HELLO.

Bintan trip was fun actually, just that I didn't really participate much cause I don't really have any ideas like for the cheers and all that, no matter how I struggle to rack my brains.

Day 1, 19/11/10

Not much actually, just some icebreaker games with the sec 1s, roller blading and a little interaction. Camped in school. I felt really 'high' at night during the Bahasa lesson. It feels a little like alien language to me cause when I tried to pronounce it, it's a little too off the tune if you get what I mean. Devotions was great! 'Spirit Touch Your Church'! My favourite! The guitar version.

Day 2, 20/11/10

Amazing race planned by the trainers. I think this activity was the one that really bonded us together. I was really shag that day and sleepy as well :X
Dinner was interesting. Ate at Pasar Oleh Oleh. Ten people per table. So all the girls sat at one table and the guys, another table. The other groups had a mixture of guys and girls so we're...unique!
As expected, we couldn't finish our dishes and passed to Jenna (Chew)'s group. :)
RuiLin tried to break the silence but to no avail. Let's just paint it in a positive light, we were minding our table manners. Having an etiquette here! Hahaha.

Day 3, 21/11/10

Orphanage! YES YES YES! KIDS! :D
As you know, I love kids a lot ; not a pedophile!
Ali, Roy and some other local kids, that's all I could remember. Sorry sorry :X
My memory seemed to have failed me. Anyway, getting back to the topic, the groups had rotations of different stations. We kicked off the day with tree-planting and ended off with a cheer! So this is the sequence of the stations we did:

1. Tree-planting
2. Games with local kids
3. Painting
4. Cheer/Poster-making.

Even if it takes a lot to make a kid happy for a day (and hopefully we're etched in their minds), I'll do it! Cause my childhood had been a fruitful one and I know theirs can never be because they're either unwanted or raised by a single parent. Parents play an important role in a child's life. Having the feeling of wanting to give them your all, but when you face reality, you know you can't. I felt as though I just wanted to give them everything they needed, fund them with what they needed. When my group and I gave our '100%' to what we were doing, I believe that we just hoped that the kids there will have a good childhood and teenage years. Although truths are always ugly, when they think of why other children do have parents, whereas they don't, it just leads them to depression but instead of seeing them so, why not we, as volunteers, just go ahead and make them happier? Even if it was just for a day, I believe it's the extreme we can do. I don't know why, but I seem to have a particular attachment towards the kids in the orphanage. They really impressed me by just seeing how easily contented they are. Just like when Mr K. Chia played with that little boy paper aeroplane, by throwing it from one to another, he was already grinning from ear to ear. I wanted a picture with that little boy but didn't have the opportunity to do so. If I had taken the photo with him, I'll get the photo washed out and paste it in my photo album. I feel really useless that I can't help them to feel 100% better because they will feel that something is missing in them, that is parents. The least we could do was to shower love upon them so that they know that there are people out there who cares so much about them. So...spread the love!

Dinner was at a posh restaurant in Bintan, Indonesia. It's considered posh in Indonesia. It somewhat felt like a wedding ceremony. Perhaps due to the procedure like giving a toast and speeches... This time we were lucky enough to have at least 5 guys in our group to finish up the remaining food. So the ratio of girls to guys is 5:5 for our table. In other words, it's an equal number of girls and guys.

Devotions was great! I seem to love 'Spirit Touch Your Church' a lot ever since last month and we actually sang it for devotions! Yay!

Day 4, 22/11/10

Primary School visit! :)
The kids there are really efficient in a way that they really do things really quickly and well done. Like arranging the tables to the side so that we can have game activities with them. Humanities presentation. We had Rachel (Lim) as our Malay translator. She takes Higher Malay! It's really a good experience. Just by observing their attitude, I think we have to a lot to learn from them.
SHOPPING...!
Shopped at Pasar Oleh Oleh :)
Bought something for Mummy and a shirt for myself.

There's really too much to say to the extend that I don't know how to go on. So let me just summarize how I feel about this camp.
It makes me realise how blessed we are to live in Singapore and that we shouldn't go against our parents for no reason. Like what my group trainer said, there isn't really a reason why we raise our voice at them at times for no reason just because you feel annoyed when they try to explain why we have to do certain things but we do not see from their perspective.
So I really try my best to give my utmost respect to my parents.
We're really so much luckier than them but we just take things for granted. I think I should really work on that.

That's about it for now because I'm feeling kind of sleepy :X

PS: Cold Storage used a song entitled 'My Favourite Things' for advertisement. Hahahaha. Seems like 'Maria' is getting famous.

PSS: 'Maria' is both the title of the movie and also the name of the main lead. Just search for 'Maria' online and read on the reviews.


It's going to be left as an imprint in my heart and I'm going to remember this.