Wednesday, June 15, 2005
ok, so we didn't sneak out to eat tau huei like the last time, but CAMP ROCKED! i'm still suffering from church camp withdrawal symptoms. -sniffs (see my point? i would NEVER EVER do something bimbotic like "-sniffs" if i weren't high or sick or something.)
and to think that my mum and brother had to drag me kicking and screaming to camp on the first day. coz i wanted to go for training. i would've misse dout on the time of my life if they hadn't man. i dunno there was just something so special about camp this year. maybe coz it's our last one as a class? i know that most of us are probably gonna come back as teachers or youth ministry members or choir members and stuff but the magic will be gone. yeah what our class had was magic. really. everyone says that this batch was the most special batch ever. the most revolutionary one. EVERYONE says that. it's gonna be so sad when we all leave. i'm missing all of them already. especially my closest pals. sandy, angie, daniel, moses, VINCENT etc. sigh. what am i gonna do without them man.
hmm on the first day... we... split into groups? haha cannot really remember. yeah. i was in "understanding" with nigel (uh-oh), gabriel li (marie's brother), terry, charmaine and... MY BROTHER gabriel. yes MY brother. i mean you can see already that my group was headed for disaster. what with all the hiao/perverted/naughty guys in the group. yeah. me and charmaine were like hte only girls. and she wasn't there for most of the camp anyway, leaving ME to handle the wild male species on my own. and to make it worse, our facil was nicholas. yes. another cootie GUY. poor me. and my feminist ego. to be stuck in a male dominated group. i was right. for the king/queen up contest, we chose nigel to be our queen. and what did those imps of gabriels do? make g strings and bras out of rafia and vanguard sheet. and blow up fake balloon boobs for nigel. give me a break! even my many "i'm gonna tell mummy arh!" did not scare my brother. urgh. but i have to admit it was pretty funny and interesting watching the perverted male mind at work. can't really remember what we did for hte rest of the day. the sessions were pretty useless. last year's were so much better. but the movie rocked man! i was sobbing throughout the show! the girl is just so darn cute! and pretty! unfortunuately, stupid vincent luo had to go ruin it for me lah ok. we were both perched on the chairs stacked up behind the hall. there was this touching part where the children were separated from the dad. and i was close to tears... when suddenly... "BOOM!!!!" omg. totally ruined the moment lah. i turn to the side and there is vincent, grinning sheepishly back at me. "heh heh.. sorry. i just wanted to put my shoes on the floor!" yes.. right... BOYS. and whnever i'm so engrossed in the movie, vincent will suddenly turn to me and ask me what "this word means" and what "that word means", "who is that person", "is she good or is she bad?" blahblahblah. i was THIS CLOSE to giving him a box. and there was moses sitting below us having silent convulsions of laughter at my misery.
hmm didn't sleep at all that night. went downstairs with sandy and moses to have our traditional late night talks at the stone bench next to the pond. we were joined by the facils mark and gabriel(belloc) halfway through. thank god. i was up to HERE listening to all the stuff about relationships. haha belloc was a hoot. his racist jokes were damn funny. we shifted location to outside the church doors for some reason or other in the middle of the night. vincent suddenly came down to join us. i think he was sleep walking. haha. he was SO CUTE! coz the rest of us were listening to ghost stories and racist jokes and stuff and he SO wanted to be part of it and all.. but was a terrible failure. we were laughing mroe at his enthusiasm than the joke itself. daniel came down too suddenly. dunno why. i was trying to get moses to do commando pushups coz he showed me some hte last time. but he was too sissy. mark did some though! and he did one arm push ups too. whoa. but i think he's damn ego. just coz he can breakdance. he kept insulting others lah. like jeremy. belloc was real cool though. i mean, he's not only funny, but he's also real strong about the faith stuff although it doesn't seem like it. his experiences were really quite inspiring. he's actually a really deep guy lorh! don't like it when they start talking about relationships and stuff though. oh yah, ben asked me, in his letter, why i dread talking about it so much. i don't really know man. i guess it's like, being in a relationship at this young age really takes a toll on us. so yah, i've made up my mind not to do silly stuff like that again. not now. so when you guys start talking about it, it really makes me think about what might have been and stuff. and i guess it sort of increases my desire and curiosity again and i might be tempted... u know what i mean? yah. so it's better htat i shut my ears to the evil that is bgr and concentrate on what i'm supposed to be doing now, at this age. basically, i'm just scared lah ok. of temptation. becuase i know how weak i can be. yeah. haha so when they started talking about bgr again, i went to sit with vincent on the wooden bench by the fountain and we talked... and talked... about homework. and projects. and school. haha i dunno talking about it with vincent is just so different. it's like i actually enjoy talking about work with him. coz we've known each other since forever and we sort of have the same beliefs and values (unlike the other group over there, where mark was advising moses not to study too hard, get into poly can already -.-')... yeah. talking about schoolwork with vincent is very liberating. he me and favian have the same ambition =) although we always compete with each other. i guess it spurs us on? yeah. so aroudn 6:50am, i went to bathe with sandy. not WITH sandy. but yeah, the both of us went to bathe. stupid moses and daniel were plotting to take pictures of us after our baths when we came out of the toilet. they wanted to scare us. yeah right.
we had morning PT if you can believe it. wth. all of us were being the rebellious teens we were and just slacked throughout the whole thing. haha during the jumping jacks sandy and i were just flailing our arms about. it was super funny. mark (the facil who gave us pt) apparently thought not. he was damn fierce lah. kept making everyone do it again and again until it was up to his standards. and even when it was up to HIS standards, the other facil, andrew, yes ARMY andrew didn't think so and made us jog round hte church. like WTH?! JOG around the CHURCH? give me a break. we're not in army man. or boot camp. urgh. yeah so we had sessions after that and skit planning. the sec 4s REFUSED to do the skits in our groups and demanded that we do is as a class. against the sec 3s. they were so touched by our determination that they gave in. yah right. more like they couldn't do anything against our united front! woohoo sec 4s rock! we played some silly games in the hall like fire hunter earthquake and dog and bone and stuff. HAHA. dog and bone rocked man. our team won! we were damn cheaterbug lah (but the facils thought it was "innovative" HAH). there was one where they called for people wearing shoes i think. yeah and i was wearing shoes. and my team was desperately losing. so i just ran over there and before they could do anything, i kicked the slipper ("bone") backwards to my side. TING! one point for us! yeah and there was this one where they called for odd numbers so we all charged forward and they formed something like a rugby scrum and i grabbed hte slipper from below and ran back. they almost caught me but thanks to softball practise, i SLID past the line. so they were left grabbing air. HAH. (no bel, i didn't scream somehting like "wheee" ok.) haha and OH MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE! i can't remember what they called for but we charged forward again. no one dared to touch the slipper so i sat on it. then they all began touching me, saying that they had caught me. but the rules say that i need to grab the slipper before they can catch me. so it wasn't over yet. so there i was sitting all dandy and nice atop the slipper when joel the little genius and the rest of the guys from my team formed a shield for me. so before hte other team knew what was happening, i stood up, grabbed hte slipper and ran home to safety! yay!!!! we rocked it. and we won it. we won captains ball too. sec 4s versus sec 3s+facilitators. even though they had the facils, who were like wayyyyy older and taller and more muscular than us, it was our chor lor, gungho spirit that won us the game. 2-0! haha we would have trashed them if not for the numerous misses peter made atop the chair and if not for hte bloody freaking super tall gabriel liu who was like too tall to get past. he just stood in front of peter and swipped the balls away like a huge bear! but although we were little in every sense possible, we were fierce. we were fighters. we roared. and we won haha. joel thinks that i should be abit more gentle. he says i behave like a babarian. me? -giggles and waves handkie- nahhhh!
ok what else. yah we had amazing race. AND WE WON OKAY WE WON. we got like 84 and a half points. but we didn't win overall because the other groups got points from the dress up competition on the first day. sandy's group (which won) got like 93 and a half points overall. which mean they only got 73 and a half points form the race. and vincent's group (which got second) got 92 and a half ppoints overall. which means they only got 82 and a half points fomr the race. hello we got 84 and a half points lah! we should have won! in the end we only got third overall. BUT WE SHOULD HAVE WON! anyway considering that we only had 5 members (the rest had gone off!), it was quite a feat okay! adn considering that we had like hte naughtiest stupidest craziest people in the sec 3 and sec 4 classes (me, nigel, gabriel lee-my brother and gabriel li- marie's brother) it was an even greater feat okay! and considering we had this weird facilitator who just irritated us throughout the race by talking in this supposedly-aussie-but-sounded-more-like-an-angmoh-indian accent, it was a gigantanormous feat! so thank you nigel, gabriel li and gabriel lee for making my time spent with the cuckoo group so fun and memorable. i'll never forget you guys man! but that doesn't mean i condone your vulgarities and perverness OK! ew.
haha, vincent sandy and i were playing chopsticks throughout camp on the piano. our duet! haha ok no, our trio-et? haha. dunno what the word is. but it was super fun! hahahahahaha. yeah and we had a karaoke session in the hall too. just us. me vincent sandy moses ben daniel angie joe. haha. i love those people man! they rock my socks! yeah and the bunch of us were playing concentration throughout camp and it was so freaking fun! seriously. i never knew how fun it could be! just like sissy my baby! it was so infectious. other peole wanted to join in too. but too bad. our concentration league was too intense for outsiders. stupid idiots. i got level 5 pig like TWICE. this is an utter disgrace. i NEVER EVER got even a level one pig!!!!! but it was becuase they were aiming for me. they purposely sabo-ed me. especially moses and joe! wahlao. i guess it's just coz i'm so cool that they HAD to see me get level 5 pig! nevermind. i purposely lost. i purposely got level 5 pig a.k.a. mother sow, just for their viewing pleasure. hmph. cheap thrills.
our skit was quite a success i daresay (of course we beat the sec 3s!). haha it was a tribute to teacher julie. she was damn touched she cried. anyway i tell ya, moses was possessed man! yah lorh. he was acting as god, and many of his lines were impromptu. but they were so great! and inspirational! where did THAT come from man! woohoo moses rocks my socks! he was so funny!!!!! cool. i should upload a picture of him in costume. I dressed him up. yes. he did look pretty didn't he. haha he was wearing my white hairband to make his fringe stand and i tell ya! he was the coolest thing on earth! and in heaven. he was such a FUNKEH god! well i took his sji sweater. so we're quits. haha and daniel's and my scene was pretty hilarious too. especially daniel! he's a HOOT i tell ya! a true blue retard. gotta hand it to him for being so funny! he gets the deb standing ovation man! coz he was acting as teacher julie's father. i was the mother. yah so in real life teacher julie's parents objected against her becoming a catholic. yeah but we made the scene a little more lighthearted lah. except that our "a little more lighthearted" became more of a heartattack-inducing scene. i mean, of laughter lah. yah. haha daniel daniel. there was this part where angie (acting as teacher julie) asked daniel "dad... can i become a catholic?" and daniel was like (IMPROMPTU OK) straining his ears and looking all grumpy and daddy and stuff "huh?? HARH? alcoholic? ALCOHOLIC? nono! cannot!" angie: "A CATHOLIC!" daniel: "nono! no alcholic in the family! nono cannot. -and right at this point, he takes a swig from his imaginary beer bottle-" HAHAHAHAHAHA. if i weren't the one supporting daniel (as his wife) and his walking stick (a bamboo pole we stole fomr the construction work outside), i wold have collapsed onto the floor man! yah so since i was in the scene i had to control my laughter, so i was hiding my face (my RED face) behind my pink powerpuff girl towel that i was supposed to be using to "dab the sweat off daniel's face". yah then we had this fight scene where dan, angie and i were doing kungfu-matrix moves and suddenly.. "scissors paper stone!". hahahahahhaa. it doesn't sound funny but it WAS funny. i swear. yah so me and daniel lost the "scissors paper stone" and daniel got a heartattack and i pranced off the stage. except that i forgot that i was supposed to help daniel off the stage since he had a heartattack. so there he was lying all confused on the floor. and i suddenly remembered that i was supposed to help him in. but i was too embarrassed to back on. so i just dragged him behind the scene. everyone started laughing. my brother said it looked HILARIOUS because there i was looking all sneaky and stuff from behind the stand, then i suddenly grabbed hold of daniel's thigh with one hand and dragged him behind. oh gawd. i could have died of embarrassment. why on earth did i do that. but my brother said that at least it added much needed humour to the serious play? sigh whatever makes you happy. at the end of the play, we all got up and bowed to teacher julie a la her favourite phrase "i bow to you because i bow to the god i see in you". so we all echoed that phrase and moses removed his tag saying "god" and placed it aroudn teacher julie's (the real one!) neck. it was SO TOUCHING. i could've cried. i did actually. when we all had the group hug. right there in the middle of the hall. in front of everyone else. we didn't care. we were just crying and hugging. teacher julie cried the most. daniel and i escorted her back to her seat (being her "parents" and all) and yah we sat beside her. and she kept hugging us and kissing us and crying into us, saying "thank you thank you". yeah so i guess we got the effect we wanted. we touched her. just as she touched us. and inspired us.
hmm our parents came at night. to exchange letters with us. i forgot mine so angie, vincent and i rushe dours upstairs. when i went down i was greeted by the most touching scene ever- teenagers hugging their parents. i started sobbing. really. i spotted my parents. and i dunno what came over me but i just ran over and hugged them so tightly! and i hugged my brother too. although he was trying to act cool. oh brother brother. come on over here! haha. yeah i never hugged him and my parents so much in my life. i was just so inspired and touched by everyone else hugging their parents and exchanging letters and stuff. sigh.... yeah then when all the teary notes were exchanged, we went downstairs for supper and had a sandwich making competition! haha. children versus parents! i teamed up with vincent sandy moses angie and my brother to make the most wonderful sandwich ever. using bread as a cross in the middle of our beautiful sandwich garden. OH THE AUDACITY OF IT ALL! our parents copied us! they claimed that WE copied them but WE KNOW OK. the ones with the bright ideas are the kids! my parents, sandy's parents, and moses's mum teamed up to make a beautiful sandwich garden with a BAGUETTE cross (complete with rosary and all) to beat our aforementioned wonderful display! it was stunningly beautiful! awww darn! cheaters! haha they never did announce the winners. but i daresay that it was a fight between our sandwich and our parent's sandwich. the rest of the kids and parents could not compare man!!!! heh.. we were made to eat our respective parents' sandwiches. and they had to eat ours. so of course, we didn't fail to "let slip" the fact that us being hte dirty scruffy kids we are, didn't wash our hands and were playing in the playground just now. HAH BEAT THAT! ok.. my dad did beat that. he was grossing us out (while we were eating their nice sandwich) telling us that he had just gone to see a patient who had bowel constipation so he had to stick his hand up his patient's butt and dig out the shit. OH GAWD. i tell ya, you should've seen our FACES MAN. sandy turned GREEN. and i almost vomitted out my piece. URGH. parents are SOOOOO crafty. and bitchy. urgh can't they let us win even ONCE? BAH. so anyway moses and i were making this GROSS salad from the left over lettuce leaves, tomatoes, cucumbers, tuna mayo, chicken mayo, egg mayo and stuff. it was really GROSS i tell ya. when vincent strutted over and had this idea about eating up the stuff. so us being the proud peacocks we are, acted brave lah, saying htat we COULD eat it. so i poked up a forkful of disgustingsalad and wanted moses to eat it. so moses poked up a forkful of disgusting salad and wanted vincent to eat it. so vincent poked up a forkful of disgusting salad and wanted ME to eat it. so we have this video of us stuffing forksful of disgustingsalad into each others mouths. me into moses, moses into vincent. and vincent into me. ohmygawd. and even after having the DISGUSTINGsalad stuffed into our mouths, we refused to admit defeat and started chowing down. gross. i tell you i really really REALLY felt like vomitting. but i couldn't lose to moses and vincent! girl pride ok! it was positively the stupidest thing we ever did because it was GROSS and we could've killed each other. we all swore never to do it again. and right after we swore on that, we decided to play concentration, and the loser had to eat up the remainder of the disgustingsalad. will we EVER learn? SIGH.
didn't sleep much that night either. i was teaching vincent bio. and singing karaoke. and playing the piano. and watching moses and daniel do tupid stuff like mattress race. and somehow, sometime then, i fell asleep. on the stage. in the hall. it was so cosy! the guys and sandy also fell asleep there. thank god the facils and teachers didn't freak man. (but then again, considering that J***** and J**** slept TOGETHER both nights, on the same bed, under the same blanket, doing god-knows-what underneath, i think our rebellion was pretty mild). joe came to wake us in the morning. and i went to wake vincent who started mumbling all sorts of weird stuff. i was laughing and laughing because he was obvioulsy sleep talking! me: "eh vincent wake up!!!" vincent: "lejnfaojlanfkjnalksj?" me: "HAHAHA! WAD WAS THAT?! are u sleeptalking?!!" vincent: "NOOO! asdknbkasjdhoasdbhak?" me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" during breakfast daniel was telling me of how i sleep-pose. like i'm sleeing then suddenly, i'll flip over and do a pose. and then i'll stay in that pose. and after awhile i'll flip over agian and strike another pose and stay in that pose. then after awhile i do it again... and the cycle goes on... i know i sleepwalk. but sleep-posing?!!!!! HUH? anyway we had lotsa fun gossiping and stuff after that. vincent and i were trying to rap. angie was impressed with my eminem impersonation! YAY! and nigel said that i've got nice muscles! YAY! and moses said i've got damn hard muscles! YAY! and vincent said so too. haha. i lost to moses and favian in arm wrestling. god they are STRONG. but i beat daniel!!! haha. ok i cheated lah. just as he was going to beat me, i shouted something to distract him, and he loosened his grip and i quickly flipped his hand over and slammed it down! YEAH MAN! victory for the girls! of course hte girls were cheering me on! and haha the facils were commenting about what an embarrassment daniel was to the male community. peter and vincent were too scared to wrestle with me!
yeah so i had to go off for my match in the middle of camp on sunday but i came back in time for the concluding of the mass, where the parents had to light candles and pass it on to the children. i hugged my dad again and my flame went out. but i got it lighted again using angie's flame. so i went back to my seat and that MOSES JAMES tried to SNEEZE my fire out. idiot! so there we were in the middle of mass, sneaking turns trying to extinguish each other's flame. haha that idiot of a moses. he was trying to blow off MY candle, but he accidentally breathed out too much and extinguished his own flame!!!! i was laughing my ass off! when suddenly, i sneezed and extinguished MY OWN flame! wth. yeah. and then we had praise and worship. my class is usually the damn enthu bunch. the psycho kias. but our parents were there so we had to tone down a little. we were like stones lah. so after mass, we decided to have our own praise and worship. the parents were lingering around too long, so joe passed me the mike and me, being me.. "attention all parents! this is an emergency. we need you to leave the hall immediately. yes, this IS an emergency, please evacuate NOW. before you are bombarded by teenage madness. thank you! NOWWW!" yeah so after the parents left, the real fun began!!! woohoo! we were jumping and screaming and singing like nobody's business. fun. i love my batch. yeah then we had to go home.
i didn't wanna go home!!!! yeah so vincent moses (peter invited himself) and i went to daniel's house to hang out. it was damn fun! daniel's house rocks man. they taught me how to play bridge. i must admit, that moses and vincent are better teachers than my idiots of brothers. yay! I WON! on my first attempt. haha. moses and vincent were playing the guitar and vincent was supposed to serenade me to the tune of "who is that man?". it was hilarious i tell you! it turned out something dumb like "oh deborah oh deborah. you are so very pretty. oh deborah oh deborah. i need you baby. ooh i need you. your eyes sparkle and shine and your hair oh so smooth! your figure..." right about here i burst out laughing. and so does vincent. moses. daniel. everyone else. so we cuckoos were just sitting there on daniel's bed lauhging like idiots. i bet we scared daniel's brother off. because he suddenly scrambled out of the room shaking his head. HAHA. yeah. and then vincent and i were playing prom queen by cascading down the steps of daniel and his brother's double decker bed. yeah i was the girl at first, when we realised that vincent with his macho girliness would make hte perfect prom queen. so i stood at the foot of the bed and help out my hand to him "may i?" and he GIGGLED and took my hand and i had to KISS his. yeah then i led him down the steps so gracefully! HAHA. then we went to the living room and daniel was playing this folk song so vincent and i started doing a folkdance to the amusement of daniel's grandparents. hahahahaha. it was so funny!!! yah then we watched daniel and his brother play xbox for awhile before calling it a day. oh man we intended to stay for one hour and ended up staying for about 3. haha but it was SO FUN! we're gonna crash daniel's house another day and do our guy stuff again! too bad you weren't there sandy coz daniel's BROTHER was there. seriously, i don' see what you see in him. older men are so leychey! i think hanging out with the guys our age like moses and vincent and daniel and joel and nigel and daniel anthony (hands in pocket!!!) is so much funner!!! and more innocent fun too. childish fun! haha. ok whatever. i love you guys!!!!
yeah that's all.
!deb.17-- rgssoftball'05. [church camp ROCKED!]
retardebel 11:35 PM