Earn For Your Life Camp

The end of September; time to seriously wake up. No more daydreaming. A harsh shake of reality nudges the fact that my incompetency in mastering the language of Physicians would ruin the whole of my life. Gotta buck up.

On the 30^th of September (a distal end of a time period), I attended a camp hosted by the University fellowship of the Serdang Chinese Methodist Church. It was originally planned that Bobby, Irene and Samuel would join me at the camp; however, it was with much regret that they couldn’t make it due to other commitments.

No matter, I went alone. The sole representative of Perdana University. ROAR.

So, for the first time in my life, I went to Taman Pertanian Negara, Shah Alam. Woots. The journey itself was an incredible three hours of traffic congestion. Terrible, terrible. No thanks to the cold jokes our chairman Jason made, the journey was oddly enjoyable though.

(Oh ya, gotta tell you there were about 4 Jasons at the camp. Hugely confusing sort of thing, yeah I know.)

So we arrived, two hours after scheduled time. Imagine my horror walking among a sea of youth whose faces I didn’t recognize. I mean, duh, they’re all UPM students!!!
*gulp*

I was immediately assigned to Group 6. As the huge sea of people got split into groups, my hyperventilation improved. Then, we were given the task of selecting a group name, though we all had to choose from the faculties in UPM.

Guess what? Group 6 became the Med Fac. BooHoo what a surprise.

It was team banner creating time after this, and (I think this is a curse, people in the medical faculty always have no imagination, no?) ours was quite subdued. Hmmm…
A cross, a stethoscope, the rod of Asclepius (Hey, Moses held one!!), Kolej Kediaman 17 (of UPM – for the health sciences students of UPM ya) and an smiling angel adorned our banner.

I like the cross. It was very nice. ;)

It was an excellent showcase of talents from the other groups though. After a good, healthy competition, the people from Reka Bentuk emerged triumphant!

Every participant was given an egg to hold. The egg symbolized the conscience of the holder, and we were supposed to protect it from the evil temptations of the devil (hey, we do that to our conscience in real life yo!).

Mine broke within 30 minutes.

*shakes head* does that mean I have no conscience? :O

The next day, we had a series of games aimed to educate us freshers on monetary issues. It was fun work, each game inducing different set of values in us. Oh, you know, the normal values: teamwork, response, good communication, belief…

Yup, however, that was the easy part. The latter part of the afternoon was dedicated to choice. You choose your own activities you participate in, and you bear the consequences yourself.
Now that is what I call fun.

Everywhere we went, we saw booths offering games. From my narrow perspective of live, I attributed the booths offering games in the form of gambling and butt-licking a branch of the temptations evil has to offer. Sure, you get to earn big bucks in a short time almost effortless, but would you want to humiliate yourself in order to obtain fame, lust and riches?
So you wanna be a slave of the devil huh?

On the other hand, we had other games which depicted good values. Forgiveness, communication skills and such. Given a choice would you choose reciting Bible Verses for 50 bucks, or would you go for a gambling game for 1000 bucks?
Guess what I chose.
Galatians 6:4-5 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. For you are responsible for your own conduct.

In the night, there was a session on heaven and hell. Well, where would you want to go? Suffer eternal torment? Ahh well. Questions posed were: Do you believe in God? Do you acknowledge yourself as a sinner? Why are you worthy of a place in heaven?

Because Lord Jesus died on the cross to take away the sins of mine.

I ended up in ‘heaven’ anyway. Faith leads one to move mountains.

On Sunday, we had a small mass over there. After that, we went to a building called the Four Seasons House, where the inside of the building was planted with the flora associated with a season (we have four seasons in the year, for you all who don’t know, and it’s currently Autumn in the Northen hemisphere).

No idea why I look so happy here. Hmmm…

The temperature was very cool (for someone who couldn’t stand the cold in lecture halls, it was frigid).

And oh, we found a kid too!

Pretty flowers ;)

And there were cute bonsais outside the place. Ahhh well :D

The camp was awesomely fun and I had the opportunity to revise my whole take on life and got to know God’s words better. It was all in all, a great experience, and I managed to get to know a number of UPM students

Thank God for giving us such a wonderful time there, and well, may we not stray away from His words.

Cuteeee peanut souvenir

Phil 4:13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

Amen.

Owh look at my egg ;)

So this is it, people.
A happy meal at the end of happy meal.

Jia Chi, Adriel, Sean and Bobby at Old Town White Coffee, Cyberjaya.
Nom nom.