spent the entire morning tying 7 banners to 7 locations. AC PEOPLE, BE AMAZED, IMPRESSED, MESMERIZED when you come back to school (or at least pretend to be...) hahaha anyway the LT5&6 gang; consisting of char lisa sarah sam oli clare (who left early) and me proceeded to hang two banners at... Oh, surprise - Lt5 and 6! hahaha. oh and i forgot our honorary member - khairul! lol. who was very helpful by directing from below. anyway quite embarrassing but we took the LONGEST TIME to set up our banners cos we had to squish 3 banenrs (on eagles' wings gang joined in later) in the small space and the black duct tape kept tearing!!!! then we kept taking it off and putting it back.. as lisa would say - SIAN DIAOOOOOOOOOOOOO~
yep anyway after that the facs (lol i still kinda get a kick out of hearing it now. facilitators. facs. fags) talked to us about THE INCIDENT. and then people handed in their exco forms. Whcih I'm not running for (i figured i would just be in certain ad-hoc coms instead)
AND THEN IT WAS ELECTS OUTING!!!! :D
starting off.. with a game of frisbee against the 32nds! (with a very noble objective in mind of course...the increased contact between Hairul and -ahem- a certain jailer)
Then we took a bus and ate lunch at ADAM ROAD FOOD CENTRE - my first time ever :D
lots of camwhoring in the bus . shall summerise it with a group photo:
Gid pimpin' 
ISLAND CREAMERY - we four shared a tub of APPLE PIE AND IT WAS 500ml of HEAVEN!!!!!! But then olivia had to break the devastating news to us - apple pie was not real apple pie!!!!!!!!!!! it was made of apples + digestive biscuits. BAH.
Subject of Char' s evil shutter. she's such so triggerhappy. 
Look at gid's face. seriously. one would think he was having an orgasm of some sort. 
Err okay and then we get to the more HON-Y bits... EH HAVING A 2:1 GIRL:GUY RATIO IN COUNCIL NOT ENOUGH AH?! must go kiss a guy..and a stationary clown at that - that's just UNFORGIVABLE, hon cheong!
Oli's gummy cupcakes!!!!!!!!! you're supposed to put the recipe on the yahoo groups!!!
GOOD TIMES AHEAD, DUDEEEES =)CLUSTER CAMP!
from 12-15th July.
PL!
1st time gng back after collection of Os.
The little sci maths corners are comign along just fine :D
OH, and i wanted to post a msg on the HARP BOARD to my little cherub juniors but the board was locked!!!! gah. so i stuffed the note in a little gap at the side. hope you guys get it.
I skipped the first night.
Friday
I was quite sad at first cos i was going to miss 'real fun time' as stated in the schedule which was at 7. Turns out it was morning PT! WELL DONE, INNATE INTUITION!
came at about 9. and got to enjoy the good parts.
SUCH AS SANDCASTLE MAKING! :D
pictures not with jiarong! shall get them asap.
a bus brought us to east coast and we were given this bag of professional sandcastle making equipment. had an hour to get to work!!!
ours was pretty screwed actually but we won 2nd overall cos of julian's professional crapping skill. seriously it was more of a competition on who could bs the best. he said something about the garden of eden, passing thru egypt, avoidign all temptations in the way, with the three Is of this yr's Sabbath theme; intimacy interdependence integration blabla.
lol. yj's nose was really DOUBLY BURNT, poor rudolph she is.
Saturday
Woke up at 5:50 am. Had to report at 6. bus takes us on a half hour journey to Choa chu kang christian cemetery. was a pretty new experience for some but cos i went for the previous cluster acmp and we did the same thing BUT AT TWILIGHT, this wasnt much of a ddeal.
WHY WERE WE THERE?
few objectives:
1. Look at the epitaphs. Jot down 3 which strike you the most.
2. Make a bucket list - a list of things you wanna do before you kick da bucket
3. Reflect on life
4. QT.
Anyway we were walking arnd the tombs when we saw this really old skinny man squatting down at a 3 yr old boy's tombstone.. and he was like clutching on to this crumpled worn out paper.. hands trembling .. voice quivering as he sung "what a friend we have in Jesus".. then he took out his harmonica and started playing... gosh i almost cried. The boy died in 1997. I wonder how long he has been doing this, tirelessly.
we saw tombs from babies to 90+ year old people. I tried to do QT in this secluded spot but the BLOODY ANTS WOULDNT LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!!
like everytime i think the coast was clear a little teensy red/black ant would creep up my feet.
But anyway i prayed to God to hold the ants til i was done and I think he did (in my 3rd position) :)
In the afternoon we were re-split into groups and went out to serve the community. We each donated about 5 bucks each and went to buy provisions to give the elderly staying at the one room flats along paya lebar. altogether we had about 95 bucks, which we spent on lots of biscuits, milo and oat powder and bread, repackaged it into plastic bags and went out in 3s and 4s to knock on their doors and bless them. it was a really new experience for me. I mean, i know one-room flats arent glamrous at all but to see the actual state of it was quite disturbing. Doors wtihout grills at all. doors with blood/red paint. narrow corridors. tiny lifts that stop at only 3 floors. And when we knock and some poor ah ma or ah bei opens the door.. we see the real horrors. The room is so narrow that i think if i laid across it i could probably touch both walls. cluttered with stuff collected in the rubbish bins. small wooden table with random rusting food tins.
but thank God they were pretty receptive including this ah ma which agreed to take picture with us :D though there were of course other stories. such as knocking for the umpteenth time. door finally opens. grumpy old man says WHAT DO YOU WANT and is about to close the door. WAIT,you say. our church is blessing the community with something... man grabs plastic bag. WHY SO LITTLE. He gruffly complains. You stand there in disbelief as he closes the door in your face without a word of thanks.
of course, there are those cases where ah mas have hospitably invited ppl in for a chat. i guess all they really need is a friend to talk to.
SUNDAY
area cleaning. toilet. cockroaches. eee.
we get up at 6. get on the bus. go to expo.
nearly die of a lack of sleep, freezing cold, hunger, lengthy chi-eng intepretations.
I tompang uncle peter's car home :D
I eat.
I sleep for 5 hrs straight. i stay up all night. I have 5 hrs till i wake up for chi remedial tmr.
SHAT.
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