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TF camp'08

Alright, today i skipped going to office.. and didn't call anyone up..
haix.. Feeling guilty already. haha.. oh alright, this is my update of
the tf camp which happened this past weekend at Aloha Changi Chalet!
A wonderful chatlet, so big, but filled with mozzies!

First day of camp!
Most of us met up at the train station and some at Changi ferry terminal.
Anyways, we met up together at Changi beach, and had hell lotta fun!
First we had the Mass Ice Breakers at the beach.. where we well.. had alot
of fun whacking each other while remembering the names! Which i gotta
say i am not so good at! haha.. Then We had alot of fun getting ourselves
wet!! haha.. really wet! haha.. i guess i was the only comm that got wet v
early on. haha.. but it was real fun lar!! serious! =P my team comprises of
meiyun, nina, edmund and jessica(who wasn't around till night fall..)
haha.. i was an all star team to me!! haha.. cause we have a lao jiao and
two v capable young man and lady! haha.. will elaborate on them bit more
later on. ha..
Then we did the yv cheer at the beach b4 we close the whole event. haha..
Lead by our dear kenny!! haha..
I guess the most memorable game for me was the game where we lost? ha..
where i gotta carry shawn towards the sea, into the sea, and bite that marshmallow
from the string tied to two erected pole la!! haha.. shawn's weight was ok la.
but i still found it challenging! haha.. contradicting? haha.. yeap! i got thorougly
wet!!!!! (i slipped when i stepped into the sea.. haha..)
Next will be the trust walk, where everyone was blindfolded!! walking around
obstacles that are either there or just 'MAN'- made.. haha.. 'man' was refering to
changloo and kenny la! haha.. i bet the other group had alot of fun too yea! haha..
next we had yv dance and yv song!
EDMUND!! haha.. u are soooo cute la! haha.. so farny too! haha.. u were trying so
v hard to learn the sign language for the chorous of "Our Song1" haha! you and meiyun
really are struggling la! haha.. but i really think u two did a great job! its hard,
but u nv gave up, as in just sit there and smile... haha.. u tried!
So did u guys master it after TFcamp? hope u guys did!! haha..
Then we went to changi V to have our lunch! haha..

Gary, Vick, Kenny and me went ahead to the chalet first, cause we gotta prep
for our workshop. haha.. we actually walked to the chalet la.. and it tooked like
15mins plus. haha.. i was borned there in my ns days.. so yea.. it wasn't new to me..
cause i jog that route almost every other day.. haha..
but hey.. it was still a challenge walking up those slopes with all the equipment
that we are carrying! haha..
Let's dive straight into the workshop! haha..
First Gary opened the session talking about nothing but the "Difference between
a Tf and a Leader"... hahaha.. need no further introduction! haha.. cause u guys have
went through this workshop alr. haha.. just gotta say, u guys did great! haha..
with alot of coaxing from the comm of course! =O haha..
Then vick continued with the workshop on "Roles and responsibilities of a tf!"
haha.. it started to turn engaging, and that is where we got our "no.1!!" haha..
For those who don't know, the No.1 we are refering to the No.1 Attribute on that
mahjong paper which we had written all the attributes of a good tf. haha..
No.1 => Zhi high!!

haha.. it started with the no.1, with some story of Gary experience using the handsign
and abit of modification, No.1 became a revoluntion!! hahaha..
well it goes like this, when anyone in the yv family points up his/her/ his-her
hand, pointing up into the sky only the index finger in a no.1 fashion,
everyone will suddenly and surely cheerrrr till their vocal box feel sore! haha..
Everyone basically zhi high!! thats the spirit of this TF camp and yv'08 definitely!
haha.. get it? haha..

anyways later we went on to the attachment section of the workshop. i did alot of
talking for this one. haha.. seriously covering every single aspect of the attachment
that i can actually think of. haha.. i tried to speak it all out in the way that everyone
understands.. and also the way i rehearsed.. but didn't got up to rehearsal standard?
for that i felt kinda sucky for awhile? haha.. i was thinking maybe i needed to prepare
bit more.. but hey! haha.. u guys really cheered me up in the debrief, i really appreciated
it! words from kenny, marco and definitely chui san resonated in my brain right till now.
Just can't forget chui san saying, u did a good job today. haha.. i felt geat! at least all
these hard work for about 2 weeks didn't go unseen by my boss! haha..
After the workshop, we had something more interactive, the role playing part!! haha..
everyone were given about 10 mins to prepare that i think totaled to 20 mins in the
end..... and 5 mins to prepare.. well they kept within the 5 mins at least. haha..
vick was hurrying me all the while.. pointing to his watch... haha..
every group did great! one of the thing that stood out was shawnie!!! hahahahaha
she was so cute la!! haha.. role playing as an hyper active kid. she was seriously so
into it! woot! haha.. we al had a good laugh! haha..

after tt we had our dinner and inspirational games!! haha.. actually its the peanut thing.
and the apple thing. haha.. shawnie cut open the apple from the side and tada!! there
is a star in the middle of it. haha.. Signifying that in everyone(every apple is differnt) there
is a star in them. =) The peanut one, tfs are suppose to draw a replica of the peanut after looking
at it for 3 sec. then after tt drawing it after looking at it for 3 mins.. shawnie is trying to
tell everyone that every person(peanut) is different! first impression only counts tt much..
as in u only see so much with ur first impression. u gotta know the person more, over
a longer period of time to know the person. =)

wonderful lessons indeed shawine vick and changloo!! =D

alright... scavenger hunt next! haha..
just one thing to note.. we haven't bathed loR!!! haha..
and yea.. gotta comment on mei yun! she is not shy about asking. not at all! hahaha..
thats how she got us the 50cm long hair! not once, but twice! hahaha..
and alot of other things.. me and edmund were just looking around.. haha..
oh ya, me and jessica got the G-String too!! hahahaha.. +P

alright.. then we had debrief and reflections.. end of first day!

haha.. think i gone too detailed? i need to go for a meeting now. svc publicity meeting.
haha.. will type the second the third day tonight.
meanwhile, enjoy ur wednesday!! =D

py

back!

2nd day

we woke up early the next day, and had our yv dance and cheer! haha..
During that time i went to changi beach to get the power point slide that
shawnie send me but i didn't download b4 hand. she needs its for the
thinking workshop. haha.. I met Lyon over there. and directed her to the
chalet. WELCOME DAUGHTER(LYON) TO YVIP TF CAMP'08!! heh
haha.. after that they had breakfast.. then the thinking workshop.
The thinking workshop conducted by Shawnie was great! haha..
i think everybody was kinda coaxed to think in another way =)
we were told to jot down whatever was on my mind. something that hit me
the part where shawnie told us a fact that is that, if u are brainstorming for
ideas, usually u will get something that is interesting after ur 4th or 5th idea.
something that is creative and constructive =) Its pretty true! try it out!
after tt we had station games!! haha.. some wet games.. like the dog and bone
with water! and the violent game! Which i think i saw the true colours of Sylvia!
haha.. she was super violent when she tried to step onto Lyon's water bag!! haha..
Of course the comm had fun throwing water bomb at the tfs! heh..
after that we had the spider web that shawnie and me were incharged of..
i am proud of u guys! =D i think u guys really bonded alot there =D
Then after that u guys had the forming shape game when u guys are blind-folded.
haha.. it was so fun la.. haha.. just watching u guys doubt urself kinda make me
feel so dumb founded. cause i think ur guys gotta have more confidence in urself =)
jia you ppl! though i think really, u guys really bonded alot more during the games!
do u guys feel the same way too? ha..
WE had dinner next and watched 3/4 of the movie Patch adams. haha.. i guess everyone
learned a great deal too! haha.. =) i personally like the part where the professor asked adam
to guess how many fingers there are. it was four. but "u gotta look beyond that!"
i guess i got much to learn after i watched tt. haha..
Then we had amazing race!!!!!!!haha..
food hunt actually. haha..
super heavy rain when we start lo..haha.. but it only lasted awhile.. haha..
My Team's route was relatively challenging in compared to other teams' routes..
We first gotta go to Bedok interchange to pick up Mei Yern, then after that we
will go down Bedok 85 to find the famous "ba chor mee", what did we found in the
end? the freaking store is close!! haha.. we found chui san and eric though.. phew..
wat a relief!!! Then later rushed to our second destination which was at, Geylang
Lorong 27!! haha.. it was the famous Tao Hua store! haha.. Ha.. it was kinda easy to
locate, because we have ppl that are familiar with the ground, refering to our dearest
Nina here!! haha.. I was basically just following.. haha.. Cause i myself don't even know
how to get there!! haha..Tracy and Shawnie were stationed there. haha.. Such a weird
combi considering that its.. u know GEYLANG... haha.. We had our share of tao hua and
left. luckily we weren''t told to do any kinda forfeit like wat sista's(jessica) group did!!
they were made to cheer for the shop!! haha...
We were in need of precious time, and we got permission to skip the last checkpoint
at changi V. haha.. instead, we used our time to roam around geylang to find ppl that
can help us transform those ordinary eggs into edible and creative dishes for our dinner!
We got it on the rough,so are all the teams i bet! haha.,. we nearly got con afew times too!
cause we were thinking of buying porridge. 1st store, price is $1.50. woa.. haha.. then another
store that we went to it was selling at 1/5 that price, $0.30!! haha.. we took up the offer of course!! so we were happily wanting to exchange our salted egg for their cooked salted egg.
yeap.. they charged us again.. $1... even when we told them we are playing a game! haha..
well.. that's biz ain't it? haha. Its not all bad news experiences though. we did met an indian
roti prata shop tennat that helped us make to egg roti prata with our eggs! haha..
we were seriously overwhelmed by their kindness! haha.. and they charged us at the "ko-song"
(without egg) price. haha.. Actually they weren't exactly that enthusiatic and kinda long face
throughout luh.. but when we offered to take a picture with them and their store, their long face all changed into smiles! @@ .... haha.. think they are just innate v camwhore.. but didn't have the chance ba? hahahaha!! and there we were!~ giving them the opportunity to look as happy as they could, on camera! shit.. i think i sounded so weird here! haha. Of course, we were the team that brought back 2 cup of instant noodles and the can fruit can! haha.. bought it using our spare cash on our way back! haha,.. Of course, we played cheat, we actually cooked some eggs when we were back, and tracy was fuming for awhile when she found out.

We had our dinner next and explained how we got the food. it was 9 plus. we debriefed and all went to bathe and sleep. =)
Oh ya, everyone was told to sleep in their tf camp tee! haha.. told that we are gg to ubin the next day to meet siew mui for some activities.. haha..
u guys actually buy tt? hahahaha.. cool! think we did a great job! 3cheers to the comm!! haha..

the comm didn't sleep.. all preparing for the surprise bbq for the tfs at around 3am. haha..
i guess the only complain we can get is that everyone wasn't in the best of mood when they wake up to have fun!! haha.. all the tfs were zombie like.. haha.. actually we should have just stood with
using water guns and water to wake u guys up luh!! haha., oh ya, and the comm didn't bathe..the whole night was just pure preparing for this surprise, it was successful though! haha..
hope u guys enjoyed it! hahaa..

We partied, played slide butt, musical chair and talk alot of cock b4 sun rise.. haha..
i was too drained.. went to sleep at around 630am. haha.. they other tfs were great! so energetic la! haha.. When i woke up, all was watching patch adams, then we packed our stuff. and left the premises.. Of course, we played the game called "shoot(which means kill someone u dun like), shag(yea..have sex..), and marry!" haha.. all the guys unanimously prefer to shag shawine, and most girls will love to marry vick or chang loo! haha... cool! =D
Last but not least, we had the prizez presentation!! haha.. marco->best housewife award! me-> best house husband award! kenny-> most kiasu a.k.a most caring person award! chui san-> most angelic award! haha.. the others i forgot!! haha... =D

TF CAMP WAS AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS!! LETS JIA YOU, KEEP EACH OTHER MOTIVATED AND MOVE TOWARDS YVIP CAMP'08! LETS MAKE THE 20TH YR OF YVIP'08 THE MILESTONE, THE BENCHMARK FOR OTHER YVIP CAMPS TO COME! JIA YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

py

posted by py @ 3:44 PM