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.

Pre-DMSJ 2009

(Ya, ya, I know everyone's very impatient d. I do things at my own pace. bah! =P)

One fine Bible study night at the Lims' place about two weeks ago, we had this conversation going on at the supper table:

Uncle Rod: "MGC wrong also never mind wan. If we win, it's a bonus."
Kah Wei: "If we win, it's a miracle."
Everyone: -_-!

Well, as everybody knows, we had three drills. (yup, three)

Quantity doesn't matter ok. What matters is quality. And MGC has plenty of that. Lala.

Contohnya:

Anyway, we came up with a cheer and appointed Adrian as head cheerleader.

Unfortunately, we couldn't execute our fantastic cheer cuz of the recent fear of meningitis and swine flu.

By the way, Shu Lynn couldn't be there for the quiz because of her CF's planning thing. =( It's okay. Give you a slot on the blog. =D

30 May 2009 - 1++ pm

As always, we got lost on the way there. I have no idea what happened because I got car-sick along the way. Er, I suppose even if I didn't get sick in the car, I'd still not know what happened.

Anyway, at one point, Shaun decided he'd take the bus to Golden Sands.

He waited.




And waited.

and then he concluded that there are no buses in PD.

Some minutes later, we somehow found the small, little signboard that pointed the way to Golden Sands.

and then Isaac pointed the way in.

We registered ourselves and then obediently made our way to the dining area for tea when told to do so.

we were the first.
so yiao gui obedient.

Mm-hm. 'Twas a pretty uneventful pre-DMSJ narrative.


Picture of the day:



Our first and last floor drilling is here. =)

DMSJ 2009: When all's been said and done.

Slowly wait for the updates k.

Cuz my photos and videos are being transferred very slowly also.

^_^

To cut a long story short, (temporarily), DMSJ Camp was definitely better than just DMSJ Quiz.

Many thanks to those who made the effort to go,
Many blessings on those who made the effort to stay,
Many understanding smiles to those who really couldn't stay,
Many pats on the back to those who really wanted to go but couldn't.
Many hugs, kisses and terharu grins to those who came for the quiz and made the banner!

Also to those who stayed:

"See. It wasn't that bad right? =)"