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i just treated myself to a late bdae and christmas present (with kaijun’s help), and i bought myself a Palit Radeon HD4670. finally i can run assassin’s creed, and hopefully all the new games that are on their way to my hard disk as well.

the 54th outing was… very acs. more than half the ppl that turned up were from acsi, with the exception of cheryl and benjamin. it was pretty good to catch up and talk nonsense with the gang though, but the walking about jurong point aimlessly was seriously annoying.

and right now, i still have unfinished business to settle…

a phonecall from the service centre just informed me that my macbook is ready for collection again, and a sms just told me that my sword-of-honour will arrive next monday.

thank You.

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pictures from youth camp, thanks sarah.

the prayer to start our camp

smiles all round the registration booth

the most painful station of the entire amazingrace

the dinner boys are too cool for you.

uber tedious telematch

everyone was desperately trying to lather their hair here

the ong family, who had no idea about the surprise farewell video

and it’s time for the final clash/crash baybee

there’s onli so much sun this son can block, haha

sometimes, i really have no idea what goes on in salina’s head

look at alicia’s grip on the canvas! i think she was terrified heh. it really is the first time i’ve gotten any girl so wet you know…

blackcurrant woots! it was awesome to have been attached to them.

oh-9! after the telematch

this, my friends, is what 3 days of camp does to the commandant.

the big 4 of the camp, and the best team i’ve worked with for a long time.

oOo… pear mandarin raspberry and blackcurrant!

the final debrief.

prize giving the next day, with the prize winners stuck onto salina’s legs. eee…

before we knew it, it was time to say goodbye. see everybody so unglam, cry cry until liddat.

thank you all, for making this camp such a success. i couldnt have done this alone, and i wouldnt have chosen any other team to do this with me.

so, to end off with the classic acs maxim: to God be the glory, the best is yet to be.

just a few of the little things i’ll miss doing with them…

going out secretly to do christmas shopping for sarah (that’s why you’re not in this picture!) with sam and sal, before sal realized that pastor ong was supposed to pick all of us up from church and she forgot to tell the both of us. flop like a fish liao!

taking pictures at every possible opportunity with oh-9! circumstances might have physically separated us, but the happy memories will live on in our hearts forever. in case you didnt know, oh-9! turns one today (:

credits to sal’s multiply blog thingo for the pictures, and i dun have any camp pics to put up right now cos my mac is still dead and the photographers havent uploaded their pictures yet. oh well, shall update as soon as i get sth!

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so anyway, some of went to holland v today for jono’s 18th! i think it’s the first time in a while that he’s not actually away or wadeva during his bdae, so this is a speshul occasion for him. we ate at the swensens in holland v (why is it that everyone goes to swensens on bdaes?) and the table was full of an interesting mix of ppl. debbie and i were the onli representatives from 6.14, and she was so happy abt me not leaving her to fend for herself today that it’s funny. jono was being very abusive with his words today though, bad bdae boy tsktsk. still "nosering" and basket" some more lah… xD

HAPPY BDAE JONO! thanks for being such a great friend. you’ve finally turned 18, so that means that the whole .14 gang is officially legal. i mean it’s pretty useless, cos we dun drink or smoke or wadeva anyway, but i guess it’s a milestone in itself? thanks for doing all the silly photoshop shit with me, and helping me with the designs and any class thing vaguely artsy or photo-y that were thrown at me to do. i really appreciate having you ard these 2 years, you made IB a lot better. stay cool bro! btw, i still dun think you are anything like kevin (:

gep soccer also finally happened today, and i think it’s the biggest turnout we’ve had in a long time. there were like 16-18 of us, i didnt really count. the match was really really fun though, and this time we didnt die within 2 minutes from the sun because it was already late afternoon. and i really dunno why i’m more tanned tim, i havent really been in the sun that much at all during the hols. and kaijun, i think that the area around my eyes doesnt tan very easily hehe. thank God for the brilliant weather and company, it was a great way to rmbr all our gep soccer days by. 

a great start to life after camp. i cant ask for much more.

the camp has finally ended, and it was a very bittersweet conclusion to a wonderful camp.

the last four days have been nothing short of amazing. even though there were a very large number of campers this year, and so many newcomers for a change, which posed a challenge for the organizing committee, we still managed to pull it off by God’s grace. not everything went as planned, and we didnt even keep to the timetable for the most part. but i thank God for giving me a very flexible team, and for the ability to adjust the camp schedule accordingly just so that things run smoothly. 

to cut the long story short, we came to the camp as many individuals, but we came out of this as a body. the camp was run not according to our plans, but His. and as the new year approaches, the CCK youth will never be the same again. perhaps it’s also partially due to sarah, sam and salina leaving us, but i believe that God has a purpose in all that He does, and this is no exception to that.

it’s been absolutely rewarding to be able to work with the 3 of you so closely one last time, and i’m honoured to be able to call you my friends. i’m not gonna be much of a "son" or "boss" or "stupidcow" anymore, but i wouldnt mind reliving the whole thing one more time with you (: thank you for the 3 years of friendship you’ve given me.

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a chapter of life has been written, and will be closed soon. but another will begin as soon as the previous one has been completed. i wish to move on, and i hope the coming year allows me to do that. i’m not gonna continue in my search anymore, but i’ll do my best to accept what God has in plan for me. who knows, maybe that person will find me instead? when i said i wasnt gonna make the first move, it doesnt mean that i wont reciprocate.

not my will but Yours be done, dear Lord.

hello everyone, i trust that you are all having wonderful christmas-es?

i’ll be heading off to youth camp for the next few days, from the 26th to 29th, so you probably wont see many (if any) updates here. no matter, i’ll be back before you guys know it!

ps. if you need to, just text or call me. i’ll reply asap, promise. ABSOLUT DEPENDENCE TIME BAYBEE.

merry christmas everyone!

after a crazy day of going to debbie’s house with janice, getting songs from debbie, heading for frisbee for the first time since prelims, and then heading to church again for a 4 hr long meeting, i think i’m ready for a short little break. thank goodness i had great company the whole day, it made everything so much better despite the terrible side effect - exhaustion.

rawr i’m in pain. knee injury acted up during frisbee again, and i danced for like 2 hrs after climbing up that stupid hill some more. please recover for camp T.T

it’s 4am. and i just talked to jono, the boy who is in the US of A right now heh.

finally got back to drumming after a lengthy absence, and man was it a refreshing experience. the new pastor came today to preach as well, and he seems like a pretty nice guy so far. looks like cck will be left in good hands after pastor ong’s departure, but everything is up to God’s will i’m sure.

it still amazes me how few ppl actually know i’m the youth camp commandant. but then again, it might be a pretty interesting thing as well. hearing stuff like "omg the tshirt is damn ugly lah" even though you designed it, before that person asks you "eh sean, are you going for the camp?", and getting shocked reactions from everyone else in the room. absolute class. did i already mention that i dislike the person mentioned here?

oh well, some ppl just never appreciate the things they have. or at least not until they’ve been taken away from them i guess. too bad, it’s really none of my business. i’m gonna leave everything up to the One up there, and pray that positive changes take place in the time to come (:

i’m exhausted, but in a happy kind of way (: finished up so much in church today, thanks in no small part to salina, samantha, sarah, daniel and ian. youth camp looks set to be a success so far, and i pray that doesnt change in the coming days!