DMSJ 2009: Day 4

*ahem*

this post took so long because i was gearing up for the last day of the camp. plus no internet connection.

*ahem*


i got the last piece of nugget-ball. so proud. and this nugget-ball is really sedap wan. yum.

um.

that's all i got.

er. wait.

tada!

this is the two drops of water on the table
cloth in the restaurant. tada.

the siahs went to malacca for a church dinner at night cuz my grandma (my mum's mum) wanted to go. which is a good thing, cuz she'd previously been responding negatively to anything that has to do with Christianity. =D

and er.

adi forgot what kah wei was trying to do.
prolly don't really want to remember also. hm.

went for satay celup with the two fellas from jbgc/kajang gc on day 5. (self-extended camp)




er that's all. sorrylah, potong stim. =P

public: you should've stopped at day 3.
me: ya, i wrote very well for day 3.

Updates!

We'll be having a Scavenger Hunt this Saturday. Those in Malacca, make effort to invite your friends. Pray for my friends, I've invited some and they are interested. Just pray that they'll just agree to go and will go.

Pray for my sissers, Shuen and Hwei. Shuen is very very busy but still has to do the Scanvenger Hunt while Hwei is sick. Pray that Big Sis will be able to cope while Small Sis will get well.

Pray for Yen Mei. She specially requested to pray for her safety in Johore. I don't know why but if you wanna know, ask her. I just said I don't know. Anyway, pray that she'll be able to understand the new design class she attending now and that she may know where God wants her to be.

Daniel has finally settled his registration as much as the Ronaldo deal is done! He was really happy, and therefore we are happy too! Continue to pray for him though. He has a lot of busy things going on and needs to find time to do his own notes because the books are too thick. Pray that he won't neglect doing quiet time. It's easy to neglect it. Saying "I rest 5 minutes first" or "I do one more question first" before going to sleep and end up not spending time with God. This is for everyone, including me :)

Praydates

This is a special prayer request by Daniel! Apparently, his lecturer wants to push forward a subject next semester to this semester. Unfortunately, it clashes with his Spanish class. So he plans to discuss with his Spanish lecturer about changing it from Tuesday to Wednesday but is afraid the lecturer might not agree. Pray that the lecturer will agree and that whatever the decision, Daniel may be able to accept it and be strong.

For updates, Yen Mei seems to be quite busy on her 1st day! She sat in for a meeting and went around with her aunt to meet clients most probably. Pray that she may be able to adapt to life in the fast lane. Not like Johor is fast like KL, but anything compared to Malacca will be fast.

Hwei is having her own car in KL now. There's a small problem though. She and another roommate have brought a car but there's only one parking slot available. One must park outside and the walk back to the place will be quite far. Pray that she may be able to liaise with all her roommates about this and that the best decision may be reached (Her getting the parking slot. Lady walking alone is dangerous).

Pray for camp! Pray for the committee that they will be committed and plan properly for even the little details as the camp comes nearer. By the way, it's at the SUFES camp site and will be a very physical activity. There will be jungle trekking at night and some obstacle race. Besides that, campers will also get to climb a real and high waterfall compared to the Ayer Keroh waterfall. Yes, hard to believe, but there is one in Ayer Keroh. Some argue that it's too short to be a waterfall but then again, there are water falling. So, yeah, it's a waterfall. Case dismissed.

Now to sad news. We lost in the small badminton tournament. Only Unc Tony and Yen Mei won. Anyway, it's okay. Lin Dan loss a few matches too. If you have any other prayer requests, feel free to sms or call any of the bloggers. Below are the bloggers.

For dramatic posts - Hwei
For photo-filled posts - Yen Mei
For design-filled posts - Chen Li (Might have to try contacting a few times. She's on demand)
For lame posts - Anyone but Shaun.

Yep, lastly pray for Chen Li. Seems to be going a very tough ride. Only know she's struggling with her Befrienders stuff. Pray that she'll get the sleep she so, so, so needs and will not abandon God during her busy time.

Seriously, the last. Pray for me. Preparing on topic Gideon. I feel it's kinda tought since I rarely share and to prepare practical questions can be difficult. Pray for Kah Wei as he prepares on the character Job. Remember Andy and Qi who will be song leading and game leading respectively.

Last lastly, for sure (Unless I remember any other prayer items). Pray for my dad. Has been really busy with his work lately. Pray that they'll be able to finish the work before the deadline, which is the end of this month.

DMSJ 2009: Day 3

there was the Bingo Bash, which i initially thought was like the one where you call out numbers and then half-heartedly hope you get to cross out B, I, N, G, and O before the other person(s). the new version is where you o-peng with random people and get a dot on your head every time you lose.

the real Bingo Bash was a combination of charades, win-lose-or-draw, and er, UNO (my opinion). groups got to pick numbers from the board thing on the screen, and some numbers were charades, some the drawing thing, some, intercepts. intercepts meant the question was open to any group to answer, but only if certain conditions were fulfilled. usually the blowing and popping of a coloured balloon.

this was the bestest game for me cuz it required Bible knowledge. but as i did in dunno which DMSJ a few years back, i messed up the tribes thing in Genesis. as in i had no idea which tribe it was that is connected to a snake. answer was Dan, i think.

then we dispersed to practice for Special Nite. before that, we had our music practice for the next day. again, i had a good time being flexible and spontaneous. sieh jin's method of teaching his new song was:

*play play guitar and sing once through*
sieh jin: "ok, you all can d right? let's start."

and sagc's method of practicing was:

*someone randomly starts strumming/drumming/bass-ing*
*everyone starts joining in gradually*
*finish*
chee kean: "ok. can ar? any questions?"

and sieh jin had the weirdest song transitions:

*finish Better Than Life (very fast wan)*
sieh jin: "alright! yeah! now, let's continue to praise the Lord** with...
I Love You Jesus."
everyone: "..."

*finish I Love You Jesus*
sieh jin: "yeah! let's continue to praise the Lord with... a hymn! If Ever I Loved Thee."
chee kean: "dude, like, i think you don't say 'let's continue to praise the Lord la'"

**there was a more lawak phrase which i can't remember

but it was enjoyable. learned a lot, evolved a lot. now i know If Ever I Loved Thee can be played with the More Than Words mood. (and it was discovered by accident too, while chee kean was playing around with the song). interesting.

then we went to prepare in our respective groups.

joshua raj, the young man shaun was talking about here.

see, just before we dispersed for group preparation, another nut (lala) came running into the hall with a message from King Kalahkalahtakmaumati, summoning a tribal gathering at night. each tribe was to bring an offering to the king, and if he didn't like the offering, matilah engkau. (us, not the king).

long story short, our story was about how the tribe of Manasseh had prepared offerings for the king, when a hungry little Manessehian went and ate all the offerings that happened to be food. so in the end, we sacrificed him instead. joshua's last words were:

"dear king, i have two feelings:
one, i'm happy because i'm going to heaven.
two, i'm sad because i'm going to die. *eyes pop*"

and say it with the indian accent.

we didn't make that up. he really said it on his own while we were practicing. ah well. half the fun of preparing a script is to sit back and hope the actors make up their own one-liners.

our tribal outfit.
from left: erik, joshua, tze meng, sokha.

we finished the earliest, cuz somehow every group i'm in happens to be selamba. then i went outside with sokha, the SU observer from cambodia, learned how to say "i'm pretty" in cambodian and taught her to say "awesome" whenever she didn't get what malaysians are saying. seriously, it's like a kata hubung. and in the process of getting to know sokha, i realized i have the worst conversation-starters. argh. never mind. i started talking to her because i felt guilty for our group switching our allocated practice place without telling her, and she was lost trying to find us. but after awhile, we could talk naturally again. and it only struck me how sad it is that our country's muslims don't have freedom of religion when i told her so.

at the tribal gathering, the same nut ran into the hall in inappropriately-matched clothing. alas, it was the prime minister of King Kalahkalahtakmaumati, and his name was Hairless Harry Potter. or was it Hairless Hairy Potter? am i even getting the three words right? ah nevermind. here he is.

*after dmsj*
shaun: "and his vest so lawak somemore! *laughs*
me: "and you know what the funniest thing is?"
"what?"
"he wears that vest all the time."
o_O "really ar?"

and then everybody had to bow down with their heads touching the ground while the king walked in, cuz he doesn't like people looking at him while he walks. lols.

tada! the awesome king and his konco-konco.

from left: sieh jin, runa, unc dex, christina,
jason fong (oops, blocked), sir hairless

eh blocked again.

ah. tada for real. tada!

sir hairless panas d.

anyway, there were some announcements about how we'd be sentenced to the Chamber or Prison if the king didn't like our offering. the chamber lawak, by the way. hard to explain here though. pokoknya people will get beat up in the chamber and come out limping wan.

and here's the king choosing his queen
from the women of all tribes.

here's a sample of the presentation from one tribe.


plus the video. (psst: video not clear wan.)

oh ya, the king couldn't speak english wan. mostly hokkien nie.

neh, nothing much happened in between. just some chambering, attempted assasination, king's sms spree with the quizmaster (who already balik malacca, by the way), surprise birthday celebration, demotion of the prime minister, return of the king's prodigal son - Cepatcepatpergimati, some imprisonments, and a rubber-band competition. nope, nothing much.

the changes on the stage since the last picture
of the Kalahkalahtakmaumati council.
er shaun's there cuz was his turn to pray.

then it was time to clean up. (after bowing with our heads to the ground while King Kalahkalahtakmaumati walked out, of course).

and the advanced in age gathered to talk. after all, we've only seen each other once every year for 9 years. hm.

from left:
lee girk, chee kean, yuen wye, christina, sabrina

at one point, i said, "eh, you all reaching 30 d hor?"
sabrina: -_-
chee kean: "some people already passed 30 lor. XD"

owh. whoops. it's ok. if DMSJ goes one full cycle again, i'll be 30 too. aha.

yeah, i can't believe we've seen each other for 9 years. it's the 10th DMSJ, but it's been 9 years. since 2000. i was wearing a kiki-lala shirt back then. hm. it's a nice feeling. to know that whenever i'm in malacca, johor, or shah alam, there'll always be someone i know there. someone i've probably seen for more than 9 years. i'm glad i kept going for all those DMSJs although i didn't feel like i wanted to.

i never talked to any of them, honestly. just knew their faces. yuen wye's been scaring me out of my wits every DMSJ cuz he always seemed to be in my group and he's fierce, lee girk was the one with the uber long hair, chee kean rolled a table as the door to the ark in the Genesis DMSJ, and sabrina was the one who got herself a bald head back when it was still the DMS quiz. that was how i differentiated sabrina lee and sabrina chia. lols.

i think camp was a very good way to get us to actually sit down and talk to each other. there was lots of time for that, lots of space, liberty, and most of all, voluntary assertion. nobody had to make me talk to them. and that's one of the best things in relationships. talking to someone just because you want to.

and we get to do stuff we can't do
during a normal quiz event.

like play a four-way o-peng, lose,
and get contenged on the head by the winner.

yup. it wasn't a perfect camp for everyone. but it was good enough for me. cuz i know i'll always be able to look back at this point of time, and say,

thank you, sagc, for organizing this.
thank you, SU team, for the games and sessions.
thank you, everyone, for coming.
thank you, God, for these memories.
i can grow old knowing i was indeed young once.

then we went back for our dorm sharing, and i reminded my share-mates again that these four days were a single moment in the history of DMSJ that should never be forgotten. then we had our lights turned off, and went to sleep wishing the day would never end.

neh.

too tired to think of anything. sleep nie. =P

Who's the Star?

Everyone knows that DMSJ is over 3 weeks ago, and everyone knows that I suppose to do this post 3 weeks ago and now is actually 3 weeks after everything.

So I'm gonna start this post with the big question: Who's the Star?

Does this picture of Star remind you of any person?

Or does this help? This is definitely not about NBA all star competition with Lebron James slam dunk or anything involves shoes.

These are your star, and this... is... DMSJ 2009 All star team for MGC!

Guess who has the highest number of Star among them!?

As we know, many years of curse, this vary night they got it broken. Broken as in no more, no more mean takda la. Don't ask me about the detail of the curse, but what is in my knowledge is that we've never been in between for the result. XDXD

It is definitely a good result compare to the year where Timothy, Shaun, and Myself got trash to almost nothing. Don't remember that year? Me either! (*Trying to forgets the sad story)

Overall, it is because of this person the DMSJ quiz is so successful (well, at least the question was not twisted like the year that I'd join). Non other than the quiz master, Uncle Philips Lim.

**Applause**

But at the end of the days, I think everyone deserve this award because no matter what result we produce during the quiz, we are definitely the most semangat group that night! In another words, we are actually the noisiest group of youth that night! XD
Here's the award, you can print it out and paste on your wall or put in your wallet! XD

The answer for the Big question: Who's the star - It's you who are reading this now!! =)

Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Fredderick.

DMSJ 2009: Day (Sunday)

Day 2 was when I took a photo of a guy who looked so much like Ah Zheng. No time to find a picture of Ah Zheng now, so I'll do that later.

Next, baptism by the sea.

The camp committee waded into the sea the night before with the microphones and all to test that they were all good. There were... five candidates? Was never good with numbers.

Uncle Dex said that some of the candidates had gone through a lot to make this decision to be baptized, and for that, I give them my awe. Many don't realize that baptism is more than getting soaked underwater.

Morning worship @ 9.45 am

Personally one of the weirdest Sunday worship sessions for me because I was playing in a full band. Chee Kean from SAGC was very helpful in coordinating the musicians during worship, but methinks I'll probably never want to try that again. It was difficult to concentrate and very difficult to focus. I think if every Sunday worship was like that for me, I'd go years without worshiping the Lord on Sundays.

And I had to swallow the huge chunk of bread Chee Kean plucked off for me while I was playing the er, muzik bertemaning (accompanying music? lols.).


Lunch

Dropped some rice all over the table and my shorts.

dropped some on the first day also actually.
it's like... tradition.

Day 2's game was called Survivor. To some people's disappointment, and to my utmost delight, it was only a game of Poison Ball.

unc dex trying to er, hide the ball.
shields are to defend self against balls.

ju at the right. gaya!

To my complete and pleasant surprise, I survived the game. Hah see, I can play some land games also k.

The fun really started when the organizers said to gather the ball-pickers (camp committee) in the middle of the circle without shields, for us to throw balls at. They put up a valiant fight *semangat song*, but in the end, there was only one ball-picker left.

jun yi. eh. macam defending against penalty kick nie.

Here's a video of the plight of The Last Ball-Picker:

video was taken a little too late.
the front part was lagi memberangsangkan.
got matrix stuff goin' on wan.

Ceh. Oklah. Not badlah. =P

It was Daniel's turn to play the drums for the night's session. Daniel got the difficult songs, I think. Everyday, for one. And there was that new Rainbow song.

chee kean explaining drum beats.

I think it was more difficult for Daniel to play with other SAGC/DGC musicians than Adrian (the night before), because he'd been there since the very first DMSJ Quiz in 2000. Back when it was still the DMS Quiz. That was when all the keng chao and inhuman fellas rocked the stage with their alien skills. I, for one, always refused to play the piano when DGC and SAGC-ians were around.

was he nervous? ask him. =D

Anyhow, Daniel did good. =D

The Rainbow song came with some actions, which we couldn't see because MGC-ians were somehow always sitting at the back. So...

Improvise!

auntie tina: "everybody just look at andy."

i didn't get the actions anyway.

And by the end of Day 2, I'd found a better way to sleep. (and slightly more leg space)

er no. my feet didn't touch the towel.

Yup.

so did they.

DMSJ 2009: Day 1

After teatime was ice-breakers. Something about hanging someone else's name-tag around your neck except the other way round (the tag on your back), then hunting for the person by asking a series of questions without asking for the person's name. Then looking for your group members, etc etc.

Oh ya, at this point, I remembered something.

While waiting for tea to arrive, I saw a folder on the table and, being the kpc that I am, started flipping through it. And so I knew my group members d before the game. =P

Plus the camp speaker tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Give it back to me after you're done reading ya."

Paiseh giler.

Then it was a few hours before the quiz.

Honestly, didn't really have time to be nervous about the quiz.

I was on musician duty for the night's worship session, so we practiced before dinner after a kerbau's worth of mandi. By the time I actually got to sit down for dinner (20 minutes before the quiz), I felt like I'd dropped my brain somewhere. Which wasn't an entirely bad thing. Feeling nothing was definitely better than feeling nervous.

And I did enjoy playing with the band. Not as much as I did a few days later, but still, I enjoyed it. It was nice to be flexible for awhile. There was no need to recite a string of chords to anyone, or get frustrated trying to explain a drum beat that is nothing but a vivid imagination in my mind. And then I sat at the dinner table with music in my head, and I thought to myself and the ugly greens I was about to stuff into my mouth:

When was the last time I said I loved music?

What happened during the quiz itself will be posted by Fred soon on the MGC blog. Soon as in when he gets off work. =D

For those who don't already know:

• Main TseHwei TseShaun TseShuen (emcee: their names so similiar eh. i wonder if they're related.)
• Reserve + Floor member DanielLim
• Floor members CelineTan NgeeQi
• Quiz Master PhilipLim
• MGC Moderator SarahTeo

Fred, Sarah, Sin Lan, Wei Jin, and Yen, thank you so much for coming for the quiz!

Fred, Sin Lan, and Yen even made a banner for us. =D

"why B-Leh wan?"
"cannot put 'o'. wait you all get kosong."

Very touched, seriously. This is for Yen.

sorry your name isn't clear. my hp's 2mp like 1mp nie wan.
^_^"

SAGC put up a message board for campers to write stuff on for most of the camp duration. Sis wrote too: "I wish I could stay", but I didn't take a pic of that one.

It made me sad to know that people who really wanted to go couldn't go, and people who could go didn't want to go. Sounds a bit judgmental, but yeah, that's how I felt every time I stared at the black board.

Anyway.

The questions started easy. Like really easy. Like multiple-choice questions kind of easy. Seriously. Then tetiba, fill in the blanks looked like this:

He is the 1W of the 2W, the 4W.

That was for the first table, which Uncle Philip labelled 'the easiest table'.

For the 'easy' table:

Therefore, continue to 3W, 1W and
2W in him, 4W as you were taught, and
3W.

For the hardest table, the questions looked like this:

Therefore, if you have any 1W from being 3W,
any 1W from his 1W,
any 1W with the 1W,
any 1W and 1W...

...and then I couldn't remember how it goes d.

For team questions, one question that really murdered us was "what is the 'mystery of God' and the 'mystery of Christ'?" Suffice to say, the verses provided didn't really do much to help, since we never did memorize passages and whatever verses they were in, and we literally stared at the screen doofus-ly for a few seconds.

Then I grinned and said, "Lanyak."

So we lanyak-ed, and we got zero points. Ahahahahahaha. Thank you, guys, for the cheer that went up anyway. =D

Not going to set about justifying why we could neither be champions nor defend our 'title'. I'm going to set about remembering something I said a few days before the quiz:

Derk: "We can't pray for 1st place, cuz everyone would be praying for it also."
Me: "We pray for 2nd place then. Nobody will pray for that."

Okay. So it was my fault we got 2nd place.

And God answers prayers.

Aha.