backkk from st johns island!
first time being to sji ever. jbac warrior no more! lol.
brought liesel in for this camp too. bet it was hell of an experience. haha.
i definately had a lot of fun. im sure everyone did. =)
though i must admit that it felt really weird when people come up to me and say things like hey you lao jiao right how ar what should we do next?
made me feel the sudden added responsibility to do everything in my power to ensure that things run as smoothly as possible even though ive never touched this campsite before. ever.
figuring out and explaining games to others even though ive never touched some of them before.
telling people where to go what to do what to expect and how to go about doing it.
running around to help out with the logistics and to sign out all the dorms kitchens and all with the office people.
while still going crazy at the random-est moments =)


i guess after the last camp i really did change quite a lot of things.
i really tried to be the best mirror possible this camp.
like honestly seriously tried.
really did step out of my confort zone a lot.
from making good friends with the teacher in charge, and rubbishing with the kids
while making him go super hyper and crazy with me and the kids,
to seriously explaining not just the games, activities and itenaries, but also the smallest details of how things work such as how the bus rides go.
taking control of and rarh rarhing or entertaining the class whenever needed, while not overriding him, and still giving him space and opportunities to make some of those on the spot decisions as well as taking the class.
mirrors working hand in hand to make each activity a success.
whether or not its your first camp.
oh well though i realised though its his first HA camp, he did day camps before.
no wonder he picked up so fast despite it being his first camp.
though im still really glad that after the campfire when i asked how his first camp experience was,
his reply was awesome. great class and greatest and best mirror possible.
yessah. thats the way i want it to be.
something im gonna strive for and keep up with.

to seriously be a good mirror. =)

and im really glad that my kids can come up to tell me that though you're quite siao. but its because of that that the camp's so fun and enjoyable.
yesslah crazy ideas and crazy random things make the world go rounddd...
always felt that it was very xia sui to go crazy and do random sometimes stupid things or rarh rarh crazy stuff in front of campers. so i never did dare to do it.
but i'm really glad that im so over it now.
the camps are for the kids. always for the kids.

i only wish for them to bring back with them the best memories possible.
as well as to take with them the lessons learnt through out the camp.
and im glad that this time round i can confidently say that i did =)








































































pretty sad that andrew's leaving campha though.
i used to only do ridhwan and andrew's camps.
ridhwan's now in ak. and andrew's leaving HA.
wonder if im gonna continue here for long either though i honestly do enjoy myself loads.
oh well. so gonna do andrew's last camp even if its seriously gonna overload me for june.
especially since he asked. and its my one year anniversary for doing tampines sec with for andrew for last year's cohort.
no way im gonna miss doing his last camp
i at least owe him that after these years as well =)

oh yeah didnt make it back in time for titans this year cos it clashed with the camp dates.
but still...
BETA WON TITANS!
yesslah! like finally. haha. =)
ooh made it back for mardi gras though. update about that another time! =p
suddenly super shagged again. nights! =D

first ak experience. talk about it being an eye opener.
i think i got more than i expected.
never exactly expected live ops to be um haha literally live ops.
nothing i imagined it to be. at all. haha.
i still remember thinking on the first precamp day after i realised that we had to learn the drill commands... that omg i cant believe i pulled out of andrew's serangoon sec jbac camp for this.
jbac leh. could be happily rarh rarhing and kayaking away.

but at the end of the day. after breaking camp.
i guess i pretty much figured out what the emphasis of ak is about.
and i quite made sense of why things are done in that particular way.
lucky that i had a super zai and nice mirror who pretty much guided me and took care of me through out this camp.
if not id confirm chui the camp like crazy.
and i realised something. that i take quite long to adapt to new things. and i pretty much always buang things on the first attempt. =(
oh well. quite some culture shock. but i guess thats when we learn.
and one thing oliver vaneh and i all agreed on was that something we can definately take back from this is the debriefs.
ak's debriefs are really power. they really do make a difference =)

anyway having such a zai mirror by my side through the camp has made me think about quite a lot of stuff.
got the sudden urge to go figure more stuff out.
to improve myself to become a better instructor/trainer.
to start reading up on stuff that can help make my debriefs more meaningful and to put them across in a clearer, more structured manner.
to hype up activities more =)

oh well. though i feel i quite chui-ed this camp. looking on the brighter side. at least if i ever do live ops again, id be a lot readier and prepred for it =)

why stop at one, when you can change the lives of many.
why stop at one, when you can do so much more =)

zai mirror =)

random thought: im so not gonna touch sushi for the next couple of months! rarh. =(

yayeee! exams are over! =)

back camping again. gonna take things nice and slow this time round.

not like last year. too fast too furious. too many back to backs.

first camp for eunice. radin mas pri 6. pretty insightful. very different.

the kota tinggi campsite and itenary was whoa pretty interesting.

pretty weird i admit to be seeing so many new faces.

luckily oliver came along too. =)

felt super rusty and chui though. guess it'd take me awhile more to warm back up to this. nevertheless, it was fun. =p

no idea why the kids liked the blind mans walk so much when i was just randomly bringing them round and round random places, while making them do random things. haha hmmm...

oh well. but one thing that struck me was how mature pri 6 kids could actually be.

i was quite heartened when some of my kids cried when we visited the physically and mentally disabled people's home and was interating with the toddlers and children there.

they cried not because they were scared of them. but because they felt for them.

coming from children from such a young age... wow.

and i was even more amazed when the guys engaged in an intellectual conversation about these people with me.

to find out more about their conditions and what they could do to help or make others aware of their conditions.

many hurrays. because what i see is hope. a lot of hope =)

say hi warriors! haha =)

ahmad my mirror!

radin mas instructors =p

because my oac-ians always make me the happiest person on earth =)

was feeling super stressed and vexed after submitting the engin streaming form this afternoon.
and superrr sian diao that i wasnt even halfway through my electrical syllabus even though my paper's tomorrow afternoon. heh. at times like this, even the smallest things or gestures can mean the world to me. =p

thanks yanling for wanting to have lunch with me. sorry though for concussing halfway through our where should we have lunch conversation... oops =x haha.
thanks too mingwei for the bought you sth from japan message. =)
and most of all.. thanks liesel, blackie and gewww! for coming over to kr =)
for bring over popeyes and the tiramisu that i've been craving for so long. =p
but most of all for making the effort to travel all the way down here to visit and spend time out with me.
really enjoyed the company and the random talk. haven't felt so carefree in awhile. really really made my day =)

and the kr pple for constantly encouraging, helping and pushing me on.
and listening to my non stop whining. and for always injecting something special into each day.
peiching, yunhui, yishu, oliver, wormie, cheegake, huiling, yiwern and siewling.
and of course, my favourite shearite xinyi =D
thanks =)

when i count my blessings, i count you guys twice. =)
always.