Monday, June 06, 2005
zp; 3:21 PM
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went for 30 hour famine camp from saturday till sunday. on sat morning ate at around 12 with my classmates b4 going to ngee ann poly to report. the official "famine" started at 2pm. sadly we were grouped according to school so i ended up with 8 other hwachongians... luckily my classmate weidi was in my group or i might really be realli sianz. the other grp members nuthin realli interestin abt them... except the crazyily cute vanessa. she was lyk the most hyper and delirious member in our group and thanks to her, our group got abit of life. yup anyway after the official opening we had alot of lecture and stuff abt hunger, aids n poverty. its lyk most of the stuff mentioned we had alreadi learned them b4 ... which means one things... its very BORING!!! yeah i was more worried abt dying of boredom than dying of hunger. the problem with boredom is, when yur bored, u remind yurself of the fact that you have no food, and when u realise u have no food, you realise you are hungry! that's why the initial few hours were pretty unbearable cuz it was all lecture and some lame activities. anyway later in the evening when we finally had free time to wash up n slp, me n the cls guys finally met up so tt we could spend some time together b4 we went to slp. den horrors of horrors... NO ONE BROUGHT CARDS!!! omg i realli felt lyk shooting myself fer that... cuz no cards means no fun means boredom means hunger!!! ok so in the end we ended up chitchatting alot. the best part was when samuel's "best" fren xiaorui came by to tok to him and she somehow ended up scolding him "gay shit" omg!!! Samuel juz got owned!!! lol... haha anyway in the end didn't slept much... lyk 2 hours onli...
next morning, we had a choice of attending mass dance or morning worship, cuz World Vision, which organised this famine camp, is after all a christian organisation. i think lyk 3/4 of the campers all attended morning worship cuz no one had the energy to dance. u shld have seen the amt of ppl in the LT. i bet lyk half the people there weren't christians, including me. its pretty obvious cuz lyk there were tons or PRCs in there. yah so it was all the typical singsong and preaching stuff. initially i din want to sleep very obviously, but abt halfway thru i looked arnd the LT and realised alot of ppl were sleepin blatantly so i juz slept too. anyway after that we took chartered bus to tampines to do newspaper collection for charity. my grp onli had 4 blocks so we finished it off pretty quick and had plenty of time to slack arnd till 3pm when we took mrt back to clementi. we read magazines collected from the donors, chatted and said lame jokes, and listened to music on my mp3. after tt we had to take mrt all the way from tampines to clementi. it was a very long trip ( nearly an hour) and I had to stand cuz i gave my seat to the elderly. thank goodness i had my mp3 player or i will get bored to death on the long ride back. shared the mp3 player with vanessa hu oso so graciously gave up her seat to the elderly. we purposely left tampines so late so when we reached ngee ann poly we need not do area cleaning. so after that slacked around till 7pm when we had a famine concert which featured cool hip hop dance groups and excellent music bands yah after the official 8pm mark when the famine was over, we headed to the canteen for our breakfast dinner. to my group's horrors they unluckily ran out of food before my group got ours. so it was lyk watchin everyone arnd u eat while u sat in front of an empty table. in the end our food came at arnd 8.30 so in the end it ws lyk a 30.5 hr famine camp, plus i last ate at 12pm saturday so tt made it a 32.5 hr famine camp for me and weidi. the food was some nasi lemak from dunno where tt wasn't relli good, but when you're hungry i guess nuthing matters anymore. after tt the 04s75 ppl including me, plus vanessa went to eat at KAP. vanessa is the tennis jnr of one of our classmates, amy, and she alwaez came our cls bench so everyone more or less knew her. so after eating there, went home, bathed, read sunday times, then slept.
overall, i would say the camp was ok, but i wouldn't go for another famine camp again. firstly it was boring and i realli didn't learnt much. honestly if I realli wanted to experience the plight of this poor kids, i would have goneon a cip trip overseas. this wasn't tt effective. besides if i wanted to starve myself, i could have done it at home, and not pay $20 to starve. the onli reason why i signed up for this waas because i wanted to see if i realli could last tt long without food. i didn't do it fer cip hours cuz lyk i alreadi have more than 100. also this camp is organised by World vision, a christian organisation and i ain't exactly christian savvy. I tink i'll end off here cuz i am still abit tired, though i am not tt hungry anymore... =)
next morning, we had a choice of attending mass dance or morning worship, cuz World Vision, which organised this famine camp, is after all a christian organisation. i think lyk 3/4 of the campers all attended morning worship cuz no one had the energy to dance. u shld have seen the amt of ppl in the LT. i bet lyk half the people there weren't christians, including me. its pretty obvious cuz lyk there were tons or PRCs in there. yah so it was all the typical singsong and preaching stuff. initially i din want to sleep very obviously, but abt halfway thru i looked arnd the LT and realised alot of ppl were sleepin blatantly so i juz slept too. anyway after that we took chartered bus to tampines to do newspaper collection for charity. my grp onli had 4 blocks so we finished it off pretty quick and had plenty of time to slack arnd till 3pm when we took mrt back to clementi. we read magazines collected from the donors, chatted and said lame jokes, and listened to music on my mp3. after tt we had to take mrt all the way from tampines to clementi. it was a very long trip ( nearly an hour) and I had to stand cuz i gave my seat to the elderly. thank goodness i had my mp3 player or i will get bored to death on the long ride back. shared the mp3 player with vanessa hu oso so graciously gave up her seat to the elderly. we purposely left tampines so late so when we reached ngee ann poly we need not do area cleaning. so after that slacked around till 7pm when we had a famine concert which featured cool hip hop dance groups and excellent music bands yah after the official 8pm mark when the famine was over, we headed to the canteen for our breakfast dinner. to my group's horrors they unluckily ran out of food before my group got ours. so it was lyk watchin everyone arnd u eat while u sat in front of an empty table. in the end our food came at arnd 8.30 so in the end it ws lyk a 30.5 hr famine camp, plus i last ate at 12pm saturday so tt made it a 32.5 hr famine camp for me and weidi. the food was some nasi lemak from dunno where tt wasn't relli good, but when you're hungry i guess nuthing matters anymore. after tt the 04s75 ppl including me, plus vanessa went to eat at KAP. vanessa is the tennis jnr of one of our classmates, amy, and she alwaez came our cls bench so everyone more or less knew her. so after eating there, went home, bathed, read sunday times, then slept.
overall, i would say the camp was ok, but i wouldn't go for another famine camp again. firstly it was boring and i realli didn't learnt much. honestly if I realli wanted to experience the plight of this poor kids, i would have goneon a cip trip overseas. this wasn't tt effective. besides if i wanted to starve myself, i could have done it at home, and not pay $20 to starve. the onli reason why i signed up for this waas because i wanted to see if i realli could last tt long without food. i didn't do it fer cip hours cuz lyk i alreadi have more than 100. also this camp is organised by World vision, a christian organisation and i ain't exactly christian savvy. I tink i'll end off here cuz i am still abit tired, though i am not tt hungry anymore... =)