonna praise GOD. Now let's take a kneel."

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