Went for HI Club Leadership Camp from 16 – 18 Dec!
Day 1:
The camp started in the evening at around 5pm, so yup, not many activities! Ice breakers > Dinner > Water games. But the games were pretty fun hehehe. :) Oh and we were split into two groups. My group (Me, Zihow, Jack, David, Gordon, Sean, Nabilah, Xinying, Ishu, Doreen, Sihui, Gracia, Jiamin K, Jiamin P) is called Club Penguin! Cute right!
Day 2:
All the girls in the room were awaken by Nabilah’s annoyingly loud NYAN CAT alarm!!! Everyone woke up EXCEPT FOR NABILAH HERSELF hahahhaha damn joke. This girl is damn cute and funny luh! Hahahaa. Anyway, started the day with physical training! Omg. We did like 60 push ups, 60 sit ups, 60 jumping jacks, 20 buddha palm, and ran one round around the whole Ngee Ann. We sprinted up the freaking slope! Yes that damn bloody steep slope at the Business block. I was like dying while running up the slope. But thank you Tingwei, Ray, and Cleon for encouraging me to keep going! Cleon was literally pushing me! Hehe thank you all. :) Had breakfast at Munch after that! Toast bread with kaya & butter + Half-boiled eggs + Hot milo^^ :D Proceeded with games! We had different activities which made used of the three styles of leadership (authoritative, participative, delegative). And then there was the tic tac toe game which was in the format of Amazing Race! Had to conquer as many stations as possible and Club Penguin won overall! Whoop whoop! :) And then we had survival cooking for dinner! Fun! And shiok! The “hotdog omelette” we cooked was awesomezzzzzzz. Haha it was supposed to be something like omelette but because of the small fire and the shape of the pan, it became “scrambled eggs with hotdog” in the end. Hahaha but it was still damn nice! :D And we had tofu! We didn’t cook it, we just ate it cold with soya sauce. Gracia & Sihui’s creation hahahaha. And it was surprisingly nice!!! It tasted like the Japanese style kinda tofu hahaha. After dinner, the stressful part of the camp was here – Song signing. :/ We had to learn a song within 2 days = Memorize the lyrics + learn how to sign the song. It was a very challenging task for me since my signing sucks. :( Anyway, my group chose Back To December by Taylor Swift for our song signing! Couldn’t really sleep in peace coz I was worrying about the song signing! :/ Some parts of the song are really fast and I find it really hard to catch up. Xinying and Nabilah were facing the same problem as I did so we decided to wake up earlier at 7am the next morning to practise together.
Day 3:
At 7am, I woke Xinying up almost instantaneously haha. I merely tapped her a few times and she woke up already! Unlike Nabilah hahahahah! I went from tapping to SHAKING but she still didn’t wake up. *facepalm* Damn heavy sleeper sia hahahahaa! Haha so in the end it was just me and Xinying for our extra practice hahaa. Glad that the extra practice helped!!!^^ After that, went to pack bag > went down for breakfast with the rest of the campers. Breakfast was bread with nutella! Yayyyyy. :D After breakfast, we had rehearsals for our song signing. I could sign the fast parts of the song already! Like finally. And then…….. Off we go for our performance! Damn sad that I still forgot the lyrics for my solo part during the actual performance coz I was damn nervous. I could remember the lyrics and signings during rehearsals eh! Sighhhhh. Sorry Club Penguin! :( But anyway, thank you everyone for being patient with me for my bad signing! :( After the performances, and also to mark the end of the camp, we were given a token of appreciation! It’s damn pretttttyyyyy!^^
It’s an envelope/card thingy with our group photo + messages inside! The messages are from our friends in the camp.
Throughout the 3D2N camp, we had this Sunshine&Sunflower (= Angel&Mortal) thingy whereby you will write messages to your Sunflower (=Mortal), but at the same time, your Sunshine (=Angel) will also write messages to you! You can also write messages to your other friends in the camp and pass it to the camp committee, and they will help you put the messages into your friend’s envelope!
And everyone only receive the envelope on the last day of the camp. :) And and and, all the envelopes have TOTALLY DIFFERENT designs! There were about 40 people (campers + camp committee) in the camp so there were 40 different designs! And guess what, all 40 designs are drawn by just ONE PERSON, Mingrui!!! I know this because she is Miaoling’s FYP groupmate and Miaoling told me Mingrui took many weeks drawing all the envelopes! Omg. Thank you so much Mingrui! All of us really appreciated the envelopes. Everyone was like :D :’) :O upon receiving them! :) And we marked the end of the camp by taking pictures and eating! Haha. The camp committee ordered nuggets from Macs and egg tarts & popcorn chicken from KFC!!! With a lot other food like chips, jellies, soft drinks, etc etc.
So yep, though the camp was stressful at times due to the song signing, I’d still say that it was a fruitful camp!^^ Fun + Meaningful + Broadened my social circle in HI Club + Learnt new signings + Learnt more about leadership. :) And I am also thankful to have met really really nice people in the camp who helped and encouraged me in one way or another^^
Post-camp:
Reached home at about 5plus pm. Bathed and I fell asleep the moment I lie on my bed. Slept for only 4 hours (day 1) and 3.5 hours (day 2) in the camp. :/ But I still woke up at around 7pm and went for family dinner!^^ I was in zombie mode and I continued to sleep in the car haha. :P We went to this Thai restaurant (Jane Thai Food) in Orchard Towers. Damn good food! Loved the tom yam soup and stir-fried tang hoon. :)
Came home and sleeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppp! zZZZZzzzz.
The consecutive day after camp:
The next day (19 Dec), went to school at 12pm to meet my Christmas group to rehearse for our Christmas performance later that night. Our song was Mistletoe by Justin Bieber! Anyway, halfway through the rehearsal at the dance studio, Elvin (our advisor for the Christmas performance) suddenly told us that he has a story to share with us. So all of us sat down and listened to his story. He was sharing with us his life story! People usually see him as very ‘dao’, very fierce, very anti-social. But if you have heard his story, you’d know the reasons behind all these. :’) And I really had the “I feel you” feeling when he talked about family. Because to me, family plays a huge part in my life too. :’) Thanks for sharing your story with us and allowing us to know you better, Elvin! 12 pairs of ears are always here to listen to your stories k! :) Jiayou and continue to open up! :)
After Elvin shared his story, we were spamming group photos in the dance studio!^^ :D
Met up with the other Christmas group and we took bus to town together! :)
Went to Scape first for Lin Er’s birthday surprise > Dinner at Cine food court > Ngee Ann City to prepare for performance!!!
Our performance was delayed! :/ We reached Ngee Ann City at 7plus but we only performed at 9plus! Haha but the waiting time wasn’t boring at all! We kept taking pictures and we were also CLUBBING to whatever music played by other performers HAHAHHAA.
Look at all the shaky arms and faces hahahahaa we were dancing like siao! Freaking fun and funny I swear hahhahaa. And everyone should totally do this before a performance man!!! Because when it was our turn to perform, I wasn’t nervous at all! Probably because I was all “warmed up” from the clubbing already hahahaha. The link below is the video of our performance! :D
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150462291259633
Sorry can’t attach the video here because the video is from Facebook, not Youtube! So click the link and go see okay. :D The video is on my Facebook profile page too! Do watch it okay hehehhe. :D Note the couple standing in front of the stage! The lady shouted “You guys rock!!!” when the couple walked passed us after our performance! Shiok max! Hahahaha. :D And we took more pictures after the performance^^ :)
It was a really awesome day and I enjoyed myself ttm. :D
Preparation for this performance was really quite tough. We stayed till 10plus pm several days in a week to cut lyrics, standardize signings, practise expressions, practise formation, etc etc. Had to juggle all these with the dreaded ASSIGNMENTS that we already have. :/
PLUS, the performance was held immediately the day after leadership camp, so it was really tiring. :/ But all was worth it as the performance turned out to be a great success! :D This Christmas performance was my first ever HI Club external event and it was, indeed, a very good experience. :)
P.S. All photos were taken from Facebook! Go Facebook for moreeeeeeee. :)
