Chris' Surprise 18th Birthday Party! :D

The plan:
Started planning about 2 weeks ago, when Chris announced during CG that his birthday was coming. Mengada punya Chris. Since we're such a loving cell, we wanted to do something for him but we weren't sure what to do. Thus that first week of planning was really a fail. We couldn't decide anything, except that we wanted to drown Chris. Last week after Streetfest, we gathered and started planning, really planning. We really wanted to drown Chris, but then there was the issue of Chris' having to bring an extra set of clothes. So we decided to tell Chris that we wanted to have a water gun fight! We hadn't even finished planning when Chris realized his CG was gathering, and joined us. Yay. Awks hahah. So I suggested to Chris that we wanted to have a water gun fight, and it was easier than I thought: He initiated Games Week :P And put me in charge of it. HOHOHOHO. Kylie then distracted Chris by asking Joanne to call him over to talk to him. So we managed to discuss some more, and came up with the idea of getting him a full set of clothes as his pressie :) Spent the rest of the time trying to find out Chris' sizes.

The next day, Kasen and Sean went shopping, and we got his pressie! :D

Yep. Paul Frank underwear :P HAHAH

Meanwhile, Chris wanted me to give him a list of the games we would be playing. This was so mafan because I knew we wouldn't be playing all the games, and planning games for 2 hours is difficult -.- I had to think hard to come up with some proper games so Chris would approve, and he won't suspect anything. So  I came up with this list! 

• Ice and Fire
• Musang dan Ayam
• Water balloon dodgeball (Because we didn't have enough water guns)
• Grab The Finger
• The Tangled Chain
• Copycat

Presented the list to Chris on Wednesday, and he was happy with it yay! :D

The idea was that after we played water balloon dodgeball, we'd tell Chris we wanted to take pictures by the pool. And then on the count of 3 by the photographer (who would actually be videotaping), we would push him in! :P Heheheh.

We were planning to have around 200 balloons, so it was decided that Marissa and I would make them. 100 each. So I bought the balloons, filled them up, and tied them. 100 WATER BALLOONS. My finger is now badly bruised from all that tying D: 

About 50 balloons?

Since it was a party, must have food right? So to make sure Chris didn't suspect anything, Dinah suggested we all bring food since we would be famished after games. And yeap, no suspicions raised whatsoever :P 

And then the big day arrived!

Woke up at 8 plus to bake apple crumbleeee :D Turned out good :)

Loading the balloons into the car was dreadful. I had to squeeze 5 pails into Renee D: And distribute the balloons and fill the pails with water so the balloons wouldn't burst. Had to be really careful so there was enough water to cover the balloons, but not too much that it would spill out. DIFFICULT I TELL YOU. Then somemore I had to drive reaaaally carefully ish. Used Waze to direct me to Kasen's house, but took quite a number of wrong turns and ended up being late :( 

Everyone helped to carry the pails down, and then we headed to the back to start our games! Played Ice and Fire first- since we had 18 people, we had 4 Ice and the rest were Fire.

Picture before we started!

Twas really really fun and funny hahah. Somemore there was a pool so I very nearly slipped and fell into it. Oh and I never did realize that I'm quite a fast runner :P The funniest part was when Maggy forgot that Samantha was Ice, and almost touched her trying to save her (Maggy was Fire) Played 2 rounds and by the end of it, it was already 2.50. We were behind schedule D:

Everyone was feeling quite sweaty and tired by then, so we went to grab some drinks and take a short break. Some 'old people' needed the break more than others. Not me, I'm one of the young ones :P Hahahah. Decided to skip Musang & Ayam and go straight to water balloon dodgeball due to the lack of time.

Told Chris we would use the area near the pool so that we won't wet other places, but it was merely to make sure he won't get suspicious when we asked to take pictures near the pool. Moved the pails and Marissa's huge ice box to the side of the pool, and then IT WAS WARRRRRRRRRRR.

Chris looking gooood ;)

Splat & Splash :D

Our team! Unfortunately Stella didn't get many shots of the other team :S

Kasen being selamba :P

Edit: Video of the water balloon fight, here! :)

Of course, when the balloons were gone, we used pails. Filled with pool water. And poured them onto other people. 

After that, Thomas tried to carry Chris and put him into the pool, but it failed and kinda messed up our initial plan. Gr Thomas. 

We were all soaked by then, and then Stella asked to take a picture of us by the pool. We told the guys to stand behind, so Chris would be closer to the pool. But he resisted and refused because he suspected we were gonna push him in. THANKS THOMAS. He stood at the side but ANYWAAAAY, (video here) 

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! :D

Why is our 'Happy Birthday' out of tune ah? -.-

In the plan, only Chris is supposed to be in the pool. ONLY CHRIS. But once we finished serenading Chris, one by one we got pushed/pulled into the pool. Marissa pushed me *glares at Marissa* >____> So I climbed out, and tried to pull her in. I failed but someone else pushed her in anyways :P

Pictures we took in the pool! :)

Love this shot! :) Y-5, WiFi! :D

Serious faces. Can you imagine us creeping out the pool at night? ;)

Smiles! :)

Last but not least, muka Chris-es :D

The face we were supposed to imitate. This, dear readers, is my CG leader. *cue applause*

Dinah and Xinyi! ♥

Then Kasen came with the cake :D Chris making his wish here :)

After that he went around giving everyone a hug :)

WiFi hug, phase 1 (yes, I tersesat.) ♥

WiFi hug, phase 2! :)

Climbed out of the pool and cleaned up! 

Pretty pretty balloons!

And then gave Chris his pressie :)

Hahahah. Chris was shivering cuz the wind was blowing and it was so cold! Actually all of us were shaking la, but luckily no pictures of us :P

After that, we dried ourselves and got changed. Then went back into Kasen's to makannnnn :D We had pizza, Marissa's cupcakes, the cake, and my apple crumbleee! :D Marissa's cupcakes were not only pretty, but so niceeeee :D Oh and my apple crumble got rave reviews as well! :D :D :D

Taken by Xinyi. Looks yumz right? ;D

Makan-ed and talked till parents came to pick everyone up. I was supposed to drive back, but daddy suddenly called from Sekinchan to say they weren't coming back so I had to go to church to pick Jason. So I decided to go for service, since Kasen, Kamen, Thomas and Stella needed transport anyways. Stayed there until 5.30 because Sean's dad ter-sesat at SMCC :P Hahah. Altogether it was an amazing time! :D :D :D

And then at night,

Made it all worthwhile! :)

MISSION ACCOMPLISHEEEEEED!

I love my CG family ♥

WiFi-Jc Street, the best CG. Ever. 

Speed Writing!

Hello gaiz! :D

Today I'm going to do something called speed writing. It's just something where I write, or in this case, type continuously for a set amount of time about anything that pops into my mind. And yes, continuously as in no-stopping-continuously. Do excuse my lame attempt at updating this blog, but I just read a speed-writing exercise I did quite a while ago with Shman and I'm too lazy to blog formally so .. here goes! :)

10 minutes starts ..

Now. Okay so er how do we do this again? Er oh oh so yesterday I made almost 100 water balloons. 100. I know right. Filled them up and tied all of them myself. Which is why my second finger on my left hand hurts like mad right now. Since you know, when you tie balloons you sort of have to make the knot around your finger first? I'm not the only one who does it that way right? Yeah so the reason I made so many balloons was because we're gonna be playing water balloon dodgeball in CG tomorrow yayyyy! Although how I'm supposed to transport all those balloons is another mystery to me. Hm. Er er er oh right now I'm halfway packing. Gonna shift house sometime next week, around Thurs-Sat? Sometime around them. Feeling quite nostalgic right now actually. Sorting through stuff and I'm such a hoarder I have TONS of stuff. Gifts from friends, cards, oh and notes that we used to pass around in class! There was one which Lynn and I passed around during exam time hohoho. Oh and pictures! I FOUND MY PRIMARY 6 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL PICTURES. Makes me realize how far I've come in what seems like such a short time omg. Dang nostalgia. Change subject change subject. OH AND DID I MENTION WHAT A CUTE KID I WAS? Thank you thank you I know omgosh hahaha. Ah did I mention that packing to move house actually makes me wonder how I'll be packing for UK? Results are coming out in about 2 weeks, and it's so close now. I'm finally going to know what's actually going to happen in the next few months. It feels really fast actually. Why does time pass by so fast. When people ask whether I'm going off to UK, I'm always like .. 'Not sure yet, gotta wait for results.' And in 2 weeks, I finally have to answer 'Yes' (pleasepleaseplease) or 'No'. Which makes me really nervous. Shiz. Dang Shman. He hasn't replied me and I whatsapped him at whut, 1.30? Freak. Wait. Is he working? Eh no whut. His off day is today till Sunday. Freak. Will box him later in Taekwondo class. Hope that today's class is as good as last week's. LOVE using kicking bag, love the sound it makes omgosh. And I really feel like seeing Ebo. Miss Ebo. And Sehran. Actually I really feel like talking to Sehran right now. Eeee I need more pictures with him lah serious. Thank God they're all coming back for Raya so we can meet up! Except for KFung lah, since he's going to Taiping with his girlfriend's family. Eeeee. Oh and yayyyy PM13 meet up next next week! Ahhhh I can't wait to see Pammy and Hueyying and Chia Xin and Shao Ji and aiya the whole class la basically. Oh and I can't wait for Rara to spaz over

Dang. Time's up.

Okeh. Here's my lame excuse of a post. Till next time ;)

Update Updateeee :)

Just a small update about things I've been up to for the past few days:

Friday
Went to collect my new IC with mummy. Again, it was relatively empty, so it took merely a few minutes. Since MABECS suggested that I get a traditional outfit for events in UK, and we were in Plaza Masalam, mummy decided to bring me kurung shopping. I'd prefer kebayas, actually, but mummy said no so oh well. Couldn't find anything nice, though. So we went back empty handed.
Taekwondo that night was good. Mainly practiced slide-in kicks, which went okay. At the end we got to use the kicking/punching bags, and we had to do jumping backthrusts. And sir said mine were good! ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED WOOHOOOO :D

Saturday
Invited Lynn, Leek and Matt for Streetfest but they couldn't make it :( Left house at 12, brought Jason for lunch at Burger King then went to pick Xinyi. Halfway to Xinyi's house, she texted me saying she wasn't going. Ishhh. So I had to turn back and head to SMCC. Streetfest was great as usual, Jon Ngan spoke to us about faith (Hebrews 11:6) and also about asking, seeking and knocking (Luke 11:9-10) One thing he said that really struck me was how we pray about stuff, but when it doesn't happen, we merely accept it as 'God's will', instead of 'seeking' and 'knocking'. And that's something I usually do, so that hit me. After Streetfest, WIFI-JC hung out and discussed 'stuffs' :P Hahahah. OH OH ALSO,

Got the #challenge923 band :)

MATCHING OUTFITS!

Such a coincidence. I walked in, saw Janelle and the first thing she said was 'Why are you wearing the same thing as Sarah?' Hahahah. #shortpeopletelepathy 

At night, Leek picked me up for dinner with the CF Committee '12. He was supposed to pick me at 7.10, but Leek being Leek, sure lambat :P Somemore we had to pick Jacky from college. He actually had his own car, but he was TOO LAZY to drive to Empire -.- Because of that, we were fashionably late by half an hour. 

Oh and I came to a realization - Jacky is a 'lam piah' (Hokkien).  It's basically a biscuit, the outside is hard and crunchy, but the inside is soft. Like Jacky :P Outside very tough, but deep down he's a softie :P I hope Jacky doesn't see this, or I'll get punched D:

Aaaanyways, we arrived late. Oh dinner was at Italiannies btw. Dragged time to decide what to order. Made fun of Jacky. Talked grown-up stuff, talked random stuff. Talked stuff. Made more fun of Jacky. Dinner was good, and I have come to a conclusion: Whenever I go out with other people, they will take food for me. Natural response. I don't know why >____> Hahahah. Anyway, even dinner was funny. Everyone was so paiseh they didn't want to take the last slice of lasagna, and Leek and Jacky were too paiseh to admit they were still hungry after we finished the food. Silly dong dongs. 

After dinner, we sat chatting some more, until Jeannie had to leave. Jacky came up a brilliant idea - speeches. I hate speeches. They make me sentimental. So everyone pushed the first speech to Jacky, who of course, refused. So we went out to take pictures first!

Then we stood outside Italiannies and made our speeches. We were all desperate to pee actually :P But since Jeannie was leaving we just continued and completed everyone's speeches before we went to pee. So yeah, everyone gave a short speech and at the end of it it got kinda sentimental. Which was ruined because we all had to rush to the bathroom hahah :P And why ah, guys bathroom always before the ladies? Should be ladies first right? Safer and more convenient. Shopping malls, do take note. 

After peeing, we all went in search for our cars. Got lost because we went the wrong way. THANKS JACKY. We were already headed in the right direction but he juuuust had to direct us the opposite way. Gr. Oh and on the way to our cars I saw Maanoj! :D Hahah. Sent off Zimin and Jared first, Zimin was following Jared back and thankfully our wrong-direction-walk was not in vain since Jared's car was on that side of the world. Then the rest of us walked back in the direction that we came from, said our goodbyes and left D: With Leek The Genius forgetting where exactly he parked his car. Thank God I remembered. We drove off and were just about to go up the ramp when this car stopped in front of us. It was Alvin, Esther and Jacky. So we played highlights and honkings for the rest of the way hahah. Typical.

OH AND DID I MENTION THAT JACKY GAVE ME A HUG. He was trying to get hugs from everyone but kept getting rejected. Kesian Jacky hahah :P

Pictures of me and Jacky! 

I can't believe Jacky and I used to dislike each other. Okay no lah, I don't know if Jacky used to dislike me but I certainly did him because he made fun of me. A lot. And scolded me a lot. He ALWAYS had an insult prepared for me, and he used to scold me for doing things wrong in CF. I didn't know it at the time, but he scolded EVERYONE. Hahahah Jacky :') He's more of a boss than Alvin sometimes. Sorry boss! :P

Reminiscing:

One day after CF, I was walking down the stairs with Lynn. The stairs were really wet because it had just rained, and me being me, I slipped and slid down the next few steps. And then Jacky 'shouted' (I was a few steps lower than him), 'I didn't know short people can fall.' Lynn was so mad she snapped back at him and scolded him hahah. 

Memories, memories :')

I'm really glad I went for CF, and joined the CF Committee. It's been such a joy serving with these people. I remember how awkward it was when I first came in, but everyone was so welcoming and friendly (except for one person whom I thought was a snob but booooy, was I wrong). I feel we warmed up to each other really quickly. Even Brian, who joined us at meetings, once commended us on how quickly and how well we got together compared to his committee back then. We spend more time during meetings diverting from the topic and talking nonsense hoho. I feel we're more of a family than just a committee, and I really thank God for giving me the chance to serve with such God-loving people. It's given me the opportunity to know Him more as well. 

Blessed to know these people.

And lastly, 

Today, Sunday

Ajaked everyone to go out but some couldn't make it, some didn't reply, so went for breakfast with KFung. Had to wake him up, as usual. Gonna miss waking him up really soon ish. So yeah, had breakfast at Tanjung. Chitchatted about stuffs, mostly about the future and what our plans are and all. And also. Results in less than a month! And if I really am leaving, just 2 more months onlyyyy. Getting butterflies in my tummy now just thinking about it. And why do people keep making fun of my smallness and saying that it's gonna be hard for me there cuz everyone is super tall and I'm ... you know. 

Really wanted to see Lynn and give her her pressie (YES LYNN YOUR PRESSIE IS WITH MOI) but she's at work today so yeah :( 

Parents went to IKEA  to get furniture for the other house, but I couldn't go because I had Taekwondo. Oh Taekwondo today was painful. Too much stretching. Jayhan, Voe, Raven and I got it the worst -___- Sir is a meanie beanie gr. Oh and Jayhan asked me to do this position

since I have quite good lower back flexibility, and I could do it! :D Woooh. He spent the rest of the class trying to do it but he couldn't. Nyeheheh :P Oh and omgosh Ethan and Aiden are so cute. They're always tickling each other whenever they're paired up together and they won't stop laughing. So funny. If they were doing it at our age, it'll be so awkward, it'll be sexual harassment. Ah kids bliss of being naive :')

Edit: Just found out the pose above is called a chakrasana. Interesting.

That's all I guess. Not much happening. Shifting house next week so it's gonna be a busy week ahead. 

Till my next post! 

:)

Ps. On a Disney music marathon at the moment. So many childhood memories!

Timeless ; CF Camp '13 - 5-7 July : Part 1

Hebrews 8:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

Hello there! :) I guess it's finally time for me to post about CF Camp. Been dragging it for so long already. So let's begin!

5th July
After Shman dropped me off at Taylor's, I went for lunch with Brendan at No Reservations, a place I had never tried before but people raved about. Food was so-so, maybe slightly above average, but I don't see what all the hype was about. When we were almost done with our lunch, Jacky dropped by. We walked back to Taylor's together, collected our luggage from CZ 8, and then walked all the way to CPU building. It was hot and my luggage was heavy, gr #complainer
Crossed the road at CPU to where the bus was, and it was so exciting seeing everyone! :) It had been a while since I'd been to CF, you see. We were supposed to depart at 2.30, but due to typical Malaysian timing, we only got to leave at 3. And then came the problem of the lack of seats. Few of us had squeeze into seats of 2, with 3 people, because there wasn't enough space on the bus. So I sat with Jeannie and Lydia! :) Aaron was making sure everyone had filled in their indemnity forms, when we realized that there were some forms still with us which we hadn't passed to SDC. We were at PappaRich then, and Aaron got off the bus, and ran as though his life depended on it. He was quite fast actually- by the time the bus stopped in front of Metropolitan College, he caught up to us within seconds. YAY FOR AARON! :D :D

Off we went! Our bus driver was reaaaally scary. He smoked, he sped, he tailgated, and he kept swerving in and out. I sat nearest to the aisle, so I could see everything he was doing. When Gabriel told (yes, told. Not asked.) him to stop smoking and to slow down, he yelled at Gabriel. I was feeling a little tired but I couldn't sleep, was too nervous. Instead I spent most of the drive there praying for journey mercy, making eye signals with Gabriel, and eavesdropping on the people at the back playing 'Green Glass Door'. Brendan started the game, and since I was the one who introduced it last year, he yelled 'JASSY!' all the way from the back. When people were sleeping. Quite awks eheh.

In 2 hours, we arrived. Kind of. We went up this hill, 'Bukit Hantu', and my first reaction was 'Are we in the right place?!', but we were. Problem was, the road was really narrow and it was really hard for the bus to get in, what more get out. So our driver decided to hold us hostage until he could find a place to turn so he could get out. I think by then we all kinda panicked a little because he drove past El Sanctuary and went quite far in. Thankfully he managed to find some level ground where he did a 3-point turn! Then he drove back and dropped us off at El Sanc. I HAVE NEVER BEEN THAT THANKFUL TO BE OFF A BUS. Loaded our bags into Pr Mark's and Kenneth's cars, then walked up into El Sanc. It's a really beautiful place, surrounded by trees and trees and trees everywhereee! :D

Gathered at the hall where we checked which chalets we were in, and got our name tags. I was in Chalet 8 with the rest of the senior gals and someone named Caroline (whom I'd get to know later), and I had been chosen to be Chalet Leader. As was Kerby, who was freaking out because he thought that 'CL' stood for Cell Leader and why was he cell leader etc etc. Hahah Kerby :'D Got my name tag and I was in team Seiko! The rest of the teams were Casio, Omega, Fossil, Swatch and Rolex. Because our theme was Timeless. Geddit geddit?

Front

Back

Unfortunately we don't have the plastic tags anymore, since the committee collected them after camp :(

We gathered in our groups - me, Jeslyn, Tiam, Kerri, Norman, Thiva, Eugene Wong, Kerby and Mervina. After that we were briefed on Camp Rules and they also started the Angels and Mortals game! :D I got Joshua Wong, eheh. Afterwards we were dismissed and we went in search of our chalet. Which was quite a high climb, what more with our heavy bags. I didn't get to take pictures, so I don't have an exact picture of my chalet, but this is sort of how it looked like:

This is actually Samuel's chalet :P

And Michelle's room. Our room was like this too, except that our bath and all were on the left.

Oh and I have I mentioned there were so many dogs and puppies around? 

They were so tame and adorable *squeals* ♥

After resting and talking for a bit, we went down for dinner. You see right, before I came to El Sanc, people kept telling me about how good the food was. And yes, it was indeed good :D

After dinner, we had our first session. Before worship, we had to create our team flag. We were stumped at first, but then Tiam thought of the term 'frozen in time', and from there we drew a snowflake-clock thingy. And then came the problem of not having any marker pens or colour pens. Had to borrow from the other team, eheheh. 

Drawinggggg.

The (partial) end product! :D 

After games, we had worship led by Aaron, and then word. Pr Mark shared about how we're affected by time, but God isn't. Basically this first sermon revolved around our theme, Timeless - God being timeless! :) 

After session, we headed out for a bonfire! :) It took a really long time to light, and even when it did it kept dying off. So we mainly relied on phone flashlights. Hahahah. After a while, the bonfire started burning pretty nicely (ONE OFF MY BUCKET LIST!) and we sang songs and walked around it. Heeee :D 

While there, we also had to create a chant. At first our team wanted to do some 'Chan Mali Chan' thing, but right at the last minute we decided to go with a really common chant that Thiva knew. He would shout out lines, and after each one, we would echo him. It was something like this:

Everywhere we go-oh

People wanna know

Who we are

So we tell them

We are the 'Seiko' (pronounced: Psycho) team

The very very Seiko team

And just for laughs, Thiva added this at the end.

'That's it lah'. *selamba tone*

It was so funny hahah. Rolex did a really good job. Bryan lah, can come up with such awesome stuff. Also we played this ball-throwing game which was really hard since it was so dark, we could barely see what more catch tennis balls >___> 

After that, we were dismissed and went back to our respective chalets. In our chalet, we were taking turns bathing when En Leang suddenly came up and asked Tiff for a hairband so he could tie his fringe! Hahaha he looked so cute omgosh. We ended up staying up past our 'lights out' time, playing cards - Snap and Heart Attack. We were shrieking and shouting so loudly that after En Leang left, Michelle came up to our room and told us to tone it down. But we were done by then so .. hahah. Headed to sleep- I was bunking with Caroline- at around 2. 

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So that's Part 1 :) Will continue Part 2 soon. Stay tuned! xx ♥