On the first day, I was kinda excited but also moody, reaching vihara at 7am. Whoa, that's an achievement :P We did puja and played a game- M.E.T.A.M.O.R.P.H.O.S.I.S. It was a game where all of us had to scissorpaperstone with other people to get to another level. The highest level was the butterfly & then, we butterflies had to fight among each other and the losers had to follow the winners. Hah, in the end its a longg 'train'. Then, we were blindfolded to find our group members. eg: My puzzle is written 'Dog', so I had to make the dog sound and the other Dog members had to make the dog sound too, in order to find all of us. It was really noisy and confusing cause there were like 7 more other groups & the committees kept making loud noises to mislead us. My team is the Blue Morpho & our cheer goes like this
'clap clap, clap clap,
I don't know what you've been told! (repeat)
Blue Morpho's outta control! (repeat)
Who's gonna win? BLUE MORPHO!
Says who? BLUE MORPHO!
Blueeee..clap...Morpho!'
After that, our bus arrived and we got on the bus to go to Jing Long Shan, Rawang. I slept the journey there.
Then, we had lunch and played Guess Who? All of us had to write our name and put in the balloon we blew and randomly pick other's balloon & we're given 10 minutes to find the person and to know 10 things about him/her. & you know what? The person who got my balloon is Wong Ying Ying. whoa, freaky eh =X
Also, we had this G.A(guardian angel) and cucu thingy game. We're not supposed to know our GA until the last day but I know mine VERY EARLY, like a few minutes after the game was started cause my GA happened to be one of my team mate's sister and my GA, Chong Jing Ting, asked her sister whether she knows Ang Ying Ying while I was just right in front of her! My cucu was Lim Yew Ping & I was like 'shoot..whotheheck is this fella.' By the way, the purpose of this GA game is to let us have our own personal friend throughout the camp, write letters to us, give sweets/meals/stuff to us, to care for us. At first, I don't feel like playing this game. I also felt kinda bad for my cucu but under the encouragement of LiShing, I decided to play and I actually had fun, tricking my cucu ;D
At night, we have Bro. Poh Wee Fah as our first speaker. He talked about 'Self Motivation'- CHANGE. Successful people are willing to do things that the unsuccessful people are not willing to; Unsuccessful people do things that successful people don't do.
On the second day, we woke up at 5am. Did puja and yoga. Had breakfast and we it was the station game. Had too high expectations tho cause the games are not dirty and ganas. All the camps I went always have very tiring obstacles course and very dirty games-mud, water, flour, eggs. Anyway, I guess the flour game was the best. They filled a big bowl with flour and sweets under it. and we had to dig all the sweets out to get points, just using our face. My hair and face had turned white ;O My cucu, Yew Ping, suddenly talks to me and asked me some questions and told me that my hair is grey and stuff & I was like..'shooot. He knew already?' I quickly trying to ignore him and walked faster.
After that, we had dhamma talks again. The speaker was Bro. Wong Fook Ming. He talked about Khanti. )`Khanti' literally means patience, endurance or forbearance. It is the endurance of suffering caused by others, or the forbearance of other's wrong. Patience is very important and is required to gain wisdom too.
Noon time, I was too bored and started thinking of pranking my friends-Li Shing, Huey Yee, Fen Dee, Joyce, Sy Yiing, Hui Yi, Lih Wern, Sue Li AHAHAHA AND THE BEST THING IS THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A CLUE. XD I wrote letters like YOU PIG!, LAME PIG!, SPAM x100 and drew a picture of a pig there. Some of them asked me tho, but I'm a great actor >D hehe. I bet LiShing's gonna kill me after she reads this ;P
After lunch, we had CosPlay. Each group was given stuff-newspapers, cloth, 1metre of masking tape. Every group had to send one representative & all 8 representatives were guys. omgosh, they're so gay! :O
We had CSI:Rawang then. There were station games and we had to complete it to interview the suspects. Run here, run there. run up, run down. zzz.. After that, we had hymn session (it was awesome) and then, here's the 3rd speaker- Bro. Ong Beng Chung. His topic was about Optimisim. Being positive and stuff to be success.
This day, I'm a bit hardworking to be writing letters to my GA and also sending sweets to my cucu. Haha.
Me; LS; HueyYee [childhood friends] =D
On the third day, the activities were kinda dull and boring because there were no outdoor activities! First one was Song Writers&Remember the Lyrics. Each group were given a song and we had to recompose it using stuff we learnt these 3 days. My group got Jonas Brothers' S.O.S. Then, we had our 4th and the last speaker- Uncle Vijaya. The topic was Filial Piety, it means gratitude-A Chinese primary duty. The Buddha speaks the Deep Kindness of Parents and the Difficulty in Repaying it.
After that, we had quiz. Only people with the conditions they said can answer the question. Eg: Girls with pink shirts, People with jeans, People with braces,... and they had to duck walk before that. The fastest can only answer.
& Finally, it was talent time. The theme was Thank You. My group- the Sushi's, Doughnuts', Rotten Pizza's presented our sketch. I was the Mrs Doughnut. It's like Sushis' parents decided to send their son, babysushi, to go to some boarding school because Mr Sushi has to go outstation to work. They wanted the best education for their kid. Mr. and Mrs. Doughnuts' are bestfriends with Mr. and Mrs. Sushi and one day, they saw babysushi acting very weird as he was smoking and told Mr. and Mrs Sushi. Mr Sushi rushed back from work and argued with his boss. On the way home, his plane crashed and he died. Mrs Sushi and babysushi were really sad and babysushi felt very sorry and he thanks his father for everything. Of course, there were some sound effects and Q-cards that are given by the committee to get bonus points and make the sketch funnier, like- bak kut teh, jelly beans, fatty. We scored highest in creativity =P
At night, we played World Trade Game. We were mixed with other groups' members and were divided into countries. I was in New Zealand and with me were, 4 more people. This game is like some economical stuff. Every country has different technology-pieces of papers/scissors/pencil/ruler. New Zealand only had one paper, but with 3 scissors and 3 rulers. So, our president went to trade with other country. Everyone was so kiasu, wanting the exact amount of stuff. There was this Black Market set up by the committee selling stuff at a very high price. Every 5 minutes, there will be changes in price and unexpected stuff to happen-tsunami, economy crisis, free from tax, so it was really exciting. We need to cut shapes-circles, hexagons, stars, triangles of the exact size to sell or if there's A BIT of unaccurateness, it's REJECTED. In the end, we managed to get 1600USD (not bad, okay!). The best was Bornia-3000USD.
On the fourth day, which is the last day. SO FAST RIGHT. & I remembered the first day I was like kept thinking of going home. We were cheated by the committees. They said that we only need to wake up at 7am today so all of us slept quite late, talking and some were playing cards. But at 4.45am, they woke us all up. Called those that were wearing short pants to change to long pants and bring us outside of the hall. We were like wtheck. The morning was very chilly. We were in lines and then they blindfolded us, brought us into the hall and brought us to our own specific places. I thought it was OBH then I felt weird, and was thinking whether its something about our GA and cucu thingy. Gosh I was right, when we took out our blindfolds, on our rights were our Guardian Angel and on our lefts were our cucu. & when my cucu saw me, he was like 'what? I was cheated by my GA' LOL-ed and we started to talk and ask questions. He's a nice fella.
Noon time, I spam-ed my cucu with lotsa sweets and letters. Some of the letters were meaningful and I wrote sincerely, okay! After that, we had lunch. This time, lunch was kinda different because some people were blindfolded and all of us had our hands tied to the other's. Pairs work man! We had to feed the person on our right. Look at the pictures below:
Biianca kacao-ing orang ;P
After that, we packed and cleaned up & had our photo session. My group did the LAME pose again. Then, we headed back to SJBA by the lousier bus. It was so hot but I still managed to sleep, so did Mr Doughnut and one of the Rotten Pizzas'.
HAHA
Back to SJBA, we had prize giving and closing ceremony. Each team has a hamper, of course. They were kind enough to give every team :D but of course the Top3s got more stuff.
We even have a badge for this camp, it says ' I came, I learned, I morphed'. Its on my Leo blazer, go see lah :P
TDC11 was happening. I made few new friends. Here are some of the pictures.
Me; Lih Wern. [THE LAME GIRL] *smacks head*
UP: Phei Wen, Amanda
DOWN: Me, Jing Yi
My Beautiful Friend
Verse 1:
You, my beautiful friend, you bring me joy
With your warm and generous ways
Kalyana Mitra you pull me back
When the road leads me astray
I'll never forget you were there with me
In times of sorrow
I'll promise to stand by you
Today and tomorrow
Chorus:
You, my trusted friend
I'll walk with you till the end
On the path of Freedom
Now and again
My happy beautiful friend
I'll hold your hand
In us we can depend
Verse 2:
Friend, you have all the qualities in you
To show me the meaning of the Truth
And there will be times we won't agree
There may be doubt, uncertainty
I'm sorry I've let you down and
Left you in the shadows
My friend will you turn around?
I'm here with my rainbows
Repeat Chorus (2x)
Kalyana Mitra, please take care of me
We somehow share the same destiny
Kalyana Mitra, I'll take care of you
Beautiful friend, I truly love you.
BY THE WAY, this is my cucu-Lim Yew Ping.
Ahaha, he's so cute right?
