And In god I trust

I've been really busy so yep havent been blogging!
And apparently my blog seems so sombre and stuff I've decided to make this post...more light hearted :)

The past week has been a blast, really. Starting from the 7th of June, Thursday all the way to Monday I was at camp, operation 纳尼亚! It was a church camp organized by my church, All saints church and held at church (Which is inside AHS - Anglican High School)
Firstly, the camp has been a very strenuous and tiring journey, with games that required alot of sheer determination, strength and willpower just to get through all of it. The games in the afternoon are based like a mini amazing race, and stations are located all around us and we have to do them quickly. Some are time based, so we have to run around and try to finish everything as quick as we can. Yep, and thats why we are so tired.
The night activities were super tiring for the first day, I didn't expect it to be half as tiring cause when I joined in sec 1, the night activities were very mild and not tiring at all.. looks like they decided to change this year. The night activities were based on speed. We were given a marble at the start, and we had to go to the hall and complete the stations located there. One marble can only be used for a single station and upon completion we were given a icecream stick with a word, and then we had to run around the whole compound (parade square, church, concourse) and find people who have a bell and tell them the word. If the word is correct, they will give us another marble let us continue the games. The team which completes the most stations win. Well the hard part was that it was super difficult finding the right person as there were alot of people with bells and then we had to keep darting here and there. But at the end of the day, we strived hard and fought to the end, in the end completing 11/12 stations and came in second among all the 12 groups!
In the day on the first day, the stations were based on scores and timings instead, and we had to try our best to do well and complete the station in the shortest time possible. For this, we managed to probably get first for around 4 out of 8 stations - a feat of course! So we came in first! Go NASA!
Second day was... more different I guess? This time the day games are more like the amazing race. And then at the starting we were given the weird dance to dance, and the house which could dance the thing correctly first are allowed to go first. If I remember correctly voyager went off first, followed by atlantis and then us Lodestar. So technically, we had a very very bad start cause we had at least 10 minutes buffer time between us and voyager. Nonetheless, for the first station, the other houses all used around 10-20 minutes just for the game which was like there was this item put in a black box and you have to guess the item in the box. If you guess wrongly you have to do 100 counts on a pedometer for 1 step forward or something. Luckily for us Donovan saw the item immediately (Which is a lipstick) and we didnt even have to step at all haha. We finished the station in like.. 3 minutes! This time again we were enthusiastic and went on chionging through all the stations, eventually coming in as 4th, overtaking many that were infront of us.
So yep we were in top four for all 3 of the games we played ^^

Anyway fast forwarding... to amazing race! We were waken up at 5.40 with a bloody piece of announcement stuck onto the board and YES YOU CAN GET WHAT KIND OF FEELING I HAD. LIKE WTH THE RACE STARTED THE HECK???

Well in the end we were on of the last ones to leave (cause Bervyn took his time showering we don't blame him) and then we reached the first station which we had to cut stuff (clues) that had our logo. We overtook alot of stations there.. then the second station we overtook more teams hehe and got first. But unfortunately we went on to the chinatown station and got abit lost.. which eventually led to us becoming second. I think at the end of the day there were 7 stations in total. It was quite cool and we finished 4th again.

With that behind, lodestar won the best house! And then NASA won the second best team!

I think at the end of the day. It wasnt only the fun and laughter that mattered so much. It was all about god. Yes, it was all about god. It might be weird, but I think I enjoyed the praise and worship sessions alot. I recall myself letting go of myself, giving in to god. Giving myself to god. The holy spirit was with me. Through this camp I think I have rediscovered god again probably. I have learnt more about him and all he has done for me. I have connected with him. I hope god can be able to continue guiding me, continue helping me each and everyday through everything I do. I thank you god. I love you.


Amen