St James Bond Camp - Day 2

Brought to senses by people shuffling around. awoke feeling sticky and cold. water vapour condensed onto me as morning dew. even without much wind coming through the partially opened window, it still chills. could have been worse if i hadnt bathed the day before. dunno y that happens everytime i sleep without aircon during camps, but never at home.


it was slightly past 7, i went to wash up. many people were awake already, sitting around or in the toilet. there was a considerable amount of spare time before the first scheduled activity of the day, which was the morning devotions. Being the leader of the group meant that i had to lead the devotions too. so i spent the time reading the passage and prepare myself so i dont stare blankly later on. During the devotions, i discovered its actually quite nice being the leader. i get to arrow everyone else to read, pray or give opinions, and i just slack. haha. i only chipped in when they all went silent during the reflections part.


for breakfast theres some fried noodle. could be exchanged for beehoon. with lunchen meat, cabbage and fishcake slices. the noodle was rather oily and fattening. beehoon's the health conscious's choice.


in the auditorium, we had some time slotted in for God in the form of a worship session, folowed by briefing on the sentosa activity which supposed to last the whole day(but not night.) the bus took a while to come. meanwhile my group went to get their bags of spare clothes and towels, all to be dumped together into a thrash bag labelled with the group name. there was a bit of disarray when the bus came. my members were scattered, jonathan was held up by his dad, joycelyn wanted to stay awhile and go by the van.. so when i finally went up there was no more seat for me until darren went off to dunnowhere.


Upon alighting at sentosa, we took a stroll down to palawan beach. After settling down, we were told that our lunch will no longer be free & easy as planned. it will be ordered in bulk, with an additional cost of $4. a choice of either char siew or chicken rice + a choice drink. So other groups went easy on the order takers and ordered common drinks (in both contexts: easily found, and same among the group.) like coke. but my group's drink order was more sophisticated and i had to remember all the orders from my group then tell it to uncle henry. so it was like.. 1 root beer for joshua, 1 chin chow for enli, 2 green tea for joyce and sien, 3 lemon tea for david, gloria and joycelyn, 2 100+ for joel and jonathan... then i realised i was short of 1 order. got 10 ppl in the group but only 9 orders. so i asked aloud,

"hey.. 1 more boy havent ordered yet. who havn place order for drink ah? (after a pause) oh.. its me. haha!"

i ordered anything. weird combo, but all was able to be found anyway.



it was time for some beach games. there was a 3-leg captains ball, where the players excluding the ball catcher would be tied by 1 leg into pairs. this effectively causes us pain with each step we take and significantly reduces movement speed. the suffering was added on by the blazing sun and scorching sand. the sunlight also blinds us so cant shoot properly from some angles. this version of captains ball also has a free for all feature, with 4 teams playing at once. a good change, cos it allows a wider variety of tall ppl to block tall catchers.



Next game was a blindfolded dog and bone, which was called off because it was found to be quite dangerous after a bad collision occured. So we had quite some free time while waitin for the lunch to arrive. some went to play 2 leg captains ball, some like me just sit around n talk.



when lunch finally arrived, we had to send some ppl to collect the food. so we had to pass by some grass and plants to get to the van. then i saw this disgusting pile of dog shit with flies swarming it on the grass. when we were near it i told joanne who was behind me, "u go by that way"(pointing to the shit.) she got shocked and made a really funny long sound. haha. others around turned to look and asked like, "what happen? got lizard arh?" so now we noe jo is scared of lizards!

we had no proper place to eat. just gotta sit and eat on the sand. being a bit cleanliness conscious, i sat on the beach ball and didnt let my food or drinks touch the sand.



The free time continued after lunch. this time we went into the water, play with a floating ball. i went to the other side of the shore and found a dying fish that i later buried.



after some time we were called out of the waters. time to play water games. for this one we had to send 1 person at a time, roll on the sand and spin 5 rounds before entering the water and running back to squeeze whatever water collected in the clothes into a bottle. first group's bottle to be filled wins. the boys are much more efficient cos they can take out their shirt to wring. one group foul played and used 1 person wear 3 shirts to go in.



then for the final game, each group had 10 mins to fill up water bombs. supposedly 30 per grp, but it was much more. each grp had a dry person to sit in a small area. once then game starts some ppl would try to hit other group's dry person with waterbombs. can be defended by hitting an attacker with a water bomb, then they gotta return to base. but defense is quite futile. in the end everyone got wet. my pants were way too big so i couldnt run or it will drop. but i was able to hit 2 bases and 1 attacker.

the game ended rather quickly, just about 5 mins of intense action, then we had a massive cleanup operation part 1 on the beach, picking up all our litter and other's. and then part 2 in the shower area - wash off the sand and salt and get changed into dry clothes to go up the bus. i actually took a bath for my upper part of the body, but couldnt bathe the lower part cos the shower area was unisexual.

We gathered all our wet clothing and dumped them back into the thrash bag. the weight had very obviously increased. then we took the same coach back to church. the following hour or so was for setting up of the bbq pits and cooking the food, and free time for the rest. during this time joshua ge got chicken sauce all over his clothes and spent an hour in the toilet scrubbing at it. when he was finally happy with the look of it, he was so happy he left behind his ring. so i took it and passed it around so he din noe who it was with, but kept bugging me about it.

The bbq was quite efficient, with a constant supply, though not enough to meet the demand. the cooked foods came in little by little and hungry campers prowled around the food arrival point waiting to swipe up whatever that comes. there were stuff like sausages, chicken wings, wrapped fish, otah and squids. then i tried wrapping a chicken wing in foil and put it to bake. but when i went to collect it later, someone had taken it. prolly mistaken as a corn. soon after the crowd was satisifed, i had a good supply to myself and had my fill. still a lot of leftovers after the bbq.

Next up its movie time again. this time got 2 movies. first was ice age, an animation set in the ice age. but it jus focuses on 3 animals and a super-tough baby. not a very interesting storyline.

second show was night at the museum. where everything in it comes to life at night. including stone statues, mummies and a T-rex skeleton. it would seem like a horror show, but they somehow made everything into a comedy. its like u expect to see some horror suff happening next, then it twists into comedy. also a lot of lameness like the mini ppl and the pi xiu (chinese lion statue) walking around. then the warden in the end got all the museum stuff to go against his superiors who is supposedly the crooks. very entertaining show.

The shows ended late like past 12. i went to take another quick bath and this time slept in the aircon bunk, but on the stage. gets really cold later on, and lucky i was just next to a lot of towels, that i used as blanket.