BB Reflection: Part 1

Just came back from GAC camp...it was a wonderful experience and i truly enjoyed every moment of the camp...even the bad moments :P

As Mr Sim had promised...GAC wasn't so torture orientated, in fact, i thought that the sec 2s got it tougher than us this round. I can't seem to remember the old days in sec 1 and sec 2...but everyone says that we got it really tough in LTC 1 and 2.

Maybe it's something abt me not remembering sec1 and sec2....those were the years when BB was not yet an important part of my life, besides fab and ding...i hardly had frens in bb or anything and i was always one of those GEPers who didn't associate with the mainstream...practically an outcast. I felt wad really changed BB for me was the introduction into the guild council, suddenly i started to know more ppl and i interacted more with them, the retreat was also an integral part of this. Sec 3 BB life has been memorable so far....i hope it'll be with me till the end

Camp Recount....some noteworthy events that were unforgettable:

1) Operation: TROMBONE. Johannes's brilliant plan. We wanted to trick jon pang and pull a great prank on him...for no apparent reason though. Jon Pang was asked to get the trombone from the storeroom for muster parade. So Wesley, Johannes and Benedict somehow get jon pang locked into the storeroom. Jon pang shouted from the storeroom and we heard it on the fifth lvl at 4.9 classroom....i still remember it so clearly....

"Haidi, haidi, let me out...this is not a joke!" in his usual fast and high pitched voice. YangJian describes this voice as breaking the speed limit or 60 words a second.

the plan was to just leave him there...but he escaped cunningly through the window. So wad followed was a series of change parades and great acting on Mr Sim's part that led to jon pang always falling in in the wrong attire and getting scolded for losing the trombone and stuff. Of course we were also involved in numerous change parades and pushups...so it was like an enjoyable change parade...lol

It ended with the switch between vesper and table grace that no one could resist laughing...not even mr sim...hahah. Post joke....jon pang said that he suspected something and he knew something was fishy...and that he wasn't that tricked...but that's just talk...if you had looked at the expression on his face...well...it speaks for itself.

2) Late nights...starting from advance party..i never slept before 1 am in the morning....latest sleep time was abt 4 am on the last night because of the guild council meeting where we used like 1 hr just to prepare cup noodles and laugh at jon pang.

3) Sleeping in tents on first night.....then thanks to mr sim's kindness we got the sleep in classrooms on the second and third nights...thank you ants!!

4) Catapult...we manage to fire like 10 metres with the repaired catapult. and mr jonathan ng was hilarious with his acting as a little kid...and calling us losers when we missed him..lol. He always gives these un-winnable bets like if we shot over the admin room we would get free drinks...well we couldn't do it...(though we wanted to do it illegally by cheating) but we got our drinks anyway thanks to the rogues.

5) Night Games a success...they actually asked for extra time...i manned POW for majority of time while watching mr sim in a light saber duel with Neo (light sabers made of light stix), Yang Jian taught me how to spin the stick and stuff. Later, we acted as storm troopers and fired light sticks (laser beams) at mr sim and fab to block with the sabers...unfortunately they were hit pretty bad....then i understood why in ROTS the jedi get owned so easily.

6) Worship...mr sim and i made a great team on the piano while we played impromtu with johannes, wesley and sloke on the guitars. That worship session was the most meaningful of all...i mean i felt that i had the chance to serve God even in BB. So now i expanded my service to my school and CCA...not only in church. Which leads to the choice i have to make of posts...i'm not sure whether now God wants me in as a CE NCO instead of Activities. I was always a bit shy to be the CE NCO but after that night i had some second thoughts.

7) As usual, mr sim has his usual arsenal of weird games.....using tables and stuff we had to transport ourselves from one location to another....ourselves meaning the whole cohort...40 plus of us...woah!! we did it in 25 minutes...great. Adriel dropped the extinguisher...and the CO2 filled the air like it was so cool man. I'm sure sean recognizes this...he saw us playing and trying extremely hard to balance on those items....we even used the CPU from the BB room as well as the trophies and stuff...

8) Pull ups...slowly improving...thanks for the support guys.

9) That 8 minute plus thing...the only time in the camp where GAC seemed to go back to the days on LTC. We stayed in pushup position on the horrible gravel ground for 8 minutes with butts up...no putting butts down....i dunno why we couldn't cooperate then...something was just not right with us....the cohort still has much more to improve on.

10) Patrick went in shock...the ambulance had to come to his rescue...thankfully God heard our prayers and nothing fatal happened...Patrick went home soon after. Another casualty was John Kao who got scratched by the rusty umbrella...and had to go for a tetanus jab..feel so guilty, after all it was the night games we planned that required them to use the umbrellas.

11) church sleeping session. After church we siesta for like half hr in the church...halfway i see eric downstairs playing the guitar and the whole BB cohort starts singing.

Can't remember everything...maybe i'll post nxt time again...but wad i would like to say is that i think BB can only get better and better for me....i'm so glad i've got to known ppl like Yang Jian, Ethan, John Kao and Johannes through this camp....and they've grown slowly to accept me as well...and i hope that in the times to come i'll form more frenships and BB will get even better!

mainstream or GEP, ip or not ip...we all can be the best cohort and the best frens ever....

"and i, i don't care what label you may wear, if you believe in Jesus, you belong to me and the bond we share..."

wad a meaningful theme song. :)

cya guys