~JcZw

Well! The things that have transpired since I last blogged:

1. RJ Invites... Hmmm read our fencing blog for details... I lost to the B-Division champion from Tanglin 15-14 pahhhh... It was really close and I really should have done better but oh whatever.. But on the happier note, today I've got my V-blade! So now my preciousssss which is optimized for flicking and close quarters is back... Never noticed how much the blade was angled before really haha...

Well pictures.. From top left clockwise

Daniel (back facing camera), Maurice (on the right) fencing a Tanglin guy (can tell by the glove), the VJ team, one of the times this year where instead of everyone looking grim, people actually look like they're enjoying themselves! and finally another shot of Maurice fencing the same guy..

2. Church Camp! Was a wonderful exciting thoroughly fun 4 days! Whoohoo!! Like we shared in Youth group, God really spoke to us during the camp, and each of us had things in the message o words which applied to us personally so it was good! For myself was the bit about "Denying yourself" i.e. giving up everything to God and trusting him for your own provision.... Maybe I should start attending prayer meeting and be less superficial about reading the Bible..

Of course, the company was great as well (as was the food =D).. Got to know the youths better, even my own cousins! Haha well after 4 days of eating together, planning games, sitting next to one another during sessions, playing soccer during R&R, and bridge-ing, watching Arsenal draw with Chelsea and playing murderer into the wee hours of the night, it was kinda inevitable...

Incidentally I played soccer for the first time in hmmm 6, 7 months? Although my goalkeeping was so off that instead of deflecting the balls to the side of the goal, or turning them over the top, I kept knocking them back into the paths of the oncoming attackers to tap into empty nets =Pp, pulled my left shoulder and got a lovely abraision on the knee while diving (amateurishly). Heh still it was thoroughly enjoyable =)

Feel closer to the church community after the camp (after all, we are quite a small group so its easy to get to know one another), and I'm doubly happy that no one ever graduates from church unlike school... This makes church friends a unique group from CCA- or class-mates... Not that the latter lack in my value of their friendship, just saying that the friendship is a little different (Just like any friends made in NS in the future will be different too)

The view from the 5th floor where my room was... It was an overcast day when I took the picture, but just as well... If it was sunny, the camera phone would have just shown silhouettes

The swim-up bar at the hotel swimming pool (when I was out walking on the first night with Dezhi and Zijun) quite cool... although I dunno who would swim and stop for a drink at the same time! The first night was stormy... Lightning and all... rained later during the night and turned the soccer field muddy!

The first session! Dezhi (here karaoke-ing heh),

Timmy (my cousin at the guitar), Chee Kit (accompanying Dezhi heheh) and I went up early before everyone else, mainly cos Tim and CK were doing worship and I had to do the projection duty (or laptop duty haha), and having finished preparing, we were just fooling around =D

On the last night, the church celebrated my parents' 25th anniversary!

And the devotion sheet we were given... Instinct made me write the above-shown cos I had been kinda distracted when the sheets were given out... Just shows the impact of JC life...

Yup so that was it for Church Camp... Thank God for the marvelous experiences we had!

3. I ran 7 km for the first time in my life... But for an eyelash that inverted and stabbed my eye, I would have reached Bedok Reservoir!

4. Dinner and stuff with church friends from Australia, but I shall leave that to another post... This one is already getting very HTML rich...

By now, almost half the guys in my class are in NS... Hmmm its a funny thought and one which keeps me awake at night... 4 weeks to go... Well, let's see how it goes... Meanwhile i need to find something meaningful to do...