hey peeps.

just came back from the student council camp 09 yesterday.

and DAMN it was AMAZING! :D

lets start from the begining...

FIRST DAY

first embarked on the camp around 245++ , cos had to go for prayers. well, my group was brainstorming for a group name and stuff, and being a crazy guy i was, i began pouring in the wierdest names i got. namely, retardiots, milo, CSI, etc. LOL, in the end, we settled for MILO.

the
Mighty
Intelligent of the
Leaders
Organisation of BVSS

wohoo.. so after that, we did something which i forgot, and proceeded to the field for some activites. ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, BVSS Council Board managed to accomplished a whopping number of 600 success/buddha claps straight on. success/buddha claps are claps where u gotta:
1) spread out your hands 90degrees frm your body
2) raise it all the way up and clap over you head. arms must remain straight.
3) arms caom back to 90 degrees position. not anywhere lower.

YOU try do 50 first, you'll understand the 'success' of it. well, im proud we all accomplished it. :D

then came the station games. consist of 4 stations (all in field)
1) blindfoldedly go to a tray and grab a blue ball to proceed
2) crawl on your elbows under 'barbed' wire (some string) on wet grass with the instructors spraying water over you
3) grab a ring and pass it person to person in your group. the last person would have to throw the ring to a cone. ring has to enter the cone, if not go back to start. 3 tries.
4) throw a ball at one of four board to knock them down. boards placed a few metres in front of you, balls are unreasonably light. -.-

my group screwed up a lot at stations 3 and 4. we went through station 2 for a total of 12 times. my clothes were soaked in water and grass.

well, activities after that weren't much memorable till at night at 10.
we started doing suicides. you dont wanna know what the are, and how many we did.

>>>fast forward>>>

SECOND DAY


heck. amazing race.


the line in blue is the route we took.

an overwhelming 60km, people.

ok, since i don't have much time, i'll just briefly dictate the various places we had to walk to.

1st stop : BVSS
2nd : Bukit Timah Hill
3rd : A playground somewhere in Clamenti
4th : NUS
5th : Kent Ridge PArk
6th : Henderson Waves
7th : Botanic Gardens
8th : King Albert's Park McDonalds
9th : BVSS

14 hours in total. amazing but true! :D

we had a good dinner after that crazy race; spaghetti with meatballs and stuff. and we ate half-watermelons simply off our own spoons. it was fun, until we forgot to pack it after we ate and went for debrief, coming back one and a half hours' later to an ant-filled watermelon.

so yea.

that night, in the guys sleeping quarters.. well.. simply put, stories were exchanged and things happened.. ;)

THIRD DAY


ok, so this is what we had to do, as motivation.

STEP 1 : write our dreams and goals down on a piece of paper.
STEP 2 : hold it up in front of us, our arms outstretched straight and 90degrees to our body.
STEP 3: hold it up there for 55 minutes, each minute representing a year in our lives to come.

yeah, what you read was write, you werent dreaming. 55 minutes of holding your goals in front of you and staring at it till your arms hurt and your brain scream in protest.

but did we give in?

no.

it was probably one of the wierdest motivating training experience i ever had, but hell. im just 14.

and after that crazy hour, it was time to earn our badges from our trainers. and that's when i cried.

the badges were simple, they were just simple ribbons with the words "you are who which makes a difference in me" . or something. sorry, lost it. :P

so we were supposed to go up to our trainers, grasp hands, and exchange thoughts/thank yous with each other. trainers first, then students. and that was when i finally cried, past all those emotional moments we had, after walking 60 km, after watching my fellow friends' opinions and thoughts being shared as they cried, after everything, i learnt on that day, that a simple thank you could be one with such emotion.

and yes, i said thank you to my trainer and i teared up. i couldn't take it. 'thank you' was all that i managed.

also, i want to thank these following people for everything in the camp:
Naufal
Brian
Leonard
Farid
Jeremiah
Shiva
Fathihah
Gowri
Isabelle
Suharti
my teammates, whose names and special dedications would be typed out once i have the chance and i have reached home. im in my granny's house now :D
my trainer, Ken
and many others, whose names may not be here but they still make a difference to me.


so, with this i end this post.

and thank you very much.