Easter Camp

Annually, BRMC requires helpers to prepare the chairs for their sunrise service, and as usual, BB have the honour of taking up this important job. Therefore, in order for us to make our programme more fun for the Boys, we have organized the Easter Camp.

The camp started on Saturday morning, 8am. After putting the bags into the classrooms, we got onto chartered bus that head towards Katong…. for LAN Gaming.. When I told my non-BB friends about this, they asked, “What type of UYO are you in? Instead of doing campfire, you all are having LAN Gaming??” Come on.. kids are difficult to please these days… gone are the days when secondary school kids find doing good drill with a sense of pride… gone are the days when they find campfire fun… What they enjoy most is games games and more games… Also, we have to give them a taste of all the fun things you can do if you collect more with BB week.. First was laser tag, now is LAN gaming.. of course if we really meet the target, we can play the long forgotten “Paint BALL” aka “PAIN ball..”

Alrite, after reaching a LAN shop in Katong, we started our expedition – fighting in battlefield 2… it’s a fight mainly between the Officers & Primers vs. Boys.. It was quite exciting.. but I got bored of it after awhile.. So Raymond and I started playing Fifa 07…

After LAN gaming, it was wing lunch.. wing sergeants are suppose to bring their wings to some place nice to eat… hmm.. what can you eat in katong?? I am quite sure there are so many good food there.. but guess what, my wing decided to go to MACS!! Go to katong to eat MAC!! haiz.. so sad.. but still I have to follow them.. As they were at marine parade buying macs, Xavier went to get char kway tiao and suger cane for the officers & primers.. The char kway tiao was decent but the suger cane was horrible.. and even after Xavier went back to tell him something is wrong with his sugar cane, he still say it was ok.. if i wasn’t in that BB polo tee.. i will go and scold the uncle that sells it….

After that, we went back to barker.. I was so tired after that because I haven’t slept for the past 24 hrs.. bascially, I was behaving like a zombie after the LAN gaming… till night… the Boys was given their awards and Senior Proficiency Star… I must say that Othniel is really efficient, so soon most of the awards mess was settled… or I should say he is more hard hearted than me.. slave driver.. haha…

The Boys slept ard 11pm as they are suppose to wake up at 4am to move the chairs.. BUT.. the Officers started linking their laptops together to play Counter Strike.. (I was one of them =P).. As I am suppose to perform during the Sunrise Service tmr, I decided to catch some sleep… but those playing CS was so noisy.. shout here and there.. disturb my sleep…

I woke up ard 4am to change and tune my pipe. Soon after, the service start and we played Amazing Grace with harmony.. I think it was quite a good performance despite some cock up… there were full of praises from some of the pple I met later… one of the most unexpected person that I met later was Mrs. Ding (Euwen’s mum).. She was my boss for the part time work I did for her last time.. but not no more due to my busy schedule… I think she was very happy to see us playing pipes during the service that she decided to donate $100 for BB week..

Actually, we are suppose to perform from 8am – 8.30am and 10am – 10.30am.. but because all of us were feeling exhausted, we decided to skip the 8am performance. More details about the performance will be posted later, with the videos of our practices… =)

The camp was dismissed ard 12-1pm… was so tired that spent most of the time talking and sleeping in admin room. I think the most memorable about this camp other than the performance for me was SLEEP.. I hope I will do less of this in order to enjoy more of the camp next time…

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