Pre-Genting (Written on Sunday)Mostly about LDC , while most of the LDC ppl are busy running around CCK cemetery now or perhaps pitching tents beside the fish farm. Oh well going Genting tmr...
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Somethings probably wrong with me If I start wishing I could stay with the LDC camp instead of Genting.... after all overseas Choir trips have brought many fond memories, living in comfort rather than facing the cold showers, the fatiguing hike and lack of sleep , L T/D C isnt nicknamed Leadership Torture/Death camp without reason ...
maybe .... because of ... you..... I wanted to stay. .
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a Futher frustration.... Mdm Ranjee explicitly banned me from bring my guitar during the trip...
sian, I dont want to part with my guitar for 5 days =(
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Post genting post
Eitherway
Friday : After choir at 1:30P.M , made my way to Vivo City to watch a movie/ shop for hike stuff with Kenneth... no expectations on who was turning up.
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other Ppl around: Jack, Jerome, Kenneth,Yang Jian, Christine,
Amanda-
Makan at Burger King... ok , watched Shrek 3 and then guided them to Giant to do Hike groceries shopping... lol am I the only on among the group who knows my way around Vivo?
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after that... made the way back to school via 166 for advance party (aka Hike and spiritual Blueprint briefing)
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Hike briefing was quite uneventful although it sort of made me half glad I wasnt staying over, what with saying that the sleeping point may be flooded etc
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Spritual Blueprint-
Okay... Charles Ng was quite... serious about this.... told us to settle any problems among ourselves before the camp, unconfessed sins, grudges, bitterness... and pray for Wing Hing.
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After which I decided to stay over that night ; I originally had wanted to go home and rest before the camp. In the end I called my sis and told her to bring the camp stuff over.
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and after that 2 people spoke to me , Kenneth sort of apologised for his bluntness at times...
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and Xunliang sort of talked to me and a lot of things suddenly made sense. Yet it also made me more confused... ...
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Confirmed a suspicion I had been having for a long time but dare not to believe... ok i dunno whether I should be happy or sad about that. although it made me glad in a sense but it also made me feel rather... confused and uncertain.
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sat under the moon light at the sec 1 corridor at the centre gazing at the moon and wondering...
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Later on Oliver Loke asked for orders or McDonalds breakfast the next morning.
I ordered a Big breakfast and specifically requested for Milo Peng, since i normally dont like hot drinks.
a Number of us also took orders ...
went to sleep in the blue level classroom after that at around 230 am
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Saturday :woke up at around 630 am and went for the day briefing. After which I proceeded to the SAC to eat my McDonalds breakfast.
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and Amanda pops by also to collect her breakfast but she has to pray at that slot XL designated in the prayer room... so she bins the breakfast up with her
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ok and i gave my Milo peng away... to her when she wanted it... out of my own free will... and settled for tea instead... ...
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went up to the prayer room after that... prayed along with Tim and Kenneth for the Camp as well as prepared the room a bit
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joined the sec 2s for check in time and watched as they rushed to prepare their uniform room
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After that the sec 2s went for drill while the primers either followed them or followed Xunliang to polish up their drill. Followed XL and watched the Girl primers learning how to salute properly for about 10 minutes
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went over to the prayer room after that for my prayer slot.... Gods presence was quite comforting in the room... felt quite peaceful as I prayed for the camp
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after that... group time and makan time... spent some time talking with Shane Russell and Ben Liau... and Ben Liau as usual was quite quiet... and seemed paler than usual... I was suspecting he wasnt feeling well.
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after which the sec2s went for a leadership talk with Oliver Loke while the primers either spent some QT with God or joined them... I decided to go back to the Prayer room.... and did a bit of QT
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after that hour , Mr Ng suddenly forces us to come down to admin room and imposes a forced Siesta on a number of us, most of us were still over tired after WoW . anyway I joined their rest as I was sort of feeling rather tired
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After the rest, Worship prac with Christine, Tessa and Tim.
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Worship after that, and didn't have time for dinner.
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He has made me glad, And I'll say of the LordYou are my shield, my strenght,My portion, deliverer, my shelter ,Strong tower , My very present help in time of need-
Ate my dinner during the supper time after that...
And found out that Ben Liau was sick... ok... oh well
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after that a not very brief, debrief ended around 1
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Wash up etc ... was about 130 after that...
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went wandering around... and saw Charles Ng and Wesley in the Sec 2 uniform room , chatting about... Charles Ng's former BGR problem... ok... joined them until about 235
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popped by the prayer room again and saw Amanda there doing her prayer slot...
Went in and read a passage in my bible.
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At around 245 she gets up to leave the room. I looked up a while and saw her exit the room.
she turns back and ... I dunno either way I could have sworn I saw her smiling a bit briefly before she left the room... or maybe my overtired eyes was playing tricks with me-
I stayed in the room until about 315...
then i decided to go back to sleep ... super tired.
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Sunday: woke up at 7 am. spent time with the sec2s for Group QT along with Kenneth, Noah and Amanda who were in the same LDC Group as I was in. Kenneth did most of the talking... it was about lust and sexual sins
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I guessed it was kinda inappropriate to talk about such sensitive issues in front of a girl, probably that as why there wasnt much sharing.
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closed with worship in which I played the guitar...
You are my strenght when I am weak.
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after that....
went wandering around a bit before retuning to the Prayer room and found Tim, John and a few others there. Tim was playing the guitar and were having a short time of worship and prayer.
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Breakfast and Church
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Found out that one of the sec3 hike groups dissolved... and Tim thought it was ours... I half wanted to join the sec2s especially Kenneth's/Shane's/Russell' s/Amanda's group
and yet was feeling uncomfortable about that
In the end the group wasnt dissolved... so i didnt have the option... thank God eitherway
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Hiking in Converse sneakers, the most blistering painful experience ever. By the time we reached dinner point I could barely walk. Kept running into Christine's and Mr Sim's Group along the way. but didnt meet Kenneth's group at all. Luckily I didnt have to continue on night hike... so i went home and rested and got ready for Genting.
Genting was Boring and sian for the most part, the "City of Entertainment" entertainment was either restricted(casino and outdoor theme park), Expensive (LAN at 15 RM, Arcade, Pool) or plain boring(indoor theme park).
only form of entertainment I had was excessive playing of bridge , hearts and Ti Tee, as well as window shopping(the stuff are way too expensive to purchase esp since I only had 50 RM left after day 1 due to the spending of close to 100 RM in food and arcade urcahses during free and easy at the first day) , in which my shopping mates (other choir guys) are excessively bad at. Apparently I'm one of the only few guys that actually enjoy shopping.... lol.
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the fun part was probably the performances we gave , ended up performing 2 times more than we expected, performing for friendship concert and closing ceremony, even performing Janger ... zzz singing alto again after 6 months of singing tenor isnt much fun.
the camera... sweeping across the face of the choir, revealing people expressing themselves in songs some in a comical manner that lead to a lot of laughter. and the stunned expressions after our loud stamps for choreography as well the stunned looked even at the start while walking in, we were easily double the size of the other choirs (haha in contrast with SYF where we were the smallest JC choir).
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But annoyingly , a certain Nan Chiao High School had to beat us in the competition by 1 point grrr... so much for playing cheat with the piano that would result in better intonation(for music dinosaurs, that means your note pitch) ... we were the only choir singing A Capella(again for the music dinosaurs, that means singing without accompaniment) .
we got 84.5 points(Gold B) they had 85.5(Gold B)
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And bouts of sianness , thinking of the LDC camp in progress as well as
thinking of..... while drinking a banana milkshake coffee from Starbucks, and while simply standing by the lift lobby gazing at the Genting mountain scenery outside,and even while warming up just before the competition....zzzz
now isnt the correct time.... get into the mindframe of performance, not a time to let your feelings drag you away.....-
oh well.... back now... so I need to chong chem pracs by 11 june ... before I go for a cruise.
