Friday, December 29, 2006
let my words be few
memories of camp/camp comm 2006!
the much-loved brady bunch :)
bonding @ bryner's!
elaine's reallllllly cute dog. i forgot her name :( but she licks anything.
benedict "stabilising" the team
josco enjoying the treatment thoroughly
three lil miss bhbs :D
army cohesion @ costa sands 151206
the term kinky doesn't even come close.
4 generations of ops specs, yoga(4th), staff ho(3rd), teo wen kai(1st), me(2nd)
swee foo and i, good friend and bunk buddy, who sleeps in 5 secs.
paN!cker lost it at 11:53 pm
Thursday, December 28, 2006
sno(r)t
things not to flick around in office(or anywhere really) you can tell how bored we really were. i had a good laugh at the last pic tho :P
paN!cker lost it at 11:36 pm
interlude
the shit has hit the fan, and the only one in the room is me. welcome back to hotel california, such a lovely place, where there's no escape.
paN!cker lost it at 1:04 pm
Friday, December 22, 2006
the online to-do list
might as well make use of technology righht. anyway a quick SHOOOUUUT to those who were involved in one way or another in making my birthday a memorable one, be it through the surprise cake(and resulting cake on face), or just a simple wishing of happy birthday(even if you only knew through friendster i forgive you cos i do that sometimes too hahaha). okok, i'm so tired better get down to this.
1. UNIVERSITY (OVERRIDING ABOVE ALL IMPORTANT STUFF TO DO OVER WEEKEND)
2. sign language song for covenant, need to inform people about prac, which is uh what this post is partly about(anyone wanna sign a song for covenant svc on 31st dec? practice is on 2pm, agape hall, 24th dec)
3. christmas cards (haven't write. jialat! haha)
4. upload pictures (immediate urgency)
5. compile list of attendees for tmr. pray they're sporting and turn up! i suck at organising things haha, left out a whole bunch of people argh.
6. wake up early tmr, QT, then run. and maybe some cards, however unlikely that seems.
okok, toodles!
paN!cker lost it at 11:16 pm
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Father We Commit To You
this is meant for the covenant service, and it's totally awesome. it's actually a wedding song, but take a look and you will realise that it's great for new years as well :) be blessed please as you mull over the lyrics. toodles!
God before us God beside
God within us abide
God in Heaven and in this place
Father we commit to You this day
God in pleasure God in pain
God will ever remain
God in gladness God in strife
Father we commit to You our lives
Chorus :
For we know that You are faithful
Through the stillness and the storm
For You've been with us from the start
Father we commit to You our hearts
and i just realised there is still hope for this fallen world. there is still innocence, hope, and love. if only we'd look in the right places.
paN!cker lost it at 1:45 am
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
the things we think about, not the things we do
i realise i read blogs to find out how and what other people think about, what captures their attention, what they fill their lives with, how they feel and which in turn affects the way they react to everyday situations. it's not so much their activities but what they're thinking while engaging in the acitivites. we aren't all spectacular smoozyfoozy people so the things we do are actually pretty similar and mundane even, but the motivation behind the things we do can get quite interesting. reading blogs gives me a lovely insight into the person itself, something which cannot really be seen just by maybe, observation(unless you are damn leet, or a psychologist). i do enjoy observing people though, especially when i have a God song playing in my ear and i realise everything around me was created by The Maker and these people milling around are all His werk.
You start to wonder how they might be saying different things, living different lifestyles, treating each other differently, if only they had that knowledge of Christ in them. or maybe some do, but yet act like they don't. i wouldn't know.
i slept at 1am, blehhah. that's better than the past two 3ams i've clocked. still, it left me concussed in the bus. i have a mime rehearsal tonight in church! i don't know what it's about, what role i'm supposed to play, but i hope it'll be fun and easy for a first-timer like me! haha
will this Christmas be a different one? i think it might, i'm really looking forward. so ironical haven't had the chance to setup a tree at home and today i'ma be setting one up in office. friday's a half-day! whoopee. and the sun's out. what's up with that? sun?!? is that even possible? pfft, anyway the noose is tightening, the options are in. deakin, UWA, or UQ ? halp halp. i'm weighing UQ against UWA. sigh.
paN!cker lost it at 10:27 am
Monday, December 18, 2006
aiyo soooo tired
slept at like 3am, after staying up ONE HALF to see man u crumble 1-0 at the hands of west ham. first defeat of the season, whywhywhywhywhy! and that's after arsenal and chelsea -almost- lost. such an unfulfilling football weekend. i just lay on my bed a while and boy, did it feel comfy or what. i think i'm returning to its loving arms very soon.
anyway as the memories of camp ebb away slowly, i'd better pen down what i remember before it's lost in the swirls of time.
thursday
after sleeping at 4am, -after- sleeping at like 1-2am for the past week before that, we rose to great expectations of good things to come. elaine so so soooooo kindly put us animals up the night before in her house, allowed us to cook disgusting agar-agar with onions in her pots, and devour all her tubs of ben & jerrys. anyway we rose and while waiting for everyone to gather, started watching this real lame taiwan show soap opera i think, where this mum found out a deadly secret involving her son liking this girl whom his brother also liked or something. this mum proceeded to leak out this sensitive information in discreet manners like screaming it into the toilet bowl or talking in her dreams. please, nobody should ever watch such no-brainer shows, except maybe if you like the hunks or babes inside. why -anyone- would wanna star in such shows, i don't rightly know.
ANNNNNYWAY, elaine ferried us out in two groups, the non-worship team group having to grovel their way to church by bus from main road while the worship team got to enjoy the ride in her car yay! we ended up having like ... 20-30 minutes of practice only la, before registration had to get underway. anyway i pocketed the glory sanctuary key after locking it and promptly brought it to sarimbun with me, bleh. only on the trip there did i realise and sheepishly handed it over to lydia. well, turns out leon was not gonna be there for his team gentleness, so guess who had to stand in as group leader..... moi. i was quite nervous about it, cos in The Race camp i was group leader and i think it was just all in shambles that one. anyway i got all of em to intro themselves. there was like only kerry from our church! there was delci's cousin kenneth, and her friend ben, and two all saints girls. it started slowly but we just played the icebreakers and lydia from all saints was getting owned man! soon we had combined with another group and continued playing, and before very long -everyone- just combined. man that was hilariously fun. we played that running hop game, and i could see the ice was really broken there and then because everyone was at ease in such big numbers. boon called me halfway thru to ask about some stuff that needed buying, and it was just great that someone came to stand in my row, which meant i had to run!! and so i started running somewhere, ANYWHERE, while still trying to maintain a decent conversation with boon, which did not work very well. luckily it was carole chasing, bahahahaha >:)
once at sarimbun, we all settled into our respective bunks, some(like the camp comm) into more livable bunks, others into uhm, other, bunks. i remember we had so little time to prepare for our games, and everyone was frantically searching for their station materials, some of which was not there but in the audi! luckily we had planned the band-making session for the groups, which helped buffer us, barely. delci actually setup her shop where my station was supposed to be, i discovered, after scrutinizing the map noelle made. great. we transferred the watermelons to where they were supposed to be, and i setup my shop with some hasty rafia'ing and masking tape. when the groups came, i think i spent as much time explaining the rules of the game as they played. somehow, they thought the yellow 100-plus was like detergent or some yucky substance that was going to end up on them, but no, i decided to drink it just to prove it was safe. some still weren't convinced. i wonder why. onion agar-agar FTW! all in all the games were still a resounding success, especially for isabel since her station was modified on the spot by her after they realised kicking an empty balloon around was never gonna work. we settled down to dinner, and then session. it was pretty cool that worship was done by all camp comm. members! i liked it quite a bit. i felt especially proud of noelle cos in practice, she was like all out at sea because either she couldn't hear us, or she couldn't get the transitions right. but on that night, she got all that together, save for one beat(from which she quickly recovered), in front of everyone. this proves that God really does use our hands and our feet, as long as we are willing to let Him use us. we all knew we weren't the best of bands out there, but we were there for one reason, to praise God and lead others to praise Him, and God really enabled us to do just that. after that, we were introduced to pastor gary. he's such a colourful character that tired as everyone was(or maybe just the camp comm), i found myself quite awake. he was all of like "yes! i did it! i had sex!" which kinda got all of our attention i guess. from the start he was driving home the point that sex and matters related to sex are actually ok to talk about in church, and -should- be covered in church, instead of out there. it was refreshing. gary pointed out daryl at once, about how daryl welcomed him warmly to the tune of "aren't you like too young to be in a youth camp?". what touched my heart was how God had a message for daryl that he was loved for who he is, and he doesn't have to try to do anything to earn God's love. it's especially poignant when i know the family that daryl comes from. his bro daniel was my Victoria classmate and close friend, and there's been rough patches for them. my hope and prayer is that daryl's lifestyle would eventually cause daniel to turn to the Lord as well, and enable healing to come in! they're a pro-gaming family; daryl has had experience playing warcraft at top levels, while daniel is like PR/marketing/media manager for Team RageFaction, one of the bestest clans in singapore for wc and cs.
friday
the second day started with exercise! wei liang and i had the pleasure of limbering the campers up for the day ahead, and we did so with gusto, doing some simple stretching before making them duckwalk to trees(don't ask) and then do a quick duckwalk past us. just cos i said the last one would get something special, ALL of them cheated and practically ran past me and wei liang. all except one that is, winson!!! he's is like teh man la, he was the only one really duckwalking. after chiding the campers through the loudhailer for lack of integrity, we let them off to get their stuff for breakfast.
the setup for the amazing race and miscellaneous station games was far better. we got going early, and i helped delci put up a chachat spiderweb haha. for amateurs it was commendable i feel. my station was whale watch, which required zero setup since that is one of the stations already there. it's this nice large metal platform like a seesaw, which has to be balanced with the whole group on board. amazingly the record's like 17 minutes with 15 people! wowowowow. there was a minor incident when sarah's group came to play. as they were gettin off the platform, sarah was coming down one side and ainsley and benedict were fooling around on the other side. what resulted was that they practically flipped sarah off the platform! her shin hit the edge of the platform as she fell off onto the grass, and i was speechless for a while. by God's grace she only suffered a deep but very small puncture wound. i was quite pissed with the boys, but of course being mr nice guy i didn't like blast them to outer space but i told em to stop all that nonsense, especially since they were like the only guys in the group. and of course i was pissed with myself for not enforcing safety grrrr. so that's why from that group onwards i made it a point to TELL them to board and get on all at one side. lydia's group came soon after, and as usual lydia was superwoman. as soon as she saw sarah and realised what had happened, she chionged to the dining tent to get the first aid kit and came back to gently apply all kinds of different stuff on the wound before plastering it. i was like awed. here she is, covered in white flour such that she looks like she's 80, and sitting there gently applying antiseptic and whatnot, all the while explaining her actions and asking if sarah's hurting. wow. nuff said.
anyway, winson's group came up with the innovative PUNG! method of balancing the platform. they split themselves rather equally on either side by weight, and starting PUNG!ing their way to one and a half minutes i think. whenever the platform was going left, the right side people would PUNG! their butts down to bring it back, and vice versa. i was so tickled at one point when the other side PUNG!ed too much and the gamer in him was brought out unconsciously.
*platform starts dipping winson's side*
*rightside people start PUNG!ing, but too violently*
winson:PUNG!PUNG! no don't spam your PUNGS!"
haha, good stuff. the highlight of that day was coming right up, with the secret plot to dump dear SK in the mudpool mercilessly, muahahahah. we were all activated via walkie-talkie about 1715hrs. i got there just in time to see SK being grabbed from all corners by like 20000 people. or maybe it was just five. anyway i did my part by trying to jab his side to make him release his hold on someone's shirt. it didn't work, since he was too tensed up and his muscles were like all .. tensed! apparently isabel pretended to sprain her ankle to lure heroic SK to the rescue(just so happened that the rescue had to be beside the pool), while josco tried to convince SK to get the first aid kit(how first aid kits help sprains, i don't know. and that's where SK got a bit suspicious, lol) anyway he was overpowered and duly flung into the pool. yipee! everyone was so happy when that happened. i laughed along, really enjoying the atmosphere, until hmmm, i realised the environment was changing fast. the politics of mudpoolism were at play i quickly discovered. i retreated to a safe spot ACROSS from where everyone else was, to observe my cousin observing how noelle was quite clean, and oh how everyone was spick and span. in quick succession noelle, amanda, june, isabel, delci joined in the fun in the pool!(order of dunking courtesy of amanda's blog) i was quite happy that i was on THIS side and not that side.
i realised that hey, i'm like the only one not in, along with huiyi, who really was nowhere to be found. i decided to change into my crap clothes, in case attempts on my life were made. and so they were, rather half-hearted, but still it left my brisk walking club t-shirt with a sexy hole la, basket. i seriously didn't mind going in, but nobody was willing to work for it, so i remain clean! :D i couldn't have possibly just walked myself into the pool could i, that's like .. quite cheap man.
saturday
it began with exercise once again, this time with MORE stretching and some alternating jogging/sprinting on the spot. we also made the campers race to this meteorological tower at the far end of the field and back. for the last bit, we decided to incorporate the GREAT GREAT Singapore/Noelle workout into it, thanks to noelle's inspired suggestion. haha it kinda fell flat when the camp comm. got the sequence and no. of repetitions wrong, but at least we were embarrassed TOGETHER so bahhhhh ok.
noelle, isabel, and i had to leave for baptism/confirmation retreat, so off we went. i was expecting to be like sleeeping the whole journey, but in the end we played silly bus-games(or so they called them!) with noelle and her cell. i suck at the country/state game lor *makes note to start memorising countries*. somehow i cannot think of many countries starting with A. a lot of countries end with N though i realise. pastor vincent is really lame!! but he's so cute and funny at the same time through the lame jokes that we forgive him! haha, he started off sharing about temptation with his tale of someone who is fasting and praying for the iraq war but ends up eating the banana that he tries so hard to avoid eating. i shan't go into details but he really made it a long descriptive process. we all got the point though, about fleeing from temptation and not hanging or chillin with it around. after the retreat, the confirmation people got back on the bus, while the baptism candidates went to Christ sanctuary to check out their baptism pool.
while heading back, we found out that it was storming at sarimbun and outdoor cooking had turned into outdoor indoor cooking(whatever that means)! i had the chance to share with sue-ann's friend matthew about life in army, and hopefully i helped paint an accurate picture of bleak and morbidness, haha! no la, i told him you just gotta stay positive, and actually realise that BMT may really be the happiest times of your NSF life! noelle was awesomely tired because within like 5 secs of settling into her seat she was out cold on shin yee's shoulder. shin yee herself also sleeping la, but i could see noelle was like, WASTED =)
we arrived back and everything was like midway through, cans of food everywhere, groups having their maggi mee and our camp comm. sneakily behind cooking my stanchart pasta and pasta sauce and the cream soup and cheese sausages and the mozarella. wow just typing brings back memories, and a slight hunger hmmm. it was so rich man! really good stuff. thanks wei liang! after some simple cleaning up of spilled food, huien and i think andrea, very very kindly offered to clean up the place after they were done eating and shoo'ed us away to session.
SK arrowed me the moment i stepped in to emcee the group skits. i was a little taken aback, but i thought what the heck, stranger things have happened, so i did it. man it was fun poking fun! i thought the groups all did rather well in the little time they had to prepare for the skit. it's our greatest regret that the skits weren't taped down. we finished the skits promptly, and carried on with the message for the night.
it was somewhere friday-saturday that i realised camp was ending so quickly. because we were all in the camp committee especially, there was hardly any time to breathe, and time just flew past us in a blink. i felt a tinge of sadness that it was ending this quick, after the two months or so of intense preparation. i looked around at the committee, and knew that we had indeed become friends, and for some not just friends, but close friends even, simply through this camp. i realised these were people i could really depend on, really laugh with, or even cry with, and share stuff with. they were family. they ARE family. you guys ARE family! and i thank you from the bottom of my heart for that.
after the session, i took chloe's group for the e-web(why is it called e-web??? it's not done online that's for sure. till today it is a mystery, albeit one that doesn't really need solving). after they were nicely entangled, i explained that this is what being in Christ means, what being in a ministry means. we are all part of the same body, and by affirming each other regularly we build each other up in confidence and trust. when tough times come a knockin', it's these invisible ties that bind that hold us firm and keep us standing. it's always good to know you are appreciated, that your efforts have not been in vain. only after explaining did i feel like God had just taught me something, because i hadn't given the e-web much thought before that! haha how weird, like God teaching me, through, uh, me. we adjourned to the dining tent for supper and just hanging out time.
at 12am, we tried shoo'ing everyone to bed, a little unsuccessfully, because unknownst to them, there were 2am night/morning(depending how u see it) games coming up. it was really exciting to me at least, but in spite of our plans from long ago to have night games, we only thought up the games like, the day before camp, SK noelle and i, while waiting for Carrefour to deliver our foooood. therefore, the plans were slightly sketchy, and not very watertight. i'm just so glad it wasn't me having to wake the grumpy guys up! =D turns out all the guys really slept but the girls were mostly still up, being the girls that girls are.
we led them out, like lambs to the slaughter, out onto the road. after gathering them and ensuring attendance, we played noelle's fast rendition of our national anthem through the loudhailer. i was surprised because most of the people actually participated and started singing along. before that, i was in two minds whether they would choose to sing along or like stone us to death at that stage for waking them up for that. turns out that there were a several who would have gladly chosen the stoning :P after that, we started the games, and like zombies they gamely played.
i was at the blindfold trust walk, and the gameplan was to fake them into thinking there were obstacles when really there wasn't anything at all we put on the road. the first group had this spoiler kid who took off his blindfold and saw there was nothing. he was like "hey come on guys there's nothing! they're leading us nowhere!" or something like that. i could have wrung his neck there and then. talk about being a sport! but nvm, i thought about it, and suggested making the two groups participating use each other as obstacles. that went fairly well i think, because now there were real obstacles in the way, and, these obstacles were human. overall, i had plenty of fun leading the groups through the blindfold walk, and the anthem and everything in general, even though we now realise we should have not enforced lights out, because the feeling after falling asleep and -immediately- waking up again really sucks. really really sucks. we made several groups with awesome ballet dances strut their stuff, in the process having a ball of a time laughing. we closed the session with a "flag lowering" national anthem, complete with pastor joshua saluting a pole smartly. this time the people sang with more gusto, having been warmed up from the games.
the camp comm. slept around close to 0600hrs, and woke at 0730 - 0800. i was just so bushed that i just washed my face and brushed my teeth before collapsing in bed.
sunday
sunday was pretty much packing and packing and packing. once again i was emcee for prize-giving, after which we took some REVAMP CAMP 2006 photos! and then it was over. they loaded up on buses back to church, while the committee stayed back to help pack stuff back to church. half of us went back first after that, while the other half stayed back because apparently out food tent cleanliness had failed. we swept and swept the sand out for like over an hour, before finally we actually made our way back to base. june did a really good job vacuuming the auditorium, and it was practically the only place that passed the stringent sarimbun scout cleanliness test.
and so, just as good things come, they move on as well, and like pastor gary said, things will go back to normal. but our hearts should not. they should be impacted permanently to great effect. i think mine was. let's just wait and see. what i'm certain of is that God has already planted a seed in each and every heart. it's just a matter of us wanting to let the seed grow, or just stifling it before it can grow. and so i have rambled for what seems like a year. i have not plagiarised much from other blogs, so yay for that! i'm sleepy and sleepy need sleep. catch you guys when the sun rises.
chris
paN!cker lost it at 11:59 pm
Friday, December 15, 2006
hmm hmmmm
Get Your Cyborg Name
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
butterflies in the stomach
yup i've been fizzying(er yea new word) since camp. i see God at work, i see God at play, in every way. just like my trusty voiceover mentioned coupla days ago, it's been different since. i wake up expectant, and i start chatting with God when i'm alone(that does -not- make me psycho pls). take today for example. i got out of the house JUST IN TIME to catch 75 tryna sneak away. i saw that it was 0745, so high chance of getting to work on time even with the super long trip. so i took 75, and i was glad because i knew that after ngee ann, i would get a seat and it would be mine all the way to work. usually i just take 184 to clementi and switch to train, practically STANDING all the way. i slept at 1am, while i've been sleeping before 12 after camp, so i thought uh oh tired day fighting z monster again.
anyway, i got my seat on the right directly in front of the back row(which is the most spacious wewt), and i whipped out my notebook and kinda started doing devotion there in bus. el oh el. well, basically, it was good. i've been constantly reminded of Ecc 4:9-12, where two is better than one, and a cord of three ain't easily broken. this is the way forward for us people in Heartbeat, or any other ministry, and for the church as a whole. we gotta band together as one, and live as one. stamp out ignorance, indifference, and pride, because all these things will hinder us from banding together. i read the bible, prayed a lil, then settled to read a book. awesome.
upon arriving at work, gen beseeched me(beseeched, lol) to go deposit a cheque(not mine tho) for magenta, as well as take a train to tanjong pagar and visit the CPF building to get some initial CPF contribution for the company done. woot, ok. i felt especially weird and a little proud of the fact that as everyone was hurrying to raffles place to work, i was practically the only one nonchalantly taking the escalator the other way. i got to tanjong pagar and realised the two stations were so close i coulda walked, bleh. turns out all i had to do was deposit the dang envelope with the cheque and forms, so that went rather quick. i decided to take a stroll back in the morning sun. i enjoyed it thoroughly. it's these little things that make life interesting. after much unhurried strolling, i got back and gen was like "wow so fast". it took barely half an hour i think. so then i settled back into monotonous work. but it's almost lunchtime and surprisingly i don't feel sleepy yet, hurray.
i shall talk more about the camp when i have time, there's quite a bit to cover and i don't really know where to start. maybe i shall cut/paste from everyone's blog. HAHA.
toodles
paN!cker lost it at 11:46 am
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
what chris took home from REVAMP 2006
hello all you no-lifers! just glad that yor doin fine. haha ok joking, annnnnnnnnyway, let's see what God did in christopher's and everyone else's lives. *dig's out notes*
while i dig out the notes for chris, let's just see what expectations chris came into camp with. he came into camp very very sleepy, partly because some of them prayed till 4am in the morning, and partly because he was averaging 1-2am bedtimes the past two weeks to a month. he was spending quite a bit of time on utopia holding two accounts(he dropped one sometime before the camp), honour whoring with his kingdom to the top before the kingdom was taken apart by mehul's deletions cus cr0n0 kept cross-logging to win the wars. cheating never got anyone anywhere. prior to the camp, chris handed over the account to cr0n0, just as the kingdom was entering war with 7:13, the hardest war yet. chris worried a little over how the war would turn out, but in the wee hours of war before he left for camp prep, he saw that it was good. high-threat provinces were down to barely 100 acres within hours of war start, and cr0n0 was leading the charges well. kingdom emancipation looked to have the upper hand. anyway, due to the game, chris was having little time for anything else, waking up at unearthly hours(often unsuccessfully) to make hits in war. this affected his desire to exercise regularly and pay more attention to important stuff like .. STUDIES!?!? and .. REST FOR WORK !??! the theme of Godly manhood and Godly womanhood for camp appealed greatly to chris, with such hot topics on lust, relationships and Godly living. he was looking for a real change, but he didn't know the extent to which it would come. he now hopes that this change is permanent. OR ELSE, i will personally set a thousand lemmings upon him. ahh here the notes are.
MENTORSHIP
somehow guys need mentors; i don't think this means girls don't need mentors, but guys need em more because they don't talk as readily about sensitive issues as girls do all the time, anytime. chris wondered for some time already how come he never had a mentor, but it was easier to sweep it under the carpet this issue, rather than face it. just as gary mentioned, private struggles are very hard to win. and so chris lost most of the time, boo to that. chris learnt the importance of having mentors around, to remain accountable to, to share with during the week, and to speak words of rebuke or encouragement or advice into lives.
MADE TO LEAD
chris also had the revelation from gary that guys were made to lead! *collective gasp* they aren't to be wussies, playing hide and seek and wasting away. they are to "step up" and be counted both at home, and in the church. otherwise, the church(which is made up of people) cannot be strong. there was no running away now. chris was pretty sure at that point that he was a guy, so it only meant that he had one option left, to step up. this made him realise that his dad had practically relinquished the role as head of the household for too long now, and his mum was burning out tryna hold the reigns. something had to be done.
SEX... EEEEEEEYER? NOT REALLY
of these three things, sex, alcohol, drugs, only sex was God-given and made to be pure. how ironic. thanks ta wei liang for that revelation. sex was part of God's plan for the human race. it was given for husband and wife to strengthen and enjoy the union of their hearts and lives. unfortunately, too little churches or families ground their kids in the ways of sex and what it means, so kids get their definitions of sex from [hormones.internet.TV.movies.MTV.celebrities.magazines.adverts.peers] instead of the Bible. the way to keep pure is to starve the sex drive, chris quickly learnt, because the more we feed it, the less chance you have of stayin within God's boundaries.
KEEP YOUR WATER TO YOURSELF
that's right, chris remembered lending his bottle out many times for the thirsty to drink from it, and so i guess in that aspect his water wasn't very well kept. HOWEVER, that's not really the message chris is trying to bring here. THE point chris took note of was that ironically, a woman who turns many men on may be desired or lusted after, but won't be respected and valued as she hopes.
LIKE A GOLD RING IN A PIG'S SNOUT IS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITHOUT DISCRETION. <-- gold this
TRUE GODLINESS
it's not about being perfect, because not many people qualify if it was that way. it's actually the refusal to give up the fight for truth and purity, through setbacks and defeats. it entails a lifestyle of continual repentance and accountability.
the heart of chris was mushed up and remoulded by God this camp, so let us all pray that he keeps on the straight and narrow with the grace of God his sole source of strength and hope. he hopes to be a better son to his mum, eventually bring dad back to life, and just really live life.
the end(though there will be more)!
p.s. chris' remaining account in utopia got deleted after yet another victorious smashing victory over the laopok 7:13, due to the unwise and terrible cross-logging techniques employed by cr0n0 during the war. the kingdom got back to #1 for honour, but it only attracted mehul's attention, which promptly got three provinces deleted. chris is rather happy with the way things turned out. kingdom emancipation, emancipated yet again. it was good while it lasted but top notch utopia'ing requires players to be committed to having little to no life =P chris wishes cr0n0 AKA syed and emancipation all the best. go kick Gen butt, though that may be a little tougher without chris around, HAHA.
paN!cker lost it at 9:47 pm
Sunday, December 10, 2006
give you praise, yea the praise goes out to you
thank you God, for everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
paN!cker lost it at 10:09 pm
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
and so it is
that the time for Heartbeat youth camp is here! yay. tiring, but so much fun, and so much joy to plan and pray for. wow, time flies. there's still so much to do, but we're gonna do it tmr, or rather today. this team has indeed been blessed by the divine touch of the Lord; such was the quality of material churned out at speed for the camp. of all the commies, i've been the most of a bystander i guess, coming in as "advisor" and factually leaning towards logistics with wei liang, haha. that means i got quite a light load, and i get to see everyone producing the goods and giving their all. Catch everyone in 5 days!
All God's blessings be a showerin' on ya'll.
chris
paN!cker lost it at 1:50 am
Sunday, December 03, 2006
the day of mutilation
today was a sad day indeed for Pooh, resident bear of the youth room. i felt my heart sink as crazy girls explored every inch of his body (amanda even dared to question his sexuality ... sheesh!) and gave him tattoos and cyan-coloured ear piercings that looked like mould growing on him. sad sad.... :(
uhm yeah let's start .. from the start shall we? i ran 10km in the stanchart marathon today! so yea i didn't run a marathon but a quarter of it, what a fruitcake you must be thinking. well i only trained up till 10 and 21 is a killer without training so there you go. got a lift to josh's place early morn, and jiu jiu gave us a lift to city hall. we started in the middle somewhere, such that our run only started like .. 4 minutes into the run. it was his first 10km, so i kept pushing in small amounts to pace him. all was fine till the 6km mark, when i could feel the puncture through his change in pace. i slowed down and we continued(bad stitch on his part). it was tough going but he really stuck in there to keep going without stopping. at the 8-9km mark i told him i'd make a dash for the finish, and so i did. it was surprisingly how lethargic i felt when i started opening up. i just hung in there, and chionggged the finish line with glee. josh also sprinted the last part, and he came in ~ 2 minutes later. not counting the starting 4 minutes wasted, both of us managed to run under an hour! i'd say that's awesome for a 10km first-timer. we both took 111 to ghim moh, ate some breakfast and made our way to church to shower. just great that when my mum offered to settle my towel, she meant put it back in the bathroom, not my bag. so i showered and practically air-dryed myself, only using josh's towel to dry my hair. good stuff -_-
lily was in church today, and like wow we get to see her once in six months ?! some miscomm. ensured that lily dined with her poly friends and not us!! so after cell and photos and sad goodbyes in holland v BK, she made her way.
after a hurried lunch, boon very very kindly ferried me to clementi to join SK and wei liang in buying misc. logistic items for camp before ferrying us back to church. thanks boon! :) chaos ensued, as it always does, as we joined the girls who were cutting out the stencils for spraypainting name tags. we sat on the grass in a sort of circle and started spraying the name cards. the highlight of that activity was prolly me getting shat upon by an errant bird. it splattered on my right shoulder and left me very distraught. it looked kinda like the McCrispy chicken chilli sauce, and i did not like the sight or feel of it as it soaked into my t-shirt. actually that was nothing compared to the humiliation of crazy people laughing at me :( but since they're crazy, i guess it's ok. crazy people laugh at anything! =D
we're such forgetful people, i thank God for reminding us of stuff we forget to buy; well anyway delci and i had to go back to clementi(after huanyang had already made one trip there to get some stuff) to pick up colour papers and extra tag holders. returning to church, wei liang got busy spraying the extra cards and the rest of us started to cut the extra name holders up and proceeded to throw them away before realising that we had just bought them for a purpose cut the six-in-one namecard holders into individual pieces. i think the spraypainting went REAL well. it looks awesome the design.. got the street look. after delci had to go for dinner with family and cousins, it's like the heavens opened and noelle and amanda went like... bonkers. of course noelle is generally always bonkers, but WOW amanda! i shan't attempt to mention the atrocities she committed on Pooh, poor yellowfellow.
i'm just ultra happy that the camp comm. has bonded beyond all expectation on my part, a little too much in some places haha but hey i won't complain =]
1. need to sort out night games tho.
2. till i see the running script of the whole camp i won't be at ease, partly because i have not read every entire document yet and because there are so many changes it gets confusing. soo oyeah..
God is indeed awesome and faithful in this time. All my delight is in YOU Lord :)
/much love
chris
paN!cker lost it at 9:09 pm
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