went to batam. 4 days.

day 1. met at harbourfront very punctually at 8.
on the way there, got huiru to get me a packet of hair pins. then i found out that so many people went to buy that small packet of pins for me. so touched!!

in the ferry, all the youths had to occupy the 2nd deck. so poor me strongly carried all luggage up by myself. sat with nicole. i was like super scared. dun ask me why. almost cried. and a lot of people came to comfort me. nicole got some sweets from dunno where. amy jie came over 2 -3 times. maria and cheryl gave me a card and sweets. ian came over once. liz came over once. i felt so loved.

went out to the deck for fresh air. felt much better.
saw andrew chia. just came back from canada. didnt see sarah and jonathan though. sarah is nice. she reminds me of one of the covenant players this year, also sarah.

indonesia. took bus to lunch. but on the way stopped like 2 times to buy stuff. didnt buy anything.
at lunch. ate like only 3 dishes and a soup although there were 6 dishes and soup.

dish one. snails. the tour guide said it was something called gong gong. whatever.
bravely ate half. haha. i bet i was the minority that tried the snail.
ate fish and deep fried calamari.

didnt eat
- CHILLI crab
- prawns
- spicy vegetables

after lunch, went to this mall. shopped a bit. bought a pair of earings. then shopped at the supermarket. met nicole there so we shopped together.

bought 10 packets of instant noodle. 6 small boxes of breakfast cereal. 2 boxes of sweets. blah blah.
paid for all. nicole paid me back later.

on the bus, sat with clarice. this little girl, sarah, 4, kept coming up to us and kris and vinna in front of us. so cute la. i remembered taking care of her a few times when she was small in cradle roll in church. i had duty every 3rd week. i was p6 i think. and sarah remembered me too..!!! too bad kris' youngest brother christopher didnt. or maybe he did, but he didnt like reply. he was too shy. haha.

at harris resort. found nicole waiting for me. our room, 1 super king size bed. like huge. unpacked and ate noodles in our room for dinner. went down for surmon. sat front row. front row is nice.

sat front row for the whole camp, and its always the same few people sitting front row.
freddy boey is a very good speaker. talked about loving God and all. funny guy. captivating.

played 1 game. is the winning sweets game. not supposed to say yes and no. and supposed to ask questions. won 2 sweets. i asked people if they loved God and if they loved me. haha.

and because our team comprising of
chris chia and teo, andrew chia, j low, eliel, moses, ming xuan, amy jie, avelyn, maria, sarah wong, venessa and angel,
we 'won' top 3 prizes. together with 2 other 'winning' youth teams, we were given the privilage of doing an item for aloha night. i think they just played the game for fun and then just made 3 youth teams come up with items cos the adult team sitting behind my team won more sweets than my team.
cheat my feelings.. rargh..

at night after surmon, in hotel room, nicole made me another 2 packets of instant noodles. haha. cos didnt eat much for the 1st two meals of the day. i bet nobody would believe me. haha. me, who cannot even finish 3/4 a packet of chicken rice ate 3 packet of noodles?? oh. one of the noodle packets was small. so count i ate 2 half to 3 half.

slept quite late. had dance practice and learnt the mass dance. yi min is a good partner. but felt like wierd.. he is younger than me
but taller...not fair la.

2nd day, woke up at 8. and breakfast was from 8 to 9. spent about half an hour waking nicole up. woah. same as waking bryan up for school everyday. =))

freddy boey's surmon was as expected, captivating. discussion time, was also funny. duh, with all the funny funny people. i realised my group liked the sweets i bought. the silver tiny balls of sweets for cake decos..

lunch was ok. but didnt eat much.
team building games. i was looking forward to playing with my group. but they had to reshuffle everyone. so avelyn and i were the only 2 girls in team 2 comprising of kelvin leong, ian, yi min, 3 adults, us two girls, james lieu, jeremy. one of the adults was a lady but she didnt feel well and dropped out half way.

1st game. jacuzzi search. had to go in to the pool that was up to the diaphram. blindfolded, had to pick out items. and we could not put our heads into the water. i paired up with avelyn and we had to pick out 2 landyards. we got it like super fast. i picked one she picked one. this game we had to like listen to the voices of the team players. so very difficult la. but we were rather fast. next i paired up with ian, i picked out 2 pebbles, he picked 2.

our team had to pick out stuff like bra straps, knifes, chopsticks, landyards, pebbbles and 5 cent coins.

we got stuck at the 5 cent coins. hello. nobody could pick it out la. so thin. the toes cannot pick it up.

but we still won. heehee.

next game, something like the eagle catch chick game. just that the eagle had to catch the tail fixed on to the last person and the last person was blindfolded.

our team won. we caught once. poor bryan was the other team's tail. and kelvin pounced on him. poor thing.

the head of the other team kept trying to break me and avelyn up. so he kept like trying to hug me. yuck.. gross gross gross gross gross.

3rd game, we had to pass to this other side of this minefield. is like minesweeper boxes made of rafia strings up to the butt high. so we had to like jump. the were bombs everywhere. cannot touch the livewire rafias.. blah. touch, then had to restart.we got over first. but the station master said we touch the livewire twice so we got 10 points when the other team got 10 pionts as well. this game really had to jump and jump..grace teo's team could jump man..

4th game, bowling. each person bowled one frame and because we had only 7 people left, kelvin, avelyn and i bowled twice. girls get double points if we lost or something la. so we didnt need the double points. although cheryl tan's team was mostly girls, they cannot get maximun points. hee.

5th game we had to go in 3s, use only 3 chopsticks to pick out pieces of puzzle, then bringing it back to base one by one. we could not get out of the skipping rope circle. so travelling was...and every 2 pieces brought back we had to change players... we won by a mile since grace loke's team got wrong pieces and had to bring it back, wasting time.

last game was blindfolded soccer. everyone was blindfolded and 5 people played at one time. so i just shouted directions. 1st half, we scored 3 goals. second half, we lost 3 goals so it was a draw. then penalty shoot out, we won. haha. avelyn scored the winning goal. girls can play soccer!! we kinda ROCKK!!

so at the end of the day, our team got champions. we had like 3 huge bags of goodies to share. each person had to get help carrying the stuff up to our rooms.

went swimming after that. water polo with the guys. since only liz debbie and i were the only girls, each goal we scored was double. my team comprised of chris chia and teo, eliel, ian, clement, uncle robert and some more people i not sure who. but i stood at the goalpost, whenever someone passed the ball to me i just tried to score. scored 2 goals = 4 points. still, the other team had the 2 girls..2 girls= more power, so at the end, our team lost by 2 points.

dinner was again, instant noodles, surmon was about loving the church, unity in the church and how unity can save more people and stuff like that. disscussion was short. too short. oh. and our aloha night item was the parable of the lost sheep.

slept like 4 plus. was doing the grass skirts for aloha night together with the dancers in kris' room.

3rd day, nicole woke me up. haha!!
surmon again, then discussion.

then we discussed how to do the item for aloha night..

story- on whakiki island, there were a lot of palm trees. all the members except me and andrew went up and they just showed their palms, like pressing on a wall at different points. of course, they were moving.

there were also crabs, so this part, i went up, and blended in with the palm trees turned crabs..

along came a monkey -andrew. and crabs ate ahem..brownies and monkey made brownies. so the crabs fought for the brownies the monkey threw. because one crab was too small - me, she could not get any. so she ran away from the rest to find brownies from elsewhere.

along came the surfer dude cum sheperd. christopher chia aka chrisurfer. he lost one crab and had to find the lost crab. so he ran around trying to find the crab. high low high low...then he needed to go to the toilet. to make..ahem..brownies.

halfway through his business, he felt a sharp pain in his butt.
and there!! in the toilet bowl!! was the lost crab!! together with crap. =p

he saved the crab and took it home. then suddenly, he had an urge for CHILLI CRAB. so guess who he ate. yuck...

end of story.

after group discussion for the item, had some free time, about 20 minutes, before getting ready for the dance. sat by the poolside watching people swim. i wanted to play polo again but no time. stupid. then after bathing, went to gracie's room.

she had a surprise for us. she told us since the beginning of camp that there wazs gonna be a surprise but refused to tell us. then when i went to her room, found out that the surprise was pizza!!!!!! yaysie! i was so happy. but i ate only one slice...

after that, we went to the stage for dry run. but i got so wet perspiring. so tempted to bathe again.

back in gracie's room, we did make up and hair.
everyone looked so good, so 'prom', except me. i looked ugly and fat. yucky. but gracie did a nice job with our hair. i liked it though i couldnt see the back of my head.

we went down like late. at 7.. sat with ian, ate and drank a bit. the whole time at the table he kept stoning, then unstonning, then telling me how awesome the guitarist was... farnie guy...

soon gracie took over ian's place. and then since our dance was the first item, we panick a bit la. but overall, it was ok. the energy level was higher than before. by lots.

after dance straightaway changed into f.b.ts for our group item. i was still soaking wet then had to go on stage for the lost crab skit. haha.

the skit was mostly impromptu. but it was awesome..everyone was full of live and brave..to act like retarded crabs. haha.. FUNN!!!!!

after the skit, a few more games and blah. then mass dance.
yi min and i,
kris and bryan,
alden and clarice,
jeremy and vinna,
avelyn and ivan teo,
grace and kelvin,
sharon with jerome, we all danced once for everyone. then yi min and i had to explain how to move to uncle david and his wife. plus some other people. haha. pastor celeste kept looking at us dance too. haha. very fun, but quite embarassing at the beginning.

after aloha night, we still went up stage to do the dance. and andrew and 'her girly' gang also went up to 'dance'.. entertainment la. haha.

after that, nicole liz and i went to the pool side to watch show and relax. the guys were doing the tradition. like every last night of the camp, they would sing making melodies facing the pool.. i remember only 2 years ago there were only 4 people doing the tradtion. this year so many people..

sarah, ivan teo, me, maria, cheryl tan and avelyn were lying on the deck, chatting. then maria wanted to take pictures with me but i was like in a mess. my hair was all up and there were still orchid in my hair, all gelled up. not nice. so i told her to wait till i bathed. after i bathed i ended up playing and chatting with j low, andrew, yi min, joel chong, jerome, bryan, jazreel, clarice, kris and nicole. kris and nicole slept halfway.

then andrew taught me how to play bloody knuckles. haha.

is like spinning a coin, taking turns to flick it, like using third finger and thumb. cannot make it stop. make it stop, pay the price. push your knuckles on the ground hard and back it with the other hand. then the winner can flick it hard towards the knuckles. andrew won so many times but he cannot flick hard and his sense of directions is not say the best so j low didnt get hurt. haha. oh yea. why did i say j low didnt get hurt? because... when i played with andrew, i win he take my blow, he win, j low takes my blow!!. heehee.. poor andrew's knuckles bled but he said the coin must be thinner so more blood and that he didnt bled enough. siao.

after that, we played the knuckles version of the slapping game. instead of slapping the hands of your opponent, you rapped the knuckles. haha. a bit sadistic but quite funny at the same time. andrew has funny espressions. and he dunno how to hit hard. so he kept getting hit. hard. haha.

after andrew and j low went back to their room, joel and the rest played true or dare but i dun like this game much so i sat out together with yimin, who didnt like this game much either.

then more people went to sleep so we went down to the canteen. the breakfast was like half ready. so yimin took some cereal and shared. haha.

4th day, nicole had difficulty waking up again. haha. so we had 10 minutes to eat breakfast. didnt finish breakfast as usual. ian was all," FINISH YOUR BREAKFAST!!" at me.. =p still didnt finish it la. heehee..

testimonies.left halfway cos i was feeling uncomfortable. ran up to the room, sprayed myself with steaming hot water, waited for nicole to come back. slept a while after she was back..then went down for lunch and boarded the bus to the ferry terminal.

on the ferry, i started playing the knuckle games then all of a sudden, everyone was playing too. i wasnt afraid even when the ferry swayed lots.
=))

played the slapping game with many people but enjoyed myself the most when i played with ian. he wanted to play if its a draw then both can slap but both can retreat as well. for many times in a row, i kept winning and slapping his hands immediately. haha. and the people onloking had fun laughing as well. i think ian was rather shocked as well. haha. he was like," how did you know i was going to put this..??"

then we went out to the deck to play cos it was getting crowded inside. but then people started following us too. so we played a while, then change to the knuckle knocking game. then whenever he turned his fists perpendicular, i retreat, so kena penalty knock. 5 times in a row i got knocked. stupid. and since there were people watching us play, they knew my weakness. then when i played with joash, he kept using the same trick against me. and he kept laughing. rargh!! lucky for me ian and joash we 'gentlemen' and did not bear to knock me hard. haha.

then i played bloody knuckles wiht andrew in the middle of the deck. and people were watching. couldnt find j low, so nobody helped me.. although i lost a few times, andrew's sense of directions was not say exellent. haha. so didnt get hurt.

then after a while played the knuckles knocking game with andrew. he is the only guy that doesnt give chance to girls la. whack means whack. haha.

played pig and heart attack with the tm people then went inside to watch bryan and nicole play speed. poor bryan was so slow and nicole was so fast, bryan had like 7/8 of the deck in his hands haha.

then i went back to my seat. and along came someone who sat with me for the rest of the journey talking and playing with me. had a lot of fun. throwing m&ms and all. haha. kah mun in front of us sponsored the huge bag of m&ms. poor kah mun. her m&ms were almost gone so fast. loads of fun. throw here throw there. i wore his sunglasses for pretection. i think i looked cool man... whatever la.

back in singapore. cleared immigrations. daddy picked me and bryan up. nicole and ian were in front of us for like half the journey home. our cars were never 10 metres away. haha. so cool. then we kept trying to over take their car. finally overtook them..whatever.

at home. ate a huge dinner then slept. dreamt of m&ms. whatever la. farnie dream..

i wish camp wasnt over!!! i want more!!

changed rooms with bryan. so now i have the larger room. yay!! packing it is tough though..i think my room is nice. but not pink enough. or maybe not s pink as before...

changed my email to still_a_child@hotmail.com yea. so no more cheryl_hoe@hotmail yea..
so add me!!