Cameron Trip: CSSUPM Annual Camp (Day 3)

It rained last night… The temperature dropped some more… Some participants did mentioned though that the coldness can’t compare to what they felt in their hometown… (Mostly those staying in Kundasang, Sabah…) But for me… It was too cool for my own comfort… (By now I had already lost my voice… Unable to sing the correct pitch… And had suffered from muscle discomfort because of the cold as well)

The weather was cloudy and wet when everyone aroused from their slumber… Some wanted to go for a morning stroll but upon seeing the weather, changed their plans… Some who did managed to go for a stroll ran back after a while as the drizzling rain got harder… (Guess who was it lar who went to walk in the rain…) Its never a good idea to get trap in a rain with strong wind in such a place…

~Nothing to do while waiting for the people to wake up and helping out in preparing breakfast… So a couple of random shots…~

The final session of the camp started once everyone finished their breakfast… It was a session of self discovery once more… Presented by Hezron by which he shared us his story on life and how he discovered himself… And what CSSUPM meant to him… It was the session which brought many to tears… (Even the Dr himself…)… The sight of one of us unable to hold their tears and break down on the spot made me felt that I shouldn’t break down as well… Since breaking down was like showing your weak side to everyone else… But after all that everyone have been through… There really isn’t any reason to hide the tears from everyone else…

This session could have changed the lives of many… If they could only remember what they had felt… And relive it everyday… None of us are perfect… We could remembered how our lives was and how we would like our lives to change towards… But will one be strong enough to start making the changes towards accomplishing what they really wanted… Or will this session be drowned with time… Being just a moment of self discovery and later… Just a memory… I guess this can only be decided by each and everyone of us…

~Hezron and John (the guitarist) is responsible for making at least half of the participants shed tears… Bad Hezron… Bad John…~

We sang the theme song once more… ‘You, me and Us’…Hands in hands… With all our voice and all our might… Regardless of how our voices sounded like… For it didn’t matter to any of us… Nor did it matter to God… Praising God as a family… The CSSUPM family…

After everyone managed to keep their emotions in check… Devebra handed out the evaluation forms for everyone while the emcee and prize giving committee prepared to announce the teams which prevailed during the camp…

Each team got a hamper regardless of whichever placings they were in… It was a close match between all the teams… But only one could prevail… And at the end of the day… Team St. Gabriel triumphed narrowly over Team St Jude which stood at 2nd place… (Truth be told it was a close competition throughout the few days… Gabriel lead at the end of the first day but lost the lead to Team Jude and Team Theresa prior to the performance session on the 2nd night… We managed to secure the 2nd place in the performance night in front of Team Jude and Team Theresa: Team Bernadette performed the best in the performance… Securing more points in the performance than Team Jude and Team Theresa eventually lead us to retake the lead once more…  In the end, the point differences between Jude and Gabriel was around 2 points… Close victory… I know winning isn’t everything… But really happy ler… I was jumping around once they announced the winner…)

~Everyone was happy to receive goodies packs from Dr Kenny~

~Jude~

~But the happiest should be Gabriel… (Love you guys and girls -Alan)~ (Really proud of all of ya)

~Official group photo… (Just noticed that everyone blocked the banner… Didn’t noticed that before… Haha)~

~Informal group photo… I guess everyone loved to jump now since we are all always jumping during the Praise and Worship sessions…~

Everyone started to take loads and loads of photos after that (which easily explains why there are more than 1.5k photos at my place at the moment…) while waiting for lunch and the bus to arrive… Dr Kenny joined the band to play a few songs… By which everyone got in the mood and started dancing on the spot… Be it cha-cha, tango, chicken-walk (by Janice), twists (by Percival), Sumazau dance, hip hop/ breakdance (by Gary) or any dances which have never shown up on Earth before… Everyone present followed the tune and had fun… I don’t think you’ll find another scenario like this in any other camps… It was truly an unforgettable experience… (I danced along as well… I remembered that the dance which I could do the best was the chicken dance alongside Janice…)

~Of course we didn’t forget to share the spoils won~

~The prizes were really simple… But I guess in the end, what really matters was how each and everyone of us journeyed together to make nothing into something in the camp…~
~Guess who was so free to line up the bottles of drinks and the mascot together…~

~We even shared the prize with Dr Kenny… (I pray that Dr Kenny won’t hunt me down for posting up this photo…)~

All good things must come to an end… That’s what on my mind as we made our way back onto the bus after having lunch… By then, most of us had already finished packing up… Despite of that, I could feel that many of us had hoped to possibly stay another day or two at the place… After all the fun we had… It just seemed sort of sad to leave…

But that’s not the end of the story yet…

During the 3 days stay at the Barre I.J Center… Most of us didn’t really have the time to go and walk around at Cameron (except for the alumnis’ and Dr Kenny of course…) And it was time to finally visit one final place… A strawberry farm…

~Imagine all the pots being filled with the reddest, juiciest and tastiest strawberries you could ever find… (I’m salivating while typing this… )~

~If there was a place where all the strawberry lovers came to gather… This would be the place…~

It may be a good idea to keep the love for strawberries in check though… Or you might find yourself turning into a strawberry…

~I know turning into a strawberry is a lame joke attempt~

The place is filled not only with strawberries… But with loads of flowers… (I think Janice will be very happy if she could get the flowers here weekly for the Saturday night mass at chapel…)

~Fiona with some flowers (I don’t really know what flowers are those… All I remembered was Fiona pulling me to this corner and posed…)~

~Tracy, Fely and John… (Why so serious, John??)~

There was also cactus… Loads of them for sale… Each with its different shape and sizes…

~Kevin seemed happy to see the cactus…~ (I think he was a bit excited by the shape of the cactus)

There was also a pond with ten dwarves by which many of us took photos of…

~Meet the ten dwarves~

~This little girl must have gotten a bit amazed at how long they could pose… No??~

~We didn’t hesitated to spend a bit, buying strawberries and souvenirs for those at home. It became like shopping… Except you are a few thousand feet above sea level…~

~A group photo at the farm~

It wasn’t long before we really have to leave to get back to UPM… And everyone was either sleeping or trying to sleep which the bus traveled the winding roads back down the hills… (The winding road really seem to be more winding than when we first got up)…

The bus may have traveled at a slower pace compared to the journey there… But it didn’t matter to the tired family on board… What’s important was that after 3 to 4 hours of bus ride… We finally arrived safely in front of KMR…

~One of the mascot followed us back~ (It’s Gabriel mascot man… Any more doubts on who should have triumph??)

Epilogue:

I’m very sure that each of the participants have their very own story to tell regarding their experiences during the camp… What they have learned… What they have felt living together with this family of Catholics… Each of us could have told different versions of the same story… What you have read here is just my version of the story… And to sum up this version.. the camp had been something I greatly enjoyed… And truly a wonderful experience for me… I’m really glad that I did joined the camp…

Quoting from Fr. Chris… ‘I’m a man of few words…’ I really am… Its just that I wanted to share what we all went through to everyone else… And few words seemed to be insufficient in doing that…

Thanks for reading this… There is still a video post coming… Be patient ya…

-Alan-

(Hope you all enjoyed the journey I had in Cameron… It truly a fascinating one… And I tested out using different styles of writing for the 3 updates… Which did you think was more interesting??)

October 5, 2008 | Categories: CSSUPM | Tags: Cameron, Camp, CSSUPM | 1 Comment »

Cameron Trip: CSSUPM Annual Camp (Day 2)

~Copied the post from the CSSUPM blog once more… Lets see… I started blogging about this at 10.30pm and now its 2.15am…Close to 4 hours… Could faint again… Haha… Hope I could wake up early for church tomorrow…~

Continuing from the last post… What did happened at 2.30am in the morning….?

I remembered lying on bed around 1.30am and then being shook on the leg at 2.30am… I could see the tiredness of the other participants as they aroused from their short sleep… And the second thing I remembered about was the cold…

It was cold… Really cold I remembered… One of the girls had leg cramps due to the coldness while we are asleep… Salutations to those who helped her… And the cramps was something which happened again for the other participants throughout the few days… ~Yours truly got his leg cramped during the second night during the short Praise and Worship session… While Melynita leg got cramped minutes before the performance session… Lucky she managed it…~

It was so cold that those without any jackets wrapped themselves in their blankets and proceed down to the Nicolas Hall… ~Me included…~

There was a number of participants already there when I arrived and a small ‘altar’ was set up as shown in the above photo for the 3am Divine Mercy…

Yup… The event of the wee hours of the morning was Divine Mercy…

~Everyone settling down for the Divine Mercy…~ ~Noticed me being wrapped up in the blanket… I look a bit like an oversized out-of-place Frodo Baggins on his way to destroy the One Ring because of the blanket…~

The whole session took around half and hour to one hour and after that, everyone was allowed to continue their dreams in bed…

Fast forward to 6 a.m… The temperature must have dropped a few more degrees since 3a.m… Freezing cold… There weren’t any fans and the windows are all shut but it still felt colder than an air-conditioned room with its air conditioned set to the lowest setting applicable…

~Yup… Its really very cold~ ~Really no kidding…~
~Something is REALLY wrong with this person since the first thing he does when he woke up was to take this photo~ ~Yup… Guess who else took this…~
~Francis trying to warm up by touching the kettle with boiling water…~ ~The kettle trick didn’t really worked though… But a warm drink in that condition really help out a lot…~

Since the events of the morning started off a bit late (it was tough to pull people out of bed)… Some of us managed to go off wandering out of the camp site…

~A photo of one of the blooming flowers in front of the center…~ ~Edited already to look it’s best…~

~Posing with the signboard… Fiona blocked off the I… (Noticed that Lorna has St. Gabriel’s mascot with her)~

Speaking about mascots… Each team was also given an egg and a biscuit to keep with them till the end of the camp… Eggs and biscuits… The biscuits served at the camp was similar to the biscuit given to us… Its a wonder noone mistook the biscuits as food for breakfast and ate them…

~Egg and biscuit (The egg in this picture broke due to an accident with Gary… He stepped on it… But that was after the camp was over)~ ~We were partying a bit too hard and Gary stepped on it…~
~Washing up after breakfast… Lorna is still holding the mascot…~

It was around 8 plus when we finally finished breakfast and cleaning up and proceeded with the sessions of the second day…The first session of the morning was a talk from Dr Kenny about Vision and Mission… Its a talk which involved everyone thinking of what they think was the Vision and the Mission of CSSUPM… The session even though short managed to get everyone thinking what do they want for CSS and how and what they should do to achieve it… Each team was then given time to decide on what they want and then a short presentation session was given to each team to voice their opinions and ideas on the subject… It gave chance to everyone to say something about CSS and how they want it to be… Sort of like a training for the upcoming EXCO members…

~Dr Kenny and the teams during their discussion session~~The facilitators for the session… Each team got one to facilitate their discussion on the topic… R to L: Kevin, Lawrence, Olivia, Dominic and Clement~

Dr Kenny made a good example allowing the participants to CARRY their OWN understanding of Vision and Mission literally…

~Everyone… Meet Kevin and four smaller guys..~

Dr Kenny had the four smaller guys to carry Kevin along a small obstacle course to illustrate the Vision and the Mission of the activity… As big as Kevin is… Do not underestimate the power of these four guys…

~The obstacle course… Made out of chairs… From one end to the other… Over a bunch of chairs and around another four chairs…~

~And they are off…~~And mission accomplished… Amazing… Rite?? Power to the smaller sized people… ~ ~It was really amazing ok?!~

I guess Kevin might have been praying that they didn’t dropped him and made him break his back or the chairs or something… And God was listening..

~Fiona and Garrie with their points~

~Nova with her ‘misi’~~This two are Jenna and Francis… ~

Actually this was what I enjoyed seeing… A bunch of new juniors standing out to present instead of the old faces… (Sorry Fiona, Garrie and Nova… You’re not old looking ya…) Its always hard to take the first step out and express yourselves… From what I’ve seen from Jenna and Francis… Both of them are very reluctant when their team members proposed them to go up and present… But then… during the presentation, they are actually very good when discussing their points… Maybe both of them had learned something new about themselves during the session… We may have found diamonds amidst rocks… (Metaphor) ~Frankly Jenna’s arguements during the presentation really did impressed me… And truth be told I really wasn’t expecting much of them as well… But how wrong was I… Her presentation coupled with Francis’s humor created one of the better presentations during this session… Really… IMHO~

Following Dr Kenny session was another short session by Michael who talk about CSSUPM and family…

~Michael is giving us a lecture as well ~

All in all, the morning sessions have given us an insight towards what we all want for CSSUPM…After a brief morning break with some drinks and kuih… We returned for the second session, the bible quiz…

~Sitting within teams to discuss about the answer…~

It turns out that this session may be what we all needed every once in a while… To help us remember what we really know about the bible… Questions like… Who are the 12 apostles of Christ and What are the Ten Commandments…which are quite common could even start a debate on which is wrong and which is right… Especially for the Ten Commandments at which each Christian denominations has their very own and slightly different Commandments (thanks to Nova for clearing this up…)
It seems that we must indeed punish ourselves for all the wrong answers we brought forth…. Being Catholics and all… But the bible quiz has punishments of their own… While each correct answer brings forth marks to the team… Each wrong answer will be followed by the team getting a random punishment from the box…~I cringed everytime Team Gabriel has to answer a question… Praying silently for them to get it correctly… Since comittee members cannot help to answer the quiz… But still have to be punished as well… Lucky the worst was to sing the Senyum song replacing the Senyum with Kentut…~
The sorts of punishments from the box:

~Walking like ducks around the hall~

~Dancing~ ~Laughing like a bunch of madmen and madwomen…~

~Spelling out our theme with you behinds… (I have this on vid… Be patient for the video post)~

~Singing senyum with kentut words…~

As crazy as the above punishments may seem… Most of us really had a great time… It shows that one can have fun while testing their bible knowledge at the same time… But still the outcome of the quiz basically shows that we all have to brush up on our bible knowledge… As Fiona mentioned… ‘Bible sharing anyone??’Lunch followed after that… Apparently answering question from the bible drained us all so much that most of us were starving… But lunch once again… was in abundance… And everyone could have their fill of the food…Some of the late comers becoz of business to attend to join us after lunch

~Guess who’s in the house man… Yup.. Its Gary and Geo~~And of course Gary’s introduction won’t be complete without his breakdance…~

After the two guys introduced themselves and got sorted out into the teams… The teams were given a new task… Given three songs each… They have to make up a performance that is over ten minutes for the night session… The afternoon session was more less for the teams to create their own performance and for a short session of games…

~Team Gabriel discussion in the dining hall~ ~Why so many mentions of Team Gabriel??? Because they are my team ma…~

The games held:

~Sketching out more popular advertisements commercials~
~Balloon fight… Which got really wild after a while with everyone running everywhere~

And a treasure hunt… No photos on this as I was running all over the place ‘hunting’ as well…The night session was the performance session… I’ll only upload the photos on these… Please be patient for the videos…

~Joseph pleading to Jaclyn to accept his girlfriends Nouly…~

~Team Bernadette’s dance~

~Geo must have sent sparks flying off the eyes of the girls when he got into that pose..~

~Team Jude’s love story~

~Team St Paul’s sketch of a girl betraying her guy and how the guy left her… One of the music played was ‘Apologize’ at which… Its too late to apologize… Its tooo lateeeee~~~ ~Jaclyn’s team St Theresa dance… Absolutely loved how Jaclyn danced (Wait for video post)~

~Joseph is really into the dance…~

If you would like a copy of all the videos of the camp… Can find me once I finish collecting all of em… So far I know there are still more vids out there of the camp…Everyone had a brief photo session after the performances and the results will only be out on the next day…

~Nice shots showing Victor about to bite into something…~

That’s basically what happened on the 2nd day of the camp… Most fell asleep once they reach their bed while some talk with others till they too fell asleep in the cold conditions that night… But I’m certain from how everyone was, they had really enjoyed their time in the camp so far…Finally… find out who will top the other teams as we proceed into the final session on the 3rd day alongside the prize giving ceremony and the trip around Cameron before we headed back to UPM…

~Okay lets see… I think that a blog account of what happened during the camp couldn’t convey what each and every one of us participants had experienced… But still the bottom line is: I had loads of fun there… Singing and dancing… Till today my voice hadn’t really come back after I sort of lost it during one of the Praise and Worship sessions… Another point which I had pointed out to some before this and am pointing out again now is to drop all sense of protection from oneself when joining a camp like this… Don’t care about your image or whether you are suppose to be cute… cool… manly etc… Just let your hair down and do what you want… Dance when you hear the music… Sing when there is a tune… Don’t refrain yourself from enjoying… And thru it… You will realize that even the simplest things can be fun to do… For me… Apart from losing my voice… I had… dance all of a sudden with Jenna in the dining room while they were practicing the performance (She mentioned it was fun to dance with me… Lol… Wonder how can like that… I barely know how to dance properly)… Reached out on my own to hug and to make peace with everyone else during the Praise and Worship session… Got teary eyed during Nanaq’s session… Thinking back now… I felt a bit like… ‘I can’t believe I actually did that’…  So once more… Break out of the timid you… This is the time for you to have fun… With all the other members of the family… This Catholic family of yours… And when you break out of your shell and allow others to truly experience the real you… You yourself will find that you are closer to the other members of your family as well… At least thats what I felt…~

October 5, 2008 | Categories: CSSUPM | Tags: Cameron, Camp, CSSUPM | 1 Comment »

Cameron Trip – CSSUPM Annual Camp (Day 1)

*Once again… Copied this from the CSSUPM Blog since its really a big task to type it in a different way once more… It took me almost one half hour to type this out… Along with the photos and all sorts… And this post is only about the first day… And there are two more days after this… So I only added parts I wanna add into the original copy of this post… rather than retyping the whole thing…And since there are a total of 1.5k photos of this camp alone currently at my disposal… To look thru all of them will be again… a tedious task.*

This is really going to be one long event which has to be divided into 3 parts and a video post (coming soon)… (Credits for photos goes to whoever who took them: Felicity, Victor, Fiona, Jusy, Mel, Nanaq, and etc etc etc)*

CSSUPM Annual Camp 2008 was held at the Barre I.J Center at Cameron Highlands on the 28th till the 30th of September 2008… Around 60 plus students took part in the event, creating and strengthening the bonds between them and with God… And I’m quite sure that they had enjoyed what they have experienced throughout those 3 days there…

We gathered as early as 7.45am at the KMR bus stop on the cloudy Sunday morning… (Arriving among the earliest… Lol… Again…)

~Even before the event officially started… The camwhoring has already begun~

~On the bus… Sleeping and eating… And watching Fantastic Four and The Mummy 3~

~Introducing Lawrence, Mel and Mel (both having almost similar names)~

~Jusy with her food~

The journey was an uneventful one… Besides stopping by at a nearby town to have lunch before proceeding up the winding road up the high lands, nothing much was to be noted of the journey… After almost 5 hours of travelling on the bus, we finally arrived at our destination… The Barre I.J Center

~The signboard was a sight for sore eyes especially after going up the winding road~

In case you are wondering what Barre I.J means… Its actually a center named after the Infant Jesus (hence I.J) Sisters founder, Nicolas Barre

~This is what he looks like~

~This is how the center looks like. It has 3 floors at which our camp only occupy the ground floor for events and 1st floor for accommodations… Imagine 60 plus of us staying only in one floor and that floor isn’t even filled to its fullest.. Makes you wonder what is the maximum capacity of this place…~

Upon getting off the bus… The one thing most will noticed is the coolness of the place… Indeed, the place must have been a few Celsius below what we are all used to… And it makes those without heavy clothing and jackets/coat/sweater regret not having the clothes with them… (Yup… Yours truly was one of those without any heavy clothing… But lucky for him he got a great deal of fat with him but eventually the fat didn’t really matter in the end… Read on next post for more…)

~Arrival and unloading~

The place was nice and well kept and very tidy. Each of us were given a bed (double decker) to sleep on along with blankets and bed sheets… There was a large dining hall (capable of housing everyone at one time) and the Nicolas hall (where we hold most of our events). Even the toilet was large enough for at least 10 people to do their business at the same time… (No photos of the business parts) (None ya… Although I almost managed to get a few photos of certain guys naked in the room… Oh wait… I ain’t gay…)

~The dining hall~~Nicolas hall… While waiting for the events to begin~~The beds…Simple yet comfy~

Once everyone got off the bus and got seated in the hall… A briefing regarding the do’s and don’ts of the camp was carried out by the security guard and the medic of the camp… Dominic and Percival…

~Meet those in charge of the safety at the camp… Dominic is the man with the torch light… And Percy is the man with the small red container filled with medicine… These are the guys who woke up the other guys at 2.30 a.m the next morning… Read next post to find out why…~

After the briefing session… A sing-along was carried out to introduce the participants to the theme song of the camp ‘You, Me and Us’ and then it’s time to break the ice… And how was that carried out??? By dancing…

~Walk to the left, and to the right and all night, heel, toe, half turn around, new friend found~

The ice breaking session was continued with the participants being divided into 5 groups at which they have to work together with for the next few days… The groups are named Saint Bernadette, Saint Theresa, Saint Paul, Saint Gabriel (I am in this group ya… A senior cum committee member for St. Gabriel) and Saint Jude… These five groups will have to work together in games to gather points for the 3 days there… And there shall be always a winner… Or in this case… Prizes for all groups… Depending on how well they perform… Moments after settling down into their own groups, the first couple of task has already been given… 1. Create a mascot for your group (out of the magazine and newspapers provided)… And 2. Create a Cheer for the group…(It sounded a lot like orientation you know… Sort of like Malaysianizing the whole camp or something… Made me remember of my orientation days in the university… Although I think we could have carried out other activities for the icebreaking… But so long the ice breaks… Any method is applicable I guess)

~Group St. Bernadette with their mascot: Cross and people joining hands under it~

~Group St. Theresa: Opened palm holding a heart shaped thing~

~Group St Paul with a staff~

~Group St. Gabriel with a miniature version of St. Gabriel the angel holding a harp (No photos of us on stage since… I was on stage… Haha..)~

~Group St. Jude with another angel as their mascot~

The idea of the mascot is that from then onwards, each group will have to take good care of their mascot and bring it along wherever they are going to… And that the committee members of the camp will proceed to confiscate any unguarded mascots… Sort of like to test the responsibility of the participants… (Really feeling more as if its orientation… But these mascot things don’t really bring good memories for me… Remembered the time in OBE when my group’s mascot was taken… Really not pleasant… Summore this is a Catholic camp… I don’t think have to do till like that… Its really tough to see the faces of those who lost their mascots… Esp after I almost lost another group’s de… since I was helping them to take care… Really not a nice feeling at all…)
Anyway… Do you wanna know what Dr Kenny thinks about the mascot….??

~Somehow I think the words got stuck in his throat~

After the ice breaking session… The participants were allowed to go wash up for dinner… Dinner itself wasn’t disappointing at all since the food… even though simple… was in abundant and everyone could get second servings of the food if they want to…

~Yummy~

And the cleanup session after each meal was divided between the groups at which one will do the washing while another group will handle the arranging and the wiping up…

~Robin and Nova doing the washing~

The night session started off with the opening ceremony of the CSSUPM Annual Camp… Short speeches was given by the President, Dominic… The Head of the Camp, Devebra and the advisor, Dr Kenny…

~Devebra is praising the Lord~ ~Dr Kenny is pointing at someone~~The participants listening attentively to Dominic … ~(Someone else… I can’t remember who… Thanks to Fio for noticing this…)

~Cutting open the banner… (The banner didn’t fall on it’s own after the balloons were popped… Sigh~~)~ (A big sigh here since I was the one who tied the balloon in a way that the banner will fall after the ballons burst… But since it didn’t fall… It feels as if I had failed…)

~Opening ceremony… Completed…~ (Thanks a lot to Crystal who really help me out in the preparation for the opening ceremony and to help me clean up after the ceremony ended… I’m in your debt ya… Treat you to makan next time…)

We then had a Rosary prayer session where everyone took turns to say the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be…

~Sitting in a large circle… Praying the Rosary~

Then the Praise and Worship session was held… Led by Garrie, Nouly and the gang… They lead us, praising God with new and old songs… One very noticeable incident during the Praise and Worship session was when the group sang the song ‘Hari ini ku rasa bahagia… ‘ at which everyone started to hug and get close with everyone else… It was like even though we don’t really know everyone there but we still proceed to hug those whom we don’t know… Making peace with them and joining their hands with ours… No-one was a stranger that night… This truly brings out the meaning of One Faith, One Family… (I enjoyed hugging people and getting hugs in return… So happy that night… Not to mention that the P&W got really wild… Erm… Repharse… Almost all the P&W sessions got really wild during the 3 days there)

~Praise and Worship session in the dark~

After everyone got heated up by the P&W… A sharing session was held before everyone tuck in for the night… It was then that we know how some of us actually got into the CSSUPM family…

~Quoting from Clement: “I remember John sms-ing me… It was something like this: Shalom… We got activities in the chapel… And I was wondering… Who was this Shalom guy…” ~ (Shalom is actually a Hebrew word for peace and a method to greet people… Adui… I didn’t know it was a person too…)

~And there was Francis… “I remember that I have a test which I hadn’t studied on Tuesday but I still follow them (a group) out to Sunway on the Sunday.” (It feels like we are telling them to have fun and not study… Ha ha)~ (They bring him to play at Sunway a few days before his paper… Actually I didn’t think there was any problem lar… Since I think he enjoyed a lot too….)

~And then there was Nouly… And the story of the footprints and the three ‘payas’… Detailed to the core… The stack of things in front of here is the ‘paya’~ (Really super detailed until Fiona smsed me halfway through her sharing….)

After the sharing session… Everyone had a bit of food for supper before turning in for the night… As they still have a session in the early hours of the morning…

But the committee members of the camp couldn’t have their well deserved rest yet… As they still… Have to meet to discuss about the activities for the next day…

~The committee meeting… Tired as they all were… The meeting must still go on~ (I’m just there to document the whole event with photos…)

~The center at night~

~What happened at 2.30am in the morning??~

October 4, 2008 | Categories: CSSUPM | Tags: Cameron, Camp, CSSUPM | 7 Comments »