lumière de monde
Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness
Opened my eyes let me see
Beauty that made
This heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You
So here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You're my God
And You're altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me
King of all days
Oh so highly exalted
Glorious in heaven above
Humbly You came
To the earth You created
All for love's sake became poor
And I'll never know how much it cost
To see my sin upon that cross
And I'll never know how much it cost
To see my sin upon that cross
matt redman
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
YAY!!! IM BACK FROM CAMP!!! Dun get me wrong, i love the camp. Haha. Be prepared for a super long entry today. Lol.
Okay it all started on Day 1, wasnt that bad if you ask me, we were split up into grps alredi in teh pre-camp, at first i had doubts abt my grp u c, didnt really liek n noe the ppl well, so i desperately wanted out. Haha. But luckily i stayed on. So anyway day 1 was really all abt talks, the DISC profile and all. I foudn out that im this high S personality and that im liek qutie steady and dun really like to adapt to changes and all the normal kinda stuff. Then we palyed games and all. There was this one crazy games where teh participants were blindfolded and they had to to put their hands into this container that had liek Faeces!!! Frogs!!! Mealworms!!! and there was of cos the jelly that they had to dig out. Crazy ppl. Lol. Then shamir and moses had to stuff their head into this big bowl of mealworms and they ahd to get out 2 gold coins. Sick trainers. Then we went on to play games, not bad, quite challenging and all and really scary. We cheered everyoen on and we were thoroughly enjoyign ourselves i would say. Oh did i mention, their lunch and tea and dinner was great! As in like comapred to all the camps that i hav ever went to this was perhaps teh best meal ever. Then after that were mroe talks and finally supper, we later headed to our bunks and slept. The floor was hard and the weather was freezing. That brings us to Day 2.
Day 2 was more physical than Day 1. We went to Yishun Safra. We practically slept throughout the bus journey. Boring boring boring. Then we alighted soon enough and assembled at this empty space. We played our grp's bonding game. Who? What? Huh? Its a relaly lame game but at least it keeps our grp going. Fun nevertheless i must say. All teh weird dares that we havta do and all. Lol. So off we ewnt to our 1st task. The 12 grps were split into 2 main grps. The 1st 6 grps went to do the rock climbing and the other 6 went off to do some sort of amazing race thing. We went to do rock climbing 1st and then i saw charmaine climb the rock wall. I was freaking scared lar. Im afraid of heights u c. I noe im afraid alot of stuff, but must understand ppl got weak heart. Haha. So anyway charmaine was doing well, i cheered for her noe. Then i told one of my team mates that i was so motivated by charmaine that if she can do it so can i. Lol. Guess what happened? Bro. Paul heard wad i said and told me cheered me on to do the rock wall. Bad timing! Argh. Haha. Luckiyl the rain came and we went to find shelter, my chances of going up the rock wall was ruined. Bro Paul even told me "its too bad" (not sarcastically). And bcos of that, he noes my name now. Haiz. Haha. After that we went into this room, supposedly fro rock climbing and we all enjoyed ourselves by playing our fav bonding game again. Then we were interrupted by teh SAFRA trainer and we had some sort of a challenge. Our grp was not too bad, but we lost all 3 activities. Haha. We have lots of gals u c. =]. Then we proceeded to have a really scrumptous lunch, supposedly from imperial kitchen. Lol. Then we continued with our activities. Thsi time round, we switched wif grps 6-12 and we played teh amazing race thing. Our 1st task was making a square wif the rope. Lousy lar. Lol. We didnt really make the square very nicely. Lol. We wasted qutie soem time doing it anth time but it was worht it. Oh i frogot to mention, each activity could earn us 250k max, our target was 1million. So in that activity we got liek 150k. Not bad for starters. We next proceeded to this activity where we had to use our fingers to hold to the bottom on a hoola hoop and to move this special hoola hoop down to the ground. EASY RIGHT? NO! The hoop was suppsoedly to be some sort of helium thingy, so it could liek somehow "float", so we really had a hard tiem to put the hoop down, further mroe our fingers couldnt move away from the hoop or we had to restart. We did it really fast though and then we ha a bonsu roudn where alfred was blindfolded, we managed to get it down again. So wif the bonus, we got ourselves 350k, taht makes half a million. =]. The next activity was the treasure hunt, we ran around the place alot and in the end we onli got like 100k, so we were really disappointed. Haiz. Haha. But the next activity really got us all erm... Drained? Lol. It was called teh great wall of china, but it was really lame cos they said that we had to climb over this rope tied between 2 trees taht had "electricity". So it was really called electric fence. Weird? Haha. So our objetcive was to carry everyone over without touching the rope or we had to start over. It was not bad, kidna easy, onli thing was the rain made the palce REALLY MUDDY! so we got all our slacks and shoes muddy. Wei Xin sacrificed and her slacks were really horrible. Noble gal. =]. Then we headed over to the canopy walk thing. We wasted one full hour doing nth and in the end we didnt get to do teh canopy walk but we did rock climbing again. I went up this time and teh team was cheering me, so it felt really good. Haha. After that we went off. Oh i forgot to mention we got a total of 1.35 million. YAYNESS! Haha. Then we headed back to school and had dinner b4 we went over to wash up and went to our talk. Isaac Lim was there to torture us. Crazy guy, super lame lar him, he htink he very funny. For example he said, "Some of you think im not fair, thats because im always in the sun" Lame fellow. Lol. He made us do pumping jumping jacks and soem other stuff. He talked to us for abt 1 hr and then we were asked to go to bed. The next day's activity was even worse. Julius was slping beside me and he was like imitating isaac lim's voice so i was liek askign him to shuddup. Lol.
Day 3 was a really horrible day. Haha. We traveled really early inthe mornign to sembawang and we were given 17 tasks in hope of completing each and everyoen of them. There were lots of challenges and puzzles and we had to solve teh riddles b4 proceeding. We were also given a medicine ball a cone and a hoola hoop to carry. The very first task was to tell teh odac facil in cahrged, doris, 2 anagrams. One was sotrich and teh other was england. Then we started trekking liek 2.8km. The next task was to do like 100 push ups for every missing 100+ bottle. We were told to brign them, so becos zixiang didnt birng his, we all had to do like 100 each. Then we had to run down to i think it was sembawang jetty and dip ourselves in the water. Count 1-10 b4 we could come up. Smart me forgot to take out my wallet, luckily all the notes are dry now. =]. Then we went on to walk and walk and finally arrived at our 3rd destination. We had to slide down this really fast slide, identify a fragipani tree, a stag horn fern, some other trees plants and all b4 heading over to the badminton court. At the badminton court, we saw charmaine's grp doing kangaroo hops, we all ahd our torchlights so we didnt hav to do that. We cheered for them then we went on to our next task. We had to find this "strangled" house. Plants were literally growing all aroudn this small building so i guess taht was the so called strangled house then we went to next task. This time round, we had to do touch 2 things. One was soem weird 5 digit no. the other was oso anth 5 digit no. We were all kinda clueless to wad it was. The hitn they gave was something liek this "995H20REDT@Kang Xi.Louis XIV..Victoria.Rd" Weird rite? In teh end we figured that it was teh fire hydrants and then we walked around king's avenue and queen's avenue. It was really torturous cos we didnt seem to able to find teh hydrants. We spent liek 45mins-1hr walking. Then we skipped the task. Later doris told us we foudn teh hydranst juz that we didnt noe it. So we walked down to pakistan road. Didnt noe such a road existed. Then we headed to the parkign lot and completed this puzzle. Qibin's grp kidna sad lar. They were the 1st grp there or so i heard, and they wasted an hr tryign to figure out the puzzle. In the end they ended up to be 2nd last. We saw them when we arrived, when we left they were still there. We spent abt a min or so. Then we had to look for The Ashram and St. Andrew's Chapel/Cathedral. Cant really rem wad it was. Haha. Then the next thing we did was to walk to cananda road. Weird road name again i noe. Then we had to run down the road in 10 secs and we had to find teh tembusu tree and say "HELLO TEMBUSU TREE!". Next task was to find the green sea and find teh 4 square islands. It was located at bermuda road. Then teh green sea was really a really large plot of grass and the 4 square isalnds were really manholes. So we ha to carry each other across the 4 islands and we did it really well. Then we went on to find Delhi. We had to walk and find this empty plot of land called Delhi on the map, and start singing the national anthem. Lame. Haha. Then we went on to the next task. We had to shout out our sec sch motto and then find 4 schs and find out their mottos. The schools were liek really far apart but we continued at it. By this time, we were all really drained. Then we compelted this task that required us to climb up 20 floors. We did it and went back all tired and sweaty. On the way back we were hceering each other on and motivating each other. Really fun experience and we learn alot.
Back at school, everyoen had some sort of injury. Haha. Then we had lunch b4 heading down to a short talk and then went to paly games. My eyes became so swollen that i couldnt particiapte in nay of teh atcivities and i had the privellge of going to bathe early and slpet in the canteen. Then we went to LT2 for anth quiz. I found out i was a supporter and it was qutie common. Lol. Then we went to have a really good dinner. BUffet! Then we went to the audi to hav anth talk abt shackleton. Song Im was really ncie to bring me a bottle of eye drops and poor vanessa and joanne had a headache. It was good and we had a cheering competition, grp 1 got royce choclate and we all shared it with the bengawan cake we had for supper. We then made cards fro our teachers and facils. At supper, we played our fav bonding game again. Haha. Then we all headed to slp. =]. Everyone was glad that teh camp was finally ending.
Finally on the fourth day, which is today. We woke up early to hav morning exercise and then we had a bad breakfast then we proceeded to have our individual talks. At the council talk, mr leong was telling us how we were split up tmr and all the porgrammes we had tmr. Qutie sianz u noe, liek havta go for camp again. Haha. But we are all glad that we can c each other again. Then we went to pack our stuff b4 heading to the audi to have teh closing prayer svc. It was really nice, we had this photo presentation of the events in the few days. We all luaghed and all and made lots of weird noices and clapping our hands the whole time. Oh we sang a really nice hymn. Haha. Then Bro Paul talked to the whole grp of leaders. He best lar, talked abt me some more, everything he heard at SAFRA he went to tell the entire group and even mentioned my name. Lol. It was really embarassing. Haha. Then he went on and on while i almost fell asleep. Then we had teh lighting up of the candles. Then we sang the school song. It was perhaps one of the best times singing the sch song. Then we gave out the cards we made the nite b4 and clapped our hands all the way. Haha. Lastly we all gathered around and had some sort of rounding up session. Then we played our favourite game again. Zixiang and Wei Xin had to do a double dare and hug mr tan jek suan. Lol. Then we all bid farewell and left the audi. That was the end of my LTC '06. Not bad i would say. =] =] =].
