I can't believe I made it through those four days, but I did, so here I am, back home from camp. It was...a tremendous experience, tremendous not neccessarily meaning good, but nonetheless tremendous. I have been suffering from indigestion for the past two days, and indeed am still struggling with the urge to throw up my food right now. Camp food must not agree with my stomach. Or maybe it was because I got caught in a heavy downpour and subsequently endured a cold shower. In either case I threw up twice during the camp. Tremendous.

I'm physically and mentally exhausted. We did a High Elements rope course, meaning the kind of stuff you do at an Outward Bound course, walking on ropes suspended several metres in the air, that sort of thing. Those werent so bad, because they were actually fun to do. They just tire you out. The problem was the ground stations, because there was one game in which we had to stuff all our group members through a car tyre to get to the other side. Continuously carrying people in excess of 65 kg can strain the hand greatly. My left hand is still sore...

But the sessions were great. The guest speaker was seriously funny, and very random. I mean he was saying things like, just because you're born in an airport doesn't mean you're an aeroplane right? haha, but he made sense. In part it's probably because he's my kind of preacher, the thinking, more logical type. I guess some things did hit home.

Christmas is coming! In less than a week the youth congregation will be having its first service in SAV on 25 December! Which also means the year is ending and school is beginning. This could mean a period of despondency for many people in view of the pile of untouched homework, or it could mean hope. I'd choose hope. That is the message of Christmas after all.


Quek: hmm... crazed intoxication... are you referring to materialism? and what time are you talking about?

Musa: Nooo, I don't think I'm about to go camping again any time soon... And if you know me, you should know my idea of fun does not involve dirt and mud.

Vickland: Yup, but you know what, I agree with a few people who wrote into the ST about our service. The way to improve our service is for customers to reciprocate their thanks to those in the service line.