OH MY GOD (continued)

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Day 3


Day 3. Wonderful day. Project FIA. Meaningful talks. Night games. Sigh. (:

I got told during breakfast that Joee, Jabez, Thomas and Claire would be going to Christalite Methodist Home, and me, HY, Serena, Joshua, Harold and Caleb would be going for Project smile.

I learnt one thing from project smile:

ACS boys suck balls at Mandarin. Tsk tsk. (Just like how MGS girls suck at Mandarin too. Okay. Except for Hin yee.)

Okay of course that's not all I learnt, I'm not that shallow. I learned a lot from the people we met, obviously, especially Mdm Majulah, but I'll have to extend this to three posts if I wanna put all of that down. Maybe I'll do that some other day when I'm in my emo self-reflection mood. I bet everyone including myself treasured the fun moments we had talking on the bus, in the lift, at the void deck and so on. I even said good morning to strangers on the way. Just thinking about it makes me smile, heehee.

Then we had talks from three organisations, Prison something, TWC2 and SADEAF. The SADEAF talk taught me sign language, hehehe. But still, that's not all. If I were to put down everything, my fingers will turn to bones tomorrow.

We had night sharing and I did a testimony in front of the entire goddamn camp, holy moly. But I was very pleased with myself after that for having the guts to go up. It wasn't easy at all. Okay okay okay FINE, I cheated, I wrote a script on my phone's memo pad......... :P But I still went up.

Night games were damn fun. HY, Lisa and I were walking around with our hands locked together. I was actually quite scared. And I brought back a wet shirt thanks to Jabez, eeeeeeeeeeee. Omg I don't know where to start talking about all the funny moments. All I can say is that guys cannot dance, LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I went to bed at 3 a.m. and woke up on the last day feeling like a zombie.

Day 4


Nothing much went on on day four, just a load of goodbyes, sharing, photo-taking and eating. (Glutton lol) And Gabriel got tau poked lol. Rough boys tsk tsk. And after break camp I just sat on the floor because I didn't wanna go home.

Oh well, guess that's my condensed version of how camp was these 4 days. I missed out other things, but I think you get the idea. Camp was fun, the end. :D

GOOD NIGHT AND SWEET DREAMS TO WHOEVER THAT'S READING THIS. Please don't be a malay spammer. (I'm starting to hate myself for posting so casually lol.)

OH MY GOD (literally)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OH MY GOD.

Sorry for being mad, but I was just looking back at the year and whew, what a crazy shitass ride it has been.Yeah, I'm laughing at the whole idea. I don't even where to begin talking about all the things that have took place this year, all the events I've been to, all the challenges I took on and all the new friends I made. They're overcrowding my mind, what pests. Tsk.

Okay okay seriously, enough about how exciting my year has been, I'll just start writing about what the title is actually about. (But it seriously makes me damn happy thinking about my year because it was just that fruitful wth. I'm still trying to recover from how unbelievable this is. No kidding.)

Kay today, I'm gonna post a little differently. Instead of being preachy in my posts which I think I overdid a little in my previous posts, I'm just going to write about camp from day one to four and simply let my writing relive the wonderful memories.

Here I go.

Day one of FACT Camp 2011

I met HY at the bus stop in the morning because I was scared of going into ACS alone hahaha. Then I was early and ended up waiting for her at the bus stop for a godly fifteen minutes. Grrrr. Then this guy asked me for directions at the bus stop. Camp didn't start yet and I was already blessing others lol. (Kidding haha.)

When we walked in I realised how big ACS was and shook hands with Gabriel, I think? I forgot whose hand I shook because I didn't look at his face haha. I sat down and met very funny people - Isaac and Grace who helped break the ice. Then I got to meet more of my group members, Lisa, Serena, Caleb, Claire, Joshua, Joee, Kevin and my two shy and awkward (tsk tsk) leaders, Harold and Thomas.

We played MRT to break the ice and I have to admit that I seriously suck at these games, I really do. If you wanna win me in something, choose to play scissors paper stone, animal, MRT or something. I suck balls. This is random, but I'm practising my Reversi now and I'm able to beat the computer, so if you wanna lose, pick that.

Okay I shall skip the group interaction (where we came up with our cheer), briefing, the hostel check-in, lunch and then skip to games. We met Jabez during games and actually danced for him. We played human table soccer (1st place), captain's ball (2nd place, thanks to HY), shit I forgot what else. Everything was really damn fun. Dinner was good, Caleb was trying to socialise lol, worship and sermon was even better. Impacted me quite a bit. I got a Kinder Bueno for being a nice friend and offering hugs to HY and Joee, hehe. (Even though I needed a hug more than they did, haha. But it's okay, I live a worry-free life. :D)

I went back to our dorm, got chitty and chatty with my room mates, got told that I look like a primary school kid by a sec two (SHIT), and then, zzzzzzz.

Day two

This was the day where our group really became like a group heehee. Everyone was more or less talking like friends already. Joee was stoning, Hin yee was at a netball match, Lisa and Claire were stoning too. Caleb overslept, Jabez and Thomas were the earliest guys at the breakfast table, Harold........ LOLLL.

I'll skip morning sharing, worship, and go straight to games. OH HOLY. Games were a shitload of fun. They were dirty games to be specific. So everyone got splashed with egg yolk, flour and rainwater that went through a pipe while playing scissors paper stone on a mat. And SHIT, I don't even want to think about the smell of my clothes.

After lunch we had two very fun workshops hehehe. We had to do a silent play on the character Esther in the bible and we decided to switch the roles around - girls would be guys and guys would be girls. The guys were hilarious. And I was Joee's guard.

Our night sharing was getting even more fun. I think it's safe to say that my group is full of funny people, lol. (Y)

Okay and then we went back to our dorm again, I chatted with HY until one, talking about who I like wth. (Not my idea lol. Apparently all night gossip sessions have to be about boys.) Then..... we went to bed.


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I love surprises

P.P.S. [In this case this stands for pre,pre-script] I love surprises. A lot.

P.S. [In this case this stands for pre-script] This post is a little late oops. In fact, almost a month late. And it's also a little inappropriate to be used as an article for the CMC newsletter so I'll write an article myself and why am I so luo suo? :P

Days after I chose to work during the November holidays, I was wondering what the hell I was thinking when I made that choice. A normal Sharmaine would have been daring and smart, and went for something big and bold, like OBS Sabah. OBS was created for people like me, okay. And it sounded almost like a temptation. I must have been high on crack when I chose work. (Kidding lol. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind. Or was I?)

It seemed like luck wasn't on my side too, judging from how I had to run around so much to get prepared for work. I went to Jurong point to get a bank account created, went to get a skirt and...... (woopee I forgot where else because my memory sucks.) I also had to go through the horror of asking for permission to borrow my sister's camera for video-taping purposes. That really wasn't easy. I also had to ask for permission to borrow my Dad's mobile broadband. Then I used up a week trying to get friends to come for focus group discussions, which was again, quite tough because people are very lazy. That's a very cruel fact about the world.

But I did manage to get nice friends to join me during those discussions in the end, after much asking around. Thank God.

So I refer back to my first sentence - "I love surprises. A lot." That's why I really thank God for constantly giving me these huge surprises, these blessings in disguise. They're seriously starting to make me wonder what I did to deserve all these.

The main reason why I was feeling rather down about working was because most of my friends were having the time of their lives at their other ROCs trips. Seriously, it was quite agonizing not having friends to talk to during that period.

But God gave me so many bright sides to look on.

If there wasn't a Japan Earthquake early this year, I wouldn't have made a bank account at Jurong Point, wouldn't have went to the Watsons at the basement to get meds for Ah Gong, wouldn't have went to Fairprice to buy Vitamin water, Dad wouldn't have thought of buying 4D despite the sickening queue, which means I wouldn't have money for braces. Seriously, the logic is scary. That's why I love the future, because the future gives you these kinds of surprises.

I wouldn't have found out what a great but tiny place CMC is too, how convenient the place is, how amazing the staff are, how nice their pantry is (they've got Mentos and Milo), how comfy their office is, how smelly their toilet is, how auntie Joanna and Jovis' desks are (Jovis has a dartboard and Joanna's desk is a Mama shop), how nice a person Zhang xu is, how fun office gossip is, how fun conducting focus group discussions were, how fun our final presentation was and of course, how nice the food over there is. They have the best tau huay at Maxwell hawker centre, oh Jesus.

So you know, after ROCs 3, I've only got one thing to say.

My friends took home jet lag. I took home experience. (The fun kind, hehehe.)