I'm back.

so, as always, let's start from the beginning.

Day one.
went to bre's house in the morning to help lug the water dispensers. lazed around in the house and watched casanova and played fifa. casanova is a damn horny show which people like jireh will enjoy. haaha.

then went to the chalet to dump the things and then bre and i made our way to the pasir ris mrt and found most of the youth, if not all, waiting there already. IMPRESSIVE. hahah. yeah. so my dad and uncle guo tsing ferried the youths back to the chalet.

discussion at night was saved brilliantly by shaun. he scrapped the materials and just began sharing about his life as a christian and stuff. very thought-provoking. and then he invited various people up, including me, to share stuff too.

Day two.
day two is the day where you just learn to love God for holding back the rain so we could have our outdoor games. played captains' ball in our groups; oh. and bytheway, my group is like. wow. ivan,austin,bernice,charlotte, shaun, cheryl. to be in the same group as shaun, cheryl and ivan for captains' ball was... fun man. won all our matches including the final against joshua wong's group and came back from a 4-2 deficiet with two minutes remaining and won 6-4. nubbad huh.

but i guess many lessons could be learnt from this. especially me. i need to stop taking the game so seriously and really should start to learn how to let others have and enjoyable game too. aye. that's probably my biggest weakness. i'm too serious about things which are in fact, trivial. a learning point, i guess.

Day three.
messy games and fluid transitions. that's what happened today. the games were great, really great, thanks to cheryl. me and bre were in the "you-name-it-we-got-it" category. means. we were soaked in barley mixed with honey, covered with watermelon pulp and juice, peanut butter in our ears, papaya skin in my underwear. good stuff man.

transitions for the various events were rather fine, and the game after the break was GOOD. teams were required to move aound to find six different station masters, who gave them a task to do, together with a clue. teams had to join up three clues to find the location where they had to proceed to to find a shop selling water bombs.

a lowly place where giants lie,
where stench tis foul and insects fly;
blooming appples might be found,
together with loud thunder rounds;
alas-- this mystery comes to end,
meet a foe, perhaps a friend.

answer? the guys' room. 'lowly' used to mean that it's on the first floor. 'giants' would refer to me and joshua wong. 'blooming apples' would mean the adams' apples of those guys who haven't broken their voices and 'thunder rounds' would be referring to the guys voices, which sound like thunder. ingenious eh?

game was planned at like 2 in the morning by, shaun, shawn, jingy, jeremy, cheryl and me. i came up with the poem. cool huh. hahaha.

night worship was truly. wow. with only three guitars and a djembe drum, we managed to create the atmosphere for worship. and then we came to the song "i can only imagine". we just broke down after the worship. i mean. think about it. to have that indescribable feeling not just for an instant, but forever. aye. beautiful.

stayed up the whole night, thanks to starbucks and the bunch of people. fun time la. i was so high because of the coffee and the tiredness that i went into uncontrollable giggles. i mean giggles. high pitched series of laughs. heh.

Today.
went to church by the chartered bus and fell asleep during service. bre sat beside me and basically worked as my alarm clock. and then i had this really superb idea of chewing gum to keep myself awake. so the MOMENT i took out the gum and put it in my mouth, pastor sng was like: "let's rise for this closing hymn!" i was like. ohmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. heh.

then went to subway to have lunch. our youth ministry is becoming way more interesting, as cliques are broken. as in BROKEN. and it's becoming wonderful, what we've always dreamed about. today was the first time for the rest of our lives.

i'm tired but freaking happy:D