*Shining As Stars*

4-7 June. The youth of KGH spent these four days in the Gracehill Orchard Lodge, Bkt. Tinggi. And I was one of 'em!

DAY 1

OK, when we first arrived, there was the normal stuff. Ya know, briefing and welcoming. My group is Honey Stars, which consists of: Nadia (leader), Han, Jerry, Marcus, Nyuet Fen, Gerard & me. In the beginning it looked pretty dysfunctional to me but ya know what, we turned out to be the most happenin' group, according to the speaker, Oon Eu Jin from Kepong Gospel Hall.

Anyway, we started with this game aka flour warfare. The outcome was as the photo below shows:

Not a very nice sight

So after games we had to wait for the food, which arrived late that night. But we didn't complain. Heck, it didn't really bother me. When at last the food came, it was really delicious. Like, seriously! A plus point to the camp.

DAY 2

Normal beginnings. Talks and stuff. After that, lunch and all. During free time they were playing captainball, and since I'm not an avid fan I headed up to our girls' dorm (there're 2, mine houses Kym, Alyssa, Mei Er, Amelia, Nadia, Ee May, Vivien and me). There I found Ee May, practising her violin. You see her exam's coming up and she's not what you'd call 'super-prepared'. Haha. Well, for the next day's free time period too, she practised her violin.

I've got proof too. Ee May practised a lot until even the tune was stuck in my head. And it wasn't a happy song... it was like composed when the composer was depressed or something. Out of the three, the so called happiest one doesn't sound all that happy either. Haha.

That night, after all the talks I took some photos at the platform. This is one of them:

And after that, me, KK, Ee May, Gerard & Wei Shern (who were the few ppl I hanged out with the most during the camp) went up to the gate that led down to the lodge at night, where it was dark and misty (harhar... cool) to take some photos. Here's the 4 of us, with Gerard taking the photo:
DAY 3

We have a really long free period because we were supposed to use it to figure out something for the night's performance. Did some thinking but then we all kind of got tired of thinking. Adrian already gave a pesanan to change into our camp T-shirt for the day's photo-taking session. The 6 of us already started snapping photos before the official one began =D

It was games time again! This time we were playing "Romanopoly". It'll be difficult to explain so I won't even try to do it. Anyway, here's us caught in the action:
Oh yeah, and I bought Gerard from the slave market. And I did the next best thing: give him money to redeem himself! Aih... I don't even know why I did that. Look at him, showing off his 'REDEEMED' sign, and there goes my 10 pennies. LOL...

DAY 4

We walked to the waterfalls hidden deep inside somewhere near the place where we stayed. Haha. And this is how the majestic water-falling-over-rocks thing looks like:Nice, ain't it? But the one thing that we must always do before doing anything when you're in camp is... *drumroll* take photos!

KK & Gerard on a rock

And after following the speaker Eu Jin all the way from the lodge and gathering the guts to ask him for a photo, me and Wei Shern at last got our photo. This is all due to the courage of - ahem, KK - not us =] Anyway, since the speaker's photo is here, let's elaborate on him. He's really a great speaker! Interesting, engaging, and right-to-the-point (as Nadia always says). Me, Wei Shern and Adrian were the last to leave because - well, I don't know the real cause. But when we trudged uphill we found CCC... on this rock:
BUT, lucky us! He was waiting for the last ppl so that we could take a shortcut that allows us to skip all the uphill walking. Yay! In the photo below, can you see that flight of stone steps? Well, that's the shortcut we used. It was a little steep going up, because the steps turned 45 degrees. But I made it! Hahaha.
When we returned, after a good shower, and a whole lot of screaming with Mei Er and Ee May, we packed our bags and loaded them into the van. I really miss the lodge, and it really was a great place. This is - or was - my bed, the one below (if you can recognize my sling bag, and can you see Ee May's pink iPod Mini? Hehe) because Mei Er wanted my place and I ended up sleeping on the opposite bed which in turn caused me to suffer bedbug bites. AHHH!!!
And the view when we opened the dorm door from the balcony is:
OK, wrong one, LOL. This is the nice view:
Haha. All in all, it was an enriching experience that nudged me to start doing my quiet time in a devoted manner. So now you know how I was before this =P

The ride back I was sitting with Wei Shern and Ee May and KK were just beside us. (See, I really hung out with these few ppl the most during this camp.) Wei Shern was trying to capture Ee May sleeping but instead she posed for the camera. Haha!

And all I did was use the mobile while Wei Shern listened to my iPod Mini and stared out the window... dunno what was on his mind. Maybe how much he - or rather, we - are already missing camp, T_T