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Monday, June 06, 2005

2:24 PM

I am proud to be a survivor of the 30-hour famine camp!!!!!

yay! im back.
well actually i was back last night.
came back and ate quite a bit of supper before heading the bed for my well-deserved sleepp.zZz
okaeyz. so im now fresh and awake to update about the details of camp.
back to the actual day of the start of camp.
it was sat 4th of june.
early in the morning, woke up and got change before mum fetched me to meet the guys at KAP mac.
had breakfast together before going to register at ngee ann at 11+
some interesting incident happened there too and we labelled a "macdonald girl."
haha.shall not elaborate here though.
so yeap.den we went to ngee ann's sports hall to register and stuff.
hanged around as usual.
we didnt want to go with our groups so early cuz all of them were in different groups too.
me and ling were super lucky. hee.
camp started at 1+ proper.
met our team mates of cambodia A14. had interesting ppl.
camp leader was estelle. -nice name yea-
so den it was some introduction speeches by the guest of honour and vips.
he officially clanged the gong at 2pm to start the 30-hours of no food.
blahz. lucky for the breakfast at macs. we were still feeling ok.
haha.
so yup. we were given an intro on how the games are like.
basically i felt it was rather slack and more of a raise awareness sort of thing.
each heading(poverty,hunger, hiv/aids) had 3 sections.
aware,share and experience.
aware was held at lecture hallls with info provided.share was like doing some sculpture of poster or smth of tt sort to share with other wad our views were. experience was going thru some games.
so well. at hunger's share station, our group made some sculpture. and it actually resembled the mask.haha.
at the experience station, i had to piggy-back ling to get water from the 'well'. it was meant to like help u understand how it feels to have a lil bro or sis on ur back and still needing to draw water for survival.
den at the poverty's share station, we drew a poster showing contrast. with a artist in our group, ren tian, he actually came our very a super nice poster showing it.=)
experience station was like having us needing to build makeshift shelters with cardboard and scrap materials.
last station being hiv/aids station.a lil activity held at aware station was funny.it showed how hiv can spread b/w ppl. and so campers were given placards. some abbreviations i tot were quite funny. NP -no protection C-condom MM- smth to do with abstinence till marriage SI-sexually inactive . there were more but the way it was done was rather hilarious. hee.=p
okaeyz. last activity of the day. hiv/aids experience station.
we were grouped with 2 other groups. the games goes like this.
there are 8 qns and each qns u have to choose from A to J. only one letter is right.
if answered incorrectly, u lose a leg but can call the support of another member to answer it. and it goes on if more members lose their legs.max if lose 2 legs and we have to carry them.
so well. how swae can we get man. we actually maximise evryone in our 3 groups at the 5 lane.
and we had 3 more qns to go. so in the end we had to carry ppl.
man. my legs were alr breaking by then. wad more for those who had to carry ppl on one leg.
so well. it was the experience station.
evrything ended at 11 with debrief and stuff.
we were all feeling sticky but the toilets were fully-occupied and evry one were like waiting for 2 places to bathe.
so me and ling went to meet up with the guys first.
sat down and played daidee. den we went to the 'amphi' there and they started talking bout ghost stories. damn. it was rather scaree. and summore bout wad merjahn, kesavan, waihong and dasan sorta 'experience' earlier on while they were walking at some place of ngee ann. near the lt s
so well. aft tt we all went to bathe which was alr round 2am.
after bathing we decided to go walk around the school.
tt's just wad we did.
walked around then upon nearing some canteen. me ling and merjahn went to sit there while the guys went on to explore wad was the scarry thing tt happened earlier with lawrence being so keen. haha.
ling didnt want to go so i accompanied her.
so well.we 3 chit chatted abt dreams and stuff while waiting. damn funny la talking bout them.
it was really interesting and hilarious actually. but well. no one noes where dreams come from yea.
they got back and nothing happened. in the end we realised it cuz merjahn went with the right group and he really scared their asses off man. haha. one good scarer he was. i bet if merjahn went as well. they sure come back not wanting to go again. hahaa..
so den got back to grandstand and we went to sleep.
was bout 3+ den.
didnt managed to reallie sleep though. only effectively slpt for 1/2 an hr.
finally woke up at 5 den dazed around.
got changed at 6.
den had worship at lt 24. evryone was not wide awake and by halfway thru the programme. half the ppl have their heads on the tables alr.
actually i think it was quite demoralising for the speaker.
so well. aft tt was newspaper collection at tampines estate.
ling and me had a good nap on the bus. seriously deep sleep.
interesting experiences we had while knocking on the doors of the ppl in the estate too.
so then we finished early . bought some drinks since all of us decided to hold on to the 30-hr fast.
we then headed back to ngee ann.
got back. hanged around as a group.
oh yeah. den we asked another talent in our group to show us magic tricks.!
he's really good i tell u. we were all appalled and amazed.
he tricked me like the day before and now other ppl.
but well. he only does his tricks once. acc to magician's code of conduct.
blahz. cant manage to decipher how he did it.
we tried videoing but it failed. he was rather worried when ling videoed with my phone though.
but he is good la. maybe cuz i cant do it tt's y.haha
yeap. so den. slacked till 7 for the famine concert.
nice concert.!!!!
had hip hop dances which were damn good and singing and stuff.
broke fast together at 8pm. end of the 30-hrs without food!!!
yay.! haha=p
went home with audrey aft tt. hee.
okaeyz. tt's about it. the camp's activies.

i really have learnt much from it and felt for the ppl there.
we singaporeans are reallllyy fortunate. and actually being materialistic at times makes me feel really guilty for them.
they are poor and thus not having enuff food. the extremes in income level b/w the ppl there really makes my heart ache for them.
also. aids sufferers are the worst victims of all. its not a choice. to them. it feels destined/fate. children are born and many die evry sec. around 4 die evry sec. tt's a lot.!
coming back from the camp, made me rich with these emotional feelings. not having food for 30-hrs compared to them is really nothing.they had to go without food for 30 days or more.. also. we had sugared drinks to ease hunger. they have nothing.!
from now. i shall learn to not take things and granted and treasure evry lil thing in my life. thinking abt the innocent and cute lil kids in cambodia, ethiopia and mongolia, i really am far moreee fortunatee than them in many ways too.
=)

&the beauty.