PLH camp 2007 B.B.C.

man... i'm sooo sad right now... liverpool lost to man utd last night.. sian.. and man utd had like only 3 shots the whole game.. never mind.. i don't really wanna think abt it. let's look at the positives.. we controlled the whole game and had many shots just that we couldnt convert them into goals.. there's still a long way in the season to go and we can catch up.. we have a game in hand over the other 3 big guns.. the way we controlled man utd for the whole second half was encouraging. and the kop sang "you'll never walk alone" at the final whistle again. well.. so far i think arsenal have been the toughest test of the season so far for us. man utd are just real lucky.
anws.. let's look at some happier things.. like the PLH camp! haha. BBC stands for Body Building Camp. (building up the body of Christ)
the first day the campers arrived at 2pm. i actually arrived the night before cos dad had to stay over cos the youth comm stayed over to prepare for the camp. anws.. lydia led worship first and i played drums. after a whole year without playing drums for PLH worship was kinda rusty and made some mistakes with me beat. we got our groupings afterwards and my grp was called Spongebob Squarepants. -.- lol.. so had ice-breakers and then shower! whoo! the second floor guys toilet shower rocks!! the water is real warm and nice. haha. first day was actually kinda uneventful til night time. i led worship. think it was pretty ok. hosanna rocks man! i will lead it again the next time i lead worship. haha. my room was addicted to it the whole camp. ok, mostly the twins and i haha. then it was Dad's talk on building the body of Christ and then the BBC news night! haha. think all the groups had real good presentations! like shane the muscle man, and weng shian with his british voice impersonation haha. then at night the conference room boys stayed up late to talk. actually it was kinda bad cos i was supposed to be in the music room. then those who wanted to stay up late went over to bunk in the conference room. then the music room was for good boys who wanted to sleep early. haha. anws.. the Cake Sai Clan was formed! talked abt some stuff which shouldnt be put up here cos it was mostly the guys' opinions abt girls and stuff LOL. slept pretty late. but we managed to wake up early the next day.
all the boys were up early and went down for morning devotion and breakfast. then we had worship and a second talk by Dad. then it was the outdoor games. think my group handled the tasks pretty well and managed to reach farrer park field the first. (the game was kinda like amazing race) and then it was the flag game. each group had made their own flag and had to protect it. i went on offence, as always, and had to steal other groups flags from their base. actually there was a rule that if u got hit by the water bombs u had to return to base but it was soon ignored and forgotten. lol. so the whole game became a mass scramble in the mud for flags. then i managed to steal the barney group's flag and actually didnt know what to do with it cos the initial plan was just to get the flag and there was no plan of what to do AFTER u got the flag. haha. well.. the PLHers made my mind up for me. RUN. cos once ppl saw i had gotten hold of the first flag, they came chasing after me to get the flag for their own group. o.O so it came to me to get back to base. so ran the whole field and managed to evade everyone else and get a touch down back to spongebob base! team spongebob 1 others 0. haha. in the end there was no final score cos it became so messy and everyone was muddy and stuff. became nothing but smashing mud at each other. lol. all i know was our flag stayed clean and dry the whole time, cos at the end of the game, steve took it out of his pocket and it was as clean as ever. haha. good on ya stevie! then it started to rain and we all went to take shelter at a void deck nearby. when it became real heavy, the water started to flow down the corners of the roof of the shelter. so i took of me shirt and started to wash it and take a mini-bath. soon all the other guys were following my lead and, much to the despair of the girls, our shirts were all clean and we were having a good time bathing. haha. then walked back to church after the rain had stopped. took real baths and changed into our nice formal clothes for the christmas dinner. there was exchanging of gifts and stuff. and the guys had to give roses to the girls haha.. thaddeaus was declared man of the match in the Cake Sai Clan room for giving his rose to angelina haha. takes guts man. even I was shaky in giving my rose to a girl. lol.. then there was worship explosion! some nice songs which uncle alvin led. i was standing with zek, david and steve. could see they were enjoying it, except steve. haha. then we asked for one way at the end, which the band kindly obliged to playing:) then after the worship was that time of night again.. where the Cake Sai Clan gather for funtime! haha..
first up was the ground-wrestling championship! it was a mini royal rumble. (royal rumble is actually 30 ppl, we had 6 guys competing.. so its like.. one-fifth.. haha.. the other boys were too small to play.. Cake sai clan has roughly 10 ppl? me, the twins, zek, steve, shaun wong, jeremy, shane, keng gene, weng shian, yiren, thaddeaus, jon quek (who only slept at the side at night and eavesdropped on our talks lol..) so that's.. abt 13. haha. those competing in the royal rumble were me, the twins, shaun, jeremy and yiren. (zek's leg was injured, steve was sick, and the rest were too small-sized to compete. so they cheered on from the side of the room) lol.. i was drawn as the first guy in, along with jeremy.
rules are: the next competitor enters the fray after one minute intervals, we are not allowed to strike with our hands or kick, only grappling and stuff, to eliminate an opponent you had to pin both his shoulders on the floor.
well.. needless to say, being the first one drawn in, i was afraid of losing my proud record of having never lost a fight.. but i made a good start at jeremy's expense.. pinned him in under a minute.. sorry little bro.. then next in was yiren.. tougher than i expected.. didnt manage to pin him. next thing i knew i was hauled off him by shaun who had entered next. it became a mass brawl as david and jon entered soon after. i dont really recall how yiren got eliminated.. but soon only the big 4 were left standing: shaun, the twins and i.
i was credited as the under-dog, being the smalliest, scrawniest, thinnest guy among the four of us. and shaun is a rugger and the twins lift weights (and plates, now that they are working). so there was a massive size and strength difference. i tell you, i looked pathetic standing in the ring with them. moreover, i had been first to enter, so i was also the most tired..
decided to form a temporary alliance with shaun against the twins cos was afraid they might gang up on me if we eliminated shaun. so we went for david. but soon shaun was preoccupied with jon and i was up against david. somehow managed to pin him. haha. they credit it to me having good tactics and stamina. as well as hidden strength in the scrawny body of mine haha. like i was able to lift and pin them and stuff. as well as being able to stand my ground when we go head-to-head in a pushing battle.
then when david was out i teamed with jon to pin shaun cos we both knew we would have a much tougher battle one-on-one with shaun then with each other. after a long while, we managed to pin both his shoulders on the floor with a combined effort. (one guy on each shoulder. lol) that left me and jon. and like little shane exclaimed: look at the size difference! haha.. and jon had been last to enter too. so he was most fresh. when we went into a test of strength he flung me to the side real easily lah lol..
well.. after minutes of circling each other and analysing the other (actually we were just tired and needed to rest, HAHA.) we grappled with each other. somehow i managed to get jon on the floor and tried to pin him. got one shoulder down but the other one was still up. then after a while he gave in cos i think my knee was on his chest or something. haha. so that made me the Cake Sai Clan ground wrestling champion! lol.. well.. the other 3 guys were pretty stunned by it. but i must say they were good losers and accepted defeat graciously.. i was just relieved to have got out alive. lemme tell you, the three of them are monsters. and that was the toughest fight i had ever been in. (partly cos it was against 5 other guys) after the match couldnt even get up properly. felt like throwing up and my whole body was in pain. we also suffered multiple abrasions on our knees and elbows due to the carpet floor. haha..
well.. all i can say is.. size doesnt matter, and heart and mind are very important too. so to all u small people out there.. get strong in the mind and then transfer it to ur muscles haha. seriously, andrenalin rush made me stronger to pin them haha.
well. after a good bath again, the boys were about to play our nightly round of games. but there was an extra rose in the room! this next part is actually illegal. as guys are not allowed on the girls' floor.. but.. er.. anws.. i was written a script by david and the guys, and we all went up to the girls' rooms. went to the room kym was in and i had to give her the rose after saying some romantic stuff. lol.. well she accepted the rose and we all rushed back downstairs so we wouldnt get caught. k we didnt do anything like peep or what and the whole thing took less than 3 minutes.. but i guess it was still against the rules.. so.. er.. sorry. oh ya, i had given kym my rose at dinner too. some of the guys even took like 5 to 10 roses to give lotsa girls lol.. i gave one to kym and one to my sis. (and one to kym again at night. so that's 3 roses i dished out.) well.. after that crazy stunt, the guys had Round 2 of our night talks. haha. what is said in the room, stays in the room.. well.. we slept at abt 3am.
woke up the next morning for service and i think all the guys managed to stay awake. and checked out of our rooms too. and that was the end of the PLH camp 2007 haha.
well.. it was pretty fun and good lessons were learnt on building the body of the church. good friendships were formed in the Cake Sai Clan too. lol. so i guess it was pretty beneficial. i know most of the guys sure enjoyed it haha. whew.. rocks man..