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Friday, December 10, 2004

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Centre of my Life

Got back from youth camp on thurs, as expected with all youth camps (heck and every other camp too) totally crashed out due to massive exhaustion coupled with a caffeine-induced mental hyperactivity glaze, as has been my custom here and there in certain lapses of cognitive function. 12 packets of coffee. Need i say more?

Hmm how about day by day?

Day 1 - Reached church. Think it's the first time that youth camp has been held at the same location for 2 years in a row, so i do pledge as future camp com member to ensure that the thing is held elsewhere next year. Made some really really dumb audio-deprived videos during the settling in, namely one of me dancing, one of a really out-of point fight scene, and others which were noticeably even more mentally-lacking. Thankfully all the videos are now gone. They take up too much space anyway.
Sermon was quite enlightening. Never knew one should as a principle pray BEFORE reading God's word. Interesting how i didn't view it as an academic subject during the past few weeks despite just diving into it. Even then. Made a rather deep impression on my soul and all. Did think the message was a little short though, but i suppose with a youth-modelled message it would only be expected.
Went to bed pondering. Caleb (Mr. Golden Hair) enforced bedtime anyway so yeah, no choice.

Day 2 - Woke up early to bathe/Do QT early so as not to make it conflict with breakfast. QT really touched my heart, with all the parts about how to be wary of your friends and how they would stab you in the back eventually and so on. Reminded me of lots of things that happened this year, and my revelation as of a few weeks ago. Sermon was similarly close to my heart and personal experience.
Then *someone* broke my cam. My dad's cam too. *glares* deprived me of all the potential future happy memories! Urgh. This did lead to some interesting beginnings though, of friendships that is.
After that went off for the Amazing G-race. (Will they ever stop being corny?) At East Coast.. was fun though I think we could have done better on a few of the challenges. No problem though, as we had fun overall. Less tiring than last year too. Of course, came back to church and negated that energy buffer with some floorball. Scored 3 or something like that. :) After some more group rehearsal for Omega Night (explained later), the day, ended, or so i thought.
Well basically the sermon the night before was about following what God has impressed upon you to do. Thus i felt that God was telling me in my heart to rebuke some friends of mine about being serious in camp. Well at first i thought that it would take at most about 30 mins? But since no one came over to seriously emphasize lights out and all, ended up talking for about 3 plus hours, until like 3 plus. Interestingly, said friends actually responded positively, plus some other church people whom i knew on an acquaintance basis came over and joined us? And eventually i became better friends with all of those people. Indeed the LORD blesses those who follow his will...

Day 3/4 (i didn't sleep, so these count as one.)
Well aside from another good round-out sermon, fell asleep in the workshop on world religions cause of said sleeping at 3 the previous night, also cause i knew most of what was being taught. Rather embarrassing though. Then Omega Night comes along, and i have to do the sound/projection on an extremely ad-hoc basis... Still turned out relatively well, even though i wasn't really prepared and stuff. Of course all the skits were really funny, and so that's what counts...
Candlefight was fun as always. unfortunately my cone of protection only lasted for 1 blowout, when it began to cause problems with the candle. Stuck to defense for the rest of the game then. Haha last man standing was much more fun (because i won =)) but anyway did manage to blow out some candles of people who were quite strong and experienced. Thankfully a large part of the people torched out (the aluminium foil protecting the flame caught fire because of the gaseous wax) so that kind of eliminated a substanstial part of the competition. Knocked down 12 sachets of coffee in 1 cup by the way, in order to stay awake. This later proved to be quite a bad decision.
Well then, went to play bridge until about 3 plus after showering and stuff, but the best part is that i managed to convince my friends to play drunken elephant. Heheh. Managed to stay card-less for 2 rounds out of 3! And of course we didn't play the spinning part.
Oh well. Ended the camp on a rather low note due to a certain incident which i am sworn to secrecy about. I did think it not much of a deal though, although that might reflect on my unnaturally liberalistic mindset (and my church is conservative, believe it or not). Ah well. Had to create a scenario for the pastor and stuff. Still, more adversity did help with relationship development in certain areas, also due to the person in question willing to ask my opinion and push the matter.

As for those coffees, went into headachy-light sleep as a result of mental hyperactivity pepping up extreme physical exhaustion. Slept basically the whole thursday away. Whoopee.

Ah well. Overall a thoroughly refreshing experience. Must say i absolutely can't wait to be on this year's camp committee!

"This is what the LORD says:

"Stand at the crossroads and look;

ask for the ancient paths,

ask where the good way is, and walk in it,

and you will find rest for your souls."

Jeremiah 6:16

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